Best Adverts Ever

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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

Cog.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo

Guinness ad - surfer (not the tick follows tock one, great as it was) with a belting saxaphone soundtrack- so cool…

I liked loads of the ones already mentioned such as Acrington Stanley and The Red car and the blue car. Guinness have done some great ones, such as the one that said “tick follows tock” and it had horses in sea.

I loved the Levi ads of the 90s

I think I bought all the singles for them

Does anyone remember the naughty boiler one? Goldilocks and the three hairs?

There used to be one for beer (possibly Guinness) that showed a pub scene. Everyone was moving normally from the waist up, but their legs were doing Irish dancing.

It was around the time that Riverdance was hugely popular. It didn’t half make me laugh.

The singing potatoes - ‘ We want to be …. Smiths crisps, we want to be Smiths crisps’

This is it!

Not as iconic but the spec savers one where the vet tries to resuscitate a fur hat thinking it’s a cat

What will it be for tea tonight?
Could it be salad or frozen peas?
Will it be mushrooms? Fried onion rings?
We’ll have to wait and see!

Hope it’s chips, it’s chips!
We all hope it’s chips, it’s chips…

Acchhhhrington Stanley, who are they?

God I loved that advert as a kid!

Felix cat food, tune you've been away by Rubin, proper Nsoul record.

Loving these

Smash Aliens version

Trio

Toblerone - triangular chocolate cartoon. I can’t find it on you tube. I remember them chasing the chocolate?

The John Smiths ads with Peter Kay.

Oh my god! Found it! I have big nostalgia filled grin

www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/e701ee05-ebdd-482c-8320-3a7a3263e717

Some real classics here, I’d totally forgotten the squirrel Carling one!

What about the milk ad with the red and white straws, watch out watch out there’s a Humphrey about!

If you see sid, tell him.

It's in the saaaaaaand.

The crusha milkshake ads were the bomb!

All the irn bru adverts - hilarious!

Haha "yoohoooo laddiiiessss, look at raoul bouncing up and down" 🤣🤣🤣

I came to say the toilet paper brand - name escapes me- and all the toilets are singing bum bum bum bum bummmmm!!!

The coffee one that was a series of ads following a couple's first meeting. Each subsequent took their flirtation a step further. It was a marvellous ad.

This one from 1964 for Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate:

I still think of it today whenever I make a hot chocolate drink!

The Lloyds Bank 'by your side advert from a few years ago. The full version to the song by Birdy with the horse galloping always got me.

The Weetabix adverts from the 90s were great. I remember laughing hysterically with my sister at the Robin Hood one and the driving instructor singing to I Will Survive.

The Golden Syrup one from around the same era 'stick it in a twist, stick it on your yoghurt stick it on your shopping list!!'

Guinness surfers!