Nimble bread tv advert uk 70s

[tourcox]

Great

[tourcox]

Great

[julesthemadman]

Think I recall slimcea - also energen rolls

[MrBlackfootfred]

great ads had class then a bit of effort thanks great idea

[johnboy14]

The Royle Family!!!

[nextbigthingMVP01]

@johnboy14

Yes! <3

I am watching that episode now and I... For some reason had to look it up on YouTube... Of course it would be here lol!

[w3cvw]

Does anyone know where this was filmed? Im sure at 0:12 its Lauterbraun/wengen in Switzerland but ive only ever seen it covered in snow! :)

[2008Sameoldfitup]

roy west

[mrspester]

That's given me a clue for getting rid of the ex-missus,

Anyone remember slimcia- the slimming bread?

[MrRik2]

Nimble was nasty.

[dirtydonki]

Did she shit herself?

[lympia3]

great advert for the song too..

[pinball1970]

@lympia3

full version on here too

type in honeybus

[TheRoute19]

I remember once we actually tied our mate to a hot air balloon. It sailed off into the air and we never saw him again.

Moral: Life is no advert

[timbentinck]

My father, Henry Beninck, made these ads. I was on the balloon crew as a 14 yr old. You can hear Pa talking about it on Vimeo. Search for Nimble and choose 'Henry Bentinck and Nimble' (it won't let me post the link here)

[Shadz01]

Mind = blown. I didn't know they were spoofing this in Wallace & Gromit :-O

[bengusandlex]

Decent bread it was as well.

[unclemort1960]

what was better nimble or slimcia?

[TheJessiepegs]

This is my mum!!

[unclemort1960]

@TheJessiepegs don`t tell me she now weighs 18 stone

[GenieFranchiseLTD]

This is my sister-in-law!

[skunkhead2006]

honeybus

[Feisty1967]

I remember that ad so well!! I was about 6 at the time and didn't need a calorie controlled diet, but now, sadly at 42 I do need a calorie controlled diet.

[digitalbroadcaster]

Haha. We filmed that years ago. Foot and mouth killed off the balloon industry so we progressed to helicopters. Not so graceful I don't think. Not-So-Nimble.

[Davewise1965]

I am 44 and i remember this advert, i loved those days as a child.

[StixH]

Honeybus??

[woodster1965]

@StixH u r spot on that was the group who had the hit in the 60s. :)

[mutinyonthekitkat]

I'd like to do this to some people I know. Tie them to a balloon and watch them disappear up into the stratosphere.

[villi333]

I would like to know where the ad was filmed

[trossachs2003]

@villi333

Me too - that waterfall is breathtaking but I havent a clue either. I'd guess the Alps but that's all

[rillenkarren]

@villi333 Staubach Falls, Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland.

[kateycon]

yes, something like that !!

not sure she knows that though, so don't tell her !!

[IntellectualAmy]

...love it! :)

[far2manyshoes]

i loved this advert when i was a kid

[asumazilla]

I thought this was just imagined by Wallace and Gromit.

[MystyMary]

ps after popping in here last night I had a think if there are any more adverts from me being about 4 which I remember. I did come up with one; a Stork margarine ad with a dark-haired man with black glasses wandering around a supermarket talking to women shoppers about how they preferred Stork margarine. This is because the advert worked on my mum! Who swapped over from butter, which I liked at that time, to Stork, which I hated (it was cheaperr?)

[LollieSmith]

That dark haired man was Leslie Crowther

[MystyMary]

I know what you mean, though with films of course, sometimes bits we remember may have been cut out (they always seem to do that with the best bits of my favourite films, grrr! They've cut so much out of The Amazing Mr Blunden on DVD! ) : - )

[Ryanswales1984]

me too! classic!

nimble real bread but lighter!

[usenetposts]

They still used to speak beautifully in those days. Later it would have been "Nim-boo. Maykk ihh pawt ov yoowah kellry kontrowed doit".

[wallooga]

LOL

and PC Correct Harriet Harman would have made sure!

[82648947]

absolutely agree with you there usenetposts...letting "regional" accents on the media was a bad idea.

[skunkhead2006]

honeybus sang that tune,my mam used to sing it to us when we were kids R.I.P mam

[pattyheno]

memories like those are never forgotten..

[Torres007007]

Just like The bake o lite girl!

[MystyMary]

I remember this on the telly when I was very small - whenever it came on, my dad had to pick my little sister up and wave her about above his head, so that she was "flying like a bird" too - we were both that small. Fancy seeing it again.

[proff180]

Ha, I remember it as a kid too, I saw it on an old slot telly we had back then, it blew up a few years later but not before I saw many a classic on it like Ace Of Wands, Timeslip etc, and all those adverts were priceless, I could be getting muddled here but I also seem to remember another slimming bread ad back then that featured the Beatles song 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' and a girl in a balloon, that ring any bells??.

[MystyMary]

no that one doesn't ring any bells - though sounds a fab advert! I think I probably only remember this one because of what dad used to do during it, otherwise I'd have been too young to retain it

[proff180]

It 's funny what we remember, and also it's funny what we can occasionally misremember too, there's loads of shows for example from the early 70's that I now see on DVD that although I recalled some of the things right, there were lots of things I got wrong as well, I can see how it happens though, when your at such a young age you see things differently.

[terryvision42]

I Know what you mean.I watch many things on youtube that I recall from my childhood memories and get them so badly wrong.

[MystyMary]

I'd be about - hard to guess? 4, 5?

[jackwoodman07]

i like this ad but i like the wallace and gromit parody of that ad

[doctorwhoobawooba]

Lol yeah, and it's ironic the girl in the parody gained weight by eating to much of it considering in real life they say it has less calories than nomral bread etc, lol!

[cairnsjim]

daracdor your wrong the flour had most if not all the starch washed out to make it lighter and inside rhm bakeries there were only [as ever] nominated bakeries that produced it ,it was a pig to produce and rhm allowed the bakeries 52% waste on a production run -----shows how much profit was in it ,notice nowadays the loaf shape change to cut down on the waste

[kiwiowl]

The song is "I can't let Maggie go". Search for Honeybus on here to hear all of it.

[Daracdor]

Nimble bread was the biggest con around ... it was the same bread as the rest .... but made in much smaller loves .. so .. slice for slice it WAS less calories than normal bread ........ pfffffffffft

[wallooga]

yea, but between her, the slimcea and flake girls, who cares?!

[Hardy44500]

HAHA, like the new wallace and gromit tv on over christmas

[SuperModernProgress]

The fact that she is picked up a balloon doesn't prove that she is light at all, let alone light from eating bread. That balloon could probably pick up Rick Waller (or Ricky Gervais at least)

[wopman1010]

Ha! Saw this in "The Royle Family", Season 2 (Ep 3)... Brilliant!

[lizziemurf]

........so I can get slim by eating bread?!!. I'm glad me and Nick Park remember it :-)

[thejeep2000]

what a lovely advert...just lovely..

glad Nick Park was inspired...

[TheCornishPirate]

Do I see a tribute - of sorts- to this advert in the new Wallace and Gromit adventure, A Matter of Loaf and Death ?

Thats exactly what i thought :)

[Mysterious0Bob]

Oh. So that plot device isn't as random as I thought.

[WDH59510]

Do I see a tribute - of sorts- to this advert in the new Wallace and Gromit adventure, A Matter of Loaf and Death ?

[DonaldMcKinney]

Yes, it was. I spotted that straight away, it was a nice nod and a wink to those ads. ;)

[kingelnino9]

The characters in BBC's "The Royle Family" sang this while having a brew.

Ricky Tomlinson = Legend

[michendo]

Beautiful harmonies. Takes me right back. This is possibly the oldest advert I actually remember. Well done for posting it.