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?
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i liked the one for hamlet cigars
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and the yellow pages ads . jr hartley
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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?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKb3J9mctlo
actually 1991 apparently
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The Flake ad
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Cinzano with Joan Collins and Leonard rossiter
Those Volkswagen adverts
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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.
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/501-Original-Songs-Levis-Commercials/dp/B0037P…
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Papa...
Nicole....
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Sorry there is no way anyone went to the cinema to see an advert fffs
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Bear in mind there were only 3 then 4 tv channels
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Yeah, still, ooh shall we see whats on at the cinema? Ooh who cares, they have adverts.
FFS
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I think these were 80s:
Mr Soft Trebor
and
The Red Car and the Blue Car had a Race
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87 and 89 respectively.. booom
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they peel them with their steely knives...
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renault was 90s I think?
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Time For a Quick Exit; Time For a Cool Sharp Harp?
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Colgate Blue minty gel - some kids sing along to 'Baggy Trousers' tune by Madness but change the words to Colgate Blue Minty Gel. That was cool.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8q_u3MCkss
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This is the age of the train
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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
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I nearly got it bang on
https://youtu.be/1-LUaPuia7k
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I never particularly liked the Hofmeister follow the bear ads but maybe I was too young to understand them
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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
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Cadbury's Flake.
The fruity lady performing fellatio on a chocolate bar wouldn't be allowed nowadays.
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wasn't nicole 90s rog.
the carling black lable ads were funny
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St-St-Studio Line (hair mousse). Lots of jazzy colours and the inevitable saxophone.
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Anyone who watched Channel 4 News in the late 80's will remember this totally brilliant advert - perhaps based on it I visited Canada a few years later...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxUuThNU0Wk
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And a later one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnJoYqdvMzI
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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!
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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
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The radioactive glowing kid in Ready Brek. Or was that 70s?
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Re record don’t fade away
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That ad about turning all your appliances off at the socket before going to bed
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That’s the vw one I meant muttley!
oooooo bidyform bodyform for youuuuuuuuhh
the roller skating tampax one
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McCain oven chips to the tune of Que Sera.
Will it be mushrooms, fried onion rings....? You'll have to wait and see!
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Little did we know that we didn't need to worry about how many times we could re-record on videotape because the whole format would soon be obsolete anyway.
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Hope it's chips it's chips.
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the frosties tiger
so many great ads
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WFLA
Wearing farcical lino attire
Winged fraulein lands askew
Wives for lovelorn androids
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TRRRRIIIIIIOOOOOO
TRRRRIIIIIIOOOOOO
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The City w**ker Audi advert though that may have been early 90s.
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Renault’s Nicole
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Midland Bank's accounts for their Vector and Orchard accounts, with Gary Waldhorn as a bank manager. About as eighties as you can get, right down to the logos for the accounts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FNftTb6EOA
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Oh.
Ullo Tosh, gotta Toshiba?
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https://youtu.be/ut6D-1akP_w
https://youtu.be/iN7naLLeB0A
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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
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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.
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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).
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I’m a secret lemonade drinker.
Charlie says...
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Saatchi and AIDS and tombstones
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Accrington Stanley - who are they?
Exactly!
For milk
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British Rail: https://t.co/OU9xzRo310?amp=1
[h/t: Andrew Gilligan]
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It's too orangey for crows. It's just for me and my dog.
Now fvck off. I hate nostalgia and I hate advertising.
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Nicole….. oh man
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Racist Kia Ora adverts
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXfuZ_Sk_E
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amazing that was as late as ‘87 - has the feel of the original Tom and Jerry cartoons.
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