Advertising "characters"

[entwisi]

OK so we currently have the wonderful meerkats that have shot to fame but what other "characters" have become popular from adverts.

One that springs to mind for me is a balding bloke used to advertise cigarettes a number of years ago(Regal??) I dont smoke so it never stuck what brand it was), Can't recall "his" name but the campaign went on for ages, was quite funny and it was discussed that it was worrying the powers that be that it was making smoking attractive.

Over to you, what can you remember( and for the more 'elderly' members you might need to explain what the product was as well... )

 

[Bee]

Churchill's 'bulldog',

For Churchill's Car Insurance.

 

[steve2qec]

I remember the Weetabix characters that were made up to be like a gang of skinheads. Must have been the early 80's.

 

[walkinman221]

The buy smash get mash robots.

 

[jedimaster]

honey monster,tony the tiger,the smash robots,coco pops monkey,tango man,green giant,
oxo family,tetley tea folk


just to name a few

 

[steve2qec]

There was an ad campaign for milk but there weren't any characters, as such, just straws that would march across the screen....they were called something like The Humphries.

 

[jedimaster]

There was an ad campaign for milk but there weren't any characters, as such, just straws that would march across the screen....they were called something like The Humphries.

'ACCRINGTON STANLEY...............................WHO ARE THEY'!

 

[steve2qec]

'ACCRINGTON STANLEY...............................WHO ARE THEY'!

Yeah, they've tried all sorts to get us to drink more milk...!

 

[garinda]

Molly Weir's 'Flash cleans baths without scratching'.

R. White's secret lemonade drinker man.

 

[garinda]

Maureen Lipman's long running Beatie character, for B.T.

'You get an ology...you're a scientist.'

 

[jedimaster]

the old bt ads: busby.bob hoskins 'it's good to talk', maureen lipman 'an ology!'

118 and 118

jr hartley

 

[garinda]

For mash get Smash aliens.

 

[cashman]

The buy smash get mash robots.

Cadbury's Smash Adverts, 1960s/1970s - YouTube these were the smashers loved em,also the Brooke Bond Chimps,

 

[MargaretR]

OK so we currently have the wonderful meerkats that have shot to fame but what other "characters" have become popular from adverts.

One that springs to mind for me is a balding bloke used to advertise cigarettes a number of years ago(Regal??) I dont smoke so it never stuck what brand it was), Can't recall "his" name but the campaign went on for ages, was quite funny and it was discussed that it was worrying the powers that be that it was making smoking attractive.

Over to you, what can you remember( and for the more 'elderly' members you might need to explain what the product was as well... )

Do you mean this ad?

Hamlet Cigar Adverts - YouTube

 

[Bee]

Howard from Halifax;

Original Howard of Halifax advert - YouTube

 

[jaysay]

Do you mean this ad?

Hamlet Cigar Adverts - YouTube

I like the one where Russ about was fishing lit up an Hamlet, then dropped a speaker in the water blasting out a Des O'Connor record and the fish started jumping into the keep net

 

[susie123]

Do you mean this ad?

Hamlet Cigar Adverts - YouTube

Isn't that Gregor Fisher aka Rab C Nesbitt?

 

[susie123]

Do you mean this ad?

Hamlet Cigar Adverts - YouTube

Isn't that Gregor Fisher aka Rab C Nesbitt?

 

[Less]

It's frothy man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2eEWlyVoxQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[jedimaster]

Isn't that Gregor Fisher aka Rab C Nesbitt?

yep