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Best Adverts Ever

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AlternativelyWired · 24/07/2022 16:09

Inspired by the thread about the worst ones. I often lament the loss of the great adverts of the late 80s and 90s. I loved the sunkist one, the Wrigley's spearmint one, hamlet, the one where Henry looks a big girls blouse in portia's prize for the cat food add. BT ology add with Maureen Lipman, the fly fishing book one and the yellow pages house trashed at a party one. Budweiser ones with the whatever creatures they were. I'm ill with a bad infection so please cheer me up with your memories of great adds.

Insignia
Fruit and nut
Cherry coke
Milky Way

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ImAvingOops · 24/07/2022 18:12

Triiioh, triiiiio, I wanna trio and I want one now!

milk - Accrington Stanley. Who are they?

The coke and Pepsi ones - 80s glamour at its best.

Impulse.

MinglingFlamingo · 24/07/2022 18:13

The Skoda Fabia one where they built the car out of cake

ImAvingOops · 24/07/2022 18:15

Heineken - the water in Majorca

LaQuern · 24/07/2022 18:18

The Skoda one with the cake car (and the jelly brake light), and Barclay are where he was doing contactless payments on a water slide

Ffsmakeitstop · 24/07/2022 18:26

Diet coke break. That's probably politically incorrect.

DeepdaleDuck · 24/07/2022 18:44

Back to the 1970s - Cresta, It's Frothy Man.

denbigh · 24/07/2022 21:33

TRIO TREÈEOOOO!

Berocca the guy on the treadmill..I'm so tall I'm so tall..

Smash -Alien addition
Diet coke break..

kierenthecommunity · 24/07/2022 21:40

‘Daddy or chips’ in a Welsh accent 😂

Nomad98 · 24/07/2022 21:41

Howard from the Halifax before they turned him into an animation

bilbodog · 24/07/2022 21:45

Back in the 70s - benson and hedges ads and martini ones…….

Bagzzz · 24/07/2022 21:50

Hamlet ads
shake and vac

BeigeAgainstTheMachine · 24/07/2022 21:56
Selkiesarereal · 24/07/2022 21:56

The gold blend, will they/ won’t they!

MustBeThursday · 24/07/2022 22:01

Many that have already been mentioned, plus:

The national lottery, smile and a ribbon song one where the creature puts smiles on everyone, circa 2005-6

Micro chips

Toys r us, with the car driving at night

A Cadbury one, I can't remember which chocolate but there was a man trying to clean automatic doors that kept opening.

comfortablyfrumpy · 24/07/2022 22:04

Fun fact: The R White's Secret Lemonade Drinker was Elvis Costello's Dad!

whenwillthemadnessend · 24/07/2022 22:07

Judderman for best idea and scares

Monty the penguin for ❤️

Yellow pages.any variety's nostalgia

Ima little fruit and nutcase for ear worm

mathanxiety · 24/07/2022 22:10

There was an ad for Skittles on American TV many years ago featuring a bunny singing opera - bonkers and v funny.

whenwillthemadnessend · 24/07/2022 22:10

yes!!!! the squirrel one was fab.

mnahmnah · 24/07/2022 22:21

Full moon… half moon… total eclipse!

VeniVidiWeeWee · 24/07/2022 22:24

Nope. You're all wrong.

First, the AIDS gravestones educational ad.

Or, for a manufacturer, this:

www.google.com/search?q=honda+advert+impossible+dream&oq=honda+advert+&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0i512j46i512j0i512l9.8395j0j8&client=tablet-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Itdoesntreallymatter · 24/07/2022 22:29

The widget one. Guiness or john smiths?

Fruit and Fibre with Ross Kemp.

That deodorant one where there were naked people pretending to be trees.

These are all really old though.

cheekychatta · 24/07/2022 22:29

For mash get smash - the aliens laughing at us lGrin

Scautish · 24/07/2022 22:30

Photographer at zoo waiting for Pandas to emerge (take a break - KitKat)

MinglingFlamingo · 24/07/2022 22:32

Selkiesarereal · 24/07/2022 21:56

The gold blend, will they/ won’t they!

That was an absolute classic. The way it was a slow burning story

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