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Adverts from your childhood...

...that have stuck with you.

 

the Coco Cola ad where they all file into a big room and sing in Technicolor about how great this fizzy drink is and it brings people together.

"and we all will be there, Coca Cola to share...."

I still pretty much know the whole thing off by heart, even now!

Actually, I remember a ton more.

 

What can you remember as a kid?

 

 

Loads but mostly because they were reinforced by being made fun of it various films.

I remember the "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" advert that was mentioned in Mad Men.

Waynes Would referenced loads, especially the Calgon ones ("Calgon, take me away!" "We need more Calgon! Ancient Chinese secret eh?") the shampoo adds ("and they told two friends, and they told two friends, and so on , and so on and so on")

Airplane had a few good ones too ("Hmmm, Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home...")

You do the shake and vac and put the freshness back. Do the shake and vac and put the freshness back!

Also the toy r us adverts. There's millions says Geoffrey all under one roof... RIP dude.

We used to do a drinking game on this at rugby.  Love the Accrington Stanley one - my m7 dave and his brother who emigrated to Oz in about 94 still do that skit to the bemusement of their aussie chums.

Carling black label squirrel ad was the finest ad ever made.

Umbongo,

Finger of fudge

Red car and the blue car had a race

Do the shake & vac & put the freshness back

Ruddles OOOOOOH real ale

First time, first love, what a feeling is this (robin beck, coke?)

Stiltskin, Inside (levis I think)

Trio! TRIIIIIIIIO

 

I'm mildly concerned how my brain just pulled out all the words to the red can and the blue car had a race. Like it was yesterday. Where the hell has that been hiding?!

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, could be in a fix
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, spies the Weetabix
Does he retreat, back to Sherwood?
Course he should, course he should, course he should

 

Also honourable mentions to part remembered adverts for:

  • Radio Rentals - sub crew fixing leaky boat: "Should've gone to radio Rentals"
  • Carling Black Label - Dambusters, did that pre-date the squirrel?
  • Hamlet Cigars - Photobooth.  
  • Kit Kat - The dancing pandas (or polar bears?) behind the photographer's back
  • Ariston - And on and on and on and on...
  • Tango - You know when you've been stuck in full class detention for mass tango slapping in the playground

 

Heh, I think the dambusters one was later.  I remember the Tango-geddon.  Kids with popped eardrums everywhere.

What about scotch video with the random skeleton:

I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be

With re-record technology

Any time, night or day,

Re-record or just fade away

An old favourite from Belfast back in the day: 

"Booze - the Devil's Vomit",

usually side by side with a a billboard advertising Bass. Tennents of some wiskey or other

 

all seem to have hot girls in in my memory:

Nicole! Papa!

was thinking about Nicole the other day when watching the current Clio ad - o tempora o mores!

H&M “Look what the Swedish au pair is wearing this year”. scantily clad bird draped over sofa. 
 

French Connection “Clothes you can’t wait to get into” hot bird gets changed on tube train. 
 

 

 

 

The cadburys caramel bunny.

The a la carte kitchen advert where they made hot beans but this was an utter utter lie.

Keepers! Keepers! What's inside those keepers!?

And the kid who went off on a fairytale adventure because she had a little plastic gold key embedded in a clear disk in the sole of her Clarks shoes.

The ads for Hamlet, Heineken, Flake, Smash, Hovis (ascending the hill to the tune of Dvorjak's 9th Symphony),Honda (the falling cars).

Spoof ad: Fiat, built by robots, driven by Italians (Not The Nine O'Clock News).

Picking up the ...Meh challenge:

[Verse] The red car and the clue car had a race. All Red wanted to do is stuff his face. [Chorus] He eats everything he sees, from trucks to prickly trees (?), but smart old Blue he took the Milky Way. [Bridge/cut-away] He's looking for a chocolate treat that's fluffy and light, 'cos it won't spoil his appetite... [Chorus] Oh no, the bridge is gone, poor old red can't carry on ... but smart old Blue he took the Milky Way.

What a belter. I'm working that out on the piano when I get home.

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