TAB Clear - 90's TV Ad

[themysteriouscrumpet]

I DEMAND A BETTER QUALITY COPY OF THIS!!!!!!!!

[chrischarlton82]

Tab clear was awesome! Bring it back Coca Cola!

[iamwhoiamwhoiammark2]

It was nasty

[hellonpluto]

TAB was awesome

[nayhem]

This stuff is awesome with glassy rib roast and Crystal Gravy

[vania1013]

my local newsagent sells normal tab and he once sold me a case of quatro 15 years out of date tasted fine to me kept two intact sold one on ebay for £9 and the other is in my cellar

[bonoboslr]

We get TAB in Africa. It is not clear though.

[RetroToledo]

@bonoboslr It's nice that they still sell it where you live. We still have it over here in the US too.

[zeonbub]

What was the point of having a clear drink? Doesn't make much sense probably one of the reasons why it failed.

[1nterwebs]

The clear-beverage craze gave us all a reason to live. The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek

[SimonB198207]

@1nterwebs Thanks Homer, we need to remember....

: )

[TheMeakers]

I remember this being launched and us getting free cans in the TVS canteen circa 1993

[KevCityboy]

I used to love TaB Clear. Must have been the only one lol

[SimonB198207]

@KevCityboy i loved it too - it tasted like Pepsi

[WatermelonRat]

Hilarious commercial, but probably not very effective at selling its product.

[wiggywoo]

I remember this being sold in the UK briefly during the early 90s. My mates and I loved the idea of a clear cola but it tasted like cheap shite. Kinda like Asda's own or something.

[bluetonic78]

One minute Tab Clear was in the shops being billed as the next big thing and the next they were selling them off at about 10 pence....... remember buying dozens of the things while playing Super Nintendo games with my friends. Ah happy days! :)

[amberdixon]

Tab was nice :-)

[LudwigVanStealth]

I remember drinking it briefly and I'm sure it seemed to taste nicer

[katakisLives]

The only thing that's really clear about Tab clear is that nobody liked it! I used to drink it and was sad so see it go.

[Applemask]

This advert makes the mistake of being done halfway through as far as the product is concerned, leaving a good 30 seconds of dead space for the viewer to forget what's being advertised.

[NotATube]

@Applemask; that's exactly what I thought as well.

[Applemask]

@NotATube That's because we're great.

[sfinder6969]

I remember buying it in the UK when it came out...was very sweet and tasted like bubble gum I think...

[strifey07]

This was actually a banned drink, it was said they put small amounts of "TABS" or LSD in the drink, something about trying to make people addicted to it or something, so it would sell more.

[robertroyfellows]

LMAO

[strifey07]

Why have ppl clicked thumbs down for this? lol. I only stated what I had read on the net and in the papers, and watched on the news lol!!

Plus, if it wasn't banned, then why don't you see it anymore? considering it did sell quite well in the UK!

[AnalHaemorrhage]

@strifey07 LSD isn't chemically addictive. It's also extremely potent, even in tiny doses.

Putting LSD in your product wouldn't make it more addictive, it'd have blatantly obvious psychoactive effects.

So it's pretty safe to say that this is complete bullshit.

[strifey07]

Yeah, I understand, just stating what i'd read lol.

I'd heard almost everywhere though that it was banned because of LSD being put in it, which is why I posted that, That's all I ever heard and read when it basically vanished!

[whysoserious1979]

ive still got a can of this not even opened found it when i cleared my loft in my old toy box thing i used 2 keep everything in

[GEOPAIH1234]

Holy shit it will be worth a fortune

[shockz16]

@whysoserious1979

whats the sell by date on it? I dare u to drink it lol.. if u survive post n tell us how it tasted lol.

[k9maxie]

Ha ha, this is when they still made great TV adverts - I remember it well.

[ralphraccoon]

Been looking for this ad for years on the net. Thanks!!

[eccIefechan]

As far as I remember it tasted pretty much the same as Diet Coke, except that it was obviously clear. It definitely wasn't banned, but sales were low and there was little point of it when Diet Coke existed.

[freddygotme]

Heh, I remember this.

I don't think it actually got banned it just didnt sell very well (I'm sure Wiki has more detailed info.) I do remember it tasted awful.

[WazzaFromTheBlock]

this is shit

[SeparateEntity]

I remember the radio adverts to this. They featured the song 'Combine Harvester' by the Wurzels.

[ChurchillisEngland]

i remember this advert and i remember the drink i wish you could still buy it

[shellie1375]

Why was it banned?? Anyone know??

[Cesariono]

It wasn't banned, it just failed. TaB Clear didn't achieve enough popularity so it was pulled back from the market because it failed. You can still get TaB apparently (never seen or heard of it before IN MY LIFE) but not TaB clear because it simply failed. Didn't even last a year :P

[Drinkman7]

@Cesariono What county sell Tab Clear then mate?

[amberdixon]

@Drinkman7 - England

[NotATube]

@Cesariono; "never seen or heard of it before"

Apparently "normal" TaB is still sold in the US, but not the UK. Think it was sold here at one point though, I remember seeing what was (even then) obviously a very old sticker in a UK chipshop in the late 90s (hadn't even known there was ever a non-clear TaB).

TaB Clear was meant to be a cola, but I remember it being somewhat "generic", reminding me vaguely of several soft drinks (including cola but also Irn Bru), but tasting strongly of none.

[fightinleeroyjenkins]

@Cesariono I LOVE TaB

[rubysdad123]

was this stuff banned?

[kazaragi]

i was adicted to tab clear as a kid, totally bad for my health so prob just as well it got axed, good add tho!

[oxmys]

I remember there was another one with a Soviet astronaut. Does anyone have it? I never got a clear look at these adds when they came out.

[heine71]

Tab Clear was a rival to the ill fated Crystal Pepsi.

[kaitwen07]

pretty sure 92/93 i was in my 1st yr of secondarty school and couldnt get enough of tab clear where did it go :(

[Sugarbehr1967]

The clear sodas were a flop for one reason...THEY SUCKED! They had no flavor..horrible..

[TheTruthfulAsshole]

That's a pretty funny commercial, I would have loved it if Tab Clear and Crystal Pepsi were still on the shelves.

[ryoko5]

Changed blurb to reflect its a 90's ad.

[battyryda]

it was about 92...i was 13 wen this stuff was out...making it 92...

[ej2095]

sure this was in the 90s about 92?

[roxmyflipflops]

LOL I vaguely remember this advert, nothing like a good stereotype is there lol. I loved tab clear i am so sad it is no more...

[michaelc6012]

I loved the Tab Clear Its a shame its been discontinued

[welshuser]

I used to love Tab Clear, but I'm pretty sure this ad is from the early 90's.

[timi5]

This ad is from september 1993, i was on the marketing panel that launched this new soft drink. we were not only trying to come up with a new and exciting product, but were also trying to rebrand the original TAB product as sales had declined, kind of what skoda has done in recent years only they have been succesful as we have not. we tested the market for a year but in the end was a futile venture, we had to except we sucked. i now hold swinging parties in my grandmas basement.lol

[timi5]

sick pervert