Favourite British advert(s) ever?

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1. Crusha Milkshake from the early 2000s, the one with the kittens.

2. The old Carling Black label adverts with The Oblivion Boys e.g.

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

3. There can be only one answer, [Blackcurrant Tango](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odCBml5TuNI), what’s more British than that ending?

4. Fly fishing by J.R. Hartley, still gives me goosebumps.

5. I used to love the Peter Kay adverts for John Smiths.

   Telling his little girl over the phone “there’s no such thing as wardrobe monsters. The burglars that break in through the windows, that’s what you wanna be worried about! Sweet dreams.”

   Priceless

6. Had a chat earlier about the hedgehog road safety ‘King of the Road’ ad from the mid 90s. That always stuck with me

7. The Milk one, with Accrington Stanley, I used to like. One of the kids is now in prison.

8. There are too many – Carling black Label [Shite beer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qen5kgikbVI) but [brilliant adverts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCemJAd3KZA), Guiness has too many to list each individually, but I’ll just drop [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpXSNVtsb8Q) with a big side order of [this here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Om15TM7t9g), but for me Irn Bru, has the best [like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlkr0ML9SQ4) but particularly [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZOab5gl-4). Adverts are great on YouTube, not so much when interrupting something good. I promise that there are no rick rolls…

9. Um Bongo, which I am reliably told is enjoyed in either or both of the Republic of the Congo or the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the ad never clarified which.)

10. Any of the Irn Bru adverts from the eaely 2000s, with special shout out to the Scotlands going to the World Cup series.

11. Full moon, half moon, total eclipse.

12. Milkyway – Red car blue car [https://youtu.be/Y4drNFXd6dw](https://youtu.be/Y4drNFXd6dw) I might be aging myself with this but it hits me right in the nostalgia feels!

13. The recent weetabix one with the girl on the beach fishing and pulling in a submarine is just great.

    Makes me laugh every time and bang on their “youve had your weetabix” slogan!

14. Gorilla doing the Phil Colin’s piece on the drums. Think it was Cadbury’s

15. BELLY’S GONNA GET YOU

    BELLY’S GONNA GET YOU

    BELLY’S

    GONNA

    GET

    YOUUUUUU

16. Cadbury with Gorilla playing drums to in the air tonight

17. I think they only air it in Scotland, but the Irn Bru spoof of the Snowman at Christmas time always wins for me.

18. Hamlet cigars, especially the one with Gregor Fisher

19. [I used to use this ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOcZ2RjbNM8) with students when talking about norms had changed over time – I’d ask them to write down what they thought the ad was about. The male students would write down lengthy descriptions of the car features and the female students would just write “sex” 😂

20. The yop drink advert, “yop for when di mornin’ come”

21. Sainsbury’s Christmas ad in 2014 covering the Christmas Truce of 1914.

22. The Smash mash alien things

23. Daddy or chips

24. Boddington’s advert where you think they’re in Venice but turns out they’re on the Manchester canal.

    “By ‘eck, it’s gorgeous!”

25. Wasssssaaaap.

26. Guinness sea horses

27. New shake and vac from Glade is here.

28. The kids doing the eyebrow dance – was it Cadbury?

29. R Whites Lemonade – secret lemonade drinker

30. Honda had some crackers in the 2000s. The cog with the Heath Robinson contraption, Hate Something Change Something, The Impossible Dream…

31. Guinness early 2000’s – man evolving thru the ages backwards from neanderthal ending up as a newt to the music ‘rhythm of life’ still love it https://youtu.be/D3rajq9HsUw

32. The Aldi ad with the old lady.

    My husband likes this tea, and he likes this tea. I don’t like tea…I like gin

33. Potatoes singing we want to be smith’s crisps.

34. There’s a moose loose about this hoose