strange floating child in the background advert for lard

turnback · 09-01-2004 11:10AM #1

"give em a lift-
give em a lift-
give em a lift wooo-oooo
and Cookeen"

For some reason the makers of this ad for lard had an english schoolboy float up behind his pals during a school photo as that jingle from the mind of a genius played away.
I'd say it was around 1986-88.

BuffyBot · 09-01-2004 01:21PM

I liked that Cooken jingle and the ads

turnback · 09-01-2004 05:17PM

i used to get it sung at me - it sounds like my name.
bad memories

simu · 09-01-2004 06:26PM

A candidate for the "Most surreal thread title" award?

fordzodiac · 04-12-2009 12:38AM

turnback wrote: »

"give em a lift-
give em a lift-
give em a lift wooo-oooo
and Cookeen"

For some reason the makers of this ad for lard had an english schoolboy float up behind his pals during a school photo as that jingle from the mind of a genius played away.
I'd say it was around 1986-88.

that child was me, though how to ever see this advert again i don't know ? nice that you remember it.
oh the year was 1975

fordzodiac · 04-12-2009 12:42AM

that advert for Cookeen , where boy in class was in 1975. i should know as i was that boy, i actually ate mars bars as the pasty was making me reach. i would love to see that advert again and get a copy but i guess that never happen

turnback · 04-12-2009 12:48AM

my god! what do u do now?

WindSock · 04-12-2009 09:28AM

Yeah I remember that ad vaguely. I seem to recall the tune was similar to the Adams family theme tune.

irish1967 · 04-12-2009 10:33AM

turnback wrote: »

i used to get it sung at me - it sounds like my name.
bad memories

hmmm... I cant make Turnback rhyme with cooken no matter how many times i say it !!

DEVEREUX · 11-12-2009 02:05AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w9u21a3HG8

benny70 · 29-03-2010 05:02PM

Hi I remember a similar Cookeen ad from the mid 70s. Again it it involves an English Schoolboy. This time it is set in a classroom where the boy eats something cooked in lard and then floats up from his desk. The teacher confiscates the food, but takes a bite as well and also starts floating.

Hilarious!

Archeron · 29-03-2010 07:40PM

I used to sing this at people too. Its a good random thing to do :-)

stovelid · 30-03-2010 08:07AM

I loved that tune and hadn't though of it for years.

Even then you could tell that they probably wrote the tune but were completely stuck with the timing until somebody slapped in the woo-oo bit.

strange floating child in the background advert for lard

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