The thing about Cadbury is, everyone in the UK realises that if there is a specific tone of Purple, It's a Cadbury's advert .........purple backdrop for the Gorilla, purple dress for the girl with the eyebrows.......

@jeepsthetimebandit

5 ай бұрын

I've just read this and then deleted my comment about the Cadbury purple because it was almost word for word what yours says 😂

@Ayns.L14A

5 ай бұрын

@@jeepsthetimebandit LOL...

@grimwarmaster5058

5 ай бұрын

Just about to add this

@no-oneinparticular7264

5 ай бұрын

Do you know, I'm wearing a purple t-shirt at present 😂.

@gillfox9899

5 ай бұрын

And the fact that they don't mention the name until the end is to keep you watching

In the UK you know it’s cadburys with the Cadburys purple in the adverts - instantly recognisable

@Sol3UK

5 ай бұрын

Yep, we don't need logos to remind us. But then again it's always good to try and guess, normally the reveal comes at the end

@lottie2525

5 ай бұрын

Glad someone pointed this out. Some brands are just so iconic they don't need words or logos even, just colours.

@user-bw3um9bf5q

5 ай бұрын

Plus "glass and a half" was the production name at the start. Cadbury dairl wilk was advertised as a glass and a half in every bar

@stephenlee5929

5 ай бұрын

When the Cadbury ads first ran they ended without showing the chocolate bar and logo for about a week. The only clue was the background colour. Its similar to the Silk Cut (cigarette) ads of the early 70's, they were Posters and Newspaper ads, it was a picture of a purple fabric with a cut across it, the clue was the health warning at the bottom. I think XXXX did a similar thing 70/80s, they ran a set of TV ads, 3 per Ad break, bracketing a film, the product did not appear 'til the last ad in the final ad break.

@garethm3242

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I feel like it's similar to the difference in humour on either side of the pond too (a sweeping statement of course, but having a nerdy interest in comedy I see it a lot) - UK ads don't need to spoon feed the audience, rather they trust their intelligence more.

Those tango ads got banned as us 90s kids were "tangoing" each other so hard in school playgrounds, the victims were getting ruptured eardrums. That tango slap hurts!

@gemlou763

5 ай бұрын

Remember was chaos at school with people slapping each other😂

@martinsear5470

5 ай бұрын

Yup it got banned at our school too.🤣

@Oddballkane

5 ай бұрын

I remember the updated version they were forced to bring out where the guy covered his mouth and then kissed the back of his hand.

@brianhanna3128

5 ай бұрын

The entire ad was re-edited to change the slap to being across the cheeks because the original featured ears getting clapped & not only did kids get banned from doing it in school, the ad itself was changed because of complaints from GPs with surgeries filled with kids screaming with burst eardrums.

@Isleofskye

5 ай бұрын

"Happy Slapping" was anything but...

The Cadbury Gorilla is an icon here in the UK.

The genius thing about the Specsavers ads, is that the catchphrase is now used commonly whenever someone in a group misses something, the chant of "Should've gone to specsavers!" will often ring out in those situations.

@philiprice7875

5 ай бұрын

i was in a casino 1st hand of a poker tourny i had AK suited flopped a flush went allin got called anounced FLUSH saw i had Ah Kd one of the players said to me gotta go to spec savers Phil i said deffo these are new specs gotten today, damned things are broken. this got the whole table laughing out loud

@graemecollin

4 ай бұрын

And, of course, the Specsavers ads are a derivative of an advertising campaign, from many years ago, by a TV rentals company ... Should've gone to Radio Rentals ...

@davidlamont5793

3 ай бұрын

I said that to my boss after he knocked over a stack of full fish boxes with a fork lift 😂😂 he was not happy and growled "do you want to keep your job" lol

@Inucroft

10 күн бұрын

Banard Castle? Should have gone to specksavers

They should have had the specsavers ad with the Shepherd doing the shearing, that's my favourite.

@doobiedootwo3517

5 ай бұрын

The shepherd ‘Specsavers’ Ad was true genuis, along with the ‘Hoots mon’ for maynards wine gums and combover man for hamlet cigars - all standout ads in my book 🤗but maybe not aired in this timeframe

@joannebrimble9992

4 ай бұрын

My late Westie Deefa loved (or hated) that advert. He recognised the music, even if he was sleeping, and would dive at the telly. He had a thing for border collies! I miss him loads

@voivod6871

3 ай бұрын

YES

@mgthestrange9098

3 ай бұрын

I liked the one with the keep fit instructor going into the wrong room and it’s all old folk instead of her class.

@tbonetone1

3 ай бұрын

@@joannebrimble9992 Thats exacly what my dog was like. Hed hear the music and run from anywhere to attack the tele.🤣 He was a collie lab cross.

The Cilit bang advert was a total send up the “it’s me Barry Scott” (who no one had ever heard of befor this advert), the sexism, the fake ordinary mums, the 9 out of ten mums would choose etc etc etc, it was just an absolute piss take from around the time we had a satire TV current affairs show called Brass eye was out, you should check it out to understand the humour 😂

@abegarfield7031

5 ай бұрын

There was also a similar Slim Fast advert. Some guy announced his name but gave no other details. Was it Barry Bethal? "..and I lost X amount on the Slim fast plan." No one had any idea who he was. He's wearing headphones at the beginning and has gold disks on his wall so everyone assumed he was a DJ. Danny Baker had a talk show briefly and Barry was his first guest, his first question was "Barry, who the hell are you?"

My favourite advert was a squirrel running an assault course to get to a nut whilst the mission impossible tune played in the background. Once the squirrell gets the nut an owl says to another owl " i bet he drinks Carling black label" absolute classic, released in 1989 but really became prominent in the early 90's... those were the days!

@mehallica666

5 ай бұрын

All the Black Label ads were great.

@roseability86

3 ай бұрын

I loved that ad too but couldn't remember what it was for!

Gorilla?? Costume?? Over here our gorillas are born knowing how to drum lol

@secondtimearound2539

5 ай бұрын

@Grimlock1975 😆 Wish they'd been able to show the ad with the original soundtrack though, was far better and funnier. One of my favourite ads of all.

@GroinStrain_

4 ай бұрын

That’s right. That’s why John Bonham had so much power, he was famously half gorilla on his mum’s side

@secondtimearound2539

4 ай бұрын

@@GroinStrain_ 😄

@julieturner5281

4 ай бұрын

Exactly , that was a real Gorilla

@Ross-df6ge

Ай бұрын

And that advert first started showing with just small clips making you wonder what it was about, it was a little while until they showed the full advert.

Missing one of the most iconic British adverts of all time. “Accrington Stanley - who are they?” IYKYK

@TronTuborg

5 ай бұрын

"EXACTLY!"

@jameshumphreys9715

5 ай бұрын

These are 90's and 00's adverts

@08karlos

5 ай бұрын

Ian RUSH Ian Rush IAN rush

@mikecarroll8659

5 ай бұрын

@@jameshumphreys9715 it ran from 1989 to 1995

@221b-Maker-Street

5 ай бұрын

Milky-Milky...

You may not have noticed, but the narrator in the AOL advert was John Hurt. Which then links to the 1984 references in the advert.

@janolaful

5 ай бұрын

I loved John hurt in the naked civil servant you should look it up

@TCJones

5 ай бұрын

As an 80's kids, I hear him and think of aids..

@secondtimearound2539

5 ай бұрын

@@TCJonesThat was a very dark advert indeed

The context with the Cilit Bang ad is that some bloke would show up on your telly and just start shouting at your about dirt and cleaning products

@sameebah

5 ай бұрын

Strangely, I emailed the company to point out that I probably wasn't alone in being put off by someone shouting at me to buy their product. A few weeks later there was a new set of ads where he spoke, rather than yelled. I never received a reply, though.

@Dan-B

5 ай бұрын

@@sameebah I’m sure you alone were responsible for a multi-million £ corporation changing its advertising..

@Papa_Meow_Meow

5 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/aGFrsKaJaLmTZqQ.html I preferred Kitchen Gun

@charlielouise2428

5 ай бұрын

HI, I'M A SHOUTY MAN

@S0uL-T

5 ай бұрын

@@Papa_Meow_Meow Toilet Grenade is pretty useful too.

One of my favourites was the 2 pandas in the enclosure with the guy sitting outside in all weathers trying to photo then. He breaks for a Kitkat and the pandas come and go wild on roller skates. Crackes me up every time.😁

@WreckItRolfe

3 ай бұрын

They actually re-aired that one a few years ago

The man in the open topped sports car at the end of the Shreddies Nana advert was a famous actor called Leslie Phillips who appeared in loads of 1960's British comedy films playing smooth ladies' men, and his catchphrase was "Ding dong", which added an extra layer of familiarity for British audiences.

@poppletop8331

5 ай бұрын

Voice of Sorting hat in Harry Potter films too.

@drwhatson

5 ай бұрын

Known for his lecherous characters and catchphrases.

@scarfhs1

5 ай бұрын

Also known for his role in the Radio series The Navy lark. "Left hand down a bit".

@drwhatson

5 ай бұрын

@@scarfhs1 I forgot about that. I used to listen to it on the radio at my gran's house. :-)

@BrushQuill

5 ай бұрын

"Mr Bell?" "Well Ding Dong!" Best bit of any Carry On film!

The " Italian " opera singer is actually a very nice man from Cardiff in wales.

@rachelcollins5923

5 ай бұрын

carmarthen....

@paulliversage4479

5 ай бұрын

Gio comparè...he is an actual opera singer

@fayesouthall6604

5 ай бұрын

He’s lovely

@JackpotButtonLewis

4 ай бұрын

His real name is ‘Wynne Evans’

Yes as others have stated we all know it’s Cadbury as soon as you see that purple, we’re trained from childbirth 😂

The gin lady was hilarious.

@Isleofskye

5 ай бұрын

Gin is known as "Mother's Ruin"..

@carolynmurtaza1180

5 ай бұрын

Loved the Aldi adverts

@danielcrunden5578

5 ай бұрын

I loved the bear with the toilet roll. Looks back at the woods and says "and yes.... I do" 🤣

"Bang and the dirt is gone!" is a sentence that is so ingrained in my head. Thank you Barry Scott.

@raphaelperry8159

5 ай бұрын

Right up there with "Ronseal quick dry and woodstain. it does what it says on the tin."

@WithTwoFlakes

5 ай бұрын

Ingrained in my head too, especially after seeing Jimmy Carr kzread.info/dash/bejne/fXZo1ctpmLOnYrg.html

@andrewmorgan1819

5 ай бұрын

My son turned to me one day and asked "Why does he always shout Dad?"

@tsundereyoongi3869

4 ай бұрын

That and 'autoglass repair autoglass replace' and Churchill's 'ohhh yes!'

Unfortunately for the sake of copyright, the Cadbury Gorilla advert had the tune changed to a dance version rather than the original version of In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins, but if you look, you will get the full original version, and it's worth looking for, it's amazing. Those two idiots for 118 118 were a complete pain in the a$$.

@ticketyboo2456

5 ай бұрын

Agreed. The 118 118 blokes are almost as annoying as the Compare the Market meerkats.

@TronTuborg

5 ай бұрын

But you remember the buggers, don't you! And that's what we call A Good Advert

UK ads are very clever. They are so well made and funny, we talk about them in work the next day or at the pub, thus giving the product name much more exposure than just the original advert.

@jasonc5413

5 ай бұрын

@Anonnermoose I have to agree. Just replace "are" with "were", also I should have put "and/or funny" instead of just "and funny".

The original music for the Cadbury's gorilla ad was Phil Collins Something in the Air Tonight. When Collins was asked about the ad he said, "the gorilla is a better drummer than me." :-)

@philiprice7875

5 ай бұрын

i said after the ad was shown if CGI then actors are out of a job if man in suit he nailed that gorilla to a T if it was a real gorilla then Keith Moon has come back to us i told my kids it was a real gorilla that they spent weeks training they believed me for 10 years

@iaindouglasmcwilliam8684

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, precisely. It was completely in time with it also.

@paulliversage4479

5 ай бұрын

Lol...Phil was one of the best drummers ever

I cannot stop laughing whenever I hear eye glasses “ Americans need to be told that the things to help them see better, go on their eyes”

@ann-marieburrows2253

5 ай бұрын

Michael McIntyre quote 👍

@RagedDrew

5 ай бұрын

​@ann-marieburrows2253 Yeah got that as well lol. Love Michael McIntyre

@drwhatson

5 ай бұрын

As opposed to drinking glasses.

@klaxoncow

5 ай бұрын

@@drwhatson Yeah, you wear those on your drinking instead.

@Devnet94

5 ай бұрын

Most people in the US just call them glasses, even in the 90s.

Never seen the Hexbug ad before, or even heard of the product!

@BettyBordello

5 ай бұрын

Same here

@weedle30

5 ай бұрын

Me as well! And I had (still have 😉) two techy mad sons who would have driven me maaaad for them if they had seen or heard about them by their mates or at school etc….

@pqrstzxerty1296

5 ай бұрын

I live in Fiji and I have heard of Hexbug.

@TheMestarit

5 ай бұрын

I have it was everywhere over kids tv

@Stoggler

5 ай бұрын

@@TheMestarit it’s probably an age/generation thing, I probably wasn’t watching kids tv when Hexbugs were a thing.

I'm stunned there aren't more comments about the "Full moon. Half moon. Total eclipse." Every time we had jaffa cakes we said it.

@super_ted_7371

5 ай бұрын

I still do 😂

@RhJones

5 ай бұрын

And on the full moon, half moon or an eclipse.

@thequietman760

5 ай бұрын

We still say in my house here in Ireland

@jeffbrammer1082

5 ай бұрын

Us too. Sadly not enough total eclipses in modern boxes!😊

@flo6956

5 ай бұрын

I still say it

The absolute rage I always used to feel when a Lelli Kelly advert came on TV 😂 there was always like 2 per ad break too 😭

@lunawalsh2697

25 күн бұрын

Me too!! An unreasonable rage lols 😂

The Smiler one is extra creepy, because in 2015 there was a horrible crash on it that caused two people to have their legs amputated.

@HordrissTheConfuser

5 ай бұрын

Apparently, they were there on a date, and later married. Silver lining, I suppose, but that's one hell of a cloud.

@chearahendry1502

4 ай бұрын

I’ll always remember that because I was on The Smiler less than a week before the crash when we went on a school trip.

There are loads of funny Specsavers ads out there! I'm stunned that the roller skating pandas from, 'Have a break, have a KitKat' didn't make the cut!

@mattpotter8725

5 ай бұрын

Yes, that one is truly iconic!!!

@yolandasamuels3213

5 ай бұрын

And the Kit Kat one with the Daleks!

@j0hnf_uk

5 ай бұрын

Probably 80's rather than 90's and beyond.

@philiprice7875

5 ай бұрын

@@j0hnf_uk yea 1970's got to be smash robots

One of my favourites was the Guinness ad with the horses (tok followed tik...) it was so artistic and quite beautiful.

You fell for it! You tried to do the eyebrows as did everyone in Britain at the time 😂 Ah humans are simple little creatures in a way 😂

"stereotypical Italian singer" I'm not sure the Welsh tenor will be impressed 😂

@brigidsingleton1596

5 ай бұрын

😊 Having not yet watched past 'Crusha' - at a guess I'd say, Bryn Terfel?😊

@emmahowells8334

5 ай бұрын

​​​@@brigidsingleton1596 By the way it's Wynne Evans, it's not Bryn as he's taller.

@brigidsingleton1596

5 ай бұрын

@@emmahowells8334 I thought it was Bryn Terfel who did / does those "Go Compare" ads ... Mea culpa ?! (I've never heard of Wynne Evans... sorry.)

@brigidsingleton1596

5 ай бұрын

@@emmahowells8334 Apologies for my error re Wynne Evans / Bryn Terfel... I've no idea how I came to know the name of the latter, as am not a fan of opera ...other than a little trek into the realm of a certain operaetta: "The Mikado" by Gilbert & Sullivan (?) Which I attended as a film version with my then Primary School, aged about 10yrs old... (Or possibly in the First Year of Secondary School aged 11!! ...so I'm prone to errors re opera...😕☹️) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🖖

@emmahowells8334

5 ай бұрын

@@brigidsingleton1596 No worries, thought I would help with the name. 😊

Aldi adverts are usually funny, especially Kevin the Carrot at Christmas 😊

Take a look at 70s and 80s ads. Golden age.

@FourFeathersTarot

5 ай бұрын

They are scary 😨

The idea of not seeing the product at the start of the advert is to get your attention and wonder what it is. Then you see all the advert and the poduct at the end. One advert is totally silent to make you think your volume is broke so you keep watching. Brilliant idea

"Should have gone to Specsavers" has entered the British language and is well used phrase. Theres a tone of other great ads from that period. The Guiness Surf ad is one of the best ever made I think.

As an employee of Specsavers, I'm kinda proud of those comercials 🙂

@AndrewJonesMcGuire

5 ай бұрын

Such a shame he missed that bit right at the end. "What kind of cheese was that?!"

No one can tell me otherwise, those Lelli Kelly ads were and are hell on earth to listen to

@Devnet94

5 ай бұрын

I still can't believe you would get shoes and the free makeup. In the States you would have to buy the shoes. Then go to a toy store to get the makeup. For both, you would spend $30-$50.

@harrysdifferentbeans6164

4 ай бұрын

As a child who grew up with lelli Kelly ads- I loved them, my mum never got me those shoes tho

@Medusa13579

4 ай бұрын

.......and certainly NOT British 😅😅😅

@tsundereyoongi3869

4 ай бұрын

​@@Medusa13579 they were Italian or French I think?

@Medusa13579

4 ай бұрын

@@tsundereyoongi3869 Ah OK, thank you. I dont remember them at all 😊

Cadbury's really played it well, good marketting trick to leave revealing what the advert is til the end. It makes people watch to find out what the advert is actually advertising and also you will remember the advert. In the top 100 british adverts of all time (most from the 80s), a similar tactic is used, hence why these top 100 are remembered more than most other adverts.

@Varksterable

5 ай бұрын

Back in the day, maybe. When adverts come up now, internet or😮

@Thurgosh_OG

5 ай бұрын

But we all knew the Cadbury Purple colour used in their adverts, so they didn't really hide a reveal, when we all knew what is was for anyway.

Watching it 17 years after it came out and as American, it would be hard to explain just how much of an instant cultural phenomenon that Cadbury's advert with the gorilla playing In the Air Tonight became. The day after it came out, everyone, child and adult alike, was going to school and work and asking if everyone else saw the advert and how amazing and unbelievable it was. There were rumours that it was actually Phil Collins inside the suit, and that advert actually got the song back in the charts (before charts were all about streaming numbers) more than 25 years after it's release. A lot of people actually started to learn the drums because of it (I know two drummers who started after this ad, one if them is very high level). It still comes up a fairly frequently in conversation now. It was just the perfect advert, with perfect execution, at the perfect moment in time. And the eye brows one as well, for a very long time after that ad came out everyone was trying to move their eye brows like that. Everyone wanted to be the friend in the group that could do it.

There was some good and highly annoying ones there, I remembered most of them. The gorilla one was great, but the best monkey adverts of all was the chimps PG Tips tea bags ads from the '70's and '80's, oh and the Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins ads for Cinzano were brilliant. They're worth looking for. Great reaction, wishing you well

In the Shreddies advert, the old man was Leslie Phillips, who was famous for staring in several Carry on films and in this is ad uses is most famous line.

You should check out the Irn Bru adverts. They are iconic in Scotland. The adverts are funny with some innuendo humour! 😂

@graemecollin

3 ай бұрын

We don't often get them here, south of the border, but there was a brilliant Xmas one a few years back, , with Raymond Briggs' The Snowman, and a parody of the "Floating in the Air" song, from the animated version ... you have to listen to the lyrics ...

I'm British and I've never heard of hexbugs either !

I was hoping for the ad 'Guinness - surfer' to be in this compilation. That ad gave me chills, blew me away, You need to see it if you haven't.

@TronTuborg

5 ай бұрын

Just read this and I've got that bass line in my head! "HERE'S TO YOU, AHAB!"

@graemecollin

3 ай бұрын

I always liked the "Good things come to those who wait" Guinness ad - the one with the odd looking chap dancing while he waits for his pint ...

some of these ads like go compare were so annoying that we were putting in complains to adveritising authorities and signing petitions to ban them hahahaha

I was a teenager in 90s Britain, these should be prime nostalgia for me, I have never heard of Crusha, Hexbugs or Lelli Kelly.

@AlBarzUK

5 ай бұрын

Nor me. And a few others. And I didn’t like most of them. Maybe they were on more local TV channels.

@meeds7473

4 ай бұрын

I guess those probably only played on kids' channels. I remember seeing Crusha and Lelli Kelly on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, CITV etc when I was a kid in the early 2000s

@Hiforest

4 ай бұрын

I cannot remember the hexbugs at all. Lelli Kelly's, absolutely - but only because my daughter thought they were magical shoes lol. I should remember all of these, I actually watched TV back then lol

@Savagetechie

4 ай бұрын

@@AlBarzUK Crusha ad was always on itv

@WreckItRolfe

3 ай бұрын

Hexbugs were an early 00s thing. I bet you remember the Baby Born adverts though ;^)

I'd forgotten the 'Smiler' add. In 2015 several people were seriously injured when their car ran into an empty test car. They were stuck for hours before the paramedics could reach them. Two young women had to have one of their legs amputated. It's at a themepark popular for school trips and end of school trips.

@mar10gaming

5 ай бұрын

yh, i went on a school trip there are got to ride it. it was actually a decent ride, one of the best they made.. was a shame the had to shut it donw coz one worker got lazy an forgot to press a button. is their own fault for not installing proper safety features tho

@chearahendry1502

4 ай бұрын

I went on a school trip, and I was on it less than a week before the crash happened

@tsundereyoongi3869

4 ай бұрын

​@@mar10gaming it's not shut, it still runs... they only closed it for a short while

@mar10gaming

4 ай бұрын

@@tsundereyoongi3869Decent, i'll ride it again when i get the chance

@roseability86

3 ай бұрын

I went on it a few years after the accident and it was fun. Prefer Thirteen and The Wicker Man though.

You should watch Phil Collins performing something in the air tonight live . It will blow your mind it's brilliant x

@fayesouthall6604

5 ай бұрын

It’s on KZread and it’s awesome

There used to be a single free 'directory enquiries' phone number (192) you could call in the UK, but then that was stopped and a number of private companies stated offering the service (for a fee, of course). 118 118 was one of them.

@Thurgosh_OG

5 ай бұрын

192 was still there but they too introduced a big charge for the service.

@stephenlee5929

5 ай бұрын

I thought you paid for 192, but it was cheaper than the private ones.

@Will-nn6ux

5 ай бұрын

@@stephenlee5929 It was free originally. A fee was apparently introduced in 1991 (but was still free from phone boxes). As a kid in the 80s, I remember calling it when I was bored. :D

@danielgardecki1046

5 ай бұрын

@@Will-nn6ux I used to ring it, along with some of the free phone numbers on TV, specifically adverts about windows... And then would talk nonsense, saying things like... "Help, there's a squirrel on my window, can you send someone out" And even weirder stuff I can't remember.

@AndrewJonesMcGuire

5 ай бұрын

Suppose that it says a lot though, that no-one can remember what the other ones were....

Watch phil collins perform in the air tonight live. As hes singing it, he slowly makes his way to the his drums. Its so good as he gets there in time as he does his drop. The crowd are excited as he gets there and applaud him.

@fayesouthall6604

5 ай бұрын

It’s brilliant

I do really like the Cadbury gorilla ad, but the best one is the little girl in the shop through the ages, buying her mum a bar for her birthday

I agree with some other comments that the better and funnier adverts were earlier than these, from the 70s to the 80s. PG Tips/Cinzano/Secret Lemonade Drinker! To name just a few...also I always laugh at the one with the little girl who kept saying 'Bollocks' throughout the advert, bloody hilarious!! 😅

@philiprice7875

5 ай бұрын

cresta polar bear/elvis its frothy man

The guys in 118 advert were mimicking British marathon champion David Bedford. He actually filed a lawsuit because of the use of his image. Can’t remember how that ended!

In the Go Compare advert the opera singer maybe portrayed as an Italian opera singer, but in real life he's actually a Welsh opera singer, his name is Wynne (pronounced win) Evans, he's from a part of Wales called Carmarthen. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 My fave ads were the eyebrow dance ad, the gorilla ad and the orange guy slapping face in the tango ad. 👌

At Cadbury World in Birmingham there's a display about adverts and if you push a certain button an animatronic gorilla starts playing the drums.

The thing with having quite surreal adverts, which don't tell you what the product is, is that they entice you to actively watch the whole advert to find out the product, thereby ensuring you remember it ...

You've gotta check out the Blind football advert from Paddy Power, it's one of the best I've ever seen.😂😂😂

@natalielang6209

5 ай бұрын

Always makes me laugh.

I remember people amazed at how well trained the gorilla is when that was out😂

@ChristineRead-ck1uq

5 ай бұрын

It was much better with the original music though.

@AndrewJonesMcGuire

5 ай бұрын

I mean to be fair - with the PG Tips monkeys - it's not surprising that we believed that the Gorilla was real.

I knew a boy called Barry Scott when I was a kid. He changed his name because of the cillit bang advert. Everyone just kept shouting "BANG! And the dirt is gone!" At him.

@danzirvine

Ай бұрын

so basically one it became 'Bang' and his name was gone

For the best ads you need to go further back than the 90s I recommend Cadbury’s smash ad , out of this world.

@AndrewHalliwell

5 ай бұрын

And the beer and cigar ads... Carling, Heineken, Hamlet, Castella, oh, and Cinzano with Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter... The70s and 80s were the golden age for adverts.

@Thurgosh_OG

5 ай бұрын

And a lot of the 'Irn Bru' ads too.

@Punchgirl4

5 ай бұрын

“On your last trip, did you discover what the earth people eat?….” I still know all the words to the whole ad. 😂😂

@AndrewHalliwell

5 ай бұрын

@@Punchgirl4 They peel them with their metal knives. Then they boil them for 20 minutes. Then they smash them all to bits. Truly, they are a most primitive species." *uoroarous laughter*

@Punchgirl4

5 ай бұрын

@@AndrewHalliwell that was such a funny ad. My siblings and I learned all the words and would do it often around the dinner table. Over the years we can still do the whole thing at the drop of a hat. I’ve even taught my kids who’ve only seen the ad on KZread. Another one I can still sing is the one for Brown and Poulson gravy powder. Remember that? “Now I’m using Brown and Poulson, all my gravy’s smooth and wholesome, and there’s not a single lump in sight. Harry used to hate my gravy, Threatened once to join the navy, Brown and Poulson really saved the night.” 😂😂😂 And of course Shake n Vac!!

As others have said, Cadbury have trademarked the specific colour purple, which is used in all their branding and advertising. Also the man in the car in the Shreddies ad is (the late) Leslie Philips, famous for his portrayal of flirtatious upper-class tiffs and dandies.

The Cadbury Gorilla advert at 1:55. The guy in the costume was an actor called Garon Michael, who is experienced in costume work, but not in drumming. He practiced the Phil Colins solo endlessly to get it right, sense of a creature that as Cabral describes has been waiting for the moment all his life. The filming took one day, and two days to edit it.

Britain has strict broadcasting regulations on how much time a broadcaster can sell advertising per hour making TV advertising a limited commodity. So advertisers who were spending a lot of money for a very small amount of time went all out on their adverts to make an impression and get as much value from each showing as they could. You're right back when only four or five channels showed adverts there were no streaming services and satellite (cable) wasn't very common the adverts were much better.

the purple wall behind the gorilla lets you know it is Cadbury, as it is their official colour used on all of their packaging.

What you mean is AOL still around in 2005, i still use my AOL email account as my main email address lol

I remember most of those, please react to some older ones. The 70s and 80s adverts are a lot better 😊

I used to think that the gorilla in the cadburys milk, chocolate advert was Phil Collins 😅

Ive never heard of Hexbug either, its the stuff of nightmares 😂

8:45 I don’t think you quite understand the pure ANGER a child felt when there dad goes “ill get ye a pair them for ye birthday lad”

Aldi did a few of those humorous ads like the Gin one.

My favourite ad was always the yorkie its not for girls, there was so much controversy around it, it also increased sales because all the feminists bought it to prove them wrong

Haha 'that is so creepy' then proceeds to creep us out with an almost perfect impersonation 😂

Sometimes it's a thing with British commercials, you're kept guessing what the eff it's a commercial for. Others, like the Tango ads hit you between the eyes

they banned the tango ad because kids were slapping each other in school so they changed it to a fake kiss with his hand in the way so he kissed his own hand but as you may imagine kids didn't take to the second version the same go figure :P seriously though i remember the ad but yes they banned the slapping one because kids were copying it

@RaceDayReplay

5 ай бұрын

it was cancelled? in the 90s? I thought cancelling was a new thing ;-)

@JoeFoxe

5 ай бұрын

@@RaceDayReplay i guess you could say they SLAPPED down that advert in favour of another one

@RaceDayReplay

5 ай бұрын

@@JoeFoxe kiss

@mattpotter8725

5 ай бұрын

Wasn't there one where he blew up a balloon and popped it in the guy's face or am I just imagining that one. Don't remember it being banned or kids doing it to each other at the time either.

@AndrewJonesMcGuire

5 ай бұрын

@@mattpotter8725 There was an advert with someone popping a balloon yes, and that one was banned too as far as I remember for much the same reason, it was considered that it could cause ear drum damage.

Try looking out for a few older ones, like the Cadbury's Fruit and Nut adverts, and the Smash adverts (with the robots). Also the Brains Beer Aliens advert!

@Yandarval

5 ай бұрын

All together now..."Everyone's a fruit and nutcase"

The stereotypical Italian tenor, is in fact Welsh tenor Wynne Evens BEM. In later adverts he plays both himself and his alter ego Gio Campani. The Dolmio pasta sauce ads, in the other had were wildly racist and derogatory, but they were puppets, so they got away with it, and nobody cared.

Should have gone to specsavers is now a national punch line. The rugby referees who got sponsored by them were excellent sports.

The Dolmio adverts overdubbed with the Scottish family are comedy gold :)

For reference, Barry Scott of Cillit Bang is our "BILLY MAYS HERE!!!'

0:37 Should have anticipated the Crusha add… 20 years later it still comes into my head on repeat several times a year 😢

The Specsavers Ads are the best! My favourite is the astronaut one. Where it shows these astronauts and one says "Huston, we're coming home". But accidently land at Luton airport (a small international airport just north of London) and they have to wait for luggage at baggage reclaim. While overhead you hear the announcement: "Luton Airport regrets delays due to an unscheduled arrival" 😂

Your impression of the smile was soooo spot on

You cracked the smiler face!! 😂😂 I love you and your reactions you are absolutely hilarious! ❤❤ Keep them coming ! 🇬🇧🇬🇧

I am a rollercoaster enthusiast and grew up watching the smiler ad. It put me off riding for years but when I first had my opportunity to ride I queued 2 hours for it and by the time I got on, it was dark.

That last advert with the smiler ride brings back memories of that awful accident. Those poor people 😱

Nowhere near the best adverts. Loads of well funnier ones.

@andrewmorgan1819

5 ай бұрын

Any "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label" advert for a start.

Look very closely at the lip movements of the ninjas in the Mr Bean advert. They are deliberately out of sync with the words that are being spoken, to give the impression that they are really speaking in Japanese and instantly translated into English. This was done to mimic the the terrible translation and lip sync that had been used in a Japanese television series that had been broadcast on the BBC, I think it was on BBC2 during the mid 1970’s and was I think called “Monkey “, it was based on an old Japanese story about a monkey that had to undertake a task/ journey for the God’s to receive a reward and was helped or hindered by other magical creatures that were all skilled in various ways of fighting and all of the creatures and Gods were in costume to resemble the creatures that they were playing. The Monkey for example wore a sort of waistcoat and a hat but he had prominent cheekbones and most of his face was covered with a layer of corse white hair.

The Cadbury adverts were just meant to be so good it kept you hooked so you wanted to find out that it was Cadbury. Coca-cola did similar around that sort of time in the uk. It got you talking.

Cillit bang cleaner is the same as “Kaboom” in the US. Used it a lot when I lived in Oregon

Oh my goodness these make me feel so old!

The operator of Alton Towers has today been fined £5million after the horror crash on the Smiler rollercoaster. The accident on the £18million white-knuckle ride in June last year left 16 people injured. Vicky Balch, then 19, and Leah Washington, then 17, were airlifted to hospital and forced to undergo leg amputations after sustaining serious injuries in the crash.

@HSolar

5 ай бұрын

Only today! yes I was thinking it was "that" rollercoaster.

@0utcastAussie

5 ай бұрын

This happened about a week after we went on it. It was a brilliant ride but all I could think of was the stresses the bolts etc must be going through. Same as the "Rita, Queen of Speed" ride Yeah, I guess I'm fun at parties !!

@adrastossaturn4834

5 ай бұрын

is this comment written by ai?

For some more context about 90s uk adverts, people used to watch a lot more tv and there want the option to skip adverts so to retain viewers that had to be entertaining and keep you engaged. Lots of people would play the ‘advert game’ which would involve trying to get what the advert was selling before the logo actually came up.

Cadbury ads were known by the colour purple, sadly gone are the iconic ads for cadburys of the 90s /00 after the American firm Craft bought Cadbury in a hostile take over in 2010

the chewits dragon was about in the 70s. it as more godzilla than dragon

@MrRjhyt

5 ай бұрын

The Taj Mahal... _Meh_ Even Chewier than Barrow in Furness Bus Depot?

You need to watch the original Gorilla advert with the right music. It’s great.

The make up & shoes is an American ad, dubbed for the UK CADBURY Purple is/was a trademark in the UK, we don't need to be told, we know Cadbury purple it is it's s own advert

The Shreddy Ad - at the ed the chap saying 'Ding Dong' - is a comedy actor Leslie Phillips and that was his catch phrase. He played smooth, upper-class comic roles. He appeared in the Carry On and Doctor in the House film series as well as BBC radio comedy series The Navy Lark. He acted with Peter O'Toole in Venus (2006). He provided the voice of the Sorting Hat in three Harry Potter films.

My nostalgic adverts are before these ones lol. 'We want to be together.' 'I want to play for Accrington Stanley.' And of course the first serial storylined one with Anthony Head. Gold Blend. The Go Compare ones when you had actors/famous people trying kill him like Stephan Hawking and the blackhole.

@BettyBordello

5 ай бұрын

Awwww we want to be togevvvaaaaaa loved that one

@wereleopard58yepihavetwo2

5 ай бұрын

@@BettyBordello Mark has been in so many things, but everytime I see him that is what goes through my mind first. But the fact so many people remember it and it was a fairly ordinary advert lol

@2rare2die100

5 ай бұрын

‘Accrington Stanley, who are they…?’

@wereleopard58yepihavetwo2

5 ай бұрын

@@2rare2die100 'Exactly.' Such classics.

The moment you did the eyebrows you destroyed me. I haven't laughed that loud in years! You are great!!

Being a kid in the 90s was rough. That Tango advert caused chaos, so many kids partially deafened from the slaps 🤣🤣🤣

The original soundtrack for the gorilla ad was Phil Collins, ‘Something in the air Tonight’