The Nescafe Coffee advert was the beginning of the Will They won't they get together series. it ran for twelve instalments between 1987 and 1993. It starred Anthony Head ( Buffy) and Sharon Maughan (she's out of my League) as Tony and Sharon, a couple who begin a slow-burning romance over a cup of the advertised coffee. The ads were in a serial format, with each ending with a cliffhanger
The bouncing balls from the british airmen is based a movie and true story were it was one of the defining moments that helped end WW2 . The Movie is " The Dam Busters " 1955 . a story of an inventors idea to use giant bouncing bombs like skimming stones to burst open one of Germany's most valued dams , where below in the German valley's were all the ammunition and bomb factories were located . A great movie that you should watch . Also i think we should set you a challenge to learn and sing the Um Bongo song . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fly Fishing by J. R Hartley.... A completely fictitious book until Michael Russell and Peter Lapsley wrote a serious of fly fishing anecdotes and stories in character as the eponymous J.R Hartley. It was published in 1991. The actor Norman Lumsden who played J.R Hartley in the Yellow Pages advert died in 2001 aged 95. Amongst other things he was an opera singer on the radio Pre-WW2.
@@BenBallard13 J. R. Hartley is a fictional character in a popular advertisement promoting the British Yellow Pages, first shown in 1983 when British Telecom was privatised.
@@grantmcmurray83 Errrrm this I know already. The book "Fly Fishing by J.R Hartley" was actually an urban myth in the fly fishing world. Yellow Pages just took that and turned it into a series of TV adverts.
Just goes to show how TV viewing habits have changed, I couldn't name a single current advert, but I still knew every single word of the songs in those adverts simply from seeing them so many times back in the day.
The couple in the Nescafé adverts (that was Giles from Buffy TV series) and the family from the OXO gravy adverts were part of a series,so we followed how they got on,fell in love and grew up
I will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS remember the Cadbury flake woman ‘going down’ on a chocolate bar…… i know I’m not the only UK male of a certain age that feels like this. lol
The "Oxo family" adverts spanned around 16 years, we literally saw those kids grow up on-screen. It's was effectively an advertising sitcom. There is an compilation of them on RUclips that runs at around 16 minutes if you are ever curious. There were some surprisingly heartwarming, emotional and relatable moments in there, for something simply advertising stock cubes.
The maddening thing is that they always crush the cubes wrong, just for effect. Crush them BEFORE tearing the foil, then you don't get sticky brown fingers!
The Not the Nine o'Clock News team did a parody of the Flake advert where Pam Stephenson slowly unwraps it suggestively while the boys look on excitedly, then she bites down on it savagely with a manic grin and chocolate is all round her mouth and the boys are horrified.
You won’t understand advertisement No 7 until you have seen “The Dam Busters”, a 1955 British epic docudrama war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave. It’s worth finding.
One of the biggest ads in the 1980s was for Levi's 501 jeans. It showed Nick Kamen stripping down to his boxers in a launderette, watched by some giggling young women. Marvin Gaye's 'I Heard it Through The Grapevine', was played as the backing track. The ad gave model Nick Kamen huge publicity. He went on to release a song in 1986 called 'Each Time You Break My Heart,' written by Madonna. He passed away in 2021 aged 59.
The music for the Softmints advert was “Mr Soft” a Top Ten hit in the U.K., released in 1974, for band Cockney Rebel, fronted by Steve Harvey, who sadly passed away in March of this year. R.I.P. Steve Harvey.
Thank you!!!! I was really surprised when I just instantly started singing along with it! I do remember the advert quite clearly, but if I might have heard it on the radio too, that helps explain that.
The actress in the coffee advert was in an episode of Morse (detective series) in one scene she was offered coffee and she replied "no I can't bear the taste" :)
3:45 - MR. SOFT. The lyrics were changed for the advert but the tune is based upon the song Mr. Soft by the English pop group Cockney Rebel released in 1974. Their most recognized song is titled 'Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)' released in January 1975. In February 1975, the song reached number one on the UK chart. The song is one of the most-played songs in British broadcasting history and has more than 120 cover versions.
JT - the “bouncing balls” as for Carling Black Label was a play on the WWII “bouncing bombs” invented by Sir Barnes Wallis. The bombs would “bounce” across the surface of the waters in the dams on the German river until they reached the dam walls “busting” them open. The Carling advert “joke” is that German officer is able to catch these bombs, stopping them from hitting the walls just because “he drinks Carling Black Label beer”
0:50 The reason there were more UFO sightings in the UK during that time, was because people were seeing black triangles overhead, which, as we all know now, were F117 stealth aircraft transiting through British airspace.
They used to annoy me so much. Then there was a beer advert spoof of it where the man came around to borrow some tea and ended up causing the woman's dog to fall out of the window.
They had a child together and moved to Sunnydale. Sadly this led to a split, the lady re-married, and brought up her daughter calling the new man "dad". Rupert Giles never got around to telling Buffy who he really was........
The Flake ones weren't intended to be funny as such, there were a number made where the premise was the same- girl unwraps chocolate, puts chocolate in mouth in mouth, wipes away crumbs in artistic, semi-erotica way. But on a different note, no compilation of funny British ads is complete without the Heineken "Water in Majorca" one
The Flake girl Deborah Leng had a relationship with Roger Taylor from Queen (lucky so and so, I was a boy of a certain age when those adverts were out)
The Coffee add was the first of string of adds that followed their slow-burning romance over a cup of the advertised coffee. The ads were in a serial format, with each ending with a cliffhanger, and as time went on, the appearance of a new installment gained considerable media attention. They are one of the most famous examples of serialised advertising. It is also Anthony Head who played Rupert Giles in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
The only time I got full marks in English was for a poem I wrote taking the micky out of the Milk Tray Adds. We had to write at least 10 lines and I hadn't a clue what to write about, then the add came on and bingo. Just imagine the thoughts of poor sod going through all that to deliver a box of chocolate, and he doesn't even get a kiss out of it. I actually made the whole class laugh when the teacher (miserable old sod) read it out.
I remember every one of those ads from when I was a kid . I'm in my mid 40s now . That took me back in time for the 12 minutes of your reaction video .
I remember all those ads. The 'Shake n Vac' was a bit of a cult classic & the coffee ads progressed the relationship to a 'will they or won't they' which kept you hooked in!
Yes, Cadbury's used to advertise individual products, and they were all brilliant. There were lots of variations of "Because the Lady loves Cadbury's Milk Tray," which I guess were a reference to the James Bond films and others like them; likewise there were variations of "Everyone's a Fruit and Nutcase" with contemporary TV Presenter, Frank Muir; and Cilla Black singing about the glass and a half of milk in every bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk; and much more, many also using popular classical music and other personalities. What they'll not show nowadays is the many alcohol and tobacco products that also used to be advertised, before it became illegal to do so. The same 'family' advertised Oxo for decades and became personalities thanks to that role, even if they weren't previously. Although many people claim to be irritated by them, it's amazing just how some of their jingles and scenes stick in people's memories, too.
The singer of 'Mr Soft' was Steve Harley who died earlier this year. I was lucky to see him in concert a few years ago. Lynda Bellingham (the OXO lady) also died but 10 years ago. She was a French Canadian from Montreal.
I'm sure I read that it was used for longer than any other advert. All other long running advertising campaigns were regularly uodated and revised, but the Shake n Vac lady could never be replaced.
The Gold Blend advert was the first of many that became like a running soap opera. They would advertise the time & date when they premiered a new instalment.
You Need, To See Hamlet Adverts, The VW Advert, More Of Those Um Bongo Adverts, There Was A Whole Series Of Them.! All The Honda, &, Heineken &, Guinness Adverts Are A Must, EPIC.! 💫👻💫
The coffee advert run a whole series of adds on the romance of the two main characters, well worth checking out, the same with Cadburys Milk Tray adverts.
As an 80s British baby/child this was a great blast from the past 😂❤ I STILL sing the shake n vac song when I hoover and the Um bongo song I even taught my daughter when she was little.. almost 30 year after this advert lmao
I think my favourite tune from the adverts at that time was 'Fedora' which was used in adverts for another fruit drink called Kia Ora. Very silly and very catchy.
Super vid. For some reason being a Brit, I love seeing how Americans react and think about British culture. It genially fascinates me. You may not realise this but that Coffee add was massive over here back in the day, there was a whole series of those ads, it went on for quite some time over here, the whole will they wont they thing. I remember when the final add came out the hype was crazy, more like a summer blockbuster vibe than an add. Great memories.
The stunt diver who made that dive in the last ad (yup, it was done for REAL) put his shoulder out. I believe he dived about 150ft. He was told at the top, 'you have made an equivalent dive before' , he took his agents word for it ,and, half way down he knew he hadn't! OOPS.
That reminds me of an account of a man who rode a bicycle off a 100ft high platform into a vat of water. "All went well for the first three feet of the dive..."
@tonys1636 I think you may be confusing Dalton with Lazenby, who had previously advertised Fry's chocolate by carrying a huge bar of it on his shoulder before his only Bond movie. Dalton, as far as I know, was never in any adverts and was a shakespearean theatre and established movie actor by the time he did 2 Bonds.
You know an ad campaign is successful when you see an ad you have not seen before and instantly know what it is advertising. I havent seen that carling black label ad but as soon as the guard saved the bomb i guessed what the product was
You should look up the whole series of the Nescafé gold blend adverts. People were absolutely hooked by the mini soap opera they made, waiting to see if they ever got together. And also look up the Oxo cube family series too. You watch the same family grow up through the years, right up until the lovely actress who played "the Oxo cube mum" died a few years back..they did a lovely tribute advert for her.
Oh JT you bring back so many memories thank you so much. It’s so good to see you enjoy them the same way I did in my youth. Um Bongo defo one of the best adverts ever! 🥰
I still remember all of the words to the Um Bongo song, 40 years later! And I heard that the drink is making a comeback soon too. If I find some, I'll fire it over to you to try it. Was lush back in the day. Let's hope they can capture what I remember.
We know how to do ads. It was a pleasure in the 80s and 90s to see some of the best ads ever. Tango. Milk tray. Um bongo. Gold blend. They all had variations.
Firstly, JT discovering the Um Bongo song is gold. Secondly, one thing this doesn't show is that a lot of those ads became a series of ads. every few months they'd release a new ad telling more of the story.
The inventor of the first such bomb was the British engineer Barnes Wallis, whose "Upkeep" bouncing bomb was used in the RAF's Operation Chastise of May 1943 to destroy German dams. A very good film was made about it and informative.
10:58 - MILK TRAY - This series of ads ran from 1968 to 2003, and again from 2016. A box of chocolates was delivered surreptitiously by a tough James Bond-style figure who had to undertake daunting 'raids' to reach his 'lady'. The original tagline was 'And all because the lady loves Milk Tray.' Over fifteen Bondesque ads were produced. The man jumping from a cliff top into the sea was stuntman Alf Joint who'd previously doubled for Sean Connery’s 007 in Goldfinger.
A few years ago I was doing a pub quiz. One of the questions was "what is the name of the fruit drink whose English translation means 'be healthy'"? Before anyone could say Kia Ora, one of the ladies in my team shouted out, in all seriousness, "I know! It's Um Bongo!" Cue collapse of everybody in the pub.😂🧃
What you need to appreciate when watching many of the adverts is that many of them were part of campaigns that ran for years, if not decades (the OXO ads with Linda Bellingham, RIP). And spot Anthony Head before he became Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I know I'm a bit late with this one but it was just what I needed to lighten my mood 😂 so much nostalgia from my childhood. I was feeling a bit down as my elderly pooch isn't doing so well and we'll probably have to say goodbye to her next week so this was a great way to lighten my mood a bit 😊
Borrowed a vacuum cleaner from my mate when I moved into new place, returned it + got a text from his Mrs complaining that their vacuum cleaner "reeks of weed" 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you guys for watching! Let me know what type of videos y’all want to see next💚💚 love y’all
How about childrens tv programmes from the decades?
The Nescafe Coffee advert was the beginning of the Will They won't they get together series. it ran for twelve instalments between 1987 and 1993. It starred Anthony Head ( Buffy) and Sharon Maughan (she's out of my League) as Tony and Sharon, a couple who begin a slow-burning romance over a cup of the advertised coffee. The ads were in a serial format, with each ending with a cliffhanger
This was my video… OGDuffy 😉
The bouncing balls from the british airmen is based a movie and true story were it was one of the defining moments that helped end WW2 . The Movie is " The Dam Busters " 1955 . a story of an inventors idea to use giant bouncing bombs like skimming stones to burst open one of Germany's most valued dams , where below in the German valley's were all the ammunition and bomb factories were located . A great movie that you should watch . Also i think we should set you a challenge to learn and sing the Um Bongo song . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You need to watch the UK's most scary classic British adverts. If you like old UK adverts the old safety adverts where something else
How can this be the top 10 without one of the best...... all I will say is J.R Heartley.......
He was out fishing when they rang
Fly Fishing by J. R Hartley.... A completely fictitious book until Michael Russell and Peter Lapsley wrote a serious of fly fishing anecdotes and stories in character as the eponymous J.R Hartley. It was published in 1991.
The actor Norman Lumsden who played J.R Hartley in the Yellow Pages advert died in 2001 aged 95. Amongst other things he was an opera singer on the radio Pre-WW2.
@@BenBallard13 J. R. Hartley is a fictional character in a popular advertisement promoting the British Yellow Pages, first shown in 1983 when British Telecom was privatised.
@@grantmcmurray83 Errrrm this I know already. The book "Fly Fishing by J.R Hartley" was actually an urban myth in the fly fishing world.
Yellow Pages just took that and turned it into a series of TV adverts.
Wasn't that ad the 90s though?
🎵 _If you liiiike a bit of chocolate on your biscuit, join our CLUB!_ 🎵
Not quite......"If you like a LOT of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club"
The shake and vac advert is classic...to this day we still do that dance with the hoover and sing the song! 😂
🤣🤣thankfully I'm not alone,unfortunately we're both insane🤣👍
@@martindunstan8043 Make that three.....
Apparently on the day that was filmed the actress had diarrhoea .you'd never have known , she doesn't have that pained expression
@cerithomas2032 Now, _that_ is acting. Eat your heart out Dame Maggie.
To be fair, the Shake 'n' Vac ad was originally from the late 70s, but was played a lot more in the 80s.
The Carling Black Label ad is referencing the Dambusters from WWII, wherebouncingbombs were used to destroy German dams
Methinks JT needs to find and watch that movie, to really understand the ad, too!
There's also a reference to German goalkeepers who've denied the English from scoring goals in there, somewhere.
JT you need to look up the 1985 Heineken ad it's a spoof on the movie My Fair Lady
@@misolgit69the water in majorca
@@paulc8617 that's the one
I remember all of those from when they actually aired .. I'll get me walking frame ... 😂
The Gold Blend advert was the first in a series with 30 million watching the last advert.
And features Anthony head from Buffy
One of the best ads of all time was from Cadbury's featuring the Phil Collins song "In the air tonight" with a gorilla playing drums.
My mother, God rest her, was convinced they taught a Gorilla to do that. No matter what I said, she wouldn't have any of it.
Yeah omg that ad is legendary.
In what way was it the best advert ever? It wasn't funny or clever or witty? Or catchy.
I think that one was 90s. It was awesome.
it wasnt 80s
Just goes to show how TV viewing habits have changed, I couldn't name a single current advert, but I still knew every single word of the songs in those adverts simply from seeing them so many times back in the day.
@@tuttifrutti293 The only current advert that sticks is the Twix advert with the two bears echoing the backpackers.
In one ear, out the other nowadays. I can see an advert 100 times then suddenly realise I've no idea what it's even advertising.
Yes probably because we’re not all watching two channels that have adverts on, we are not such a captive audience anymore.
Yes exactly, kinda sad really. We was forced to watch ads back then but now I cannot skip fast enough.
Yep, so true. I remember all these from the first time
The couple in the Nescafé adverts (that was Giles from Buffy TV series) and the family from the OXO gravy adverts were part of a series,so we followed how they got on,fell in love and grew up
pretty sure that was the first one of the series...
In the coffee ad - Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan. First in a long series of ads. Sadly, the product stopped being made in 2023.
Should have included the Cointreau campaign with Christian and Catherine
@@angharaddenby3389 Ummm nope, it's still very much available.
Rip actress and loose women panelist Lynda bellingham.the Oxo mum
I will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS remember the Cadbury flake woman ‘going down’ on a chocolate bar…… i know I’m not the only UK male of a certain age that feels like this. lol
No you’re not 😂
She had to suck it like that to stop her face getting all sticky from stray flake.
🤭
Brah
Yep prepubescent erections up and down the UK 😂
Back in the day we’d look forward to the adverts as much if not more than the programmes!
I think it was Stanley Baxter who did a song about how the adverts were spoiled by "all programmes in between."
VERY TRUE. WHAT SHIT DO THEY HAVE TODAY SAVE DONKEY, GIVE MONEY TO GAZA{BOLLOCKS} HAVE YOU PLANNED YOUR FUNERAL. DO YOU HAVE LIFE INSURANCE,
@@Benjiesbeenbetter.🤣
The "Oxo family" adverts spanned around 16 years, we literally saw those kids grow up on-screen. It's was effectively an advertising sitcom. There is an compilation of them on RUclips that runs at around 16 minutes if you are ever curious. There were some surprisingly heartwarming, emotional and relatable moments in there, for something simply advertising stock cubes.
The maddening thing is that they always crush the cubes wrong, just for effect. Crush them BEFORE tearing the foil, then you don't get sticky brown fingers!
I am a marmite fan just saying so you’ll understand.
I like sucking my fingers after crushing the cube after unwrapping 😊😊😊
@@pobsdad I like the post Christmas one... "Are Those Turkey kebabs?"....... "Turkish"
*Notable Fact: That Cadbury's Flake commercial was Directed by Ridley Scott.*
He also did the Hovis advert, where the boy rides his bike down the cobbled street. Crazy isn't it?
The Not the Nine o'Clock News team did a parody of the Flake advert where Pam Stephenson slowly unwraps it suggestively while the boys look on excitedly, then she bites down on it savagely with a manic grin and chocolate is all round her mouth and the boys are horrified.
Saw something similar in a benny hill sketch😂😂
That Um Bongo song is an absolute classic, & it's stuck in my head!!
I've been able to recite it, word for word, for the last 40-odd years!! 🤣
I still have the Cresta bear ad in my swede mate from the late 70's.. "it's frothy maaan.."🤣
Same 😂
@@Dave-kw7jq
Kia-Ora.......... I'll be your dog! 🤣
Way down deep in the middle of the Congo......
Along with the R. Whites lemonade. I'm a secret lemonade drinker 😂
You won’t understand advertisement No 7 until you have seen “The Dam Busters”, a 1955 British epic docudrama war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave. It’s worth finding.
And then there was the Carling ad where the Brit threw the dambusters towel on the sunbed
What was missed here is that many of the characters did multiple ads and that was just one in the series.
One of the biggest ads in the 1980s was for Levi's 501 jeans. It showed Nick Kamen stripping down to his boxers in a launderette, watched by some giggling young women. Marvin Gaye's 'I Heard it Through The Grapevine', was played as the backing track. The ad gave model Nick Kamen huge publicity. He went on to release a song in 1986 called 'Each Time You Break My Heart,' written by Madonna. He passed away in 2021 aged 59.
The Carling Black Label boys did a spoof of the Levi advert too.
@@Benjiesbeenbetter. Nah, he doesn't wash his underpants lmao.
The music for the Softmints advert was “Mr Soft” a Top Ten hit in the U.K., released in 1974, for band Cockney Rebel, fronted by Steve Harvey, who sadly passed away in March of this year. R.I.P. Steve Harvey.
Thank you!!!! I was really surprised when I just instantly started singing along with it! I do remember the advert quite clearly, but if I might have heard it on the radio too, that helps explain that.
Steve Harley
@@MarkWhitter-qm6ef I see that now. Auto correct strikes again. 😂
CIGAR CALLED HAMLET. THE ONE IN PHOTO BOOTH, GREG FISHER AKA RAB C NESBITT
Your comment ''Did he just drug his kids? '' I nearly fell off my chair laughing! ....Man you richly deserve subscribing to...bloody hilarious.
The actress in the coffee advert was in an episode of Morse (detective series) in one scene she was offered coffee and she replied "no I can't bear the taste" :)
That's interesting, didn't realise that.
Good spot, gonna go back and look that up😂
Sharon Maughan I think .
And the chap was Anthony Head who has been in many things but known for Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the series).
These ads are memorable without forcing the product. Keep Reacting!
As much as we are constantly bombarded with ads today have couldn’t tell you any that play out now. But I remember all those in that top 10.
The couple in the Nescafe advert were so popular they were in a full series of adverts. Following their relationship.
I grew up on these adverts, I so miss the 80s adverts and tv shows. Thank you, RUclips and JT reacts
3:45 - MR. SOFT. The lyrics were changed for the advert but the tune is based upon the song Mr. Soft by the English pop group Cockney Rebel released in 1974. Their most recognized song is titled 'Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)' released in January 1975. In February 1975, the song reached number one on the UK chart. The song is one of the most-played songs in British broadcasting history and has more than 120 cover versions.
Your Mr Soft walk absolutely cracked me up. Hilarious.
JT - the “bouncing balls” as for Carling Black Label was a play on the WWII “bouncing bombs” invented by Sir Barnes Wallis. The bombs would “bounce” across the surface of the waters in the dams on the German river until they reached the dam walls “busting” them open. The Carling advert “joke” is that German officer is able to catch these bombs, stopping them from hitting the walls just because “he drinks Carling Black Label beer”
It's also a joke about how good German goalkeepers are.
Every single one of those Carling Black Label adverts was solid gold. You could spend an hour just reacting to them.
@@RighAlban And how bad English penalty takers are.
0:50 The reason there were more UFO sightings in the UK during that time, was because people were seeing black triangles overhead, which, as we all know now, were F117 stealth aircraft transiting through British airspace.
The Gold Blend ads there was a whole series of and eventually they get together
Giles from 'Buffy the vampire slayer.'
They used to annoy me so much. Then there was a beer advert spoof of it where the man came around to borrow some tea and ended up causing the woman's dog to fall out of the window.
They had a child together and moved to Sunnydale. Sadly this led to a split, the lady re-married, and brought up her daughter calling the new man "dad". Rupert Giles never got around to telling Buffy who he really was........
@@Benjiesbeenbetter. Oh S**t. I'm almost 50 and don't remember that one. Please say you have a link. :')
You are a great American. Respect to your love for the British 🇬🇧 culture. 🫡
Funny thing is I can still remember all the words to the shake and vac carpet freshener advert lol. 😂
many of us in the uk can 😜
@@andygozzo72 Indeed lol. 😂👌🏻
The Flake ones weren't intended to be funny as such, there were a number made where the premise was the same- girl unwraps chocolate, puts chocolate in mouth in mouth, wipes away crumbs in artistic, semi-erotica way. But on a different note, no compilation of funny British ads is complete without the Heineken "Water in Majorca" one
The Flake girl Deborah Leng had a relationship with Roger Taylor from Queen (lucky so and so, I was a boy of a certain age when those adverts were out)
Wasn't the water in Majorca for Tizer?
@@Sladey1601 Don't know where you get that from, it was Heineken.
@@geoffwright3692 yea you're right. I looked it up out of curiosity. Don't know why but always thought it was a Tizer advert 😅
In a similar vein - the Fry's Turkish Delight ads - 'Full of Eastern Promise'! 😉
The Coffee add was the first of string of adds that followed their slow-burning romance over a cup of the advertised coffee. The ads were in a serial format, with each ending with a cliffhanger, and as time went on, the appearance of a new installment gained considerable media attention. They are one of the most famous examples of serialised advertising. It is also Anthony Head who played Rupert Giles in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
The Un Bongo advert made me cry ... my late hubby knew every word to that darn song 😂
The only time I got full marks in English was for a poem I wrote taking the micky out of the Milk Tray Adds. We had to write at least 10 lines and I hadn't a clue what to write about, then the add came on and bingo. Just imagine the thoughts of poor sod going through all that to deliver a box of chocolate, and he doesn't even get a kiss out of it. I actually made the whole class laugh when the teacher (miserable old sod) read it out.
I remember every one of those ads from when I was a kid . I'm in my mid 40s now . That took me back in time for the 12 minutes of your reaction video .
If you don’t understand the black and white advertisement, you MUST watch The Dambusters - it’s compulsory for British people.
Just don’t mention the dog!
ah yes, that'll give him a surprise
"We are here for Jaffa Cakes" 😂😂😂❤
Full Moon...
Half Moon...
Total Eclipse... Again...
The guy in the coffee ad is Anthony Head (Rupert Giles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer )
yes, and his daughter is carli off the inbetweeners
Took me a minute to recognise him due to him being younger in this
Also played Dr Frankenfurter in the film version of The Rocky Horror Show.
I thought it was i had to go back and double check
@@keithparker5125 That was Tim Curry Anthony Head played Frank N Furter in west end stage productions a few times
The Nescafé gold blend ended turning into a love story though adverts had everyone hooked
They got on my nerves.
I remember all those ads. The 'Shake n Vac' was a bit of a cult classic & the coffee ads progressed the relationship to a 'will they or won't they' which kept you hooked in!
I'm sure I read that the Shake n Vac advert was the longest running unchanged commercial ever.
Yes, Cadbury's used to advertise individual products, and they were all brilliant. There were lots of variations of "Because the Lady loves Cadbury's Milk Tray," which I guess were a reference to the James Bond films and others like them; likewise there were variations of "Everyone's a Fruit and Nutcase" with contemporary TV Presenter, Frank Muir; and Cilla Black singing about the glass and a half of milk in every bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk; and much more, many also using popular classical music and other personalities. What they'll not show nowadays is the many alcohol and tobacco products that also used to be advertised, before it became illegal to do so. The same 'family' advertised Oxo for decades and became personalities thanks to that role, even if they weren't previously. Although many people claim to be irritated by them, it's amazing just how some of their jingles and scenes stick in people's memories, too.
Like the Hamlet cigars ads.
Remember all of these well as were on a lot. Great stuff. My personal favourites, not on here, were the Trio ads with Suzy and her big mouth!
10:14 - OXO GRAVY AD - British actress Lynda Bellingham (RIP 2014 at 66) appeared in 42 Oxo gravy ads from 1983 to 1999.
I grew up watching the oxo family
The Flake model was Debbie Leng, long term partner of Queen's Roger Meddows Taylor and mother to Rufus Tiger Taylor drummer with The Darkness!
Get in there Roger!
The last three were a series of adverts with the same actors telling stories, we all loved them
The guy in the Nescafe coffee ad, played the librarian in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
That commercial was one of many which followed their relationship……..
@@sirrichardpumpaloaf8154 I remember them well, and the Nescafé “handshake” 😂😂
His name is Anthony Head (great name!!)) and his wife is an equestrian physiotherapist.
And his daughter plays carli in the inbetweeners
@@85stace85 so she was! I’d forgotten about that
It's been 40yrs since I saw the shake 'n' vac ad and I still remember the words and tune! Great advertising or my weak mind? 🤣🤣👍
Yes and yes😊
The singer of 'Mr Soft' was Steve Harley who died earlier this year. I was lucky to see him in concert a few years ago. Lynda Bellingham (the OXO lady) also died but 10 years ago. She was a French Canadian from Montreal.
The guy playing 'James Bond' type roll in Cadbury ' the lady loves Milk Tray' was so cute, he sent many hearts fluttering 🥰
Not as many as the Flake girl.
@@mehallica666 Didn't she send other things fluttering?
Shake n vac will always be iconic
I'm sure I read that it was used for longer than any other advert. All other long running advertising campaigns were regularly uodated and revised, but the Shake n Vac lady could never be replaced.
The Gold Blend advert was the first of many that became like a running soap opera. They would advertise the time & date when they premiered a new instalment.
Love this channel and your reactions
You Need, To See Hamlet Adverts, The VW Advert, More Of Those Um Bongo Adverts, There Was A Whole Series Of Them.!
All The Honda, &, Heineken &, Guinness Adverts Are A Must, EPIC.!
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I did watch UK TV in the '80s but several of those I had never seen. I like the Cockney Rebel song.
Some adverts were shown only in selected regions.
There was a whole saga of the coffee adverts, lol. We couldn't wait for the next one to be released! 😂
The coffee advert run a whole series of adds on the romance of the two main characters, well worth checking out, the same with Cadburys Milk Tray adverts.
That was great, I grew up with all these ads, and Carling Black Label did a few really good ads in the 80s Hamlet cigars made some decent ads too.
As an 80s British baby/child this was a great blast from the past 😂❤ I STILL sing the shake n vac song when I hoover and the Um bongo song I even taught my daughter when she was little.. almost 30 year after this advert lmao
The gold blend ads were so popular, everyone wanted the couple to get together, so after a succession of ads, they did😂
Its also what got Anthony head spotted for the role of Giles in buffy too .
Enjoyed these flashbacks, thank-you 🙂
The coffee advert was a series where you follow their romance as it goes along you have to watch them all nescafe gold blend
A trip down memory lane, forgot some of them and it all comes back. Great, thank-you for posting.
I think my favourite tune from the adverts at that time was 'Fedora' which was used in adverts for another fruit drink called Kia Ora. Very silly and very catchy.
MY CHILDHOOD !!! Oh the memories !!
Brought back a lot of fond memories, for me the 80's were the best of times.
Super vid. For some reason being a Brit, I love seeing how Americans react and think about British culture. It genially fascinates me. You may not realise this but that Coffee add was massive over here back in the day, there was a whole series of those ads, it went on for quite some time over here, the whole will they wont they thing. I remember when the final add came out the hype was crazy, more like a summer blockbuster vibe than an add. Great memories.
The stunt diver who made that dive in the last ad (yup, it was done for REAL) put his shoulder out. I believe he dived about 150ft. He was told at the top, 'you have made an equivalent dive before' , he took his agents word for it ,and, half way down he knew he hadn't! OOPS.
That reminds me of an account of a man who rode a bicycle off a 100ft high platform into a vat of water.
"All went well for the first three feet of the dive..."
The actor was Timothy Dalton who had just starred as James Bond in his one and only Bond movie.
@tonys1636 I think you may be confusing Dalton with Lazenby, who had previously advertised Fry's chocolate by carrying a huge bar of it on his shoulder before his only Bond movie. Dalton, as far as I know, was never in any adverts and was a shakespearean theatre and established movie actor by the time he did 2 Bonds.
You know an ad campaign is successful when you see an ad you have not seen before and instantly know what it is advertising. I havent seen that carling black label ad but as soon as the guard saved the bomb i guessed what the product was
You should look up the whole series of the Nescafé gold blend adverts. People were absolutely hooked by the mini soap opera they made, waiting to see if they ever got together.
And also look up the Oxo cube family series too. You watch the same family grow up through the years, right up until the lovely actress who played "the Oxo cube mum" died a few years back..they did a lovely tribute advert for her.
The Chewits advert was animated by Aardman animation!
Oh JT you bring back so many memories thank you so much. It’s so good to see you enjoy them the same way I did in my youth. Um Bongo defo one of the best adverts ever! 🥰
I still remember all of the words to the Um Bongo song, 40 years later! And I heard that the drink is making a comeback soon too. If I find some, I'll fire it over to you to try it. Was lush back in the day. Let's hope they can capture what I remember.
It's already back - Iceland stores only though
JT, Your reaction to the flake advert was priceless.............
We know how to do ads. It was a pleasure in the 80s and 90s to see some of the best ads ever. Tango. Milk tray. Um bongo. Gold blend. They all had variations.
Wow! I still remember every word in that softmints advert. It's amazing what stuff lives in your mind rent free for over three decades.
i remember these from growing up in the 80s in london thankd brings back some memorys
Firstly, JT discovering the Um Bongo song is gold. Secondly, one thing this doesn't show is that a lot of those ads became a series of ads. every few months they'd release a new ad telling more of the story.
Um Bongo is indeed a banger. We used to sing it in the playground a lot in the 80s. It’s legendary.
Beautiful, thanks for the blast from the past. Chewits were boss, and I still remember well the Mr Soft and Umbo Bungo ads, bangers.
The inventor of the first such bomb was the British engineer Barnes Wallis, whose "Upkeep" bouncing bomb was used in the RAF's Operation Chastise of May 1943 to destroy German dams. A very good film was made about it and informative.
I loved the OXO family! I'd forgotten um bongo that was such a classic ad from my childhood 😂
10:58 - MILK TRAY - This series of ads ran from 1968 to 2003, and again from 2016. A box of chocolates was delivered surreptitiously by a tough James Bond-style figure who had to undertake daunting 'raids' to reach his 'lady'. The original tagline was 'And all because the lady loves Milk Tray.' Over fifteen Bondesque ads were produced. The man jumping from a cliff top into the sea was stuntman Alf Joint who'd previously doubled for Sean Connery’s 007 in Goldfinger.
Love this shake and vac ad that’s what I sing to myself when i put mine down I can’t help signing it lol 😂
A few years ago I was doing a pub quiz. One of the questions was "what is the name of the fruit drink whose English translation means 'be healthy'"? Before anyone could say Kia Ora, one of the ladies in my team shouted out, in all seriousness, "I know! It's Um Bongo!" Cue collapse of everybody in the pub.😂🧃
Did he just drug his kids? LMFAO
Shake and Vac was a crazy add and everyone did the dance at the Disco. Great times.
The cadbury flake adverts were amazing and every school boys (along with dads) dream when i was growing up. The woman in the bath i think is the best!
I love this compilation. Ty for sharing :0)
The ads back then were amazing - the ones with the Martians advertising 'Smash' instant potato..! 😂
Umbongo is another you wouldn't see. But for me I loved it!
What you need to appreciate when watching many of the adverts is that many of them were part of campaigns that ran for years, if not decades (the OXO ads with Linda Bellingham, RIP). And spot Anthony Head before he became Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I remember every one of these. My favourite is probably the Dambusters advert. So good.
I know I'm a bit late with this one but it was just what I needed to lighten my mood 😂 so much nostalgia from my childhood. I was feeling a bit down as my elderly pooch isn't doing so well and we'll probably have to say goodbye to her next week so this was a great way to lighten my mood a bit 😊
We all learnt the Um bongo song as kids!
The best advert of the 80s in my opinion was the water in Majorca advert from Heineken.
Yeah, i recall that one, brilliant ad.
The Wawtah in Majowka don't taste like it owtahhhh😂
Thecoffee advert turned into a whole series like a soap opera. There was even a spin off novel telling of their love affair.
Two great ad campaigns/series from back then that were awesome were Bassets Liquorice All-Sorts and Woodpecker cider.
It's safe to say that every one of those ads is iconic and is burned into the consciousness of millions
Borrowed a vacuum cleaner from my mate when I moved into new place, returned it + got a text from his Mrs complaining that their vacuum cleaner "reeks of weed" 🤣🤣🤣