Worst/Best Radio Ads

Sizzler · 03-04-2006 11:48pm

OK...I have THE worst one...has nybody heard the ad for Fitzpatricks furniture (Navan)...they have the freakiest jingle with some pervo singing their name in the background then the owner comes on and trys to entice punters by saying "we'll have the kettle on and some lollies for the kids"....Thats just wrong....focking weirdos! Ad shud be up in front of the broadcasting complaints commission for indecency;)

Bard · 07-04-2006 5:23pm

silas wrote:

The GE Money add for the loan is actually pretty OK, so are the Harvey Norman adds as long as Bruce does them (the aussie guy).

Actually, his name is Gary. He's a loud, boisterous, cigar smoking man, and he does all the ads for Harvey Norman both here and in Australia. (Well - almost all of them ... a few of the Irish staff have done a few Irish ads). As far as I know he's actually Irish but has lived most of his life in Australia. Met him once at a work do. Sound man.

And yeah, the Harvey Norman ads are far from the worst of them. That Flintshire Motors one definitely made me cringe...!

Mr E · 07-04-2006 5:33pm

Some new loathsome ads recently:

1. Abrakebabra - "Do it"
2. I think its a tile shop ad (it starts with a jingle "I'm gonna paint this town") followed by Terry Wogan (or a soundalike). Terrible stuff...

I like the Irish Life (I think) investment ads. Theres one where a guy is appearing at various events, another where he gets a heavy breathing phonecall from a female 'fan'. Funny ads.

NUTLEY BOY · 07-04-2006 7:24pm

Any radio advertisement where they seem to think that we have all gone stone deaf........

DublinWriter · 07-04-2006 7:33pm

TmB wrote:

I like the Irish Life (I think) investment ads. Theres one where a guy is appearing at various events, another where he gets a heavy breathing phonecall from a female 'fan'. Funny ads.

You put your finger on it..."I think".

They're so up their own posterier with those ads that they forget to establish any brand. I hear those ads every day and just associate them with some investment product or company, not knowing who they are for.

Remember the famous Ardman 'Creature Comforts' ads? Most people incorrectly thought they were for natural gas.

To me, the most successful (and annoying) ads are the Harvey Norman ones. Why? Because they scream the name at you in a way you'll never forget, as much as you try.

Max_Damage · 07-04-2006 8:19pm

As someone above said, I also hate the Abrakebabra "Do It" ad. That wanker deserves a good kick up the hole.

Sizzler · 07-04-2006 11:05pm

TmB wrote:

Some new loathsome ads recently:

1. Abrakebabra - "Do it"
2. I think its a tile shop ad (it starts with a jingle "I'm gonna paint this town") followed by Terry Wogan (or a soundalike). Terrible stuff...

I like the Irish Life (I think) investment ads. Theres one where a guy is appearing at various events, another where he gets a heavy breathing phonecall from a female 'fan'. Funny ads.

Bingo...was just about to mention your number 2 there "Im going to paint this town...paint this town" ASK ME BOLL1X....what a shoite ad !! I wudnt mind if it was for a decent product but its some poxy paint company. Christ are you lot deaf in that place? Obviously never heard of a sound test.GIMPS.

Creamy Goodness · 07-04-2006 11:12pm

there's an ad on east coast that seems to run quite frequently for Ronald Gammel (not sure of spelling)

but basically it's a really bad ad, with a deary voice but the way the voice says to call a certain number really makes the ad stick in your mind.

KeithMur · 09-04-2006 10:54am

Do any of ye remember the ad for mobile games or something.

It had "the hang-around" guy in it. Funny as hell. The guys in the group would be "hey hang-around what time is it" and he'd reply "eh.. it's hammer time"

Used to be on probably two years ago, still funny

murphy54 · 15-04-2006 12:20am

best is radio vocea evangheliei and worst is ciao fm

kc66 · 17-04-2006 3:47am

Max_Damage wrote:

Anyone hear the drink driving ads on Today FM late at night, the ones where some guy at the end says "Don't be a fcuking eejit, don't drink and drive'? Came as a bit of a surprise to hear profanity on ads. Only in Ireland I guess....:rolleyes:

Just heard that one. Strange to hear an ad with that language in it. It gets the message across well though.

Max_Damage · 17-04-2006 11:43am

The Ford ad with that idiot counting from 5 backwards, 5,4,3,2,1......5,4,3,2,1,........AHHH, STFU!

One thing I notice is that car ads always seem to be the worst of the lot. Becasue of that ad, now I don't think I could ever buy a Ford!:p

Sizzler · 17-04-2006 2:52pm

Eddie Rockets ads.....we're going out tonight and we're going to have some fun.....edddiiiiieeeeee rockets......ASK ME BOLLIX.

Eddie rockets is famous for post beer munchies and fighting....certainly not somewhere you would plan to go sober

sudzs · 20-04-2006 10:48am

The new one for Hewlet Packard (HP) with the 2 men shi**ing on....

Sweet Jesus, it's like listening to a really bad play... :mad:

SprostonGreen · 21-04-2006 8:32pm

The advert for Shannon airport, it has some shank giving directions to these Europeans, I hate his voice, I hate his accent.

DMC · 21-04-2006 8:44pm

sudzs wrote:

The new one for Hewlet Packard (HP) with the 2 men shi**ing on....

Actually any radio ad thats done in the style of a young office clerk needing to make a play to the boss. The boss always sounds like a right cvnt, always calling the person by their surname. Really makes me fusking bash the steering wheel. I dunno if ad agencies are like that, I presume so, being creative types.

Yakuza · 25-04-2006 12:27pm

That bloody one where this eejit has run out of paintballs, and the bint with him tells him he should have gone to some paint shop. WTF???? THAT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE. Whomever thought of that ad, please remove yourself from the marketing workforce. It doesn't suit you.

And yes, those "holier-than-thou" TV licence ads annoy the p155 out of me.

And lastly the one for Kwik Fit(or something). "I need shocks, brake pads" etc "you got it".
If I got a customer like that, I'd "fix" his brake line all right...mua haa haa haa

Sizzler · 25-04-2006 8:55pm

What about that poxy ad for diamond living (AKA furniture rip off retailer)? Some clown comes on and pretends to be the owner William Diamond and then claims they have best prices (what he fails to mention is every other poxy furniture shop in dublin also stocks the SAME gear and much the same prices) and then some orsehole mumbles some sort of jingle about diamond living towards the end. WTF? Are these ads designed on a budget of €50 around on a bar stoll at last knockings on a sat night?

Max_Damage · 26-04-2006 8:28pm

"Who's got the tickles, oh, you've got the tickles."

The ad for the Nissan cars. That woman in the ad needs a good kickin'.

Sherlock · 27-04-2006 11:11am

Funniest I think at the moment is the one for Rabo direct with the guy doing a racing commentery, "shouting on the radio , I'm a grown man shouting on the radio and my wife has left me for a man with a sensible job etc etc".

Worst is that one for channel 6 where some yuppie young wan witters on to her friend about how last year they didn't like boys and now they do etc.

vector · 02-05-2006 10:05am

the Irish TV licence ads...

where the man doesn't have TV licence and is supposed to be ashamed when his friends find out

in reality when his friends find out they'll be saying "I don't have a licence either, I never watch RTE"

DMC · 02-05-2006 10:27pm

I was ambushed by two ads for Thrush yesterday. When I heard, I switched immediately, only to be hit on another channel.

Mental scars won't go away...

MarinoMark · 08-05-2006 1:58am

6 1 7 9 9 5 0 ...AA direct to you, see I even know the fackin number, hate the poxy ad, but the number is forever chiseled ? into my brain..WTF ?

Tallspoon · 08-05-2006 4:21pm

The ad for Some coffee cafe in Dublin, possibly Cruisers that used to air on Newstalk.
"I feel like I am in Paris or New York but no im here in Dublin, just me and my cruisers coffee."
If they are saying their Dublin cafes are so good then why does the bloke sounds ike he wants to be somewhere else!

"Real coffee, for real people in a real city" AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!

Why the feck do they say 'real people' what other types could there be.
I could also add ditto "real coffee" and "real city".

DublinWriter · 08-05-2006 7:34pm

MarinoMark wrote:

hate the poxy ad, but the number is forever chiseled ? into my brain..WTF ?

Then the ad worked, didn't it!

That one for the hotel that starts with "Why not stay in a real castle on the sky road..." and ends in "...and once again, the password is CHEEEEEERS!".

Actually, the passphrase is "How about not being such a tightwad and hiring a real actor?"

Tallspoon · 08-05-2006 8:21pm

Oh by the way if anyone comes back and says that the ad worked well it didnt because im not sure that I correctly remember the name of the companny and if I do come across them in the future I will certainly never ever buy their poxy coffee because I hate that advert so much.

Sizzler · 09-05-2006 10:12pm

Tipperary Spring Water (An ad for office water coolers). They have attempted (in the worst way you could possibly imagine) a rip off of The Office and someone trying to pass off David Brent.

Focking awful. I mean possibly the worst radio ad I have EVER heard.

Obviously the people behind these ads dont road test them....grrrrr :mad:

Sizzler · 10-05-2006 7:20pm

Just when I thought it couldnt get any worse I heard the latest ad for the renault scenic tonight on the way home. Its a take off of Jose Mourinho and its utter shoite. They didnt even have the decency (or budget) to ask Mario Rosenstock to do the ad and they ended up with some piss poor gob****e trying to take him off.

ORSEHOLES.

People, if you cant do it right dont bother doing it at all!!

tbh · 10-05-2006 7:47pm

Sizzler wrote:

Tipperary Spring Water (An ad for office water coolers). They have attempted (in the worst way you could possibly imagine) a rip off of The Office and someone trying to pass off David Brent.

Focking awful. I mean possibly the worst radio ad I have EVER heard.

Obviously the people behind these ads dont road test them....grrrrr :mad:

here here! they could have at least tried to make them funny:mad:

popebenny16 · 16-05-2006 4:40pm

It's been off the air for a while but I only just joined.

That bloody Mutsubishi car ad with that lad with the, erm, "regional" accent.

"Irish people know the value of diamonds!!" he commands

"Please drive safely!!!" he shouts.

The funny thing was that the same guy then popped up doint the Concern (or was it Troicre?) ads about Huimie Louise, who has to get up at 5 am in the morning to dig for diamonds..... but that's ok, he drives a mitsubishi. Hime louise knows the value of diamonds, please drive safely!!!!

Sizzler · 16-05-2006 10:00pm

popebenny16 wrote:

It's been off the air for a while but I only just joined.

That bloody Mutsubishi car ad with that lad with the, erm, "regional" accent.

"Irish people know the value of diamonds!!" he commands

"Please drive safely!!!" he shouts.

The funny thing was that the same guy then popped up doint the Concern (or was it Troicre?) ads about Huimie Louise, who has to get up at 5 am in the morning to dig for diamonds..... but that's ok, he drives a mitsubishi. Hime louise knows the value of diamonds, please drive safely!!!!

Agreed thats pretty shoite to say the least!! Obviously no clout or originality left in the irish advertising industry if crap one liners such as these are the only things they can come up with!!

mikemac · 16-05-2006 10:42pm

Sherlock wrote:

Funniest I think at the moment is the one for Rabo direct with the guy doing a racing commentery, "shouting on the radio , I'm a grown man shouting on the radio and my wife has left me for a man with a sensible job etc etc".

Seconded. Best radio ad at the moment

zuutroy · 16-05-2006 10:58pm

MarinoMark wrote:

6 1 7 9 9 5 0 ...AA direct to you, see I even know the fackin number, hate the poxy ad, but the number is forever chiseled ? into my brain..WTF ?

Ha!...I love that ad for some reason....always makes me laugh.
My top hated one has to be that Irish Broadband one where the gimp has no lines for the ad, and you can actually here the saliva-related noises his mouth is making. Also why is he on every friggin ad!

And yer one who does the VIVAS health ad is on loads of ads too. She wrecks my head.

Other notables are the stupid Romeo and Juliet Chorus Digital ads and a Bewleys hotel one that used to be on Radio 1

popebenny16 · 16-05-2006 11:51pm

Those bloody BUPA ads!! That guy, he has to be the biggest draw for VHI ever. "We're there when you're not?" Well, if they keep doing what they say they'll do with their court case they wont be bleedin here next year.

That one about the kids names............... oh jesus!!!

JoeB- · 17-05-2006 12:43am

that one for mcDonalds is great...

HAVE YOU SEEN OUR TROLLEY?
Why, Is there a baby in it?
No....

funny.... hate those poxy mespil ones... 'ill come with you to get the turtle...
you weren't invited.....

GospelGroupie · 17-05-2006 12:57am

That Barrys Tea Ad.....

You hear it at Christmas, it almost brings a tear to my eyes. Sixty seconds of advertising brilliance.
You know the one where the fella is shopping for Christmas presents for his children and he hears the toot-toot of a toy train-set, and that brings him back to when as a child he woke up on Chrismas morning to the same toot-toot of a train-set and in great excitment ran down to tell his parents who were sitting with a pot of Barry's tea, "Mammy, Daddy, you'll never guess what Santa bought". "Well, doesn't that beat Banagher. Isn't Santa the smart one?" his father said.
Anyway he brings the train-set home now for his own kids. "Argh, that's not what they wanted at all", his wife says. "Santa will bring them what they want", he replied, "this is from me. Put the kettle on".
It's very sentimental, but it's a terrific ad all the same!

Tobias Greeshman · 17-05-2006 2:29pm

Oh that barry's tea ad drives me mad every christmas.

I think the ad currently on for the Cat Laughs is actually really funny
"So I sat at this round table, and it was the roundest table I ever did sit at. Guess who made it? Sir-Cumference... I'll get my cloak"

Tallspoon · 17-05-2006 4:30pm

The Barrys Tea ads drive me fackin crazy. They rely on that same sentimental, syrupy, saccharine, rose tinted view of Irishness that probably only ever existed in the copyrighters wettest dreams.
We are awash with sentimental adverts on the radio and I demand better, in fact im staging a personal boycott of any product that has sentimental adverts.
Whats wrong with dressing Chimps up to sell tea for heavens sake?

For the public record I also really loathe blatant insincerity in adverts (which is a contradiction in terms..I know )but that Failte advert where the actress describes all the wonderful things that this land has to offer is fine until she hits you with that gut wrenching (but mildly arousing) tag-line:
"Come on...lets play!!!"

It is at that point that I want to stick darts in my eyes I mean AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Is she coming on to me or is it just a tag-line?
Maybe I should start my own thread on really annoying ad tag-lines. You know..."The better choice, experience the savings" or "every day should have its golden moments" or "Gateau, a slice of life"

Im an army of one and my war starts now!!! Are you with me????

PS I almost forgot. That advert for Supermacs where the girl described the "Moreish Macs" "Dreamy Ice cream" and "Fresh Cod" as though she is having an orgasm by just thinking of Supermacs food. I was once unfortunate enough to have no choice but use Supermacs and I can safely say without fear or favour that I would prefer to eat a tin of Whiskers than ever have to eat that s6it again. A clear case of false advertising. And I swear that their Cod is frozen not fresh!

iplogger1 · 23-05-2006 1:32pm

I personally find those addendums to radio adverts which go at
90km/per hour delivering some kind of nominal financial regulatory
health warning really annoying. It is usually some annoying yappety
suit/yuppie smoothie almost tripping over his/her words.

You get the smooth saccarine syrupy commercial
about some financial product or other and then you get this
obnoxious rushed D4 infoburst which more or less tells you to take
the previous dose of BS with a pinch of salt since markets can
rise & fall but at thre same time also trying to reassure you that
the company who pitched the ad are fairly kosher and are
regulated just in case you are worried the whole venture will
go bellyup.

hate those ads with a passion !

Max_Damage · 23-05-2006 9:07pm

I hate any ad that has at the end 'regulated by the financal regulator'.

No-one cares.

Wertz · 24-05-2006 12:10am

Jaysus, where to start...

The myhome.ie ads...any and all of them...that bastard's voice/accent is like sharpened bamboo shoots being driven under your fingernails...as for the quality of humour on them, references to kewl yoof stuff like Glastonbury etc...PFO.

That current tourism ad using festivals as it's pulling point...little miss cosmo is out getting bladdered and trying to entice random fellas in some sh*thole shebeen in the back of beyond...bugs me for no apparent reason.

Obviously any T&C's apply, financially regulated ad, goes without saying really.

There's one ad for something or other at the moment, with twocountry lads taking the mick out of the port tunnel that gets a chuckle out of me everytime, "I say it's nearly as big as that there truck!" "As big as that there truck?" "No nearly"

...yet I still don't know what it's even trying to sell me; my kind of ad! More like this please.

Max_Damage · 24-05-2006 6:27pm

I hate the Lyons tea (I think) ad where their is a conversation between some sleepy guy and a woman, it goes something like this:

Woman: Busy at work?
Man: Maybe
Woman: Really?
Man: Not Really
Woman: You need some tea
Man: I think so
Woman: I think so too

It is absolutely pointless, and not relevant to tea at all.

However, there is one ad I do like at the moment. it's for Yorkie bars, with two men, one with a thick Dublin accent, and the other with a upper-middle class accent. "Wacker's favorite hobbies include asking people for the pain and weather they are starting!"

Hilarious!

mikesee · 24-05-2006 11:11pm

has anybody heard the new tv licence ad. this one takes it to a new low. some fellow badly acting 3 or 4 different accents and a few changes of tone and pitch thrown in.they are basically saying we are going to annoy the sh**e out of ye and we don't care. i have e-mailed them today to say that i am going to boycot rte until it is pulled.

maybe its just me!!

p.s. i also hate the phonewatch " burglers" ad

Tallspoon · 09-06-2006 1:07am

Its late and i may ramble so sorry in advance. i just need to let off a bit of steam about the fcuking cheesy Toyota adverts.
1. Some smug sounding mug is going on about how he is walking down the pier at dun laogrie (sic) and how he spots "your man with the coffee" and how he has to "grab one "( I thought the term was buy or purchase one) and how the Dun Laoghire or is it Bray looks like Naples. For fcuks sake is he trying to sell me a car or a holiday. The ad is cheesy fake sincerity bollokcs. I prefer the US tv car ads where a local Toyota salesman appears in his yard with a baseball bat and proceeds to get medieval with the bat smashing up cars and going ballistic about how much he wants to sell you a car and what he will do to get you into one.

2. Some smug cnut proceeding to describe his visit to connemara in winter and how he phones "the ladz at clifden" when he is at outreghard to get themselves greased up and ready (ok so i made the last bit about greased up...up) then he goes on about how one day he will fish all of the connemara lakes one by one. What a pile of pish...or should I say fish! This is supposed to be a Toyota advert. I want to hear about its top speed, economy, price not this Holiday in the west crud. Advertising guys whoever you are please I beg you stop foisting this sentimental shoite on us. I will put an embargo on your product until the advertising improves.

On a lighter note I am quite well oiled at present and accidentally selected the Smiths Meat is Murder to play on my PC. I have not listened to this album for a while and have to say each track is an absolute delight. It is like rediscovering an old friend and one day I promise I will come back and fish all these lakes one by one after I have had some fun with the Boyz at Cliden. Sorry time for bed!!!

DublinWriter · 09-06-2006 2:03am

Tallspoon wrote:

On a lighter note I am quite well oiled at present and accidentally selected the Smiths Meat is Murder to play on my PC. I have not listened to this album for a while and have to say each track is an absolute delight.

Chrisht, my drunken posts pale in comparison!

tbh · 09-06-2006 8:12am

Tallspoon wrote:

Its late and i may ramble so sorry in advance. i just need to let off a bit of steam about the fcuking cheesy Toyota adverts.
1. Some smug sounding mug is going on about how he is walking down the pier at dun laogrie (sic) and how he spots "your man with the coffee" and how he has to "grab one "( I thought the term was buy or purchase one) and how the Dun Laoghire or is it Bray looks like Naples. For fcuks sake is he trying to sell me a car or a holiday. The ad is cheesy fake sincerity bollokcs. I prefer the US tv car ads where a local Toyota salesman appears in his yard with a baseball bat and proceeds to get medieval with the bat smashing up cars and going ballistic about how much he wants to sell you a car and what he will do to get you into one.

2. Some smug cnut proceeding to describe his visit to connemara in winter and how he phones "the ladz at clifden" when he is at outreghard to get themselves greased up and ready (ok so i made the last bit about greased up...up) then he goes on about how one day he will fish all of the connemara lakes one by one. What a pile of pish...this is supposed to be a Toyota advert. I want to hear about its top speed, economy, price not this Holiday in the west crud. Advertising guys whoever you are please I beg you stop foisting this sentimental shoite on us. I will put an embargo on your product until the advertising improves.

Was thinking the exact same thing myself. You can do all that crap in any car, but what I want to know is, what's it like to sit in in traffic every day for an hour and a half? cnuts!!!!

Tallspoon · 09-06-2006 11:43am

And also...can I sue Toyota as their line about being the best built cars in the world is plainly a lie.
I wonder if Mercedes, Lexus, Porsche would fund my case!

Max_Damage · 10-06-2006 9:46am

Another ad that I find quite humorous is an ad for some ice cream bar, it starts with a conversation between a couple:

Man: Close your eyes and open your mouth.
Woman: Hmmmmmmmm.

The dirty thoughts that went through my head when I first heard that!:D

Sizzler · 13-06-2006 10:31pm

How come 90% of ads now say "terms and conditions apply" WTF.

Why bother even advertising !

Its like the simpsons where they have ads for the lottery and then say afterwards *buying a lottery ticket does not guarantee you to be a millionaire.

LOL

Bard · 14-06-2006 2:11am

Tallspoon wrote:

And also...can I sue Toyota as their line about being the best built cars in the world is plainly a lie.
I wonder if Mercedes, Lexus, Porsche would fund my case!

Ah but its entirely subjective you see - it's just their opinion... and it's a slogan... it plainly doesn't have to be scientifically true... someone just has to believe it - and Toyota do. Or they say they do. Which is good enough. For them.

...Like working in a photo lab (which I do) and saying that yours is the best value service in town. That doesn't mean that it's the best quality or the cheapest... it means that in the stores own opinion, you're getting the most for your money.

In Toyota's opinion, nobody builds cars better than they do. That, of course, is bollocks, as Volkswagen do. That's my opinion... and I'm rambling a bit due to being tired and cranky.

Sizzler wrote:

How come 90% of ads now say "terms and conditions apply" WTF.

Because terms and conditions apply? ... It's probably a legal requirement.

The ones I hate are the ads for financial institutions where AFTER THE ACTUAL AD, someone with a different voice actually lists off the terms and conditions and reminds you that the institution is a tied agent of whoever and is regulated by the whatever authority. Those bits almost end up being longer than the ad itself. It's going to end up being like... "Get a Super Loan from Fabbo Bank, it's GREAT! <followed by 30 seconds of terms, conditions, and a life story of Fabbo Bank and their financial chums>". Bastards.

I still don't understand what point Riverrock are trying to make when they insist their water is "Purer than you". Smug gits.

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