Worst / Best TV ads' ever

Sully

What's everybodys vote on "Worst / Best TV Ad's Ever". Post the ad and explain why you think its stupid/good. Just curious to see the results here

WORST: Mine would have to be that Maltesers Ad when there on that big ball thing in the sky, reading books and crashing into buildings etc. Not only is the theme tune crap, but the whole ad is a stupid waste of money!

BEST: That Muller ad. The one where they all start dancing around with folk music in a variey of dances. The song is Nina Simone's I Got Life. It might not make you buy the product - makes me smile when I see it tho, and that tune rings around my head - but the music is really "get up and dance". Pretty cool if you ask me!

Anyone know what that Club Oranage song is? Where there on the street, drinks orange, then takes the people doing Road Works hose and starts using it as a skipping rope? People join in etc. Liked that one too.

Crucifix

"Lemsip Max Strength. It seperates the men from the boys"
Similtaneous candidate for the best and worst ad.

Sully

Crucifix wrote:

"Lemsip Max Strength. It seperates the men from the boys"
Similtaneous candidate for the best and worst ad.

I got a bit of a laugh of that, but didnt really get the point of how it seperates "men from the boys"

Sparky

that vodafone ad with the dancing letter was funny at first but now the tune gets stuck in my head, so im fed up of it.

whiskeyman

C'mon people... best ads ever? You're only mentioning the past year or less!
What about Smash?
Shake n Vac?
Whazzzup by Budweiser?
Volkswagen Polo ads?
Yellow Pages "'Fly Fishing' by JR Hartley" ad?
The old Milky bar ads...
The "Stop, Look and Listen" campaigns...
The Drifter ads - "you catch my drift?"

I could go on and on

StupidLikeAFox

I have to say the lotto one where all the guys are in the sauna, talking about how they made their money, and he turns to the young pasty fella-
Guy: What about you kid, computers?
Other guy (in a flat dublin accent): Nah, i won the lotto

I can see the same happen to ole dolores from the block

zoro

http://www.bigad.com.au/

Watch it

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I love it

Sparky

zoro wrote:

http://www.bigad.com.au/

Watch it

And again

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I love it

thats a deadly ad, whoever came up with that idea is a genius.

zoro

Sparky_S wrote:

thats a deadly ad, whoever came up with that idea is a genius.

Completely agree, simply amazing ad

Sparky

zoro wrote:

Completely agree, simply amazing ad

It very big tho

zoro

Sparky_S wrote:

It very big tho

Expensive ad!

OLDYELLAR

best ad defo the one where the granny does the ramraid in the wheelchair thing , a fizzy drink it is Ironbru is it?

worst defo that bloody bank ad , would you like to go for a perambulation :rolleyes:

Wertz

whiskeyman wrote:

C'mon people... best ads ever? You're only mentioning the past year or less!
What about Smash?
Shake n Vac?
Whazzzup by Budweiser?
Volkswagen Polo ads?
Yellow Pages "'Fly Fishing' by JR Hartley" ad?
The old Milky bar ads...
The "Stop, Look and Listen" campaigns...
The Drifter ads - "you catch my drift?"

I could go on and on

Ah a man after me own heart.


Going even further back;

The windolene ad - "Oi have you sussed new windolene plus..."

The Harp ads about the Vikings and Brian Boru "Ve came because ve heard about ze Harp"

Guiness ads; too many to mention...the guy on the surfboard, the ex-pats in the M. East "...where the stones are so hot you could fry an egg....if you had an egg" or the hallucinogenic one with "All the time in the world" by L. Armstrong playing.

Any of the Hamlet cigar ads.

The Honda ads...specifically the ones with the set piece of all the car parts forming a domino effect, or the "Hate something, change something" cartoon one.



Gotta love that current Singing in the Rain remix one for the VW Golf at the minute, but my favourite is one an American friend linked me to:

Nutrigrain ad


The negatives I couldn't even begin to start listing...maybe some other time.

grimloch

There's one I particularly like.

There's a girl who wants to get a box that is on a shelf behind a photocopier and in order to get it she must kneel on the top of the photocopier and while she's in the process she hits the copy button, she is wearing a skirt too and fella happens to wander in.

Looks like she's photocopying her "special" area and I though it was hilarious.

Sparky

just remembered that ad for i think FBD where the scumbag walks in to buy something and while the shop owners are looking at him getting into his car the old lady presses the no sale button on the register and takes the money

got me laughing.:D

thegloriousend

HI! I'm Barry Scott and this is Cilit Bang! " Bang and the dirt is gone!"

tinkerbell

That Lemsip ad is brutal!

But know what else I hate - that Gaviscon ad (or however you spell it) - "WHAT A FEEEEELING!" with the cop and some guy does the splits in the air (that part really annoys me!!)

I love the Blaupunkt ad with the bunny and bear in the back of the car, he he

Oh and the Carlsberg ad - "would you like to use the baaaaathrooooom?" Bold old lady!

Innervision

Sparky_S wrote:

just remembered that ad for i think FBD where the scumbag walks in to buy something and while the shop owners are looking at him getting into his car the old lady presses the no sale button on the register and takes the money

got me laughing.:D

Ah love that one!
On the subject of old ladies, I love the new one for the ice cream, where the family are eating dinner and the granny comes out with "he's not your real Dad, we never knew your Dad". Hilarious...
Or the one a while back for Sprite, where the lady has a pet angel fish named Steven...

Smileylynz

The Guinness ad from years ago, when the guys is just dancing about the place, i love that one

Smileylynz

and I adore the christmas ads, the coca cola one and the budweiser one.

JackKelly

The snickers. "i can't stop trying to _____, ..... i can't get down". something like hat. It was hilarious.

Sparky

Innervision wrote:

Ah love that one!
On the subject of old ladies, I love the new one for the ice cream, where the family are eating dinner and the granny comes out with "he's not your real Dad, we never knew your Dad". Hilarious...
Or the one a while back for Sprite, where the lady has a pet angel fish named Steven...

the skittles one where the granson is with the two grandparents and they both take skittles then the grandad starts scratching the record and the granny starts rapping and rips open her clothes, mush to the supprise and discust of the grandson.

funny:D

OLDYELLAR

Sparky_S wrote:

the skittles one where the granson is with the two grandparents and they both take skittles then the grandad starts scratching the record and the granny starts rapping and rips open her clothes, mush to the supprise and discust of the grandson.

funny:D

oh my god i nearly pissed my pants when i saw that ad!

Pigman II

Wertz wrote:

Gotta love that current Singing in the Rain remix one for the VW Golf at the minute

I agree. In my opinion it is the greatest ad there has ever been or ever will be.
http://ueba.net/go/2638

Honourable second place goes to the 'I'm Batman!' ad for Snickers.

zoro

Pigman II wrote:

I agree. In my opinion it is the greatest ad there has ever been or ever will be.
http://ueba.net/go/2638

Honourable second place goes to the 'I'm Batman!' ad for Snickers.

Such an amazingly good ad (singing in the rain)

Innervision

Anybody seen the Terry Tate ad for Reebok?

Sparky

Innervision wrote:

Anybody seen the Terry Tate ad for Reebok?

now thats good

Sparky

Pigman II wrote:

I agree. In my opinion it is the greatest ad there has ever been or ever will be.
http://ueba.net/go/2638

Honourable second place goes to the 'I'm Batman!' ad for Snickers.

that ad always cheered me up, and i love the car, i want one.

beller b

The best ones are the banned ones
http://gofish.com/detail.html?gfid=17-7761

Sparky

beller b wrote:

The best ones are the banned ones
http://gofish.com/detail.html?gfid=17-7761

thats like something a student had to make, but its priceless.

funny:D

Sparky

this is a good one, i can see why it got banned over recent events i suppose
http://gofish.com/detail.html?gfid=17-13141&genreDisp=Banned+Commercials&genre=1305



this one is class
http://gofish.com/detail.html?gfid=17-13044&genreDisp=Banned+Commercials&genre=1305

Wertz

haha Sparky...those cheered me up no end.

Lord Oz

I'd say the best ad is the goldeneye nintendo 64 ad, the ad alone made me buy the console and game.

edit: no wait, the best ad is the john west ad where the fisherman kicked the bear in the unmentionables.

Sparky

Lord Oz wrote:

I'd say the best ad is the goldeneye nintendo 64 ad, the ad alone made me buy the console and game.

edit: no wait, the best ad is the john west ad where the fisherman kicked the bear in the unmentionables.

the is so many, damnit.

irishgeo

the john west salmon ad wins for it for me. There was a few different ones with different endings etc.

djmarkus

The "Singing in the rain" remix VW advert, i could watch that all day!

tvnutz

Those banned ones are hilarious! lol

As for worst ones ever,forget about looking abroad...they are homemade ones,those damn TV licence ads..."Avoid the embarrasment",stupid pieces of crap,ye im sure I will die of embarrasment if I didnt pay my damn licence,not only that,why can't ANYONE is those ads act??? Its shockingly scary if that is what is picked for a national ad campaign,and that goes for every single one of the ads,which are cheesy and just plain bad. They actualyl make me angry when I see them!

Pigman II

Yeah I have to agree with that. The TV ads based on naming and shaming are so out of touch with reality. How on earth did they ever get greenlighted?

They might as well say 'you're letting the party down by not paying your licence' or 'big brother will make sure you become an unperson if you don't pay it.'

cashback

Sparky_S wrote:

that vodafone ad with the dancing letter was funny at first but now the tune gets stuck in my head, so im fed up of it.

You liked it? God I hate that ad. Makes me cringe whenever it comes on. Can't imagine how a few marketing executives ever thought a juggling envelope would be a good idea.

da_deadman

those damn o2 ads during Lost on Rte 2 are so very bad....'Jack is recording Lost over your Knight Rider tape...I don't have a Knight Rider tape...Yeah right'... aargh :mad: shut the **** up!!!! I'm glad I'm not with o2 anymore

some ads are very clever though. I always liked the ad for olive oil ( or an olive oil spread) where there is a lot of old Italians men playing football and the old women are watching them. It was on a few years ago but it's back on at the moment.

Guinness often have good ads and sometimes have great ones...

but that 'big ad' for Carlton draught mentioned earlier is brilliant. I wish I could get that beer in my local.

Blisterman

It probebly tastes like crap.

Thats the power of advertising.

BolBill

The two ones on the Uncle Bens ads during Emmerdale, want them shot !!!!!

JBoyle4eva

Oh, there's a certain insurance ad on English channels that gets on my nerves. Doo't know the nmae, but it's got this couple in debt and the only sound is the narrator. Really depressing

TerrorFirmer

That big ad link someone posted on the first page, brilliant!

Worst ads - as post before, the english insurance ones....argh so boring

jor el

What's the big fuss over the VW singing in the rain ad? I wouldn't be all that bothered by it, it's a crap song anyway.

There was actually a good Dell ad on about a year ago. Started by showing this big super computer with loads of flashing lights and so on. Then the camera pans back to reveal a guy playing solitaire on it. Tag line was 'Ever feel like you've bought too much'. Just thought it was funny.

As for the two nags on the Emerdale Uncle Bens ad, what the hell is that even about? Just makes no sense and is completely stupid. Doesn't make me want to buy Uncle Bens products anyway, think I'll stick to Amoy and Blue Dragon.

Dizzyblabla

zoro wrote:

http://www.bigad.com.au/

Watch it

And again

And again




I love it

I just did, again and again... that really is one cool ad! I even found myself singing along!!

jor el

Dizzyblabla wrote:

I even found myself singing along!!

Did anyone else find themselves singing along in Latin though?

JBoyle4eva

Does anyone remember the original ad campaign for Playstation2? "Welcome to the third place!"

Really freaky as it was black and white with a fella walking through corridors of horror and he ends up in front of a couch with a duck headed person, and some other strange things! :eek:

tonyj

whiskeyman wrote:

Yellow Pages "'Fly Fishing' by JR Hartley" ad?

Yellow Pages: "Who are you? Who's SHE? My parents are going to kill me" The French Polishers one

Yellow Pages: Where the son wants a new racing bike.... "I still think that saddle's like sitting on a razor" (In strong Northern England accent)

Of course, because it's 'Up North' everything in filmed in sepia tone... :rolleyes:

But yes, the JR Hartley ones. How could we forget them?

Pigman II

Scary that I remember all those YellowPages ads perfectly esp the FlyFishingWith... ones! I wonder is old JR still kicking about?

EamonnKeane

Any ad for nappies, toilet paper or toilet wipes (particularly "I can do it too with Kandoo!"). Eventually you realise they're saying "Smear our product with human faeces! It'll make you happy!"