― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
I'll miss that Punky Chips Ahoy, Oi oi oi! one when it's gone
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― john is gay, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
chanel no. 5, share the fantasy with the pool.
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
That ain't gonna help her cholesterol levels, y'all.
― JTS (JTS), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
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).
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 7 February 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Sunday, 7 February 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Bump in case Britishers can help. I'm beginning to think maybe I'm conflating several ads here, though...
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
just asked other half, he says maybe schweppes?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― El Poopo Loco (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX7ZEotoFh0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PwP1EjaBik&feature=related
― El Poopo Loco (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 15 April 2010 07:29 (fourteen years ago) link
don't get it
― conrad, Thursday, 15 April 2010 07:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Cannot hear "Into the Valley" w/o hearing the Maxell ad words. Len see a sty / barman, a soda - ahoy! ahoy!
― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 15 April 2010 08:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCcQXlfLr0k&feature=share
― NI, Sunday, 20 April 2014 01:47 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJsju00-rgM
― waterflow ductile laser beam (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 April 2014 12:40 (ten years ago) link
http://youtu.be/NopAq6tUHVk
― mohel hell (Bob Six), Sunday, 20 April 2014 12:48 (ten years ago) link
aw man i still sing that one in my head, my nan used to buy Nimble
― waterflow ductile laser beam (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 April 2014 12:49 (ten years ago) link
http://youtu.be/sG_e9fh7388
― soref, Sunday, 20 April 2014 13:02 (ten years ago) link