Ariston..and on...and on..[The Classic Ads Thread]

gammygils · 09-09-2012 02:41AM

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Anyone remember from before the celtic tiger when there used to be adverts for fertilsers and pesticides broadcast during primetime hours? Its used to put me right off me dinner when they'd be going on about things like Liver Fluke and ringworm in the middle of the A-Team or whatever.

Where as now we have ads for Fungal Nail

Puts me off my dinner! :eek:

kitakyushu · 10-09-2012 11:25PM

Can anyone remember back to when a lot (I'd almost say 50%) of the ads on RTE were just simple cuecards and a voiceover?

I used to think they were terribly unimpressive at the time but truth be told I'd almost welcome their return in favour of the A.D.D. adverts that prevail these days.

gammygils · 15-09-2012 12:47AM

kitakyushu wrote: »

Can anyone remember back to when a lot (I'd almost say 50%) of the ads on RTE were just simple cuecards and a voiceover?

I used to think they were terribly unimpressive at the time but truth be told I'd almost welcome their return in favour of the A.D.D. adverts that prevail these days.

Yes I remember them. I Black & White of course. Everything was on our telly.
And the buzz on the telly would change with every ad!

flanum · 15-09-2012 03:36AM

kitakyushu wrote: »

Can anyone remember back to when a lot (I'd almost say 50%) of the ads on RTE were just simple cuecards and a voiceover?

I used to think they were terribly unimpressive at the time but truth be told I'd almost welcome their return in favour of the A.D.D. adverts that prevail these days.

theres a few at the end of this clip..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cof7Eruqgc

flanum · 15-09-2012 03:40AM

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Anyone remember from before the celtic tiger when there used to be adverts for fertilsers and pesticides broadcast during primetime hours? Its used to put me right off me dinner when they'd be going on about things like Liver Fluke and ringworm in the middle of the A-Team or whatever.

i remember "hi-bloom, hi-bloom, sure is a mighty feed, hi-bloom is the only feed that suckys need.." to the tune of "convoy"

also "go straight for net, you wont regret, great silage you'll be storing... something, something.. net nitrate, net urea"!!!!
!

and the nearest i could find for "triple a golden maverick" is a bit of a remake done by a fan!!!/....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFR06oru2vQ

RadioRetro · 16-09-2012 11:05AM

flanum wrote: »

theres a few at the end of this clip..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cof7Eruqgc

That card/voiceover ad for the wholesnack bar looks to have preceded the current boom in health bars. Ahead of their time!

Oracle · 24-09-2012 03:52PM

This Wrangler ad was a breakthrough at the time, combined a lot of 80's trends; electronic music, independent youth attitude and robotic dance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3h5c8G015E

The Princess Bride · 28-09-2012 10:24PM

"Nick 'em....I bought 'em!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr7baLLvGo8

kitakyushu · 14-10-2012 12:42AM

Popped into my mind just now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HICdIagTyn0

BlaasForRafa · 17-10-2012 04:03PM

kitakyushu wrote: »

Can anyone remember back to when a lot (I'd almost say 50%) of the ads on RTE were just simple cuecards and a voiceover?

I used to think they were terribly unimpressive at the time but truth be told I'd almost welcome their return in favour of the A.D.D. adverts that prevail these days.

UTV used to have that kind of ad on late night tv until fairly recently. They were usually for carpet shops on the Lisburn Road or for places like World of Leather (which probably isn't as kinky a place as it sounds)

stoneill · 25-10-2012 08:11PM

Here's a few more for you

kitakyushu · 26-10-2012 04:17PM

Trying to remember an ad from the 90's. It was black and white and done in sort of Kurosawa style. Can't remember what it was selling but it had an old man at the end sitting in the dirt crying.

Anyone know it?

Aglomerado · 05-11-2012 03:42PM

kitakyushu wrote: »

Trying to remember an ad from the 90's. It was black and white and done in sort of Kurosawa style. Can't remember what it was selling but it had an old man at the end sitting in the dirt crying.

Anyone know it?

Did it have "Old Man River" for music? I think that might have been a Guinness ad, but I am open to correction. I also remember that there was some graffiti on a wall in it: "life is a terminal disease".

Back to the 80s - McVitie's HobNobs - "One nibble and you're nobbled"

Still have the badge from that campaign.

kitakyushu · 05-11-2012 04:21PM

I found it. It was a murphys ad. It was in colour so that probably threw some people off. Not really that much like a Kurosawa film either now that I look at it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmhmx3gEAEw

16-11-2012 09:28PM

This one popped into my head today for some reason...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FegmPKnARuo

I seem to have a memory in the early 90s when cigar advertising was about to be banned (possibly the night before it came into effect), that Channel 4 showed a programme of cigar adverts. Is it just me or did this actually happen?

darkdubh · 18-11-2012 10:57AM

One of my favourite ads when I was a kid was one for these kind of space invader shaped spaghetti.It showed a big can of the spaghetti landing outside a school like a spaceship.The headmaster who was wearing a black cape and morterboard hat hits it with his cane and is vapourised to cheers from the pupils.I used to wish that the same would happen at our school.

kitakyushu · 23-11-2012 02:32AM

We got the cartoon classics bundle in our house for Xmas 1991.

I'd heard rumours it was coming for xmas and this very ad suddenly became about 50% anticipation 50% taunt for weeks in the run up to the big day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlzUu5LYw1k

Honestly it was amazing!

07-12-2012 12:26AM

Some of the things I remember... I'm only 28.

darkdubh · 16-12-2012 09:44AM

kitakyushu wrote: »

I found it. It was a murphys ad. It was in colour so that probably threw some people off. Not really that much like a Kurosawa film either now that I look at it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmhmx3gEAEw

The reason for the confusion is that it was a follow up to another ad which was in black and white and was a tribute to Seven Samurai.It had these samurai going into a rural Irish pub and shouting out "Murphys".
Edit:Here it is http://youtu.be/r3jJzLaIgPM

21-02-2013 01:52AM

I hope he/she doesn't mind me uploading this one, but it's an absolute gem. Cheers to Baps for sending it on to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wYHLNW22mI

That jingle was burned into my head for 25 years, I remembered it perfectly.

sylver72 · 07-03-2013 01:53AM

Does anyone remember the ad for kit kat where they said "its a biscuit its a bar"?. I tried to find it on you tube but i didnt succeed!. Anyone got it?
Thanks

Access · 09-03-2013 12:19AM

Karsini wrote: »

I hope he/she doesn't mind me uploading this one, but it's an absolute gem. Cheers to Baps for sending it on to me.

That jingle was burned into my head for 25 years, I remembered it perfectly.

Why?... Why did i press play?!?... that fecking song will be in my head for the next 6 months! I even remember the clinking of the mugs together in it!

Dont press play people... its a trap to get that tune in your head!

Damn you Karsini... damn you to HELL!!!

:D:D

Hematocyte · 28-03-2013 09:18PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMkEzFpUqgk

Hematocyte · 28-03-2013 09:22PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGlUN-HW8TA

This ad kinda sold they idea of "American youth" at the time.

Ironic then that I later found out it had been filmed in Australia with Australian actors.