Ads that are so bad, they're good

[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?

[Dogwatcher]

On Song, you know these ones:

No one's gonna miss ya baby!

Ahhhh Johnny!

[OnSong]

That's my boy, forward thinker!!!

My mission, is to protect you!!

[Brucetiki]

Those Rivers ads

[bayman]

what about the one add whose catch phrase is now in everyday conversations ?


''not happy jan''

[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

[85 WAS A GOOD YEAR]

An oldy but a goody "happy little vegemites"

[Strawb]

two all beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese onions on a sesame seed bun

[trev]

Two Words: Sandhurst Machinery


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_cGcLk0KPU

[cripple]

any ad that has ever been on imparja. but the best i can remember was "delta man" who fixed your photocopier. absolute classic

[MightyEagles]

two all beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese onions on a sesame seed bun

You forgot pickles.

[Strawb]

I hate pickles

two all beef patties, special sauce lettuce cheese onions on a sesame seed bun

You forgot pickles.

[Magpiespower]

Tarn-Off

Drove 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

[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!

[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.

[am Bays]

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....

[A Mum]

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

[JK]

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"

[Media Park]

bend forward at the hips... so you miss all the drips...

[Strawb]

I do remember an add taking off by the late show in which two dogs were shagging in the background