Atomic kittle alike backing singers: "Thats just what she always wanted"
ahh what a great ad
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 8 January 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 8 January 2004 13:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 8 January 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago) link
― FOLLOW THE BEAR (blueski), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Rock Bastard, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
OK. "Shake'n'Vac". Wasn't she sexy?
And. "For mash get Smashed". Or was that Smash? Hmm. Munchies.
― Dorien Thomas (Dorien Thomas), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link
I FOUND IT!!! Oh Youtube I love you.
EGOISTE! (well, the french version anyway)
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 27 April 2006 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Thursday, 27 April 2006 07:11 (eighteen years ago) link
what is this advert please? i would like to see it.
― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 27 April 2006 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.useless-stuff.de/assets/multimedia/TV_Comercials_Meow_Mix_Cat_Food.mp3
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 27 April 2006 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 April 2006 08:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Put in a boiled egg AND IT COMES OUT SHELLED!
Blinded by science, I was.
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 27 April 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 27 April 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link
i could do with a D, I could do with a D(a 'D' is slang amongst my friends for a dump)
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link
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!
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link
there's also a tiny clip of doctor evil singing along.
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link
N.B. a prize for anyone who can fill in the missing jive Drifter ingredient...
― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Thinking about it, my original idea isn't much of a great way to sell washing powder.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link
I think that advert might have contributed to my thinking washing machines were complicated to use for years.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
chanel no. 5, share the fantasy with the pool.
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link
That ain't gonna help her cholesterol levels, y'all.
― JTS (JTS), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 22:06 (eighteen 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