Television ads from the past that would not be allowed in the 'Me Too' age

Capt. Autumn

Can I kick off with this mini opus for the makers of Mr. Sheen.

I can remember being mildly amused by this back in the day, but nobody seemed to find it offensive because it was clearly all a bit of silly fun. Albeit in a randy gentleman chasing after poor damsel at supersonic speed in a Benny Hill kind of way.

In 2020 it looks just plain weird. We will never see the likes of this on our television screens again.

Hangdogroad

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

Can I kick off with this mini opus for the makers of Mr. Sheen.

I can remember being mildly amused by this back in the day, but nobody seemed to find it offensive because it was clearly all a bit of silly fun. Albeit in a randy gentleman chasing after poor damsel at supersonic speed in a Benny Hill kind of way.

In 2020 it looks just plain weird. We will never see the likes of this on our television screens again.

I remember that one well. When it used to come on my brother would shout encourgement at yer man things like "grab her tits".

JohnnyFlash

Milk Tray ads.

Some dude dressed all in black sneaking into a woman’s hotel room so he can leave a box of cheap chocolates and his sinister calling card.

Your Face

Wheety

Diet Coke ad with a load of women ogling man on his lunch break.

Oh no wait, that's fine.

Ultrflat

I dunno if the Levi's add were that bad but certainly bold and super suggestive. :cool: but also a lot of fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF-mbNVkT5I

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs06oFKuBo0

Ficheall

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

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"Now also in trigger pack."

ILoveYourVibes

There are lots of tv ads now that wouldn't be allowed then.

Badly Drunk Boy

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

There are lots of tv ads now that wouldn't be allowed then.

Definitely the amount of exposed flesh these days.

I remember that first ad when it came out, and it was (and is) very cartoonish. You knew his behaviour wasn't on, but you weren't going to emulate it (unless you were Hangdogroad's brother, maybe. ).

Harry Palmr

Any ad featuring the felatio of a chocolate bar.

Hangdogroad

Those "when a man you've never met before suddenly gives you flowers" ads from Impulse. Now he'd be labeled a stalker.

Trigger Happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgoNSCgP6TA

Bit racist there Lyons tea...

Gatling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AATTN5p30A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVia3SqoP-A

Quantum Erasure

that Gillette ad

padd b1975

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

There are lots of tv ads now that wouldn't be allowed then.

Jam rags to name one.

xzanti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ac7kDkYTFs

TheValeyard

Holy frak this thread is bringing back some memories.

JohnnyFlash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GVXnyD93qc

Rothko

Gatling wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AATTN5p30A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVia3SqoP-A

I don't see why they wouldn't be allowed these days, especially the second one.

interlocked

This is one of my all time favourites and it was made for Toyota!

Ficheall

I'm not sure MeToo is strictly the objection here, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7IP5SV6GqQ

Sunny Disposition

Off topic a bit but Bachelor’s Walk is being repeated. Twenty years on a storyline about a guy in his late 20s pursuing and seducing a girl in secondary school wouldn’t be acceptable at all.

Hangdogroad

Ficheall wrote: »

I'm not sure MeToo is strictly the objection here, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7IP5SV6GqQ

Granted the actress was probably in her 20s that's kind of creepy.

upupup

Not an ad,but a public information film:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w

Capt. Autumn

Impulse Stalkers just can't help acting on it.

Hangdogroad

Capt. Autumn wrote: »

Impulse Stalkers just can't help acting on it.

It was a different one I remember from around that time but same concept.

Hangdogroad

This one wouldn't be allowed today for making fun of fat ugly wimmin.

https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1244398094424379393

the beer revolu

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

Off topic a bit but Bachelor’s Walk is being repeated. Twenty years on a storyline about a guy in his late 20s pursuing and seducing a girl in secondary school wouldn’t be acceptable at all.

I'm 50.
When I was 30, or even 20 the rules for decent people around consent and sex generally were very much the same as they are now.
We (my peers) understood what consent was. We knew what sexual assault and rape was and we knew what was inappropriate behaviour. Things have not changed much in that regard.

There were assholes then who behaved badly just as there are assholes now how behave badly.

3DataModem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT0b5CmivVs

:eyes:

ZV Yoda

Jeez... this thread is bringing memories about some very dodgy ads.

I always remember the ads for Denim aftershave. Even as a very young kid at the time, I thought they were a bit weird.

"Denim - For men who don't have to try too hard"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgx1Xc_ghwg