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TV Ads - best and worst
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TV Ads - best and worst
Hope this gets some traction. I can think of loads - mostly worst
THe one that has been around for a while, but seems to have come back to the fore recently, is the one for Mortgages. It features the creepy 'Manager' texting the pretty young thing about the mortgage application progress. "have some good news, Lets do it!" I'm paraphrasing . Anyway the idea is that we think its the boyfriend/partner , until we realise its the 'caring' manager. Bleughhhhh.
BTW, I searched and couldn't find a similar thread. And, I acknowledge that I stole the idea from , ahem, elsewhere. I thought of it when that ad appeared on telly this evening.
THe one that has been around for a while, but seems to have come back to the fore recently, is the one for Mortgages. It features the creepy 'Manager' texting the pretty young thing about the mortgage application progress. "have some good news, Lets do it!" I'm paraphrasing . Anyway the idea is that we think its the boyfriend/partner , until we realise its the 'caring' manager. Bleughhhhh.
BTW, I searched and couldn't find a similar thread. And, I acknowledge that I stole the idea from , ahem, elsewhere. I thought of it when that ad appeared on telly this evening.
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The milk ad with the football team coach and the wee fellas, having lost by 18 goals or something. Is it Avonmore?
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Aahh, nooooo!Plover1958 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:34 pm Any of the Haribo ads. Fake children's voices and cringe worthy.
I love those ads, because I imagine they're made the same way some of those plasticine models things were done. I suspect they put a few five year olds in a room, give them some Haribos and tell them to make up stories. They then write scripts from them, and get adult actors to act them out, miming to the voices of the real children. So, I can see the kids really enjoying the play-acting, and the adults smiling at the innocence of what the kids said. I actually feel that the adult actors do a really good job.
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"we ARE the police!"
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showing off here, but did some googling, and that's exactly how they did it. I remember years ago, before Wallace and Grommit, Nick whatever his name was, did something similar, where adults were vox-popped on the street, and then the voices were 'mimed' by plasticine characters.
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That new Supervalu add, can't stand it, who do they think they are, there a supermarket.
Less of the woke talking down to the audience and more of getting your shops from charging a different price at the till than advertised on the shelf.
Less of the woke talking down to the audience and more of getting your shops from charging a different price at the till than advertised on the shelf.
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One of my favourite TV Ads in recent times is the Ikea Shirt Migration - budget must have been as big as some movies.
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For me it's that newish Vodafone ad with the kid that seems to feel neglected by his parents as they favour the younger brother. So it shows the mother reading to the younger kid and the older guy visibly upset etc etc. To deal with this issue of sad child who feels left out, the parents buy him a phone! And they all lived happily ever after . Great parenting there!
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Haven't seen it but I heard it being slated a lot in recent days.Clurickeen wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 10:54 am For me it's that newish Vodafone ad with the kid that seems to feel neglected by his parents as they favour the younger brother. So it shows the mother reading to the younger kid and the older guy visibly upset etc etc. To deal with this issue of sad child who feels left out, the parents buy him a phone! And they all lived happily ever after . Great parenting there!
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A better title for the thread is
"TV Ads - Worst and those so bad they are COOL"
"TV Ads - Worst and those so bad they are COOL"
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Ray from Fair City is a legend - also was in this cinematic masterpiece: https://gubu.ie/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=84 ... get#p13154
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Bad ad, the two kids singing the old 2 Unlimited song No Limits. It's like nails on a blackboard.
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For some reason Youtube started recommending me old Sky Movies continuity lately.. that's what I get looking up one thing about it!
Whatever else you can say about Sky, back in those days they made an effort with the idents and advertising - that version of the Sky Movies ident is still the best, and the promo right after it was just really well done (complete with syncing scenes to the beat of the music). The big movie felt like an event!
This was still the best promo they ever did IMO:
(even if most of the channel themes were mixed up and the Sky One version here was never actually used!)
Whatever else you can say about Sky, back in those days they made an effort with the idents and advertising - that version of the Sky Movies ident is still the best, and the promo right after it was just really well done (complete with syncing scenes to the beat of the music). The big movie felt like an event!
This was still the best promo they ever did IMO:
(even if most of the channel themes were mixed up and the Sky One version here was never actually used!)
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Can't stand this ad. I thought they had this out last year too but maybe I'm just going senile.
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Sure glad that I've had no TV since Saorview was inflicted on us.
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The music to this RSA ad is stuck in my head all morning. It is now doing my head in.
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I've been seeing this for a while now
Speak to the experts at Currys
Experts?
Highly trained humans What else would they train
Speak to the experts at Currys
Experts?
Highly trained humans What else would they train
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Will you put a bit of butter on the spuds Andre? Lol
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Only seen the Hunky Dorys ad tonight. Instantly reminded me of a mad bastard I used to work with once.
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I like that one - a bit different from the usual Ads.
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Time to resurrect this thread...here's an oldie featuring the divine Jennifer Aniston.
Such a clever Ad and then there's Jennifer Aniston too!
Such a clever Ad and then there's Jennifer Aniston too!
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