Worst/Best Radio Ads

edwinkane

Ciaran_B wrote: »

I thought we’d moved past the ‘men are idiots’ school of radio advertising but has anyone heard that one that’s airing at the moment? It goes something like ‘If my husband had his way our daughter would be called Sunflower and we’d be running a hostel in Spain’, I don’t know what it’s selling but I won’t be buying.

I agree. there is an assumption on much of advertising that men are stupid and if it wasn't for their wives or girlfriends they would's be able to do anything. I also avoid products which use this dreadful assumption, whether it be overtly or implicitly.

omegaman3000

No nonsense.ie ads are good.....I hate that 'working-class dub gets accounting software and business takes off' how patronising

serfboard

omegaman3000 wrote: »

No nonsense.ie ads are good

Given that the thread title is "Worst/Best Radio Ads", there seems to be a preponderance of postings about the worst ads. I know when they annoy you, it's hard to hold back, but ...

I love nononsense.ie ads, both on the radio and the telly. Now some are better than others, I liked the one where yer one was getting more orgasmic as she found out more details about the young lad.

I especially like the fact that for the telly, they didn't need to modify the voice-overs at all, just created the models.

neris

The newstalk self promo ads with the creepy aliens are coming type music are a pile of muck. Nearly as bad as the one where the vet had chickens listening to george hook

telekon

bilko1234 wrote: »

Hi
This is Mary from Irish life
Can I speak to Mr Donnelly please?
Speaking
I Think it might be your Dad that I'm looking for.
Hang on I'll get him
Mr Donnelly, this is Mary from Irish Life, you wanted to speak to me?
No, you sorted out that investment thing for me last week.
Oh then it must be YOUR Dad I want.
GRANDAD..!!!
Ah Mary, thanks for getting back to me, I want to talk to you about my pension.

Does anybody else think this is a cute,warm and cuddly ad???

That bit where the kid 'shouts' "Grandad" really grates on me. Every time I hear it I can see the producer saying to the child actor "now, we want you to shout "Grandad" but in a really fake, quiet way that won't fool anybody...

Why couldnt they get him to actually shout "Grandad" but a few feet further away from the microphone?!?

Hate this ad. Mary is probably slagging off the Donnellys to her co-workers the minute she gets off the phone...

DarkJager

telekon wrote: »

That bit where the kid 'shouts' "Grandad" really grates on me. Every time I hear it I can see the producer saying to the child actor "now, we want you to shout "Grandad" but in a really fake, quiet way that won't fool anybody...

Why couldnt they get him to actually shout "Grandad" but a few feet further away from the microphone?!?

Hate this ad. Mary is probably slagging off the Donnellys to her co-workers the minute she gets off the phone...

If Mary had done it ****ing properly in the first place and asked for Mr (Firstname) Donnelly, she could have avoided talking to half the people in the house. And she is way too happy sounding for a call centre worker

Poochie05

edwinkane wrote: »

I agree. there is an assumption on much of advertising that men are stupid and if it wasn't for their wives or girlfriends they would's be able to do anything. I also avoid products which use this dreadful assumption, whether it be overtly or implicitly.

Ah but the clever twist (:rolleyes:) for this ad is that despite her husband's poor taste in names and yearnings for sunnier climes, she says thank goodness he has money sense and financial know-how so thanks to him they used the services of whatever company the ad is for (see I can't remember either!:D) so they are not destitute.

It wouldn't be one of the ads that bothers me at the moment, there are plenty further up the annoying queue for me (I'm looking at you Apache Pizza).

Qwert1

Not exactly the appropriate time of the year but that ad they play at Christmas, I think it's for Barry's Tea or something, about the Father buying a train set for his son. 'Santa can get him what he want, this one's from me...', it's so over the top sickly sweet it almost makes me dread Christmas.

LithiumKid1976

"Not exactly the appropriate time of the year but that ad they play at Christmas, I think it's for Barry's Tea or something, about the Father buying a train set for his son. 'Santa can get him what he want, this one's from me...', it's so over the top sickly sweet it almost makes me dread Christmas. "

this! i really hate this add, its so annoying, the way the young version of the man, says his bit in the past, then the present day one repeats it...."doesnt that beat banagher..." grrrr, and at the end of the day, its for a cup of scald, and not even the good brand...

you can add to that any add that features "jim" from eircom support and "mary" from irish life ...

squonk

Heard an awful one yesterday for some hotel or other that actually worked because of the ad that followed it!

It was on i102 so sorry if a lot of you guys haven't heard it.

It's an awful, awful ad that's pretending to be a sitcom with the wife saying something like 'We need a break' and the hubby going 'Oh we can't afford that', followed by the 'audience' going 'Boo', and me puking! Then, because he's a man and he's stupid, the wife comes up with reasons why it'll work. 'It's well within budget', 'We have a budget?' says the man, followed by more Audience laughing and, eventually, because the advertising agency were really talented, it comes round to the wife more or less saying, 'Oh you can get in a round of golf and I'll do my thing and we'll be well relaxed for some good, sweet lovin' as well'. Cue audience going 'Oooh!'. Bloody awful but..

...the ad immediately following it started off with a frightened, despairing voice over, 'I need a job!'. and was an ad for a depression counselling service. Maybe you had to be there but it made it sound like the guy in ad 1 had lost his job and was letting on to the wife that he was still working. It sounded like an internal monologue!

neris

squonk wrote: »

Heard an awful one yesterday for some hotel or other that actually worked because of the ad that followed it!

It was on i102 so sorry if a lot of you guys haven't heard it.

It's an awful, awful ad that's pretending to be a sitcom with the wife saying something like 'We need a break' and the hubby going 'Oh we can't afford that', followed by the 'audience' going 'Boo', and me puking! Then, because he's a man and he's stupid, the wife comes up with reasons why it'll work. 'It's well within budget', 'We have a budget?' says the man, followed by more Audience laughing and, eventually, because the advertising agency were really talented, it comes round to the wife more or less saying, 'Oh you can get in a round of golf and I'll do my thing and we'll be well relaxed for some good, sweet lovin' as well'. Cue audience going 'Oooh!'. Bloody awful but..
!

I thinks its the berkeley court thats for. A truly afwul work of ****e

cml387

neris wrote: »

I thinks its the berkeley court thats for. A truly afwul work of ****e

Yes,D4 hotels to precise.

For Forks Sake

cml387 wrote: »

Yes,D4 hotels to precise.

Or lining the pockets of Sean Dunne and his odious wife to be even more precise

Ave Nocturna

telekon wrote: »

That bit where the kid 'shouts' "Grandad" really grates on me. Every time I hear it I can see the producer saying to the child actor "now, we want you to shout "Grandad" but in a really fake, quiet way that won't fool anybody...

Why couldnt they get him to actually shout "Grandad" but a few feet further away from the microphone?!?

Hate this ad. Mary is probably slagging off the Donnellys to her co-workers the minute she gets off the phone...

Yes! That fake "GRANNDAAAAD" really really makes me twitch. You're either shouting or you're whispering, kid, make your bloody mind up! ARGHHHHHHHHH

dulpit

There's a round of ads on right now for some post franking company, the shtick is that the person has to go to the doctor because they're a chronic stamp licker


Stupid ad.

mike65

Kildare Village and that faux "Sex and the City" shop-till-you-**** vibe

artful_codger

omegaman3000 wrote: »

No nonsense.ie ads are good.....I hate that 'working-class dub gets accounting software and business takes off' how patronising

That's the lad from Apres Match unless i'm mistaken. Courierieriering.

Skid

Mrs Brown at The Olympia

"Am I dying?"

"Next Tuesday!"

This makes no sense at all, why are people laughing ??

Then it moves on to ...


"I want to visit my sister"

"In?"

"An Aeroplane !"

Cue Howls of laughter from the audience.
It's not even a joke, never mind that's it's not remotely funny.

One of those blood-presssure-rising-rush-to-the-radio-to-switch-the-station adverts.

borderlinemeath

I despise the erin soup ads. I want to scald all those fookers with their soup.

the mad mermaid mums is probably the most annoying, followed by the spanner that thinks he can pass off premade "tuscan" soup as his own.

Mammy who seems to have an inability to cook and fed her kids on nothing but packet soup growing up is probably the least offensive. But still very annoying.

squonk

EuroCycled/EuroBabies are at it again! <rolls eyes>! Anyone hear the new one with the trad song? Sounds like a totally ****e version of the ****e that gets thrown out to visiting Americans!

It might be in the 'so bad it's good' category however. My jury is still out on that!

neris

theres really annoying ads on in a david attenbrough style just before 11am on the ray darcy show for kit kats

neris

Heard a new 1 for Lyons tea a few minutes ago with the guys blending the tea. Sounds like a severe case of gay sexual harasment in the work place.

Also daft dave and his monkey are back flogging tiles

dulpit

neris wrote: »

Also daft dave and his monkey are back flogging tiles

Ah horse testicles, he's not is he? :mad:

polobradaigh

Can I make a suggestion regarding swearwords. When somebody types ****e it could mean white, horse, farce, apple or a hundred other possibilities. If you mean the do-do word it should read s***e or even if you're really daring sh**e. Let's get it right.

squonk

polobradaigh wrote: »

Can I make a suggestion regarding swearwords. When somebody types ****e it could mean white, horse, farce, apple or a hundred other possibilities. If you mean the do-do word it should read s***e or even if you're really daring sh**e. Let's get it right.

In fairness, the site edits the word for you. Nobody actually writes '****e', as I've just done now here

cml387

Kidare Village ...again...

Fabulous Fabulous Fabulous


AHHHH!

bilko1234

Ciaran_B wrote: »

I thought we’d moved past the ‘men are idiots’ school of radio advertising but has anyone heard that one that’s airing at the moment? It goes something like ‘If my husband had his way our daughter would be called Sunflower and we’d be running a hostel in Spain’, I don’t know what it’s selling but I won’t be buying.

The really irritating thing bout this one is that it's "if my husband DES..."!!!
Why the fook do we need to know what her husband's called???
Maybe this is an introduction to this hapless eejit who's wife is going to be visiting our radios on a regular basis over the next year or so exciting us with tales of DES and how madcap he is.
We await with baited breath.....

squonk

for once I've something good to say about an Ad! I heard a great Curry's one last evening.

Started off sounding like a clip from the King's Speech but then started to go on about the Royal Wedding next week and how there was a sale on that day. I actually thought it was clever and funny and laid back all at the same time. They didn't pound the name of the shop into your brain and actually got you interested so that you could hear the name of the shop and what they were advertising. Made me think more highly of Currys. Listen out. It's a decent effort. It's nice to hear an ad you like for a change!

polobradaigh

The one that currently sends me dashing to switch off is the one with Mother's Whistler in the background (foreground actually) advertising a range of household items. Drives me gaga. Lord Gaga, that is.

sh1tstirrer

That idiot in the UPC ad. The way he talks makes me want to break the radio. Folks are getting it neow, dad watches footie mum is chuffed (stupid UK slang words). I would love to kick his arse from one end of Ireland to the other.

hacx

a lot of ads seem to be of the "Faux interview" style lately - the Easons ad, the SAGE ad and others. What gives?

JonathanAnon

hacx wrote: »

a lot of ads seem to be of the "Faux interview" style lately - the Easons ad, the SAGE ad and others. What gives?

Particularly bad is that one with the guy with the working class Dublin accent "How many times have you been stung, do you LIKE being stung"... awful tripe..

spank_inferno

The "Kings Speech" inspired Curries ad is quite good.

captain caveman

Anyone heard those ads for "Dont Tell The Bride"? Absolutely Godawful acting from the voiceovers!

Kojak

anyone hear that new ad that Simon delaney does?

Its about coldsore cream, with him pretending to be the cream. Its not the worst ad on radio, but its still one that could have done with a bit more work put into it....

jor el

No Mr Bond, I suspect you to die. Eh? It's expect, not suspect. You would think that Xtravision could get a movie quote right. Apart from that little piece of stupidity, it's also an incredibly annoying ad.

stannis

The Knorr quick soup ad with the lisping effeminate voice of the "slump". You know, the voice that apparently tells you to "send that email about your boss, to your boss". Effing hate it.

No Mr Bond, I suspect you to die. Eh? It's expect, not suspect. You would think that Xtravision could get a movie quote right. Apart from that little piece of stupidity, it's also an incredibly annoying ad.

I think they're trying to be "cute" by having her quote it wrong.

CUCINA

squonk wrote: »

for once I've something good to say about an Ad! I heard a great Curry's one last evening.

Started off sounding like a clip from the King's Speech but then started to go on about the Royal Wedding next week and how there was a sale on that day. I actually thought it was clever and funny and laid back all at the same time. They didn't pound the name of the shop into your brain and actually got you interested so that you could hear the name of the shop and what they were advertising. Made me think more highly of Currys. Listen out. It's a decent effort. It's nice to hear an ad you like for a change!

Fully agree...this is probably the ONLY radio add I admire at the moment. It's a good idea, well put together.

dulpit

There's an ad on for Senior Line or something with Micheál O I'm-not-going-to-try-to-spell-his-surname.

The way he says the number 4 in the telephone number (1850 440444 or something) is grating to say the least, I've only heard it twice and I hate it!

squonk

dulpit wrote: »

There's an ad on for Senior Line or something with Micheál O I'm-not-going-to-try-to-spell-his-surname.

Senior Line.... isn't that the Joe Duffy show?

Oracle

Someone stop that young wan on RTÉ 1 Radio constantly repeating "ESB Electric Ire-Lin-T; Ire-Lin-T has a new energy." She's driving me insane! :mad:

allanb49

The 11890 ad with the cork girl it really grates me and one that offers to clear your debts with a song in the background playing #your not alone sung by a chorus, my god it's annoying

dulpit

allanb49 wrote: »

The 11890 ad with the cork girl it really grates me

Yes. As a Corkman I feel I must protest about the terribleness of this ad on each new page of this thread. Why does she have to have such an accent? WHY??? :mad:

JonathanAnon

The 11890 ad with the cork girl it really grates me

She's a serial offender.. on fkn everything and she's THE most annoying of all the voice over "artists"...

"That wiley lad might be the big fella now"... :mad:
"oh I like the fkn Kia Sporty-wagon, and the seven year fkn warranty is a must for me".. :mad:
"If only everything moved as well.. ":mad:

omegaman3000

Fleetwood paints anyone? Those ads on the Matt Cooper show for Permanent TSB that were canned after about a month? eg 'money saving tip-don't buy honey just get bees and squeeze accordingly' for f**k's sake

JonathanAnon

Will somebody tell that silly bint from Fair City that it's "Fibre Power BroaDband".. you think these voiceover people would at least pronounce the damned words right..

squonk

allanb49 wrote: »

The 11890 ad with the cork girl it really grates me and one that offers to clear your debts with a song in the background playing #your not alone sung by a chorus, my god it's annoying

Oh yeah, and worst of all, "Sure didn't that nice O'Leary girl answer me there the other day!". Will you ever just **** right off! As if you'd actually know the operator on the line and even if you did they're probably giving you a made up name to protect their identity anyway. What a load of unmitigated bollox! Do they think people are complete idiots?

ofcork

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

That idiot in the UPC ad. The way he talks makes me want to break the radio. Folks are getting it neow, dad watches footie mum is chuffed (stupid UK slang words). I would love to kick his arse from one end of Ireland to the other.

Thats craig doyle,i suppose his time in the uk is affecting him btw i think its an unfair comparison anyway,upc are providing tv/bb/phone and comparing their prices to two other providers ie sky and eircom.

stannis

Happy CHEWWWWS-DAY!

bilko1234

"Eircom Support...?"
"Hi, Jim, I'm reading about this new 8 meg broadband package...OK what have you taken off..??"
"Nothing"
"You've taken off the free calls to mobiles haven't you"
"No"
"You've taken off the unlimited calls to landlines"
"Now, why would we do that"
"You've taken off nothing and just dropped the price??"
"Yes"
"Okay, I haven't got all day to talk to you Jim, just sign me up please"
"Hur, Hur..Okay"

Aw, bless.:D