Reading some of these I have to wonder whether in 30 years we'll be similarly nostalgic about the likes of "Dave, you're so MoneySupermarket"...somehow I doubt it
The tragic thing is the march of time. In 30 years time there will be people who today are in their teens and twenties that will be nostalgic for the Go Compare Singer, Brian the Robot, the meerkats and I'm sure tons more ads that connected with them in their formative years.
Me, born in the early 80's so the first couple of ads are from the late 80's or extremely early 90's. The others are a coupe of 80's classic (in my mind anyway).
Summertime anti-drink drive PIF/Ad - The one with the family at a friends BBQ and then they get in the car (the father had a couple of pints) all set to 'In The Summertime', with the famous ending when on the line "Have a Drink, Have a Drive' the car smashes into a tree. Ends with shots of all the death occupants whilst the line is repeated but in a (to me as a kid) horrible computer adjusted key or tone. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ma_Xv7rGM
Christmas anti-drink drive PIF/Ad - The one when the camera slow heads down a corridor towards a kitchen door. Whilst this is happening the audio of some young lads in the pub and one of them saying no to a second pint because he is driving, the pals take the piss out of him and keep repeat 'Just one more'. By this point the camera has entered the kitchen to see the 'driver' is now more or less a vegetative state and is being spoon fed pureed peas by this OAP mother who keeps saying to him 'Come on, just one more'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kADUAXf7hOo
National Westminster Bank (aka NatWest) - the one with Ade Edmondson play 'Vyvian' from the Young Ones wanting to open a bank account. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqXOhcTkfUw
Note - It was only after I typed the above and then went looking for youtube links that I noticed that the summertime PIF was 1992 (but kept it in anyway, sorry).
Summertime anti-drink drive PIF/Ad - The one with the family at a friends BBQ and then they get in the car (the father had a couple of pints) all set to 'In The Summertime', with the famous ending when on the line "Have a Drink, Have a Drive' the car smashes into a tree. Ends with shots of all the death occupants whilst the line is repeated but in a (to me as a kid) horrible computer adjusted key or tone. -
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Note - It was only after I typed the above and then went looking for youtube links that I noticed that the summertime PIF was 1992 (but kept it in anyway, sorry).
Fewer catchy, punchy jingles. More art-house shorts, or attempts to be quirkily surreal.
The jingle's certainly a dying art. There used to be so many, but the only one I can think of currently is the "doo-doo doo doo dooo" for McDonald's "I'm lovin'it" and that isn't even sung
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our Club
JR Hartley
Apples hazelnuts bananas, raisins coconuts sultanas (Fruit n Fibre cereal)
Brian Clough and Shredded Wheat
Kit Kat and Dancing Pandas
There were quite a few different 'tasty, tasty, very very tasty' Bran Flake adverts. I looked on YouTube and found one with both Belinda Lang and Gordon Kaye in it. He was one of the waiters and she was sitting at the table eating the Bran Flakes I'd forgotten that particular version.
Fruit n Fibre - at the campsite
Coco Pops - building blocks...
Birds Eye Alpha Bites - A is for Alpha, B is for bites, C for yourself that they taste just right, D is for dinner, E is for eggs.....
I used to love all the 80s coca cola adverts, think it was to do with my fascination of America. Does anyone else recall the coffee advert where a couple are hosting a dinner party and when the wife goes to make the coffee she starts imitating a coffee machine.
The Irn Bru advert, from about 1988/89, that mocked those American cola adverts was great. Very much a 1980's advert.
It would have been only shown in Scotland at the time and I remember coming home from uni, I went to uni in England, and seeing it for the first time. It is still funny now.
I agree, the adverts from the 80's seemed more clever and more fun than now.
It's 1991, repeated in 1993-4, and the "Just one more, Dave ..." is 1995. '80s drink-driving ads tended to focus on the consequences to the offender of losing your licence, higher insurance premiums, criminal records, etc. and p*ssed-up "lads" shouting "but what about my mowtaaaaaaaaaaah!"
"Grab a 10p piece, get on yer BMX bike,
Make a bee-line for the local store and tell the guy you'd like
Some Super Crunchies! (they come in 6 delicious flavours)
Super Crunchies! (the snack that our gang favours)
Super Crunchies, they're the snack for me,
'Cos a bag of Super Crunchies only costs 10p!"
Can anyone remember a tv car advert where a couple travel by car to a dinner party and it appears it is their first date.
They pull up to a glass fronted house with people already seated inside and just before they get out of the car the driver says to the passenger something along the lines of 'fancy cutting out all of this and just getting married and having babies?'
PLEASE someone say they remember the advert/year/car make/model?!!!
Vitalite (to the tune of Israelites)
Impulse - When a man you've never met before suddenly buys you flowers...
Milk Tray
You only get an ooh with Typhoo
Smarties - Only Smarties have the answer
Soda Stream - Get busy with the fizzy
Le Crunch Bunch. "You win this time, Spatz. But I just know there's somethin' goin' on behind my back." Anyone remember this? It's an advert for apples but it was done like the children's version of the film Bugsy Malone. I loved that advert!
Insignia
PG Tips chimps
I used to love the McEwan's lager advert. I remember another lager advert from the 80s, Harp. The guy gets locked out of his hotel room in just a towel Time for a sharp exit, time for a cool sharp Harp
Just thought of the Dulux ad with the people singing like a choir. "May the gloss in Ross be a good gloss. May the windowsills of Winchester shine. Ceilings cover well in Motherwell. The walls of Birmingham wipe clean of pea and ham. And the skirting boards of Fife have a long life. So brush in hand decorate this land with the best paint."
I had to ask my UK soccer-loving dad who AS were. AS themselves seem
to have taken the ad with good humour-years later they invited one of the lads
in it to watch one of their games!
Brooke Bond D. There were a few ads for this tea, I remember the one with the woman working in an office and the ad had the tag line "I could do with a D." I'm sure I spotted John Challis in it. And there's another one with the woman at home and all the different jobs she has to do, then she sits down with a cuppa. The tag line for this is "It makes you feel human again."
The Irn Bru advert, from about 1988/89, that mocked those American cola adverts was great. Very much a 1980's advert.
It would have been only shown in Scotland at the time and I remember coming home from uni, I went to uni in England, and seeing it for the first time. It is still funny now.
I agree, the adverts from the 80's seemed more clever and more fun than now.
It wasn't just shown in Scotland. It was shown UK wide as I remember it quite clearly and I've never been to Scotland in my life.
Also the girl in the blue hat wearing the polka dot blue dress waving at her soldier guy on the train looks like it could be a young Denise Van Outen. The one who is running after the train but ends up bumping into a lamppost and fire hydrant.
Denise was also in another 80s advert with a young Daniella Westbrook. It's a McDonald's advert where this guy goes in to McDonald's and a whole bunch of school girls wearing boaters and carrying hockey sticks go in as well and Denise & Daniella are part of that group of girls. http://youtu.be/mollEpGRaZw
A guilty pleasure and my favourite past time is watching old adverts, from 1985 - 1997 on youtube. I watched waaaay too much telly as a child and it frightens me how many I can remember!
There must be a fair few of us who love this ephemra out there (as this thread proves) so I urge you to check out this chap's vimeo channel - https://vimeo.com/bobthefish and also his youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/Applemask
Insightful and humourous background info on old ad's and public information films, brilliant stuff!
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The tragic thing is the march of time. In 30 years time there will be people who today are in their teens and twenties that will be nostalgic for the Go Compare Singer, Brian the Robot, the meerkats and I'm sure tons more ads that connected with them in their formative years.
Me, born in the early 80's so the first couple of ads are from the late 80's or extremely early 90's. The others are a coupe of 80's classic (in my mind anyway).
Summertime anti-drink drive PIF/Ad - The one with the family at a friends BBQ and then they get in the car (the father had a couple of pints) all set to 'In The Summertime', with the famous ending when on the line "Have a Drink, Have a Drive' the car smashes into a tree. Ends with shots of all the death occupants whilst the line is repeated but in a (to me as a kid) horrible computer adjusted key or tone. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ma_Xv7rGM
Christmas anti-drink drive PIF/Ad - The one when the camera slow heads down a corridor towards a kitchen door. Whilst this is happening the audio of some young lads in the pub and one of them saying no to a second pint because he is driving, the pals take the piss out of him and keep repeat 'Just one more'. By this point the camera has entered the kitchen to see the 'driver' is now more or less a vegetative state and is being spoon fed pureed peas by this OAP mother who keeps saying to him 'Come on, just one more'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kADUAXf7hOo
National Westminster Bank (aka NatWest) - the one with Ade Edmondson play 'Vyvian' from the Young Ones wanting to open a bank account. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqXOhcTkfUw
Shake 'n' Vac - Need I say more - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q8inM0gKVo
Note - It was only after I typed the above and then went looking for youtube links that I noticed that the summertime PIF was 1992 (but kept it in anyway, sorry).
I'm sure that was 1993 or '94.
The jingle's certainly a dying art. There used to be so many, but the only one I can think of currently is the "doo-doo doo doo dooo" for McDonald's "I'm lovin'it" and that isn't even sung
JR Hartley
Apples hazelnuts bananas, raisins coconuts sultanas (Fruit n Fibre cereal)
Brian Clough and Shredded Wheat
Kit Kat and Dancing Pandas
I remember that one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvkByxe33ZM
The Irn Bru advert, from about 1988/89, that mocked those American cola adverts was great. Very much a 1980's advert.
It would have been only shown in Scotland at the time and I remember coming home from uni, I went to uni in England, and seeing it for the first time. It is still funny now.
I agree, the adverts from the 80's seemed more clever and more fun than now.
It's 1991, repeated in 1993-4, and the "Just one more, Dave ..." is 1995. '80s drink-driving ads tended to focus on the consequences to the offender of losing your licence, higher insurance premiums, criminal records, etc. and p*ssed-up "lads" shouting "but what about my mowtaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Make a bee-line for the local store and tell the guy you'd like
Some Super Crunchies! (they come in 6 delicious flavours)
Super Crunchies! (the snack that our gang favours)
Super Crunchies, they're the snack for me,
'Cos a bag of Super Crunchies only costs 10p!"
Anybody?
They pull up to a glass fronted house with people already seated inside and just before they get out of the car the driver says to the passenger something along the lines of 'fancy cutting out all of this and just getting married and having babies?'
PLEASE someone say they remember the advert/year/car make/model?!!!
Thanks in advance!
DAD: Kevin, where exactly did you bury the car?
CHILD: It's in the saaaand-ah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dBOo00L1fk
I don't think anyone's mentioned it, but now you have I remember it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezLzflX6r5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAY_o36paQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aUTdYsZda8
Sadly, 1992. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KLJQ4ukhOw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOnWZYUuKGg
Remember the advert with Clough and the people singing in the shower?
Impulse - When a man you've never met before suddenly buys you flowers...
Milk Tray
You only get an ooh with Typhoo
Smarties - Only Smarties have the answer
Soda Stream - Get busy with the fizzy
Le Crunch Bunch. "You win this time, Spatz. But I just know there's somethin' goin' on behind my back." Anyone remember this? It's an advert for apples but it was done like the children's version of the film Bugsy Malone. I loved that advert!
Insignia
PG Tips chimps
I used to love the McEwan's lager advert. I remember another lager advert from the 80s, Harp. The guy gets locked out of his hotel room in just a towel
"Exactly!"
I had to ask my UK soccer-loving dad who AS were. AS themselves seem
to have taken the ad with good humour-years later they invited one of the lads
in it to watch one of their games!
http://metro.co.uk/2006/03/21/accrington-ad-man-forgiven-42304/
Brooke Bond D. There were a few ads for this tea, I remember the one with the woman working in an office and the ad had the tag line "I could do with a D." I'm sure I spotted John Challis in it. And there's another one with the woman at home and all the different jobs she has to do, then she sits down with a cuppa. The tag line for this is "It makes you feel human again."
The Leeds Building Society with George Cole
Fresh cream cakes. Naughty, but nice.
Cadbury's Creme Eggs
Just Juice
PPP pick up a penguin
It wasn't just shown in Scotland. It was shown UK wide as I remember it quite clearly and I've never been to Scotland in my life.
Also the girl in the blue hat wearing the polka dot blue dress waving at her soldier guy on the train looks like it could be a young Denise Van Outen. The one who is running after the train but ends up bumping into a lamppost and fire hydrant.
Denise was also in another 80s advert with a young Daniella Westbrook. It's a McDonald's advert where this guy goes in to McDonald's and a whole bunch of school girls wearing boaters and carrying hockey sticks go in as well and Denise & Daniella are part of that group of girls. http://youtu.be/mollEpGRaZw
Branston Pickle .... where the mum jumps on the table and sings "it's one of those things that you get now and then....."
Ross Kemp - tasty tasty very very tasty. Fruit and Fibre cereal.
Not sure what brand but the Elasticated nappies one to the tune of do the conga.
Colgate Blue Minty Gel with a bunch of kids singing to the tune of Baggy trousers
You're No Good You Can't Sing You Look Awful (Kit Kat)
We wanna be Smiths Crisps
Kellog's Honey Smacks sang by a cartoon bee to the tune of I Can't Help Myself by The Four Tops
The slutty Caramel bunny
I remember her
There must be a fair few of us who love this ephemra out there (as this thread proves) so I urge you to check out this chap's vimeo channel - https://vimeo.com/bobthefish and also his youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/Applemask
Insightful and humourous background info on old ad's and public information films, brilliant stuff!
Here's a couple of 80's favourites of mine:
McEwan's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qQqUDQwRV0
Weetabix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnVD9zCZMJ4