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!

The Judderman, for Metz

I still say that whole milk advert to my kids, complete with a very poor Liverpudlian accent, who just look at me completely confused! “Accrington Stanley? Who are they? EXACTLY!”

Thank you! I knew there was Bran in there somewhere! And I thought it was a fruity sweet!

Glad I asked as I can complete the ear worm now to get rid of it.

Oh yes - i cannot remember what it was for. But I remember “I want to be…. A tree” and yes the young couple… she definitely didn’t “want to be together” if I recall! Was it a bank advert? Something to do with saving to afford your dreams?

No she didnt want to be with him
He was oblivious
Maybe a bank or building society?

Yes banking or investing or something. He says “we want to be together” and she thinks “I want to sail round the world in a yacht”

Verizons advert look behind you

-McCain chips - Daddy or Chips?
Wotsits - are you picking your nose or what?
-Cars playing hide and seek (I think it was Vauxhall Corsa).
-The yellow pages when a person on the neighbouring flat thinks someone's been burgled and calls the police but it's actually just messy. Messy man arrives home and has to go along with it.
-The seat belt ad with with a soundtrack that was a mix of Samantha Mumba's 'body to body' and Captain and Teneille's 'do that to me one more time'.

The Gold Blend ads with Sharon Maugham and Anthony Head
Shake ‘n’ Vac with The mad singing dancing hoovering woman
The ‘work work busy busy’ penguins although I can’t remember what they were advertising
Whites Lemonade ‘Secret Lemonade Drinker’ (with Elvis Costello, pre-name change and fame, singing backing vocals to his dad)
The Hovis boy on a bike

Also the Allied Dinbar Operating theatre ad with them all singing 'there may be trouble ahead'.

Guinness- tick follows tock with the white horses

Scotch tape i think - re-rewind and not fade away, re-rewind and not fade away

Soft mints - mr soft loved that one

Weetabix - he was a driving instructor singing to i will survive- 'as long as I've had weetabix I'll get them all to drive, I've got 4 more tests to do looks like they haven't got a clue'

Thank you so much for indulging me. A few of these don’t ring a bell at all - but most do and I remember them again!

As much as I always skip the adverts, I actually kind of miss them. Companies used to make much better ads because they knew people would see them. These days, all the ads I see are for other shows on the streaming service.

I think it was for Legal and General.

There was a little girl who wanted to be a tomato. The Brummie bloke's girlfriend wanted to buy a boat and sail around the world, he wanted to buy a house I think.

the cola one with person playing a pinao in a field and the critters help make the sounds of the song

omg I LOVED the Weetabix advert. It was absolute genius.

I thought it was for Prudential.

'Nicole!'

'Papa!'

‘Tuc by itself is a snappy happy cracker and a
snappy happy cracker with cheese, please.’

Phil Collins singing and drumming and a giant gorilla mimes it - my best ever.

The very sophisticated 1970s one for Chanel No. 5 in the art gallery.
The Sony coloured balls bouncing down the street
The Hamlet cigars with the man wearing a toupee in a restaurant with his girlfriend

Yes, I think you are right, not Legal and General.

Prudential! It's Mr Weasley. We want to ave a baybey!

There was a Dog's Trust advert a few years ago with a knitted dog and he found his new owner. Made me cry 😢

@BlakeCarringtonI was coming on to say about the milk advert with the boys. I live overseas now and met a guy a few years ago who was from Accrington (sp?). I immediately parroted back to him, “Accrington Stanley? Oooo are they?”. Apparently I wasn’t the first person, of a certain age, to quote that to him!

I remember the Yellow Pages advert where the little boy stands on the Yellow Pages to kiss a little girl under the mistletoe.

The Bisto ads with Linda Bellingham

And the Renault Clio ad with Rene and Papa.

Obviously the red car and the blue car. Umbungo and also an advert for Vitalite margarine, which thinking back both may have been quite racist as in their depiction of the characters, but as a child I liked the animations and the songs.

Also the Clearasil adverts with the girls in some boarding school / dormitory scene and one of them wakes up, screaming in the night due to them having found a spot on their face

The one for BA I think it was - where is everybody?

And the flip top head, maybe for toothpaste or toothbrushes?

Me too. Every time. Brilliant advert.