The Hard Sell
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Advertising: the rattling of a stick in a swill-bucket? Welcome to the show where the stick rattles back: The Hard Sell. Adverts from history, treated with the respect they deserve.
This episode: visit Ireland! It's their Saint's day soon, after all, so here's some adverts from RTE2 in early 1985. Legendary lunchbox treats! Free mugs! Celebratory opera! Tautological cakes! The original Cheese and Onion! Giving up and going to France! No snakes, guaranteed!
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It's honestly very difficult to believe that the current RTE logo, which I feel has aged very well through the near 30 years of it's usage, was the direct replacement for that hideous design from 1985. RTE themselves must have thought it was shit, it wasn't even in the idents for either channel by 1989.
I don’t remember Wooden It Be Nice here in England, but Persil Automatic were using the song in their adverts around the same time. The Beach Boys’ publishers did very well from advertising in the 1980s. It’s a pity the dad sold the catalogue for next to nothing when he decided The Beach Boys were finished in the late 1960s.
15:18 left hand drive (for a second) so obviously a european ad that had been dubbed for Ireland ;)
Yes, I did sometimes have a Busker in my lunchbox as a child - without looking, I remember the middle filling being... chocolate.
The best way to tell your Taytos apart - Nordie Tayto is a spud head, Southern Tayto is a total spud.
During the 80s, advertisers made a big deal about products being Irish-made in the face of increased competition from imports - there was also a thing, which still exists, called Guaranteed Irish, with the logo being a regular sight in 1980s/1990s Irish advertising.
And yes, there really were only a handful of voice actors in Ireland back then.
That RTE 2 logo is so alien to me. It will always be Network 2 to me! I still call it that!
I actually did cite you in an essay once.
The Irish accent is a bit better when you were doing the flash ad. You need to get a Dublin accent down.
Sure I don't know the differences. I can do you Ulster or generic Irish and that's your lot, you.
A great idea if you plan to repeat this next year would be to cover an ad break from Ulster ITV.
It'll just be bombs
Irish Continental Line rebranded that year as Irish Continental Group; ICG trade as Irish Ferries, and operate routes between Dublin - Holyhead, Dublin - Cherbourg, Rosslare - Pembroke and more recently Dover - Calais.
13:25 I was so hoping for a small/far away gag
I was on the verge but didn't want to have to cite Graham Linehan
@@applemask Ah, yeah, that's fair
@@applemask Same reason there was no clip of Mrs Doyle saying "There's cocaine in it!" for the Busker, I guess.
Very much appreciative of that mid-80's RTE 2 ident. I'm surprised that the likes of TR3X and Jontymaster haven't got round to critiquing it yet.
I don't remember ever seeing the 80s corporate logo on screen, only on posters. A very 80s abstraction of the prior logos that often, but not always, incorporated the St. Brigid's Cross in some way. The archives turn up a clip of people complaining to the company's equivalent to Points of View about its 'busy' nature. The still current logo marked a big upswing in quality in presentation, as both TV channels tried to ape what BBC had achieved under Lambie Nairn - 1 being stately and authoritative with a single ident - and the cross bumped from the logo to just the ident, 2 being flashy and hip with multiple idents and settings. That logo still being present, having seen the whole span of the Lambie Nairn BBC blocks, is an example of simplicity done right.
An impressive distinction between Tayto Crisps. "Both flavours." I didn't know the Republic's was German owned, now, that was a turn up when doing my own research. The short lived Irish series of Who Do You Think You Are? revealed a family link to one of the two in Ardal O'Hanlon's episode, can't remember which one. Of course he received a box, though of a more upmarket brand they were flogging at the time.
Eau, naturellement. That's Raidillon, actually...
Ferries were alien craft to me until taking one out to Wales and back last year. Ooh, tiny me could not have handled that. Holiday meant a week in Dublin. Bus trip for however many hours there and back again. Going to another country? How strange, fellow classmates. What do you mean, I'm the strange one?
Northern Tayto is the best. I will die on this hill.