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Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:02 pmby OnSong
You know what I'm talking about, the ads on TV or radio that make you feel embarrassed to be watching or listening to them.
They usually emerge on regional television or radio, but I'm sure there are some metro equivalents.
For mine, the worst and most embarrassing I've seen, are the TV ads for Clare Valley Toyota, broadcast on Central GTS/BKN and Southern Cross Ten.
Not just this year's but in years gone by as well.
As for radio, there's an ad for a pest control business in the Riverland read out by the son of the business' owners.
Another radio ad that was just terrible that comes to mind is the "I love Onga pumps" ad.
Anyone got other examples of some deadset shocking forms of ads that have seem to hit their mark, for all the wrong reasons?
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:08 pmby Dogwatcher
On Song, you know these ones:
No one's gonna miss ya baby!
Ahhhh Johnny!
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:11 pmby OnSong
That's my boy, forward thinker!!!
My mission, is to protect you!!
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:03 pmby Brucetiki
Those Rivers ads
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:48 pmby bayman
what about the one add whose catch phrase is now in everyday conversations ?
''not happy jan''
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:13 pmby Strawb
Or a catchy Jingle I can always manage to get them stuck in people's heads
Everyday in a million ways ever home needs Harpic To keep your loo clean fresh and blue every home needs Harpic
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:40 pmby 85 WAS A GOOD YEAR
An oldy but a goody "happy little vegemites"
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:51 pmby Strawb
two all beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese onions on a sesame seed bun
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Sat Jun 19, 2010 2:17 amby trev
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:00 amby cripple
any ad that has ever been on imparja. but the best i can remember was "delta man" who fixed your photocopier. absolute classic
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:35 amby MightyEagles
Strawb wrote:two all beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese onions on a sesame seed bun
You forgot pickles.
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Sun Jun 20, 2010 7:39 pmby Strawb
I hate picklesMightyEagles wrote:Strawb wrote:two all beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese onions on a sesame seed bun
You forgot pickles.
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:19 amby Magpiespower
Tarn-OffDrove me nuts as a kid.
But got a re-run late last year/early this year.
27 years on, retro novelty kitsch makes it endearing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO-kQtomjhQ
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:54 pmby on the rails
SA Quality Home Improvements - I cringe everytime I see it and hear that song and it appears so do most of the friends and family roped into being in the add!
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:58 pmby JK
Metropolitan Plumbing, except it wasn't good, in any aspect!!
As a kid I used to like an Amico commercial, eff knows why as I can hardly remember it now ... Also the CLR Clear ads used to have me infatuated by how good that product clearly was (similarly with those Ginso knives that could cut through cans)
I also probably go against the grain here, but I thought the Shamwow bloke was pretty funny.
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:04 pmby am Bays
cripple wrote:any ad that has ever been on imparja. but the best I can remember was "delta man" who fixed your photocopier. absolute classic
Ever see the Alice Bolt Supplies ad when Imparja first started....
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:37 pmby A Mum
am Bays wrote:cripple wrote:any ad that has ever been on imparja. but the best I can remember was "delta man" who fixed your photocopier. absolute classic
Ever see the Alice Bolt Supplies ad when Imparja first started....
Ahhh good old Imparja - my only TV link to the outside world for 3 and a half years of my life at one stage
Yamba
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:47 pmby JK
am Bays wrote:cripple wrote:any ad that has ever been on imparja. but the best I can remember was "delta man" who fixed your photocopier. absolute classic
Ever see the Alice Bolt Supplies ad when Imparja first started....
Were a client of ours for many years, wouldn't surprise me if it was "different"
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:49 pmby Media Park
bend forward at the hips... so you miss all the drips...
Re: Ads that are so bad, they're good
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Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:34 pmby Strawb
I do remember an add taking off by the late show in which two dogs were shagging in the background