TV advert reminiscences

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Was it Rowntree that had a TV advert with the punch line...."Don't forget the fruit gums, chum"?

 

[Waldgrun]

Whos nuts where stated to be Jungle fresh?

 

[Typhoon]

Was it Rowntree that had a TV advert with the punch line...."Don't forget the fruit gums, chum"?

I remember it as "Don't forget the fruit gums, mum" - a plea from some kid, looking sorry for themselves, to use some of the family shopping money on an unhealthy purchase (not that we saw it like that). It might have changed later (if mums were fed up with being hastled). Yes, Rowntree's.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Just remembered the Cadbury one...."Everyone's a Fruit and Nut Case".

 

[Waldgrun]

Nearly a week ago, I asked; "Whos nuts where stated to be Jungle fresh?", and not one nibble! So I will give the answer, Golden Wonder
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I remember it well, as it featured on a Watchdog section of Nationwide the BBC's weekday early evening news program. In this section I am sure it was presented then by Valerie Singleton and Richard Stilgoe, who gave the advice that one should not eat nuts "Jungle Fresh" due to fact that the nuts had to be treated before being consumed!

 

[Butts]

Just remembered the Cadbury one...."Everyone's a Fruit and Nut Case".

Frank Muir ......by any chance ?

 

[LOL The Irony]

I have a few;
The Skoda Fabia cake car

The Citroen robot adverts

And the Virgin Trains where do you want to be adverts (Looking at them through adult eyes, these were clearly a post-Grayrigg marketing ploy to make you forget that Pendolino strewn all over an embankment and field in Cumbria).

 

[adrock1976]

The former Swedish company SAAB advertising cars.

The ad ended with Sierra, Alpha, Alpha, Bravo, spelling out the name phonetically.

 

[Butts]

The former Swedish company SAAB advertising cars.

The ad ended with Sierra, Alpha, Alpha, Bravo, spelling out the name phonetically.

Also....SAAB Born to Lead springs to mind.

 

[johnnychips]

People keep saying about the Gold Blend couple, but what about the Cointreau pair?

 

[Paul Jones 88]

I like peaceful adverts, my old favourite was the English wool advert which was just a sheep walking across the screen with classical music in the background.

 

[yorksrob]

There was that car advert:

"Papa"

"Nicole".

 

[Grumpus63]

"Je t'adore le Piat D'or" (innit). Can you still get that stuff?

....and "Sorry mate, you're too late, the best peas went to Farrows".

....and this classic

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

"Avez-vous un cuppa, Oui, le premier the Anglaise"

Which tea firm ran that one?

 

[Ediswan]

"Avez-vous un cuppa, Oui, le premier the Anglaise"

Which tea firm ran that one?

It was the PG Tips chimps (again).

 

[Western Lord]

The former Swedish company SAAB advertising cars.

The ad ended with Sierra, Alpha, Alpha, Bravo, spelling out the name phonetically.

SAAB cars may be no more, but the SAAB company is very much still in business. SAAB was always an aircraft manufacturer, making cars from 1947 to 1990 when they spun off the car division which then went through several owners before folding.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

SAAB cars may be no more, but the SAAB company is very much still in business. SAAB was always an aircraft manufacturer, making cars from 1947 to 1990 when they spun off the car division which then went through several owners before folding.

I remember one of my neighbours, many years ago, driving a Saab 9000. He was the principal of Wythenshawe College.

 

[DelW]

"Je t'adore le Piat D'or" (innit). Can you still get that stuff?

A friend of mine is married to a French lady. She said that as far as she knew it had never been sold in France, and having tasted it herself, that no one in France would have touched it if it had been...

 

[Gloster]

A friend of mine is married to a French lady. She said that as far as she knew it had never been sold in France, and having tasted it herself, that no one in France would have touched it if it had been...

I was told by a French friend that those French who knew about Piat d’Or, mostly those who had spent time over here when it was being pushed on the TV, regarded it as a joke. The were happy to see overpriced rubbish being flogged to the gullible British while they kept the better stuff. N.B. This wasn’t an anti-British sentiment: they would have been happy to see it flogged to anyone.

 

[Grumpus63]

From recollection I think that Piat d'Or was unadventurous by today's standards. I remember that growing up in a working class south London family we only ever had wine with Christmas dinner and that was a bottle of Liebfraumilch. Then my parents must have heard that Reisling was "the thing" so we had that for a couple of years. As a young adult I experimented with some really rough red called "Bull's Blood" a Hungarian product as I can recall which was so dry and sharp that it almost made my eyes water. Actually I wouldn't mind trying it again but haven't seen it for years. Nowadays I tend to enjoy Italian reds and also a nice Malbec ([perhaps it is the homely word association with Tooting Bec?) from Argentina or Chile. But I haven't advanced much with my white wines...although I have drunk dry whites since the seventies and still stick to an old favourite, Frascati. What am I drinking as I type?...a common or garden can of Galahad Premium Lager, form ALDI, LOL!! You can take the boy aht of sarf London but you can't take sarf London aht the boy.



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Now THIS ad is only eight years old and yet was BANNED. Although I can see that it may have triggers for some people (which is presumably why it was banned) I think it is very funny indeed (and therefore will apologise in advance)...

 

[Ashley Hill]

I've just checked the Marmite in our cupboard,it's unopened and out of date. Please don't grass me up

 

[Grumpus63]

I've just checked the Marmite in our cupboard,it's unopened and out of date. Please don't grass me up

I believe there is a special unit for especially sensitive cases - you will be offered counselling and the jar rehabilitated LOL!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Another "blast from the past" .... my great aunts always had that tall bottle of "Camp Coffee and Chicory Essence" with a picture of a kilted Gordon Highlander being served by an Indian servant.

 

[Ashley Hill]

That was foul stuff! My uncle used to swear by it.
We had a driver at our depot who used to drink Mellow Birds coffee. There were no takers when he offered it around.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Did any company dare to advertise sterlilised milk? Tall thin bottles that needed an opener and the milk tasted utterly atrocious.

 

[Ediswan]

Another "blast from the past" .... my great aunts always had that tall bottle of "Camp Coffee and Chicory Essence" with a picture of a kilted Gordon Highlander being served by an Indian servant.

Camp coffee is still around. The same two characters on the label, but both now sitting drinking coffee.

 

[dgl]

I was told by a French friend that those French who knew about Piat d’Or, mostly those who had spent time over here when it was being pushed on the TV, regarded it as a joke. The were happy to see overpriced rubbish being flogged to the gullible British while they kept the better stuff. N.B. This wasn’t an anti-British sentiment: they would have been happy to see it flogged to anyone.

The electronics YouTube Bigclive worked at Disneyland Paris for a while (doing electrical stuff) and used to regularly eat out at the weekend in Paris, whilst doing so he naturally would partake of wine and got to love one specific wine, on returning to Britain he was please to see what appeared to be exactly the same wine in Asda (same label/bottle) only to find out it was vastly inferior and very much not the same stuff sold in France.

 

[Factotum]

happiness is a cigar called Hamlet, with mood music from J.S.Bach and wreathes of smoke! Went on to the bitter end of tobacco advertising. Unimaginable now, but great ads. The idea MAY have evolved from the 'you're never alone with a Strand' cigarette ads from printed magazine days.

Cadbury's Fruit and Nut ads, featuring bow-tied Frank Muir with his famous lisp 'Everyone's a fruit and nutcase'.

There was a skit on, ISTR, Not the Nine O'Clock News.

Rowan Atkinson being told by his doctor that he had terminal lung cancer.
Then sitting back and lighting a Hamlet; Caption: "That Hamlet Moment"

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My favourite advert as a child in the 1980s was the PG Tips chimps. I actually have some of the Robert Harrop figures in a box somewhere. I very much doubt given political correctness and animal rights issues we have now, those type of adverts would never see the light of day again. It is a shame, because at the time, I don't think they were ever intended to cause offence.

CJ

Was that the "Do you ride tandem one"? Capitalizing on the recent interest in the Tour de France

 

[C J Snarzell]

Was that the "Do you ride tandem one"? Capitalizing on the recent interest in the Tour de France

The very one indeed. The famous PG Chimp advert involved the piano and the staircase. Oh the memories!

They were in the days when children in the school playground used to mimick adverts from the TV.

Speaking about tea - do you remember rival's Tetley Tea with their assortment of characters? Gaffer was voiced by actor Brian Glover.

CJ

 

[Grumpus63]

Of course, us older ones will remember this British Rail advertisement from around 1988. I still find that it strikes an emotive chord in me now, wimp that I am! But perhaps there are some contributors who may not have seen this and will appreciate its quality. Apologies is advance because it must have been posted on this site a few times before.

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....and this one from an excellent series of ads for Allied Dunbar. I think this may date from the early nineties.