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Down memory lane- favourite TV adverts
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pendragon_arther
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We've done the irritating ones now what about the good ones.
I used to think the 60s and 70s ads were best with the martians and their mashed potato; Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet always made me laugh (they couldn't get away with it now); Bod Todd and his Cadburys fruit and nut and Paul Hogan and his Fosters...
I used to think the 60s and 70s ads were best with the martians and their mashed potato; Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet always made me laugh (they couldn't get away with it now); Bod Todd and his Cadburys fruit and nut and Paul Hogan and his Fosters...
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I'm really struggling to see the PVW angle on this one...?0
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I liked all the Maureen Lipman BT adverts.
"You've got an ology ! "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK5-2fPyCjALiverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
What it may grow to in time, I know not what.
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I suspect it's a praise thread. My favourite has to be the Rolo's Elephant ad0
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I suspect it's a praise thread. My favourite has to be the Rolo's Elephant ad
That was one of mine. Along with the Carling Black label squirrel advert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY9GBl7UmVs
And the carlsberg complaints department ad
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=complaints+department+advert+carlsberg
The best though, was the much complained about paddy power blind footy ad. Its brilliant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEmA_QF30GI0 -
"You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"0
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Does anyone else remember an advert from the late 70s featuring Noddy and Big Ears?
I was at university at the time and only remember seeing it once. I can't remember what it was for (bad advert!) but I do remember that even as a student I was left speechless. Unfortunately, after 40 years I don't remember why it made such an impression on me but I do seem to recall it was borderline outrageous(!) in some way. (Probably "politically incorrect" in some way, which as this was the 70s would mean it would be completely unacceptable today).
I made a point of looking out for it again over the next week or so but it didn't re-appear, so I assumed it had been pulled.
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The advert banned for encouraging arson... Take my breath awaaay...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8GHiY6jmR8
Oh... And John Cleese in the Talking Pages ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxMydgZDT6Y
And the slightly sinister "Charlie Says" animations (as sampled by The Prodigy):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDu7yYHxZr0
And the Kia Ora ads that would probably be a bit too "politically incorrect" these days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln80 -
All the Guiness ads, especially the long one with that blond German actor and a planet.Member #14 of SKI-ers club
Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.
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