Favourite tv adverts

I love all the Spec Saver ads, 'should have gone to specsavers!!' Have heard some good ones on the radio too for their hearing aids.

Shandi - British Gas?

Murray Mints, Murray Mints,
The too good to hurry mints.

Hives, boy on bike, Ashington Colliery Band playing Dvorak

HOVIS!

There were some great ads for energy-saving(???) which featured Aardman animations- great!

Ticker Ticker Timex, Tra La La

I think that advert was on in the 1960's.

I love the present Flash advert ,with the dog peering over the bath appearing to sing, almost real ,

Chaffinch

I don’t know what it is about the John Lewis adverts, but they always make me cry!
Just thinking about the one you mentioned, is making me cry!!!

Black horse adverts especially the horses thundering across the beach.

I still love the terribly un PC Carling Black Label one (Dambusters), which is on YouTube.

Ditto the two very funny Boddington's ones - also on YouTube. 'That Gladys Althorp, she never buys her own,' (spoof Venetian setting with Anna Chancellor) and 'By the heck, Petal - you smell gorgeous tonight!' (very glam woman in very glam setting, with equally glam bloke) , sensuously anointing herself with what looks like face cream, until you see that it's the foam off the top of a pint of Boddies.).

And another, for maybe Batchelors Super Noodles, where two blokes are saying how disgusting girls are, using your razor for their legs and leaving hairy bits in the basin - as they lick their plates clean before putting them away in the cupboard!

There are so few really good home-grown ones now. So many are just boring, presumably generic-international - though having said that I don't see many now - we mostly record programmes and zoom through the ads.

Does anyone else remember the "Omo brightness" advert? In which someone said: "Kindly take that ding-a-dong out of my washing machine!" This used to make me laugh - it must have been at least 60 years ago, because I remember saying it, with friends at primary school.

There was one years ago, which I think was for Nike. It was set at a basketball game. There is a specific "jingle" type music which is played at those games and when it was played in the advert, everyone (players and watchers) had to play musical chairs. I found it really funny.

Also, if I said "chop, chop, busy, busy, work, work, bang, bang" - would anyone know what the advert was for? Everyone I ask can remember that the advert had penguins in it, and everyone says it's for penguin chocolate biscuits.

It was actually for BT!

The "chop, chop, busy, busy' chant became the catchphrase for my colleague and I at the time when we were really busy at work.

I remember an old one for Hamlet cigars. 'Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet.' Not allowed these days. A bloke with a 'comb over' is trying to get his photo taken in a booth but can't get his remaining hair right.

I've just remembered a good 'un for Rollo chocolate.

A smug lad on the front row at the circus taunts a young elephant with his last Rollo then selfishly eats it himself.

Years later grown up Mr Smug returns and the elephant who never forgot walks up to him and swipes him with his trunk!

I like all the Specsavers adverts. The new one with the Mona Lisa is very clever.

Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter in a Cinzano ? advert can’t remember the lines .

Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nutcase?

Drinka Pinta Milka Day!

Phyllosan fortified the over 40s!

Is there a Humphrey about??
What was that for?

Richard Shops.

Richard Shops are filled with all the pretty things
Soft and lovely pretty things to wear
Hey there pretty girl, make the world a prettier place,
Come pretty up, come buy your clothes at Richard shops.

Might have remembered the words wrongly, but it was a catchy tune!

Just looked up Humphrey advert it was for Milk?

Haribo squeaky voices from the rugby players