my favourite advert

[char1ie]

I am in tears with laughter after watching this again after all these years. Classic of all classics of TV advertising.

Charlie

[LizzygotDizzy]

char1ie Wrote:

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> I am in tears with laughter after watching this

> again after all these years. Classic of all

> classics of TV advertising.

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> Charlie

Unfortunately Charlie PeckhamGateCrasher beat you to it! Woz really funny though and well worth another watch

[char1ie]

I thought it would be. And then I thought bugger it! I'll post it anyway. So I did. One more time but in a natty little window:

 

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Great minds Char1ie. I used to work for the company that produced the Carling Ads and went on some of the shoots - I think the whole campaign was pretty brilliant, but this one is the tops.

[SteveT]

So PGC thats why you are so well informed!

[Nero]

Michael Winner's 'Calm down, dear, it's only a commercial' is good because the phrase has worked its way into our national psyche. And it was really cheap. Nero

[Keef]

I loved the lizards from about the 3rd or 4th of

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[jumpinjackflash]

The Crunchy Nut Cornflakes ad with the guy who gets a lift home on the back of his Irish Wolfhound! It cracks me up everytime.>:D

[mockney piers]

Mine was for a timber wholesaler in Letchworth, shown at the old fashioned Broadway cinema.

It had none other than Scruffy McGuffy in it, and we all felt a surge of pride everytime we saw such a famous and important chap starring in a local ad.

ps loving the WATN for Claire Scott, a girl who single handedly left me with a pyschologically damaging attraction to terrible peroxide perms for many years:

"After leaving Grange Hill in 1985, Paula continued acting, making appearances in TV series like ?Spender? and various British films. In 1988, Paula caused a stir by appearing topless for a special photo shoot in Mayfair magazine. Paula continued to act into the early 1990s, but is now rumoured to be married with children and working in a shoe shop."

[barrymarshall]

My favourite ads are the ones they used to do (alas no more) for Benson & Hedges and Silk Cut.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/475000/images/_476117_150benson.jpg

http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~kbroom/handouts/Metaphor%20and%20Metonym_files/image002.gif

I was fascinated by the ads when I was a kid ... which I guess is why I took up smoking!

[barrymarshall]

I usually hate TV advertising and will change channels when they come on, so I don't remember many. However,

, with the lines from Moby Dick, is a classic.

[mightyroar]

I used to love those Silk Cut ads too. sort of like dingbats, there was always some little thing you had to work out.

suggesting that smoking was kind of cryptic, elegant and cool.

(I too took up smoking, but am off the weed these days)

[lozzyloz]

If you've got a few minutes here are a collection of rarely seen funny ads - rated 15;-)

Funny ads

[*Bob*]

barrymarshall Wrote:

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> I usually hate TV advertising and will change

> channels when they come on, so I don't remember

> many. However, this one, with the lines from Moby

> Dick, is a classic.

Indeed.. (*trivia alert*) a commercial directed by one of the few ad directors who have gone on to make a half-decent feature film - Sexy Beast.

They're all wannabee film directors at heart..

[Jah Lush]

With the late great Vivian Stanshall this is fantastically surreal.

Ruddles Beer

[Keef]

I'm a secret lemonade drinker

[Annasfield]

Lozzyloz - I'm glad I didn't watch that one at work ;-)

Jah - I remember that advert. My Dad always used to recount the story of how he was pissed on Ruddles when he proposed to my Mum. :-S

[SteveT]

My favourite ads are the ones they used to do (alas no more) for Benson & Hedges and Silk Cut.

I thought the B&H ads were a cut above, especially the one with a tin of fish with the 'gold' lid turned back that would frequently be seen on hoardings. One wag scribed on it in large letters 'SARDINES GIVE YOU CANCER'

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Trivia question: Who wrote and sang the song "secret lemonade drinker" and who helped on backing vocals?

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Elvis Costello's Dad

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

You win a two week, all expenses paid hol to Mauritius.

[lozzyloz]

PGC, can you download the "Medieval" Carling Black Label Ad featuring Ron Atkinson. It's one of my favourites and I can't find it anywhere :( (I'll give you one Turnip and a Guinea Pig in exchange)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

make that a swede and one pound and a shilling and you're on.

[lozzyloz]

Out of Swedes. Will you accept a South African (minus a toe nail)?

[*Bob*]

Of course, 90% of television programming in them days was so dire that it was a welcome relief when the adverts came on.