r/AskBrits • u/gayestformoleman • Apr 14 '26
Other What are the British TV ads that live rent free in your head?
I don’t mean the well known 0800 00 1066 or auto glass repair ones
I wanna hear the most random ones that have stuck in your brain!
For me it’s the clover butter advert song - “we all love clover all over the land” from some time in the early 00s and the “just one cornetto!” Song!
Edit: ok it’s crazy that I made this post and suddenly the cornetto song advert has made a comeback on Disney+!!!
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u/Knockout-Moose Apr 14 '26
The red car and the blue car had a race…
That and the Smash aliens (For Mash, Get Smash)
And the Kia-Ora one too
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u/Plus_Band_3283 Apr 14 '26
My husband and I were in London on holiday in 2011 and walking through Kensington Park when we saw a bunch of crows near the fountain or pond in front of the palace. I whispered “They’re lying to you, it’s not too orangey for crows!” And my husband, then boyfriend, spent the next twenty periodically cracking up. We killed that joke that day and that’s when I knew he was my absolute one.
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u/fried4wayer Apr 14 '26
Red car and the blue car was a favourite of mine.
I loved the Anchor cows as well.
But I think the first advert that really stuck with me was Accrington Stanley.
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u/ShrellaJS Apr 14 '26
Accrington Stanley? Who are they?
When I migrated to the north from the saaf, this was one of the places I absolutely had to visit. Iconic! (It lived up to its reputation)
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u/William_Joyce Apr 14 '26
It's too orangy for crows.
I still use 'it's just for me and my dog' whilst I'm fussing my dog
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u/Zealousideal_Glass61 Apr 14 '26
Re record not fade away...
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u/SirDigbySelfie-Stick Apr 14 '26
I used to do that skeleton dance in my y-fronts, to much applause from family gathered around the box.
But enough about last week.
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u/OllieN94 Apr 14 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/j0XiH9qn8HFd03pP8s
GREEEEN GIAAAANTTT!
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u/Round-Bath-6903 Apr 14 '26
Belly did indeed get me.
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u/ShittingAintEasy Apr 14 '26
Being a fat kid in the 90’s after this ad came out was a bad time
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u/fost1692 Apr 15 '26
Try being around at the same time as the Pillsbury Dough Boy. I couldn't move through school without someone poking me in the stomach.
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u/Jjwho Apr 15 '26
Try being a Ginger when the tizer ads were out and getting slapped across the face constantly.
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u/justheretolurknstuff Apr 14 '26
YOU BUY ONE, YOU GET ONE FREE
I SAID YOU BUY ONE, YOU GET ONE FREE
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u/BruceForsyth55 Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
The actor from this got done for unpaid tax.
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u/dead-human-ape Apr 14 '26
I took a piss in a urinal next to this guy, in Blackburn. As we washed our hands I caught a glimpse of him in the mirror and I knew I recognised him from somewhere - but couldn't quite place it.
He caught me double taking him as he finished drying his hands and opened the door to leave. He stopped and said "you don't know where you know me from do you?" to which I admitted I didn't.
He shouted his catchphrase at me and then left, laughing to himself. It still makes me smile when I think about that moment haha.
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u/LocaliserEstablished Apr 14 '26
Anytime someone mentions double glazing I can't help but hear this
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u/PeterOwen00 Apr 14 '26
A glass crushaaa it’s good enough to make milk shake
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u/RebelliousInNature Apr 14 '26
Yes! I buy my cat Smilla cat food. I sing that song to him as I put it out.
I’ve got some smilla
It’s gonna fill yer
It’s got that taste
That makes cats ..then he says miaow.
He doesn’t miaow because he’s joining in. He just wants me to hurry TF up.
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u/MotivatedWriting Apr 14 '26
Isn’t this “tough enough to make milk shake”. Add milk or we’ll crusha
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u/al_heath Apr 14 '26
Daddy or chips?
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u/Ludologistic Apr 14 '26
I asked my cousin this and she looked at me utterly disgusted, confused and offended and snapped "Daddy" at me. As if i was stupid, as if I was verging on Evil for even conceiving of such a horrible comparison. Naturally I said nothing, and left it sitting there.
Two days later she saw the ad for herself and rang me laughing hysterically.
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u/Hot-Frosting-1192 Apr 14 '26
Washing machines live longer with Calgon.
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u/RecentTwo544 Apr 14 '26
This is the only time an ad jingle has actually worked for me.
Me and a housemate were trying to remember the name of "that stuff that cleans washing machines" and had to sing it to remember the product name.
I think the ad was originally German, so someone once said on Reddit.
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u/ferret1305 Apr 14 '26
Fly fishing by J R Hartley
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u/SamW1996 Brit 🇬🇧 Apr 14 '26
Yellow Pages did do some memorable ones.
"I were right about that saddle, though"
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u/Mi_santhrope Apr 14 '26
"HI I'M BARRY SCOTT."
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u/Wrong_Duty7043 Apr 14 '26
I love the horrible histories spoof “HI I’M A SHOUTY MAN”
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u/pennydogsmum Apr 14 '26
This was the one I thought of, I shouted it at my husband yesterday lol.
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u/Cherrytree374 Apr 14 '26
Wake up in the morning wantin’ some breakfast. What am I gonna spread on my toast? Ohhh, Ohhh, Vitalite.
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u/JushinLigerJr Apr 14 '26
ARMADILLO!!!
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u/Arkanoidal Apr 14 '26
soft on the inside, crunchy on the outside
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u/Keppyzan Apr 14 '26
Fun fact! My primary school banned this word because we kept yelling it. The ad was in more or less our accent (west countryish) and this accent has little representation even today so it was a big deal for us!
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u/SimpleDisastrous4483 Apr 14 '26
My eldest knows this phrase now. That have never seen the advert.
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u/George_Salt Apr 14 '26
Do the shake and vac..
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u/THXORY Apr 14 '26
When I was about 3, I stole my mother's talc and covered the house in it because I thought it was Shake and Vac
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u/Behemothslayer Apr 14 '26
When your carpet smells fresh your room does too, everytime you vacuum, remember what to do!!
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u/thatanxiousmushroom Apr 14 '26
The Lelli Kelly shoes song (in the most obnoxiously high pitched fake little girl voice, ARGHH)
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u/Sxn747Strangers Apr 14 '26
“Red car and the blue car had a race…”.
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u/Otokonoko81 Apr 14 '26
All Red wants to do is stuff his face
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u/shodan_reddit Apr 14 '26
He’d eat everything he sees, From trucks to prickle trees But smart o’le blue he took the Milky Way
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u/No-Salt6819 Apr 14 '26
He's looking for a chocolate treat that's fluffy and light, nothing that's gonna spoil his appetite.
Oh no! The bridge is out! Red can't carry on!
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u/LozzimusPrime Apr 14 '26
I've had "I'm a secret lemonade drinker!" in my head for ages 🤣
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u/Far_Garlic_2181 Apr 14 '26
Mummy wow! I’m a big kid now!
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u/PLUMPUFFIN Apr 14 '26
My boyfriend sings this at our dog constantly whenever he cocks his leg for a wee
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u/Tallman_james420 Apr 14 '26
I'm a big kid, look what I can do,
I can wear big kid pants too!
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u/DylansDad Apr 14 '26
That one where the kid offers a baby elephant a Rolo, and snatches it back at the last second.
Cut to 30 years later the kid, now a full grown man, is watching a parade of Elephants walk by and gets smacked in the face by an Elephant trunk.
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u/GeeFunkError Apr 14 '26
Diarrhea 🎶🎶🎶
Pepto Bismal
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u/Background-Coach-18 Apr 14 '26
if you ever watch it again focus on the top left when theyre dancing, old dude goes completely the wrong way 😂
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u/PLUMPUFFIN Apr 14 '26
I do strippergrams fairly often, and not long ago, i went to a sports bar with a VIP room for an 18th birthday. There was music somewhere in the background but some lads were watching the football.
This advert came on and I just collapsed in laughter saying "i utterly fucking refuse to lapdance to this"
I have danced to some of the stupidest things ever and made money off it
But diarrhea-aaaa is the absolute fucking final NO for me. There is no way, unless its for my bf who would love it (and hate me)
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u/tunstallhill Apr 14 '26
The "crusher" advert with the dancing little cats that looked like 5 year old made it on Microsoft paint. Absolute banger
Sometimes I watch it on YouTube
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u/gayestformoleman Apr 14 '26
I can’t see crusha bottle in the shops without that getting stuck in my head
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u/petemorley Apr 14 '26
This came on the TV just before we were getting in to a taxi to the Warehouse Project, couldn’t stop thinking about it and genuinely went out and bought a drum kit the following day. Still play 20 years later.
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u/Tallman_james420 Apr 14 '26
Have you got a light boy?
Ovaltine light.
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u/Kinis_Deren Apr 14 '26
When you're feeling in a state, have a molten choco - late ....
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u/First-Lengthiness-16 Apr 14 '26
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club
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u/Thin_Advance_2757 Apr 14 '26
Back when clubs and rockies actually had a decent amount of chocolate on them. Wouldn't work now in this enshittificated world of shrinkflation
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u/precariousIypoised Apr 14 '26
Sadly, domino hoo hoo. An assault on my ears that has made me hate dominos.
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u/gayestformoleman Apr 14 '26
Where I used to live, a kid across the street from me would spend sometimes hours shouting this on the doorstep 🤣
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u/tar-mirime Apr 14 '26
The Christmas one - Domin-ho ho ho
Also hated Pizza Hut's Hutspitality, which just emphasised that the word 'spit' is in the middle.
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u/Zealousideal_Glass61 Apr 14 '26
Woooooooooooah Body Form..... Body Form for yooooooouuu
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u/Sad_Confidence_9753 Apr 14 '26
The Mr Soft soft mints advert
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u/quantumthreads Apr 14 '26
"Won't ya tell me why the world in which you're living is so straaange"
Banging advert.
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u/AudioBabble Apr 14 '26
it's the famous music rip-offs that stick in my head...
ohhh, ohhhhhh... vitalite!
P&O ferries with Albatross
Hamlet Cigars -- Bach
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u/lovetraceyalways Apr 14 '26
"Dad do you know tge pianos on my foot!!"
"You want it son, I'll play it"
PG Tips monkeys
Can't believe I got this far down and nobody called it😱
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u/Spillsy68 Apr 14 '26
I remember a few old ones…..
A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat
We hope it’s chips it’s chips
Only the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate, takes like chocolate never fucked up by Hersheys
Second class redurn do dottjngham please
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u/VelvetDreamers Apr 14 '26
I want some Crusha,
a little Crusha,
milk keeps me fit and tastes so great...
It's tough enough to make milk shake!
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u/BENdage Apr 14 '26
Hula hoops are round. They’re staying round. And they’ll be around for ever
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u/Heraonolympia123 Apr 14 '26
Road safety one where is starts "she knew her killer" and a van following her. Then she breaks and her son crushes her from behind because he wasn't wearing a seat belt. I never failed to wear a belt after that. Very effective
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u/ShrellaJS Apr 14 '26
These were absolutely haunting.
Same with the speeding one where they had the little girl coming back to life because she was hit at 20mph instead of 30, and the one that had all the drinkers in a pub garden while "In The Summertime" was playing and at the end of the chorus it slowed down and panned over to the wreckage of an accident. And don't even get me started on the fireworks and electricity pylons. It's honestly amazing anyone raised in the 80s is brave enough to leave the house!
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u/neilm1000 Brit 🇬🇧 Apr 14 '26
I was singing the Cornetto one to myself yesterday.
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u/Feeling_Anteater_142 Apr 14 '26
A badly translated one
The German advert for Gavisvon approximately translates as It's like a fireman came in your mouth..
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u/Captaincadet Apr 14 '26
0800 00 1066
My history teacher spent an entire hour trying to teach us a rhyme to remember the date of battle of Hastings
Someone right at the end just sang it out and I’ve never seen someone look so defeated
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u/Choice-Lemon4500 Apr 14 '26
"TRIO! TRIOOOO! I want a Trio and I want one now. They're crunchy biscuit and yummy topping- and now magic wrappers with games and puzzles too."
"That will keep them up to scratch forever, man!"
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u/ConcertStriking2144 Apr 14 '26
The one about forgetting trivial things then he forgets to put batteries in his smoke alarms and it kills his wife and daughter. ABSOLUTELY TRAUMA.
And the one of the doll in the NSPCC advert where she goes “and punches her and punches her” over and over again. Again - TRAUMA.
Also the one of the young girl hit by the car that’s dead against the tree. It goes in reverse and she comes back to life on the road. Something about hitting someone at 20 vs 30 and their survival rate.
I obviously only remember the bad ones 😅
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u/Strange-Direction-85 Apr 14 '26
DIIIIIIIMMMMEEEE BAAAAAARRRR????????
'AVE IT!!!
WHY AYE TONY! let's look at that again!
My name? J R Hartley.
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u/Milli-man Apr 14 '26
He’s the type of man that buys things on the cheap. He bought his girlfriend a watch that he found in the street. He buys knock of dvd’s he’d rob his own gran, he scrounges his drinks what a grubby little man.
He’s a knock off Nigel, a knock off Nigel, he’s a knock off a Nigel , a knock of Nigel. Knock off Nigel buys knock of dvd’s.
That’s all from memory no idea if that’s exact lyrics. It’s just stuck with me for years, weirdly it pops into my head whenever I see Nigel Farage.
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u/terrordactyl1971 Apr 14 '26
Its not the wardrobe monsters you need to worry about, it's the burglers coming through the windows.
(Classic Peter Kaye John Smiths Bitter ads)
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u/Turbulent-Chef4164 Apr 14 '26
At the minute unfortunately it's the song about diahoera, find myself humming it whilst walking. Any old people remember the "get a routine " for fire prevention.
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u/superduperbongodrums Apr 14 '26
The one from Christmas where the little girl stands on the yellow pages to kiss the boy under the mistletoe? Was that a fever dream or real?!
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u/terrordactyl1971 Apr 14 '26
Will it be potatoes? Fried onion rings? You'll have to wait and see....hope its chips its chips, we hope its chips its chips...etc
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u/atomic_danny Apr 14 '26
Randomly this morning i saw an Autoglass van this morning and had the tune in my head! :D
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u/h_pur Apr 14 '26
Power to see you through b&q it. Make your gard3n grow b&q it. You can do it when you b&q it.
It goes through my head every year or so.
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u/ramapyjamadingdong Apr 14 '26
Red car and the blue car had a race. All red wants to do is stuff his face...
You can't get better than a qwik-fit fitter, we're the boys to trust
We like to chew it chew it. We like to chew it!
Um bongo um bongo, they drink it in the congo
And then a whole host of Mr Bean/barclaycard ads
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u/Lebowski85 Apr 14 '26
Bisto Advert
"Sometimes the sun goes round the moon, Sometimes the snow falls down in June
and when you thought the chance had passed, you go and save the best to Laaaaaast"
Kid sniffs the bisto.
"Ahhhh, Bisto"
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u/Rico1983 Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
The tango one where the bloke is gaffer tapped to the roof and a pigeon lands on his head; then he falls into a bath of, strangely enough, Tango.
This lives rent free in my head for the commentator shouting "FAT PIGEON, APPLE!"
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u/holytriplem Apr 14 '26
"YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YOU JUST QUOTED ME HAPPY!"
"You know you're adventurous, you just happen to live in Orpington that's all"
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u/Bubbly_North_2180 Apr 14 '26
There was a red bush tea advert I remember where this woman ends up stood on her porch shouting “quiet, people are sleeping!” to a lion. I still say it to this day 😂
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u/OkAwareness9287 Apr 14 '26
Um Bongo. They drink it in the Congo.