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Your best ever TV ad? 'Levis in the laundrette' for me!

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ixion Wed 05-May-21 17:15:48

I see that model Nik Kamen has sadly died.
For me the 1985 Levi's ad, set in the laundrette, to the music of 'Heard It Through the Grapevine' was up there with the finest.
Any other contributions?

hf59 Fri 07-May-21 11:18:10

Don’t forget the honey mummy!

hf59 Fri 07-May-21 11:16:53

I’m a secret Lemonade drinker!

hf59 Fri 07-May-21 11:16:31

Reginald Molehusband

hf59 Fri 07-May-21 11:16:11

Jo and Petunia public information films

Buffybee Fri 07-May-21 11:15:11

The Nik Kamen, Levi jeans and the Diet Coke adds are the ones that stop you in your tracks.
We appear to like very testosterone fueled adds.... ?

Camelotclub Fri 07-May-21 11:14:02

The Cravendale cats.
youtu.be/IdA_fLC7WIQ

Kamj Fri 07-May-21 11:06:51

BT ads with Maureen lipman, i used to love those.

Patticake123 Fri 07-May-21 11:06:28

Maureen Lipman’s BT advert where she congratulated her grandson on achieving ‘an ology ‘. It’s made me laugh thinking about it!

Kate1949 Fri 07-May-21 11:02:49

Sally Thomsett being stood up outside the cinema, going home to a cup of Bovril and saying 'He's got big ears anyway'.

CurlyMops Fri 07-May-21 11:02:28

I love the 'Should Have Gone to Specsavers' advert where the man shears his dog!!! The look on the poor dog's face .. Haha! Making me laugh just thinking about it! (Assuming no harm came to the dog in the process of making the advert)

schnackie Fri 07-May-21 10:59:45

The series of ads (advertising 'TV ads' I believe) with the little dog who had his suitcase packed at the shelter, then later had a stuffed bunny for his best friend, etc. They also had him doing housework around the house. I believe the same dog went on to be in Midsomer Murder's when Neil Dudgeon started. Now I remember - he was called Harvey!!

olliebeak Fri 07-May-21 10:59:05

A few favourites from me ....................

Quorn Advert - 'Touch my food - Feel my fork!' - www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvUR8t9tDcc

'Oxo Family' adverts starring Lynda Bellingham -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj-WJHUO6ag

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZx4okYngUk

'Clark's Shoes' - Proper Little Madam - www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrwG9Ae7WBg

My current favourites are for Virgin Broadband - I can't wait to see how this 'love story' is going to pan out - www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDzu2DHtWac

Bluesmum Fri 07-May-21 10:57:15

I vote for Leonard Rossini and Joan Collins every time xxx

kaycee Fri 07-May-21 10:55:43

Mine is the Cadbury ad with the gorilla (yes I know it was a man dressed up) playing Phil Collins song "In The Air Tonight"

Lucyloo12 Fri 07-May-21 10:55:36

The smash advert with the aliens. Still smile thinking about it.

TrendyNannie6 Fri 07-May-21 10:55:13

Purple Bricks, Is your hair growing back ??love it

GardenofEngland Fri 07-May-21 10:54:18

Leonard Rossitor and Joan Collins on the plane and the old couple on the fairground ride eating a sandwich ...specsavers

Amalegra Fri 07-May-21 10:53:05

A very old Ki-Ora squash ad from the 1980s featuring a cartoon little boy, his dog and a crow! The boy tells the crow that the drink is just for ‘me and my dawg’ whereupon the crow says “I’ll be your dawg’ and follows him barking, all accompanied by a jolly jingle. It struck me and my strange sense of humour as really odd and hysterically funny. No one else did, but for me it reached the absolute heights of TV advertising!! (Wish they’d bring it back...!).

tiredoldwoman Fri 07-May-21 10:41:28

I liked the Smash ( instant potato) advert when the wee aliens giggle about us , peeling, boiling and mashing potatoes !

sharon103 Thu 06-May-21 01:50:13

It's got to be the Brooke Bond PG Tips monkeys for me.
" Do you know the piano's on my foot dad" You hum it son and I'll play it.

Witzend Thu 06-May-21 01:31:16

Ditto to the Boddington’s one.
And the one on the canal - ‘That Gladys Althorp - she never buys her own!’
Best ever.
They don’t make them like that any more. ?

Ro60 Wed 05-May-21 21:02:42

Can still remember the Levi ad. - & the coke one.
The other Cinzano ad with Lorraine Chase & Rossiter - "You must have flown in from paradise...."

I love the current Tanqueray ad. Have been known to 're-wind it.

Urmstongran Wed 05-May-21 20:46:15

‘Cheers’!
Although I prefer a Guinness...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nqVetT2wgs

Shinamae Wed 05-May-21 20:44:36

Just can’t believe how old it is?‍♀️

Shinamae Wed 05-May-21 20:44:03

Most definitely the Diet Coke one