Do you remember a time when adverts interrupted our TV viewing and commercials planted ear worms that kept you singing “you’ve got an uncle in the furniture business, Joshua Doore” all day?
Let’s drag you back to the 80’s and 90’s, when TV commercials were the most costly way to advertise and you couldn’t watch for more than 15 minutes before you heard: “Red, yellow, blue, doo be, doo be, do!”
Adverts were the topic of dinner table conversation, especially if there was a new one that you hadn’t seen yet. It was also a time when cigarettes could be advertised and those were possibly the most big budget ad campaigns. Luxurious planes, exotic places and extravagant parties made you want to grow up quicker so you could buy a box of Peter Stuyvesant and live the life you were destined for.
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Check out these 20 adverts that might bring back some fond memories of simpler times:
1. Cremora: It’s not inside it’s on top!
2. Farmer Brown Chicken: They taste so good because they eat so good.
3. Smarties: What a lot I got.
4. Black Cat Peanut Butter: Hey you kicked Sand in my face.
5. Lexington cigarettes: After action satisfaction.
6. Peter Stuyvesant: Your international passport to smoking pleasure.
7. Chomp: Oh big mouth!
8. Five Roses: There’s no other tea than Five Roses.
9. Klipdrift Brandy: Met eish broer, met eish.
10. MTN: Yebo Gogo.
11. Savanna Dry: It’s dry but you can drink it.
12. Aquafresh toothpaste: Aquafresh does it all in one mum.
13. Morkels: Your two year guarantee shop.
14. Joshua Doore: You’ve got an uncle in the furniture business, Joshua Doore.
15. Simba chips: Simba roars with flavour.
16. Cadbury’s chocolate: It only takes a glass and a half.
17. Lunch Bar chocolate: What kind of a Mac are you? I’m a Makhathini.
18. CTM tile: Not to shabby Nige!
19. Good and clean and fresh washing powder: It’s good and clean and fresh tra la la.
20. Citi Golf: Red, yellow, blue, this one’s for you.
