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!

Just googled the ikea cats one. Love it.

Gravestone 🪦 HIV AIDS.

it was Prudential: “whatever you want to be in life, you want to be with Prudential”

(sure I’ve been beaten to it with this!)

"Will it be chips or jacket spuds, will it be salad or freozen peas"

"I am the spirit of dark and lonely water"

"A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat"

Yeah I remember that. And how many of us have nearly done the same got distracted and suddenly seen something in front of us?

Super chilling.

The American Express card says more about you than cash ever can. I recommend you apply now.

Does anyone remember that Heinz tomato ketchup ad from the 70s where the ketchup bottle is kind of bobbing across a tapestry which I believe is the words to the ad's music.....or am I making it up??!!

What was the advert for where the men are wolf whistling a blonde in the passenger seat of a car and when she turns around it’s actually an Afghan Hound. I only ever saw it once and nearly spat my drink out laughing. It would have been early 00’s time- 2001 maybe?

The old Peperami adverts, the posh one still makes me laugh.

Some of the kitkat ads were great, the skating pandas, and the one where Satan comes up in a lift and god (or an angel) comes down in a lift, and they meet and have a kit kat together. Have a break, have a kitkat.

Dark & Lonely Water is an absolute classic. Voiced by Donald Pleasance, no less!

"Pea and ham? Fae a chicken?"

The super noodles ones with two blokes discussing women (saying they were 'disgusting for leaving stubble in the bath'), licking the plates and then putting them back in the cupboard.

Irn bru - Phenomenal! - and the best Christmas advert - " he nicked my irn bru and let go of my hand"

To this day, that is the only advert that has ever had a visceral affect on me. I saw it once, and once only because I would turn the tv off if it came on again.
Absolutely shocking. It was for the NSPCC

Definitely Spirit of Dark and Lonely water, as someone has said.
There was also one about not flying kites near electricity pylons, and near constant reminders of what to do if our chip pans set on fire…
others I remember..
Everyone’s a fruit and nut case
my mate Marmite (with the soldiers)
”Woah, Bodyform”
Acting on impulse
Limara
Charlie Girl perfume
Denim aftershave “for the man who doesn’t have to try..too hard”
Shackleton’s Original High Seat Chairs

There’s a Humphrey about

Cinzano

There was a wallpaper advert featuring Noddy and Big Ears who end up having a fight and both get arrested! I found it hilarious but there must have been complaints as it disappeared from TV pretty quickly and when ever I mention it, no one seems to remember it.

The one where the man tries to get his dog to say "sausages" and the dog keeps saying "walls" - the man ends up cutting his hedge in half by mistake.

The little girl 30 vs 40 ad still gives me the shivers.

BT - working my way back to you - a reverse video of an engineer at the exchange box.

Slightly unrelated, but I remember watching Groundhog Day on TV once, and in the first ad break, every advert was repeated! It made me giggle.

Oh and the Aldi ‘I don’t like tea. I like gin’

Some kind of bank, I think

The Guiness ad with a great instrumental where the bloke is doing silly dances while he's waiting for his drink to settle.

I think this was a cinema ad only for a vodka brand where a waiter carried the bottle through a cruise ship and everything seen through the bottle was distorted and sinister.

I think these were Australian but there were two anti drink driving ads which were horribly upsetting. The first had a young girl sitting in the back seat while the AA Milne poem was read, "But now I am six, I'm as clever as clever, so I think I'll stay six now, for ever and ever." 😪
The other had a man haunted by the image of the twisted corpse of the child he'd run over. Horrible but hopefully effective.

“Do I owe you?? You don’t owe me. Coz I pay my bills directly” it was the advert for direct debits, and I was shocked recently when it popped into my head and I realised I remember when direct debit payments were a new thing 🫠

Daddy or chips?
Secret Lemonade Drinker
Triiiiiiooooo
Yorkie - it’s not for girls
Cadbury’s drumming gorilla
For mash get smash
The EE critics (were they just in the cinema?)
Go Compare
Compare the meerkat
The Guinness one with the waves
A Yorkshire Tea one DD’s ballet teacher was in!
Shake n Vac
It’s in the saaaand (The AA)

Am I showing my age yet????🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So many memories! I bet these brands are well happy that they’re remembered lol.

Cinzano…. Cha cha, cha cha cha cha cha no…

Sharp Harp - Do you want a Lionel Blair cut, like mine? Lionel Blair doesn’t have his hair cut like yours. He does if he comes here… Time for a sharp exit, time for a cool sharp harp.

Woodpecker cider - What a refreshing change!

Was it Fosters or Castlemein 4X that had the bloke sticking the tree, his friend shouting he’s coming as he’d been shouting his name, he gets there and the bloke in the tree just says “I can see the pub from here”

Shreddies - Freddie, your Shreddie are ready!

Sunpat peanut butter - Sun packed, full packed out son Pat (I’ll kill him with I get my hands on him).

Coco pops - “my name’s Coco, I’m a monkey like you. I live in the jungle not in a zoo”

I can hear the In the saaaaaand!

The Green Cross Code ads with Dave Prowse.

He was born and grew up in the next street to my primary school (although he was never a pupil, attending another in the area). He came to school assembly on a couple of occasions to do road safety talks.

The Leonard Rossiter/Joan Collins Cinzarno ones "getting your head down, good idea"

Peter Kay - John Smiths "Time to go into a home Mum. But I'm only 55"

Watch out, watch out, there's a Humphrey about.