What TV advert have you described to younger colleagues at work and they think you've hallucinated?
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We were randomly talking in office and I remember the Honeymonster advert with Kevin Keegan. Peak 90s
Ok-Constant-2683@reddit
ARMADILLOS! Smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside...
hscbaj@reddit
You’re a bit thick really aren’t you?
GabberZZ@reddit
I'm pretty sure the wife and I quote this at least once a month.
Kuhneel@reddit
Thanks to YouTube, my kids also recite this ancient mantra.
DutchOfBurdock@reddit
Dime...bar...?
Ok-Constant-2683@reddit
And then they went and changed it to Daim...insult to injury
Moppo_@reddit
They shouldn't have called it Dime in the first place. Just use the original Daim and not have to correct it later.
Safe-Shape9377@reddit
That speeding one where the little girl literally uncracks and slides out from under a tree into the middle of the road
I still can't get my head around it to this day.
foxys70@reddit
I remember a weight loss supplement that was advertised a lot in the early 80s. It was fudge cubes called AYDS - discontinued because of the confusion between AYDS and AIDS. I believe they tried to rebrand but the company went bust after about 50 years of business.
Derezzed87@reddit
This Cadbury advert.
Misha_Bambi@reddit
Bud-wise-er. The frogs. No? Just me? Alrighty then lol
Derezzed87@reddit
Bud
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Bud Wise
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ffordeffanatic@reddit
Oh yes, do you remember the smear campaign against the ferret?
BlackStarDream@reddit
The Dairylea Dunkers One Million Years B.C. parody that disturbed millions of kids.
Spazhazzard@reddit
Very few people remember it but the first Xbox advert where a baby flies out of the mother, out the window, and ages as it flies through the sky and lands in a grave then ends with the tag line "life's too short, play more".
I think they only played it a handful of times before it was banned for complaints.
JaggersLips@reddit
Chewits, with the Godzilla.
SDHester1971@reddit
Chewier than Barrow in Furness Bus Depot
BALLCLASH@reddit
Okay, I've went YEARS not finding anything about this, but here goes.
There was an OXO or Bisto advert that was hilariously out of character for what they were advertising and there were two versions of the advert depending on what time of day it broadcasted, this was early 2000's, maybe 2003-2005.
Here's how it originally went:
Group of friends are sitting together at a dinner party, they're looking at family photos together, all laughing and joking, a woman at the dinner table then lifts a photo only for a rotund middled aged gentlemen near the table to remark with something along the lines of "Haha check the state of him, he looks like he's got man-boobs!" to which the woman responds with "That's... my mother", then cuts to a shot of everyone's stunned faces as the tagline for the product appears
Here's the ADULT twist:
For some inexplicable reason, there was a "post watershed" version of this advert that I can find absolutely no evidence of where after the rotund gentlemen makes the "man-boobs" comment, there is a brief shot of the gentlemen, now full bollock naked with his own man-boobs on display. The tagline then appears here.
SDHester1971@reddit
It was a Bisto Ad
Hitonatsu-no-Keiken@reddit
I vaguely remember it (the first one not the late night version), I don't remember what the product was though.
Decard_Pain@reddit
There was a bitching flake advert back in the day, was black and white on a boat in Venice a violin playing it was mega, attractive woman, you know good advertising. It would baffle kids today.
Neither_Presence_522@reddit
Most of the ones from my youth 🤣
Professional_Deal565@reddit
"Would you like some Hanky Panky madam?"
GruffScottishGuy@reddit
Nobody remembers having the Pot Noodle horn.
DutchOfBurdock@reddit
The slag of all snacks!
GruffScottishGuy@reddit
Got the Pot Noodle horn?
Ok-Bandicoot1109@reddit
Tony the tiger, grrrrreat.
BulkyTale117@reddit (OP)
PTSD of the "They're gonna taste great" advert.
Brontosaurus_rider@reddit
Lynx chocolate man advert
JaggersLips@reddit
Some of the IRN BRU ads were crazy, usually only lasted a week before they had to be altered or banned completely.
SnoopDeLaRoup@reddit
Beware the judderman my dear, when the moon is fat
Dark_Akarin@reddit
The Xbox one where a baby is launched out of a women and it flys through the air ageing into an old man before landing in a grave. Life is short, play more.
JaggersLips@reddit
That was Playstation.
suspicious-donut88@reddit
The beans means Heinz as where they go Dido diddly bomb dip a dip a dido di diddly obba dobba working on your bits...
pixeltash@reddit
No idea why, but this reminded me of "Daddy or chips" couldn't even tell you what brand it was for.
suspicious-donut88@reddit
"Sophie, who do you like best, Daddy or chips?" "Chips!"
McCain home fries, I believe.
NoExperience13@reddit
wendz1980@reddit
My pal’s parents ran a pub when this advert was o. The go. Pretty sure I still have coasters in the loft.
Alundra828@reddit
Strange, I have zero memory of this being played on British tv... I thought it was American only?
paulmclaughlin@reddit
Definitely showed here
MidnightRambler87@reddit
Thierry Henry spoofed it when scoring against Man United iirc?
MedicalCook6653@reddit
Smornoff ice's the judder mam
Or the Hamlet ads just because adverts for smoking seem so alien nowadays
sunkistandsudafed3@reddit
No one ever seems to remember the Metz advert but it has lived in my head for decades. There are at least two of us now!
beware the judder man my dear when the moon is fat
Accomplished_Bison87@reddit
The Judder Man has haunted me since I was kid. Most people I know remember it and it’s basically set the bar for creepy shit
unusually_named@reddit
Someone else who had nightmares about the judderman here! He still lives rent free in my head
Psycho_Splodge@reddit
Make that three, I loved that ad
Slightly_underated@reddit
I also have the judderman in my head. He appears when the moon is fat! Genuinely want to get a tattoo of him, but I think I would spend my life explaining what it is to people.
MedicalCook6653@reddit
Haha I am right there with you, he haunts my thoughts 😅
sunkistandsudafed3@reddit
I think it was the level of creepy that has forever burned him into my mind lol
RogueTrooper1975@reddit
The Metz advert reminded me of the OG Moomins series....eastern bloc and slightly terrifying.
Hairy-Blood2112@reddit
The Hamlet cigar ad I always remember and still laugh about, was the one where some chap and his date are in a restaurant. She laughs and ruffles her fingers through his hair. It pulls his wig off. She screams and runs out. The waiter steps forward hands him a Hamlet and strikes the match off his head. Music rolls.
professorbubbleworks@reddit
I SAID YOU CAN BUY ONE, YOU CAN GET ONE FREE!
takemeawayimdone2@reddit
The baldilocks advert, “oi baldy”. It was for boilers I think.
Extra-Sound-1714@reddit
Um bungo un bungo they make it in the jungle. Racism sold to kids.
JohnLef@reddit
Um bongo Um bongo, they drink it in the Congo
Arbdew@reddit
Are you telling me that a hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango. He stuck it with the others, and he danced a dainty tango? I can't imagine a hippo being dainty at anything.
JohnLef@reddit
not only that but the python picked the passion fruit, marmoset the mandarin, the parrot painted packets that the whole caboodle landed in. Honestly, they were all in on it.
RogueTrooper1975@reddit
True. So one can infer that when it comes to sun and fun and goodness in the jungle, they all prefer the sunny, funny one they call Um Bongo.
Extra-Sound-1714@reddit
Oh yes you are right. Googled and you can still buy it in Iceland.
Latter-Tangerine-951@reddit
Why do you think that's racist?
tallbutshy@reddit
SOCK!
boredathome1962@reddit
Adverts used to be a lot more sexy, lots of women in underwear etc. The oddest I remember was two, maybe three pretty women in underwear in an advert for marmalade... Just so unnecessary!
paulmclaughlin@reddit
Forbidden Paddington episode
GabberZZ@reddit
Only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate....
aje0200@reddit
My dad reckons he was in a tv advert in the 60s. Unfortunately we are yet to locate a copy so that could be just a hallucination.
QueenDeeDeeDee@reddit
Was trying to find the “just one cornetto” advert from the 90s/early 2000s to show a Portuguese colleague and was not able to find the exact one after scouring the internet for ages! Only older ones. The one that ends with “you’ll get me!”
colin_staples@reddit
Nicole…?
Papa…?
pixeltash@reddit
Out on ze pull again?
Punt and Dennis sketch
ResplendentBear@reddit
I haven't done this, but I feel the Tango adverts would qualify.
Or the "belly's gonna get ya" one.
ResplendentBear@reddit
Another one I just thought of
"Milky Way, chocolate that won't fill you up before dinner"
Yes kids, horse down as many Milky Ways as you like and you'll still have room for your turkey twizzlers. Childhood obesity, what's that?
ultimatewooderz@reddit
Yeah but the red car and the blue car had a race!
RianJohnsonIsAFool@reddit
"Belly's gonna get ya" still freaks me out. I hate how fast it moves.
SianBeast@reddit
Describing "belly's gonna get ya":
Well basically, this dudes running away from a gigantic beer belly riding a motorcycle across the rooftops and stuff while it repeatedly shouts at the runner "belly's gonna get ya". Eventually the runner gets away by clinging onto the roof ledge and the belly drives it's motorcycle over the edge and into a river.
Definitely sounds like a weird dream more than an advert. Lol.
It was both really good and really bad advertising imo - good in that it stuck with us for well over 20 years, terrible because I can never remember who's ad it is other than 'a sports brand'.. Nike maybe?
LeftSaidTed@reddit
Reebok! Only remember this because I had a Reebok jumper at the time. Nowadays it’s just the beer belly
Suspicious-Brick@reddit
I tried to explain the belly one to my other half last week (few years younger than me). Had to just show him in the end.
MyOverture@reddit
My dad used to chase me round the house shouting “belly’s gonna get ya” in his thick Scouse accent. I don’t think kids today will ever understand that fear
bladefiddler@reddit
My would-be stepbrother was in a lesser known 'sister ad' of the "belly" campaign. His was "sofa's gonna get ya" where a monster sofa tried to get him til he escaped the flat with a gym bag.
Tastetherainbow_2016@reddit
BELLY BELLY BELLY!
Meggery92@reddit
No one believed the ‘belly’s gonna get ya’ until I found a video. I can’t imagine that being an advert now!
ResplendentBear@reddit
I don't want to be that guy on social media, gammoning on that everythings gone woke and it wouldn't get made now, but it wouldn't get made now.
FrameSpecific1656@reddit
The man in the pyjamas who creeps down the stairs in the night to be a secret lemonade drinker.
pixeltash@reddit
R Whites R Whites
Kubrick_Fan@reddit
A car advert from the late 90s, either Saab or Volvo, I remember the car was driving on an airfield at full speed and the plane fires a heat seeking missile at the car and it misses.
Which_Performance_72@reddit
How it feels to chew 5 gum
I mentioned this after we saw someone get a bucket of water thrown over them and they had no idea
ffordeffanatic@reddit
The Budweiser frogs smear campaign against the ferret.
zagreus9@reddit
Its tough enough to make milk shaake!
GoldenGolgis@reddit
Everyone’s a Fruit And Nut Case
(I work in an NHS mental health hospital)
DeliciousAd3894@reddit
Renault Mégane with Mr vava voom
MidnightRambler87@reddit
Renault with Vic and Bob.
ukmint@reddit
Bobbie, what’s the French for vava boom?
Ok_Tomato4687@reddit
I think I hallucinated Fruitang ads because no one else remembers them
Nimble_Natu177@reddit
Kia-Ora advert, hard to believe its from the 80s.
ExcitementForgotten9@reddit
Then there's was the Um Bongo ad!!
HumanBeing7396@reddit
It’s too orangey for crows
GabberZZ@reddit
It's just for me and my dog.
ResplendentBear@reddit
Such a good advert, so many dubious racial connotations.
LillyAtts@reddit
Real_Salamander_2022@reddit
Irn Bru - "Come on, give your old grandad a sip"
ExcitementForgotten9@reddit
Blackcurrant Tango, "Come on France, Europe, The Worrrrld"
claridgeforking@reddit
https://youtu.be/w5j8GcG9u2g?si=eaML1GYYH5dsaQKz
Hamlets Cigars, luminous condom advert.
daekle@reddit
Everybody in the world loves Irn Bru
MontyBlight@reddit
Kinder, Yebo shakey, Me unscrabbly, Chocodooby, Doubly chocodooby, Whoops, wobble, he he hoo hoo hee, Yodel yum and choco scrum, With multi-populous toys, Oh grubbly! * Cuckoo. * Me scruble now, No-go, Wheeeeeeeee!
liglitterbug@reddit
The Goths in Summer Irn Bru advert. I was listening to the Undertones song and it brought back a memory that no one else seemed to have!
sal101010@reddit
I mean, I can still sing most of the Ribena Spring advert 🤣
Also, it's on YouTube so technically I could learn the bits I've forgotten too!
TheNorthernMunky@reddit
The MTV ringtones advert from 2001. Firstly, the monophonic ringtones we all had on our 3310s are like a Stone Age myth for kids today.
Also, underpants, hot chicks and baby oil.
OverTheCandlestik@reddit
the Judderman, explain that to the TikTok generation
SavageRabbitX@reddit
The Soft mints Mr Soft advert. The perfect visual representation of what it feels like to be on ketamine
Tastetherainbow_2016@reddit
What the crocodile hat was that??!?!!
PerfectChaosOne@reddit
I remember the cereal Bannana bubbles having a strange advert but no one seems to remember them existing at all.
Legitimate-Soil7109@reddit
The Metz Judderman ads
RetiredFromIT@reddit
"It's got to be easily turn off and on-able."
Says the tortoise in the Heat Electric Creature Comforts ads.
pencloud@reddit
Watch out, watch out... There's a Humphrey about!
Extra-Sound-1714@reddit
Programme, a rat joking with kids.
mad_saffer@reddit
Any one older than 40 years will remember Raj 1 and Raj 2, and Corsa, the lite side of life
DifficultCucumbers@reddit
British Pork.
Though I was the younger colleague in this case.
Antergaton@reddit
Whenever someone asks me to do them a favour, I answer "Plug me into a Sega."
I get odd looks no matter the age of them.
Secure-Property4926@reddit
I’m a secret lemonade drinker
Callis_tow@reddit
R Whites.... R Whites...
Pixiebel81@reddit
I suspect they wouldn't get the charm of JR Hartley's search...
ResplendentBear@reddit
I feel like that's the sort of sentimental crap that with a few tweaks would still get made now.
(The main tweak being it wouldn't be for Yellow Pages).
Pixiebel81@reddit
John Lewis at Christmas...
Additional-Nobody352@reddit
The tango slap adverts.
oliverprose@reddit
We've already got a messenger channel for films and TV which we think our younger colleagues need to watch (and surprisingly they haven't decided to turn it around on us for their references yet). I think adding mad adverts from the 90s might be a step too far though
crackerlackers@reddit
Fruitella... kid wandering around singing to all his family that he's too fruity (or juicy) for them
LaughingGravy1001@reddit
Ohhhhh Mr Soft, can’t you tell me why the world you are living in is soooo strange.
M27TN@reddit
The Natural Born Smoker
L-0-T-H-0-S@reddit
Lee Cooper ads in the late 70's - specifically the one with the Gary Numan "Don't be a dummy" track and the ubiquitous dummies.
GeggingIn@reddit
Mouse loose aboot this hoose.
G-Lamb-@reddit
Definitely belly’s gonna get ya
techbear72@reddit
Watch out, they taste curly.
DeemonPankaik@reddit
Berries and cream
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