What's your favourite TV advert of all time?

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These are mine

They would've been the Kylie and Jason of the cleaning world!

Guinness - Surfer

Some advert songs/jingles live in my head for years - even decades - after they've stopped showing them; and I find myself randomly singing them! Like these:

Horrifying to think that there's a whole generation who don't know that they drink Un Bongo in The Congo.

And the Tango man too. I said to a teenager the other day about Trump looking like he's been Tango'd and they just looked at me blankly. 😭

I love the cosy/creepiness of the cravendale Barry biscuit boy ads. His parents just baked him a new head when it fell off.
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Parody of the Sainsbury’s Xmas day truce ad

I loved that Guinness ad; knew a cameraman who worked on it.

Otherwise, probably Kia Ora or Um Bongo. The jumping rocks in the latter and the random choice of crows as threats to orange juice in the former. Ribena should also get a mention for the super cute 'Woo!' at the end 😁

On the darker side I was always fairly mesmerised, by dint of morbid curiosity, to the 'Natural Born Smoker' and AIDS adverts.

The British airways ad with the face. All those people marching across the sand making up the different parts of the face.

It's got to be "The red car and the blue car had a race......".......Milky Way......also quite like the Arla advert where the farmer sings "everybody's free" really out of tune!

@AtomHeartMotherOfGod for me my rabbit hole of morbid curiosity was Apaches, and those Protect and Survive adverts (which were never actually shown on tv but you can find them on youtube)

Given the reaction to the new Jaguar ad, I'd love to see the reaction this 1993 ad would get nowadays.

Nick Park's Creature Comforts animations for (I think?) British Gas' .....'its easily turn on and offable'

Ohhh this is the one that first came to mind for me. I loved it and it was when I discovered Velvet Underground (late to the party as always). Great ad.

And a lot of mice? :)

Rutger Hauer advert (in the 80's) Guinness advert where you just see him, holding a fancy cocktail, then he says ''Don't worry, it's only a nightmare''

At no point in the advert is Guinness even mentioned. They'd done such a good job of associating Rutger with Guinness, they didn't need to !

That's what I call a fantastic ad campaign !

Always loved 'Ive wasted away! I can't feel my legs Sal...'
super noodles

The smash one with the aliens !
( 70s)
It was funny and the rat line ' for mash get smash ' was genius.

Tag not rat

@Appalonia

I still like this old AA advert from the 80s.

I was also fond of the we buy any car ad - an absolute banger:

Me too. He was a fantastic dancer.

I loved that advert!

The "Accrington Stanley - 'oo are they?" advert for milk in the 80s. I won't share the link as the child actor is a convicted murderer now.