July 26, 2024 • 7 mins
New Zealand has some iconic advertisements.
Jingles and scenes everyone knows, things you can start quoting and someone else in the room will chime in to finish off.
Kevin Milne has been thinking about his favourite ads, and joined Jack Tame to run through a few.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talks at b.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Eighteen minutes past nine on News Talk CVP. If your messages, Jack,
I'm with you. The fifteen hundred meters are still my
favorite race. John Walker still amazes me. Tactics and speed
are central. Going and watching it on YouTube. It's one
of my favorite activities, says how Are Yeah, it is
fun to go back and look at old fifteen hundred
meters racers because it doesn't go for too long. As well, Jack,
My husband Charlie says, watching the running at the Games
(00:35):
disconnects you from watching live as opposed to on TV. Yeah,
I mean it's great. Obviously, the TV coverage of Olympic
sports is amazing these days, but there is something really
special when you can see athletes doesn't have to be
at the Olympics performing at that level and get a
true appreciation of what they are doing, how fast they're running,
(00:56):
how high they're jumping, all that kind of thing. Ninety
two ninety two is our tech number. We're going to
catch up with our sport over very shortly. Get his
take on New Zealand's prospects at these Olympic Games. Still
feeling pretty gutted after that result of the New Zealand
men sevens in the quarter final yesterday. I mean, to
be knocked out this early of medals contention, this early
(01:18):
in the Olympics is pretty gutting. So we're going to
get to Asportos. Thoughts on all of that. Kevin Milne
is Weather's first up this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
No, good morning, Kevin, Morning Jack. So was the Paris
opening ceremony the best or terrible?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
To be honest, Okay, I love the Olympics. I find
the opening ceremony always just a bit stage challenge. It's
a bit cheesy for me, and today's was no exception.
Just just seeing the last drenched athletes coming down the scene.
I mean, I'm sure it's really fun to be a
(01:54):
part of and stuff, but yeah, it's it's probably I'm
probably the wrong person to be asking, to be perfectly honest.
Although we were talking to well, we're talking to a
colleague on the ground there and he reckoned it was
the best ever. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, yeah, well there you go. I mean I think
it was great. I think there'll be a lot of
people who would say it was awful. Yeah, because actually
it was pretty radically different than anything else I've seen. Yeah,
and the big transvestite sort of yeah, sort of presence.
I mean, I just thought it was great, really modern,
(02:30):
a little bit challenging to some extent because everything was
so different. Yeah, but i'd say good on the old French.
Yeah for shaking it up with that.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah. Yeah, No, I'm sure it'll be well received. I
just feel I'm just fired about it's even going to
be sick because it's just been absolutely pouring with rain.
I've got a couple of friends who are there for
work and they say that it's warm. But still, if
you're looking to be performing at your best, do you
really want to be standing out in the elements for hours?
And anyway, Kevin, you have been thinking about spectacles and
(03:02):
a whole range of fields this week, because as well
as the Olympic ceremony, you've been thinking about New Zealand's
greatest ads.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah. I mean I thought we could talk about the
Marketing Association's call for New Zealanders to vote the best
ever New Zealand TV ad campaign. I think they put it.
They're bringing it down into decades but I thought you'd
just throw them all in together. So here we are
the best ever New Zealand TV ads going right back
(03:31):
to the seventies and eighties, two ads absolutely dominate. The
Great Crunchy Train Robbery and the Extraordinary Well that was
an amazing production done on the chief actually featuring just
about every well known TV actor in the country at
the time, and a brilliant song that was the seventies.
(03:53):
And in eighty one came the Basf Dear John ad,
which was so good I am sure that the ad
had been made in the States, but no, we've done it.
Before we leave that era, I've got to mention the
huge scale Europa Traveling on ad with the coolest models
and musicians ever assembled for an ad in New Zealand,
(04:15):
and of course the Crumpy and Scottie ads for Toyota.
Then along came the Anchor Family ads, and around about
that time you're starting to watch TV, I think we've
gone even further back from when you were born there.
So then along came the Anchor Family Ads, which was
basically a soap opera. Yeah, each episode lasting about a minute.
(04:38):
It captured the country's hearts for years, and similarly Spot
the Dog forty three different episodes that around from ninety
ninety one to ninety eight and had us all howling
into our seeps when spot that gorgeous Jack Russell finally
turned up back home and speaking about a good cry.
(04:59):
I just loved telecoms, keep in Touch, Father's Day ad
with Cat Stevens's Gorgeous Father and Sun Song. What are
the best ads on at the moment? Well, I'll go
for pack and say Snickman, though it's probably near the
end of its run, and of course Tina from Turner's
But come on, Turner's time you made a new one.
(05:21):
My favorite ad of all time, Jack, I have to
go back to before you were born, which seems really
weird the bas f. Dear John ad let's flay it again.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Dear Joe, how I hate to ride awasa. Dear Joe,
I must.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Let you know tonight then.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
For you is gone, So I'm sending you the song tonight.
I'm with another you like him to he's your brother,
so to you for a ever.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It might have been before my time, Kevin, but I've
definitely heard it. I've definitely heard it before, and that
will take a lot of our listeners back. I reckon,
there is just one one ad you're missing in your list?
Can I gently suggest it? We are the boys from
down on the farm. We really know our cheese. There's
no better of Ellie than Cheersdale. It's always shorter.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Please before your first too, wouldn't I think it was.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
There's also the KFC one. You know, the cows and
the sheep and the birds and the horses were moving
and yes, I'm just thinking of jingling.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, yeah, not that one. Yeah, I agree with.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, yeah, it's a bit of a classic. Hey, thank you.
I know our listeners will have many thoughts on that
as well. Here you go. How about the Buggarad. I
think that's got to be the all time greatest. I
think certainly, of like the last thirty years, the Buggerad
has probably has probably had the most impact or coverage
right just you know, the Olympic Games opening ceremony are
(07:05):
almost I'm currently Celine Dion is singing, so I'm sure
we'll all be able to enjoy that. But I think
they are finally reaching their conclusion having been running for
about four hours.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Now. For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen
live to News talks ed b from nine am Saturday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talks at b.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Eighteen minutes past nine on News Talk CVP. If your messages, Jack,
I'm with you. The fifteen hundred meters are still my
favorite race. John Walker still amazes me. Tactics and speed
are central. Going and watching it on YouTube. It's one
of my favorite activities, says how Are Yeah, it is
fun to go back and look at old fifteen hundred
meters racers because it doesn't go for too long. As well, Jack,
My husband Charlie says, watching the running at the Games
(00:35):
disconnects you from watching live as opposed to on TV. Yeah,
I mean it's great. Obviously, the TV coverage of Olympic
sports is amazing these days, but there is something really
special when you can see athletes doesn't have to be
at the Olympics performing at that level and get a
true appreciation of what they are doing, how fast they're running,
(00:56):
how high they're jumping, all that kind of thing. Ninety
two ninety two is our tech number. We're going to
catch up with our sport over very shortly. Get his
take on New Zealand's prospects at these Olympic Games. Still
feeling pretty gutted after that result of the New Zealand
men sevens in the quarter final yesterday. I mean, to
be knocked out this early of medals contention, this early
(01:18):
in the Olympics is pretty gutting. So we're going to
get to Asportos. Thoughts on all of that. Kevin Milne
is Weather's first up this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
No, good morning, Kevin, Morning Jack. So was the Paris
opening ceremony the best or terrible?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
To be honest, Okay, I love the Olympics. I find
the opening ceremony always just a bit stage challenge. It's
a bit cheesy for me, and today's was no exception.
Just just seeing the last drenched athletes coming down the scene.
I mean, I'm sure it's really fun to be a
(01:54):
part of and stuff, but yeah, it's it's probably I'm
probably the wrong person to be asking, to be perfectly honest.
Although we were talking to well, we're talking to a
colleague on the ground there and he reckoned it was
the best ever. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, yeah, well there you go. I mean I think
it was great. I think there'll be a lot of
people who would say it was awful. Yeah, because actually
it was pretty radically different than anything else I've seen. Yeah,
and the big transvestite sort of yeah, sort of presence.
I mean, I just thought it was great, really modern,
(02:30):
a little bit challenging to some extent because everything was
so different. Yeah, but i'd say good on the old French.
Yeah for shaking it up with that.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah. Yeah, No, I'm sure it'll be well received. I
just feel I'm just fired about it's even going to
be sick because it's just been absolutely pouring with rain.
I've got a couple of friends who are there for
work and they say that it's warm. But still, if
you're looking to be performing at your best, do you
really want to be standing out in the elements for hours?
And anyway, Kevin, you have been thinking about spectacles and
(03:02):
a whole range of fields this week, because as well
as the Olympic ceremony, you've been thinking about New Zealand's
greatest ads.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah. I mean I thought we could talk about the
Marketing Association's call for New Zealanders to vote the best
ever New Zealand TV ad campaign. I think they put it.
They're bringing it down into decades but I thought you'd
just throw them all in together. So here we are
the best ever New Zealand TV ads going right back
(03:31):
to the seventies and eighties, two ads absolutely dominate. The
Great Crunchy Train Robbery and the Extraordinary Well that was
an amazing production done on the chief actually featuring just
about every well known TV actor in the country at
the time, and a brilliant song that was the seventies.
(03:53):
And in eighty one came the Basf Dear John ad,
which was so good I am sure that the ad
had been made in the States, but no, we've done it.
Before we leave that era, I've got to mention the
huge scale Europa Traveling on ad with the coolest models
and musicians ever assembled for an ad in New Zealand,
(04:15):
and of course the Crumpy and Scottie ads for Toyota.
Then along came the Anchor Family ads, and around about
that time you're starting to watch TV, I think we've
gone even further back from when you were born there.
So then along came the Anchor Family Ads, which was
basically a soap opera. Yeah, each episode lasting about a minute.
(04:38):
It captured the country's hearts for years, and similarly Spot
the Dog forty three different episodes that around from ninety
ninety one to ninety eight and had us all howling
into our seeps when spot that gorgeous Jack Russell finally
turned up back home and speaking about a good cry.
(04:59):
I just loved telecoms, keep in Touch, Father's Day ad
with Cat Stevens's Gorgeous Father and Sun Song. What are
the best ads on at the moment? Well, I'll go
for pack and say Snickman, though it's probably near the
end of its run, and of course Tina from Turner's
But come on, Turner's time you made a new one.
(05:21):
My favorite ad of all time, Jack, I have to
go back to before you were born, which seems really
weird the bas f. Dear John ad let's flay it again.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Dear Joe, how I hate to ride awasa. Dear Joe,
I must.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Let you know tonight then.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
For you is gone, So I'm sending you the song tonight.
I'm with another you like him to he's your brother,
so to you for a ever.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
It might have been before my time, Kevin, but I've
definitely heard it. I've definitely heard it before, and that
will take a lot of our listeners back. I reckon,
there is just one one ad you're missing in your list?
Can I gently suggest it? We are the boys from
down on the farm. We really know our cheese. There's
no better of Ellie than Cheersdale. It's always shorter.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Please before your first too, wouldn't I think it was.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
There's also the KFC one. You know, the cows and
the sheep and the birds and the horses were moving
and yes, I'm just thinking of jingling.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, yeah, not that one. Yeah, I agree with.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, yeah, it's a bit of a classic. Hey, thank you.
I know our listeners will have many thoughts on that
as well. Here you go. How about the Buggarad. I
think that's got to be the all time greatest. I
think certainly, of like the last thirty years, the Buggerad
has probably has probably had the most impact or coverage
right just you know, the Olympic Games opening ceremony are
(07:05):
almost I'm currently Celine Dion is singing, so I'm sure
we'll all be able to enjoy that. But I think
they are finally reaching their conclusion having been running for
about four hours.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Now. For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen
live to News talks ed b from nine am Saturday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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