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 cartoon boy advert years ago, then at the end it was a real child unconscious on the floor with the caption saying "real children don't bounce back" it was shockingly upsetting. Everyone was talking about it 💔

The Bisto ads with Lynda Bellingham - they were OXO.

Accrington Stanley?

Who are they?

Lobster singing Does you does or does you don't take access?

Timotei adverts always seemed to be in a forrest stream.

The nescafé series with a vet that was a love story.

The McCain's Beach where the fries work out to become healthier chips.

Mr Soft.

Papa, Nicole!

You can with a Nissan.

I'd rather have a bowl of coco pops.

Carling black label - squirrel doing some sort of squirrel training to mission impossible theme.

Hovis.

Aaah bisto.

The caramel bunny.

The Duracell bunny.

The Lurpak man - Dudley? Little claymation figure usually getting into mischief.

Milk tray - all because the lady loves.

Ze ambassador is spoiling us wiz zees forerro roché. (Sp?)

I feel like chicken tonight.

Weetabix Robin hood.

Used to love the Martini adverts, Christie Brinkley was a roller skating waitress in one of the ads.

Nimble bread in the air balloon

Guinness ad with the man dancing around

The couple in the advert for Cointreau, her very cool English and he was French

Dreamies, the French chap who borrows his neighbours cats to impress his cat loving lady friend

Exactly.

Glam metal :

cetrain mastercard ones with the intercom omg ?

P p p pick up a penguin a lovely penguin if you feel a bit p p peckish p p p p pick up a penguin. Penguin bars. Adverts had real penguins in.

Kia ora. It’s too orangey for crows it’s just for me and my dog, I’ll be your dog, woof woof woof woof woof I’ll be your dog.

Nick Kamen and his Levi’s and any of the 80’s and early 00’s Levi ads
Budweisers Lizard
Budweisers whatsapppppppo
Kiora it’s too orangey for crows
Clifford Listerines the dragon

Cadburys flake the crumbliest flakiest milk chocolate in the world. Girl in gipsy caravan seductively eating a flake as caravan goes away.

Bloody loved Nick Kamen 🥰

New one. Smyths toys. Where do we go where do we go we really want to go to smyths toys superstores.

'That's it, mind the bannisters, son'
'Cooee, Mr Shifter, light refreshments'
'Thank you most kindly, Madam'
'Dad, do you know the piano's on my foot?'
'You hum it son, I'll play it'

The crashing waves 🌊
the old surfer 🏄‍♂️
the white horses 🐴
the music 🎶
but what was it advertising ????
Guinness I think ????

Carling Black Label bouncing bomb advert, they also did a Shakespeare one, it was two comedians.

The Nissan advert take off of TV programme The Professionals

Baileys advert of the cat to the music of Offenbach Tales from Hoffman

The Ikea advert with loads of cats

The John Smith's ad where a 2 groups of men are waiting at a bar. 1st group says, "We've been in the Artic for the last 6 months, freezing cold and every night spent dreaming of a JS pint"

2nd group "We've been down south"
1st group "After you, lads!"

And of course, the aliens Smash ad "And then they smash them all to bits!"

We annoy our children because if one of us says Bird's-eye potato waffles, the other has to say they're waffly versatile.

They did at one point know all the words to the red car and the blue car and they love Accrington Stanley - who are they?

The resurgence of adverts is annoying because there doesn't feel like there's any skill in it. We saw a red bull advert where a cartoon dog was wandering round, something happened and the old "red bull gives you wings" was played. My boys were so puzzled because there were no wings. They'd forgotten the ad by the end of the ad break. I've not seen one I'll be discussing 35 years later.

The milkybar kid adverts have stuck with me, less because I liked them than that it was a cultural thing. Who's the next milky bar kid going to be. Also, the song was catchy.

The Olivia Coleman one - Bev, Kev???

British Gas - don’t switch on the light

i remember an awful one about child abuse where it was a cartoon and meant to be funny and then it switches to a little child who had wet themselves.

The seatbelt one which was awful

pg tips chimps

Kiora - a boogie boogie

umbongo nmbongo they drink it on the congo

These Harvey adverts are the best by Thinkbox

Oh and “does you does or does you don’t take access?”

That terrified me - something like "Julie knew the person who killed her"

Genius adverts these are.

Also I loved The Cog advert from Honda. I’m sure that won an award.

Shake N Vac.

The actress was really ill on the day of filming but "the show must go on"