Category: Adverts

  • We Wanna Be Together
    We Wanna Be Together

    I want to be a tree. It’s a fair bet that we’ve collectively forgotten all the things the people in the Prudential campaigns of the 1990s wanted … except perhaps the memorable, and brilliantly delivered, Mark Williams exhaltation. I didn’t realise, or more likely, had forgotten, that there was a follow to this advert, a…

  • Rare Unseen Spider-Man Footage
    Rare Unseen Spider-Man Footage

    You won’t see this on a Spider-Man Blu-Ray extras disc.

  • Win A DeLorean
    Win A DeLorean

    It’s 1981, and if you go to Taco Bell, you could win a shiny new DeLorean (sans time machine).

  • Five Alive Or 5 Alive
    Five Alive Or 5 Alive

    This is one of those shows with a title that rings a bell, and makes me think I probably watched it at the time. But I don’t really have any memory of it, other than the title. And I’m fairly sure I’m not misremembering the drink. Five Alive was a TVS production that ran for…

  • Why Did People Buy Tickle?
    Why Did People Buy Tickle?

    This commercial campaign asks a lot of questions, but the answer is entirely up to you.

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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