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

fonecrusher1

Your Face wrote: »

In fairness they should be able to make a nice drop of coffee. Its simply not good enough

upupup

upupup wrote: »

Not an ad,but a public information film:)

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

That's not real, it's a Harry Enfield comedy sketch lampooning that kind of information film.

Say Your Number

Wouldn't get away with that now would you, the PC Brigade would eat you alive

Hangdogroad

This is a really strange one, not from a Me Too perspective but its hard to figure out what kind of message its supposed to convey. The father looks and sounds like a creepy psychopath, his weird references to his wife and the uneasy feeling that they're not eating pork.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0wDjWOnHcY

ceadaoin.

Hangdogroad wrote: »

This is a really strange one, not from a Me Too perspective but its hard to figure out what kind of message its supposed to convey. The father looks and sounds like a creepy psychopath, his weird references to his wife and the uneasy feeling that they're not eating pork.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0wDjWOnHcY

Haha I remember that now. Completely weird when you watch it again. The shot of his wife pouring the gravy, she looks like she's in fear of her life! Not sure what the hell was happening. Plus the dinner looks dry and disgusting. It would hardly make you want to run out and buy some British pork

Hangdogroad

This ones a bit gropey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HqtMlKbvek

An Riabhach

I have a feeling that the line "Molly O'Brien and the way she might look at you" would be cut out of that ad if it were to be shown today.….

Twould be yet another victory for the woke brigade, the snowflakes and every other miserable so and so who are just looking for a purpose.

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB8V-M787v0

Remember Preston 😅

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122623783#Comment_122623783

Why would it though? Even though there are easily offended people, there's nothing that can be read into it.

Montage of Feck

Is that pork ad really a trailer for a dodgy 70's psychological horror movie or something?

Quantum Erasure

11:30, Diet Coke break

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpizkWEmg1g

rock22

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122623783#Comment_122623783

I think it was Sally O'Brien.

Maybe they were sisters!

Sgt Hartman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/113431976#Comment_113431976

The pork looks awful too. I’ve seen kiln dried wooden blocks that looked more appetising.

An Riabhach

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122623864#Comment_122623864

Because things have gone so bad now that the look she actually gave in the commercial could be interpreted as "too provocative" for viewers who could possibly find it "offensive".

In other words, people who just want to whinge about it and aren't happy until they deprive everyone else of it by getting it banned.

An Riabhach

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122624233#Comment_122624233

I stand corrected.......

jackboy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/113431976#Comment_113431976

I think the selling points were good value for money and plenty to go around. In those days they were the priorities.

Hangdogroad

I can remember this one from when I was very young, was terrified of the TV Incredible Hulk. Deeply strange ad with strong overtones of domestic violence.

https://youtu.be/qRj_Y3HDXS8?si=GSVetUVybIQqJLc4

French Toast

Wasn’t there a Brennans bread advert where a blind woman squeezed some lads arse and said the line “just checking”?

Foggy memory of that.

Mike Murdock

From Holland

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

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122628323#Comment_122628323

Thats right, cant find it online.