PG Tips UK Commercial (c.1971)

Commercial of PG Tips in Britain during 1971 starring chimpanzees.
Title:Mr. Shifter

Haha, the funniest ad when it comes to monkey business.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• pg
• tips
• brooke
• bond
• tea
• 1971
• chimpanzees
• mr
• shifter

[Dedokai32]

Lol i just crushed my son with the piano, lets go and have a cuppa

[Silkie341]

Little bit of trivia. They got them to make those mouth movements by putting peanut butter on the roof of their mouths. Exactly the same method used on the 'presenters' for the BBC's 'The One' show.

[Zod101276]

@MuseOfTheWest Your tv must be off all the time then with all the provocative traits now days

[TheDAVIDASHAW]

cooeeee Mister Shifter.

[chudjackson]

I'd buy anything a chimp in a hat advertises.

[AnitaCheesecake]

@MuseOfTheWest jesus christ what a pussy and a faggot you are. lol

[dariowestern]

@OKwoteva1 they weren't hurt or injured like animals are in slaughterhouses and circuses. I don't think there's anything wrong with ads like this - we need more of them. Screw political correctness!

[Primus2X]

Stephen Fry's Planet Word brought me here

[MuseOfTheWest]

@colmalbar Oh yes for sure I eat meat and always have. Not chimpanzee meat, though, because they are too close to us genetically and that would be too much like cannibalism. I just find this kind of ad. annoying. I'm not alone because animal acts in circuses are disappearing fast. I object on grounds of taste rather than animal rights. I objected even more to the slurping than the chimps and boycotted Quorn for years purely on slurping grounds.

[colmalbar]

@MuseOfTheWest Do you eat meat?

[leviethen]

i cant believe carl pilkington actually thought those monkeys were real removal men lol

[OKwoteva1]

I've quoted the last two lines of this ad' to my sons for over 30 years, wait 'til they see this! The PG Tips ad's were some of the funniest and memorable of those times, thanks for sharing. And before anyone gets all pc and uppity, yes it was animal exploitation, but it was long before we realised how unsavoury it was, and no worse than the Chimps tea party on Zoo Time every Friday. They were treated well as they were in the public eye, but I'm pleased they don't use chimps like this any more.