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Favourite ever advert

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BerfyTigot · 08/09/2023 21:37

I'm sure this has been done before, but just wondering what your favourite advert is.

Mine is the Jaffa cake one - full moon, half moon, total eclipse. Still makes me laugh 😁

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SiobhanSharpe · 09/09/2023 01:07

The Renault Clio adverts with Papa and Nicole.

KettleOn919 · 09/09/2023 01:27

The Phones4U ads, but especially the ones with Scary Mary.

And Levi jeans "Spaceman" from the 1990s.

HelpMeGetThrough · 09/09/2023 06:51

John Smiths adverts from the 80s

whosaidtha · 09/09/2023 07:12

The guardian ad with the 3 little pigs. Almost made me want to read it.

The Sainsbury's origins of Father Christmas

John Lewis gifts you can't wait to give

The Cadbury eyebrows.

ifindyouveryattractive · 09/09/2023 07:19

Cadbury’s smash always reminds me of my mum, who was obsessed with it in the 80s. That and chop chop busy busy work work bang bang, and bodyform - which she would sing in the shops …

Favourite ever adverts though are the Irn Bru snowman ones, and Coca Cola holidays are coming.

MrTomMorrow · 09/09/2023 07:32

Loved these! 😁

Errolwasahero · 09/09/2023 07:34

How has no one said the Buttercup syrup add??? The one with the animals…

savethegorgeousbees · 09/09/2023 07:37

She comes from a long line of Fannies Grin

ElizabethVonArnim · 09/09/2023 07:42

There was one in the very early 90s when I was about 14 for a very cheap aftershave from Boots with Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out for a Hero as the soundtrack, featuring a half naked fireman carrying a puppy out of a burning building, among other handsome heroic types. Have to say, that was a formative experience and took a number of years to let go of as my definition of what I was looking for in a man 😂😂😂

tescocreditcard · 09/09/2023 07:44

Cinzano Bianco with Joan Collins

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 09/09/2023 07:44
Starseeking · 09/09/2023 07:45

I used to love the Irn Bru one with the lady with the huge powerful voice where she sings something like:

"It's made in Scotland from girders(sp?), unpronounceable too,
It's made in Scotland from girders(sp?), it's called Barrs, Irn Bru"

ElizabethVonArnim · 09/09/2023 07:48

ElizabethVonArnim · 09/09/2023 07:42

There was one in the very early 90s when I was about 14 for a very cheap aftershave from Boots with Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out for a Hero as the soundtrack, featuring a half naked fireman carrying a puppy out of a burning building, among other handsome heroic types. Have to say, that was a formative experience and took a number of years to let go of as my definition of what I was looking for in a man 😂😂😂

This is the one! I found it - I may have misremembered it a bit but...phew. Memory lane 😁

m.youtube.com/watch?v=hGZH5EQ53xk

AlrightJulia · 09/09/2023 07:49

Does anyone remember this one?!

Starseeking · 09/09/2023 07:49

I've just looked it up, what a classic!

Irn Bru advert:

Vanessashanessajenkins2 · 09/09/2023 07:55

My favourite is the Hovis ad depicting the last 100 or so years. It came out a few years ago.
No matter where I am or what I'm doing, watching that advert just makes me emotional. Especially when you hear Churchill. I really love the history and I think that advert captures it perfectly.

MariePaperRoses · 09/09/2023 08:51

The. Volkswagen earring one

MariePaperRoses · 09/09/2023 08:54

Shake n vac

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MariePaperRoses · 09/09/2023 09:00

This was wonderful

MariePaperRoses · 09/09/2023 09:07

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