Worst/Best Radio Ads

K.Flyer

Ciaran_B wrote: »

'Howaya, I'm Maggie Muff'

What the Christ is this '50 Shades of Maggie' garbage? So, so bad.

Kathrine Lynch rip off...

Lapin

Ciaran_B wrote: »

'Howaya, I'm Maggie Muff'

What the Christ is this '50 Shades of Maggie' garbage? So, so bad.

Just heard it.

Its enough to put me off ever setting foot in Dublin again. :mad:

DuckStab

Undoubtedly the two worst types of radio ads are the following: Ads for comedy gigs, ads containing a "back-and-forth" repartee. So what better way to induce an aural hernia than combining the two?! Thank you Fred Cooke!

"I'm Fred Kewk!"
"It's Cuck!"
"No Kewk!"
"Cuck!"

kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck

GastroBoy

Bellerstring wrote: »

Don't know if it's the same ad, but there's a BOI ad where we hear:
"Helllo..My name's Marie,....and this is our lump sum, John.
"Say hello John"
"Hellllo"
"Ah bless, he's quite shy"
"Ah-Hem, I'm just not used to public speaking......."

What patronising bast***, thought up this ad and who in the name of Jaysus let it past quality control?
If this ad was pitched at 5 year olds, it would be deemed simplistic and patronising.
Wise up.
People who have thousands in lump sums to invest are not children.
Inform them like adults.
:mad:

Thats the one, don't know where I got the Peter bit from. Jaysus its awful, glad to see I'm not the only it infuriates

JonathanAnon

"The Bird... South Georgia... Size of my thumb" etc

Just FKKKKKK off..

dulpit

JonathanAnon wrote: »

"The Bird... South Georgia... Size of my thumb" etc

Just FKKKKKK off..

And the worst bit is that it's a great show, and I would highly recommend it. Just a crap ad.

mike65

"Critics are calling it the most annoyingly ubiquitous radio advert for a stage production ever"

L1011

pcomer wrote: »

Ad for some hotel in Galway thats changed their name - 2 uinder-employed actors doing a voiceover in the style of Basil and Sybil Fawlty - utter faeces.

I've stayed in that hotel with three different names above the front door, none of which its currently using. Its no Fawlty Towers, but that speed of name changes might make you think it was!

Chris 80

DuckStab wrote: »

Undoubtedly the two worst types of radio ads are the following: Ads for comedy gigs, ads containing a "back-and-forth" repartee. So what better way to induce an aural hernia than combining the two?! Thank you Fred Cooke!

"I'm Fred Kewk!"
"It's Cuck!"
"No Kewk!"
"Cuck!"

kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck

I agree. It's awful.

paddylonglegs

Continued head wrecking ads from eircom. Using actors with perfect diction to talk in a relaxed, "common" way just doesn't work. Ah here...

Inspector Dhar

The current ad for 'Ferry' Washing-Up Liquid is doing my head in. Annoying little D4 brat wins a goldfish, and annoying D4 'Mum' tells his goldfish don't last long. So precocious brat says he will name fish after something that lasts a long time.... 'So you're calling it Ferry?' asks annoying mum. Nope, I calling it Bottle, says idiot offspring...........Will pull knob off radio next time I hear it..........

dulpit

New TV Licence ad where the guy is trying to pay his TV licence by taking a boating tour of Ireland is full of win.

paddylonglegs

Inspector Dhar wrote: »

The current ad for 'Ferry' Washing-Up Liquid is doing my head in. Annoying little D4 brat wins a goldfish, and annoying D4 'Mum' tells his goldfish don't last long. So precocious brat says he will name fish after something that lasts a long time.... 'So you're calling it Ferry?' asks annoying mum. Nope, I calling it Bottle, says idiot offspring...........Will pull knob off radio next time I hear it..........

Jebus. Worst attempt at advertising ever

Welsh Megaman

Your standard radio ad...

Woman (to friend, usually called Jean): Jean, what's up?
Friend: It's my *PROBLEM*
Woman: Have you tried *PRODUCT*?
Friend (curiously): What is it?
Woman: DESCRIBES *PRODUCT*
Friend (excitedly): Wow!
Woman: And it *SOLVES PROBLEM*
Friend: Looks like I'll finally get some help around the house!

*both women chortle*

SNORBEAST

There is an ad running on Today fm and Radio 1 at the moment for Punchestown races, the voice over on it is done by a woman with possibly the most annoying voice on earth, excruciating.

Chris 80

DuckStab wrote: »

Undoubtedly the two worst types of radio ads are the following: Ads for comedy gigs, ads containing a "back-and-forth" repartee. So what better way to induce an aural hernia than combining the two?! Thank you Fred Cooke!

"I'm Fred Kewk!"
"It's Cuck!"
"No Kewk!"
"Cuck!"

kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck kewk cuck

Ha! I concur. Awful ad.

mike65

Whats this reversing lorry being likened to a small herd of elephants nonsense? If I were in a loading bay its not African wildlife that would be on my mind - its the 30 tonne truck!

JP85

I swear to god if i hear that no nonsense ad about the lad turning 25 ill go nuts, i have to lower the volume or change the channel, the other one thats driving me insane at the moment is the dacia sandero when the granny (same woman from the previous no nonsense ads) is talking to her grandson and her voice just goes through me

Green Giant

"This is the sound of bad coffee..."

It's also the sound of a terrible ad

Typer Monkey

JP85 wrote: »

I swear to god if i hear that no nonsense ad about the lad turning 25 ill go nuts, i have to lower the volume or change the channel, the other one thats driving me insane at the moment is the dacia sandero when the granny (same woman from the previous no nonsense ads) is talking to her grandson and her voice just goes through me

The way she says 'dacio sandero' makes me want to put my fist through the radio!

mike65

JP85 wrote: »

I swear to god if i hear that no nonsense ad about the lad turning 25 ill go nuts, i have to lower the volume or change the channel, the other one thats driving me insane at the moment is the dacia sandero when the granny (same woman from the previous no nonsense ads) is talking to her grandson and her voice just goes through me

Green Giant wrote: »

"This is the sound of bad coffee..."

It's also the sound of a terrible ad

Back to back on Today FM. BOOM!

thalia_13

Broad band from upc. Yer ones pronunciation is woejus! Makes my brain hurt each time I hear it.

spank_inferno

"We've been fibre powered.... have you?"

Fcuk off, smug cnut!

spank_inferno

Also.... some ad on Today FM with a bird fighting with a dude who has a speech impediment and can't say the word "cook" properly.

sh1tstirrer

Radio ad where this Irish fella rings his friend who has emigrated to the uk. His friend answers his phone with a posh English accent and he tells him to drop the lawdi daw it's me, even though your man from Ireland talks with a thick false accent. I still can't remember what they are advertising.

L1011

Typer Monkey wrote: »

The way she says 'dacio sandero' makes me want to put my fist through the radio!

The pointless foley work makes me want to do that, the clinking cups and rustling paper. Its like listening to Marion Finucane...

DEFTLEFTHAND

Typer Monkey wrote: »

The way she says 'dacio sandero' makes me want to put my fist through the radio!

Followed by 'Is that some sort of video game?'

That's my boiling point there, my radio's life is now in danger. :mad:

thalia_13

PABLO PICANTE.... Dont really need to say much else for those who have heard the ad.,. I will NEVER eat there thanks to this ad

JonathanAnon

I think that somebody in Husqvarna Marketing Department is seriously taking the p1ss out of Dermot O'Neill... They are only short of asking him to say "Susie Sells Strimmers By The Sea Shore."

C14N

Green Giant wrote: »

"This is the sound of bad coffee..."

It's also the sound of a terrible ad

Such an annoying ad, why does the bad coffee make a little crying noise? Is it ashamed to be in this ad?

Doesn't help when they end the ad with "only available at certain KFCs" or something along those lines. Basically saying "that coffee we just said was sh!t is actually still all you can get at most of our restraunts".

Not many bad ads on Phantom but there is one for some festival that can't be over soon enough. I don't even know the name of it or the name of any bands playing at it but they keep playing the same few rubbishy bits of music over and over and its really starting to grate. Surely the collective musical portfolio of all the bands at a festival could result in a few different ads with different songs in them right?

PopePalpatine

Dear PR wanker at Pharmaton who came up with their latest ads, I am finding it very hard to resist tracking you down and annihilating your ability to contaminate the gene pool.

neris

Pierce brosnans ego in the sky ad. Ad sounds like it eas clobered together in 2 minutes

paddylonglegs

Ah pierce brosnan and his hb ice-cream pah-dy is back again!

Going Forward

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Dear PR wanker at Pharmaton who came up with their latest ads, I am finding it very hard to resist tracking you down and annihilating your ability to contaminate the gene pool.

Action is needed:

1. There's surely grounds for a complaint to broadcasting complaints or advertising standards.

2. Are the "songs" infringing on copyright? Chubby Checker and Little Richard's people must be told!

3. Do they not realise this sh-te is being streamed around the world? It may affect the Gathering.

PopePalpatine

"What kind of day is it?"

It's a "go fúck yourself day", you twat.

paulbok

"It's almost six o'clock, it's time to" do some sh1+ about insurance or noyex Newman.

It's not, if it's six o'clock, your'e f^*king shut for the day.

Bellerstring

Anyone know who the American (?) guy is who does ads for concerts?
Y'know,......

"Eight-kennn promotions presents......Ellllllllltonnnnnn Jahhhhhhn!"
"Subjeck to Lie-senz"
:mad:

GastroBoy

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I think that somebody in Husqvarna Marketing Department is seriously taking the p1ss out of Dermot O'Neill... They are only short of asking him to say "Susie Sells Strimmers By The Sea Shore."

I came in here to nag about the same ad.
Sounds like Sylvester the cat, poor man, couldn't have an ad with any more S's in it.....

Inspector Dhar

GastroBoy wrote: »

I came in here to nag about the same ad.
Sounds like Sylvester the cat, poor man, couldn't have an ad with any more S's in it.....

Unless it was for Seventy Six sorts of succulent salad sammiges

PopePalpatine

Is there a law somewhere on the Irish statute books that states that all taxi company ads must be absolutely terrible?

Going Forward

Bellerstring wrote: »

Anyone know who the American (?) guy is who does ads for concerts?
Y'know,......

"Eight-kennn promotions presents......Ellllllllltonnnnnn Jahhhhhhn!"
"Subjeck to Lie-senz"
:mad:

Neyyyollll Jung........

Going Forward

I do like the Specsavers radio ads at the moment, the ones for the deaf people............

paddylonglegs

If I follow 2fm on twitter will that stop asking me every 10 mins?

skerry

Just when the incredibly annoying No Nonsense Insurance ads have tapered off a bit, Meteor decide that there isn't enough irritating, in your face, ads on the radio and have come out with an almost identical ad, but have somehow managed to make it even more irritating. Just heard the two back to back on the radio at work and nearly snapped my pen in half trying to resist the temptation to put my foot through the speaker

Bellerstring

Do you sometimes find yourself hearing the same ad again and again....?
Do you sometimes find yourself hearing the same ad again and again....?
Do you sometimes find yourself hearing the same ad again and again....?
:mad:

Radio5

There's a ad for Nissan, X tells Y about the price of the car while they're in a library. What in the hell is that about?

GastroBoy

"The new Ben Dunne gym......in Cherrrywood....is"

FUCK OFF

PopePalpatine

There was an absolutely shite ad for the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show yesterday, where he interviewed a talentless skanger-turned-redneck-music-star, and had her ear-stabbingly horrible attempt at singing playing in the background.

NIMAN

There is an advert/promo on TodayFM about sending the DJs off on a day trip or something, the location chosen by the listeners.

In the piece, the narrator says to check out the website for " d'tails " instead of saying " dee tails". Why suddenly start pronouncing it like that?

And " f'nance " pronounciation in RTE gets on my nerves too!!!!!

neris

I used to like Mario Rosenstock and Gift Grub but hes really gone down hill with gift grub and those poxy "laptoparooney" Aviva ads are really annoying and ****e. Surely a radio voice well past his sell by date.