Iconic '80s adverts

Were the 1980s the gold age for TV ads?

Nick Kamen stripping off in a laundrette famously increased Levi's sales by hundreds of percent

The Lurpak ads (the trombone playing little butter figure) were awesome and made that brand

Nescafe Gold Blend invented a whole new genre 

what else?

 

yes, both good nominations

what about the other iconic yellow pages ad with the teenage boy who had the party whilst his parents away and needs a French polisher?

It was very weird

In the case of levi's jeans and wrigleys gum they were so significant culturally that people went to the cinema to see the latest ads. And the levi's ads produced a whole album of number one singles that had featured in their commercials.

The Nescafe Gold Blend soap opera 

The VW Golf GTi with the woman leaving the flat in the night before’s fur coat, throwing her engagement ring down the gutter, chucking her heels and getting into the car...if only everything was as reliable as a Volkswagen

Fosters ads with Paul Hogan - morris men and fox hunting (which one’s Morris/ it’ll wont take em long to catch that pack of dingoes) 

Heineken - the water in majorca

 

Geoff Roe06 May 21 17:48

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Cadbury's Flake.

The fruity lady performing fellatio on a chocolate bar wouldn't be allowed nowadays. 

 

Yeah and the sechsy Cadburys Caramel cartoon bunny was voiced by Miriam Margolyes. Phwoooar!

you do the shake and vac to get the freshness back.

 

what will it be for tea tonight, I hope its chips it's chips

 

opal fruits ( my kids call them that still) made to make your mouth water

Wrigleys sharing chewing gum on the bus. 

Anchor Butter and the singing cows

Phone ringing in deserted Carlsberg complaints room and it’s a wrong number 

 

The City w**ker Audi advert though that may have been early 90s.

Think it was early 90s. I searched for that one for ages.  Sadly, an inspiration to a misguided youth (me) to work in the City.

The City w**ker Audi advert had a counterintuitive effect. It moved a lot of w**kers out of BMWs to Audis. Audi was not a tosser marque hitherto but there were loads of Beemer tossers who saw that advert and thought “I need an Audi so people don’t think I’m like that”. 
 

Renault did an even more eighties ad about a chap starting his own business and regretting having to give up his Renault 21 company car (with remote control lock).