Adverts we like

I remember an ad for Cointreau featuring a very attractive ‘ Frenchman’, saying ‘ grad ually, the ice melts’!

There was also a very clever one for a car ( I think) where the boy asks his dad where did he come from, then it cuts to a song about the birds and the bees, and ends with the boy saying that that was funny because Jimmy Johnson came from Edinburgh ( or another city)

nanaK54

Grannyben

I like the one for Cadbury chocolate where the young lady, working at the petrol station, says "love you dad". It always makes me smile

Me too - the timing is perfection

i had no idea what that one was about, i just found it faintly creepy.
i didn't hear either of them say anything comprehensible.
and the one with the night watchman; had no idea that he was becoming a chef.
i obviously cannot decode the modern idiom.
i like things that are simple; koala's ears, fairy baby.

Wrigley's Extra. Just seen it. It wouldn’t make me buy the chewing gum, but it was fun to watch.

Grannyben

I like the one for Cadbury chocolate where the young lady, working at the petrol station, says "love you dad". It always makes me smile

Me too - the timing is perfection

Hardly ever see an advert now with recordings etc, but I remember mentioning to a woman at a drinks party ages ago that I loved ‘glamour’ ads, say perfume, set in Paris or Italy with beautiful people.
She looked at me pityingly😁

Afraid to say I had never heard of Melanie Sykes! But there are so many actors etc. of whom I could say the same….

However I do know the other in the ‘Venetian’ Gondola one - it was Anna Chancellor - Duck-Face in Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Mr Bingley’s unmarried sister in the BBC P&P.

Witzend the girl in the Boddington’s ad was Melanie Sykes

The old Boddington’s ale ones - a very glam, beautifully dressed woman putting what looks like face cream on her face, followed by handsome chap in a dinner jacket saying, ‘By the ‘eck love, you smell gorgeous tonight!’ (It was the foam off the top of the ale.)

And the other, a man in what looks like a Venetian gondola, with what looks like (from above) an ice cream, to the tune of ‘O solo mio…’. (Just one Cornetto) - whereupon woman coming
in the other direction in gondola grabs the ‘ice cream’ (his beer) and bloke says, ‘That Gladys Althorp, she never buys her own!’

Both still,on YouTube I think - why don’t they make them like that any more??

And the one for Batchelor’s SuperNoodles IIRC - where two young blokes are complaining about their girlfriends’ disgusting habits, e.g. using their razors and leaving bristly bits in the washbasin - before both licking their plates clean instead of washing them, and putting them away in the cupboard! 😂

Comedy genius is sadly lacking in our ads now.

Blondiescot

I don't really watch much live TV now, but I do remember fondly the Cadbury's Caramel Bunny one and the Knorr Stock Cubes 'Pea and ham, from a chicken? Now that's clever!'

The Cadbury’s Caramel Bunny was voiced by Miriam Margolyes

Oh yes!!

Papa?
Nicole?

I loved the Volkswagen one years ago, where the woman gets her divorce papers, gets in her car, looks sad for a minute, then drives off beaming, with "Young At Heart" pounding away on her radio.

Grannyben

I like the one for Cadbury chocolate where the young lady, working at the petrol station, says "love you dad". It always makes me smile

I like that one too. And the other Cadbury’s one where the shop keeper takes buttons and coins from a little girl , who wants to buy the chocolate for her mums birthday

seadragon I love that!
Hadn't seen it before.
Thank you.

Thank you - I couldn't remember the name of the actress !

Yes Esmay it was June Whitfield “ it could make a dishonest woman of you”🙃

The drumming gorilla - chocolate advert, the Smash aliens and there used to be an ad' for crisps with little singing potatoes! Loved that one...

I liked the rapper singing on the Just Eat ad, trouble is these ads make me hungry.

Beechnut

🤣🤣 Clawdy I always start squeaking ‘We are the police’ when that comes on. I can’t help myself!

Hey I do that too!😂

This my all time favourite - The AA dog: www.google.com/search?q=AA+dogad&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB790GB790&oq=AA+dogad&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l3.5299j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6bcdcfea,vid:_kq327Uw41E I found it on line so I can watch it at will and then found a video of how it was made.......and watch that too! Love it!

I agree the Lloyds Bank black horses are beautiful, and I know the Lloyds symbol is the sign of the black horse, but the accompanying voice overs to the ads are just meaningless drivel. Nothing to do with the products and as for ‘always there for you’…tell that to customers whose branches have closed.

Any of the Specsavers ads. The vet trying to treat a cat, turns out it was the nurses fur hat , And the Astronauts arriving at the airport luggage carousel. ,, Always make me smile

The OXO ads with Lynda Bellingham and British Telecom with Maureen Lipman and her “……ologies”!

I think there were several quite good Levis adverts actually

One where a couple broke down and the car was towed by the Levis guy - and one involving a fridge.
Probably more..

And here is the Levis advert:

youtu.be/wT4DR_ae_4o

I can honestly say I don't remember many of the other adverts mentioned by others - I suppose some do just stick though..
I remember this Levis one though - and the Yellow Pages one and Smash.
I liked all these.