Old TV Commercials
Vicki Cleaver
have decent ads like we used to. You know, the kind of campaigns that go
for years and live in the memories of everyone. I mean people already
cringe at Big Kev's "I'm excited". It's hardly going to be remembered
fondly!
So what TV ads do you remember from your childhood?
My favs were:
"You're soaking in it!"
"Wash your hands Jeffrey, with the Solvol Jeffrey"
"Rita the Eta eater"
"It gets in, just like this liquid gets into this chalk"
"Any old iron, any old iron, any, any, any old iron"
"L for Leo, M for Muller, think Toyota"
--
See ya!
Vicki Cleaver
vickiclea...@dingoblue.net.au
http://kittecat.cjb.net
Take out the litter to email me.
On aus.tv, all posters are equal. Some are just more equal than others.
Ivan Smith
"Marcus2" <fn...@dinglings.com.au> wrote in message
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> Vicki Cleaver <vickiclea...@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> > So what TV ads do you remember from your childhood?
>
I remember:
Fat Hugo and his fat sister (Kentucky Fried Chicken), "Hey Charger" Chrysler
(now Mitsubishi), TAA: Up Up and Away, A Volvo ad "If More Australian's
drove Volvo - there'd be more Australians", an AMPOL ad in 1970 that strobed
and could be seen in pseudo-colour on a mono TV and various local Adelaide
ads - mainly early SGIO ones.
These are from before the time that I worked out I hated commercial
television and it's advertisments. I was very anti-capitalist/commercial/USA
from the mid 70's to the late 80's, so I missed a lot of advertising.
Ivan
Doppler Dog
"Put a tictac in your mouth and get a bang! out of life"
"You need uncle sam, you need uncle sam..."
"Amoco, nice and clean, Amoco, in your machine"
"Tab what a beautiful drink, Tab for beautiful people"
"Fresh is the flavour of Alpine"
--
Remove the knickers from my email to reply.
Doppler Dog
"WHERE DO YA GEDDIT!?!?!?"
Ugh!
Doppler Dog
Oh, and
"Aussie bonds, aussie bonds, the savings bonds backed by australians.."
frgn8r
Jack 'Clayton' Thommo 'It's the drink you have, when you're not having a
drink'
Dave Sullivan at a slumber party for drunks, promoting the cause against
drink driving.
The Coke ads, with the giant bubble - give me a compass, quick. also, Tab
(and KFC), with Elle
Those Telecom Long Distance 'Memories' ads (boo hoo).
Medibank Private, with all the dancing hospital patients.
And... that's all. Everytime somehting new goes in, something old gets
pushed out. Like the time I learnt how to make wine, and I forgot how to
drive. (Thank you Homer).
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MDG
"...avegoodwegend" (Aerogard)
"They said you'd never make it....." (Swan Lager??)
Mitch
Dan
but that's naught how ya make babies"
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>Vicki Cleaver <vickiclea...@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
>news:Xns90F054043187Bvi...@203.2.75.243...
>> So what TV ads do you remember from your childhood?
>
>Thought the "That's no how you make porridge" (1986?) was a hoot :-)
>
>
>Marcus2
>
>
>
viccy
>
>I was watching TV the other night and it occurred to me that we just don't
>have decent ads like we used to.
You'll be pleased to know that in Victoria, they still show the ancient
(blokey) Vic Bitter ads! :-)
"A hard earned thirst, needs a big cold beer and the best cold beer is Vic..."
>So what TV ads do you remember from your childhood?
>
>My favs were:
>
>"You're soaking in it!"
"Dishwashing liquid!!!!!!"
>"Wash your hands Jeffrey, with the Solvol Jeffrey"
>"Rita the Eta eater"
>"It gets in, just like this liquid gets into this chalk"
"Oooooooh, it *does* get in!"
(kids at school loved that line...)
>"Any old iron, any old iron, any, any, any old iron"
>"L for Leo, M for Muller, think Toyota"
"Football, meat-pies, kangaroos and Holden cars..."
A little more recent;
"Good on ya mum"
"You oughta be congratulated"
Really ancient - the classic;
"I love Aeroplane Jelly, Aeroplane Jelly for me!"
- Viccy
Vicki Cleaver
maco...@aol.comnospam (viccy) purred:
> "Football, meat-pies, kangaroos and Holden cars..."
This one came to me after I wrote the initial post. I wonder why car ads
have stuck in my mind?
Doppler Dog
"Cmon guys, show us your BM's, make us girls all smile"
"I'm honestly wearing No Knickers"
"Sic 'em, Rex" - Antz Pantz
"Put your country's greatest assets out on show, cause everybody loves Speedo"
"Big Ben's the real meat pie you eat when you feel like a Big Ben pie"
"Shake hands with a Cold Gold KB"
"You've come a long way baby" - Virginia Slims
"The disadvantages of Benson & Hedges 100's"
Azhure
"Louie the fly, louie the fly... straight from rubbish tip to you." it's
worked for 30 years. I used to sing it as a little tyke.
Charlie Chickenhawk & Frederick Fox for KFC in the mid 80's "It can't be a
burger, burgers aren't made with a tender chicken fillet" OK, so I worked
there at that time, and I know it off by heart!
The best ads of recent times:
The Nike Y2K ad with the animals escaped the zoo, & the money spiting out
the ATM (Auld Lang Syne)
The Twistie shots ads - love the guy sucked outa the plane.
The Westpac ads from the Olympics with the athletes families. "I dunno how
they do it"
The Maccas ad with the guy in the car, and the annoying little kid making
faces. Alway will like that one.
The sudafed ad with the guy driving off with the tent.
The Toyota Camry "Believe it or not" naked running guy ad.
Cash converters "13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13..... 14,14,14" ad
Okay, so I watch too much tv, and do love lots of ads, but agree, plenty of
them are shite.
Vicki Cleaver
<fn...@dinglings.com.au> purred:
> G'day folks,
>
> This is sort of OT but thought I'd put it in here anyway - The Jingle
> Shrine at http://www.radioatwork.com.au/jingleshrine.htm
I'm having *so* much fun at this site!! All the old jingles! Thanks for
that!
Phil Herring
> You'll be pleased to know that in Victoria, they still show the ancient
> (blokey) Vic Bitter ads! :-)
> "A hard earned thirst, needs a big cold beer and the best cold beer is Vic..."
They're new, actually. They use the same music, and
John Meillon's voice has been chopped up and digitally
reassembled for the different script (I kid you not!).
The pictures are new.
John's widow (Bunny Gibson) has tried, and has failed,
to stop the brewery in question from doing this. It's kinda sad.
-- Phil
Phil Herring
> "You're soaking in it!"
> "Wash your hands Jeffrey, with the Solvol Jeffrey"
> "Rita the Eta eater"
If you ever need to hire fancy dress in Sydney, go to North
Shore Costume Hire in North Sydney and hire it from Bunny
Gibson. You can ask her about being Rita... I don't think
she'll mind.
> "It gets in, just like this liquid gets into this chalk"
> "Any old iron, any old iron, any, any, any old iron"
> "L for Leo, M for Muller, think Toyota"
However, I distinctly recall that many of these were scorned
at the time they were current, much as people scorn Big Kev
today. They only became classics over the ensuing decades.
-- Phil
Vicki Cleaver
<phil_h...@yahoo.com.au> purred:
> However, I distinctly recall that many of these were scorned
> at the time they were current, much as people scorn Big Kev
> today. They only became classics over the ensuing decades.
This is very true.
David Z
"Good, better, best...
We will never rest,
until our good is better,
better than the rest"
And the australia post ads, right after they introduced the '4 squares' for
the post codes on the envelopes...
Also, the "I'm Pete, repeat" right after the recyclable bottles came out...
What about the old Coke ads.. 'You can't beat the feeling'
and of course the Juicy Fruit ads "Juicy fruit - is gonna move ya.. its got
the taste , that gets right to ya.." (or was that in in the usa - cant
remember :)
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David Hutchison
| I was watching TV the other night and it occurred to me that we just
don't
| have decent ads like we used to. You know, the kind of campaigns that go
| for years and live in the memories of everyone. I mean people already
| cringe at Big Kev's "I'm excited". It's hardly going to be remembered
| fondly!
|
| So what TV ads do you remember from your childhood?
|
| My favs were:
|
| "You're soaking in it!"
| "Wash your hands Jeffrey, with the Solvol Jeffrey"
| "Rita the Eta eater"
| "It gets in, just like this liquid gets into this chalk"
| "Any old iron, any old iron, any, any, any old iron"
| "L for Leo, M for Muller, think Toyota"
How about this one...
"Go on, Freddy, drink it. ... Drink it. ... DRINK IT!"
Would you believe which product that one was advertising if I told you? ;)
--
| DAVID HUTCHISON | runc...@powerup.com.au |
| Brisbane, Australia | ICQ# 21118669 |
| o/` "Don't you think that it's strange |
| That this is interesting to somebody" o/` |
John D Leister
the very long running Nescafe coffee series with
the couple that were gong to get married......
The ads ran for ages and ages and then they
eventually got married.
The ads even generated lots of mail for Nescafe as
the couple had grown quite a number of fans in the
time they were on TV.
Vicki Cleaver
<runc...@powerup.com.au> purred:
> How about this one...
>
> "Go on, Freddy, drink it. ... Drink it. ... DRINK IT!"
>
> Would you believe which product that one was advertising if I told you?
> ;) --
ARRRGGHHH!! I know this ..... it's on the tip of my tongue!
Kestra
> > So what TV ads do you remember from your childhood?
>
"I'm Louie The Fly, I'm Louie the fly - straight from the rubbish tip to
you!"
Strangely enough I think Bryce Courtney came up with that advertising
campagin.
And the lifesaver ad in the classroom - can't remember much about that.
Just vaguely remember 'TAA Up Up and away" - but everyone here changed it
to "TAA Crash Halfway".
Kes .
Sir Oran
<runc...@powerup.com.au> wrote:
>How about this one...
>
>"Go on, Freddy, drink it. ... Drink it. ... DRINK IT!"
>
>Would you believe which product that one was advertising if I told you? ;)
Milo?
How about...
"Darling, what are you doing?"
"I'm making myself bootiful."
--
Sir Oran
We love television because television brings us a world in which
television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what
the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.
(Barbara Ehrenreich)
Poss
"Marcus2" <fn...@dinglings.com.au>:
>G'day folks,
>
>This is sort of OT but thought I'd put it in here anyway - The Jingle Shrine
>section which has old commercial jingles. Some beauties there, even one from
>1961 - this'll test a few memories I think (lol!), one for Peter's Ice
>Cream.."Ice cream eaters love peters"..*grin* (it's mostly a radio jingle
>site but the other stuff section has some old ad jingles)
>
>Marcus2
>
>
>
I was just thinking of the wonderful TDK jingle the other day! This
is great, thanks Marcus.
Rev. Possum Bits, U.L.C.
Peering into her letterbox at pam...@iinet.net.au
Tottering through her home page at http://members.iinet.net.au/~pamela2
Now with added David Troughton.
"Ooh! Goober fish!" Jar Jar Binks
Gilgamesh
"David Hutchison" <runc...@powerup.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Vicki Cleaver" <vickiclea...@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
> | I was watching TV the other night and it occurred to me that we just
> don't
> | have decent ads like we used to. You know, the kind of campaigns that
go
> | for years and live in the memories of everyone. I mean people already
> | cringe at Big Kev's "I'm excited". It's hardly going to be remembered
> | fondly!
> |
> | So what TV ads do you remember from your childhood?
> |
> | My favs were:
> |
> | "You're soaking in it!"
> | "Wash your hands Jeffrey, with the Solvol Jeffrey"
> | "Rita the Eta eater"
> | "It gets in, just like this liquid gets into this chalk"
> | "Any old iron, any old iron, any, any, any old iron"
> | "L for Leo, M for Muller, think Toyota"
>
> How about this one...
>
> "Go on, Freddy, drink it. ... Drink it. ... DRINK IT!"
>
> Would you believe which product that one was advertising if I told you? ;)
Nestle Quick
pharro
> Whilst licking their paws in aus.tv on 01 Aug 2001, "David Hutchison"
> <runc...@powerup.com.au> purred:
>
> > How about this one...
> >
> > "Go on, Freddy, drink it. ... Drink it. ... DRINK IT!"
> >
> > Would you believe which product that one was advertising if I told you?
> > ;) --
>
> ARRRGGHHH!! I know this ..... it's on the tip of my tongue!
>
A glass of milk can also contain 2 teaspoons of Nestles Quik, which makes it
sort of a big, chocolatey vitamin pill...
Paul H
Wollongong Quokka
>So what TV ads do you remember from your childhood?
I can also nominate:
>"Rita the Eta eater"
>"It gets in, just like this liquid gets into this chalk"
But the biggest for me remains an NRMA Insurance ad which either wouldn't
have got out of NSW, or may have come out rebranded elsewhere.
In the ad a woman starts frying some chips on the stove when the phone
rings. She goes to answer it and then gets lost in conversation.
Meanwhile in the kitchen things get a little hairy when a fire breaks out
which goes on to gutter the kitchen.
At this point we cut back to the woman who delivers a memorable line in
advertising history... "Oh my god, THE CHIPS!".
She then rushes to the kitchen and is stunned by the now charred remains
of her kitchen. The fire is already out.
While she watches, the Kitchen transforms itself back into it's pre-fire
state Terminator 2 style (well, not quite... just a bit of standard fade
transition between shots), because she's with NRMA and they can do things
like that for you at NRMA Insurance.
Once at primary school the teacher got us to this exercise where we went
through the class and each person had to make up one line of a story.
Every kid in the class - without any prior arrangement - followed the
story of this ad perfectly... and in sufficient detail for everyone to
have a go.
The teacher was very impressed and at the time we all assumed we'd conned
her and a rather large private joke. Later I wondered if the teacher was
merely impressed at our team skills at holding the story together.
As for the line ("Oh my god... THE CHIPS!"), I've long thought that it
would be heaps fun to deliver it in a plane just as you're rolling down
the runway preparing to take off, but always restrained myself on account
of the fact that if people don't immeadiately identify the source, it
could cause unpredictable reactions in fellow travellers with a
potentially adverse effect on the rest of the flight. :)
Other ads in my mind... the Safety lion or some such who "drew" on the
screen and had a ditty about "Look to the left, Look to the right, then
look to the left again - before you cross the road!".
The early Nescafe Saga
"You ought to be congratulated!"
"Good on ya' Mum! Tip Top's the one!"
The BBC Hardware ads with the Two Ronnies.
Rolf's "Trust British Paints? Sure can!"
Another Sydney one... "Tell 'em the price, son!" ... "Tell 'em the price,
son!" ...... "And remember, as Dad and I say... 'YOU WILL SAVE!'".
"We are the boys from Allllcan, and we're doing it right for yooooou!"
The Flora margarine ads with Felicity Kendall, but only because she was
cute.
--
A Wollongong Quokka Experience
"Wollongong: City of Champions"
Vicki Cleaver
<fn...@dinglings.com.au> purred:
> Vicki Cleaver <vickiclea...@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
> news:Xns90F0C7CC335ADvi...@203.2.75.243...
>> Whilst licking their paws in aus.tv on 01 Aug 2001, "David Hutchison"
>> <runc...@powerup.com.au> purred:
>>
>> > How about this one...
>> >
>> > "Go on, Freddy, drink it. ... Drink it. ... DRINK IT!"
>> >
>> > Would you believe which product that one was advertising if I told
>> > you? ;) --
>>
>> ARRRGGHHH!! I know this ..... it's on the tip of my tongue!
>
> Castor oil? ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist.
<shudder>
ann bishop
> Vicki Cleaver <vickiclea...@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
> news:Xns90F0C7CC335ADvi...@203.2.75.243...
> > Whilst licking their paws in aus.tv on 01 Aug 2001, "David Hutchison"
> > <runc...@powerup.com.au> purred:
> >
> > > How about this one...
> > >
> > > "Go on, Freddy, drink it. ... Drink it. ... DRINK IT!"
> > >
> > > Would you believe which product that one was advertising if I told you?
> > > ;) --
> >
> > ARRRGGHHH!! I know this ..... it's on the tip of my tongue!
>
> Castor oil? ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist.
Make mine MILK
--
annieb
Doppler Dog
"Oh, oh, razzamatazz"
Christian McNeill
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>
> "Oh, oh, razzamatazz"
The Dancing man on the Guinness advert
OR
G-O-G-G-O
--
==========================
Christian McNeill
Email: r...@underground.com.au
Web: http://red.underground.com.au/
Doppler Dog
"Billy Jean King, how's your love life?"
"Great! London, Paris, Rome..."
"How's your LOVE life?"
"Terrible..."
and
"Drink your milk every day... the best in you will come shining through"
Both early 70's
Dean
voice over. I always wondered if it was the late Kenneth Williams from the old
Carry On movies.
The Lifesavers ad with the bored high school kids in the music room burst into
a rock version of "Lifesavers - get a hole lot more out of life".
The 'Mid-week Lotto' ad from about 1983 with the cheerleader dancers in the
tiny string skirts.
Dean.
Vicki Cleaver wrote:
> I was watching TV the other night and it occurred to me that we just don't
> have decent ads like we used to. You know, the kind of campaigns that go
> for years and live in the memories of everyone. I mean people already
> cringe at Big Kev's "I'm excited". It's hardly going to be remembered
> fondly!
>
Doppler Dog
> The 'Mid-week Lotto' ad from about 1983 with the cheerleader dancers in the
> tiny string skirts.
>
"Get your pools in, get your pools in..." late 70's
Craig Thomson
The weekend's come, wee-hoo!
The city's far behind.
Have we got milk?
Yep! We've got sunshine!
And what about..
Come on Aussie, come on, come on...
It's a typical Aussie morning on a typical Aussie day
And I love this place I was born in in a typical Aussie way
And I'd sure hate to lose our sunshine but I can feel it slipping away
And we're going to have to work out sometime that everything is not OK
Have a go you can do it, have a go we'll come through it
That's how we got the country started boots and all and not half
hearted
Let's all climb that mountain 'cos that's what mountains are for
Let's all stand up and be counted, what we can be is worth working for
Have a go, you can do it.
Ahh, nostalgia. It sure aint what it used to be!
Craig
On 31 Jul 2001 22:16:07 GMT, Vicki Cleaver
<vickiclea...@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
>I was watching TV the other night and it occurred to me that we just don't
>have decent ads like we used to. You know, the kind of campaigns that go
>for years and live in the memories of everyone. I mean people already
>cringe at Big Kev's "I'm excited". It's hardly going to be remembered
>fondly!
>
>So what TV ads do you remember from your childhood?
>
>My favs were:
>
>"You're soaking in it!"
>"Wash your hands Jeffrey, with the Solvol Jeffrey"
>"Rita the Eta eater"
>"It gets in, just like this liquid gets into this chalk"
Vanessa
news:3B67C0BE...@yahoo.com.au...
It's more than sad..it's appalling. Can't belive they would disrespect the
wishes of his widow. Let's all immediately boycott the product!
--
***********
Vanessa :-)
***********
Vanessa
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> How about this one...
>
> "Go on, Freddy, drink it. ... Drink it. ... DRINK IT!"
>
> Would you believe which product that one was advertising if I told you? ;)
It's either Quik or Milo.
--
***********
Vanessa :-)
***********
> --
Wollongong Quokka
>"Oh, oh, razzamatazz"
In primary school I had a friend called Rasmus who, suffice to say, hated
that ad. :)
viccy
>Phil Herring <phil_h...@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
>news:3B67C0BE...@yahoo.com.au...
>> viccy wrote:
>>
>> > You'll be pleased to know that in Victoria, they still show the ancient
>> > (blokey) Vic Bitter ads! :-)
>> > "A hard earned thirst, needs a big cold beer and the best cold beer is
>Vic..."
>>
>> They're new, actually. They use the same music, and
>> John Meillon's voice has been chopped up and digitally
>> reassembled for the different script (I kid you not!).
>> The pictures are new.
WOW! I'll have to closely *watch* the ad next time I hear that familiar music!
I honestly thought it was the same ol' ad...
>> John's widow (Bunny Gibson) has tried, and has failed,
>> to stop the brewery in question from doing this. It's kinda sad.
>
>It's more than sad..it's appalling. Can't belive they would disrespect the
>wishes of his widow.
I agree with that; have some respect... RIP John.
> Let's all immediately boycott the product!
Now that's *some* sacrifice! :-0
- Viccy
Andrew Bayley
sure who it was for as I dont think we had NRMA Insurance
here then.
I remember being particularly amused with the ad that was
used to first launch Diet Coke (early 80's, so I was about
11 or 12 at the time) a big stage production with rows of
dancing girls in big feathers and so on singing "Now's the
time for Diet Coke" and shots of people in the audience
clutching Diet Coke cans and the then the big finale from
the showgirls "Just For The Taste of It!! Diet Coke!!!!!!"
Other remembered ads....
"It's your money Ralph!" (State Bank Victoria) - the Comedy
Company I remember did a good send up of that one.
"That'll be the phone Reg" (Telecom, pre-Telstra?)
And before the days of Demtel, Danoz and TV infomercials,
there was how many ads in the early 80's for "500-0-500!"
the first of the "Ring now but do not send any money!"
commercials. But all these years later I still remember the
phone number.....
"The little fat kid from Hey Dad" doing ads for Mitsubishi
"what's a decade?"
there were also some doozies remembered from watching
regional TV in the 1980's, Daryl Twitt Motors in Shepparton
is a name you couldn't forget in a hurry and another ad, MON
soft drinks with the cheesy jingle "The fruit-y spell of
fruity, icy MON... M! O! N!".
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Wombat
As bright as bright can be
We all enjoy our Vegemite
For breakfast, lunch and tea
Our mother says we're growing stronger
Every single week
Because we love our Vegemite.
We all adore our Vegemite.
It puts a rose in every cheek"
--
"The Milky Bar Kid is tough and strong
The Milky Bar Kid just can't go wrong
The Milky Bar Kid only eats what's right
That's Milky Bar - it's clean and white"
--
"For the very first time
Soap with streaks of lime
Makes your skin feel alive
It's called Lime Fresh - Freash Lime"
--
(Three lines of unintelligible humming followed by...)
"Kimbie, kimbie, kimbie, kimbie"
--
Can't really remember the jingles of these....
"Put a Tiger In Your Tank" (Esso)
"Stop For A Stanley" (Golden Fleece)
I can also remember a very psychadelic Fanta ad, along the lines of The
Beatles "Yellow Submarine"...
Or did I dream it?
Wombat
(Now feeling his age...)
--
David Z
"hit me slowly,
hit me quick
hit me with a samboy chip"
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Wombat
"Sir Oran" <dan...@bigblue.TAKETHISBITOUTnet.au> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 19:30:34 +1000, "David Hutchison"
> <runc...@powerup.com.au> wrote:
>
> >How about this one...
> >
> >"Go on, Freddy, drink it. ... Drink it. ... DRINK IT!"
> >
> >Would you believe which product that one was advertising if I told you?
;)
>
> Milo?
>
> How about...
>
> "Darling, what are you doing?"
>
> "I'm making myself bootiful."
Tahiti looks nice...
Andrew Bayley
> Tahiti looks nice...
*picks up phone* "Simon! Tahiti!"
Andrew Bayley
"Roll it and fold it, and roll it and fold it....
Layer upon layer... upon layer....."
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Sarch
"2... 240... 240 Brunswick Street... 240 Brunswick Street... Fitzroy" - Eric
Planensek(sp?) leather and fur store in Melbourne. This ad ran for over a
decade in Melbourne.
"I want my Mister Matey!!" Again, this ad for many, many years without
modification.
Sarch
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to Somalia." - Amanda Keller, "The Hub"
Sir Oran
<quo...@zip.net.au> wrote:
>Doppler Dog wrote:
>>"Oh, oh, razzamatazz"
>
>In primary school I had a friend called Rasmus who, suffice to say, hated
>that ad. :)
There was a kid in my class surnamed Sumpton, who really hated the
"Something's brewing" ad (for, IIRC, some kind of tea - possibly
Liptons.)
Sir Oran
on bread alone", with peasants humping in the hay, to the sound of
pigs oinking.
And the Eve yoghurt(?) ad with the naked lady.
moondog
Doppler Dog wrote:
> Dean <d...@cyllene.uwa.edu.au> writes:
>
> > The 'Mid-week Lotto' ad from about 1983 with the cheerleader dancers in the
> > tiny string skirts.
> >
>
> "Get your pools in, get your pools in..." late 70's
Launch of Lotto - Karen Pini telling us:
"Go Lotto, Go Lotto, you're maaaad if you don't!"
SuperJason
the Queensland taps! Which as all self-respecting beer drinkers know is not
good. I suppose I might have to start drinking one of those Irish syrups....
nnnoooo.... when will we get Tooheys extra dry on tap???
Jason
Doppler Dog
Dean
Wombat wrote:
>
>
> "The Milky Bar Kid is tough and strong
> The Milky Bar Kid just can't go wrong
> The Milky Bar Kid only eats what's right
> That's Milky Bar - it's clean and white"
Did you know the original guy who played the Milky Bar Kid was murdered a
few years ago ? Sad.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> (Three lines of unintelligible humming followed by...)
> "Kimbie, kimbie, kimbie, kimbie"
I remember our angry headmaster at high school in about 1975 called an
assembly to give us all a severe reprimand for our disgraceful behaviour at
an interschool sports carnival. The PA system was playing up and the old
bastard only got as far as saying "Now look you lot, I've only got one
thing to say to you all..." at that point the sound switched to a radio ad
with the jingle "Kimbie Kimbie Kimbies". The spunk-rat standing next to me
laughed so hard she had to hold onto me to stop from falling over. AAhhhh,
those were the days.
>
>
> --
>
> I can also remember a very psychadelic Fanta ad, along the lines of The
> Beatles "Yellow Submarine"...
> Or did I dream it?
No, I remember that to. The 'Wa Wa' peddle ( I think its called ) really
got a work out in that one.
Dean.
Peter Riley
"Barnhoffen" (Sp??) Bread - or something similar sounding??
One of the finest scenes of "Pig Stroking" you will ever see!!
--
Peter Riley
EMail: M...@bigpond.com
ICQ: 17225861
Proud Owner of: Zoe (Retired & now a Proud PROVEN Mum) - GONZO (Retired and
GAPed) - JIMBO (The New GONZO - He has a lot to live up to!!) - Boof (Racing
& at Shannon & Kelvin's)- Chad the Wonder Dog! (Racing & at Paul
Fegan's) -Thomas (Named & at Jimmy Redenbach's) - Zana (Unnamed & at
Shannon & Kelvin's)- Zambi (Unnamed & at Shannon & Kelvin's)- Lucy (Racing &
at Shannon & Kelvin's) - Macca (Spelling) - Moochoo (Racing & At Tina
Womann's)- Blaze (Racing & at Tina Womann's)- Wendy (Unnamed & at Tina
Womann's) - Smurf (Spelling) - Lucky (Unnamed & at Tina Womann's) - Scout -
(Racing with Tina and about to go to NZ!!) Bronson (Pup) - Anita (Pup) &
Dottie (Pup).
Big Mark
> Did you know the original guy who played the Milky Bar Kid was murdered a
> few years ago ? Sad.
Beats the mishaps of Dougie the pizza hut boy.
Dan
became
Dougie the Drugfuck
became
Matt the Water Rat
Big Mark wrote in message ...
PJ
> "Any old iron, any old iron, any, any, any old iron"
Was that the one for Zupp's? John Zupp had a big hungry grin
and would appear in these ads looming from the screen holding
a bunch of $50 notes, looking like a local version of Satan in
a 70s suit.
There was another Zupp's campaign where people in situations
where they had to sign documents (at weddings for eg) and one
of them would say: "No, I'm not signing anything until I've seen
Zupp's". That was one that made it into the local joke pool.
Oh, Zupp's sold cars.
> "L for Leo, M for Muller, think Toyota"
Almost otherworldly high pitched voice that disintegrated into
echos by the word Toyota. The acapella jingle began: "what comes
after L ..." Odd lateral moves.
There was another car yard that could only budget a singer but not
a band was: "you can trust Wayne Hill" repeated in a voice that might
not have sounded so tortured had there been at least an acoustic guitar
behind it.
Ah .. Brisbane tv in the early '80s....
Yet another car ad had a quite groovy jingle whose chorus went:
"Leach Motors Windsor, we're gonna win ya, we're gonna win ya now..."
A year or two later, when the Violent Femmes brought out their song
Blister in the Sun, a lot of Brisbanites already knew the melody from
that ad. Very few fans pointed it out, though...
What else ... Oh....
"Love ya Brisbaaaarn..." I think that was run at closing time on one of
the commercial channels (7? O?)
What was the petrol/service station chain ad that showed a bad
worker getting a military-style dressing down from a military-style
boss (he looked like my primary school headmaster, Mr Milburn, same glasses
even)? The poor guy had the logos on his shirt ripped away as well as the
epaulets (SP?). The boss even snapped the pencil in his shirt pocket.
It was meant to be amusing but I grew up in an army town (Townsville) and
found it nightmarish. It was from the early 70s.
What about: "my dad picks the fruit that goes to Cottees who make the
cordial that we like best..."
That's a case of something being catchy in spite of itself.
PJ
Vicki Cleaver
(PJ) purred:
> Vicki Cleaver <vickiclea...@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
> news:<Xns90F054043187Bvi...@203.2.75.243>...
>
>> "Any old iron, any old iron, any, any, any old iron"
>
> Was that the one for Zupp's? John Zupp had a big hungry grin
> and would appear in these ads looming from the screen holding
> a bunch of $50 notes, looking like a local version of Satan in
> a 70s suit.
>
> There was another Zupp's campaign where people in situations
> where they had to sign documents (at weddings for eg) and one
> of them would say: "No, I'm not signing anything until I've seen
> Zupp's". That was one that made it into the local joke pool.
>
> Oh, Zupp's sold cars.
Yep, those were the Zupp's commercials! I wondered if any other
Brisbanites remembered it!
> "Love ya Brisbaaaarn..." I think that was run at closing time on one of
> the commercial channels (7? O?)
Uh huh that was Seven. Sadly, I have to admit to having that on 7" vinyl.
Yes, the station promo was released as a single and did quite well here in
Brisbane.
--
See ya!
Vicki Cleaver
vickiclea...@dingoblue.net.au
http://kittecat.cjb.net
Take out the litter to email me.
On aus.tv, all posters are equal. Some are just more equal than others.
Frank Calabrese
<vickiclea...@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
>Whilst licking their paws in aus.tv on 03 Aug 2001, Pje...@hotmail.com
>(PJ) purred:
>
>> Vicki Cleaver <vickiclea...@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
>> news:<Xns90F054043187Bvi...@203.2.75.243>...
>>
>>> "Any old iron, any old iron, any, any, any old iron"
>>
>> Was that the one for Zupp's? John Zupp had a big hungry grin
>> and would appear in these ads looming from the screen holding
>> a bunch of $50 notes, looking like a local version of Satan in
>> a 70s suit.
>>
>> There was another Zupp's campaign where people in situations
>> where they had to sign documents (at weddings for eg) and one
>> of them would say: "No, I'm not signing anything until I've seen
>> Zupp's". That was one that made it into the local joke pool.
>>
>> Oh, Zupp's sold cars.
>
>Yep, those were the Zupp's commercials! I wondered if any other
>Brisbanites remembered it!
>
>> "Love ya Brisbaaaarn..." I think that was run at closing time on one of
>> the commercial channels (7? O?)
>
>Uh huh that was Seven. Sadly, I have to admit to having that on 7" vinyl.
>Yes, the station promo was released as a single and did quite well here in
>Brisbane.
And Seven in Perth adapted it to "LOve You Perth" as well, and it was
sung I believe by Kim Hart.
Frank
Wombat
"When your battery acts up hornery, holler for a Marshall"
"Ahh.... GOTCHA!... GOTCHA!... GOTCHA!"
"Mister Wong, Mister Wong!"
And a Sydney one...
"We're just up the Windsor Road from Baulkham Hills, and let ME do it right
for YOU!"
Wombat
--
Anestis Kozakis
<quo...@zip.net.au> had the following revelation...
>Other ads in my mind
[snip lots]
Two I haven't seen mentioned :
"I want my _CLOTHES OFF_" (Some bubble bath product or other with the
animated kid).
"I'm wearing No Knickers" - holeproof line IIRC.
Anestis.
Michael Carse
goodness the chips", and I'm sure 'cause I worked for them then and in fact
still do!!
Michael
"Andrew Bayley" <an...@NO.SPAM.4.ME.optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:3b69361b$0$20924$7f31...@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> "Oh my god THE CHIPS!" also got a run in Victoria.... not
> sure who it was for as I dont think we had NRMA Insurance
> here then.
>
> I > >
> > But the biggest for me remains an NRMA Insurance ad which
> either wouldn't
> > have got out of NSW, or may have come out rebranded
> elsewhere.
> >
> > In the ad a woman starts frying some chips on the stove
> when the phone
> > rings. She goes to answer it and then gets lost in
> conversation.
> > Meanwhile in the kitchen things get a little hairy when a
> fire breaks out
> > which goes on to gutter the kitchen.
> >
> > At this point we cut back to the woman who delivers a
> memorable line in
> > advertising history... "Oh my god, THE CHIPS!".
> >
> > She then rushes to the kitchen and is stunned by the now
> charred remains
> > of her kitchen. The fire is already out.
> >
> > While she watches, the Kitchen transforms itself back into
> it's pre-fire
> > state Terminator 2 style (well, not quite... just a bit of
> standard fade
> > transition between shots), because she's with NRMA and
> they can do things
> > like that for you at NRMA Insurance.
> >
> >
Vanessa H
"Anestis Kozakis" <ken...@labyrinth.net.au> wrote in message
news:11okmt0mongo9es9t...@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 17:06:00 GMT, Wollongong Quokka
> <quo...@zip.net.au> had the following revelation...
>
> >Other ads in my mind
>
> [snip lots]
>
> Two I haven't seen mentioned :
>
> "I want my _CLOTHES OFF_" (Some bubble bath product or other with the
> animated kid).
That'd be Mr Matey. :)
V.
Vanessa H
"Dean" <d...@cyllene.uwa.edu.au> wrote in message
news:3B69F49C...@cyllene.uwa.edu.au...
>
>
> Wombat wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > "The Milky Bar Kid is tough and strong
> > The Milky Bar Kid just can't go wrong
> > The Milky Bar Kid only eats what's right
> > That's Milky Bar - it's clean and white"
>
> Did you know the original guy who played the Milky Bar Kid was murdered a
> few years ago ? Sad.
>
V.
Andrew Bayley
> >Yes, the station promo was released as a single and did
quite well here in
> >Brisbane.
>
> And Seven in Perth adapted it to "LOve You Perth" as well,
and it was
> sung I believe by Kim Hart.
Darwin's NTD8 in the 1980's also had "Love You Darwin", and
the Sunshine Television Network (before it became Seven Qld)
had "Love You Queensland" after aggregation.
ann bishop
> Oh my god, you're kidding. I knew this guy growing up.
>
> V.
What an unfortunate wat for you to find out. :(
My sympathy.
--
annieb
Wombat
Hit 'em with the old Pea Beau
Hit 'em high
Hit 'em low
Hit 'em with the old Pea Beau"
--
Wollongong Quokka
>"I want my _CLOTHES OFF_" (Some bubble bath product or other with the
>animated kid).
Ah yes.. that's been discussed in aus.tv on a previous occasion.
"I want my CLOTHES OFF!
I want my BATH!
And the WATER!
I want my... MISTER MATEY!"
--
A Wollongong Quokka Experience
"Wollongong: City of Champions"
Wollongong Quokka
>> > "The Milky Bar Kid is tough and strong
>> > The Milky Bar Kid just can't go wrong
>> > The Milky Bar Kid only eats what's right
>> > That's Milky Bar - it's clean and white"
>>
>> Did you know the original guy who played the Milky Bar Kid was murdered a
>> few years ago ? Sad.
>>
>Oh my god, you're kidding. I knew this guy growing up.
Hate to spoil things, people, but there was a line of Milky Bar kids. You
can't have kids that young in an ad series lasting that long and not
change your kids.
My sister went to school with one at one stage, while later a friend's
brother went to school with another. Milky Bar kids are a dime a dozen.
Chris Baird
"I like to watch..."
Particularly rememberable for its pissing Clive Robertson off to no
end.
--
Chris,,
Chris Baird
> line in advertising history... "Oh my god, THE CHIPS!".
Anyone remember the Wildlife conservation from 1984 with the line
"Poppy... Why can't I see the ani-mals?"
It's a phrase with special meaning when I was back at high school. A
friend of mine a tape of radio-recorded music to play in his Music
class (his teacher was the desperate type who would do anything to
make the ferals less of a hassle-- playing pop songs and telling them
the answers to the next exam were standard practice). Bandy's tape had
played whatever song it had, and before the next, the "Poppy... Why
can't I see the ani-mals?" line came out and the whole class was ROFL.
It soon became a permanent part of the local school culture. We were
still using the phrase as a chant in year 12, 4 years later...
--
Chris,,
Chris Baird
>> the animated kid).
> That'd be Mr Matey. :)
That commercial always gave me the idea that the product was produced
by a "Mr Bubbles". :)
--
Chris,,
Jo Holloway
Vanessa H wrote:
Hey wasn't this guy featured on Chequerboard Revisited on the ABC just last
year?
Jo
Dean
Well, I remember hearing it on the news about 2 years ago. He was found dead in his apartment and it was either the Gold Coast or Bondi. I think they said he was the original Milky Bar Kid. He would have been about 39 in 1999. Sorry for you to find out this way.Dean.
PJ
> A couple more...
>
> "When your battery acts up hornery, holler for a Marshall"
Ahhh, you've just reminded me of a minor classic sung jingle (imagine
assembling and then directing the choir for this one) from melbourne
tv:
"When your muffler snuffs it, take it to Midas"
It even rhymes.
They had another one that punned on the name but even
that leap into the realm of clever was still a little
resigned: "you midas well..."
Ah .. and speaking of choirs, and in the
did-someone-really-get-paid-for-
writing-that department: "The spit roast catering company"
The melodyfor those words, sung with appetite-whetted zeal by a small
group of singers, consisted of the same five notes that are
generically used to close looney toons theme songs.Actually (how's
this for elimination?) if you remember the theme from Green Acres,
sing the line "Darling I love but give me PArk Avenue" and you'll have
it. You don't even need to think about that sequence of notes but
someone reaped the wild fortunes from it, I'll bet.
Time for some positve memories, though, which I think is more in the
spirit of this thread.
There was one for Orlando wines which was very pleasantly dreamy and
had a lovely little song that began: You came on a train to Orlando...
I used to love the ridiculously over the top ads for Blue Ribbon ice
cream
with the orgasmic female voice cooing: more more more buttermilk....
I used to love the creepy "lost valley" nescafe ads where a woman from
the city
ran away from her high stress life and opened a milk bar in a country
town.
It grew all by itself into this mini soapie involving a daughter and
an
estranged husband as well as a local bloke who had the raging hots for
the
woman. It was creepy because the initial narration struck me as
sounding like
an account of a near death experience or a vision of the afterlife.
One thing
was certain; IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH COFFEE!!!
I once saw a colelction of them edited together and it was truly
bizzare. They'd got rid of most of the logos (some had to be in there
in order to
get all the lines etc) so it was as seamless and strange as it could
be.
Creeped me out. I should have asked for a copy.
PJ