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Andy
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Super bumper fun TV adverts fom childhood thread

@caseyb1993 @schnapps @ukbobboy and anyone else with an infantile sense of humour

 

So here it is, the super bumper fun TV adverts from childhood thread (blame Casey she started it with Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles .... the only thing you can really do with a Rowntree's Fruit Pastille is .... you know the rest!)

 

Nobody likes watching ads these days they just lack the smile, childish elegance of our rose-tinted youth (ie everything was naff but we thought it was fab at the time).

 

So regardless of age, share your favourite TV ads from your yoof. The funnier, wittier, or sing-along-addictive the better.

 

I've got SOOOO many to choose from, but here's a couple of my favourites to kick things off.

 

The Smash mashed potato alien robots from

https://youtu.be/ofv5Ca1LD8U

 

And my all time favourite PG Tips chimp ad (I LOOOVE a good monkey ad), Mr Shifter the removal chimp ... All together now .... "Cooeeeeee Mr Shifter...."

https://youtu.be/m3F0nnPHyWo

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ukbobboy
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@schnapps

 

Naw Schnapps

 

I've never seen that "Laughing Horse" advert before, it's quite good though.

 

 

UK Bob

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@Andy @schnapps 

 

Guys

 

Now you've gone and done it, you got me dredging up "happy advert" memories.

 

Here we go, three brilliant adverts jumped into my mind but, sadly, I could only find two of them, they are:

 

1) Hai Karate 

 

There were three or four in the series but this is the one I liked the best.  Come to think of it, I believe that Valorie Leon was, at one time, a Bond Girl.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfAEb0uQm8

 

2) Tonic Water by schhh You Know Who

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo7xmIQyOMY

 

You just gotta feel sorry for that parrot.

 

 

Unfortunately, the advert I could not find was "Bitter Lemon by schhh You Know Who".

 

When my sister first saw the "Bitter Lemon" advert , she was about 7 or so at the time, she nick named the starring actor, who also starred in the tonic water advert, "Bitter Lemon". And from that day onwards, in my family, the actor was forever more known only as "Bitter Lemon".

 

Yeah Andy, you're right, adverts nowadays just don't seem as funny as they used to be.

 

 

UK Bob

 

Another in the much-loved "You Know Who" campaign starring William Franklyn. This one involves a parrot, a party and some of Schweppes' famous tonic water....
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@schnapps

 

Hey Schnapps

 

You beat me to the Heineken advert, good on ya'.

 

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UK Bob

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@Andy @ukbobboy

 

I know this TV advert is not from @Andy childhood which is more from the modern day, but i was surprised with your fascination with monkeys that you haven't mentioned the Cadburys Chocolate Ad with the Gorilla playing the drums to the Phil Collins song "In the air tonight" Smiley Very Happy

 

BTW - I love this Phil Collins track (i own the album) and i really enjoyed also how the TV series Miami Vice used this sound track in their show Smiley Happy

 

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Another beer commercial this time from Stella Artois the one with the prisoners on a ship which again is a genius idea about drinking beer (A cigar for the lucky winner who can spot the famous actor in the advert) Smiley Wink

 

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Andy
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@schnapps Oh the gorilla ad was fab, did I say I LOOOVE me a good monkey ad! 😄

 

And I absolutely loved the follow up to that one which had me and my mates emulating in the pub (legal drinking age now, hurrah!) ... Much fun to be had

 

https://youtu.be/5aDCrYUKIMo

 

Andy
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@caseyb1993 First post in my new thread and already you've mentioned a Disney song - I was just about to report it for going off-topic (cos you know how I'd never do anything like that!) when you mentioned monkeys ... Nice recovery there! 😉

 

Oh ye I remember the red car blue car ad, I thought that was very catchy, but honest that ToysRUs music makes me want to ... turn over to the other channel!!!!!

 

Following on from Um Bongo is this equally catchy Kia-Ora ad ... for those who prefer cordials to sugar-coated fruit juices

 

https://youtu.be/UB2xYdjt7bE

Andy
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@caseyb1993 your road safety ad made me recall the nightmare that was the public service announcements that used to be on when I was a kid. Picture me after school sat down for my tea in front of the telly, waiting for the second part of The Tomorrow People to start, when this comes on during the ad break ...

 

https://youtu.be/xZWD2sDRESk

 

...scared me chuffin silly, no wonder I dropped my fish fingers!!!

One of the scarier films from the Central Office of Information, 'Lonely Water' features Donald Pleasence voicing the character of the Grim Reaper, preying on the foolish youngsters who play near potentially dangerous areas of water. Creepy hints of 'The Seventh Seal' and 'Final Destination' make
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@Andy

 

Talking about public service announcements that gave you nightmares, i will never forget has a child during the height of The Cold War all the Nuclear "Protect and Survive" information that was regularly broadcasted on the Television which was frightening.

 

I would have posted them here, but IMO they are far too grim to watch even now (If anybody is interested, jump over to YouTube and type "Protect and Survive" in the search engine).

 

The before, during and after information given at the time and looking back now the devastation that Nuclear War would have caused to humanity would be total obliteration, where the Government Public announcements at the time gave you hope of survival.

 

Lets hope and pray we never get back to those scary times where World War 3 is a press of a button.

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@schnapps @Andy

 

Schnapps

 

I too remember those protect and survive pamphlets and announcements put out by the government during the cold war, they were ridiculous at the time, and a number of people said so, and looking back now seems utter laughable.

 

Those government announcement, and accompanying literature, were more for propaganda and public morals rather than for any practical purpose and re-edited from literature published during the second world war, these pamphlets were never updated for the nuclear age.

 

I also remember that some local councils were saying that they would not distribute the "Protect and Survive" literature because they saw no value in it.  The government of the  day threatened to prosecute them.

 

I think the animation film "When the Wind Blows" explains everything:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihrnND7-Hsg

 

 

UK Bob

 

Sorry, I'm getting too serious again, I must stop that.

Andy
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@schnapps wrote:

cigar for the lucky winner who can spot the famous actor in the advert


@schnapps I've spotted Hellboy himself, Ron Perlman I reckon!?!

 

PS I don't smoke, substitute for a Heineken please! 🙂