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Anyone remember an 80's ad for milk ?

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  • 22-01-2008 6:54pm
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    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭


    OK ... I've been trying to remember this one for some time. Please help.

    It was a UK ad for milk (I think).
    At least part of the ad was set in a mad scientist style dungeon.
    The end of the ad showed a good looking young lady, clad only in a sheet, quickly rise up from a slab, and declare something about the wonderful properties of milk.

    I have searched on youtube, but had no success. If I could remember more about the ad, I could probably do better searches.

    I think the ad was shown in the late 80's and early to mid 90's ... but I could be wrong.

    Does this ring any bells with anyone :confused:


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    Davedubh
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    Yeah i think i remember it.It was a pastiche of the bride of Frankenstein.


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    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Did the girl have two side pony tails?

    I'm getting the vaguest of memories, but maybe it's just autosuggestion. :)


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    citytillidie
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    Only Milk ad i remember is the Ian Rush one

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    guinnessdrinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭guinnessdrinker


    citytillidie wrote: »
    Only Milk ad i remember is the Ian Rush one

    Yeah the "accrington stanley, who are they?" ad.


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    the dee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭the dee


    guinnessdrinker wrote: »
    Yeah the "accrington stanley, who are they?" ad.

    Exactly!

    That was a great one.


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    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭trout


    stovelid wrote: »
    Did the girl have two side pony tails?

    Yes. I think so ... wish I could remember more.

    I think the punchline of the ad was "milk ... it does a body good" :)


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    Oracle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭Oracle


    Yeah, I remember that ad, wasn't there a series of those British made milk ads, with the same catchphrase "Does a body good."? They were very creative and clever.


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    Preset No.3
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    I think you are talking about the one with the 2 kids and the dummy!! Them bones, them bones need calcium!!!! Is that it?


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    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Preset No.3 wrote: »
    I think you are talking about the one with the 2 kids and the dummy!! Them bones, them bones need calcium!!!! Is that it?

    This one:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygf0gRQsUb4


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    Angus MacGyver
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭Angus MacGyver


    Yea I remember that add with the girl,

    The tag line was, Milk, what more could a body ask for.


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    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭trout


    Preset No.3 wrote: »
    I think you are talking about the one with the 2 kids and the dummy!! Them bones, them bones need calcium!!!! Is that it?

    Nope ... that was a good ad though ... the one I'm thinking of is an earlier vintage.
    Angus MacGyver wrote: »
    Yea I remember that add with the girl,

    The tag line was, Milk, what more could a body ask for.

    Ah yes ... that rings a bell ... I'm off to youtube now ... see if I can find it now. :)


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    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Angus MacGyver wrote: »
    The tag line was, Milk, what more could a body ask for.
    Thats it, and I was always waiting for that damn sheet to fall down;)


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    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭trout


    rubadub wrote: »
    Thats it, and I was always waiting for that damn sheet to fall down;)

    Yeah ... pesky sheets ;)


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    Reku
    Registered Users Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    Vaguely remember the ad but I'm afraid I can't add anymore detail to it.:(


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    mickrourke
    Registered Users Posts: 686 ✭✭✭mickrourke


    trout wrote: »
    OK ... I've been trying to remember this one for some time. Please help.

    It was a UK ad for milk (I think).
    At least part of the ad was set in a mad scientist style dungeon.
    The end of the ad showed a good looking young lady, clad only in a sheet, quickly rise up from a slab, and declare something about the wonderful properties of milk.

    I have searched on youtube, but had no success. If I could remember more about the ad, I could probably do better searches.

    I think the ad was shown in the late 80's and early to mid 90's ... but I could be wrong.

    Does this ring any bells with anyone :confused:

    Oh yes, defintely remember that one.

    Mad Scientist working on his creation and the doorbell goes and he shouts
    'Igor - Get the door!"
    Igor goes off, comes back and the scientist goes ' Who is it?" and Igor goes 'Eeetts the milkman' (in strange humpy transylvanian accent)
    Can't remember the rest though.
    The reason i remember it so well is cause we used to shout 'Igor get the door', to one of the lads at the back of the class when someone would knock.
    I think it was 1989.


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    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    mickrourke wrote: »
    and Igor goes 'Eeetts the milkman' (in strange humpy transylvanian accent)
    Thats it! I remember everybody used to saying that line in school, anybody who said "whos that" about anyone got that reply.

    The girl at the end looked like she had got an electric shock, hair all over the place.


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    trout
    Registered Users Posts: 9,922 ✭✭✭trout


    mickrourke wrote: »
    Oh yes, defintely remember that one.

    Mad Scientist working on his creation and the doorbell goes and he shouts
    'Igor - Get the door!"
    Igor goes off, comes back and the scientist goes ' Who is it?" and Igor goes 'Eeetts the milkman' (in strange humpy transylvanian accent)
    Can't remember the rest though.
    The reason i remember it so well is cause we used to shout 'Igor get the door', to one of the lads at the back of the class when someone would knock.
    I think it was 1989.

    That's the one ... the scientist needed the milk to restore life to the girl in the sheet.
    All I need now is a link :D

    Other than youtube ... where else could I look ?


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    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Call off the search, its the first ad here.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boY8vQyovx0


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    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,292 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I remember it


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    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Does anyone remember a similar ad from roughly the same period (late 80's/early 90's) that was for peanuts (Planters?) and also had a mad scientist theme? The mad scientist in it turned into a chimpanzee after drinking some kind of concoction from a big glass beaker with steam coming out of it. The human to chimp transformation effects in it were done really well, it was equal parts unsettling and funny.


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    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Found it!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqAtH-aQs_4


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    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,292 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Shades of Jekyll and Hyde and Planet of the Apes in that ad


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    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Who was behind those milk ads? Were they sort of public information films? This one and the wooden man one. Wasn't there another later one with the same song from that with a Hansel And Gretal type witch and two children?


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    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    A 10 year search for a milk ad!


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    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,883 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    The dancing wooden man milk ad is one that no-one seems to be able to date, as to when it first appeared. It ran for years on RTE maybe 89/90 onwards. Its on this Scottish ITV break from 1986, good to come across a decent picture quality version as the standalone one thats been up for Years on YouTube is brutal.


    https://youtu.be/68-AimewesA




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