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Too juicy for my shark... other memorable ads?

82 replies

SeasonallySnowyPeasant · 26/07/2020 19:23

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I've been singing this all day! It must have been on TV more than 20 years ago.

What random ads do you remember from back in the day?

OP posts:
iklboo · 26/07/2020 19:26

Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out there's a Humphrey about.

Too orangey for crows.

I'm a secret lemonade drinker

Course you can, Malcolm

For mash get Smash

The Milky Bars are on me

PinkBuffalo · 26/07/2020 19:27

You’ve been tangoed Grin

NeutralJanet · 26/07/2020 19:28

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club.

I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight.

PinkBuffalo · 26/07/2020 19:28

Oh and the soft mints advert where there was a soft man walking down the road and the song was singing about mr soft or something?
You really started something here OP Grin

SeasonallySnowyPeasant · 26/07/2020 22:50

You know when you've been tangoed and chicken tonight are such classics.

Full moon, half moon, total eclipse for Jaffa Cakes too.

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foofooyeah · 26/07/2020 22:53

The Guinness one with the surfers and horses

Also remember all mentioned as well.

foofooyeah · 26/07/2020 22:53

Does you do or does you don’t take Access

Clawdy · 26/07/2020 22:59

Now hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face
With mild green Fairy Liquid!

VeniVidiWeeWee · 26/07/2020 23:24

My favourite of all time.

But any Hamlet cigar advert was good too.

TooTrueToBeGood · 26/07/2020 23:26

Pea and ham from a chicken? Now that's clever.

Mamette · 26/07/2020 23:26

@PinkBuffalo

Oh and the soft mints advert where there was a soft man walking down the road and the song was singing about mr soft or something? You really started something here OP Grin
Hey Mr Soft Can’t you tell me why the world in which you’re living Is so soft?
HappyDinosaur · 26/07/2020 23:29

Milky Way - the red car and the blue car had a race...

donutpretzel · 26/07/2020 23:29

BELLY'S GONNA GET YA

daisychain1620 · 26/07/2020 23:30

The Kit Kat ad with the roller skating pandas.
Um bungo (it's all about the sunny funny one they call Um Bungo)
Fly fishing by JR Hartley, I used to feel sad for himSad

donutpretzel · 26/07/2020 23:30

Can't actually remember what the advert was for...

SplendidDaysInTheGarden · 27/07/2020 00:16

@donutpretzel

Can't actually remember what the advert was for...
Reebok
SplendidDaysInTheGarden · 27/07/2020 00:17

Bird's eye potato waffles, they're waffley versatile...

SplendidDaysInTheGarden · 27/07/2020 00:19

Oh, and "Do the shake 'n' vac" I loved that when I was a child. I still sing it when I'm hoovering

ChanklyBore · 27/07/2020 00:21

Hey Mr Soft
Can’t you tell me why the world in which you’re living
Is so soft?

Not quite @Mamette

Mr Soft, won’t you tell me why the world in which you’re living is so strange? Mr Soft, how come everything around you is so soft and rearranged?

Creepy advert but I only watched it the other day after a similar conversation!

TinyMetalBirds · 27/07/2020 00:22

I always thought we didn't watch much ITV as a child but my head is full of so many advertising jingles that we must have done. I sing them all the time to the bemusement of the kids. Many of those already mentioned, also:
Make room for the mushroom
We hope it's chips, it's chips
Trio! TRIIIIIO!
Ooh, ooh Vitalite
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club
Daddy or chips?

ChanklyBore · 27/07/2020 00:22

I thought the belly advert was for Nike. Whoops.

ChanklyBore · 27/07/2020 00:23

The make peas mushy one. Bachelors? Do you remember the pod? Back on the farm?

Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese · 27/07/2020 00:25

I can't remember what brand it was but the catchy tune was
"I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight" and I'm pretty sure it was Ainsley Harriet in the adverts.

TinyMetalBirds · 27/07/2020 00:25

"A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat, a finger of fudge is just enough until it's time to eat, it's full of Cadbury goodness (!sugar and fat!) and very small and neat, a finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat"
Also "A Mars a day helps you work rest and play"
Dating I think back to a time when maybe people still remembered not getting enough calories during rationing so you could still get away with "nutritious" equalling "calorific"

Lurleene · 27/07/2020 00:27

I don't know, it's all covered in mud.

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