Category: Adverts
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Kingsmoll By Mel And Sue
I could have sworn Mel and Sue did a brief run of adverts for Philadelphia soft cheese. Am I wrong? Or am I conflating it with these for Kingsmill, in which we see soft cheese being spread on bread?
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Maria’s Target Ads
Here’s a couple of Maria Bamford’s commercials for Target.
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Moanin’
I’ve had Moanin’ by Charles Mingus stuck in my head for a few days now. It feels like a piece of music that has been used in a lot of things, but the only ones that I can put my finger on are the Tetley Bitter ‘smoothly does it’ adverts, and Comedian, the documentary about…
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Bruce And Leslie Bring The Stork
Margarine. Ah, lovely margarine. A by-product of rationing, and an overturned lorry. Who doesn’t love smearing fat across bread? This is how Stork was trying to boost its sales in the early 1970s. And then Stork realised that the perfect person to flog their palm oil spread was … … Bruce Forsyth. And you know,…
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Betty White Commercials
Let’s have a look at some of the commercials made by the late, great Betty White. Here she is explaining the new Kodacolor film from Kodak. Here’s an Uncle Ben one from 1979, that smacks of its time. A proper old-fashioned presentation here for Geritol and ‘tired blood’. Just a few years later, and Betty…
