MNHQ here - wanting to know: which TV Christmas ads can you remember?

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Hello all

Apologies for the Christmas-related question but we're doing a bit of work on TV Christmas ads (for stores, brands or products) and we want to come up with a good wide-ranging list of all the Christmas ads we can collectively remember.

It would be great if you could post here to list any that occur to you - from recent years or from further back. If you can add the name of the product/shop/brand and any identifying details or YouTube links that would be great.

Thanks
MNHQ

Boy and present John lewis

Boots last year

Boots advert from last year - love this
John Lewis 2011 (little boy who can't wait to give his parents his present)

Overall is the Coke lorry advert. It really feels like Christmas is starting with this advert.

Interestingly I can only remember the Xmas adverts since I had kids (2010) before then I didn't really take notice of them. The JL 2011 one made me cry every time. It just captured the spirit of giving and a little boys excitement. When I first saw it I thought it would be him counting down to Xmas for his presents.

Having scrolled through pps so I don't cheat, I remember the John Lewis ones: boy with the severed head in a box, bear and the hare and the mail order penguin bride. Sainsburys WWI one in questionable taste. Coca Cola which is always the same. Rather a nice hide and seek "I found it" one last year which might have been Debenhams. And M&S with the fairies. And a dodgy one implying that if you didn't bankrupt yourself buying stuff on credit you weren't a good mum who didn't love your kids - might have been Argos? And the soppy Tesco one last year where Gran might or might not have died.

I remember the M&S one where the X factor finalists were singing twinkle twinkle little star.
John Lewis ones
Coca Cola with the convoy of trucks and the Santa on the back that winked.
Thomas cook adverts with the catch phrase "get away". There was one with two snowmen talking then one vanishes to the holiday. Even older than that one there was one with some children in a tree house writing a list of what they wanted from their holiday.

Woolworths, 1981."Crack down prices, have a cracking Christmas" etc. It featured Tony Blackburn's grinning mug.

My favourite one is actually the Christmas/New Year commercial for Guinness at the end of 1981/beginning of 1982.

They had the Guinness Toucan come out of Big Ben at midnight and say "Happy Nineteen-Eighty-Toucan"

I was six years old at the time and very impressed.

Ten years later, in 1992, I was waiting for "Happy Nineteen-Ninety-Toucan" but they didn't do it. They didn't do it in 2002 either, and it would have made no sense in 2012, but it's only seven years to 2022 and Guinness, I have high hopes for you. Don't let me down.

answering before reading other posts which might memory jog.

John Lewis - the boy who couldn't wait to give his parents their
John Lewis - the snowmen and gloves/scarves
A horrible Asda one with a put upon wife doing all the shopping.
Boots - lots of , electric hair straighteners, smellies etc
Marks and Spencer Christmas food ad
Famous Grouse - the bird
Lots of DFS type "get it in time for Christmas" ads - but not really Christmas ads. Loads of perfume ads - but not really Christmas ads - same for booze ads.

Now I'm going to look and see what others remember.

Oh just remembered quality street - hello Mr Johnson! From the 90s and The one to the tune of its the most wonderful time of the year

I can't remember any specific ones or what happened in them. We weren't allowed ITV growing up though.

I only remember some of the vomit inducing John Lewis ones from the last few years. There was a penguin, and one where we thought the child had a human head wrapped in a box. Ellie Goulding and Lily Allen sang some of the tunes and there were merchandise ranges for the ads.

Without reading the feed, I remember:
John Lewis, The Bear and The Hare
Coca Cola, polar bears and lit up trucks
Boots, some ASBO looking kid delivers gifts in secret

Looked at others' posts and yes of course I remember the Sainsbury's WW1 one - and the hibernating bear and the one with all the seats in the house used at the dinner table. Also the music - "here come the girls" was the music for the boots ad.

Admit I don't watch a lot of ads - I use the time to nip out and make tea. Also I particularly hate the Christmas ads as the over consumption and the huge pressure to have new sofas, masses of food, to buy stuff you don't want and stuff for others who don't want it either really gets to me. (We have very low key Christmasses here!)

Christmas ads go on way too long. Once you have seen it that's job done really, but when you have to see it again and again it just gets .
Especially when it's the supermarkets/John Lewis/M&S trying to be clever and failing.

Woolworths Christmas 1981 Check out the size of the Quality Street tin.

Loved the John Lewis Snowman ad.

Not strictly a Christmas ad but it used to get shown in the runup to Christmas in the 80s Terrys Chocolate Orange.

John Lewis 2013 (hare and bear) and 2014 (kid with his penguin). Watched them both today. Obviously cried
M&S 2014 (with fairies) - still trying to remember the song from it.
And obviously famous Coca-Cola.

When I first heard music in freeview box advert, I wasn't looking at the screen, so actually thought "Ooh, is it a new JL Christmas advert?"
Was mildly disappointed.

Old Spice surfer advert, Brut 33 aftershave advert

M&S, it is not just food, it is over priced poncey M&S food which makes you want to leave the country and explore the world (sorry M&S - love your food, can't stand that ad).

Love that Guinness one, Whatcha! "...we still dream of a white one"
Might have been mentioned already, but that Budweiser one with horses pulling a sleigh? Old-fashioned and sweet.

Loved the Yellow Pages ad where the kid stands on a Yellow Pages to be able to kiss under the mistletoe

John Lewis, little boy giving presents and the snowmen one in particular
Morrisons - ant and dec last year singing it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Boots - with the working nurse
Coca Cola - holidays are coming!

Lol at the nineteen eighty toucan!

I always love the JL ads, apart from the bear and the Hare one which was a bit rubbish.

Hated hated hated that asda ad with the martyr mum, and morrisons had a similar one, "we wouldn't have it any other way" ffs

I didn't shop at either for a year until the next year's Xmas ads redeemed themselves

The Sainsbury's one with the trenches on Christmas day, and the football game, before he put the chocolate in the other man's coat is a memorable one.

I think it was a Quality Street advert that had Magic Moments playing and a little boy giving the school lollipop lady a box of chocolates. I like that one.

The best John Lewis one was the snowman one, then the Bear and the Hare one was quite sweet, but the others haven't been as good.

I hate the bloody coca-cola lorries and the crappy holidays are coming song. Nothing says Christmas like a convoy of lorries and exhaust fumes does it? I did like the polar bears they used to have though.

The Mastercard one at Heathrow where everyone was meeting their relatives at arrivals. I was pregnant the year it was on TV and I'd sob every time it came on.

This is quite good

Mastercard