Category: Adverts
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Ads Mortimer
Bob Mortimer could tell me to eat a rancid owl and I would probably consider it. Luckily, I do like a Mini Cheddar. If this was a gonzo as it’s made to look, I would love to have seen Bob doing more of these sorts of silly public stunts.
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Comes Up Peanuts
I just watched this advert from 1977 for the new flavoured Marathon. It has a weird wrapper, and features Keith Chegwin. but it’s boasting a new extra flavour – what does that mean? And what did Marathons taste like before I was born? People in adverts hold their Marathon bars in such a peculiar manner.…
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St Evil Gold
Whenever I watch ads from the 1980s, I always, always comment about how terrifying they were. And aside from the ones for Catrol GTX, it’s these ones, for St Ivel Gold that epitomise that the most. They’re just … evil. Everything about them is horrible. The voice, the audio treatment, the shot angles, the lighting,…
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Ads To Make Your Mouth Water
Today’s ear worm is the jingle from the Opal Fruits advert. Apparently, the slogan was invented by Murray Walker, the man more famous for screaming about racing brum brum cars. This 1974 advert does all the things that make adverts from this time period feel really creepy. Weird lighting, whispering voice over, odd angles. Ten…
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2 Pizzas
Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the launch of the famous BBC2 idents. These are much-loved and fondly remembered, and I’m sure we all have our favourites. (I know a few people used to be freaked out by them too, what with the background sounds.) They were so popular at the time that they found…
