ITV commercial break - 1986 pt2

[carpdiem88]

0:49 - Daniella Westbrook!

[uhegbu]

Yes, the Swan advert is a spoof of the Dire Straits 1985 video, 'Money For Nothing'.

[maxi937]

Happy days! No worries back then. Everything was nicer. Very little political correct crap

[weba28]

stir to the left stir to the right lol

[mistofoles]

OMG! I remember The two camels! And wasn't that Peter Sallis narrating the Kellogs' advert?

[nahpop1]

slim-a-soup! lmfao that ad is so funny!

[tshirtsprout]

two old camels, Bob Saker and Clare Torry sang/spoke this one !

[Applemask]

They got Clare Torry for the non-singing role? That's like hiring Yo-Yo Ma as a pianist.

[PaganPride81]

LOOOOOOL ok that slim a soup add shes just poured boiling water into the cup if you drank it as fast as she did you'd have 1st degree burns inside your mouth OUCH :S

[LukeChucky]

1:14 That old woman looks like Richard Briers.

The Swan advert was a Dire Straits rip off.

That cup a soup advert was so camp.

That guy in the Dulux advert (not the Scottish one) was in I'm Still Alan Partridge.

[Applemask]

The mid-80s advertising war between Banality and insanity. Pop ballads advertising chocolate and prancing housewives extolling diet whatevers struggle against inexplicable singing llamas, pointless CGI and a closing advert which flatly refuses to tell you what it's on about.

[JudderMan25]

I think I just threw up at that soup advert...

[NikkiClo]

I remember that soup ad, her mouth would have been scalded if she actually had soup in the cup!

[profmikehunts]

That cornflakes one is fucking mint.

[jazooks]

remember the easter egg advert.think the girl who steps on boys foot is daniella westbrook from eastenders

[jabbso]

'No mess I hope' Now thats an advertising classic!

Drinking slim a soup like that would burn your mouth off not to be attempted.

I really don't remember the Swan advert at all

[ascolti]

Does the Kellogs advert suggest Snow White has seven kids... Hmmm. Wonder who the fathers are.

Also Swan advert is clear rip off of Dire Straights "MTV" video - even music is a mock-copy.... and no.. it looked rubbish then! :[

[therezabizarre]

Grapjics like that (the swan add0 were as common as muck! at the time they were meant deliberately to give it a blocky feel and as i was 15 at the time i knew they were average and hardly atate of the art, they were merely modern at the time and people knew that!!one ad amongst many different cvariations on cgi ads...

[smitmk3]

lol slim a soup. tht was wellll cheesy

[olliedann]

I know. Dreadful.

[knyvette]

Hey, I love the bird in the Batchelors soup ad! Who was she??

[brhodes0]

too right. She has that 'your mate's mum' quality...not to mention a very nice arse.

[WelshKarter]

Im pretty sure the schoolgirl who stamps on the boys foot in the Easter Egg advert is Nicola Stapleton (Eastenders, Bad Girls)

[palaciego]

the start of the video is very hilarious

[col2006ie]

I can't believe how blocky and angular the animation on the Swan ad is - but I bet people thought it was amazing and state-of-the-art at the time.

[superpacman1972]

Thanks for putting this up.

The Swan ad looks like it borrows heavily from the dire straights video, Money for Nothing, even a similar guitar riff is played at the end.

I wouldn't trust that financial advisor on the advert, probably take your cash and run off to the Costa Del Sol, very shifty.

As for the Bank Dick. WTF?

[jonwilson]

I was just about to say exactly the same thing about the Swan ad, but you beat me to it...

[tabletschool]

The Bank Dick is a famous film with WC Fields. Dick is an old word for a policeman or detective in America, so a bank dick is a bank guard.

Private Investigators used to be called "private dicks", believe it or not.

[agfagaevart]

Even the CGI in Tron was better.  And that was made 3 years before the ad.

I remember that Cup-a-soul ad with Christine Mckenna from Flambards...

[knyvette]

Well done, agfa, it was, of course, the lovely Christine McKenna! Well spotted!