What are some infamous TV commercials that still live in your head?
Posted by UnafraidScandi@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 402 comments
I saw this on AskReddit and was curious as someone who's lived in the UK close to 15 years but didn't grow up here.
What sort of infamous TV commercials do you still remember from your childhood? I went to a Connor Byrne comedy show a couple of years ago and he had the whole crowd singing a fairy liquid jingle that meant absolutely nothing to me
paintedpolkadot@reddit
The brand power ones always struck me as odd, I could never understand the point of a middleman advertising a product that the company themselves could pay to advertise?
BarleyWineStein@reddit
The red car and the blue car had a race...
NoTry8886@reddit
I wouldn't say this is 'infamous' but would say this is my favourite advert from Aldis -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uBo4esCZvE
Murphield@reddit
"For mash, get Smaaaaash"
horsethorn@reddit
He waits.
That's what he does.
pixeltash@reddit
Is this "tick follows tock follows tick follows tock"
Reading the thread I have that in my brain. No idea where from.
KezzaK2608@reddit
Yes! Guinness " White Horses" advert.
horsethorn@reddit
I think of it as the surfer advert, but yes.
https://youtu.be/U3JEORDUEqc?si=ZFZ-uyF73aHcgW56
horsethorn@reddit
Yes. The surfer
https://youtu.be/U3JEORDUEqc?si=ZFZ-uyF73aHcgW56
rockdecasba@reddit
Hi Barry Scott here
Novel-Case6821@reddit
BANG
Rocks_an_hiking@reddit
AND THE DIRT IS GONE
No-Department-4561@reddit
BYE, DIRT!
thelivsterette1@reddit
Makes me think of Horrible Histories and the Shouty Man parody 😆😆😂😂
Top-Cat-a@reddit
The irony is that Barry Scott isn't a real person and the Cillit Bang adverts were themselves a parody
thelivsterette1@reddit
Cilit bang was a parody? Of what? Obviously I know Barry isn't real haha
jizzyjugsjohnson@reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dT2iE1OBGk
lowemasterpro@reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-7NDP8V-6A
skibbin@reddit
Poor lads capslock is stuck on
12point75@reddit
Becks - 4 Steps
Featuring the Flaming Lips- It overtakes me.
eldunenorap@reddit
Judder Man
hoganpaul@reddit
Shackletons high chairs - "they're lovely"
badula-yama-yama@reddit
Belly belly belly !!! Bellys gonna get you !
Freak me out when i first saw it
iktw@reddit
"Ceilings! Cover well in Motherwell..."
OnlymyOP@reddit
All the "Charlie Says" Govt Adverts... there's no way those would be shown now without parental warnings on them....
arfur_narmful@reddit
I've got a Charlie Says t-shirt. My younger colleagues didn't get it & needed an explanation.
zombieroadrunner@reddit
But made a good sample for a rave track.
l0zandd0g@reddit
Meaw meaw, meaw meawwwwww
Itsamefranknfurter@reddit
https://youtu.be/CVOMK6YD6fw?si=RgPsRmQPTFRfzM8x
HMS_Hexapuma@reddit
Figuratively and literally. They were cut out of heavy construction paper with very dark tones. But then you see Americans watching UK safety adverts on YouTube and some of those are darker than I remember.
pixeltash@reddit
I (51) was describing them to my mum (85) and she was a bit traumatised at what she had thought were nice cat cartoons when I was a kid.
I tell you was traumatising the getting the kite/frisbee(?) from the power thingy, the death at the water side and oddly the wellington boot being eaten by the escalator. I was terrified of escalators, still hate them.
kapowey@reddit
FULL MOON…
mkaym1993@reddit
“HI IN BARRY SCOTT!
“BANG and the dirt is gone!”
Barry Scott shouting about how good Cillet Bang is will forever be ingrained in my brain
ianhawdon@reddit
Hoot Mon there's juice loose aboot this hoose!
Educational-Angle717@reddit
Theres one from probably early 2000's and it was advertising weed killer. Premise was this guy used the product but then it went off into some mad story about his wife leaving him, getting arrested doing time and all sorts and then at the end of the ad it goes 'But his lawn was still free of weeds'
Does anyone remember that? Ive been searching for it for ages.
EffortIndividual4490@reddit
Bodingtons beer ad with Melanie Sykes
EffortIndividual4490@reddit
Belly’s gonna get ya. Reebok ad from when I was a kid. We used to sing it to my dad and he would run after us with his belly out 🤣
StrictlyMarzipanOwl@reddit
Hoots Mon, there's juice...
Loose...
Aboot this hoos...
Dunraver@reddit
Every time my son borrows the car it comes back stinking like a filthy ashtray!
Bondutch88@reddit
Bellies gonna get you
Kubrick_Fan@reddit
YA BUY ONE YA GET ONE FREEEEEE!
GaversPhoto@reddit
The red car and the blue car had a race 😂
Cantseemtothrowaway@reddit
You know when you’ve been tangoed
IrrelevantPiglet@reddit
Um bongo um bongo
distantsmoggy@reddit
They drink it in the Congo
crucible@reddit
Yes
https://congogabriel.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/o-bom-sabor-de-la-selva/
OptimusPrime365@reddit
The hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango
sar_tr@reddit
He stuck it with the others and he danced a dainty tango.
feralhog3050@reddit
I made my kids (17 & 18) watch this the other week, they were baffled. And the Kia Ora ad (too orangey for crows, just for me and my dog)
Golden_Liechi@reddit
We had a whole club night themed on Um Bongo at Uni in 2015 total madness.
hebejebez@reddit
As soon as I saw the other thread op mentioned my brain went - way down deep in the middle of the jungleeee
SwivellyTwizlers@reddit
Half moon…
Mattehbby@reddit
My friend got done at school for racism for re-enacting this advert
Flowerofthesouth88@reddit
What happened?
Mattehbby@reddit
From what I remember he got sent to the headmaster don’t think anything came of it after he explained he was just copying the advert - we were like 8 at the time
One-Price680@reddit
I caught my friend eating Jaffa.cakes on her wedding day and put this in her wedding video
Affectionate-Owl9594@reddit
Total eclipse!
Ub3r_Bland@reddit
Thought about this too long and now I can’t stop singing daft jingles:
Oh yeeesssss! (The Churchill dog) I said you buy one you get one free, I SAID you buy one….. some windows company It’s not terrys, is mine (dawn french in the terrys chocolate orange adds Belly’s gonna get ya - Reebok I think
But my fav advert of yours can even have one was that cadburys one with the drumming gorilla
CameraImmediate2295@reddit
How could you forget Shake and Vac?!
Flowerofthesouth88@reddit
Definitely an earworm 😃
ramona1987@reddit
I have a feeling the 'something something' part in the hedgehog advert is 'you've gotta stop and look and you'll be', I could be wrong though
EmeraldDonk3y@reddit
Take care out on the street, use your head and then your feet, you gotta, stop and tink then you'll be... king of the roooaaad
sotondoc@reddit
Loved this summary, so many throwbacks. Although even at the time I never really understood the hype around Carbury/gorilla/Phil Collins ad
Books_Bristol@reddit
How about those epic Iceland Christmas ads of the kids opening presents which were super-imposed with Iceland bougie Christmas range?
Raspberry and pistachio pavlova! Pop and lock!
victoria-rainbow@reddit
I'd totally forgotten about chicken tonight!!
littleocean8@reddit
the british gas advert with the tiny world
karma3001@reddit
You’ve Been Tangoed.
Gave the rough kids permission to go round slapping both sides of your face hard, for a laugh.
Slutty_Foxx@reddit
I was waiting for this one
horsethorn@reddit
And alleged led to several people having their eardrums burst.
mayoramymay@reddit
Big session today
Affectionate-Owl9594@reddit
The Guinness ad with the horses
diggerorbigger@reddit
I asked my six year old the other day while he was eating chips, “who d’you like better, daddy or chips?” (Somehow resisting the attempt at a Welsh accent). He considered for a bit and said “both”
Alix_T_1865@reddit
i remember Sheila’s wheels!
rachelblank@reddit
daddy or chips was my absolute favourite ad when i was little!
olivetree13@reddit
That Guinness ad is cinematic
Evening-Tomatillo-47@reddit
And the John Smiths parodies
Siggi_Starduust@reddit
I remember to this day being off my face in the dance tent at T In The Park 1999 when Fatboy Slim dropped ‘Phat Planet’ (the Leftfield track that soundtracks the ad). The crowd went mental!
HMS_Hexapuma@reddit
"He waits. That's what he does. And you know what? Tick follows tock follows tick follows tock follows tick... Ahab says I don't care who you are, here's to your dream. The old sailors return to the bar. Here's to you Ahab! And the fat drummer hits the beat with all his heart.
Here's to waiting."
Designer_Lobster1291@reddit
"belly's gonna get ya"
Expensive-Dream-4872@reddit
I can't hear the songs "The Israelites" or "Into the valley" without thinking of the Maxell cassette adverts. "Me ears are alight" 😆
UncleJoesMintyBalls@reddit
One Christmas, my mate got a gag gift called 'Indicatears'. Like a set of car indicators, but they clipped to your ears.
Fast forward to New Year's Eve. I'm sat in his living room, completely fucking spangled on MDMA and mushrooms.
Desmond Dekker is on the telly.
In walks my friend.
Stands in front of me.
Perfectly timed to the music on the telly, he dances, he sings, "my ears are alight". His fucking ears light up. I transcend space and time and visit a dimension only filled with laughter.
For obvious reasons I don't remember much of that night but that moment will love with me forever.
Joanna1604@reddit
The red car and the blue car had a race,
All red wants to do is stuff his face,
He eats everything he sees, from trucks to prickly trees,
But good ol' blue he too the milky way.
Ok_Variation2090@reddit
My sister and I still song this one, we are late forties /early fifties
pixeltash@reddit
Oh no! The bridge is out!
JeanLuc_Richard@reddit
Poor Red can't carry on!
Wolfdarkeneddoor@reddit
All the classics. Tbh I don't much watch mainstream channels much these days so most current ads are a mystery to me these days. Though on the few occasions I see them they seem odd.
AtebYngNghymraeg@reddit
Hammerite, any old iron.
Kellog's Fruit and Nut, Ross Kemp playing golf.
Shake and Vac
feralhog3050@reddit
Also Angus Deayton in the Crunchy Nut Cornflakes ads of the same era
AtebYngNghymraeg@reddit
Oh yes! I'd forgotten those!
feralhog3050@reddit
A local ad, but it did make it onto Room 101 as an example of terrible local ads - 🎼 Don Amott, king of caravans, the price os right & the choice is yours 🎶
Inslia@reddit
Diam Armadillos!
shamone_mofo@reddit
Go Compare can fuck right off
feralhog3050@reddit
The very first Go Compare advert was quite amusing - two guys sitting in a bar discussing insurance, the opera dude shows up & starts singing, one of the guys says "he's only a tenner/tenor", deadpan, understated. Everything after that was just really irritating
jizzyjugsjohnson@reddit
He did
Ok-Cash-4257@reddit
It does what it says on the tin
Foundation_Wrong@reddit
Air on a g string. Known as Benson and Hedges to my generation. Everyone’s a fruit and nut case, sung to Tchaikovsky by posh man.
ramona1987@reddit
You buy one, you get one free, I said you buy one, you get one free!
Jackomo@reddit
ITT: OP and people not understanding the definition of infamy.
One-Price680@reddit
Bang! And the dirt is.gone
Roxygen1@reddit
Seeing this question, my brain decided to sing
washing machines live longer with Calgon!
So, that apparently
oscarsowner@reddit
Oh great. Thanks for the ear worm 😅
thelivsterette1@reddit
Same, I remember this from like toddler hood lol
pixeltash@reddit
The french version plays to the same tune.
Giant_Gaystacks@reddit
It's not just France!
Obvious-Challenge718@reddit
Yep. They are all the same.
Alix_T_1865@reddit
they call it Carglass instead i think
WannaBeChuckNorris@reddit
0800 00 10 66
thelivsterette1@reddit
Don't get that stuck in my head too 😂 Not so long ago I made the connection that it's Hastings Direct, Battle of Hastings 1066 which is v clever
SmashingK@reddit
I never made that connection 😆
PricklyBumgrape@reddit
I get this every time the washing machine is mentioned
DECKTHEBALLZ@reddit
They sell it in Scotland which only has soft water who is buying it?
Novel-Case6821@reddit
Still get some timescale etc build up, just less than hardware areas.
Disgruntled__Goat@reddit
It’s funny because those ads started at a time when jingles were seen as outdated and naff. And yet by being in a field of one they stood out and became memorable.
ArtichokeDesperate68@reddit
Forever living in my head!!
HyperAndStick@reddit
I'm gonna tell ya how it's gonna be, With Scotch's lifetime guarantee. Tape what you want, both night and day, Re-record not fade away Re-record not fade away..
Antique_Mix9293@reddit
Pea and ham from a chicken?! Now that's devotion for you
Illustrious-Log-3142@reddit
Just this morning I rewatched all the old 'Just one cornetto' ads
Diet coke break ad (just looked this up and I would have been 5!!)
Halifax Howard... Extra, extra, I know you want more
CNash85@reddit
Me too - the ice cream van was playing the tune so I had to go and watch them!
PerditaNicolette76@reddit
I do the vac, i do the shake n vac
PerditaNicolette76@reddit
Smash means Mash with the robot/droids
mildlydepression@reddit
Autoglass
JamesL25@reddit
Do you want Gavin to fill your crack with his special resin?
lapsongsue@reddit
Jizz all in your hair, jizz all on your face
Affectionate-Owl9594@reddit
Autoglass your face
Aggressive_Menu7271@reddit
1973 Lonely water. It's on YouTube. Scared me beyond belief!
hengehanger@reddit
Foster Grants.
AlucardVTep3s@reddit
TLC - Tummy Loving Care Call 118 Lloyds Bank owl noise one on the train Go Compare + Meerkat PG Tips Redbull gives you wings!
CMR1891@reddit
‘Julie knew her killer’. It absolutely traumatised me. The son is sat in the back behind his mum and hasn’t put his seatbelt on and they have a crash, he headbutts the back of mums seat and kills her.
My mum, at the time, worked with youths in the community and went to a road safety awareness course for them. They told them something like if there is a crash, even a small baby not wearing a seatbelt can generate force of a baby elephant.
It’s always stuck with me and I’ll never let anyone in my car that won’t wear a seatbelt!
ShotInTheBrum@reddit
Everything someone says they're going to London, I reply with, to buy a heat magazine?
Derezzed87@reddit
"I loike armadillos! Smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside! Armadillos!"
lizzie_knits@reddit
This one’s great for baffling the youngsters!
lithaborn@reddit
We showed it to our kids. Now they shout it at cookery shows too
DondeT@reddit
I do this too.
Masterchef talking about a croquette: “It was perfectly crunchy on the outside with a soft filling”
Me: ARMADILLOS!
thelivsterette1@reddit
I'm 25 and I don't know it 😆
lizzie_knits@reddit
You’re a youngster (from my perspective hahaha)
Derezzed87@reddit
Here.
martyrees76@reddit
O800 710723
No idea what it was for (maybe insurance) but it had a knight fighting a monster and chopping bits off …
Oh! A tundred! Sever one oh! Sever two, free!
Toenex@reddit
"The red car and the blue car has a race..."
Toenex@reddit
"Will it be mushrooms, fried onion rings? We,ll have to wait and see...."
HyperAndStick@reddit
TRIO! - Too Loud. TRIO - Crazy man.
We want to be... Smiths Crisps.
The biggest wasn't an advert, but an jingle for the adverts: Pearl And Dean.
cinesister@reddit
DA DAA DA DAA DA DAA DA DAA DADADA DA DAA DA DAA DA DAA DA DAAAAAA DA!
cinesister@reddit
Birdseye potato waffles, they’re waffley versatile….
Whenever I see them in the shop the song is in my head for hours afterwards.
mr_woodles123@reddit
Go compare opera dude. Wanted to throw something at his head.
Mattehbby@reddit
WONGAH
olivetree13@reddit
Crusha! Those cats still live in my head rent free
spikewilliams2@reddit
Joel Veitch special.
putowtin@reddit
I need some crusha, it's tough enough to make milk shake
Prodigious_Wind@reddit
The Kit Kat sheepdog ad
[url]https://youtu.be/q7ipplJywE8?si=WiuMI0b0lNhVro3K[/url]
Sphaer@reddit
Big John from Karelia Cars, Driffield Road, Market Weighton.
jaddodd@reddit
That (Premier Estates?) red wine advert with the strategically placed glass in front of an attractive dark-haired woman in an ivory dress describing the wine directly to you.
'So full of earth and spice',
Cut to medium shot of the woman revealing she's standing behind a low counter or table. She places the half-full wine glass on counter directly in front of her midrift whilst making her points to camera, supposedly not noticing the exact location of the glass, the red wine in stark dark contrast to the dress colour behind, and what the triangular shape of the wine in the glass could be suggestive of.
'Australia jumps right out of the glass: Some say you can actually taste the bush'.
Cue awkward realisation of glass location and suggested double-entendre, quickly pick up glass, exit stage right.
Repulsive-Echidna-74@reddit
Cillit Bang!
matherto@reddit
John West fisherman kicking a bear in the goolies
Stoie@reddit
"LOOK! AN EAGLE!"
Bitter_Mulberry3936@reddit
I hope it’s chips, it’s chips
X2seraphim@reddit
Belly’s gonna get you.
DrLucianSanchez@reddit
Theres a moose…loose ….aboot this hoose
TommyCheckers976@reddit
I wouldn’t say infamous, but when I was around 4-5ish(around 40 years ago) there was an amazing advert for Fry’s Turkish Delight. It’s something I’ve thought about every single day since. Mostly for the part where the guy cuts it in half with a Saracen sword
jaddodd@reddit
I don't know if it was ever released on TV, I think it might have been but only for a week or so, a UK Ford Street KA advert.
The set up is there's a medium shot from some trees of a new black Ford Street KA in right profile parked in the kerb across the road, with a pigeon on a branch in the tree in the foreground. The pigeon takes flight directly towards the KA, is if to land on it. As the pigeon crosses the bonnet, the bonnet violently opens hitting and stunning the pigeon, which then arcs and falls left, into the road, and remains inert. The bonnet slowly closes, and the tag line appears, 'The new Ford Street KA: The KA:s Evil Twin'. Fade to black.
I know it went viral online, and I think it did air on TV, but there was quite a backlash on the second ad on the same theme involving a cat and a sunroof, and it was either pulled or never showed.
Can anyone else confirm if they aired or has the Internet altered my memory?
Born_Current6133@reddit
The pot noodle one where a lawyer was saying if you’ve found poodle in your pot noodle you could be entitled to compensation. Convinced my little brother to stop eating them.
ChristyMalry@reddit
__rad@reddit
FAT PIGEON!!
and “D’ya wanna flake in that luv?”
sailormikey@reddit
You know when you’ve been Tangoed!
Alright Robbie, let’s get an action replay!
hutchzillious@reddit
Re-Record, Not Fade Away
Naughty-Stepper@reddit
Take two bottles into the shower? Not me……… / gotang(I still have doll in box addressed to Gentle Earwig) / & smash makes mash
Serberou5@reddit
Webuyanycar.com webuyanycar.com webuy anycar.com any any any any........
wreckinballbob@reddit
The beans, the taste, the aroma.
All-Hail-The-Ale@reddit
That tap on the shoulder and a naked orange guy stands behind you and slaps you in the face.
You know when you've been Tangoed!
apeliott@reddit
The Nutralia nipple advert.
thelivsterette1@reddit
I read that as Nutella and was confused as fuck 😂😂
wolfwynd@reddit
I had to go back and re-read after this comment as I too read it as Nutella 😄
apeliott@reddit
Hey, I think we have an idea for a new advert here...
shamone_mofo@reddit
Only ever seen it once and my dad swore blind I was a liar
apeliott@reddit
There's a photo of it here
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/no-63-neutralias-nipple/1181260
shamone_mofo@reddit
Just watched it again and shouted up to the sky to me Dad " see I weren't lying you old focker "
Kyber92@reddit
YA BUY ONE, YA GET ONE FREE
Reesy@reddit
Belly's gunna get ya, hilarious 😄
wolfwynd@reddit
That one petrified me as a kid
Equivalent_Half883@reddit
This is what popped into my head too 🤣
SirQuay@reddit
I kept quoting this one at my sister when she watched The Summer I Turned Pretty where the main character's nickname is Belly.
lindymad@reddit
Pretty much every single one of the Hamlet cigar ads were comedy legend. They are worth watching on youtube if you aren't familiar with them.
lindymad@reddit
Oooooh oooooh Vitalite
grapo2001@reddit
The Barclaycard adverts with Rowan Atkinson
Pier-Head@reddit
Shake n Vac
grapo2001@reddit
Trainline choo choo choo advert
Perfect-Ad-1774@reddit
Lifes short, play more. xbox
RandomHero80@reddit
Screaming, right into your grave.
Groundbreaking-End92@reddit
Relax dear, it's just a commercial
RandomHero80@reddit
Go west! It's Ambrosia! The Colemans stroke cow invading that family dinner And for a true definition of infamous, the Original Xbox baby ad. Banned after like a week or two.
Sweet-Relative-2832@reddit
Trebor soft mints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaTRCHbG_IA
atillathekitteh@reddit
Stretching things a bit but the Honda advert that was aired in the cinemas too. Have the dvd of it knocking around somewhere
Sometimes things just work.
SkullFaceMermaid@reddit
“Beware the judderman my dear”
james_s_docherty@reddit
Hello Tosh, gotta Toshiba.
Curious_Peter@reddit
What will it be for tea tonight
jizzyjugsjohnson@reddit
WE HOPE ITS CHIPS ITS CHIPS. WE HOPE ITS CHIPS
(N.b. it wasn’t for chips)
Sparky833@reddit
Give me back that Filet O' Fish, Give me that fish ooooooooooooooooh
J_Cross_@reddit
The learn direct ones with the kids asking for help with their maths homework. The dad says to just use a calculator, the kids reply that that's cheating and then this monster thing comes out from its hiding place to say to him "bad dad, very bad dad" - I say this multiple times a week to my husband. And a local radio and jingle that we both sing at each other " call G Moore skips on Bedford, 85700" it had a rather jaunty tune and it worked, the company no longer exists but I still know their number!
alighieri85@reddit
Fat Slags for lucozade
YorkshireMary@reddit
A Mars a day helps you work rest and play.
Everyone' a Fruit and Nutcase.
A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat. A finger of fudge is just enough until it's time to eat. It's full of Cadbury goodness and very small and neat. A finger of fudge is just enough until to give your kids a treat.
mbridge2610@reddit
There’s a moose loose aboot this hoose
CameraImmediate2295@reddit
The Gold Blend romantic ads
The Bisto Gravy Family
The Milk adverts
Plenty of the Guinness ads, especially the dancing guy, Ruther Hauer and Michael Fassbender
Arthur the Cat
Chambourcee (not sure how to spell it!) Shh... don't tell the children!
P. G Tips chimps
Tetley tea
Danish Bacon
Shake and Vac
The list is endless!
Business_Act_127@reddit
Calm down Dear, it's only a commercial.
LanaMorrigan@reddit
Princess help us! The witch of the forest has stolen the daylight, climb up and release the spell! But I can’t climb up there… yes you can, just trust your magic shoes! MaGiC sHoEs?! Clarke’s magic steps - shoes fit for a princess.
Siggi_Starduust@reddit
Papa…
LanaMorrigan@reddit
Nicole.
LordBurts75@reddit
Oh its chips its chips ,
KezzaK2608@reddit
"One cup of chai", "Fillet of fish, for my wife" - A day on the life of McDonald's advert
Alix_T_1865@reddit
Ribena, with ‘in the summertime’.
also 3 with ‘Dance Pony Dance’
Upbeat-Fish-3348@reddit
0800 00 1066 jingle from Hastings was always a favourite for me, there's also the iconic 2008 Barclays waterslide advert and a local one to me from a company called Frank's Flooring where a man would shout "I love carpets, me!"
mhoulden@reddit
Specsavers did a parody of the waterslide one where he goes down the tube into a skip: https://youtu.be/Th79ZfXR4qs?si=t4gzXzUdd-ovdA0k
Different-Wolf-5478@reddit
Tan-gooooo!
AndrewHinds67@reddit
E L S is the biggest choice yes. Yes yes!
modesthelen@reddit
Give me yop, me mama, Yop me mama
sunflowersunset1@reddit
O eight hundred, double-O, ten sixty six!
modesthelen@reddit
Was looking for this!
AndrewHinds67@reddit
0, 8, 9, 8, 8, 55 00 55 - CHATLINE!
Hot-Satisfaction19@reddit
way down deep in the middle of the congo, a hippo took an apricot a guava and a mango…
Hot-Satisfaction19@reddit
way down deep in the middle of the congo, a hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango…
shoulditdothat@reddit
TRIO!!!
Hot-Satisfaction19@reddit
Commenting on What are some infamous TV commercials that still live in your head?..TRIIIIIOOO! i want a trio and i want one now!
Derbadian@reddit
GINO OH GINO GINELLI
jetpilots1@reddit
I think of the old Oasis advertisement featuring Ruberduckzilla every now & again.
WannaBeChuckNorris@reddit
It’s not even a tv commercial from my country, but long long man
ConceptUnusual@reddit
https://youtu.be/LQsMp4Oo6xM?si=SZFfUHT93oxzX5pS
ConceptUnusual@reddit
r/fuckyouchichan
TheLastTamagotchi@reddit
Ho ho ho, green giant!
Gimme YOP me mamma, smoooooth YOP me mamma, gimme YOP me mamma when the morning comes
Porterjoh@reddit
"How can you lay your hands on several thousand pounds cash?"
"I dunno...raid my savings?"
EvieMoon@reddit
Cats with thumbs!
giraffe_cake@reddit
Buy a bike! Buy a bike!
PUMAAAAAAAAAAAA@reddit
Badum badum badum baudm
reverandglass@reddit
Carling Black Label,
You've been Tangoed,
Ariston and on and on and ...
Scotch Skeleton,
The man from Milk Tray, and the Gold Blend lovers
External_Science6849@reddit
Don’t tap it! Whack it!
Crimson-One@reddit
Can hate be good? - Honda
Let's go Barbie girl scoot scoot - Barbie (also this advert seems to be impossible to find, I'd think it was a fever dream if other people didn't also remember it)
0800 00 1066 - Hastings direct
I've had an accident - underdog (Joe Pasquale voiced)
Anything for you cupcake - hotels4u
Gorilla on drums playing Phil Collins - Cadbury
Wardi_Boi@reddit
The Cup'o'Soup monster
Ambitious-Rhubarb603@reddit
Calm down dear, it's only a commercial!
Also vaguely remember daz washing powder having a continual soap opera style run of adverts?
Acrobatic-Rabbit2660@reddit
The one where the bloke is trying to get his dog to say walls and he says sausages or is it the other way round? My memory not too good lol.
The Cadburys one with the gorilla and Phil Collins music.
The tango one.
I feel like chicken tonight. Chicken tonight.
Milky bar kid.
Crusha! I want some crusha, it’s full of fruit and tastes so great. Crusha a bit of Crusha, it’s good enough to make milkshake.
I kinda remember a milk one with the cows but can’t remember how it goes
glowingsnakeplant@reddit
OH EIGHT HUNDRED DOUBLE OH……. TEN SIXTY SIX
Z_starmix@reddit
Mortgage point….
PuppyGirlRya@reddit
Oh eight hundred double oh!
Ten sixty six!
Cyvain87@reddit
I can’t believe this one hasn’t been mentioned yet! Surely I can’t be the only one….
Hoots Mon! There’s juice loose about this hoose!
Toastieboy420@reddit
No I ain’t too big and I ain’t too small but for car insurance give Sainsbury’s a call
I can save you money keep your premiums down by as much as 180 pounds
Little Bill…
Little Billllll
Little Biiii-iilll
Little tiny Bill
depressedblondeguy@reddit
"Got any leeches for this?" Suppose its only stuck with me because we had a teacher at school when this advert was running called Ms Leech
puppyk@reddit
"You know when you've been tango'd". Together with "fat pigeon"
MaleficentFun76@reddit
WAAAZZZUUUPPPP
Responsible-Sundae84@reddit
We're travelling intercity like the men do,
Intercity sitting pretty all the way
Responsible-Sundae84@reddit
the red car and the blue car had a race...
OK_LK@reddit
It's just for me and my dog
I'll be your dog
Kia-Ora, a doggy, doggy, doggy, doggy
umbrella-up@reddit
"For mash get Smash" yum yum
MyUserNameLeft@reddit
Can anyone find the ad of a young girl maybe around 14/15/16 running away from home. She then meets a man in a car in an alleyway. Then she is being kept in kis kitchen with a dirty cover and being forced to take some sort of pill. It was an add to stop kids running away from home (I think) this was maybe 2005 to 2010? Maybe. If anyone could find this or remembers this it would be amazing. I found it once around 2016 but have never been able to find it again and it scared the shit out of me
ExcitementVivid1553@reddit
The red car and the blue car had a race...
I find myself singing it when my son plays with his cars lol.
Low_Mistake3321@reddit
Geoffrey Palmer deadpanning "slam in the lamb".
FinancialBread4660@reddit
Kid one: Accrington Stanley? Who are they? Kid two:…..”exactly “
Low_Mistake3321@reddit
"Acccchhhhrington Stanley?"
YOF626@reddit
Re-record, not fade away, re-record not fade away
Original_Thanatos@reddit
On, and on, and on, and on, and Ariston...
CobaltBlue389@reddit
Grew up in North West England. Havent lived there for 25 years now.
Yet "St Helens Glass, has the class!" still pops into my head, occasionally.
Appropriate-Row4534@reddit
Only the crumbliest, milkiest chocolate...
heatheroanthehill@reddit
Ice cold Coke on the back of my throat saying hello Summer time.
yarders1991@reddit
Any of the Irn bru adverts, always so close to the bone. But the fire irn bru one is the king for me
Appropriate-Row4534@reddit
You do the shake and vac...
littlepurplepanda@reddit
I may be a banker who’s completely obsessed But I can tell you something that’s bound to impress Our current accounts pay at higher amounts With extraordinary interest…
TreadingBoards@reddit
It was for irn bru 32... WAKEYYYY WAKEYYYYY
Golden_Liechi@reddit
The Viking River cruises music is tattooed (?) onto my brain after being a sickly child whose mother used Poirot and Marple to entertain me.
victoria-rainbow@reddit
Also Kelloggs Fruit and Fibre - "I I I I I I like you very much, I I I I I I like your flakes"
And the Weetabix one to the tune of I Will Survive - I just remember something like "aren't you the man who owns the colourblind bull?" and being too young to understand why that would matter
Firm-Painting-9630@reddit
From time to time I open my dressing gown in the bathroom and shout 'have you got any leeches for this?'
TruthfulRepugnance@reddit
"A finger of fudge is just enough to give the kids a treat" 👆
blarfblarf@reddit
If your lawn is a farce, weeds a right pain in the grass.
Simply shake this on and in a week...
trumpets ba ba ba ba ba ba ba.
CHEER UP EVERGREEEN!!
littlepurplepanda@reddit
Makes it lush and green
It’s the easy peasy way to
Get the lawn of your dree-eeams!
Kitchen-Lab-2934@reddit
The red car and the blue car had a race…
victoria-rainbow@reddit
Full moon, half moon, total eclipse! (Jaffa Cakes)
118 118, got your number!
The Budweiser frogs
The only reason I remember when the Battle of Hastings took place is because of the Hastings Direct advert (0800 00 1066)
The Kit Kat advert that said "you are not a salmon" (I don't know why, that's all I remember about it)
And for anyone from Teesside, some vintage radio ads - "Simply the best, South Cleveland Garages!" and "Hey you! Yes, you! Do you smell? If you do, that's probably because you're feeble minded." (Tecaz - my brother and I used to quote this all the time)
Fickle_Scallion_5410@reddit
I literally still sing "South Cleveland Garages" every time I hear that song!
victoria-rainbow@reddit
Me too! I remember it came on at school prom (many years ago) and everyone sang it!
DECKTHEBALLZ@reddit
THINK "Julie" traumatised 6 year old me lots of the safety/PSA ones (Irish ones are even worse). And that one where the boy gets electrocuted going after his sisters toy at the substation.
Novel-Case6821@reddit
Omg have you seen the drive slow on country roads one atm? It's horrible and I get the message but I don't know what the little thing is that he takes from the table and it's on the road after the crash? And it bugs me.
thelivsterette1@reddit
ChatGPT could help solve that one
Defiant-Tackle-0728@reddit
For those of a certain age it has to be the BT ads with Maureen Lipman.
"You got an Ology, you're a Scientist".
EBfarnham@reddit
Cats In The Cradle
Has lived in my head, rent free, for decades.
pixeltash@reddit
Good grief, I don't recall ever seeing that before.
EBfarnham@reddit
It was shown on BBC NI back in the day, but we could get the signal down South.
It was quite a hard hitting ad, especially for a child. Effective too, because I never became a terrorist.
pixeltash@reddit
Congratulations on not becoming a terrorist, was that in any doubt?
That makes sense, I'm in England no wonder I hadn't seen it.
strangercheeze@reddit
“Classic from Castella: For the man that thinks that little bit bigger!”
The Castella cigar adverts with Russ Abbot.
Scratchy-cat@reddit
The cute headgehogs teaching how to safely cross the road, I actually showed it to my child a few years ago as I think it's a good advert
droideka_bot69@reddit
Pg tips.
gpfudge98@reddit
0800 00 1066
solcuerda@reddit
I'm Ray Gardner, I drink Blackcurrant Tango. COME AND GET ME!
OkAwareness9287@reddit
Um bongo. They drink it in the Congo.
Short-Shopping3197@reddit
OH EIGHT NINE ONE…
FIFTY! FIFTY! FIFTY!
Also as a Brummie the Stechford tiles radio ad jingle still ear worms me randomly.
hermanzergerman@reddit
Big ones, small ones, patterned or plain If you call in once, you'll have to call again Your one stop shop, we've got the lot Get it all at Stechford Tiles!
Not even thought of that song for 25 years and there you. Embedded, hard-wired.
Short-Shopping3197@reddit
I even heard the two notes at the end just from reading it 😂
AtebYngNghymraeg@reddit
Wasn't that Gay Chat?
PricklyBumgrape@reddit
0891 50 50 50 was chatback
AtebYngNghymraeg@reddit
Ah yes, now I think of it, gay chat was 0891 35 35 35.
BaronSamedys@reddit
"Gimme Yop, me mama."
Mini cheddars advert with the mice.
Itsamefranknfurter@reddit
The irn bru advert of the old lady on the mobility scooter ramraiding a shop https://youtu.be/U5B3Ogu-rvk?si=iVI8KR86u6TVAcuj
Or the irn bru fanny advert https://youtu.be/IcKlVojfMD4?si=Ww_nxbYtrCDmkJdL
notyourcupofteamate@reddit
First one round that tree gets a dunk in my Dairylea dunker!
Pizzagoessplat@reddit
"I want to be....a tree!"
Skydance1975@reddit
Guinness ad with the horses -iconic 'Get your coat love, you've pulled' - Yet I can't remember what the ad was for. Levi ad with Nick Kamen stripping off in the launderette - you can probably guess why..
Edie_Starbright@reddit
The Incredible Anchor Spreadable weeble n bob cows
pencloud@reddit
Will it be chips or jacket spuds?
KimonoCathy@reddit
For mash get Smash
bananagit@reddit
Autoglass repair, Autoglass replace
YorkshirePug@reddit
You buy one, you get one free ...
CalmStomach3@reddit
This
Itsamefranknfurter@reddit
Wasn't that the window company Safestyle
DesperateWorth7539@reddit
I said you buy one,, you get one free...
Itsamefranknfurter@reddit
Cillit bang " one spray the dirt is gone"
MegsSixx@reddit
The tango advert mostly because kids were copying the slaps in the playground lol
sophiemoores@reddit
Gavin from autoglass
skibbin@reddit
Daddy... or chips?
EldritchCleavage@reddit
Too orangey for crows
eidolon_eidolon@reddit
The Juddernan advert for Metz back in the late 1990s. Creeped me out then as a teenager and it still creeps me out now when I think about it.
Strange_Aeons86@reddit
The judderman
ChampagneandXanax@reddit
‘Beware the Judderman, my dear, when the moon is fat’
Giant_Gaystacks@reddit
Chocka-doobie. Dobbie-chocka-doobie!
Proud-Biscotti-6194@reddit
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuits, join our club.
p3zzl3@reddit
For mash get smash. Orrr 0716009000
Realistic_Let3239@reddit
Skeletor getting way too carried away with his car insurance.
Appropriate_Rub_961@reddit
Le crisp... le crunch...
Educational-Candy-99@reddit
🎶 Mild green... Fairy Liquid 🎶
ChrisC1984@reddit
The Heineken roadworks and Ray Liotta adverts.
The Sure martial arts advert was also a favourite
kwakimaki@reddit
Jif Microliquid, where are you?
Purely because of the episode of Bottom where Richie feeds it to Eddie, "Up the nose or not at all!"
Legal-Astronomer7716@reddit
You can do it too with Kandoo!
Ajay-1992@reddit
I'm a freelance scientist..
cafffffffy@reddit
The Halifax advert…
Why don’t you think THINK about your current account today? I said think THINK THINK that’s what I’ve got to saaaay. Push, push, push! Push that interest rate up hiiiigh. Push that interest up and watch your money multiply! Get extra! (Extra) extra! (Extra) EXTRAAAAA!
This lives rent free in my head on at least a monthly basic
Spaceship7328@reddit
The Kinder Humpty Dumpty advert
Alone-Requirement945@reddit
*Must be read in a Liverpool accent
"Accrington Stanley? Who are they?"
Dizmondmon@reddit
Snowbaaalll please...... and a Fosters for me.
premium_transmission@reddit
“Apples, Hazelnuts, Bananas Raisins, Coconuts, Sultanas”
featuring Ross Kemp
pixeltash@reddit
Here's what they all reply "They're tasty tasty very very tasty, they're very tasty"
BeefCentral@reddit
"0891....50 50 50!"
banana_cookies22@reddit
Cheer up evergreeeen, makes lawns lush and green, its the, easy peesy way to, get the lawn of your dreams 🎶 🐸
wazza20004@reddit
bang and the dirt is gone!
Pukit@reddit
Umbongo was the first. Belly’s gonna get ya, the second and the third was the John West salmon adverts. All genius.
antmakka@reddit
Hello Tosh gotta Toshiba?
Evening-Tomatillo-47@reddit
Re record, not fade away
PricklyBumgrape@reddit
Oh Eight Nine One FIFTY FIFTY FIFTY
kzrk1@reddit
for ladies who enjoy their cars, sheila’s wheels are superstars..
don’t just book it, Thomas cook it.
Thomson holidays… built with you in mind
PityPartySommelier@reddit
"Cadburys Boost. Slightly rippled with a flat underside and can help you build a space station from lovely lemons and orange squash"
Radio ad with Vic & Bob
IndividualCurious322@reddit
Cravendale... milk so good, the cows want it back! Mooooooooo!
On a related note, I love how Arla (the parent company of Cravendale) made some billboard ads at the time implying that the cows had murdered people to get the milk back.
bijoux247@reddit
For decades!! I don't know why this stuck so hard and so long Robin Hood Weetabix
pixeltash@reddit
Does he retreat back to Sherwood? Course he should, course he should, course he should.
bijoux247@reddit
Have you had your Weetabix??
Dissidant@reddit
The tango adverts schools had to actually ban the kids off from reenacting them
Pepperami with Ade Admondson (off Bottom)
That guiness advert with the "Guaglione" music.
Also those Jack Dee John Smith adverts about widgets and penguins
Some old blank VCR tape advert with a skeleton "re-record, don't fade away" lives rent free in my head
When people actually watched the tele instead of streaming there were loads of funny ones
pixeltash@reddit
"widget, it's gotta widget, a lovely widget it has got"
TheSaintPirate@reddit
Scotch vhs
HMS_Hexapuma@reddit
"If Donald's so smart, where's his troosers?"
panjandrumbello@reddit
The Daz doorstep challenge
Dazzling-Dress-6150@reddit
R.Whites lemonade! Earliest I remember - 'Snap, crackle and pop!' (Kellogs Rice Crispies) and 'Put a tiger in your tank!' (Esso petrol?)
LoudCar7846@reddit
R. White’s: I'm a secret lemonade drinker:
Fugidinha@reddit
Not a commercial but does anyone remember the tv show Brum.
Wtf were they smoking when they came up with that
lithaborn@reddit
I lived in birmingham city centre at the time and genuinely never saw them filming.
Puzzled-Lunch-6558@reddit
Getting "Tango'd" - think it might have been banned after multiple incidents of folk getting banjoed at school...
The Grolsch aliens' high pitched laugh at their pals always cracked me up
Guinness tick follows tock follows tick at the beach with horses.
Several banned Irn Bru ads.
Thierry Henry saying Renault had je ne sais pas
The Nike cage football ad - so many god tier footballers in one ad
ElvishMystical@reddit
For me it's the Hamlet ads, especially the Rab C Nesbitt one in the photo booth. Comedy gold.
I grew up in Yorkshire, which means that I've got the Shackletons high seat chair ad imprinted on my brain.
Then there were the Birds Eye beefburgers.
Then you had the talking horses of Websters Pennine Bitter.
pleasedontwearthat@reddit
I will never not say frisée and rocket in accordance with the Florette ad.
thanks_akka@reddit
Quite a lot. To name just a few:
National Accident Helpline advert featuring the woman with a huge fringe slipping on wet floor of a foyer/reception that was unmarked and she sued.
Tampax ad from the early 90s set to Dr Alban's It's My Life.
The Marmite adverts with a jingle based on the 70s song Low Rider.
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our CLUB!
Flat Eric in the Levi advert.
A Vanish advert from the 90s with a very pissed off looking girl jumping up and down in a rage.
Just one Cornetto, give it to me.
sadsack100@reddit
Do the Shake n Vac...
pixeltash@reddit
And put the freshness back
pixeltash@reddit
It's too orangey for crows, it's just for me and my dog - kiora
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our CLUB - club biscuits
TRIO! TRIIIIOOO! - trio chocolate biscuit.
And in reply to your original question.. hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green fairy liquid.
lithaborn@reddit
Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside
ARMADILLOES!
elodierae@reddit
Baldy, baldy, baldy locks and the three hairs
Hello supermodel - got a boyfriend yet? Nah wouldn’t hold your breath neither
Advert for boilers
Billy_Hicks88@reddit
“You could buy that horse of yours, let alone back it!”
After about the tenth year that ad was still being played I genuinely started to wonder if it was just going to be on forever.
TheSaintPirate@reddit
Um-bungo Crunchy with the roller coaster JR Heartly Shake and Vac
HeartyBeast@reddit
Black current Tango https://youtu.be/odCBml5TuNI?si=1kzkCg_R_VWCM9eZ
Key_Butterscotch1009@reddit
you want a flake in that love
redseaaquamarine@reddit
You do the shake and vac and put the freshness back🎵
gr33nday4ever@reddit
vimto - 'dads pants'
frosties - 'they're gonna taste great, i can hear the sound of frosties hitting me plate' (though this makes me sad bc i think the guy is no longer with us due to the hate he got for it)
pixpix89@reddit
Take care out on the street, use your head and then your feet. Don’t run out like a fool, take your time and play it cool. If you don’t stay alert, you could end up getting hurt. You gotta STOP and think that you’ll be…King of the Road!
FarOutcome2116@reddit
0800 00 1066!!
HanakenVulpine@reddit
Just one Cornettoooooo
Give it to meeeeeeeeee
De-licious ice cream
From I-ta-lyyyyyy
Different_Market_917@reddit
"Goodness gives him puff, he leaves her in the buff, so he can go chuff-chuff, while his redeemer, slips away to pastures greener, she'll pick you up with Ovaltina".
Pircster38@reddit
A Double Diamond works wonders so drink one today.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/7kfRM-IZTXE
Ok-Bench9164@reddit
Bellies gonna getcha
Nooodlepip@reddit
For weeks now I’ve had the “wiggly worms you just can’t catch ‘em” song stuck in my head.
But my favourite was the Skoda(?) advert where they make the car out of cake.
XSjacketfiller@reddit
For early childhood I remember something about cows chasing away lawnmowers for 'Anchor butter & green green grass' (who knows what that was) and a dinosaur using two double-decker buses as rollerskates for Chewits ('he likes to chew it') presumably in revenge for being measured against them all this time.
Also who can forget Michael Winner's face when he was rear-ended.
benderbrodriguez2@reddit
Oak FurnitureLand…”I GIVE THE KNOCK! knock knock! ON WOOD!”
Original-Chemical176@reddit
Launa windows if you were living in the west country the launa man can
https://youtu.be/b61XyOnmlMo?si=7SCmQC3nnR7jtioy
benderbrodriguez2@reddit
Mazuma, Mazuma, sell your old phone! We give you cash and find it a new home!
Equivalent_Half883@reddit
Scottish smoking advert with the girls running 😄
Sad_Breakfast_5596@reddit
Golden coin maker!!!
benderbrodriguez2@reddit
And the Chocolate Lolly Maker!
One_Firefighter8426@reddit
https://youtu.be/fsCrI-JmhgM?si=zEJpxbAduY84ocWr
People would spontaneously combust if this was on TV these days
amytee252@reddit
BANG! And the dirt is gone!
Westy2691@reddit
The Chelsea Building Society one https://youtu.be/U99TPenWEbY?si=lFD-OMmV2_XfGE7w
Pricklestickle@reddit
If you're talking really infamous, rather than just famous, the St John's Ambulance ad where a guy beats cancer and then chokes to death on a burger sticks out.
benderbrodriguez2@reddit
You wannaaaaaaa be at Connooooooolly’s. Of. Moy!
New_Book131@reddit
“Hope it’s chips, it’s chips” 🎶
JamesL25@reddit
Autoglass repair, Autoglass replace
branniganfringe@reddit
TJ waste and recycling 🎶 WE'LL TAKE IT!
branniganfringe@reddit
Kavs for lavs - in Birmingham in 1990s
CourtneyLush@reddit
"For mash, get smaaassh"
Grouchy-Nobody3398@reddit
Well that makes a refreshing change.
rosegoldqueen28@reddit
"Baldy! Baldy! Baldylocks and the three hairs!"
Anonimoose15@reddit
Day-oh, day-a-a-oh! Need a bowl of Kellogg fruit and fibre, breakfast come and me want some fun!
YourLocalMosquito@reddit
My sister says if I eat her Breakaway she’s going to burst my balloon.
In a very scouse accent.
BalthazarOfTheOrions@reddit
Belly's gonna get you, belly's gonna get you!
musicallymotivated93@reddit
Belly's gonna get yaaaaaaaaaa
mildlydepression@reddit
Coco pops and milk 🫣 its gonna taste grrrrreat
Glittering-Bus-5546@reddit
Maybe she’s born with it? maybe it’s maybelline
Hot-Marionberry-5978@reddit
Noodle Doodle went to town with lots of straight spaghetti, Twisted it around and around, now this is what you getty.
Noodle-doodle-doodle-doodle motor cars, Noodle-doodle-doodle-doodle houses, Noodle-doodle-doodle-doodle butterflies, Eeeeeek! Noodle Doodle mouses!
Twisted them around around around, now this is what you getty, Noodle-doodle-doodle-doodle railway trains, Noodle-doodle-doodle-doodle aeroplanes, Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Noodle Doodle mouses!
throwaway4477229@reddit
Ariston...and on...and on...
TimeCharacter3137@reddit
🎶 You put the lime in the coke you nut 🎶
Disgruntled__Goat@reddit
I’m wasting away!
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