Boards.ie Favourite Christmas Advert - The FINAL

DvB

Love both, but the Guinness advert is my favourite of all time, so that wins, every time.

DvB

Another landslide...
Shame as I adore that McDonalds advert, was easily the best of the 2020 crop.

TRS30

DvB wrote: »

Another landslide...
Shame as I adore that McDonalds advert, was easily the best of the 2020 crop.

Sad to see it go however was never going to stand a chance against the GOAT of Christmas ads!

Loughc

I know it makes no difference but my vote is also for Guinness. Boy these semi-finals are going to be tough.

Posy

Last match of the day.

Budwiser - Horse Sleigh

John Lewis - 2013 The Bear and the Hare

TRS30

Budweiser please.

Can you set up a tab please?

DvB

Noooooooo....
I love both of these....

Have watched both back and will go with the Bear & the hare purely because the bud one ends with wishing you & yours the best of the holiday season and I hate that american reference to christmas as the holiday season.

Whichever wins though I have no issue with as I like both.

Autosport

Budweiser

ChannelNo5

The bear and the Hare please. Some of the Bud ads are real tear jerkers (The dog one) but JL always seem to knock it out of the park.

Indestructable

That's a very tough one for me. I'm going with Budweiser

Aisling(",)

Budweiser.
I sing the little hums as do do do's .

afro man

Budweiser add for Me

Loughc

Budweiser for me too....

DvB

Interesting that in our previous ultimate christmas advert poll Guinness & Bud tied for first place and both are still here, whilst An Post & Cornflakes who finished joint third in that poll have already been knocked out.

snowgal

Budweiser for me too....ah ah ah aaah ah ah ah ah ahhh

DvB

So are we leaving the semi finals & final until tomorrow?

Penneys v Coca Cola
Guinness v Budweiser

Thats a very strong line up indeed... 4 strong classics there.

Posy

Should be interesting!

Yep 2 semi finals and final tomorrow.

snowgal

ugh, Im in a meeting most of the day.....Will hopefully get to vote. Holidays are comin for the win!! Its not christmas in ours, officially, until that ad comes on!

TRS30

Off today as youngest’s birthday so if you could please throw up some roughy times please for semis and final so can try to get online.

Posy

Might aim for about 10, 12 and 3?

Depends on how the voting is going of course!

Posy

It's nearly time!

Some facts about our fab 4 in the competition.
We have the top 4 seeded adverts playing today, so you might think the last 4 is no surprise!

Our No. 1 seed Penneys trounced Air New Zealand, Quality Street 2009, took out John Lewis 'The long wait' before knocking out Denneys.

Guinness, the No. 2 seed, saw off competition from TK Maxx's lil Goat, the Coca Cola 2006 advert, BBC One's Supporting Act and McDonald's 2020 offering- Inner Child.

Budweiser, our No. 3 seed, has seen some of the closest contests, it knocked out Kevin the Carrot- Top Gun early on, whitewashed McDonalds 'Christmas Eve' and caused devastation by knocking the Heathrow bears, then the iconic Bear and the Hare out of the competition.

CocaCola, our No. 4 seed whitewashed Doc Morris' 2020's Christmas advert, and Tesco 2013 and caused heartache before knocking out Lidl's adorable grandad an An Post's Let them Know.

Posy

Semi Final 1.
Let's see if first to 7 gets us anywhere fast.

Penneys - Got a Whole Lot of Things for Christmas

Coca-Cola - Holidays are coming

PaulT21

:D Coca Cola obviously :D

CarrieAnne

Coca-Cola - Holidays are coming

Caranica

Penneys - give me Christmas over "Holidays" any day

ChannelNo5

I know I'm on a loser here but Pennys

odyssey06

I'm going to go Coca Cola (though have voted for Penneys in earlier rounds so conflicted!)

DvB

All points to Penneys beating Guinness in the final.... but anything can happen in a knockout competition :eek::)

PaulT21

DvB wrote: »

All points to Penneys beating Guinness in the final.... but anything can happen in a knockout competition :eek::)

:mad:That would be a travesty

Baybay

Coke is it!

DvB

Coca cola for me, for the same reason as yesterday, its a classic, still in use & still is one of only 2 or 3 adverts that when I see them 'live' for the first time each christmas give me a little buzz that Christmas is here!!!

Autosport

Penney’s for me even though I love the Coca Cola ad

CheerLouth

This is a tough one....Pennys for me

ronan.h

Pennys

Posy

5 all :eek:

DvB

Posy wrote: »

5 all :eek:

Proper order for a semi final, should be no tonkings at this stage really.

PaulT21

DvB wrote: »

Proper order for a semi final, should be no tonkings at this stage really.

I had to google that DvB, everyday is a school day :D

TRS30

Coke cola for me.

Phew, thought I had missed it!

snowgal

coca cola coca cola jeez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

snowgal

TRS30 wrote: »

Coke cola for me.

Phew, thought I had missed it!

me too, feckin hell, my heart!! :eek:

PaulT21

Thats Coca Cola through I think :D

Holidays are coming:D:D

corkonion

Coke

DvB

& we have our first finalist!

Coca Cola defeating the No.1 seed!!

snowgal

yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!

Posy

Time for semi final 2!!

First to 7.


Guinness - At the home of the black stuff

Budwiser - Horse Sleigh

Baybay

Guinness!

ChannelNo5

Guinness. it has to be Guinness. where is Autosport??...

odyssey06

Conflicted...both ads are classics.

But going to vote Budweiser.
Purely cos it's from the 80s and that brings me back to childhood chrismasses.

PaulT21

Always brings a lump to my throat Guinness Ad for me please

DvB

Guinness.

Simply the greatest TV advert ever created IMO. Christmas isnt Christmas until I've seen this on the TV.