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the good, the bad and the down rite stupid

Written by Black Sambuca from the blog Esibayeni on 03 Sep 2007
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Hey TVSA people first article, I’m not sure whether it forms part of issues that can be discussed on this site /blog, if it’s not my apologies.

I’ll cut to the chase....yazi sometimes …well all the time when you chillin at home watching your favourite show….blam!!!! TV ads !!!!….some of these Ads are horrendous..You can help but wonder ..what the h*ll were they thinking while other are so well planned and executed…..I don’t know whether one is allowed (legally) to name/mention the good, the bad , and the down rite stupid …so lets hear it

59 Comments

Zol247
03 Sep 2007 17:26

Eish, the most irritating ad 4 mina yi Mac Mac washing powder (not sure nge splng), ilamadoda e Build it & ne voice ya this woman we brand power helping u buy betta. Couldnt they have chosen a betta candidate with a voice emamelekayo. Hhai man

KeleFabulous
04 Sep 2007 01:49

the bad: illovo with the mrapper gogo

KeleFabulous
04 Sep 2007 01:52

the bad: illovo wiht the mrapper gogo...those toilet cleaner ones...gatwe di bitswa eng?..they irritate me. discom and pep ads.

downrite stupid: i think now they've changed it...the mtn ad ya di ring tones (i think) where they have a cell with tuks' face on it and his song ya monate was playing and then at hte end they say "download non south african music"...WTF??? why did they have a south african artist and song playing for international ringtones only??? but ke i guess they realised how stupid it was and they've changed it to say download south african music...nx!

Lerata
04 Sep 2007 02:01

The most stupid of them all ke Ya Sunlight! "How about my washing? How about my neighbours washing?" It irritates the hell out of me!

The Simba braai flavour-it is just makin fun of black people and I hate that! I think it is down right nasty!

Magauta
04 Sep 2007 02:06

The one ya frisco is this your car? Nando's nye, nye, what are they saying ka batho bo ko rural areas?

Lemon_Lite
04 Sep 2007 02:29

That Nando's ad - I agree with you Magauta.... I can't stand IT - I HATE IT with a passion. The brands sometimes don't have advertising agencies and their marketing departments get to go all creative and produce adverts. AND sometimes its the stupid Brand manager who'll dictate what she or wants in their ad - which leads to horrible horrible adverts. Guys how about the Sunshine D ads "You are my sun shine, my only sun shine"...Aaaaarrrrrhhhhhhh KILL ME.
What I don't understand is - Why are Black people always dancing and clapping in food adverts?

Lady D
04 Sep 2007 02:36

I actually loved that ad ya Dstv...Ejo dancing like a white guy!!!Killer ad!!!

Foxy gal
04 Sep 2007 02:52

The one ya frisco is this your car? I agree with u Magauta though i'm not sure if it frisco/ ricoffy - it makes me feel that white people see ALL black guys as hijackers.... damn i hate them 4 that!!!!!!!!!!!

The Simba braai flavour-it is just makin fun of black people and I hate that! I think it is down right nasty! @ Lerata I coudn't agree with u more!!!!!!!

ngwana
04 Sep 2007 03:27

Think the Nando's one is really bad. I cant think of a Nando's ad that i liked, but the worst was the one with all those people with their tongues hanging out. That was just nasty.

The Yogi Sip one with the Kwaito guy who is not going to MTV awards is also irritatiing. I liked the one with the afrikaans singer better.

presha
04 Sep 2007 03:56

Nice1 Black sambuca short & sweet, 2 me the sadie ad is just so ridiculous, with the beach party. Gosh it's silly!

dinkey
04 Sep 2007 03:58

The 100% Phola advert, I think it's for Reds, damn I like those girls, it's one killer advert.
I'm sure of what they are advertising in that one, it's either some expensive coffee or capuccino. There's a woman and a man and they have this foreign accent, the woman is like "oh Henry I love it when you talk foreign. It's stupid but I like it.

KeleFabulous
04 Sep 2007 04:04

iyho dinkey! how can i forget the redds ad? i loooveee that ad! and at first i thot it was like a comedy show or something...those girls are good! and the brains behind it....super! i esp love the one ya savings plan. hi hi hi hi

Xhosa Chick
04 Sep 2007 04:07

No comment to this blog. Sorry Black Samby

Suzilicious
04 Sep 2007 04:16

The Good: Redds/phola ads are a killer, all of them, big up to the brains behind it.

Stupid: MTN, the sundown ads, were they show the soccer players , bafana be style and then say won something two year in a row. are they advertising the team or MTN "sigh"

The Bad: All the PEP ads. Best prices and more

Lemon_Lite
04 Sep 2007 04:26

OH my...the Frisco Ad - how dare they.

Cya
04 Sep 2007 04:46

I also like the Redds one, it's the best.

Mandlovu
04 Sep 2007 04:52

The Good: The Avis ad of the two young boys, I like the enquiring eyes of the black boy, he is soo cute and oh ofcourse the illovo ad la mama unyusa umculo in the skorokoro car and dances to the hip hop music, it show no matter the age black people know how to groove.

The Funny: The Eno ad and the new Auris ad.

Magauta
04 Sep 2007 04:55

The yellow pages one "don't worry about a thing" that one is good.

mina-moo
04 Sep 2007 04:59

I loove the SABC advert that starts like thi: "today i woke up in a place......."

I sooo hate the Mac advert where they have the sunglasses to block out the brightness of the clothes. Aaarghh....irritating advert

Username
04 Sep 2007 05:19

The Good: The joko lady sweeping the floor and doing the booty dance. Embrace your behind. (Idiot who had my ad canned). Oh and the yaris ad with hip-hop kid “going thru the hood”

The Bad: The Illovo gogo. And that “kuyasheshwa la pantsula ad”.

The Nasty: The tastic ad with one kid who asks the surnames because the rice tastes good. *puke* and every Nandos ad.

Username
04 Sep 2007 05:28

@ Xhosa Chick
No comment to this blog. Sorry Black Samby

lol.......too close to home???

Baby-A
04 Sep 2007 05:29

Can someone please wake me up and tell me what the ad abt the new Auris, (i think, it is)

Xhosa Chick
04 Sep 2007 05:32

Username: Yep. ill get emotional.

MADENZA
04 Sep 2007 05:33

Good: the KFC ads, 1. The one which kids were asked what they during the weekends
2. The Shaun Bartlett ad.

Baby-A
04 Sep 2007 05:33

The ad abt the new Auris (i think it is). When they park next to ahospital and there's some electricity cut-oo (eishkom at it again)

Can someone please wake me up and tell me what its trying to say. Am i blonde? coz to me, its just down rite confusing.

And the bokke advert with those bushmen playing rugby is offensive.

Username
04 Sep 2007 05:36

Take it as constructive criticism. lol.

Xhosa Chick
04 Sep 2007 05:43

Nope, Username. We get that from the "its been done" guy . The one that tears up your work and chucks it in the bin right infront of you.

Suzilicious
04 Sep 2007 05:46

Auris Ads - The was a lot happening with the Ambulance, the electricity, But the guy kept on asking about the car " does it come in diesel" after everything in front of them that has happened. Thats how interesting the car is. Hope the blondes got it.

Username
04 Sep 2007 05:48

ouch. mine comes with bald red markings, circles and crosses and a note that says need it back by end of business today.

mabhebheza
04 Sep 2007 05:59

That Domestos ad of that nasty looking silwanyana saying" amagems amgems bafana .." n they always played it ngexesha lokunya thank God it was disqualified!

Good Ad: Phola v (redds ad with Brenda mang mang..!) MTn ad with the kids clapping their hands in the street oh they so cute

Bad Ad,Ellerines n stupid Pep ads yazi Town talk yonke nje le xifixifi,,!

Unik
04 Sep 2007 06:09

@ mabhebheza - they always played it ngexesha lokunya thank God it was disqualified...LOL

Direre
04 Sep 2007 06:18

The Good: I like the new nandos ad.

The Baddest: white start super maize meal, Ohhhh my gaaaad...these people need to be sued!!!!

The Funny: I will say the nandos ad again, it's good and funny....

ngwana
04 Sep 2007 06:30

The Good: Mtn Clap and the Mtn one with the guys sticking post-its everywhere. (go Jupiter)

The bad: Joko lady dancing, Sugar Granny dancing, White Star people singing, build it people singing.

The Funny: Ejo dancing like a white guy!!!

pinksoul
04 Sep 2007 06:36

The Good: MTN postit stickers man walking across buildings

The Bad: Furniture adverts - Barnets,

Renegade
04 Sep 2007 06:43

Good: KFC ads, Unisa ads, and the engen ad(the one where the attendant sheds a tear coz he wont be seeing that guy in a while)

Bad: Chicken licken ads

Ugly: Cleaning aids ads, and domestos. Particulary, "the toilet cleaning guys", i mean, wat grown man calls himself a "toilet cleaning guy"? And the doom one where they dance after spraying the cockroach...hai.

The MTN and Vodacom ads i think are nice, but i never get what they have to do with the brand

Renegade
04 Sep 2007 06:46

Oh, and dancing like a white guy is a classic

Mathaz
04 Sep 2007 07:57

Good: 1. MTN ad - the one were the guys are on a treadmill and singing along to some groovy song. 2. The sasol ad feauturing rugby players.

Mathaz
04 Sep 2007 07:57

Good: 1. MTN ad - the one were the guys are on a treadmill and singing along to some groovy song. 2. The sasol ad feauturing rugby players.

ngwana
04 Sep 2007 09:52

@ Mathaz that MTN guys on treadmill is actually a music video.

Floh
28 Sep 2007 07:56

BAD: CTM with Khanyi Mbeuuuuuu, or Khanyi Mbu mbu , or Khanyi Mbrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I don't know the motive behind it

Good : Lotto with a fed up PA , and sure good ones are also coming since we will be playin' again.

zandii!!
28 Sep 2007 08:06

yhoooo FLO undibethe emlonyeni eka KKKKKKKKHHHHANYIIIIII MBAU its rediculous no ways they must remove it A.S.A.P Tyhini thiza PARIS HILTON
and that margarine (dsnt even know the name of the margarine )bt they are chased by a dog after wards!!!!!!

monchooza
28 Sep 2007 08:20

jabu are you day dreaming again????? Mooooooooooo

andi01
28 Sep 2007 08:56

Good- The Avis ad of the two young boys, I like the enquiring eyes of the black boy, he is soo cute (one of the best)
Good 2 -Klpidrif (4 guys ina bar singing, "do it baby one more time" ohh that hunk)
Bad- Build it, can u believe it,

Foxy gal
28 Sep 2007 09:01

" I hate sport bars" Savannah (it dry but you can drink it) Most people find that ad to be stupid but I just LUURVE it!!!!

Xhosa Chick
28 Sep 2007 09:02

Floh: Which one is that now with Khanyisile Mbau?

sponono
28 Sep 2007 09:04

<<,Unik@ mabhebheza - they always played it ngexesha lokunya thank God it was disqualified...LOL>>

yilona liphi eloxesha khawutsho....LOL

sponono
28 Sep 2007 09:09

Foxy...I also love the savannah dry ads...(maybe ingoba ngithanda yona vele)
i think there's some creativity there

XC...CTM tiles have Khanyi acting like Hilton..it dont make sense though and I think she gets our attention more than the product (i know thats the idea of using a well known, but she's just tooo....i dont know papparazzish)

Xhosa Chick
28 Sep 2007 09:12

I wonder which agency's "bright" idea was it to use her...

myname
28 Sep 2007 09:20

unik & sponono i think she was trying 2 say ngexesha lokutya hi hi hi hi "ngexesha lokunya"

zeebabe
28 Sep 2007 09:27

the good: the vodacom ads.. i like the latest one with the mafikizolo song

the bad: All the furniture store adverts.. ziyakhinya!

the down rite stupid: king pie adverts.. huh!

Black Sambuca
28 Sep 2007 10:37

All of you who voted for the AVIS ads please contact me I have 5 Yogeta's EACH!!!!

Black Sambuca
28 Sep 2007 10:39

I meant to say "I have 5 Yogeta's for you...5 each!!!"

miz Q.Moroka
12 Oct 2007 00:08

the cell c,CAN YOU BELIVE IT!!!! AD IS OF THE HOOK!!!!!

Pooky
12 Oct 2007 02:07

GOOD: all the Polka ads,

REAL BAD: I'm not sure if its the Halls advert or the Vicks one maar anyway, the old man keeps shouting MAZIBUYE IBOKHWE ZAM,if that were my father, i'd klap him. Oh and there was another one of that guy that was made to taste everything,onions,flower etc. and he'd end up saying mmmmmm THAT DOES TASTE GREAT,just plain stupid. And on all the gerage adverts, why are all the petroll attendents always black???

Capella
29 Oct 2007 02:43

the good: Castle milk stout and King Morena
the bad : That ABSA , chicken sit, chicken rollover
the stupid: Smiley come inside, smiley u'll catch a cold

tshepiso
29 Oct 2007 02:59

the yellow pages advert very excellent
redd's phola is very good

Feza
29 Oct 2007 07:17

Great selection Tshepiso, those two are my ersonal favourites as well.

But i love the Rama one more: Growing is an adventure(when kids are on some detwective mission to get a message to a boy on top of a tree and he sends a soldier toy down) its a classsic.

I also love the OMO one when a kid ties his shoes and gets home and with a snobbish voice: hm mama i learned to tie my shoe laces. it used to irritate me as well, but one day a friend said : "he Sounds just like Muvango's Ndalamo, i wonder if its his son" hahahahahaha

Tatiana
29 Oct 2007 07:34

God Damn it (Sorry to use God and Damn it in the same sentence).

THE WORST That Sunflower advert "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.... blah blah...." That fake dog? Why is that Black people are portrayed to be stupid?

The Bad - Those Khoisan playing Rugby!

Vodacom adverts are good! but i think they are taking the Mo thing too far!

InterestingOrange
07 Aug 2009 11:12

the silly: I laugh despite myself each time i see the new AVIS ad. the visiting professor looks the type in his oversized red jacket and his fumbling about for his fone. But then we get to see the AVIS guy on the other side of the line and he not wearing uniform, but SHORT, A T-SHIRT AND AN OVER-SHIRT.

Why isn't he wearing the AVIS uniform? further the casual clothes look like they shrank in the wash when the Avis guy stands up - that's where I start laughing...

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