[Closed] TV commercials that stick in your mind from 10 or more years ago

By 'catchy' do you mean leaving the viewer in need of lengthy and expensive therapy?

😯

I was thinking of more benign things, but keep 'em coming. I guess.

Canny bag'a Tudor.

Too orangey for crows.

Harry the Spider's coming out party.

All because the lady loves....

the list is endlesss....

By 'commercials' do you mean adverts?

endless.

For Mash Get Smash
The InverBraw Grouse beaters
Pea and Ham? From a chicken?
Are these things perfectly valid?

By 'commercials' do you mean adverts?

Nope. Commercials. They're way better.

The Leyland cars "S Plate Special"
It's the S plate special coming down the line the S plate special right on time!

Also The Fiat Strada

Pea and Ham? From a chicken?

Now, that's clever. 😀

J.R. Hartley

PG Tips. "Dad, do you know the piano's on my foot"?

Birds Eye potato waffles, they're waffly versatile

Carlos Fandango will forever be linked with wide wheels and Ford Anglias in my mind.

Hamlet cigars, that bloke from Rab C Nesbitt, dodgy stool in a photo booth & epic comb-over.

Two words:

Accrington Stanley?

And the other Knorr soup ad..

"That's devotion for you"

Even chewier than Barrow-in-Furness bus depot

Accrington Stanley, who are they? Iggsactly.

Papa...

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Neutrogena one. Wont link to it, but it had some complaints back in the day.

Budweiser, Wasssuuupppppp

Will it be chips or jacket spuds?
Will it be salad or frozen peas?
Will it be mushrooms?
Fried onion rings?
We'll have to wait and see.

Hope it's chips, it's chips
We ho-ope it's chips, it's chips

Was thinking of that exact ad!

Cadburys Fruit & Nut (everyone's a fruit and nut-case)
Martini
Mash (with robot aliens)

Mash (with robot aliens)

Smash

The best advert ever made....

Way down deep in the middle of the Congo...

John cleese schweppes ones. Citric bite!

Honda Cog 2003

Guinness surfer 1998

Toyota Hilux Bugga 1999 ( although I only saw it way after the event as was a NZ ad)

One for the Yuppies amongst us..

Shake and vac...

"if your carpet smells fresh, your room does too...."

Will it be chips or jacket spuds?
Will it be salad or frozen peas?
Will it be mushrooms?
Fried onion rings?
We'll have to wait and see.

Hope it's chips, it's chips
We ho-ope it's chips, it's chips

That is exactly what was going on in my head...

annoying one when i was a child...

tango madness

Texan - takes time a chewin............

I worked on that Irnbru ad - genuinely never thought it would make it to the screen 🙂

Csdburys Flake - enough said

Milk has got a lot of bottle

Macvities ginger nuts - "you'll love them"

VW as above

Gold Blend

Yorkie - for the cheek/middle finger gesture of it

"If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club"

Sssshhhhhh......

Ariston. And on. And on. And Ariston.
That's going to be in my head for days now.

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So strong they'll blow your socks off.

haven't seen that IrnBru ad macc - cracker!

Oh, and John Cleese (again) - Accurist..

Even better as he looked like my mate Harry.

Florida's orrid'a Than Whitley Bay
There's no McEwan's Best Scotch in the USA!

Had this one come in to my weird mind the other day, the same mind that couldn't remember who I'd talked to for access to a system at work a few days ago.

Is Ronald Regan still the Prime Minister ?

Buddddd.........

Weisss...........

Errrrr...........

And

I'm on a horse (Old Spice)

I actually bought some old spice on the basis that the advert made me laugh and I figured the only way to give actual feedback was to buy the stuff.

Adidas - belly's gonna get'cha

What you doin' Barry?

Finger of fudge
A hazelnut in every bite
Course you can Malcolm
R Whites lemonade drinker
Whitbread Trophy Bitter
Tetley Bittermen
Follow the bear

They don't make them like they used to

Beer at home means Davenports
That's the beer, lots of cheer
The finest hops and malt and yeast
Turn a snack into a feast
Why collect? We'll deliver
Now you know why folks all say
Beer at home means Davenports

(You can take a man out of Brum...)

Re-record not fade away

and

Hoots mon, there's juice loose aboot this hoose

Cadbury's Flake 80s..

I loved this one as a kid

Re-record not fade away

That's the first one that came to mind for me too. It was the main commercial on my copy of Star Wars (recorded from the TV), well that and Bostons Greatest Hits album.

Noodle Doodle went to town...

Pete Murphy doing the Maxell ad

"D'you want a flake in that, love?"

I don't know why, but always loved this one.

EDIT: I forgot Sue for Typhoo.

When I were a lad the Manikin series of adverts seemed to pop up when the whole family including my god fearin' grandma were seated round the telly...

probably not safe for work...

I liked the OXO family...

You have to realise this was before everyone even had the internet. Someone obviously saw the huge impact it would have in the advertising team, which is astonishing in its self.

PS could not work out how to embed it, the video option did not seem to work 🙁

This no longer made fizzy drink

'Red Rock Cider, its not red and there's no rocks in it'

You have to realise this was before everyone even had the internet. Someone obviously saw the huge impact it would have in the advertising team, which is astonishing in its self.

Not quite, that was 2002...

2002
As of January, 58.5% of the U.S. population (164.14 million people) uses the Internet. Worldwide there are 544.2 million users.
The death knell tolls for Napster after a bankruptcy judge ruled in September that German media giant Bertelsmann cannot buy the assets of troubled Napster Inc. The ruling prompts Konrad Hilbers, Napster CEO, to resign and lay off his staff.

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

Chop chop busy busy work work bang bang:

"IN THE SAND!"

"I'm.. I'm not helping very much, am I Dad?"

You have to realise this was before everyone even had the internet. Someone obviously saw the huge impact it would have in the advertising team, which is astonishing in its self.
Not quite, that was 2002...

2002
As of January, 58.5% of the U.S. population (164.14 million people) uses the Internet. Worldwide there are 544.2 million users.
The death knell tolls for Napster after a bankruptcy judge ruled in September that German media giant Bertelsmann cannot buy the assets of troubled Napster Inc. The ruling prompts Konrad Hilbers, Napster CEO, to resign and lay off his staff.

But no facebook, no mumsnet etc etc, it was still 544milion geeks at that point. It certainly had no where near the impact it has now.

Edited to add hardly anyone had broadband in 2002, that was the game changer for the internet !!!

Good compilation here, including one for Action Force. Bit of a time-warp.

R Whites - Secret Lemonade Drinker

VW Golf - the squeaky earring one

All Yellow Pages ads (train set, JR Hartley, you've got an ology, you're a scientist etc)

Boddingtons with Mel Sykes - Oi Tarquin, something about trollies....

Cadbury's Flake - overflowing bath

Castlemaine XXXX - I can see the pub from here....

Um Bongo Um Bongo

MilkyWay - Red car & the Blue car had a race - recently revived

Milk Tray - blokie diving off cliff

Tango - all the "you know when you've been tango'd" ads

Dime Bar.......Dime. Bar........Armadillo's!!

Audi (might be VW) where architect type bloke drives a long way back to an office and say he left his pen behind to be given back his worn out bic.

This one is okay. The imagery keeps returning to my mind, anyway...

Judderman

By 'catchy' do you mean leaving the viewer in need of lengthy and expensive therapy?

Disturbingly, I've just spoken along to that Kinder ad word for word. The things that stick in your hear...

Accrington Stanley?

I come from Accrington. If I'd had a pound for every time someone's said that line to me I could probably buy the place.

I'm on a horse (Old Spice)

Not a real advert but,

Cadbury's Flake 80s..

You seem to have linked to the wrong Flake advert.

haven't seen that IrnBru ad macc - cracker!

we did this one at the same time

one of my favourite set builds actually, and probably the most-seen thing I've ever done 🙂

VW Golf - the squeaky earring one

The squeaky sign and building in that belonged to Lindi, out in Spain. She had it moved from the side of the road to become the bar/pool room at her hostel in Sorbas.

I remember my geology field trips well.

I still need to apologise for spilling wine all over the pool table.

Hopefully this is ok. On the same vain as the flake ads.

@macc - outstanding!
shades of Billy Connolly there, too, nice touch !

McEwans Alive and Kicking with the guys rolling the ball down the hill at the tele.

Terry's chocolate orange Indiana Jones spoof.