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I really love this advert

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LookItsMeAgain · 30/08/2024 13:15

I really love the new Barclays advert with the kids.
"I didn't have calamari, so I'm not paying for calamari!"

I just love it!! They are great kids.

Do you have a favourite advert, either current or from the past that you just love?

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Illjusthavethebreadsticks · 01/09/2024 05:05

John Lewis made some stunning ads.

HelenWheels · 01/09/2024 05:13

yes the Tiny Dancer from john lewis, is lovely

Elderflower14 · 01/09/2024 06:10

HelenWheels · 01/09/2024 05:13

yes the Tiny Dancer from john lewis, is lovely

I love this one too. I'm so clumsy (dyspraxia) so that little girl reminds me of me!!

Newlittlerescue · 01/09/2024 06:40

Haven't seen the ad in question, but lots of the ones mentioned here are great - smarty mobile, nationwide, specsavers. Here's my contribution to the list - the Tesco clubcard one "I've got the power". The actors are really good!

ThePrologue · 01/09/2024 07:11

Dustnbones · 31/08/2024 05:52

I like the Twix ad with the camping twins and the bears. It makes me laugh every time I see it

Took me a couple of watches to crack onto it!
A previous thread about ads here revealed much horror about it!

longtompot · 01/09/2024 11:31

Dustnbones · 31/08/2024 05:52

I like the Twix ad with the camping twins and the bears. It makes me laugh every time I see it

That's the one I was trying to remember! Thank you! Makes me laugh every time

piscofrisco · 01/09/2024 11:46

@SiobhanSharpe I love the Cunard ad. Largely because I want my life to be full of love affairs! Banquets! Incredible journeys!

piscofrisco · 01/09/2024 11:48

Surely the best advert ever was the John west one where the man fights the bear for a salmon and ends up with 'oh look? An eagle!' Then knees him in the nuts?

Thurien · 01/09/2024 12:34

For me it is the EDS 'Cat Herders' advert from 20 years or so ago.

HelenWheels · 01/09/2024 12:41

i ihave nver seen the Walls advert! Grin

SwedishEdith · 01/09/2024 12:55

SiobhanSharpe · 01/09/2024 00:54

OTOH, I loathe the Cunard one where a man with a fruity voice intones 'I wonder, I wonder... and goes on to speculate about the possible life of a young woman with 'banquets (!) dinners, love affairs..." presumably while on Cunard cruises. Shudder.

I hate all cruise adverts because they suggest only beautiful people use them and there will be hardly anyone else on the boat. But the Cunard one is particularly loathsome - like some Great Gatsby set.

I looked up the quote because I thought there's no way an ad exec had written it and found this. They have basically omitted the bit where the poem's writer is saying enjoying the now. Everything else you're trying to have and acquire won't bring you fulfillment. I think.

www.reddit.com/r/AlanWatts/s/hIi3QxlhBA

Ahhhhhbisto · 01/09/2024 13:07

Another specsavers one here...the one where the older couple sit down to have their picnic and end up on a rollercoaster!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=cgXJlo8OeBk

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 02/09/2024 11:08

MissPeachyKeen · 31/08/2024 00:40

Was it AA?
With the 'mop' dog on a yellow chair enjoying the wind from a fan in it's face.
Always made me smile

I loved the old 80s AA advert.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 02/09/2024 11:09

piscofrisco · 01/09/2024 11:48

Surely the best advert ever was the John west one where the man fights the bear for a salmon and ends up with 'oh look? An eagle!' Then knees him in the nuts?

It's the Ali Shuffle by the bear that always made me laugh! 😂

PainterInPeril · 02/09/2024 11:14

@piscofrisco Actually, yes, that's another favourite advert of mine. Absolutely hilarious! 🤣

Tulipvase · 02/09/2024 11:18

Does anyone remember a Christmas advert, a few years ago, I’m thinking M&S. A similar feel to the Sean Bean one but I’m sure the line is something about ‘christmas Stockings’ but with a wink. An older attractive woman.

Google is not my friend.

unless it is the same advert and I’m thinking about the line ‘ unwrapping presents’.... but it just doesn’t seem right.

Bluebellsinthewind · 02/09/2024 15:32

@Tulipvase sorry can't mind that one.

The Bisto Ads from back in the day were 💖

SiobhanSharpe · 02/09/2024 19:29

piscofrisco · 01/09/2024 11:46

@SiobhanSharpe I love the Cunard ad. Largely because I want my life to be full of love affairs! Banquets! Incredible journeys!

Yeah, well I wouldn’t mind, just not on stuffy Cunard.
I’m old but not that old…

Bodeganights · 02/09/2024 19:38

MissPeachyKeen · 31/08/2024 00:40

Was it AA?
With the 'mop' dog on a yellow chair enjoying the wind from a fan in it's face.
Always made me smile

I love that one, somewhere on YouTube is a making of video. Pretty good how they do it.
Love love love the twix ad with the bears, y'know what else I like, the crunch when you bite into it'

And a super old one that I was talking about just the other day.
Boddingtons.
By eck love, tha smells gorgeous tonight.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 02/09/2024 19:43

The really old lurpak ones with a little claymation man called Douglas who was desperate to perform on several musical instruments.

The red car and the blue car had a race ...

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 02/09/2024 20:04

The water in Majorca don't taste like what it oughta

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 02/09/2024 20:06

And this one:

SlabsBabs · 02/09/2024 20:25

The Cadburys gorilla playing the drums, such a great song too.

GalileoHumpkins · 02/09/2024 20:27

Do the Shake n Vac and put the freshness back...

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