TV Adverts You Miss

"It was my grandfather you know, Henry, who had the idea of planting an avenue of large-leaved limes. He never stood in the shade, he never enjoyed the vista, but HE HAD THE VISION!"

We're POSITIVE! (positive! positive! positive!)

OK, no one outside a tiny portion of the Hudson Valley will know what I'm on about but still. Hanle y, do you remember those?

"touch and fresh" (jungle style song version)

http://www.geocities.com/chenrich/Commercials/Commercials1.html

I also miss the NY Theatre ads featuring real people outside of the shows. In really heavy Queens accent: "I've seen in *two* times! My husband works in the area." I guess you'd have to see it, hopefully someone here has.

"Absolutley dreadful"

Atomic kittle alike backing singers: "Thats just what she always wanted"

ahh what a great ad

In a related tale, my father bought my mother a fur coat from a store I belive was called Fred the Furrier. He too ran ads on New York tv, but they weren't as good as the one I mentioned above. But Fred himself called my mother to see if she would like to appear in one of his commercials; she declined.

And I'm with Phil; that Egoiste ad was wild.

OK. "Shake'n'Vac". Wasn't she sexy?

And. "For mash get Smashed". Or was that Smash? Hmm. Munchies.

I FOUND IT!!! Oh Youtube I love you.

EGOISTE! (well, the french version anyway)

what is this advert please? i would like to see it.

http://www.useless-stuff.de/assets/multimedia/TV_Comercials_Meow_Mix_Cat_Food.mp3

Put in a boiled egg AND IT COMES OUT SHELLED!

Blinded by science, I was.

i could do with a D, I could do with a D
(a 'D' is slang amongst my friends for a dump)

I like fish and I like liver / I like chicken in my dinner
....?..?
Now you know / a cat's miaow / means Miaow Mix, Mioaw Mix, Miaow Mix, MIAOW!

First bite into real milk chocolate, 5-4-3-2-1, then crunch into light crispy rice, 5-4-3-2-1, chew chew chew a caramel topping, 5-4-3- 2-1..... If you can complete this then you might be able to identify the fifth element. I can't.

What happened next was, all the music dropped out, and a man with an elvis-impersonator voice said "uh-huh, wafer and fondant too!". Thus have I solved the age old mystery of what was in a 5-4-3-2-1! I deserve a prize.

The ad I'd like to see again is that fruit and fibre one with the song that had the same intro as Robbie Williams' Rock DJ.

there's also a tiny clip of doctor evil singing along.

and the solvite glue ones where some poor guy was always glued to a large board and then helicoptered around to show how strong it was. which has recently been ripped off on another advert.

I'll tell you what I'm not going to miss - those Jetta ads where the people are cruising along all 'blah blah blah' 'oh right blah blah blah blah' SCREEEEEEECH BANG!

I really don't need that potential heartattack thank you volkswagon.

N.B. a prize for anyone who can fill in the missing jive Drifter ingredient...

Yes, I was never sure was wrong with and later great with "the white one". I think it was a kids-and-their-silly-little-fashions thing.

My favourite ad of all time was the Kit Kat one with the rollerskating pandas. I used to be sick from laughing at it.

My life is very full.

Thinking about it, my original idea isn't much of a great way to sell washing powder.

I think that advert might have contributed to my thinking washing machines were complicated to use for years.

other classics: the "hey! Smarties! chocolate! Smarties!" one from the 23/6/1967 Rediffusion junction I once referred to on here, the "Buy Some for Lulu" Smarties one from the 50s (directed by Richard Lester, fact fans), the "Boy In A Man's World" Meccano ad (1967 again), the "Day Trip To Bangor" ones for Anchor Butter (which I couldn't resist putting on a DVD for someone just after "Five Go Mad In Dorset / On Mescalin"), the almost surreal cusp-of-history one for a *village shop* (maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I don't think so) shown on Westward Television in the early 1960s, anything at all voiced over by Tommy Vance or Patrick Allen, the cheapo regional ads that filled time on Channel 4 during the Equity dispute (especially the Anglia ones, naturally) ...

I collect old ads, in case you were wondering.

I'll miss that Punky Chips Ahoy, Oi oi oi! one when it's gone

chanel no. 5, share the fantasy with the pool.

That ain't gonna help her cholesterol levels, y'all.

This has been bugging me for AGES:
Do any UK ILXors remember an ad from the late 80s/early 90s which had a guy out on a morning run, drinking something from a bottle (maybe milk?) and going "ahh... shattered!"

I've no idea what it was for, I thought it might have music similar to "Wonderful Life" by Black or the Natwest bank ads of the 80s (Crocketts theme, according to Youtube).

Aaargh, you've just put this into my head now as well, but i don't remember anything other than what you've just described.

Bump in case Britishers can help. I'm beginning to think maybe I'm conflating several ads here, though...

just asked other half, he says maybe schweppes?

In my office, we've recently adopted, as a non sequitur way of changing topics during a conversation, "Well, my broker is E.F. Hutton, and E.F. Hutton says . . ." Do people much younger than, say, 30 even remember those commercials anymore?

Can't find a schweppes one that seems like it, although it could be out there somewhere. There's a Lucozade one with Daly Thompson running, but on a proper race track (and with Iron Maiden playing!)

I'm under 30, don't know that EF Hutton one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX7ZEotoFh0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PwP1EjaBik&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zblGk69is64

Ere, what's your game? Yeahhhhh!!
Music is by the same composer as the Natwest ones and sounds almost the same.

don't get it

Cannot hear "Into the Valley" w/o hearing the Maxell ad words. Len see a sty / barman, a soda - ahoy! ahoy!

I wonder whatever happened to Declan Swan and his mum? He got involved in a playground accident circa 2001 and Claims Direct got his mum £10,000 compensation - but then what? Nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCcQXlfLr0k&feature=share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJsju00-rgM

http://youtu.be/NopAq6tUHVk

aw man i still sing that one in my head, my nan used to buy Nimble

http://youtu.be/sG_e9fh7388