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Nostalgic Adverts

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InsuranceForU18s · 11/11/2022 20:49

Just added to a thread about discontinued confectionery. Made me think about adverts that stick in your mind. What nostalgic adverts do you remember well?

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theblackradiator · 11/11/2022 22:13

Does anyone remember the Tiscali broadband adverts from the very early 2000s used to love guessing what would be revealed. Boiled eggs, to bald mens heads etc 🤣.

InsuranceForU18s · 11/11/2022 22:14

Which was the one where someone hit someone's knuckles with a spoon? Bisto or Nescafé or something?

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LubaLuca · 11/11/2022 22:15

De Beers diamonds at Christmas.

I remember an Adidas one - Belly's gonna get you. Weird, but memorable.

InsuranceForU18s · 11/11/2022 22:15

Also was there one with a teen girl who was restless or in teen love or something with 'Should I stay or should I go?"

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KettleOn919 · 11/11/2022 22:16

A million housewives every day pick up a tin of beans and say "Beans means Heinz".

InsuranceForU18s · 11/11/2022 22:17

ShowOfHands · 11/11/2022 21:45

Ohh ohh Vitalite.

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit...

I vant, I vant...

vitality, that's right!

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LubaLuca · 11/11/2022 22:17

Clearasil - the 'greaser' sister played by Patsy Palmer.

QueenKong101 · 11/11/2022 22:19

There's a fantastic Instagram account called Throwback TV ads that I lost a whole evening to recently - full of 80s and 90s gems!

instagram.com/throwbacktvads?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

InsuranceForU18s · 11/11/2022 22:20

InsuranceForU18s · 11/11/2022 22:15

Also was there one with a teen girl who was restless or in teen love or something with 'Should I stay or should I go?"

Actually it might have been 'wild thing'

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Cosycover · 11/11/2022 22:23

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join a Club

TrashyPanda · 11/11/2022 22:23

P-pick up a penguin

McEwans is the best buy

Double Diamond works wonders

chop chop, busy busy, work work, bang bang

its great service you get, renting your TV set, from Granada

Penguinsaregreat · 11/11/2022 22:23

I remember the Volkswagen ones. The one where she is getting divorced and the one where an elderly man is walking up a steep hill and gets into his car.
The Yorkie bar one’s where it’s a hairy trucker diver along chomping on his manly yorkie bar.

AlphaAlpha · 11/11/2022 22:23

Gold blend ads

It's in the saaaaaaand!

InsuranceForU18s · 11/11/2022 22:23

'Made to make your mouth water' - not sure what that was? Opal Fruits?

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prampushingdownthehighst · 11/11/2022 22:24

Count Ivan Stravinsky Skavar
The best best needs no etiquette

InsuranceForU18s · 11/11/2022 22:24

QueenKong101 · 11/11/2022 22:19

There's a fantastic Instagram account called Throwback TV ads that I lost a whole evening to recently - full of 80s and 90s gems!

instagram.com/throwbacktvads?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Just had a look. Thanks. I miss those days!!

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JaneJeffer · 11/11/2022 22:25

Things happen after a Badedas bath

Penguinsaregreat · 11/11/2022 22:26

Also the beer adverts. I think it was Castlemain xxxx set in Australian. They are loading up a truck full of beer and one of the men says ‘a little something for the ladies,’ and puts 2 bottles of wine in the truck. The truck collapses under the weight and they decide to take off the wine.

mum2jakie · 11/11/2022 22:28

Accrington Stanley? Who are they?
Exaclee!!

InsuranceForU18s · 11/11/2022 22:32

Lobsters on South Beach

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HerReputationMadeItDifficultToProceed · 11/11/2022 22:33
one for Shloer from ~1985... "I get no kick from Champagne..."
christmasbaublesandtinseltits · 11/11/2022 22:35

The Golden Syrup advert.
The song went something like - 'spread it on your spoon - spoon, spread it on your toast -toast', and had a walking wooden spoon in the advert.
I loved that advert.

TrashyPanda · 11/11/2022 22:37

Ben and Mary in the Birds Eye Beefburger adverts

any time, any place, anywhere
there’s a wonderful world you can share
it’s the right one
it’s the bright one
it’s Martini

Lees, Lees, more if you please (Lees Macaroon bars)

only the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate

MrsAliceRichards · 11/11/2022 22:37

"Do the shake and vac and put the freshness back"

"The red car and the blue car has a race"

"Do you have a copy of Fly Fishing by JR Hartley?"

Ahwig · 11/11/2022 22:41

The very posh plane in an advert for imperial leather soap. The soap even had its own seatbelt in its soap dish. I really wanted to go in that plane.