Let's all chuckle as one at TV ads from our yoof!
 

OK, so we're all from different places, and of different ages but a crap ad is a crap ad is a crap ad.

No wonder they sold so many Big Macs in the UK, with ads like this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cefzoEkBmd4&feature=related

I had an Atari, not because of this Ad though:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x-2lSdXSdio

I wanted an Action Man Transport Command so bad it wasn't even funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9yxrSt_6o

Anyone who says Kentucky Fried Chicken hasn't gone down hill since the 80s is a fucking liar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUf81DY9cIo

Compilations on cassette ruled the 80s like a total bastard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu7SR...eature=related

Ford Escorts were shit, but their ads were pure punk rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfjC...eature=related

Mad Cow disease? The 80s? Not an issue mate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOXbICmL47w

Wimpy was what old ladies ate instead of Macdonalds, because you got proper knives and forks. Then they went all Motown in their ads and noone liked them anymore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e99g...eature=related

This one was directed by Ridley Scott, and in my opinion kicks the living shit out of crap like Blade Runner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFLBvLxLJMI

this is more like my generation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlMHJE82Mk

and of course
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50

I love his side burns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5DkF...eature=related

Ahaha, I remember that one. Good times!

I tried to find that Clearasil one with Danny Masterson from That 70s Show in it, but no luck. :(

90's - best decade for commercial cameos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCiS2jKIs38

Hehehe. I had the 70s version of that game. It was brilliant. What's more you could disconnect the gun and fire ball bearings at your little sister. Well at least that's what I used to do. Happy days!

pfft, ain't anything without the EXTREME design additions

Everyone in Britain will know this one off by heart, but for our American friends, sit back and prepare yourself for the greatest advert in human history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfE2RSdemlQ

Yeah, but check that packaging. Proof that Britiain in the 70s was still living on 50s ideals.

How many kids got Tango'd in the playground after that one?

Breakfast cereal and skinheads? Not a ludicrous connection when it came to Britain in the 80s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeC7BZgusw4

Would love to see some European monstrosities to ad to the collection ... Slavo? Shentov? Neffeli?

In the mean time, here's what happens when the group Madness' fame reached such a peak that even toothpaste manufacturers were getting in on the act:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdcVR...eature=related

Electro-pop star shills for jean? Surely not:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZd2a...eature=related

"Anyone got a light?" "Nah mate, this is 17th Century England":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ_c2UaccJE

Respect due to Sir Frank Muir:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8H4IC9ttIU

"Watch out, there's a Humphrey about!" Some Arthur Mullard action here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRbzHNbuD6E

Metal robots from outer space sneer at Earthling's eating habits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKt-K...eature=related

Toe-tapping fizzy pop tueneage with Elvis Costello on harmonies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqBa7...eature=related

Merseyside kids mixing up both football and healthy drinks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pieK7b4KLL4&NR=1


The dance craze that swept the nation in the 70's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8CTs...eature=related

And finally, one of my all-time faves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz9_YfIQaz4

Aaah, bless their hub-cap-stealing little hearts!

For demonrail666 - when computers were computers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0g7...eature=related

And of course, to any rightminded computer fan in't 80s, this was the enemy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LTivRKisSDg

Say what you like about Gordon Ramsey and the like, it wasn't as though we were exactly starving back in the day, y'know:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHu02DG4PfA

And the three words, 'fried onion rings', should set the memory cells a bleepin for at least one 30 something 80s TV addict here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-HO5Ikzgbrg&feature=related

There now follows a political broadcast from the 'Oi, Uncle Sam, leave our Chocolate Bars Alone' Party:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pvIC00EqJT0&feature=related

Let Battle Commence:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OTnUcgPpvFg

ford escorts wernt shit! well the mk 1 was a bit shit but the mk2 was a legend!!!!