Favourite old tv ads

[TheGirlOnTheLanding]

Got a new pair of shoes today for the new season and as soon as I tried them on, DH and I both said 'Ooh, new shooooes!' While the DC looked as us like we'd lost the plot as usual. They are, of course, much too young to remember the Clarks advert but it is ingrained in our memories. Which led me to think about some of the best, most memorable TV ads. Which are the ones you still remember and quote?

More slogans that are part of my everyday language:

The man from Del Monte...he say YES!

Hey, beaver, why are you beavering around? Take it easy...with Cadbury's caramel

Make room for the mushrooms!

The new ad with the queen song and kids doing a school Show is excellent.

Hula hoops I think did one that said something like 'we'll be around forever'

Although the one I particularly remember was the one where they're stuck in a traffic jam and they all get out of their cars and sing.

Yeah the Queen song one is brilliant!

Cringemaking as hell, but my school friends and I used to love taking the piss out of the Gold Blend ads and re-enacting them at breaktime.

There was even a paperback romance about them called Love Over Gold. I remember seeing it in a bargain bin in Ludlow . I still wonder who would have bought it.

I don't remember these myself, but the Nescafé gold blend ones. I watched them after saying how much I liked the BT ones with a story of a relationship weaves through.

Oh, cross posted there!

The Anchor butter one with the singing and dancing cows.

All the Lynda Bellingham gravy ones... I was jealous of the cosy happy family with affectionate parents.

The Angus Deayton one for Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.

Bizarrely, one for Coffee Mate as I fancied the man in it, who was old enough to be my dad.

“Sophie, which do you like best? Daddy or chips?”

The Felix cat food one: Meat? Not meat. Meat? Not meat. Meat? Meat meat meat meat meat!!!

A mid-80s one sponsored by the Cheese Council of England and Wales (or similar): “Any way you please it, cheese it!”

I clearly watched way too much TV as a child, and generally think that on-demand TV with no ads is a good thing, but still feel sad that my kids won’t be able to have these kinds of conversations when they grow up!

Ah yes, Boddingtons.

I just about pissed myself the first time I saw the "by 'eck petal, you smell gawjuss" one - it was so unexpected, and so brilliantly done. But in retrospect I think the follow-up one with the gondolas against a backdrop of 19th century industrial buildings is even funnier: "That Mavis Allthorpe, she never buys her own."

Has anyone mentioned the Levis advert yet, in the launderette?

And of course who could forget the Diet Coke ad (must be something wrong with my hormones this morning!! )

They wouldn't get away with this these days either ...

Shake N Vac - DH couldn't remember this!
The Judderman
The Irn Bru goths and the song that took the piss out of the coke ads (made in Scotland from girders!!)
The Freeview ad with the cat and bird singing
Eh Tarquin, your trolleys on right way round?!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo

This one was brilliant.

Oh and the Wrigleys gym one - with the young couple on the bus.

I agree that the current generation won’t have iconic adverts to reminisce about when they are older. Partly due to on-demand tv, but I think also because there are so many more adverts now than there used to be (more channels too) that they don’t last as long as there are always new ones coming out. It used to be that you would see the same advert every week during an episode of your favourite programme, (or if it was a longer programme - maybe even 2/3 times each episode), but now there is a greater variety of ads and the companies change them up more regularly.

Sadly I think the only modern adverts my DC would quote would be bloody Barry Scott or the singing Go Compare one.

Urgh - autocorrect - Wrigleys GUM obviously - not Gym!

My post disapeared - Ben, Ben and his beefburgers

My first full time job when I left school was in a hospital and I had to be suited, booted, on the floor and ready to work for 07:00.

ad was the very first to be played every morning, on ITV when it started broadcasts for the day.

I like the musical ones, like this one for .

So many absolute classics, I can't think of any recent advert that I will be fondly reminiscing over in 20-30 years time. I know a couple of people have mentioned the John Lewis/Queen one, but its nowhere near the class of most of these, too long, boring and totally forgettable.

Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley

On the subject of Yellow Pages, anyone remember the one with the gardener? Sniff ...

@AamdC the rest of the paint advert went

Ceeeee-lings
Cover well in Motherwell
The walls of Birmingham
Wipe clean of pea and ham
And the skirting boards of Fife
Have a long life.
Now brush in hand
Decorate this land
WITH THE BEST PAAAAINT

I have no idea why that all suddenly came to me. Also don't know which paint company it was for. But I obviously remember the ad!