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    #482
    Up Donegal
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    "D-U-dash-T-E-R" (Du-ter Potato Spray)

    "Dithane 945 - Spray with it, stay with it!" (Dithane 945 Poptato Spray)

    "It's a quare name but great stuff!" (Cheno Unction ointment)


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    #483
    Hangdogroad
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    Remember those medieval themed Yoplait yogurt ads? The first one had these suiters seeking a kings daughters hand in marriage. I think they were presenting him with yougurt and when he'd taste it he'd angrilly pull a lever and the guy would fall down a trapdoor. There was another one with the line "dodgy, very suspect" and the king I think is poisoned by something.


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    #484
    branie2
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Remember those medieval themed Yoplait yogurt ads? The first one had these suiters seeking a kings daughters hand in marriage. I think they were presenting him with yougurt and when he'd taste it he'd angrilly pull a lever and the guy would fall down a trapdoor. There was another one with the line "dodgy, very suspect" and the king I think is poisoned by something.

    The king was poisoned by an apple, and his food taster had suggested the apple. The taster was eating the yogurt.


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    #485
    NewbridgeIR
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    Petit Filous

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA4pbt38y34


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    #486
    Hangdogroad
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    Nice one! /\/\/\/\/.

    I can't find the trapdoor one. It ended with the successful guy presenting the king with Petit Filous and he gets to marry his daughter but she turns out to be a big fat wan.


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    #487
    chucknorris
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    It could be this one.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1hMJXkFCss

    similar, but the fella in the ad i remember managed to drive home but not too disimilar. i'm actually questioning whether the ad ever existed and have looked everywhere. thanks for the effort.


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    #488
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
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    Does anyone remember the Irish ad for either Heinz or Batchelors, and it was a young girl and a boy, and the girl is making beans and asking the boy if he likes things, and the boy thinks he is getting the beans and in the end she hoodwinks him and says no chance?


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    #489
    branie2
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    I remember it well ; It was Batchelors.


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    #490
    Tammy!
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    Here....Jimmy, I've made you some sandwiches...



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    #491
    branie2
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    JeanL wrote: »
    Here....Jimmy, I've made you some sandwiches...


    He'll need the energy to send some rockers into the middle of next week!


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    #492
    Hangdogroad
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    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    Does anyone remember the Irish ad for either Heinz or Batchelors, and it was a young girl and a boy, and the girl is making beans and asking the boy if he likes things, and the boy thinks he is getting the beans and in the end she hoodwinks him and says no chance?

    Yes. The girl was black or mixed race which was unusual for an irish ad at the time (mid 90s?)


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    #493
    branie2
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    The 7up ads with Fido Dido, and he's just come back again.


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    #494
    branie2
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    Playtex Secrets


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    #495
    Hangdogroad
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    George White wrote: »
    One weird thing I've noticed is British sitcom actors coming over and doing ads. Lost in Translation-style.
    Sometimes, they're riffing on their known image or doing it as themselves.
    Patrick Cargill - https://ifiplayer.ie/kosangas-demonstration-man/
    Frank "The Vicar of Dad's Army" Williams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QyuFhugzEs (David Kelly also did this campaign)

    Buut other times, they got Brits to play Irish.
    Obviously, Vicki Michelle as Sally O'Brien. A friend was astonished that everyone presumed she was Irish, because although she hadn't yet done 'Allo 'Allo, she'd been doing numerous bit parts in various sketch shows and films, obviously perhaps not long enough to register, but she had had a regular role in Les Dawson's shows at that time.
    Another odd one is this ad - with Christopher Blake either dubbed or doing a creditable accent. Blake is one of those actors who though now forgotten, worked consistently. Best known for his turn as Mollie Sugden's titular biological son in That's My Boy, but he had turns in various Sunday Classics, was the lead in another popular-though-derided 'com, Mixed Blessings. But here he is advertising Carling for Ireland.

    I wonder how many of these Irish ads were made in the UK. Sally O'Brien was done in Ardmore and in the Harbour Bar, but one ad features London-based Dublin actor Paul Antrim, who had roles in quite a few films, Man Who Would Be King, a turn as a sort of poor man's Fulton Mackay in Wild Geese 2, but I know him as IRA man Dermot in mental BBC Brummie-Pakistani pulp crime series Gangsters

    And most of the voiceovers were done by Fergus O'Kelly alias Father Barty Dunne, the laughing priest, whose career has mostly been based in England, and mostly in radio. Only 6 TV/film credits over a forty year period.
    I think Kevin Flood, another Irish actor at the time in Britain did quite a few too.

    Heres an unusual one. David Schneider in an ad for Winning Streak.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2NgGdlaScY


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    #496
    NewbridgeIR
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    That Winning Streak one is a serious find - I remember it and know why David Schneider looked familiar when I first saw The Day Today in 1994.


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    #497
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    Telecom Eireann (1999) Making new friends.

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1355983399375294469


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    #498
    George White
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agrL2JO7pcI

    George Coulouris there, a long way from Citizen Kane
    NshIzBp.jpg
    Yer wan is a bit Lesley Manville-ish, but I'm not sure if it is her.


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    #499
    Hangdogroad
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    Was that milk advert made for the British or Irish market.?Have mentioned it in a couple of UK forums and no one seems familiar with it.


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    George White
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    It was shown in Scotland, I believe.


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    #501
    Hangdogroad
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    Anyone recognise the two boyos in this, and/or the location?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnb8WfUfNE


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    #502
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Anyone recognise the two boyos in this, and/or the location?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnb8WfUfNE

    I always assumed that was a UK location as the bar was a UK wrapper - don’t recognise the actors either


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    #503
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    branie2 wrote: »
    Playtex Secrets

    The olde 18 hour girdle and it”s so comfortable you’ll forget you had it on? :D


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    #504
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Was that milk advert made for the British or Irish market.?Have mentioned it in a couple of UK forums and no one seems familiar with it.

    It was a UK market add shown on ITV


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    #505
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Remember this animated one for Limara bodyspray? Pretty steamy even considering its a cartoon.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL7GOVoA2_o

    Nice find- that add was on quite a bit when it came out- completely forgot about it
    Why do adds for intimate women’s things always have screaming soundtracks, such as:
    Ooooohhh body form, body form for youuuu :D


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    #506
    Hangdogroad
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    The Yoplait ad I mentioned some while back is here at the 3:42 mark.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI2D_qpOcFg


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    #507
    NewbridgeIR
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Anyone recognise the two boyos in this, and/or the location?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnb8WfUfNE

    The judge looks very like William Mervyn (of Crown Court fame - The Hon. Mr Justice Campbell).

    He died in 1976 though - ad must have been a few years old by time of broadcast

    The Garda is also an English actor; very familiar - it'll come to me.


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    #508
    NewbridgeIR
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    The judge looks very like William Mervyn (of Crown Court fame - The Hon. Mr Justice Campbell).

    He died in 1976 though - ad must have been a few years old by time of broadcast

    The Garda is also an English actor; very familiar - it'll come to me.

    Norman Mitchell is the Guard - he pops up in a serious amount of 70s & 80s TV like Never The Twain, George & Mildred, Are You Being Served, Z Cars and often played a policeman in films.


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    #509
    Hangdogroad
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    Great detective work.


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    #510
    George White
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    I thought it was Mervyn too, but again thought too late.
    But then same, with the Frankenstein ad. Coulouris died in 1989, and that ad was shown until the 90s.



    Norman Mitchell I know best weirdly as Mrs. Slocombe's cowboy-hatted New Yorker uncle in one ep of Are You Being Served?, involving a wedding and Gorden Kaye as the best man of Slocombe's absent new Greek husband...


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    #511
    Hangdogroad
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    Not a particularly old one, but it's like something from another era. Every single aspect of it is just hideous.

    https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1359520725242163200


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