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

I'd forgotten the Hamlet one - very funny.

Gregor Fisher in the Hamlet cigar advert in the 80’s. He’s in a passport photo booth fixing his awful comb over and posing in anticipation of the flash. He has a couple of false starts when he moves just as the photo is taken. Then the seat collapses just as the final photo is taken. Not a word spoken but it’s very funny.

youtu.be/rlYMID5qCdE

I rarely watch TV but once in a while I watched something and, in between, caught the partying Bacardi cat.

I like the funny ads. It's going back quite a bit but the Smash ads always made me laugh. Not keen on the soppy John Lewis type ads or the "buy this and all your friends will envy you" type ads.

olliebeak

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

Oh I was hoping someone would mention that one. I stop and watch it whenever it’s on. What beautiful faces the two actors have. I must admit to having no awareness of what it was actually advertising. I love the way he says ‘hi’.

A favourite of mine from the 70's was the one for Vicks Sinex Spray.

The son says 'Oh Mum I can't.......

Mum goes to get the Vicks and says '...course you can Malcolm'!

Old style - the Cadbury's ad with the gorilla playing the drums to "Something in the air tonight".

New style, the Heycar ad with Oliver Britten lip syncing. It's the only ad that make be sit up and listen these days.

Renault’s ‘ Shakin’ That Ass’ undoubtedly the best ad of all time. Editing, music, cuts, character, style, mise en scene. Top.

When we first lived in Hong Kong British Caledonian (remember them?) were still flying and they had a great ad using the Beach Boys 'California Girls' - substituting Caledonian for California! Still sticks in the memory!

Shake and vac
I loved that advert

I love the meerkat adverts so clever I really don’t get many of the new adverts. Of course the Levi advert

Loved all the Beatie ones,. " You have an ology". With the wonderful Maureen Lipman.

Favourite at the moment is Lloyds bank, the beautiful black horse cantering alongside the child and runners. Magic.

The Milk Marketing Board adverts "watch out, there's a Humphrey about". And I did like the Skoda advert where they built a car out of cake and sweets-I think to the tune of "my favourite things".

I loved this one for Nike, where the entire basketball arena plays musical chairs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQNt2ETKrSQ

The Honda ‘Cog’ advert: youtu.be/FGngcQb_0qg

I’m astonished no-one has mentioned it yet.

Smash - with the funny aliens
British Gas - with the cat, dog and mouse cuddling up to the song "will you still love me tomorrow "
Kit Kat - with the pandas in the zoo
Cadbury Dairy Milk - the man in his office chair on hold on the phone dancing to "yes sir I can boogie"

Cadbury’s smash and the Guinness white horses. I really miss the jingles, does no one write these anymore? Now we just get pop music, classic songs being butchered to fit the time allowed or rap very loud and annoying.

Prudential (I think) with the famous phrase said in a brummie accent “we wanna be togever” DH and I say this to each other quite frequently these days!

I loved the BT ad ‘he’s got an ology’ - brilliant.

I love the Lloyd's Bank Black horse adverts. Some great music too

The John Lewis Christmas ad with Paloma Faith singing Never Tear us Apart.

NotAGran55

I can’t decide between the Diet Coke one or Levi one ??‍♀️....
guess I will just need to keep checking

Two days on and I'm still undecided.....

We've had some great adverts, haven't we? Apologies to all those who don't enjoy Christmas, but I look forward every year to the John Lewis festive offering. I think the Please, please, please let me get what I want one was my favourite.

1987 Volkswagen Golf GTI 'Changes' ad has always stayed with me. The woman leaves a house in a temper, throws away all her jewellery (ring, brooch, pearls) and her fur coat. She's about to drop her car keys down a drain then has second thoughts and drives away in her GTI. It was directed by David Bailey and the song 'Changes' fitted it perfectly. It's available to watch on youtube.

The ones I enjoyed were the adverts for Smiths where Nicholas Lyndhurst played each member of the family.

Loved the old fashioned jingles.

‘You’ll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent’.
‘Blue, blue, blue, Esso Blue’.

I know showing my age!