Worst/Best Radio Ads

L1011

LynnGrace wrote: »

'As the saying goes, if Dunne can't do it it can't be done'...
What saying, Ben? Can't say I ever heard it, until the ad for Ben Dunne gyms started being aired...every five minutes. Not the worst of ads, I suppose, just a bit tiresome.

I think it was a slogan for the shops in the 1950s or 60s. So not the most relevant to todays gym-goer!

paddylonglegs

The guy for the ikea ads is creepy

Lapin

Does that distressed woman in the Abbey Travel ad have an orgasm when himself suggests they go 'down under' to see the sprogs?

CountyHurler

Voice Actor: "So are you already for your retirement, Dave"...

Same Voice Actor (supposedly as "Dave"): "Eh, no"...

Sloppy advertising to say the least..

MangoMachine

Ben Dunne Gym adverts on Newstalk.
"No wonder other gyms don't advertise they're prices... I think they're embarrassed".

Judgement Day

MangoMachine wrote: »

Ben Dunne Gym adverts on Newstalk.
"No wonder other gyms don't advertise they're prices... I think they're embarrassed".

You don't say whether this is one of the Worst/Best Ads.

Atlantic Dawn

The Nissan Note advert wrecks my head....

<Most annoying irritating womans voice>
"Jimmy have you got your lunch
Cathy come back your chello is in the boot
Sean put that down
Aoife put Sean down
Jimmy show me your hands
Now wash them before your lunch
Sophie, where's Sophie..ruff ruff, ok grand"
</Most annoying irritating womans voice>

MJ23

CountyHurler wrote: »

Voice Actor: "So are you already for your retirement, Dave"...

Same Voice Actor (supposedly as "Dave"): "Eh, no"...

Sloppy advertising to say the least..

That's Malacky from Fair City.

LynnGrace

The menu is to DIE for...aargh. I don't even know where the ad is for.

MangoMachine

Judgement Day wrote: »

You don't say whether this is one of the Worst/Best Ads.

I'll leave that to your own discretion!

JamesReeves

Probably been mentioned before but.. Des Kelly Adverts :mad:

Hector Mildew

I have to switch off the UPC ad when it come on. It reminds me of wasted time spent on hold when I call UPC - same ad music on a loop for 25 minutes...:mad:

Caveat_

paddylonglegs wrote: »

The guy for the ikea ads is creepy

Freaks me out a bit too

Penny Dreadful

OMG Sonia O'Sullivan is such a sell out. Those ads she is on for health supplements that make her feel fit and healthy.:eek:
You're an athlete Sonia you know being fit and health is all down to your diet and hard work in training not some fish oil supplement.
Disappointed.

serfboard

Penny Dreadful wrote: »

OMG Sonia O'Sullivan is such a sell out. Those ads she is on for health supplements that make her feel fit and healthy.:eek:
You're an athlete Sonia you know being fit and health is all down to your diet and hard work in training not some fish oil supplement.
Disappointed.

Heard the ad meself and reckoned that times must be fairly tight in the O'Sullivan household.

Though Sonia's name wouldn't convince me to buy whatever snake fish oil she's selling.

DublinWriter

Anyone out there have a recording of 'Coolock Tile and Bathroom Centre - Turning Ireland into Tileland everyday' ad?

Judgement Day

Penny Dreadful wrote: »

OMG Sonia O'Sullivan is such a sell out. Those ads she is on for health supplements that make her feel fit and healthy.:eek:
You're an athlete Sonia you know being fit and health is all down to your diet and hard work in training not some fish oil supplement.
Disappointed.

Doesn't help that that Ad style has been defunct since the 1960s - embarrassingly bad.

duckman!!

If I hear "we call it the P&G affect" one more time.....I'll go f##king mad!!!!!

mondymike

Fran1985 wrote: »

Couple of days ago, the Toyota Auris ad was on. Girl traded in her 08 golf for a 141.

This morning i heard the response from Volkswagon. Same guy and girl talking,but this time she's telling how she returned the 141 auris and got her old car because it just wasn't a golf.

Nothing special about the script or anything but I just thought it was a great come back.

Great ad

mondymike

Fran1985 wrote: »

Couple of days ago, the Toyota Auris ad was on. Girl traded in her 08 golf for a 141.

This morning i heard the response from Volkswagon. Same guy and girl talking,but this time she's telling how she returned the 141 auris and got her old car because it just wasn't a golf.

Nothing special about the script or anything but I just thought it was a great come back.

Great ad

whisky_galore

Judgement Day wrote: »

Doesn't help that that Ad style has been defunct since the 1960s - embarrassingly bad.

I *insert celeb name* wholeheartedly endorse *insert brand of product or service*

There was another (rugby lad?) promoting shower units a bit ago in an equally toe curling ad.

Green Giant

whisky_galore wrote: »

I *insert celeb name* wholeheartedly endorse *insert brand of product or service*

There was another (rugby lad?) promoting shower units a bit ago in an equally toe curling ad.

Ah yes, Donncha O'Callaghan telling us that Triton T90 showers were "truly awash with greatness" :rolleyes: before being handed a full to the brim with money bag with a euro symbol on it

Penny Dreadful

The latest one for the Leopardstown Inn (I think thats it anyway) with the poor mans James Bond/ Sean Connery impersonation.
Its bad and cheap and nasty.

Floody Boreland

I'm going a la carte.

WHAAAART.

LynnGrace

'Dont renoo unless it's bloo'

Lteegan

What about that ad with the couple going on about visiting the titanic? 'who knew it was so close to Dublin' etc. I think it says you can learn more about their visit online somewhere.....why would you? good grief!

whisky_galore

Some Early and Baldwin solictors ad. Hate it already, sounds like it was written by an 8 year old.

Penny Dreadful

Lteegan wrote: »

What about that ad with the couple going on about visiting the titanic? 'who knew it was so close to Dublin' etc. I think it says you can learn more about their visit online somewhere.....why would you? good grief!

Also I don't give a damn about the bloody Titanic. Its not at all "insane" to be standing in Belfast where the ship itself once stood.
Very irritating all right.

Joe Duffy..

One running on Today fm at the minute for the Kylie Minogue concert, yer wan doing the voice over has a horrific annoying voice.

whisky_galore

Has anyone noticed the pair in the Harvey Norman ads have changed accents from Aussie to Irish, reading the exact same tripe about laptops?

anewme

Two I hate at the moment.....
HIREland......................aghhhhhhhhh....its the way the voice pronounces HIREland......

Also a very annoying jingle for car insurance......cover in a click, cover in a click.......then a mans voice....cawrrrr insurrrrance for yaung dwivers........

Absolutely detest both those radio ads.............

paddylonglegs

Quite liked the ad for the Irish times Brian odriscoll pullout last week where the the VoiceOver guy starts crying

mrsdewinter

paddylonglegs wrote: »

Quite liked the ad for the Irish times Brian odriscoll pullout last week where the the VoiceOver guy starts crying

Yeah, it made me laugh! Sometimes the Old Lady of D'Olier Street manages to nail it...

neris

whisky_galore wrote: »

Has anyone noticed the pair in the Harvey Norman ads have changed accents from Aussie to Irish, reading the exact same tripe about laptops?

the aussie version was bad the irish one is just dreadful. it sounds like the sports guy from 98fm/newstalk

ziggy

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statto25

That Zurich insurance ad with the "Comfy Chair" makes me want to smash my radio up.

tommytee

Sonya Eskimo3 O'Sullivan AD??? she sounds just like a Corkonian robot would sound, especially the last two lines of the ad, terrible ad altogether

whisky_galore

tommytee wrote: »

Sonya Eskimo3 O'Sullivan AD??? she sounds just like a Corkonian robot would sound, especially the last two lines of the ad, terrible ad altogether

They're Iniut now, they don't like being called Eskimos.

Saruwatari

Every ad on Nova. Especially with Dee Woods. Which is 90& of their bloody ads.

CptMackey

statto25 wrote: »

That Zurich insurance ad with the "Comfy Chair" makes me want to smash my radio up.

That add does my head in. The one with the tiles aswell made me want to kill who ever made them

L1011

[something] Baldwin Solicitors. Terrible ad and it didn't even make me remember the full name. Generally, trying to be "zany" is not a reason I'd select a solicitors firm!

Penny Dreadful

CptMackey wrote: »

That add does my head in. The one with the tiles aswell made me want to kill who ever made them

After a brief respite it seems to be back with a vengence:(

MYOB wrote: »

[something] Baldwin Solicitors. Terrible ad and it didn't even make me remember the full name. Generally, trying to be "zany" is not a reason I'd select a solicitors firm!

Both of these are so bad and so annoying that I now turn the radio off when they come on. Same for the P&G ads.

LynnGrace

The An Post ad for paying bills. Dreadful stuff.

Joe Duffy..

The ad for the Tony Fenton show. Stomach churning. ...

Missyelliot2

MYOB wrote: »

[something] Baldwin Solicitors. Terrible ad and it didn't even make me remember the full name. Generally, trying to be "zany" is not a reason I'd select a solicitors firm!

Early and Baldwin......'Always early, very bald'.........Those words are uttered in the ad - I kid you not! Wouldn't be rushing to have them represent me either!

6781

There is a ad that features that ex runner from Cork O'Sullivan. It's so bad the way she is reading the lines. Almost as if she is kidnapped and forced to read it out.

neris

those boots mothers day ads surely Boots is a big enough company that they dont need to skimp on the cost of a voice over actress

CountyHurler

Fear mhaith ar an wikipedia ba ea é Domhnail O'Donován...

mrsdewinter

CountyHurler wrote: »

Fear mhaith ar an wikipedia ba ea é Domhnail O'Donován...

Thank you!

I honestly don't know what the point of those ads is.

PopePalpatine

It lowers the blood pressure of Peadar, the semi-inbred hardcore Gaelgoir who has to enforce some bullshit minimum quota for Irish language content.