Adverts that have stuck with you

[Tillow4ever]

We currently have a free trial of a streaming service, so are stuck with adverts for the first time in a long time. It got me thinking - what adverts have really stuck with you over the years? I remember saying how awful the 118 and GoCompare adverts were, and my Dad said to me “well they did their job then, didn’t they?” Because they got me remembering their brand and what the service was!

I’m sure this has been done before - but humour me pleases and share with me adverts that stuck with you. I wonder if there’s a theme of particular adverts being truly memorable for all, or any that random people remember that jog a memory in someone else.

Here’s mine:

Milkyway - Red car & blue car race (I still remember all the words to the song)
Tango - You know, when you’ve been Tango’d
118 118 - Got your number
Go Compare - stupid opera man
Yellow Pages - JR Hartley and the other one where the lad had the party and cleans his house to find the scratch in the table
Dolmio puppets - Whensa your Dolmio Day?

There was one about a breakfast cereal where they were on holiday or done thing singing a song - some of the lyrics were “I think there’s a rack by your toes. But what about the BRAND NAME that’s a different matter, here’s what they all reply. They’re tasty, tasty, very very tasty. They’re very tasty” I’m thinking All Bran or something like that? If anyone remembers please help me!

Another one - “there’s a moose, loose about this hoose” - some sort of sweet think?

Looking forward to seeing some others!

These are great, a trip down memory lane. Fab thread OP.

What has a hazelnut in every bite? TOPIC!

A first class ticket to Dottingham, pease! Tunes.

I bet you can't put one of these in your mouth wiffout chewing it - fruit pastilles

Frys Chocolate Turkish Delight. Full of Eastern promise

Tetley make tea bags make tea.

When I was at school outdoor activity camp we had to do a show at the end of the week for the leaders.
Our group did the adverts in between every one else's turn. Kia-ora (its too orangey for crows). Tetly make tea bags make tea. And Um Bongo Um Bongo they drink it in the Congo.

The singing and dancing/ playing football Anchor cows

There was a very UN pc joke about the ticket to dottingham
Have you tried tunes
Does that cure. .... ........
70s jokes had a lot to answer for.

That’s a very cool claim to fame!

I’d definitely be interested! Great story!

Thanks! I’m so glad I posted because I’ve had so many memories back of long forgotten ads for me that actually I enjoyed at the time. Plus it reminds you of other things that was going on in your life back then!

Oh so many!

Do the Shake and Vac and put the freshness back
The Smash Aliens
PG Tips Chimps

My favourite was for Amazin’ Rasin chocolate bars - ‘It’s amazin’ what raisins will do…’. done in a real cockney knees up fashion.

Off topic but I loved Amazin Raisin bars . So many old chocolate bars / sweets.

Thank you! Sadly departed now but lovely lovely man. Big fan of all things Mickey Mouse.

I’m a secret lemonade drinker!
Linda Bellingham as the OXO mum (all the different storylines like a series)
Nicole Ooh Papa (Renault ad)
There were loads now we get tampon / tena lady ads TMI

I wish I could get the latest Sky add out of my head. A child finds a device and says is a 'broadband router'. It's probably AI voiced as the child sounds like a 50 year old angling for a part in Emmerdale. Doesn't sell the product or put across the message/meaning

Alright now by free was the background tune

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

Maybe it's been mentioned, but there was one that used to make me cry where a Mum is watching a home video of her little girl opening a present and saying "Thank you Mummy" on repeat. She breaks down and it turns out she died in a fire as the fire alarms weren't working.

Wasn't there one for the train to London where the little girl says in a Glasgow accent, 'And we got a wee biscuit!'

Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet

Probably the best beer in the world.

Probably? Definitely..

Fresh as the moment when the pod went pop. (sung)

It's good to talk. (spoken)

Fry's Turkish Delight. Fry's Turkish Delight. (sung)

"beware the judderman when the moon is fat"
Fear and love it in equal measure <eek>

‘Put that sunshine taste in your day the Valencia way’. That orange juice advert from the late 80s has always stuck in my mind.

’Konica colours are calling me’- with the cowboy and the colourful carnival appearing from behind the rocks.

‘Stick it on your spoon, stick it to the tin, stick it on your pancakes, stick it thick or thin’ - the Golden Syrup spoon man advert.