Britvic ad - caveman?

Silvera

Anybody here recall the 1980's Britvic ad which included a caveman cartoon character who said someting like 'og iche plof, tee ran eeec' ?

A workmate and I recalled it recently, but didnt find the actual ad on youtube.

Advbrd

Britvic, the original of the species.

Silvera

That's the slogan alright..

vektarman

They find a britvic in a cave with the words "OG ICHI PLOF TEE RA NESSI" on it, which is an anagram of 'The Original of Species'.

darkdubh

Did the caveman look a bit like a hippy and wear John Lennon type glasses? It might have been a different series of ads but I seem to remember him being kind of wimpy and they used to feature him trying unsuccessfully trying to chat up cave women.

Silvera

vektarman wrote: »

They find a britvic in a cave with the words "OG ICHI PLOF TEE RA NESSI" on it, which is an anagram of 'The Original of Species'.

Thats the ad!

I wonder if a video of it is available online??

darkdubh

Not the specific Britvic ad you're talking about but it features the wimpy caveman character I mentioned. It's here at the 21.47 minute mark. Double dose of nostalgia, an entire episode of Murphys Micro Quiz with an adbreak in the middle.

Posy

Wow- lots of nostalgia there.


£113.50 for an Atari, though! How did anybody afford that in 1983?!

darkdubh

On an unrelated note isn't that Fiona from Glenroe in the Natural Gas ad? The posh English bit of stuff who if memory serves me right had a fling with Blackie Connors?

Ted Plain

darkdubh wrote: »

Not the specific Britvic ad you're talking about but it features the wimpy caveman character I mentioned. It's here at the 21.47 minute mark. Double dose of nostalgia, an entire episode of Murphys Micro Quiz with an adbreak in the middle.

They didn't win the Escort. Ah well, they surely came away with an auld Goblin Rio and a pen each from A.T. Cross of Ballinasloe.

Hangdogroad

Silvera wrote: »

Anybody here recall the 1980's Britvic ad which included a caveman cartoon character who said someting like 'og iche plof, tee ran eeec' ?

A workmate and I recalled it recently, but didnt find the actual ad on youtube.

Its shown here during the half time adbreak, starts at the 1:06:17 mark. I think this is an edited version as its a bit shorter than I remember. This is from 1990 but it must have run for a good few years as Id say it was first shown circa early 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxrHZHEm8cE

Good find. I've been obsessed with finding a version of that ad for over a decade!

NSAman

Og itchy ploff ti ra neecee

Hangdogroad

darkdubh wrote: »

Not the specific Britvic ad you're talking about but it features the wimpy caveman character I mentioned. It's here at the 21.47 minute mark. Double dose of nostalgia, an entire episode of Murphys Micro Quiz with an adbreak in the middle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG3bAkyr63A

FYP

Hangdogroad

Didn't the full version of the ad show a caveman pulling a cave woman off by the hair? Think it might have been part of that tracking bar/nightclub scene which seems to be cut off in the version in that clip.

Rows Grower

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Didn't the full version of the ad show a caveman pulling a cave woman off by the hair? Think it might have been part of that tracking bar/nightclub scene which seems to be cut off in the version in that clip.

I didn't watch the clips but definitely remember the caveman dragging the woman by the hair.

Was telling my youngest son about it one evening while we were playing scrabble and he was in disbelief.

Rows Grower

Just watched the clips and it's a different ad altogether that I remember, I think the caveman actually clubs the woman over the head before dragging her along the ground in the one I recall.

Hangdogroad

Rows Grower wrote: »

Just watched the clips and it's a different ad altogether that I remember, I think the caveman actually clubs the woman over the head before dragging her along the ground in the one I recall.

OK, there was a series of them all right. Am I right in thinking that they were only shown in Ireland? I've never seen then on any 80's ad breaks from UK TV online.

branie2

One of the cavemen wore glasses

Hangdogroad

branie2 wrote: »

One of the cavemen wore glasses

Yes, he was the recurring main character. There was a series of those caveman ads but the two featured in this thread are the only I've come across online. Those ads appeared in print as well from what I recall.

Hangdogroad

This is the other online one on its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPk9fftbwIU

Hangdogroad

The Britvic caveman first appeared back in 1978.

https://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/olive/APA/INA.Edu/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=IND%2F1978%2F10%2F03&id=Ar01205&sk=098D384D&viewMode=image

Hangdogroad

1979 article (scroll left). Two thousand T shirts with the caveman character and the OG ICHI PLOF TEE RA NESSI slogam were printed. Wonder if many survive?

https://archive.irishnewsarchive.com/olive/APA/INA.Edu/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=TNT%2F1979%2F07%2F21&id=Ar00609&sk=F6794503&viewMode=image

Hangdogroad

https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1639004729316343808?t=WqjgSbUx3MXvecDB157XWA&s=19

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