Favourite retro advert campaigns

[Floogal]

Usually when people discuss retro nostalgic adverts, they usually refer to individual ones. I want to know what other people's favourite advert campaigns were. Mine are:

1. The PG tips adverts with the chimpanzees - enough said 🤣🥰.
2. The Philadelphia adverts with those two shrill eccentric women.
3. The insurance company adverts with the blonde bespectacled boy/man called Norman. He has the ability to see into the future, hence his job 🤣
4. The adverts for shares of electricity companies after they got privatised. They all featured this monster family (like Munsters or Adams Family)

The Guinness advert with horses riding the waves - from 1999.

Irn Bru. Made in Scotland. From girders.

Renault Clio - the "Nicole?" "Papa?" series

Yellow Pages - J.R. Hartley, and the one with the young man who has to find a furniture restorer ASAP after damaging his parents' table during a party

Kia-Ora - I always associate the adverts with going to the cinema as they were always shown in the intermissions

Hamlet cigars. The photo booth one especially. In the days when tobacco advertising was everywhere. "Happiness....is a cigar called Hamlet"

Topic peanut in every bite

The chewit man with face distortion skills

New Alberto v05 will leave your hair shiny shiny shiny as an apple

Is she or isn't she harmony hairspray

Birds eye potatoes waffles, they're waffley versatile.
They go with beans, bangers, bacon, burgers, fish fingers, fish fingers (dk why they said that twice)
Eggs in, eggs on, gammon, steak, chops,
Grill em, bake em fry em eat em
Birdseye potato waffles
They're waffley versatile.

I am tragic for remembering every word. And no, my dad wasn't an 80s advert copywriter.

Do you remember the VW advert. When the driver was getting annoyed with a constant squeaky sound? His wife was asleep in the passenger seat. He stopped at a garage and the mechanic worked out it was his wife's squeaky earring, not the reliable Volkswagon.

The red car and the blue car had a race
All red wants to do is stuff his face
He eats everything he sees
from trucks to prickly trees
But smart old blue he took the milky way

I can't remember what the product was but featured a couple where the woman was dreaming of travelling the world, her drip of a boyfriend said 'we want to be together' and she just looked at the camera. 😀

I think it was insurance of some sort. “I want to enjoy the garden”.

Ah yes, yellow pages! My favourite was the 'burglary' one 🤣

Cinzano with Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins.

Very old - Esso Blue.

The Prudential ‘I want to be’ ones especially the one!

Cadbury's Turkish Delight.
Full of Eastern Promise.
Her hair in the little bunches. Wrong on every level now but I remember it.
And Whickers crisps.

@Poolstream was that Super lube? Where it flowed into the spanner? Do do do do do do do do do. Do do do. Do do do. Esso Super lube.

Charlie says…

@BobbyBiscuits I was singing this (for no reason) just the other day 😝

I also almost always chant R Whites when I open the fridge door. Habits never die!

NatWest 1991. It makes my heart ache with nostalgia. The busy workplace, the girl he liked, going out on the town. It’s not all work work work you know.

This!!!!

@merryandbrightdelight I always think of Howard when I see Mr Nolan (No no) on waffle the wonder dog

Tick followed tock

I liked the snail racing one and the hurling one where the opposite team turn into monsters.

i was singing Finger of Fudge to myself the other day
I also still say “it’s frothy man” in the American accent and hope someone else gets it

The singing in the rain VW advert with david elsewhere
Hello tosh gotta toshiba?
The water in majorca don't taste like what it oughta - heineken?

@ladymalfoy45 Is this the one you were thinking of?

I will never be able to look at Mr No No the same again 😂