Worst/Best Radio Ads

magnumlady · 11-11-2006 12:00am

Love those Daft Dave tile ads! Also like the GE money ads, with the guy singing about how his missus left him.
All the local radio ads here are rubbish (Ocean FM) so dull and uninteresting.

Tallspoon · 11-11-2006 5:08pm

Hey I see your Connors face has cleared up......yes he uses horse urine, its really great....there ONE OF THE GANG AGAIN......GGGGGGGGRRRRRRR

Those Superyaks ads done in rhyming couplets. The description bears absolutely no relation to the.. ahem .. fayre that they serve up. It most certainly is not fresh cod, creamy dairy ice cream or gorgeous macs.

Who is responsible for writing this bollix. My theory on Irish advertising is as follows:
One of the centres of the advertising world is London. The biggest ad companies in the world, the biggest accounts and lots of money sloshing around. This acts as a magnet for advertising types with talent.
They flock to London like flies around the honeypot. There are many highly capable Irish ad executives in London. They have no interest in working here. We are left with the detrius, those left behind who can only perform at Eircom League rather than Premier league level. Hence the standard of advertising to which we are subjected!!!

sudzs · 11-11-2006 6:47pm

This isn't on the radio so apologies!

But Tallspoon brought it to mind with his ppost... I think the very worst ads are the one's for Mace.... "It's the Maceys!"

Dear Gawd, make it stop!

Ryaller · 05-12-2006 12:32pm

sudzs wrote:

Yes, those Eircom are just the worst. Especially the way yer man says "Burglars"

You'll be robbed when you're in your home. You'll be robbed when you're out, you'll be robbed because it's Christmas. You'll be robbed because it's the Summertime...

Aren't the number of burglaries going down???

"The next thing any BWOOORGLUR" will hear is...."

"This is eircom phonewatch - is everything allright? I love you. Can I make you a cup of cocoa and tuck you in?"

Bulls*it. I had phonewatch for a year. Some tinker rings you up and tells you your alarm is going off, and if they get another callout - the cops won't respond anymore.

J.R.HARTLEY · 05-12-2006 4:38pm

those stupid ads for the tv licence inspector, "...suddenly a man poked his head around the door ' tv licence inspector' he said"
suddenly he poked his head around the door, did he let himself in, or was the shopkeeper from Mr Benn, they're trying so hard to be funny, they'd be better off getting someone to read out the details, ie. you need one, they cost X you acn get them at X,Y,Z and the fine for not having one is N

dan99989 · 05-12-2006 6:21pm

There's a colesore on your face, There's a colesore on your face, There's a colesore on your face, Gotta get some viraleaf...:D

Wertz · 05-12-2006 7:31pm

OMG that f*cking lyon's tea ad with the carol singers...now my love of christmas aside, this piece of thrash had me bouncing toward the work radio today in a fit of rage after it managed to pop up on every damn ad break on fm104 and most every other station I tuned to....in the car on the way home it's on nearly every time Matt Cooper goes to commercial.
Grrrrr.

Ryaller · 06-12-2006 10:30am

"Man you should see me doin' the mexican hat dance; Thumb up my ass with one hand... slice a laaaame in the uthah...":mad:

What???

Genghis · 06-12-2006 11:50am

Those ads by the LVA for 'Dublin Pubs' (there are 2-3 of them on offer). If I ever ended up in a pub beside a such a smug, witless and self-centered waanker as the guy in the ad, God help me, I'd have to punch his lights out.

cashback · 07-12-2006 12:58am

Genghis wrote:

Those ads by the LVA for 'Dublin Pubs' (there are 2-3 of them on offer). If I ever ended up in a pub beside a such a smug, witless and self-centered waanker as the guy in the ad, God help me, I'd have to punch his lights out.

That's Daire O'Briain, the comedian. They don't bother me too much.
Most annoying for me are BUPA ads and Eircom Broadband, both on TV and Radio.
I kinda like the daft dave ones I have to say!

stipey · 08-12-2006 11:24am

"It's nearly 10:30 - time to check out Black and Decker's new range of hedge trimmers"

No... No, its not. Nobody has ever though "oh yeah I know what I mean to do today - buy a new hedge trimmer. Damn - its gone lunch time, 10:30 was the time to do that".

Fair enough if they play it al 11am and its for tea or coffee or some "elevenses" related snack but the things they advertise using this method.. sheeesh!

mickd · 08-12-2006 4:51pm

I find those womens aid ads for domestic violence disturbing. Firstly they use child actors to renact an episode of abuse which is extemely manipulative at best. Then the implication is made that only women suffer domestic abuse.

mike65 · 08-12-2006 4:53pm

Not a particular ad but what is it with the American voices? They're all over the place right now and mainly advertsing non-American products/services.

Mike

Stargal · 08-12-2006 6:46pm

The current Lemsip ads really get to me - it's a girl thinking out loud, and between each thought, she takes a big slurp out of her lemsip. It's really really gross. Urgh, just thinking about it now gives me the shivers.

Mossy Monk · 08-12-2006 7:42pm

Ladystar Car Insurance

"they know what women want"

el diablo · 08-12-2006 10:06pm

mjquinno wrote:

for some reason that supermacs ad about the hungry vikings coming tto ireland it drives me nuts i have to change the radio station its that bad.

yeah, that's seriously embarrassing but I think they don't play it anymore. that accent makes me cringe.

and let's not forget Daft Dave and the Right Price Tiles ad. :mad:

and the G.E. Money ads with the country fella singing. "G.E. Money, you're me darlin'" :rolleyes:

Soby · 08-12-2006 10:10pm

Condompower,57 Dame Street Dublin 4....lol....gotta love that ad..its played so much on 104 i know the address off by heart...good advertising???????:D

DublinWriter · 08-12-2006 11:52pm

We have a new low - the 'Crazy Frog' Apache Pizza ad on Newstalk.

Fozzie Bear · 11-12-2006 12:08pm

O no, please God, Jesus NO!!!!!!! It's back. It's fu*king back, that fu*king Barry's tea advert about that cnut and his train set is back. Why God WHY?????? I now officially hate xmas and want it banned forever if means that advert will never again be played on any radio station. I swear i will commit a very bloody slaughter of my unsuspecting work colleagues with a rusty tea spoon if i hear it again. It is the must sickening, twee ****e advert that any advertising exec has ever managed to pull from their septic, puss filled dripping arse. I would like five minutes in a room with him/her, a train set and a christmas tree. At the end of 5 minutes the train set, tree and my right shoe would have disappeared and him/her would be walking funny and need to visit the bathroom urgently with a bottle of super horse strength laxatives....:mad:

el diablo · 11-12-2006 12:39pm

Fozzie Bear wrote:

O no, please God, Jesus NO!!!!!!! It's back. It's fu*king back, that fu*king Barry's tea advert about that cnut and his train set is back. Why God WHY?????? I now officially hate xmas and want it banned forever if means that advert will never again be played on any radio station. I swear i will commit a very bloody slaughter of my unsuspecting work colleagues with a rusty tea spoon if i hear it again. It is the must sickening, twee ****e advert that any advertising exec has ever managed to pull from their septic, puss filled dripping arse. I would like five minutes in a room with him/her, a train set and a christmas tree. At the end of 5 minutes the train set, tree and my right shoe would have disappeared and him/her would be walking funny and need to visit the bathroom urgently with a bottle of super horse strength laxatives....:mad:

whoa, calm down, it's just an ad....

actually I've never seen that ad, I must look out for it...:rolleyes:

MarinoMark · 11-12-2006 1:06pm

el diablo wrote:

actually I've never seen that ad, I must look out for it...:rolleyes:

Em its on radio ! !
That crazy frog pizza ad must be the dregs of all annoying ads, I actually switch stations when I hear it, So So Bad :mad:

J.R.HARTLEY · 11-12-2006 1:26pm

mickd wrote:

I find those womens aid ads for domestic violence disturbing. Firstly they use child actors to renact an episode of abuse which is extemely manipulative at best. Then the implication is made that only women suffer domestic abuse.

like it or not it happens and children are suffereing so if you think having towatch it is manipulative, try imaging what some kids and wives (and husbands) actually live through, i'd imagine the lack of advertising for violence against men is because those agencies have much lower profile find it hard to get money etc.

anyway,
how do the advertisment agencies make any money in ireland, surely the marketing depts that employ their services realise it''s the same old **** they are peddling.

mike65 · 11-12-2006 6:07pm

I like the Barrys tea ad! Its pure Christmas, like the Guiness ad on the box right now.

Anyone mentioned that awful Easons ad with Uncle gaybo? Bleugh.

Mike.

grumpytrousers · 11-12-2006 6:59pm

mike65 wrote:

I like the Barrys tea ad! Its pure Christmas, like the Guiness ad on the box right now.
Mike.

Aye - i'm with you on the barrys ad...maybe it's an age thing...

mike65 · 11-12-2006 7:34pm

Yep we're both old enough to remember when a train set was "teh winnar!" (mine was an N-gauge set).

Mike.

Killaqueen!!! · 11-12-2006 7:42pm

Condompower - the complete adult shop. I love that ad!

el diablo · 11-12-2006 7:48pm

worst ones are Eircom Phonewatch -

Daft Dave and Right Price Tiles:mad:

G.E. Money

Supermacs (the one with the country fella talking about the Vikings coming to Ireland)

ah, there's a few more but I cannot remember them.

and I still haven't heard the Barry's Tea ad....

Wertz · 11-12-2006 8:08pm

I'm sorry but Daft Dave = legend

Don't think I know the barries tea ad either.

Current pet hate? That Fitzsimon's niteclub/bar ad with the woman pretending she's a lift...
Oh and that f*cking Dundrum town centre ad with little miss bitch oohing and ahhing over designer dross and similar materialistic stuff. It's a shopping centre love, end of...

seand333 · 11-12-2006 8:19pm

definetely agree about the barrys tea advert, heard it today, probably the most twee, puke-inducing advert in history. goes on for ages too.

daft dave and harvey norman ads definetely the most memorable irish radio adverts of the last 5 years.

Sizzler · 12-12-2006 10:16am

What about the old classic "Northside.....Northside.....its a great value shopping centre.." Me bollix. Its a skip

FlutterinBantam · 12-12-2006 10:57am

That whanker with the American accent who does "The Raad Stoooart Show -two extra days July 14"

Yeeeecchhh

Bard · 13-12-2006 1:25am

seand333 wrote:

daft dave and harvey norman ads definetely the most memorable irish radio adverts of the last 5 years.

The Harvey Norman one is certainly memorable - I'll give you that, but - for the most part anyway - it isn't exactly Irish, as it's recorded in Australia and emailed over here... except, that is, for the times when they weren't completely happy with what was emailed over and got the voice-overs re-done by Irish people.

I did one...

drove me mad hearing myself 10 times (or more) a day on Today FM, and it only being as a promo voice-over artist and not a presenter... ah well... !

easy_beez · 13-12-2006 1:40am

"Tonight i'm getting telly and it's nine euro nighty nine"

Followed by..

"Not at all, sure i live in me shoe"

Cracks me up everytime

tbh · 13-12-2006 11:08am

easy_beez wrote:

"Tonight i'm getting telly and it's nine euro nighty nine"

Followed by..

"Not at all, sure i live in me shoe"

Cracks me up everytime

Car, shurely?

Benedict XVI · 14-12-2006 1:48pm

Barry Tea add is the greatest of all time, debate over.

Daft Dave - Fist one was class, since then they have gone down hill

Harvey Noram - Pure and utter S**te

'You'll never guess what Santa brought"

SprostonGreen · 14-12-2006 2:12pm

The "brodbaind" delivered tomorrow, by the annoying American is currently irking me.

tbh · 14-12-2006 2:23pm

I'd say the "Your shoulders - strong enough to carry the weight of the world" Bupa ad guy is ****ting himself! It's going to be a lean christmas in that house

//POPS CHAMPAGNE CORK

grumpytrousers · 14-12-2006 4:13pm

el diablo wrote:

worst ones are Eircom Phonewatch -

Oh aye - any of those ads that mention 'Buhrglers'....

come the revolution, etc etc etc

Wertz · 14-12-2006 6:17pm

The hibernian ad to the tune of jingle bells about plasma screen TVs all wrapped up in a bow....now I love jingle bells, but both this ad and the one for lyons tea I mentioned above, bastardise a great carol to try and sell me mundane products that have little or nothing to do with christmas....why?

DublinWriter · 14-12-2006 9:48pm

Fozzie Bear wrote:

O no, please God, Jesus NO!!!!!!! It's back. It's fu*king back, that fu*king Barry's tea advert about that cnut and his train set is back. Why God WHY??????

Dude,

Calm down. You really have to be officially 'old' to get that ad, maybe 40+ and in a tea-drinking demiographic.

It works for me, but only in a semi-ironic way as I'm in my mid-30's without any kids.

But just think, in 25 years time, when you're shacked up and the missus has dropped a few of your offspring, you'll be stressed out, trying to pay the mortgage and you'll drop into the Smyths toy-store, looking to buy the latest nano-holographic game console that your kids are constantly bleating about Santa bringing them.

Just after you catch site of your aging and balding frame in one of the many mirrors, you'll see, sitting completely neglected in one of the corners of the toy store, a first generation wii, and you'll buy it.

Then you'll remember this post from your friend Dublinwriter. You may cry, you may laugh, but just remember that Santa brought them the Holographic Playstation 8, but the wii is from you.

Merry Christmas.

earwicker · 20-12-2006 7:38pm

^Beautiful!

el diablo · 23-12-2006 11:20am

grumpytrousers wrote:

Oh aye - any of those ads that mention 'Buhrglers'....

come the revolution, etc etc etc

yeah that's the one. makes me switch of the radio each time.:mad:

Greenman · 29-12-2006 12:59am

I like the Barry's tea radio ad with the model train and the xmas scene, they seem to roll it out every year but I still love it.

Just a little off topic but just watched Intermission on RTE 1 TV, not great but heard/saw lots of radio and TV voice over people on it, interesting to put face to the voice. I'm sure the Barry's tea V/O man was the guy in the wheel chair near the end.

FlutterinBantam · 29-12-2006 10:22am

Sorry a tad off topic ,but I cannot believe Heineken have resurrected that hammer-headed dork with the "worst haircut ever invented" fishing the bottles out of the barrel of ice on the tv.

have people no shame??

cashback · 05-01-2007 8:16pm

That stupid ad for Opel where the couple are out for the meal. The guy is asking for the bill and the gf/wife says "I think we should go 50-50!" A hilarious misunderstanding because he thinks she's talking about the bill for the meal but no, for some reason, she has chosen this time to proclaim her enthusiasm for Opel's great car finance deal.
What a sh*t sh*t ad!

mike65 · 05-01-2007 10:33pm

Those damned 'superfood' ads the banana one is esp annoying.

Mike.

el diablo · 05-01-2007 11:20pm

Daft Dave, Daft Dave, Daft Dave, Daft Dave, Daft Dave, Daft Dave, Daft Dave and Daft Dave.

that's the crappest ad ever....

mikesee · 06-01-2007 12:11am

the barrys tea ad is well written, that's part of the problem. a good writer prostituted herself (i believe it was a she, it was mentioned on some program lately) using her skill to bypass our rational minds and speak to our emotions and in so doing associate a pleasant feeling with a particular brand. i think this is the reason for the split on this ad- some people like the pleasant memories and others, like me, hate this feeling of being manipulated.

i agree with the poster that said the original daft dave was brilliant but has gone downhill since (he's on telly now with his monkey!)

el diablo · 06-01-2007 12:16am

mikesee wrote:

the barrys tea ad is well written, that's part of the problem. a good writer prostituted herself (i believe it was a she, it was mentioned on some program lately) using her skill to bypass our rational minds and speak to our emotions and in so doing associate a pleasant feeling with a particular brand. i think this is the reason for the split on this ad- some people like the pleasant memories and others, like me, hate this feeling of being manipulated.

i agree with the poster that said the original daft dave was brilliant but has gone downhill since (he's on telly now with his monkey!)

still haven't heard that Barry's Tea ad that you're all talking about. and I regularly listen to the radio...

and the Centra Christmas ad was pretty poor too...:mad:

zuutroy · 07-01-2007 10:24pm

Greenman wrote:

I like the Barry's tea radio ad with the model train and the xmas scene, they seem to roll it out every year but I still love it.

Just a little off topic but just watched Intermission on RTE 1 TV, not great but heard/saw lots of radio and TV voice over people on it, interesting to put face to the voice. I'm sure the Barry's tea V/O man was the guy in the wheel chair near the end.

yeah, that was wreckin my head! every two seconds: "what ad is he/she from". There were at least ten of them.

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