Which old adverts do you remember? UK

[Squashinthepinkcup]

Wondering if it's just me who has a brain that retains truly useless information like jingles and entire scripts to adverts from yonks ago

For me its

• 122 years of hovis
• legit every word to the cheer up ever green frog singing to the tune of daydream believer
• accrington stanley milk
• the entire poem from Comfort Vaporesse
• orange Wednesdays.... 'baby, we should go every Wednesday!'

Honestly would be way better if I could switch some memory cells for something actually useful 😂

Anyone else?!

Was that one direct line??

An ology!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qXlCy_POsyQ

This one introduced me to Sigur Ros

Friends a la la poo poo la la.
The advert was Harvey and rabbit.

“This bra doesn’t fit, and I’m not gonna wear it anymore “

I think it was for Cross Your Heart bras. Early 80s?

My siblings and I thought this was hilarious 😆

"Hey pea, remember the good old days...?" 😂

Possibly, bur doesn't ring a bell. The first direct line ads I remember were the red 'toy car' phone ones.

I wish I was in Greenall Whitley land, where beer is good and hearts are warm and friends all gather round. Perhaps they’re missing me…

Oranjeboom, Oranjeboom it’s a lager not a tune

Ich möcht gern ein Grünhalle, Grünhalle, Grünhalle. Ich möcht gern ein Grünhalle, Grünhalle Brau

No idea why the ones that came to my mind are all alcohol. I’m teetotal.

I'm a gnu
How do you do?
Do you sell the tasty tea they call typhoo?
Oh, I see that you do
A pick you up brew
So would you like to share a cuppa or two?
The flavour's so fine, every time
That I can't resist to tell those friends of mine
So if it's all the same to you?
I'll invite a g-nother gnu
For the tea that picks you up
Pick a typhoo

Something like that anyway 😆 I'm 58 now and have always remembered that song for some reason.

Everyone's a Fruit and Nut Case.

70s public information films had a knack of scaring kids shirtless.
Dark water being one of the most famous.

Shitless

What has a hazelnut in every bite? Topic!

Anyone remember the alternative version? 😂

Do the Shake and vac

Squirrels shite.

And here's the ad itself...

😂😂😂

The Milky Bar Kid

< belts out at top volume >

"TRIIIIIII-o..."

"TRIIIIII-I-I-o..."

The Yellow Pages one when a boy has a party at which his house is trashed. His parents are about to arrive back from abroad but thanks to Yellow Pages he manages to get someone to polish out the scratch on the table.
His parents then ring to say they’ve landed but as he’s leaving the house to pick them up he noticed glasses have been drawn on a painting in black felt pen.

Also the other Yellow Pages one about looking for a Fly Fishing book at second hand bookshops.

Mackeson’s: looks good, tastes good and by golly it does you good!
Hands that do dishes are as soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid
Go to work on an egg
I’d like to teach the world to sing
Hovis kid pushing bike uphill
June Whitfield Birds Eye chicken pies
Green Cross man (laterly, Darth Vader
Shake “n’ vac, puts the freshness back
Barratt Homes man in his helicopter

Plus countless public information films. Stuff of absolute frickin nightmares. The kid trapped in a fridge, the kid just about to step on a broken bottle barefoot, the kid about to be pulled down to the depths whilst swimming in an abandoned quarry, paint your windows white, hide behind a mattress in the broom cupboard and kiss your arse goodbye because we’re all about to be nuked.

I'm traumatised all over again just thinking about them 🤣

Best ad ever: Guinness white horses.

Strong and tough...and only the best is good enough! The creamiest milk, the whitest bar, the goodness that's in Milky bar!

This diet coke ad

The "it's my life" Tampax ad

All the Levi's ads, and I had the soundtrack on tape

The white horses one was amazing! Forgot about that. And I'd like to teach the world to sing 🥰

Second class return to Nottingham please! Tunes!

Vicks Sinex, course you can Malcolm!