Super bumper fun TV adverts fom childhood thread

[Andy]

@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

[Andy]

@caseyb1993 And what's wrong with boys dancing around in pink tutus with golden wings, I'm not afraid to show my balletic side! 🙂

@Anonymous User Why thank you Kimmy! It has pride of place next to my Barbie and Cabbage Patch Doll collections!! Now do tell, what on earth was making you think of Viewmasters? They were brilliant in the day, when the nearest thing I got to 3D cinema was some dodgy red and green glasses in Scream comic!

[caseyb1993]

@Andy Really? They put Chimps in tutus with fairy wings? 😉

[Andy]

@caseyb1993 Honestly Casey, you clearly don't hang out in the right places! 

[caseyb1993]

@Andy Blimey, Billy Elliot is a bit hairy there! 😄

[caseyb1993]

@Andy Thanks a lot! Now I am terrified of escalators in the local shopping centre because of that advert. 😄

Especially as a little kid was wearing wellies on them today. 😮

[Andy]

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@caseyb1993 wrote:

Especially as a little kid was wearing wellies on them today. 😮

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@caseyb1993 WHAT!!!??? Thats why kids need to be watching all those old public information films, better to be terrified of lakes, electricity pylons, railway lines, kettles, irons, running in corridors and chocking on peanuts than end up as a pair of wellies at the bottom of the escalator!

PS have you wondered where you'd end up when you get sucked into the escalator? I always imagined it would be a bit like Pennywise the Clown dragging you don't into the storm drain ...

[caseyb1993]

@Andy I always thought it would be like a Genie in the lamp kind of thing. 😄

[Andy]

@caseyb1993 Awh, you like a happy ending even when it involves being sucked into an escalator! 😄

[schnapps]

Hi @Andy @caseyb1993 @ukbobboy

Not sure if you are interested, but currently on ITV they are showing "Possibly The Best Adverts In The World" 

The show seems to cover some of the adverts we have posted on here plus many more 

Perhaps if you fancy a watch then ITV Catch Up is your friend 

[Andy]

@schnapps

Ah cool, thanks for the heads-up looks interesting! Nearly finished now but I'll watch out for it on catchup. I hope PG Tips chimps had a look in! 😉