Gen X where are you ????

[JRHartleysmum]

What are you ‘I’m old’ references that younger folk might not understand ?
I’ll start: ‘too orangey for crows, it’s just for me and my dog’

What was the advert that used the song "Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it?"

Also wasn't there an ad that had a patient and possibly singing There may be trouble ahead?

A noodles ad where a guys bow tie started to spin??

When a man you don't know suddenly buys you flowers - Impulse body spray

Viking : we have come because we heard about the Harp! Harp beer

Agadoo doo doo - still play if for the kids

Everybody in the world loves Irn Bru,
I do, you do, they do, we do,
And I especially love Irn Bru,
Even though I used to be a man,
Even though I used to be a maaannn!

Ah they definitely couldn't show that ad anymore but it gets stuck in my head all the time and I can't exactly walk around singing it out loud!

Also the incredibly loud Bodyform advert.

Ooh, I could crush a grape!

And endless game shows with women clearly just there as decoration 😡

I play Agadoo for my kids too! That and Superman!

I’d forgotten about Agadoo.

See also: The Chicken Song

Roses - preceded by 'thank you very much you're one in a million..., thank you etc, William was a goldfish.

Really showing my age here, I can still remember the Swap Shop phone number 😄 01-811 8055
And good old Posh Paws...

@JustDanceAddict
We Are the Champions- shame Stuart hall turned out to be a nonce.

Yeah, along with "clunk click every trip" Seatbelt ad with J Savile and
"Somehow I managed to scrabble me way to the bank", learn to swim and with Rolf Harris.

Roses?

Birds Eye peas
Sweet as the moment when the pods went "pop"

I bet you can't put one in your mouth without chewing
(Fruit pastilles)

Opal fruits
Made to make your mouth water

I know, I corrected it further down ! Swap Shop !

Knew I should have RTFT 😂

omg I had no idea there were toys buzbys.
I loved the buzby adverts can't believe I missed out on a toy buzby. right that's it I'm getting on the phone to my parents to ask why I never had one!! lol

Sorry, the "he's not your dad" ad was Carte D'or, not Vienetta. I knew it was ice cream related!

"What about the vegetables?"
"Oh, they'll have what I'm having!"

And the later "more peas dear"

Yes Mr Brittas, sorry Mr Brittas....

Fire fire danger danger was on the back of my school jotter

The tizer adverts with the weird half words. Took ages to work out that they were all just missing -tizer from the end

Pri-or-iiiiiiii

Does anyone remember these? They were everywhere in the early '90s. I called them telephone bugs.

Does anyone brought up in the former Grampian TV area remember Scene on Saturday, presented by the norma weekday news presenters in T Shirts? I remember Kennedy Thompson and David Strachan (who later became a minister IIRC).

I also remember a Gaelic language kids programme that featured a very young Runrig and being amazed at seeing and hearing a Gaelic pop band.

You gotta... STOP! And think then you'll be.... king of the road!

Normal, not Norma but who knows!

@Blankspace4 There is (or was, I haven't been since COVID) a huge "Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo" ad several stories high painted on the side of a building by the airport in Addis Ababa. I've always wondered how that worked as a slogan in 21st Century Ethiopia.

What was the Yankee Doodle Heinz noodle ad, I loved that one.

Noodle doodle came to town riding on a pony….

It took me a long time to realise that Beattie (Maureen Lipman) in the BT ad was called that because of BT, I genuinely didn’t twig.

Ooh ah could crush a grape