Adverts that stay with you

Mr FtG and i still do "two t(h)umbs fresh" in hideously un-PC accents, but I can't even remember what that was an advert for ?.

When people talk about remembering adverts from your past I always, always think of the dancing milk-bottles advert.

"He's got an 'ology!" ?

'Acrington Stanley, who are they?'

I have to say it every time I hear the name.

Me too, it is actually impossible for me not o do this

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What advert is that from?

The ad agency advert uses it as its last line but I can't remember!

Glad to see I'm not alone anyway. ?

Two thumbs fresh for you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Gsd7QWykY

I've taught my friend's son "The red car and the blue car have a race but all red wants to do is stuff his face..." but all he sings is "the red car and the blue car have a race <deep breath> the blue car and the red car have a race" ad nauseum while running around with something blue in one hand and something red in the other. ?

I was so chuffed to see it back on the TV after all these years! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoXJL2hL6kI

Other adverts which have stuck with me are:

Rolo with the elephant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RANOMniA_kM (I showed this to the same boy and he kept saying "Oi, dumbo" and then pretending to hit himself before falling to the floor several times...)

Coca Cola Christmas adverts (has to be the full one, not the tiny sound bites that kept tempting me last year!

Irn Bru with The Snowman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfiqrkV_ZqI and These Crazy Yanks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHFWq-YIOk

Skips with "wowee melting city, isn't that amazing!"

Panadol where the mummy elephant pushes the baby elephant up the hill with her trunk. ?

(I can't find the last two)

This is one of the best ads ever but has never been shown in the UK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3GH7Pn_eA

Mrs Magic, Red car and the blue car - my sister and I sing that one too ?

Wah, I've not seen that Big Ad one before ?

Anything by Irn Bru is brilliant. Esp the breast feeding baby picture that was plastered all over Archway at one point ?

I think it was for milk.

"Daddy or chips"

"ooooooooooo bodyform, bodyformed for youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"?

So it was ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaL4meTWVGo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lL6hkpJveM

"Mr Soooooft, won't you tell me why the world in which you're living is so straaange?" Reminds me of my teenage years. ?

"Tastes like chicken"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9THjHPBfHRw

For reasons unknown this advert had me in utter hysterics every time, even now when anyone asks me what something tastes like I say "tastes like chicken". Funnily enough no one but me gets it ??

Oh and these ones freaked me out as a kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=639pnqpppbQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJzRpgXvM2I

Freaky skeleton man!

"Accrington Stanley, who are they?" Milk advert. I quote that all the time. And I constantly say "soon ______ team will only be good enough to play against Accrington Stanley". Poor Accrington Stanley, bet their team's morale never recovered.

"Daddy or chips?" hahaha. Was that McCain Oven chips?

"Trio... treeeeee-ooooooohhhhhhhh" Classic.

"Oh, monsieur, with this Ferrero Rocher you are rilly spoiling us" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7gAxsfK5U

There are loads more. The video machine my parents had for about 15 years did not have a remote so my sister and I watched every advert many times over.?

Oh yeah - "Armadillos! Crunchy on the outside, smooth on the inside - Armadillos!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwTHVZHqSb0&feature=PlayList&p=D1F0A3D0573D7F09&index=4

"Beward the Judderman my dear" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfS_Ha_lyfA

Loved it!

Bird's Eye pizzas, from the late Seventies. To this day, if something opportune happens I feel compelled to say "That's handy, Harry. Stick it in the oven". Earns me some strange looks. ?

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Kia-Ora...It's too orangey for crows, it's just for me and my dawg.

MrQ and I quite often substitute the 'orangey' for other words i.e. "Do you want to go out?" "Nah, I'm too tired for crows"

Aren't we the crazy kids!

When I was young there was an avdvert for Cadburys cookie crumbles. In the ad a little boy was hding under the bed and his mother attempting to lure him out with the catch phrase "Billy, will ye come out for a biscuit? Ye know they're your favourite!".

Still use that line to this day! "Will ye come out for a biscuit?" lol

Triiiiii-o, Triiiiiiiiiiiii-ii-ii-oooo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi49wGwnagw

I got those, can't get enough of those Blue Riband Bluuuuues

Too Orangey for crows, just for me and my daaaawg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln8

And Full Moon, Half Moon, Total Eclipse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi49wGwnagw

Harry the Spider's coming out Party

I can't believe no one has mentioned Shake N Vac...

Um bongo, um bongo, they drink it in the congo, so when it comes to fun and sun and goodness in the jungle we all prefer the sunny funny one they call um bongo!

Oh yes the triiiiiiooo one and um bongo

Robin Hood, Robin Hood riding through the glen....

La di dah..........with his bunch of men...

Should he retreeeeeat back to Sher woooooood

Course he should , course he should , course he should.... (weetabix!)

You can't get quicker than a Kwi Fit fitter ?

I was about to mention shake and vac Lily. Wasn't it awful? Along with "ariston and on and on".

Or Bran Flakes "tasty tasty, very very tasty". Showing my age a bit.

**** oooooooooo vitalite (cheesy grin)

<stamps foot> But the words have changed.

Not sure if there are any adverts that have stayed with me, but I've recently done the 'shaking the hands and opening them up to find coffee beans' thing. (Although in my case, there're no coffee beans in my hand.) I also want to light gas flamesby sticking my thumb up when I was a kid.

Ross Kemp, that, in his golfers' visor.

I remember the SMASH robots and The TEFAL boffins - when I was at school, it was common to slap people on the forehead shouting "TEFAL!" at them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bsApDcW1ng - did you mean that one ?

Nobody's mentioned the Milky Bar Kid.

I've never seen the Big Ad one, but it reminded me of the BA one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxs106rp5RQ

What was the butter advert, with the character who played the trombone, voiceover by Penelope Keith ?

Oh, and looking at Yellow Pages ads, I found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKinNby3BsQ&feature=fvsr Couldn't stop laughing !

Was the butter one for Lurpak?

Just had a quick look and found this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdcVRueT2cw - 'Colgate blue minty gel, mum and dad use this as well', had a huge crush on Lee Ross at the time.

Loads of phrases from adverts have made it into my family's phraseology.

We often say "It's in the sand" when we can't find something, which comes from an old AA advert. Swiftly followed by "I'm not helping much am I?", which was also from the same ad.
"Exceedingly good cake" whenever anyone had cake - which is from the Mr Kipling ads. The only store bought cakes we ever had were fondant fancies, which I lurve!

My OH and I bonded over saying Accrington Stanley to each other in fake Liverpudlian accents - he's from Edinburgh and I'm from London, so neither of us could manage it and we'd end up in fits of giggles as we struggled to get the throaty cc sound in Accrington...

Was having this exact discussion at work yesterday as a result of the new advert. Sadly it goes way over the heads of most of my staff and those of us that remember all of the originals are just classed as old gits - the joys of working predominately with teenagers!!!

One that hasn't been mentioned.....

In days of old a dragon lived, brave knights he kept igniting,

till a local lad piped up and said "tis help he needs, not fighting"

So in he lobbed (?) an opal fruit, it did just what it oughta,

Coz only juicy opal fruits are made to make your mouth water

Fab! But I can't find a link to it.

That new advert has a lot to answer for - I keep going around singing "woooOOOOOOO bodyform...."

I think the main ones for me would be the accrinton stanley one and the milky way red car & blue car. I love that song.