In Ireland we have nostalgic ads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPH4Mv06Lig
not the gold standard of any kerrygold ad, but i always loved it.

fuck knows if I can explain the magic of this one though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6IDO6M4Occ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOliu0yCMI0

Um, not safe for work.

haven't seen the "Goin' Back" ad turn up yet

'Sally O'Brien' is Vicky Michelle!

wait can you even use one of them ceramic/clay le creuset pots on a convection hob?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7umHnB0DtoU

the waterwipes advert is something tho, an actual human from uncanny valley

https://youtu.be/neBlUqR6IRc

reminds me of the carbon monoxide it IS the silent killer ad. my friend got a photo with that old guy.

that dublin bus thing tho - it is fucking hilariously bad.

most of the advert is just low budget a little bit bad but the lad in the costume dancing like a wounded Bez, wtf is that about?

like they didn't have time for a second take even?

yeah like it's beyond just low budget and more into "we gave two guys 15 minutes to do this"

WHAT THEN

plus surely the audience for this bus aren't likely to be people who live locally enough to be watching that ad?

I actually know a genuine ghost bus ghost irl. Keeps offering me a free ticket but I've yet to take him up on it

Apparently the tour itself is pretty decent though

i was hoping this lad had done a TV advert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3yBzGJKyJc

but it doesn't look like it

i'd voice that for them for a tenner. in one take.

xpost i was kind of always curious about the tour, like i bet dublin has some interesting history you could tie into something like that.

hon with ye

what's the most recent one of these to attain a cultural foothold I wonder

specifically with the nostalgia, or the darkness, or just into the pantheon

because im as confirmed in my heterosexuality as i need to be but that lad that talks about the grass and how it makes irish lamb taste special could at least take me out for cocktails

the nostalgia I meant specifically

Kerrygold seems to still have the mammy issues anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF8UBOUkx6w

the start of this thread is like that film silence

catholic industrial schools ... slogan

Lol I fucking posted itt nearly eight years ago, going to die of shame soon.

Was that weird sub genre of post crash emigrant are ecer discussed? Eg https://youtu.be/ct4D63wH8iA - poss not best example but these always felt a bit bleak to me? Your man at home is oblivious and his friend in London just wants to get on with his life?

I think Lyons or Barry’s also had a competition to bring an emigrant home for a visit? I have a photo of it on my Facebook somewhere.

Are you even Irish if you don’t have mammy issues though?

That new Kerrygold ad though...omg. Truly Art.

i know yerman

specifically ive been his accent coach

as you can hear, he either hasnt the ear or doesnt listen

its the latter fwiw

I don’t want to bump the other thread with more ad chat, so if Andrew comes here, can I just say, idg where you’re getting that mammy insinuation in the Andre ad!

thia looks like it may be a resource worth mining

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.joe.ie/amp/life-style/nostalgia-alert-new-irish-ad-archive-released-loads-best-irish-ads-past-50-years-586668

xp yeah theres no hint of a consolation ride in the andre ad

the accent on yerwan is cat

someone has remedied the appalling oversight noted up thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_aEMYnh-hs

Be with you in a moment, just need to watch a bunch of these then ring my mother in tears at quarter to midnight.

I would not be surprised to learn that this one was created by an advanced AI that had absorbed all previous iterations of the nostalgic Irish advert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW2a0hY6_Xo

sean!

the barrys one is the first one i remember where it felt like yknow the emigrant was more of a gap year tiger cub

Yes!!! I was going to link that one!

This is an absolute CLASSIC:
- mammy issues
- weird accent
- obvious insinuations
- unhappiness

https://youtu.be/fk68Znjabd4

im gone to bed and cant play any now gizza clue

yeah that's perfection

It’s the one with the daughter and the baby and her mammy brings out a photo album and there’s a photo of the mammy taken by a STRANGE MAN and the mammy looks wistful and goes “I was beautiful that day”

The strange man was the priest who was marrying her, of course.

what the fuck

jesus i dont know it but i might get up just to watch it it sounds scorching

the 97 one might be the last gasp of the "classic" era I feel

compare this from 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr4Fwwv8NCg

they obviously felt they couldn't use the letter-writing device anymore, but the weird proto-vlogging conceit doesn't work at all

Yeah I just watched that, it’s as painful as anything.

However, what about this one from 1999?
https://youtu.be/491RQvS5VVw

Worth it entirely for the look she gets from the neighbour.

gyac ur killin me with the hints

deems just pretend you need a piss & go watch these twenty year old tea ads in the toilet or something

posting in my usual fashion wha

anyway my lil brother emigrated actually yesterday so tbh it would probably be too much id break down

they were definitely chafing against the limits of the form with that one

ultimately feels a bit too self-conscious for me

mac eile ag imeacht :(

go to sleep or I’ll be forced to link HI KATE IT’S ME THE GUY FROM THE BAR NO HONESTLY IT IS