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.......
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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." :-)
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
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
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
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.
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
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 ...
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
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 😂
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?"
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.
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!
You know you're 80's born if: You remember when Starburst were Opal Fruits. You remember when Snickers were Marathon. You remember suffering temporary deafness after getting "Tango'd" in the school playground! 😂
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.
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.😁
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$$.
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….
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.
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.
@@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...😕☹️) 🏴🖖
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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
@@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.
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
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
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
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.
Any Scots in here mind ae the advert with the guy dressed as a big toilet n somebody shouting "HAW LAVVY HEED! YOU'RE GETTIN IT!" 🤣🤣 and the wan wae a big belly rollin doon the street shoutin "BELLY'S GONNY GET YE!" a hope it's no just me lol
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
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.
@@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*
@@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 TH-cam. 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.
DOn't remember that Starburst advert, at all. "You need to see the Chewits Advert 1980s" series, 1-4, upload quality is appaling so they won't make a good reaqct - but are an absolute hoot.
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 ...
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.
118 118 was a charged telephone enquiry service, ah the days before the internet. Some of these adds are really obscure the kids ones particularly. Cillit bang is a great product , still big in U.K. but now only used by men .
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!
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!
1) At the end of the Dolmio "Italian" ad, it used to say "made in the EU", which would make you think Italy. But actually it was made in the Netherlands. 2) That was the first Go Compare ad, which then went on for many years. The actor who plays the opera singer really is an opera singer, but (like in the Dolmio ad) although he seems "Italian" he is actually Welsh.
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.
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!! 😅
i think the dolmeo tomato scauce, they stopped using GM tomatoes, and this was them trying to regain lost market %, must have worked, they still sell today.
I love all of the good old ads! I don't remember that chewits one, the one I think of every time is the "I like to chew it, chew it" one with the buses. Also they missed out some iconic ads like have a break have a kit kat ( the rabbit one and the panda ones I can remember but I think they've done quite a few different ones), Budwiser whatsup and the frog one as well, BN biscuits and the Halifax ads (who gives you extra!) they were all brilliant. So many catchy ads years ago, I miss the creativeness and weirdness of them.
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
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.
@@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.
You need to check out the Bt ad's from the 80's and 90's,.. the one with the culture club song , BTW didn't realise just how much we loved it , they had to order so many to be made 😀 😄 I still have mine working too ....lol and watch the full Budwiser Ad's ...everyone knows that if they were releasing a new one we'd waiting to watch it before we went out to the pub lol....
The go compare add singer is a opera singer from wales. You should watch the Warbertons bread adverts you may find them funny and the Yorkshire tea adds.😂
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
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.......
I've just read this and then deleted my comment about the Cadbury purple because it was almost word for word what yours says 😂
@@jeepsthetimebandit LOL...
Just about to add this
Do you know, I'm wearing a purple t-shirt at present 😂.
And the fact that they don't mention the name until the end is to keep you watching
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.
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!
Remember was chaos at school with people slapping each other😂
Yup it got banned at our school too.🤣
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.
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.
"Happy Slapping" was anything but...
In the UK you know it’s cadburys with the Cadburys purple in the adverts - instantly recognisable
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
Glad someone pointed this out. Some brands are just so iconic they don't need words or logos even, just colours.
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
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.
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.
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." :-)
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
Yeah, precisely. It was completely in time with it also.
Lol...Phil was one of the best drummers ever
They should have had the specsavers ad with the Shepherd doing the shearing, that's my favourite.
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
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
YES
I liked the one with the keep fit instructor going into the wrong room and it’s all old folk instead of her class.
@@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 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.
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
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 ...
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
Banard Castle? Should have gone to specksavers
And Specsavers sponsored the refs at the rugby some years ago. Very clever advertising.
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 😂
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?"
Gorilla?? Costume?? Over here our gorillas are born knowing how to drum lol
@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.
That’s right. That’s why John Bonham had so much power, he was famously half gorilla on his mum’s side
@@GroinStrain_ 😄
Exactly , that was a real Gorilla
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.
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!
All the Black Label ads were great.
I loved that ad too but couldn't remember what it was for!
And the Castlemein XXXX ads too 😄
You know you're 80's born if:
You remember when Starburst were Opal Fruits.
You remember when Snickers were Marathon.
You remember suffering temporary deafness after getting "Tango'd" in the school playground! 😂
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.
I loved John hurt in the naked civil servant you should look it up
As an 80's kids, I hear him and think of aids..
@@TCJonesThat was a very dark advert indeed
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.
Voice of Sorting hat in Harry Potter films too.
Known for his lecherous characters and catchphrases.
Also known for his role in the Radio series The Navy lark. "Left hand down a bit".
@@scarfhs1 I forgot about that. I used to listen to it on the radio at my gran's house. :-)
"Mr Bell?"
"Well Ding Dong!"
Best bit of any Carry On film!
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.😁
They actually re-aired that one a few years ago
Missing one of the most iconic British adverts of all time.
“Accrington Stanley - who are they?”
IYKYK
"EXACTLY!"
These are 90's and 00's adverts
Ian RUSH Ian Rush IAN rush
@@jameshumphreys9715 it ran from 1989 to 1995
Milky-Milky...
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 I’m sure you alone were responsible for a multi-million £ corporation changing its advertising..
HI, I'M A SHOUTY MAN
@@Papa_Meow_Meow Toilet Grenade is pretty useful too.
I wonder who was first, Barry Scott or Billy Mays?
If they did a digitally remastered cillit bang remix as an ad, I'd buy.
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$$.
Agreed. The 118 118 blokes are almost as annoying as the Compare the Market meerkats.
But you remember the buggers, don't you!
And that's what we call A Good Advert
TronTuborg if you remember it because it irritates you, you'll stay irritated enough to avoid buying it. That's NOT good advertising AT ALL.
Never seen the Hexbug ad before, or even heard of the product!
Same here
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….
I live in Fiji and I have heard of Hexbug.
I have it was everywhere over kids tv
@@TheMestarit it’s probably an age/generation thing, I probably wasn’t watching kids tv when Hexbugs were a thing.
The " Italian " opera singer is actually a very nice man from Cardiff in wales.
carmarthen....
Gio comparè...he is an actual opera singer
He’s lovely
His real name is ‘Wynne Evans’
He's been on Strictly Come Dancing this year!
"Bang and the dirt is gone!" is a sentence that is so ingrained in my head. Thank you Barry Scott.
Right up there with "Ronseal quick dry and woodstain. it does what it says on the tin."
Ingrained in my head too, especially after seeing Jimmy Carr th-cam.com/video/KB4si0hPA2U/w-d-xo.html
My son turned to me one day and asked "Why does he always shout Dad?"
That and 'autoglass repair autoglass replace' and Churchill's 'ohhh yes!'
The Cadbury Gorilla is an icon here in the UK.
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”
Michael McIntyre quote 👍
@ann-marieburrows2253 Yeah got that as well lol. Love Michael McIntyre
As opposed to drinking glasses.
@@drwhatson Yeah, you wear those on your drinking instead.
Most people in the US just call them glasses, even in the 90s.
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.
@Anonnermoose I have to agree. Just replace "are" with "were", also I should have put "and/or funny" instead of just "and funny".
One of my favourites was the Guinness ad with the horses (tok followed tik...) it was so artistic and quite beautiful.
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!
Yes, that one is truly iconic!!!
And the Kit Kat one with the Daleks!
Probably 80's rather than 90's and beyond.
@@j0hnf_uk yea 1970's got to be smash robots
The gin lady was hilarious.
Gin is known as "Mother's Ruin"..
Loved the Aldi adverts
I loved the bear with the toilet roll. Looks back at the woods and says "and yes.... I do" 🤣
They had a few of the 'but I prefer' adverts, from memory. Very clever.
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.
I still do 😂
And on the full moon, half moon or an eclipse.
We still say in my house here in Ireland
Us too. Sadly not enough total eclipses in modern boxes!😊
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 😭
Me too!! An unreasonable rage lols 😂
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.
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.
Apparently, they were there on a date, and later married. Silver lining, I suppose, but that's one hell of a cloud.
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.
"stereotypical Italian singer" I'm not sure the Welsh tenor will be impressed 😂
😊 Having not yet watched past 'Crusha' - at a guess I'd say, Bryn Terfel?😊
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I thought it was Bryn Terfel who did / does those "Go Compare" ads ... Mea culpa ?!
(I've never heard of Wynne Evans... sorry.)
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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...😕☹️) 🏴🖖
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Thank you. (And my apologies to Wynne Evans - the surname my children share!)
But he is playing a stereotypical Italian opera singer. The character's name was even Gio Compario.
The guy in the go compare advert was a famous Welsh opera singer called Wynne Evans.
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.
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.
No one can tell me otherwise, those Lelli Kelly ads were and are hell on earth to listen to
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.
As a child who grew up with lelli Kelly ads- I loved them, my mum never got me those shoes tho
.......and certainly NOT British 😅😅😅
@@Morganlefay789 they were Italian or French I think?
@@tsundereyoongi Ah OK, thank you. I dont remember them at all 😊
You should check out the Irn Bru adverts. They are iconic in Scotland. The adverts are funny with some innuendo humour! 😂
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 ...
The snowman is the best advert ever!
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.
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
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.
Back in the day, maybe.
When adverts come up now, internet or😮
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.
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.
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
I went on a school trip, and I was on it less than a week before the crash happened
@@x-LINX-x it's not shut, it still runs... they only closed it for a short while
@@tsundereyoongiDecent, i'll ride it again when i get the chance
I went on it a few years after the accident and it was fun. Prefer Thirteen and The Wicker Man though.
Yes as others have stated we all know it’s Cadbury as soon as you see that purple, we’re trained from childbirth 😂
Take a look at 70s and 80s ads. Golden age.
They are scary 😨
0:37 Should have anticipated the Crusha add… 20 years later it still comes into my head on repeat several times a year 😢
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
As an employee of Specsavers, I'm kinda proud of those comercials 🙂
Such a shame he missed that bit right at the end. "What kind of cheese was that?!"
What you mean is AOL still around in 2005, i still use my AOL email account as my main email address lol
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.
192 was still there but they too introduced a big charge for the service.
I thought you paid for 192, but it was cheaper than the private ones.
@@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
@@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.
Suppose that it says a lot though, that no-one can remember what the other ones were....
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
I was a teenager in 90s Britain, these should be prime nostalgia for me, I have never heard of Crusha, Hexbugs or Lelli Kelly.
Nor me.
And a few others.
And I didn’t like most of them.
Maybe they were on more local TV channels.
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
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
@@AlBarzUK Crusha ad was always on itv
Hexbugs were an early 00s thing.
I bet you remember the Baby Born adverts though ;^)
The original soundtrack for the gorilla ad was Phil Collins, ‘Something in the air Tonight’
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.
It’s brilliant
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.
Just read this and I've got that bass line in my head!
"HERE'S TO YOU, AHAB!"
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 ...
the purple wall behind the gorilla lets you know it is Cadbury, as it is their official colour used on all of their packaging.
Any Scots in here mind ae the advert with the guy dressed as a big toilet n somebody shouting "HAW LAVVY HEED! YOU'RE GETTIN IT!" 🤣🤣 and the wan wae a big belly rollin doon the street shoutin "BELLY'S GONNY GET YE!" a hope it's no just me lol
Aldi adverts are usually funny, especially Kevin the Carrot at Christmas 😊
I'm British and I've never heard of hexbugs either !
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
OMG Lelli Kelly’s! I always loved singing the little song when watching the adverts!😂
You've gotta check out the Blind football advert from Paddy Power, it's one of the best I've ever seen.😂😂😂
Always makes me laugh.
The old PG TIPS tea ads with the talking monkeys were classic, as were the Aliens eating Smash potato.
For the best ads you need to go further back than the 90s I recommend Cadbury’s smash ad , out of this world.
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.
And a lot of the 'Irn Bru' ads too.
“On your last trip, did you discover what the earth people eat?….” I still know all the words to the whole ad. 😂😂
@@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*
@@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 TH-cam. 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!!
Shreddies with The indomitable Leslie Philips ‘ ding dong’
You should watch Phil Collins performing something in the air tonight live . It will blow your mind it's brilliant x
It’s on TH-cam and it’s awesome
I remember all of these. The 118 118 and Gocompare. Those two annoyed or pissed alot of people off.
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 Dolmio adverts overdubbed with the Scottish family are comedy gold :)
In the Starburst advert 16:11 , the guy singing the song, what happened to his bag near to the end of the advert, it seems to have disappeared.
Aldi did a few of those humorous ads like the Gin one.
DOn't remember that Starburst advert, at all.
"You need to see the Chewits Advert 1980s" series, 1-4, upload quality is appaling so they won't make a good reaqct - but are an absolute hoot.
"Even chewier than Barrow in Furness bus depot"...
@@Katy_Jones I get so many blank looks if I ever reference that. Thank you for also remembering!
Your impression of the smile was soooo spot on
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 cracked the smiler face!! 😂😂 I love you and your reactions you are absolutely hilarious! ❤❤ Keep them coming ! 🇬🇧🇬🇧
My favorites were for British Telecom with Maureen Lipman. She was called Beattie ( get it !?)
There were lots of them, each one very funny 😊
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.
118 118 was a charged telephone enquiry service, ah the days before the internet. Some of these adds are really obscure the kids ones particularly. Cillit bang is a great product , still big in U.K. but now only used by men .
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!
All together now..."Everyone's a fruit and nutcase"
One of the creepiest ads was for Metz, The Judderman. Brilliant but creepy. 😊
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!
Americans would be shocked if they were to watch a clip of the Reebok advert 'Belly's gunna get yer'
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.
1) At the end of the Dolmio "Italian" ad, it used to say "made in the EU", which would make you think Italy. But actually it was made in the Netherlands. 2) That was the first Go Compare ad, which then went on for many years. The actor who plays the opera singer really is an opera singer, but (like in the Dolmio ad) although he seems "Italian" he is actually Welsh.
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.
so basically one it became 'Bang' and his name was gone
Poor kid!
Being tangoed was a thing for ages going up to people slapping them in the face then saying you e been tangoed lol
For reference, Barry Scott of Cillit Bang is our "BILLY MAYS HERE!!!'
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!! 😅
cresta polar bear/elvis its frothy man
I used to think that the gorilla in the cadburys milk, chocolate advert was Phil Collins 😅
i think the dolmeo tomato scauce, they stopped using GM tomatoes, and this was them trying to regain lost market %, must have worked, they still sell today.
I remember people amazed at how well trained the gorilla is when that was out😂
It was much better with the original music though.
I mean to be fair - with the PG Tips monkeys - it's not surprising that we believed that the Gorilla was real.
Cillit bang cleaner is the same as “Kaboom” in the US. Used it a lot when I lived in Oregon
I remember most of those, please react to some older ones. The 70s and 80s adverts are a lot better 😊
I love all of the good old ads! I don't remember that chewits one, the one I think of every time is the "I like to chew it, chew it" one with the buses. Also they missed out some iconic ads like have a break have a kit kat ( the rabbit one and the panda ones I can remember but I think they've done quite a few different ones), Budwiser whatsup and the frog one as well, BN biscuits and the Halifax ads (who gives you extra!) they were all brilliant. So many catchy ads years ago, I miss the creativeness and weirdness of them.
Oh my goodness these make me feel so old!
Ive never heard of Hexbug either, its the stuff of nightmares 😂
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
it was cancelled? in the 90s? I thought cancelling was a new thing ;-)
@@RaceDayReplay i guess you could say they SLAPPED down that advert in favour of another one
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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.
@@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.
You need to check out the Bt ad's from the 80's and 90's,.. the one with the culture club song , BTW didn't realise just how much we loved it , they had to order so many to be made 😀 😄 I still have mine working too ....lol and watch the full Budwiser Ad's ...everyone knows that if they were releasing a new one we'd waiting to watch it before we went out to the pub lol....
The go compare add singer is a opera singer from wales. You should watch the Warbertons bread adverts you may find them funny and the Yorkshire tea adds.😂
the chewits dragon was about in the 70s. it as more godzilla than dragon
The Taj Mahal... _Meh_
Even Chewier than Barrow in Furness Bus Depot?
JJLA, I love your voice, it is so relaxing.
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