Adverts you despise

syklops · 30-05-2013 11:53am

darkdubh wrote: »

No because there seems to be no creativity at work any more with advertising agencies,its all make ads that are so annoying that people are bound to remember them.

I wouldn't say there is no creativity. Compare the Meerkat was clever and they kept it fresh without just repeating the same ad over and over and over again. Ikea could learn from them. The meerkats became so popular people started to go onto the website just trying to buy meerkat toys. Ikea's gnomes, while I appreciate the joke, if their gnomes became popular, you could get them anywhere, Woodies, B&Q etc. This ikea ad and the one before both fail in my opinion because it doesnt make the brand stick in your mind. Its a series of scenes and at the end is the ikea logo.

Green Giant · 30-05-2013 12:42pm

Heroditas wrote: »

The Eircom ad with that ghastly song sung by Grimes: "Oblivion". Incredibly irritating.

Oh and the Lucozade ad, mainly because it now appears on Youtube and you have to watch the first few sceonds when it says "oh just another one of those hedge-trimming..." ... SKIP!

Yes, both of those ads suck big time

syklops wrote: »

I wouldn't say there is no creativity. Compare the Meerkat was clever and they kept it fresh without just repeating the same ad over and over and over again. Ikea could learn from them. The meerkats became so popular people started to go onto the website just trying to buy meerkat toys. Ikea's gnomes, while I appreciate the joke, if their gnomes became popular, you could get them anywhere, Woodies, B&Q etc. This ikea ad and the one before both fail in my opinion because it doesnt make the brand stick in your mind. Its a series of scenes and at the end is the ikea logo.

The meerkat ads are the salvation of a dark era for TV advertising. Every one of them (and there have been quite a few) has its moments

darkdubh · 30-05-2013 12:58pm

Anyone remember this drink ad that was on in the late 90's,I know its a while back but it had the most unlikeable character I've ever seen in any ad.I think it was for Tia Maria or something like that and showed a security guard in an American style apartment building who spots a party on the CCTV going on an apartment .He knocks on the door and the smuggest,most punchable looking prick in the world opens it then shuts it in yer mans face again without a word.He made the Meteor smugbeard man look likeable in comprision.

Thargor · 30-05-2013 8:37pm

Theres a smart tv ad where a kid arranges some items on a tray in a creepy way then a camera pops out of the tv and he gives it a nervous forced grin like its in North Korea or something and it has the worst music ever "I COLLECT SNAILS AND I COLLECT HAW-SES!!!"

P1sses me off everytime.

Allyall · 30-05-2013 8:58pm

Thargor wrote: »

Theres a smart tv ad where a kid arranges some items on a tray in a creepy way then a camera pops out of the tv and he gives it a nervous forced grin like its in North Korea or something and it has the worst music ever "I COLLECT SNAILS AND I COLLECT HAW-SES!!!"

P1sses me off everytime.

You should hear the rest of their songs.. "The Lovely Eggs"

"Either Loved or (just) Misunderstood"... (That's a quote from a hipster DJ in Cornwall, or thereabouts)

donegal_man · 31-05-2013 2:51am

I know it's been said already but those No Nonsense adverts make me want to track down whoever is responsible and drop bricks on them from a great height

pcomer · 31-05-2013 8:47am

donegal_man wrote: »

and drop bricks on them from a great height

or Norah Casey

donegal_man · 31-05-2013 9:47am

pcomer wrote: »

or Norah Casey

Not even I would be that cruel!

krudler · 31-05-2013 10:15am

Heroditas wrote: »

The Eircom ad with that ghastly song sung by Grimes: "Oblivion". Incredibly irritating.

Oh and the Lucozade ad, mainly because it now appears on Youtube and you have to watch the first few sceonds when it says "oh just another one of those hedge-trimming..." ... SKIP!

Ads on youtube? wha? get adblocker my friend

syklops · 31-05-2013 11:35am

krudler wrote: »

Ads on youtube? wha? get adblocker my friend

There are some ads you cant get around. They are on the video itself. Id not seen an ad on the internet in yonks until recently and it was tacked onto the start of the video.

the purple tin · 31-05-2013 3:57pm

efb wrote: »

Lucozade guy a complete rip off of v clever old spice ad

So stupid the way the man asks him what his bottle of lucozade is

.
You would have to be living under a rock your whole life to not know a fcuking bottle of lucozade when you see it.

Allyall · 31-05-2013 4:03pm

syklops wrote: »

There are some ads you cant get around. They are on the video itself. Id not seen an ad on the internet in yonks until recently and it was tacked onto the start of the video.

Have you all the correct filters? I've not seen site nor sound of any type of Ad on youtube, in a long time.

(Except for the ones posted here to show how annoying they are. .

)

spank_inferno · 01-06-2013 5:34pm

It just clicked with me that the guy featured in the new Bulmers ad (dire btw) is the Orgazoid from Peep show who "employed" Jeremy as a handyman back in season 4

Allyall · 02-06-2013 7:36pm

They've removed the "Smooooth" in the Tampax ad, and she doesn't sing ♪♫ "on a bummpy roooaadd" ♪ ♪ ♫ anymore.

Thank f**k.

The ad with the girl brushing her teeth and she is supposed to be getting old.. She just looks freaky, not old.
I hate her face.

the purple tin · 03-06-2013 11:01am

Allyall wrote: »

They've removed the "Smooooth" in the Tampax ad, and she doesn't sing ♪♫ "on a bummpy roooaadd" ♪ ♪ ♫ anymore.

Thank f**k.

The ad with the girl brushing her teeth and she is supposed to be getting old.. She just looks freaky, not old.
I hate her face.

Same with that ad where the topless man walks along and gets fatter and older as he goes. Really badly done graphics.

Jikashi · 04-06-2013 8:34pm

God damn that stupid Rowntree's ad with the bellend dressed as a parrot going WRRAAARGH!

artful_codger · 04-06-2013 10:11pm

That new Coke advert for the named Bottles. Looks like they cast a bunch of failed candidates from the UCD student union election. Fcuk off on the boat to Australia and down the mines with ye.

fricatus · 05-06-2013 11:41am

I hate that ad with the guy swapping Coke Zero for regular Coke in the cinema and then appearing on the screen to tell everyone what he's done.

It's unbelieveably lame for one, but it endorses doing something really dodgy, in the sense that people are not getting what they asked for. In my head is a spoof of that ad where someone hops up in the cinema and goes "you b*stard! I'm allergic to aspartame! Ahgggghhhlllll!!!" and then dies a horrible, gurgling death.

Seriously though - hey kids, I thought I'd swap your regular M&Ms with these peanut ones. Don't they taste great? :eek:

santana75 · 05-06-2013 11:56am

fricatus wrote: »

I hate that ad with the guy swapping Coke Zero for regular Coke in the cinema and then appearing on the screen to tell everyone what he's done.

It's unbelieveably lame for one, but it endorses doing something really dodgy, in the sense that people are not getting what they asked for. In my head is a spoof of that ad where someone hops up in the cinema and goes "you b*stard! I'm allergic to aspartame! Ahgggghhhlllll!!!" and then dies a horrible, gurgling death.

Seriously though - hey kids, I thought I'd swap your regular M&Ms with these peanut ones. Don't they taste great? :eek:

+1. Really wanna punch that guy. Horrible ad in every way, false advertising plus worst of all coke is ****ing poison. Coke zero is probably even worse. Aspartame riddled vile.

syklops · 05-06-2013 12:04pm

fricatus wrote: »

I hate that ad with the guy swapping Coke Zero for regular Coke in the cinema and then appearing on the screen to tell everyone what he's done.

It's unbelieveably lame for one, but it endorses doing something really dodgy, in the sense that people are not getting what they asked for. In my head is a spoof of that ad where someone hops up in the cinema and goes "you b*stard! I'm allergic to aspartame! Ahgggghhhlllll!!!" and then dies a horrible, gurgling death.

Seriously though - hey kids, I thought I'd swap your regular M&Ms with these peanut ones. Don't they taste great? :eek:

Its so stupid, because unless you smoke about 80 a day you could tell that it was Coke zero straight away.

pah · 05-06-2013 4:05pm

The new upc ad with the mother of the family talking. The kids are all online on the TV on the Web blah blah blah, husband watching tv so it ends up that she has the one thing that "money can't buy" - "peace"

fair enough except for one thing

You just fukking BOUGHT IT you just bought "peace" with fukking money. upc costs money - you bought upc ergo you bought "peace" the entire ad is set up to show what you can get by buying this service. The end result for you is "peace" and youve paid for it.

TIt.

Getting on my tits.

/Rant

denishurley · 05-06-2013 5:27pm

artful_codger wrote: »

That new Coke advert for the named Bottles. Looks like they cast a bunch of failed candidates from the UCD student union election. Fcuk off on the boat to Australia and down the mines with ye.

"Thanks for the Christmas shift, that was pretty good!" :rolleyes:

syklops · 05-06-2013 5:32pm

The sky ad where the one goes "Wait til I tell you, they're downloading so much at home now its ridiculous!". She must have a very boring life if the fact her kids are downloading alot is news for her friend.

"Your quad muscles are ridiculous". Good ridiculous? Bad ridiculous? Too big? Too small? Weirdly shaped?

syklops · 05-06-2013 11:46pm

Allyall wrote: »

They've removed the "Smooooth" in the Tampax ad, and she doesn't sing ♪♫ "on a bummpy roooaadd" ♪ ♪ ♫ anymore.

Thank f**k.

The ad with the girl brushing her teeth and she is supposed to be getting old.. She just looks freaky, not old.
I hate her face.

That ad is even more annoying with the recent change. Its so badly edited.

Mother Nature:(garbled) ough??

take everything · 06-06-2013 4:45am

Meta/deconstruction/self-reference seems to be the thing now.
That go compare prick being all parodic and postmodern in the new Ads.
Yes we get that you get that you're annoying.
Some self-aware shtick doesn't make you more endearing.

Another metacrap ad is that Steven Merchant bank ad from a while back with the bould Stevo doing a voiceover oh-so-casually pointing out all the irrelevant and pointless ad tropes (in self-same ad- Jaysus that's mad) in his (ironically unreconstructed) smartass way.

DarkJager · 06-06-2013 5:10am

Heroditas wrote: »

The Eircom ad with that ghastly song sung by Grimes: "Oblivion". Incredibly irritating.

Oh and the Lucozade ad, mainly because it now appears on Youtube and you have to watch the first few sceonds when it says "oh just another one of those hedge-trimming..." ... SKIP!

Yes that Grimes song does my head in too, so much that I had to google it. I'm sure Eircom would be delighted to know its actually a song about a sexual assault she endured.

fricatus · 06-06-2013 9:11am

take everything wrote: »

Another metacrap ad is that Steven Merchant bank ad from a while back with the bould Stevo doing a voiceover oh-so-casually pointing out all the irrelevant and pointless ad tropes (in self-same ad- Jaysus that's mad) in his (ironically unreconstructed) smartass way.

That was Barclays or something wasn't it? Wasn't there a roller-coaster in it?

syklops · 06-06-2013 10:05am

The second / follow up rugby insurance ad. He over emphasises "laptop-o-rooney" and the "pause, engage" at the end is cringe worthy.

I quite liked the first ad so this tripe just ruins it.

Thargor · 06-06-2013 10:12am

syklops wrote: »

The second / follow up rugby insurance ad. He over emphasises "laptop-o-rooney" and the "pause, engage" at the end is cringe worthy.

I quite liked the first ad so this tripe just ruins it.

Removed my thanks when I saw you said you liked the first one? :eek:

Fcuking nightmare that ad, how long have they had it on repeat at this stage? Years anyway by now, you could literally play it on a loop in Guantanemo Bay as torture, dont even remember what its for aswell.

syklops · 06-06-2013 11:20am

Thargor wrote: »

Removed my thanks when I saw you said you liked the first one? :eek:

Fcuking nightmare that ad, how long have they had it on repeat at this stage? Years anyway by now, you could literally play it on a loop in Guantanemo Bay as torture, dont even remember what its for aswell.

Its for insurance but despite the millions of times ive seen it I dont remember which company, which means the marketeers have done a poor job.

The only reason I like it is because it caricatures people I know. D4 living, rugby mad, say "good night!" during the day time, only time they were ever in the northside in their lives was for the rugby games back in 2007, and then it was straight back to the 51 on Haddington Road for a few pints of Beamish.

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