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"Living With Madeley" is a nostalgic TV based podcast that attempts to take a humorous look at some of the most weird, wonderful and woeful moments in UK television history.
Titled "Living With Madeley" as neither host can remember a week of their lives where Richard Madeley hasn't been on their screens, join Andrew and Liam as they take you on a journey to TV past.
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The 12 Days of Madeley - Episode 3 - Christmas Adverts
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Ladies and gents, can you guess the advert where a mischievous little man uses a Yellow Pages book to kiss a girl under the mistletoe? Remember that nostalgic time? Well, it's time to get your thinking cap on because Leroy and Andrew are about to embark on a wistful voyage through the best of Christmas adverts! From the iconic Yellow Pages advert to heartwarming ones with a young lad and chocolates, we'll be unearthing those special moments we all cherish during the festive season.
Do you recall the hilarious multi-character performance by Nicholas Lyndhurst for WH Smith? Or perhaps, a famous Toys R Us advert featuring Jeffrey the Giraffe? Join us in this episode as we not only share our top picks, but also have a good laugh discussing the adverts that didn't quite hit the mark. Trust us, you'll be surprised how some adverts have influenced our holiday traditions! So, get ready for some lively debates, and don't forget to share your favorite Christmas adverts too.
As we wrap up, we can't help but get excited about our next adventure - a watch along of the 1994 Christmas episode of Big Break! You'll want to download that episode in advance, because guess what? One of us had a surprise appearance as Jim Davidson! So, let's keep the Christmas spirit alive, reminisce about our favorite adverts, and get ready for an exciting watch along in the next episode of Living with Madeley!
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Speaker 2Hello and welcome to Living with Maidalee. This is a nostalgic TV based podcast and this is episode three of our Christmas 12 days of Maidalee Christmas specials. My name is Andrew and I'm joined as always by Leroy the Jenkins. That's the thing, sir.
Speaker 3Very good. Christmas time is the festive spirit here.
Speaker 2Yeah well, obviously we were recording this a bit before, but, sam, this goes out. You know the festive it is, but what did we just gain going? It'll be that last week I worked pretty much, won't it for a lot of people?
Speaker 3I reckon, if all goes well, this will be like what the eighth or ninth of December. So yeah, hopefully you're starting to to feel festive.
Speaker 2Yeah, get this. Uh, but today, let's crack on with it. It is Christmas adverts. Living with Maidalee. Well, how did you find these things? We've had a bit of a discussion, so obviously we've had to tell each other what we've got, so we don't overlap. This was miles more difficult than I thought when I, when I had the idea.
Speaker 3I thought it was going to be clicking through loads of old adverts, chuckling away to myself thinking, oh yeah, loads are really like average boring come-to-be-thank-you for Christmas offers, like it. I think I hope we found some stuff that's worth talking about, but it wasn't the treasure chest that I hoped it would be.
Speaker 2if I'm honest, when we did we're obviously second ever episode we did our favorite adverts and honestly, I mean we might even go back to that because there was some stuff I found, as we're doing this that weren't Christmas based, that I thought I should have mentioned that Loads to go out with actual adverts. These were pretty difficult guys, but I'll let you kick off.
Speaker 3Anyway, it's one of my favorite ones we did. I know it was only episode two and we were kind of still finding our feet in this world, but yeah, I thought it was good that. Yeah, I think you're right. I think adverts might be something we go back to, but trying to sort of pick Christmas hits was a little bit disappointing, I think. But we'll see. I think the way we'll do them, by the way, and obviously if you're not old enough you won't remember, but for each advert we'll play it. If it tells you what it is in the adverts, an easy win. But I think try and guess what it was. See if you remember it before. It's sort of named.
Speaker 2Yeah, can you tell us what it is? Are you going down? Are we doing it by year or are we just going to go in random?
Speaker 3Well, I haven't got years, so I'll have to be random. You can do it.
Speaker 2No, we'll go random, I'll let you kick off.
Speaker 3Anyway, you get your first one out of the way, all right some of mine are not that long because I've stopped trying to look for sort of real theatrical ones, but I just went for ones that I remember that were nostalgic. So here's my first advert.
Speaker 4Good ol yellow pages.
Speaker 3I definitely do remember this, the small smug chap. So obviously you're not going to know what's happened. We're going to have to explain it to you. There's a girl stood holding some mistletoe and the boy goes to try and give her a quick kiss, but he's a bit too sure, although I reckon he could have. I reckon he's in range. Yeah, he doesn't try off, he doesn't try, so he goes away, gets the yellow pages. She just stands motionless waiting for a kiss from the small smug chap and comes back, stands on the yellow pages, gives her a kiss. It's all good, it's Christmas.
Speaker 2Christmas, yeah, christmas, the other pages this is one of the most legendary ones, isn't it? I won't have this because I don't think it's that good of an advert, but it is one of the ones that always pops up on my Christmas adverts, and blah, blah, blah. I think it's about 1989.
Speaker 3This, yeah, I don't know, I thought it was early 90s, but yeah, I'm not gonna, I don't know. I can well believe it could be late 80s. Yeah, it's all right. I think it's quite clever because obviously for anyone who doesn't know, we don't, you don't get them anymore. The other pages was a directory of phone numbers for businesses and contacts, like a massive yellow book. That's why it's called the Yellow Pages. Yeah, but quite clever, it doesn't use it to look up. So in the past we've seen it like the guy I think we've mentioned it where he's looking for a polisher for a table or something like that oh yeah, it was yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2I'm looking for JR Hardly.
Speaker 1If you want to know where I'm at next episode too.
Speaker 2We've got JR.
Speaker 3Hardly. But yeah, what they're doing this is so. The young small smug man doesn't look for any numbers in it, he just stands on it, so he uses it as a step.
Speaker 2So basically what it's saying is yeah, it's got all your contacts in it, but also you can use it as a step for kissing, so yeah, I thought it was a title because obviously, uh, strong men used to rip him and after they were, strongly were yellow pages.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, bend the frying pan and rip the yellow pages which here were the yeah yeah, well, you know, not a great start, I don't think.
Speaker 2but okay, I'm not having to go with you because it's not festive, at least oh yeah, they're all festive. They're all festive, right? I'm going to kick off, then I'm going to get back on track here and I'm going to. I imagine you've already heard this one this this year. I don't know that.
Speaker 1This is going back to the original one 1995, and I'm just gonna play it.
Speaker 3I have to say it's very cliche, it's very cheesy, it's very corny. It is great, though it certainly, like, puts you in the festive spirit, don't it?
Speaker 2Holidays are coming, holidays are coming, holidays are coming, and I think it was like that, but it's um, this, this is one of those sort of things where it's almost a bit depressing, where you're like I don't know, when it comes on tv, you're going to fucking hell. Is it that time again already? Because obviously this is still. This is 1995 it started and this is still being played now on their adverts and this particular time, very clever from gokola.
Speaker 3They've tied themselves in with Christmas, even though they have nothing to do with it. You'd never give anyone gokola. Christmas would you?
Speaker 2No, but you obviously you've heard about Santa Claus is pretty much not not designed by gokola with the changing image of him, I suppose yeah, yeah, if anyone don't know about it, well it doesn't even anything like that.
Speaker 2You were a tall, gaunt man who dressed in green and most things before, like the 1930s when gokola got him dressed in the red and white that we know today. You're having a big beard and making more humor like in a big fat man, big fat chap, and then yeah, absolutely ridiculous by the way, like do you know?
Speaker 1like if you don't know the lyrics to a song.
Speaker 3So you sort of make up as you go and it sounds like somebody's done that and they've just stuck with it. It's like Christmas this year and we are all happy. It's awful.
Speaker 2The lyrics are a poor thing. Tell you something about that. The image of the, the music was originally just there to be a placeholder, just a temporary tune, like the first thing they came up with just to fill the silence of the actual images, which is the images, obviously, of the, the, the vans moving. The vans were going to be white as well, and they're changing to red and white in the last minute, gokola, but the white were going to symbolize the wintery landscape. Yeah, but that was, that was a placeholder and they just never found anything better, so they kept here and now. It's probably one of the best known jingles of all time.
Speaker 3I reckon it was the cleaner in the background, just sort of humming to himself, singing like it's. Christmas is here and I like to drink gokola. They just that's it. Yeah, we'll blow it up.
Speaker 2Like I said, that's what they did. They had it in the um. Yeah, I, it is. Like you know. Yeah, it is associated with Christmas. Now, though, isn't it whatever you think if I say hold, the days are coming oh, the days are coming.
Speaker 1You know what I'm on about, aren't it?
Speaker 2it's a brilliant advertising to be fair.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, no, really good marketing. And you're right, you do get to that time of year where you you can't wait to see the the co-cola Christmas advert. Yeah, very good. Yeah, what's your next one on the um? Number two on the list.
Speaker 1Go on, keep moving, come on and don't run. Come on then morning.
Speaker 4Morning children.
Speaker 1What are these for you, for me? Oh, thanks ever so much.
Speaker 4Magic moments are only found in Quality Street.
Speaker 2Yeah, this is what I was going to have myself act to this one, because it is proper iconic in it.
Speaker 3Yeah, it is. They try far too hard these days, and one of mine is going to be a more modern one with this sort of is this big thing now about? Oh, what's the John Lewis advert? What's the what's the Sainsbury's advert? Like this was just quite simple. Bit of a dopey kid, he's a bit late. He's kind of a bit of a pain for this traffic lady. But what do you call it? Traffic warden? Is it what?
Speaker 2lollipop lady. Traffic warden yeah, traffic warden yeah.
Speaker 3I would say lollipop lady.
Speaker 2Traffic. Oh, he's a lollipop lady. It's not a traffic warden what we're talking about. Yeah, it's a lollipop lady, it's all right. Yeah, traffic warden, yeah, absolutely certain three times yeah.
Speaker 1I don't know what I'm thinking yeah, but yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 2Yeah, I do that quite a lot, actually that I'll. I've got no confidence in myself, so if someone says something in like quite a by affirmative way, I'll go. Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 3You can say anything, absolutely traffic warden?
Speaker 2Yeah, absolutely traffic warden. Anyway, carry on.
Discussing Christmas Advertisements and Nostalgic Treats
Speaker 3Sorry, yeah, so. So basically the story is for anyone who's not seeing it, and I'm sure they're not going to go away and watch it. So it's a young chap. He's a bit of a pain. He's a bit late. The lollipop lady has to keep waiting for him to cross over, but we see snow on the ground, we know we're getting into Christmas time. And he brings her an old fashioned box of quality straight and they're in like a white box. They don't look like that anymore. And that made me think oh yeah, remember when you used to look like that. And she's, she's moved by it. She thinks, oh, that's really sweet, and and it is. I think he's. You know he's been a pain all year, but he's brought a box of chocolates and fair play to him.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think, um, I don't know if this was the first magic moments one, because this is one with Perry Kelm. I think the Christmas is well where he actually comes in and sings it obviously a brilliant backer, right number magic moments, um. But what I do, what I love about, I mean when we're going through these adverts I mean you have both watched probably the same things of the top 100 Christmas adverts or the best nostalgic Christmas adverts every time quality straight or roses come out, it's bizarre that they are on sale obviously all year round, but they do remind me of Christmas more than anything else. I mean you see that the package and stuff like that, they're all like really sort of Christmas. They aren't they even like in every day of the year.
Speaker 3Yeah, so again it's. I don't know if it's good marketing or bad actually, because you kind of you like to think they want to sell all year round, but definitely when it's getting how much. The same is today, and Jody started talking about getting decorations up a little bit early. We're still in mid-November, but getting started to get a few bits up for it's. And I said to when I go to St Louis, do you want me to get a box of quality straight? Or roses to your Christmas? Say it is associated with with this time of year. So yeah, really, again Another one which I don't think you've got.
Speaker 2So I'm allowed to say another one that doesn't remind me of Christmas, and I really have one of their adverts. Weren't funny enough, really, is it? Matchmakers, remember matchmakers.
Speaker 3Yeah, we've got, actually we've got. They've got some honeycomb ones. I've never seen before that we bought and, yeah, very good.
Speaker 2I didn't think they've still made them to be fair matchmakers. I'm not seeing them around.
Speaker 3What about after eights? Do you associate after eights with Christmas, or are they all year?
Speaker 2No, no, I don't. I associate after eights with posh people playing board games. I don't know why that is, but that's why I associate after eights.
Speaker 3Yeah, well, it's fair. I see where you're coming from.
Speaker 2When chefly that lost a new castle, eight nil for me. So when I work with putting my file thing some after eights, we shouldn't even work, because you know it's after eight. It were eight nil so. But you know the fault with that, weren't it?
Speaker 3Yeah, but did you eat them?
Speaker 2Well, obviously yes, quite a lot. Yeah, so jokes on them. Innit, they're alright. I'm not a massive fan of mine, but yeah Well, I'll tell you what. I'm going to go straight, I'm going to go to 1996 now, and I can't play the full ad-vixx it's a little bit too long. But I'm going to play the end. Your boot's not securely fast, sir.
Speaker 4It's sale A committee, so you won't mind if I take a look inside. If you're looking for presents a little bit out of the ordinary, get into Smith's. There's the Goosebumps game, the Animal Art Collection, the WH Smith's Sunflower Notecard set, the Scion Series 3C Palm Top Computer, the Parker Penn Gift Set and the WH Smith Golf Distance Finder.
Speaker 3Well, it looks like you're not wearing for a good Christmas.
Speaker 4Oh why You're resting in Whatever they're into get into. Wh Smith.
Speaker 2This is WH Smith from 1996. So in this I do remember these adverts, and they weren't just Christmas adverts, obviously. The one I've just played is but this is Rodney from Only Falls and Orsas, aka Nicholas Lindhurst, or the other way around, probably to be fair or aka Rodney. Is anyone peaking more tight-cast than Rodney Ever? Er, I don't think you're anyone, maybe. I'd sell myself Would you say Kembalo, kembalo's tight-cast, but he hasn't only played that role. Rodney has done a few roles, hasn't he I?
Speaker 3suppose. So yeah, yeah, okay yeah.
Speaker 2Anyway in this well, this is why it's awesome Rodney in this one plays every single character of the family, as he did in a series of the adverts. These throughout the night, in the six-night-seven, I think it were overdubbed by Hugh Laurie, so yeah that was that yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, two stars in this and in this one, rodney's driving home and he gets stopped by the police and he's asked to open his boot, and then I'm going to go back to this but obviously he shows all the things that he's bought from WH Smiths and then he gets the classic punchline at the end of you're in for a good Christmas, why are you going to arrest him? Yeah, so you know, classic, you know it's just good humour, isn't it? It's like good, clean fun, isn't it?
Speaker 3Yeah, rodney is the young kid in the back who says something about fairy lights and that's the police car. And then, yeah, rodney is also the mother at the end who says what would make it a good Christmas if you arrested my husband, who's also Rodney.
Speaker 2Yeah, but Rodney, there's another one. Well, there's loads of these, in fact. There's another one where Rodney plays like the daughter as well as not in this one, but just you get the full Lindhurst experience, basically the full Rodders experience, but I just want to go through these things that are in the back of his room.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's quite clever, though, before you name them, because, yeah, the way they do it is there's loads of loads of adverts that just say this Christmas, oh gosh. So what? The way they do it is say oh, what have you got in your boot? Well, I bought this fantastic gift for 1999,. Like, they kind of listen to this part of the story, don't they?
Speaker 2Well, I'm going to listen to them. I'm going to say would you be happy with this on your tree this Christmas? So you've got the Goosebumps game.
Speaker 3Yeah, what a look at that.
Speaker 2Animal Art Collection.
Speaker 3Animal Art Collection.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't really know what it was, I think it was just like pictures or animals. You're taking it. The WH Smith Sunflower Notecard set.
Speaker 3No, I thought that was the WH Smith Sunflower. Like that annoyed me a bit. It's not Christmasy Sunflowers aren't Christmasy. And it's like dropping in an own branded product, isn't it?
Speaker 2The WH.
Speaker 3Smith Notepad set. No thanks.
Speaker 2The Pison. Is it the Pison Fizzin' Saeon? Saeon, that's it the Saeon Series 3 Palm Top Computer? I don't really know what that is.
Speaker 3Do you know what? There was a period in time where I really wanted one of these. Like we didn't have a desktop computer at home, laptops weren't really a thing and they had these little small computers that I thought, oh, that'd be brilliant. I was probably about 14, 15, I remember thinking I'd be able to do a lot of writing.
Speaker 4What were?
Speaker 3they Like a word processor. Really I think it might have had some really basic spreadsheet functionality, but basically just a little word processor. You could just write stuff on it. I think Did you use that. Etch-a-sketch.
Speaker 2Did you use that Etch-a-Sketch?
Speaker 3Yeah, it was better than that, though I just like.
Speaker 2Etch-a-Sketch, but because obviously Carl Draugh and he went really bad drawing so he spraxed you. As I might have mentioned before that, I've got that. But what I hate about that is if you had drawn something quite good, you had to save it forever by a new one because you had to wipe the screen. You couldn't save them, could you?
Speaker 3No, no, no, like I suppose you could take a picture and then go and get processed at Jessups or something like that, but yeah, you'd do no phones to capture it, was it? So, Anyway, it was easier to draw it on paper, though. Why you had to turn it on at the piles, yeah, not to me. That must have been so hard for you, like left and right and up and down on two little dios. I can't imagine you ever drew a good picture on Etch-a-Sketch.
Speaker 2I think I drew like an elephant one. So I remember having that thinking that was pretty good, but my drawings of that shit I don't know. You could draw a straight line which was good enough for me. That was good for me. Anyway, talking of writing, another one was a pocket pen gift set.
Speaker 3Yeah, again, I think times are changing, aren't they? I remember at a time like that oh, that's got a really nice pen set. They don't really use pens in that, do you?
Speaker 2I used to be really into pens I mean on Facebook I probably still am pen group. Someone said you know, when do you get your best pen out? And I say I'll whip my another party, which I never did, but quite a funny line. And the last one anyway is a WH Smith Golf Christmas Finder.
Speaker 3Yeah, at the time when I watched it I thought I'm surprised they kind of had that. There aren't I? I can't imagine that was effective, I don't know. But I think these days you kind of got things that well. In my head I imagine it's almost like a laser that fires light back and forth and tells you how far away it is. But I'm guessing this one would just sort of turn some dials and it tells you roughly.
Speaker 2So do you think you could basically have gone to WH Smith and had a good Christmas then, not actually staying in WH Smith for dinner and stuff, I mean, like I mean I don't know, dude, I didn't do that, but they wanted to have Christmas dinner. Well, anyway, what I'm on about is you reckon you could get all your Christmas, like your Christmas goods, from WH Smith?
Discussion on Christmas Advertisements
Speaker 3I think you could have probably got by as they're, like there's nothing else open. Yeah, I'll take my presents from here. I'll have a jigsaw, I'll have a couple of books, I'll have some Lego, but I don't think they would have had all the good stuff. I think it would have been a compromise. Did you enjoy the advert? Yeah, I thought it was all right.
Speaker 2Well.
Speaker 3I've seen Roddars for a while but he's in Frasier now.
Speaker 2He's in Frasier. Yeah, fucking Roddars in Frasier In 1997, 250,000 TV time and some readers thought this advert as the best advert at the National Television Awards, which is the biggest survey ever carried out in the UK at the time. So it won the best advert of the year.
Speaker 3Yeah, I've got no idea what was up against that. I'd be surprised for his best advert of the year. But yeah, decent, decent. Was this sort of like peak on the falls as well, then?
Speaker 2Will there be millionaires by then? Do you know the falls and allsons? Yeah that's a good question. I don't know what were they called Time?
Speaker 4on our hands.
Speaker 2Time on our hands, not who wants to? Yeah, time on our hands. Yeah, 96, 26 December 96, he ties in exactly like that. Yeah, so Roddars is a millionaire at this time. Yeah, and he's buying a fucking park, paying gifts there, well cheapo.
Speaker 3That would have been shown Christmas Eve or Christmas Day or whatever. This would have been shown on the run up to Christmas. So this is pre Roddars a millionaire, isn't it? Yeah, pre Roddars a millionaire, I guess to be fair.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I thought this were a decent one. I do remember these and I think it's a great example of the range that Roddars can give you as an actor. What's your next one?
Speaker 3Next, I am going to go really brief on this. Actually, and if you don't know the backstory, it's awful, but I did at the time, so I thought it was alright. Here it is.
Speaker 1It'll go on then, as it's Christmas. That one, that's it. I thought the clip would be played. I thought it was playing twice there actually, but that was, you weren't actually that was me, I'll give you that one. You can't see if I'm doing the hand gestures as well to it, that's some fucking thing though, isn't it?
Speaker 2Yeah, but it's just doing that trumpet. That's not what he plays, though what's he playing? He's not playing. You're doing, glenn Miller, aren't you? He does a.
Speaker 3Christmas song let me just listen to it.
Speaker 2Oh, I'm doing a fucking trombone. Yeah, sorry my fault.
Speaker 3It does a season two be jolly. You're doing with your trombone, oh, I'm doing the fucking note.
Speaker 2Do you know what I'm doing? I'm doing the actual adverts, the original adverts, because this is the Christmas special version of this advert, but I'm sure he used to have that.
Speaker 3I was witnessing you having a Christmas breakdown.
Speaker 2I do remember this one.
Speaker 3I wasn't going to have this one, so the running joke was he used to pop up all the time and try and play saxophone.
Speaker 2He used to like there's one more hygen and some cheese Describe to the younger viewers what it was this little man before you died in it.
Speaker 3So this little man made out of butter, a delirious Pac-Man. I used to know him as there's a voiceover by the phenomenal Penelope Keith, by the way, who I used to love for good life, and I used to think sort of Tom was probably the best character. But actually rewatching it in later life, margot, played by Penelope Keith, is the absolute star of the show. She's brilliant. It's one of the, it's one of the best sitcom characters actually out of all time. I would even put out there.
Speaker 1But yeah, the voice of her interest.
Speaker 3Yeah, honestly, I think kind of laughs per minute. She's fanatic value. But she does a voice over and it's this little man made out of butter and he keeps popping up. He's desperate to play saxophone for us but they don't want him to. They want to do a professional advert and tell us about the butter and so so they keep cutting him off, basically like they put I don't know, I can't remember they put a glass over him or the. They keep ridiculing him basically. But in this, in this instance, it's Christmas. So she's obviously said right, go on and play things. They look so happy, so low-pitched bottom man gets to play a little bit of Tis, the season.
Speaker 3Yeah, and that's it you've. I don't know where you've come with this one. To be honest, that I didn't expect.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's a short one. It's a short one, but I do like the low-pitched bottom. I've got lots of time for him to be fair.
Speaker 3Just nice play, like Christmas thing, because he never. He never got his own way. But it's Christmas and they let him have a little play and that's it. So it's done.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, good lad. Yeah, so we have the for butter, but it's for some of the, some of the better ads there's been bought. I can't believe it's not bought. I said I want to think I've actually say anymore look back, kerry Gold.
Speaker 3Did they ever do any adverts? They would.
Speaker 2We've covered boy with Dunbar and right my next one. I did obviously do a space in my last one. I'm gonna go, which I think at the time, or possibly its main rival, and he sadly no longer with us, but I want you to. I'm sure people will know this, but take a look, listen to who is doing the, the overdub at the end of this advert.
Speaker 1Thank you.
Speaker 4At Woolies this Christmas you can get a rocket lamp for under a tenon, this chrome breakfast set for just 34 99 and a hand softening wax bar for under 30 quid Course. With offers like these, you might forget what you went in for.
Speaker 1What oh?
Speaker 2So that wall was did you get it? They have. Did you see who would even the over the overdub at the end? Well, all the way through in it, I thought we're mainly the end. Well, I might be wrong, we'll carry on.
Speaker 3Yeah, he's sort of he says a yeah, this year, Woolies we've got yeah and you was yes. The late great is not dead, it's Ricky Gervais.
Speaker 2So really surprised by this. Now looked into it and this came out 2001, the same year as the office came out. So just sort of making his way in the in the comedy it did drink driving advert that only played late at night like he would have voice over for that as well, so this must have been like in his.
Speaker 3It was still trying to break through and needed to sort of cash in with some voice over work. Yeah, I just can't imagine doing it anymore.
Speaker 2But what I like about these, obviously this one we've just played. If you didn't, you're gonna describe it. Yeah, yeah. So the what happened on this ad is might read aka Frank butcher comes out of Woolworths and this is a go through the rest of them. But this is a series of adverts for this Christmas where Someone are going to celebrate it, go into Woolworths and forget what they've come for. Come out, see something and then it's got. Ah, yeah. So Frank butcher's gone in and he's come out and he's seen sir no in. Aka wreck Hi Um who worries son, who was his son in East Enders. I'm a bit confused by this, I have to say, because might read looks at sir oh in and says, all right, how long is it been? And see no, interest goes what. Then he goes yeah, yeah, blank types. Yeah, because obviously, obviously said that one's given a blank expression, but I don't know if they're both. Are they playing Frank butcher? And yeah, ricky, ricky or?
Speaker 3yeah, I've got this to ask you is this Frank butcher and Ricky butcher was a Ricky butcher Must have been. Yeah, ricky butcher, yeah, yeah, or is this might read and sit owing well? Are we in East Enders world here or is this the? Are we saying that because we all know Ricky, the character is a bit dope, okay, but we're saying that sit owing is is a dope as well. Is the joke? You don't be?
Speaker 2because surely Ricky had no, his own dad and his dad's dead. I think about this point because that's why he's saying how long it be, and surely recognize his own dad. So he must be saying this ad verse, basically saying sit, owing is a thick bastard and it reminds, might be the blank tapes. Nothing, what to say is blank tapes in 2001. Is that not a bit late?
Speaker 3Yeah, it must be right on the end of blank tapes. Who's?
Speaker 2selling blank tapes in 2001, that's.
Speaker 3So anyone should see. Any young still listening to this, and we know by our demographic stats that there aren't many, but so if you're there, thank you for being someone who has no idea.
Speaker 3We didn't want you here, but you're in our welcome, so Blank tapes where you used to have a video recorder and you Christmas with a perfect example. Actually, things were coming on films, specials. You put your blank tape in your video and if you a video player was one thing. We can have a video recorder which actually recorded the TV onto your video, onto your. You could watch it again. So I mean my brother watch it, watched Merry Christmas, mr Bean, hundreds of times.
Speaker 2After recording that, yeah, there's people on YouTube now make lucrative YouTube and I said lucrative. The problem I get anymore. But they've got lots of followers who just like sort of go through their old tapes and their old VHS tapes. So they've got, I've got so much that I'm gonna videotape and yeah.
Speaker 2I had a lot of Danny Baker's own goals and gas, but they were like copied tapes but it's deep, like white tapes of stuff that you'd just take on TV and it's absolutely incredible. I think about it, I'm going out, I'm gonna mix what I'm gonna see. I've got set the video on long play so they'll record for eight hours so I can.
Speaker 3So the quality weren't quite as good, was it? If you did long play and then if you want to protect it, you have to like snap a little bit off the video so it couldn't be recorded over if you didn't do that, yes, you could have a record over the top of it.
Speaker 2Yeah, anyway, but what a mad world that all the people who appeared in this advert I was like say we were like a series of adverts all around this time, was it? There's a woman who goes in and she thinks she goes what we need, what we need, and she can't remember. And then there's line him comes out and he goes like close up his of his tash and she goes, ah, pastry bush, bush, pastry brush. You know what I mean. So, because it will, why for me?
Speaker 3And it were always like I dig it in, like what they're coming for? Yeah book about the twice.
Speaker 2Yeah, I fucking yeah, but what they're doing? Oh yeah, remedial class studies, fucking volume one.
Speaker 3Take any little plant pot. Yeah, yeah, but they were different people, yeah is this the one?
Speaker 2it Rick, yeah, rick.
Speaker 3Oh god, he's got needed Rodney.
Speaker 2And, and my favorite one anywhere, this one is a woman goes in, she forgets what she wants and she sees a Uri Geller and she goes ah, spoons, love that. I was gonna play that one, but that hasn't got the Ricky Gervais voice over on it and I want to get the Ricky Gervais voice over in it, but that is a good one, though she walks past like you're in yelling because a spoons so fantastic. I enjoyed this one. I thought I mean this advert didn't make sense, this particular one. So this, this advert, shit, but the Gallow on and the and the line and one does make sense, and you know I don't want to knock wool, was, it's a, sadly no longer with us.
Speaker 3I'm gonna say the major though didn't we like for picking mixes Kids today will never know the joy of a Woolworth's picking mix. It really was the best, like jet and light. Without irony, without sarcasm. A Woolworth's picking mix was phenomenal. That this, the choice, was so good.
Speaker 2Was it like a low brand thing to be a Woolworth's, was it? It was like a cheap sort of Rather than.
Speaker 3Middle of the road.
Speaker 2I think they. Yeah, it might be wrong, because obviously it pretty much gone. We hadn't gone when I was at looks this is 2001 but it would winding down where they've been used to be out with people, don't? I mean people probably heard like it sounds very Pk this who remembers Woolworth's, but it was absolutely like a Staple of the high should be like W H, mrs Bowes.
Speaker 3Yeah. Yeah, you would always find a Woolworth's and bit of a All-rounder. Maybe that's where they went wrong. But yeah, they had a bit of music, bit of sweets, bit of toys, bit of clothes, but yeah, a bit of everything. But Pick a mix like like safe. Honestly, like you know, this is a nostalgic, nostalgia based podcast. That is kind of one of the things of my childhood is going to get a Woolworth's pick a mix. It's brilliant.
Speaker 2Pick and mix. That's another thing as well. Is that the day coin pick and mix Like as a thing? I always associate with mix with obviously you get them in cinemas and stuff, but I always associate with all the I'm just looking at one now actually pick and mix and some great memories, although I never actually went to that one in Eastlite. Right, what's your next one, liam?
Speaker 3Next one. So I'm gonna go for do you know what? This is really gonna shock you this one you said I should have this because this is one of my favorite products. I don't remember this advert. I've only seen it through research in this, but I put it in there because I picked this out, like behind the curtain.
Speaker 3I picked this out and I'm gonna leave that one for you, liam, because I know you love this product, so yeah well, I have no memory of this, but I've gone for it because I think it is a good advert and it's not the sort of mega old. So it's 2006, which in a sane world is nearly 20 years ago. So it is nostalgic. So this is the advert. Anyway, I can't I don't know if I can play it all or not. I'm not sure whether you get to hear all this advert, but I'm gonna play some of it.
Speaker 1We're walking in the air. I'm sipping on an iron brew, my chillies. No man-mater, he would like some too. I tell him get your own. He looks like he's going to cry. I tell him once again the iron brew is mine. Now I'm falling through the air. I wonder where I'm going to lie. I'm falling through the air. I wonder where I'm going to lie.
Speaker 3So obviously it's the iron brew one. It's the one that you sent me. Yeah, I love iron brew. I have no memory of this. I don't know.
Speaker 2I think it's a bit weird how much you love iron brew, to the point where I'm giving you this advert because of your love of iron brew. Why are you renowned for liking iron brew? You're not Scottish.
Speaker 3No, but so my, my family on my dad's side are Irish Irish too.
Speaker 2We should start playing the Irish Roe over in my crowd. Irish Roe over.
Speaker 3They moved across. My dad when he was young, moved across, brought his hurling stick with him from Ireland and they call me the Irish Roe. But yeah, they moved to a town called Corby which at the time was being populated by a lot of Glasgow people. They wanted to. There was a steelwork starting up, so it's mainly Scottish but a mixture of Irish and there's the biggest Celtic and ranger supports clubs outside of Glasgow, I believe. But yeah, obviously I was down there fairly regular growing up to visit grandparents and his and uncle's and cousins, and iron brew is massive in Corby the McDonald's in Corby you can get an iron brew Because you can get a lot of people who are from the south of England and they're not the only ones who have a lot of people who are from the south of England.
Speaker 3And you have McDonald's in Corby. You can get an iron brew, because it's just what they do. There's a load of Scottish accents. It's near Leicester and Luthorbury and down that way it's near Peterborough I suppose. But yeah, scottish accents in a town in the south of England, it's odd, but yeah, whenever I went down there it was the dead tizer, an iron brew with a drinks beer staff.
Speaker 2I don't know why it just reminds me of a can drink it.
Speaker 3I know tizer to me is much more medicinal.
Speaker 2I get where you're coming from. I've got a white tizer. I think tizer has a proper medicinal taste to it.
Speaker 3But I think iron brew is fantastic and actually I probably overdid it as well a bit. I think it's the best hangover drunk drink. If you're drunk and you want to drink, you can make you feel better. I think iron brew is the one, but I probably overdone it a bit these days. It doesn't do it for me anymore. And now we're so cheap that I can't go over, so it's not a great drink anymore. But anyway, the advert.
Speaker 2The advert was going on in the advert Liam.
Speaker 3Yeah, so the advert. It's obviously a parody of the snowman which we're going to cover actually, where probably, as you get near it's Christmas itself, you'll find us doing that. I don't know if I want to break down or not. It makes me sad watching it. So we'll see when we get there. But yeah, it's a parody of that. So this young chap is flying with his snowman. I love the seriousness of the singing. It's a proper authentic, quiet singing and there's a particular lyric that I love.
Speaker 1The seriousness of he licked my iron brew and let go of my hand.
Speaker 2Brilliant, it's a good advert.
Speaker 3Yeah, and the story is basically. This guy's flying along A bit like James in the snowman. He's flying with a snowman Snowman, keeps trying to grab his iron brew, but he's not letting him. And then at some point the snowman gets his hand on the iron brew and once he does that he becomes a bit sort of a bit rogue. He doesn't want anything to do with the kid anymore.
Speaker 2So he just drops him, yeah, drops him to the ground.
Speaker 3He threw him to the ground A massive trap, Big tangent here. But another thing that I remember in the call would be McDonald's. He used to be able to get little pizzas. Was that a?
Speaker 2dude in Sheffield as well, I can't remember.
Speaker 3I'm sure they do pizzas in McDonald's now, don't they?
Speaker 2No, definitely not now I would have a Ronald McDonald one, but it were only aired in America, just as we were going through the adverts. I mean I'm not breaking any new ground here, but what a creepy bastard he was. Like, I mean in the 80s, like I'm not scared of clowns, like oh, clowns are really scary. That is a weird clown innit.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Well, I don't know, I don't know who that is. I just thought like that, whatever he talks like, I want to listen to the hand-bubble one.
Speaker 3That's an iffy.
Speaker 1The hand-bubble one.
Speaker 3Imagine if you were standing in an eye singing. That That'd be the scariest thing ever. Yeah, let us know.
Speaker 1Yeah the hand-bubble one.
Speaker 3I mean Sheffield did do pizzas, by the way. That's something I'm intrigued to know, or whether that was just a Colby thing.
Speaker 4Fish and chips man.
Speaker 3I'm having fish and chips, he might not. I don't know what's going on. I don't know if I'm just misremembering stuff here. Let's move on.
Speaker 2Why are you always misremembering stuff, peter Right, my next one is from 1989, I almost got by the advert here.
Speaker 4Hey, I've got e-drinks. Darling bloke where you going? Oh, hamlet, over here, son on me in.
Speaker 2What's that?
Speaker 3I bet she drinks car in that label.
Speaker 4Well, it will be Christmas without a few repeats.
Speaker 2Car in black label. Remember these adverts.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't specifically remember this one, but I do remember the Car in black label adverts, yeah, which we've mentioned this before. I'm with it. I wonder why they dropped that. It's just people don't say Car in black label anymore, do they.
Speaker 2I don't even know if it's sold as that. It's not. It's not. It's stopped in 1997, the black label, but it makes it sound a lot better and it's a bag of shit beer as well. Probably my worst lager. I bought mainstream lagers Car in. I don't know why. I just think when they sell it at Arena, I don't know when a good fancy bands at Arena and they've only got Car in. It's fucking horrible why. It's absolutely awful, but maybe it's the worst.
Speaker 3Is that, though, just because you're a social net place with plastic cups, where it's over frothy, I think sometimes in a pub it's alright. I know what you're saying, but I'm not a connoisseur. I don't like anything too hoppy. I quite like my easy drinkers, so Foster's and Carlin are fine for me, but I know what you mean, like festivals and gigs where you get a really frothy plastic cup. Plastic Carlin is appalling.
Speaker 2But anyway this one is.
Speaker 3I think this ad verse is brilliant because I should remember, actually Donald's and Corby used to be able to get pants and frothy. Obviously I'm joking. I'm joking.
Speaker 2They call me the iron crow. I'm all going to say, yeah, so, carlin Black Label. This is from 1989, and what I like about this is it massively gave me nostalgic memories. Obviously, I wouldn't hold enough to drink it, but I do remember the Carlin Black Label ad verse, and what happens on this ad verse that you just heard is it goes through all the old Carlin Black Label ad verse and then at the end, the great punchline is well, it's Christmas, you're obviously going to have repeats, which is, I think it works. You know what I mean. So they're just basically playing the old ad verse and getting away with it.
Speaker 2But I really, really like this and I remember the I bet he drinks Carlin Black Label stuff. Obviously, we're always when someone's doing something cool or clever, but that squirrel do you know that Mission Impossible one? Yeah, I think so. I think so. Yeah, I bet he drinks Carlin Black Label Brilliant. I think this is a fantastic advertising series and I think this one works as well. And, like I say, I remember all these ad verse that are shown on this form, even though it's 1989 and I'm at what it's been seven. So, yeah, again Carlin.
Speaker 3Did you recognise one of the guys in?
Speaker 2it, by the way, Another Accommoded Duo, aren't they? But I don't know Well.
Speaker 3I don't know, because I only know one of them. So one of them is the kind of he's got dark eyebrows but like like grey hair.
Speaker 2And then fuck you. He's got dark eyebrows. Fuck you now. Imagine that, unlike fucking him, People are picturing now Fuck you too. But he's got dark eyebrows Like grey short hair.
Speaker 3He's in an episode of Mr Bean, I think. I think he's the guy when he goes on a train. Mr Bean, there's a guy reading a book who's laughing his head off and Mr Bean ends up putting socks and chewing him in his ear, I think, and he throws his book out with his chains again Well. I also think correct me if I'm wrong. Was he on? Whose line is it? Anyway, I seem to think of it.
Speaker 2I've seen him on that that does really ring a bell. Looking at his face now, yeah, whose line is it anyway with Clive Anderson? Oh, what's it? Oh right, hang on, give me a minute. What's his fucking name? You do that as I'm looking for this guy's name because he's.
Speaker 1Mark Arden.
Speaker 2Got it. They're called the oblivion brothers. If anyone remembers them, let me know.
Speaker 3The oblivion brothers.
Speaker 2I don't remember them at all. To be fair, they're in the Yule ones as well. Stephen Frost is his name.
Speaker 3He's definitely been there. He told us that ages ago. What he said that ages ago, what were you searching for then?
Speaker 2No, I'm looking at what is Stephen Frost. I didn't know his name.
Speaker 3I'm sure you've already said he was Stephen Frost.
Speaker 2I've had a chandelier. To be honest, I feel a bit unnerved. To be honest, I'm not going to go more out. Yeah, I know what you mean now, with the big eyebrows he was on. Whose Line Is? Anyway, there's a picture of him here with Clive Anderson, greg Proups, ryan Stiles and that bold American man, colin Montgomery. Was it Colin? Oh no, that's the golfer. What's his name? Colin Mokurai. Yeah, colin Mokurai, mokurai. Yeah, they weren't even good show. We'll have to do that one day.
Speaker 3He was good as well, wasn't it Josie? Was it Josie Darvey? But there's also who?
Speaker 2Josie Darvey. Josie Darvey, presentable in fear. Oh yeah, Josie Darvey. What was the English guy though?
Speaker 3Straight brown hair I'm paying the pictures.
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying it's like you can see him straight brown hair, the dark eyebrows and the man with the straight brown hair. It's like he's looking down Brown Book. The man with the brown hair looked at the cup.
Speaker 3Tony Slattery.
Speaker 2Tony Slattery. Yeah, he wore on everything, tony Slattery. He had a breakdown, obviously it was a really interesting story. I watched a documentary about him. Obviously he went off the rails and he's just. You know, he's not the same person as he was, but he seems to have got his life somewhat back on track at least. But yeah, he wore on everything, tony Slattery, when I was growing up. Tony Slattery, absolutely everything.
Speaker 3We could have called that one. Obviously, we went down the Maley route, but we could have been the new Oblivion Brothers.
Discussion on John Lewis Christmas Adverts
Speaker 2We could have been the new Oblivion Brothers. You've just ruined my punchline there, which I've just thought of. I said Tony Slattery wearing everything in the night is I bet he drank Colin Blacklayer but ruined. So that's what you get for. Anyway, what's your?
Speaker 3next one Sometimes amateur will upstage a professional. That's yeah, I'm saying I'm the amateur, there aren't I? My last one is it's the most recent I can't remember which year it is because I didn't write it down but I want to 2013.
Speaker 1A simple thing where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on, and if you haven't been a red and pink girl, talk about it somewhere. Only we know. There is the day we end up everything, so I don't need to. Somewhere only we know.
Speaker 3This is where we've moved into an era now where we have to have these big stage productions that it's like a. Have you seen the latest? Whatever it is, I think the story's awful for this, if I'm honest. I'll explain it to you in a minute. But I like Keen, I like the original song, I like Lily Allen, I like her version of the song, so there's a lot here for me to like. If nothing else, it was just a chance to just hear an I song sung by someone that I like.
Speaker 3I just thought if our famous me and Lily Allen would have been a really good man, I'm not, you are you think you'd have been an item, no, but I think we'd have sort of been mates, but with that bit of chemistry in the background.
Speaker 2No, everything's just going on. I imagine you're going on a who wants to be a millionaire, together and the other celebrities.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, yeah, but life took me on a different journey. But, yeah, I like the outfit.
Speaker 2Maybe I riff from the side.
Speaker 3So from what I've heard from the advert and I'm going to sort of ridicule it now but I like the advert, like the song, like the music, so it's about like animals. This is where I think things got really confused. It's a John Lewis advert, so obviously John Lewis is well, they're just a multi. What do you call them Like? Why are you being served? What was that? What do you call it?
Speaker 1Sitcom.
Speaker 3John Lewis is not a sitcom. What do you call like a store that does everything?
Speaker 2Oh sorry, what is John Lewis? He's like a Ah fuck. You. Now Hang on, john Lewis. Good job, we've got Google. It's the worst podcast of all time. What is John Lewis? John Lewis and partners it's just the department store.
Speaker 3Department store, yeah, everything, like they've got different departments to sell different things. But why do they start doing adverts about like animals in the woods and about like somebody on the moon and stuff like that, like what? I don't really get it. But in this particular one there's a load of little animals in the forest. It's a bit like animals are falling wood for anyone who knows, who read or saw that when they were younger. And there's a hare and a bear that are mates.
Speaker 3But obviously when it starts kind of getting to winter, the bear goes and hibernates. So the hare leaves him a present and then it's Christmas day. All the animals, the foxes, the badgers, everyone's having a great time giving each other presents. The hare's sad because the bear's not there, he's hibernating, but then as the kind of cause oh, simple thing, you're gonna, let me hear the bear comes over the horizon, the sun behind him, oh, brilliant, the bear's made it. Everyone's happy. And that's because the hare got him an alarm clock for Christmas to wake him up. The reason the bear hibernates is because there's not enough food for him to survive through the winter.
Speaker 2He don't want to go to bed, does he? Yeah, I know you do.
Speaker 3So the hare's woke him up in a time where there's not enough food for him to eat. So presumably this is it. The bear won't make it through the winter, but they get a good Christmas day. So yeah, I make of that. Somewhere on here we know, but yeah, make of it what you will.
Speaker 3I'm overthinking it, but I'm aware, by the way, I'm overthinking it, but the reason I'm saying it is because they have to have these really clever, well-written stories about Christmas. But it's not, is it? It's just to play a song, it's just what? Oh, let's get Lily Allen to cover a song.
Speaker 2It was Aurora flashy when he did half the world away with that M&S A couple years ago, probably John Lewis or. Yeah, probably John Lewis.
Speaker 3Oh sorry.
Speaker 1John.
Speaker 2Lewis, not M&S. I hate him. I hate the soppy shit. I hate him. The worst one. He's the guy on the moon. You're on the moon and he's I don't know if that's funny, I tell you something. But again, I know that would be a bit sort of deceitful.
Speaker 3See him. We're being a bit like oh yeah, you can pull the story apart, but there are people working on this all year to write this sort of really clever Christmas. And it's not. It's just. What's the song that we like? Oh well, I quite like. I don't know Any song. I quite like that All right?
Speaker 2well, let's get someone else to sing it. Yeah, we'll slow it down and get piano out.
Speaker 3Well, god only knows, we're going to get I don't know Ed Sheeran to sing it. He's going to do a slower version playing a glockenspiel. God only knows what I'd be and we'll make it about.
Speaker 3There's a squirrel and all year round he keeps wanting some leftovers from a guy's bacon sandwich, but he never gets them. But on Christmas Day he's going to give him. Not only does he not just give him the leftovers, he's actually bought the squirrel a bacon sandwich. They sit next to him and eat it and we're God only knows what I'd be with. That's probably better than this year's John Lewis one, by the way. Well to be honest, John.
Speaker 2Lewis one this year's being banned, hasn't it, john Lewis one this year because of the Palestine flags? I think that's John Lewis, which is not a Palestine flag, but the crappy paper. No, I'm sure it would. Oh, and that might be Marks and Spencer's. John Lewis is the flag-trap one. I've just read it.
Speaker 3Oh, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2I think they're trying to move away from the softiness. By the way, you can get a Samsung £400 Smart TV from John Lewis at the Black Friday sale. If you're Ross Beaton, I should have got a watch. I've got a commission for that. Yeah, £400.
Speaker 3I'll tell you what. I bet you get a really good picture on that as well, don't you?
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, we should put in advertising. Yeah, but yeah. So I think they are trying to move away from it because I'm sick of it the only one that I ever got to me in these sort of.
Speaker 4Not even Christmas happen, rodgers.
Speaker 2No, that was good. Well, come to the end, that's the one. The best one ever was Is the meerkat ones. I like them. They're humourite with the. They weren't just Christmas though, were they? They were all year round. No, no, no, no, they were different ones, like all year, but they were a couple of Christmas ones, I think. One of them where they left Oleg the baby on a doorstep and them two had to look after it, and they were like not quite nice. They were quite funny as well, really. Tia Jerker was one when they had to let him go. Well, he didn't have to let him go, he went to his own habitat and he wanted to stay which were a bit selfish for me that's what I like it's a bit like Mowgli.
Speaker 2Yeah, Oleg said I want to stay or whatever, and we were like, oh no, and he was crying on my own. So that was quite touching, A bit like Mowgli off the jungle, but I shook him what.
Speaker 3What? I just don't remember it. I'm not I'm sure it happened, I just don't remember it.
Speaker 2Yeah, Mowgli, I don't like for similar reasons, because Mowgli, all these fucking animals brought him up, Bugaloo and the other lads, any of the names.
Speaker 3And.
Speaker 2What's the cat called? What Fucking?
Speaker 3hell, I guess this is unbelievable. You mixed the most interesting one. I said.
Speaker 2Bugaloo, bugaloo. Who is he but Bugaloo Shia Khan?
Speaker 3I think Baloo and Bagheera actually is sometimes called the Oblivion Brothers as well, if I remember.
Speaker 2They call him the Irish Role of the Rated Mowgli. I hate him because as soon as he sees the girls, he's off, isn't he? I know that's what happens, but he leaves the lads behind like King Louie, I just don't know what the names are about. And Winnie Froot? Like he just leaves them behind, doesn't he? Rocky the Rhino?
Speaker 3Europe's. They took him there for that reason. That's why they took him, isn't it?
Speaker 2I don't believe. Do you know what we're reading about the PGTips adverts? Actually we're going to have one of them, but they were only one Christmas one that they did. The reason they stopped doing the PGTips adverts we were always stuck about this last week is because of Animal Crawler, because they said when they put them back into, you know, with other chimps and stuff like that, they couldn't relate to chimps anymore. They could only relate to humans. So they got really aggressive when chimps stopped being chimps towards them.
Speaker 3What I was picturing like back in Chimp Cage and all the ones they were jumping about, and there's one like sweeping up in the corner with a cap on and the whole rest of them like don't hit him anymore, oh, he's changed and all that changed.
Speaker 2The most famous one I wanted to mention, because they are absolutely brilliant, is when, you know, when he drops a piano on that guy's foot, he goes ah, what's he saying? Now, because he's got the piano and he drops it and he says what's he saying I'm going to watch my. Ah, I'm going to win it. I'm going to win it.
Speaker 3When you play on the? Oh, what do you call them? Fat guy and thing guy, lauren Hardy, when someone to do that was it.
Christmas Adverts and Memories of Toys
Speaker 2There's a brilliant line in it. Oh, fucking hell. Oh, that's it. He goes. Oh, dad, do you know? The piano was on my foot Because you, you have me, so I'm going to play it. Yeah, he starts being teardroping massively brilliant. Honestly.
Speaker 1I could do.
Speaker 2I could do a series on the fucking PGZibs adverts absolutely amazing. But yeah, I think they're all shit. The NHS, mns adverts and John Lewis. That's a bad bottle stone man.
Speaker 3Christmas festive spirit. Nhs are all shit.
Speaker 2And I'm going to end with. It's not really Christmas advert, but I imagine it will remind every single person who were around the same year as of Christmas from 1989.
Speaker 3I know I'm not going to do that active thing where I pretend, because we've already talked about this briefly. Who is Jeffrey? What is Jeffrey?
Speaker 2I don't know. I obviously know this song. Everyone who's ever heard this song will know it. Jeffrey the sorry. What is it? Jeffrey the giraffe? What's he saying? I'm not luring.
Speaker 3I'm sure he's a bit of a ranger. Our shells are stuck with hundreds of toys. Jeffrey and his friends are keeping them full Like there's something about.
Speaker 2Jeffrey. I'm sure he says there's millions of Jeffries all under one roof. But that can't be right because he don't make any sense.
Speaker 3No, I think it's millions of toys, but Jeffrey's involved.
Speaker 2Jeffrey's definitely involved. He's Jeffrey the giraffe.
Speaker 3So on the advert there's a load of kids running around the store, but as a giraffe, I'm assuming he's Jeffrey, but they never. As far as I'm aware, toys R'Rolls never made any big deal of the giraffe.
Speaker 2He was never a character did they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Apparently I didn't know this, but since 1965, he's been the face, the fictional giraffe. He used to be called DrGiraffe and then he just made him into a giraffe and I've just got the actual jingle. It says there's millions, say's Jeffrey, all under one roof. There's millions, say's Jeffrey, all under one roof. It's called Toys R'Rolls.
Speaker 3Yeah, well, obviously I thought Toys R'Rolls was a later thing than that. I didn't realise it had been around since the 60s. But I was never aware of Jeffrey as a kind of character, and generally until I watched this bike, I thought God, what is Jeffrey? And I just assumed he's a giraffe.
Speaker 2But funnily enough a lot of people I've just typed it in actually thought they were saying there's millions of Jeffries, so it's not just me.
Speaker 3I think that's the business, or slows down a bit. There's millions of Jeffries all under one roof.
Speaker 2Yeah, I've gone. I've just typed in Jeffries Toys R'Rolls. The Sunderland Message Board forum says there's millions of Jeffries. The thread is called the Millions of Jeffries All under one roof, not Jeffries Jeffrey Brilliant. There's millions. There's millions of Jeffries All under one roof.
Speaker 1Yeah, fantastic, yeah.
Speaker 3so the Millions of Jeffries and the thread is just, it goes, they start they close.
Speaker 2Look at this. The thread title is there's millions of Jeffries all under one roof and they are in closest. They close in 26 doors.
Speaker 1Absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2There's millions. Imagine that. Imagine that in a football forum there's millions of Jeffries all under one roof.
Speaker 3And, by the way, they close in 26 doors.
Speaker 2First thing I've ever mentioned. It's got 11 likes, he says. He's actually saying there's millions of Jeffries All under one roof. But the guy is right, you won't see it at High Street anymore because there's not left in the UK. But, following it off, they've teamed up with the WH Smiths. They're coming back and they're opening nine new stores around the UK.
Speaker 3Jeffrey involved.
Speaker 2Someone says the true spirit of Christmas, the Toy Giraffe.
Speaker 3Yeah, no, but Brilliant Absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2I'm sure I used to buy Subutio from Toys R Us.
Speaker 3Toys R Us was brilliant because it literally was just toys. So, like obviously some shops, they had a toy department that was just all toys. It was a fantastic. I don't know what Smiths is now, if anyone knows Smiths. I don't know if that's works for international listeners, but in the north of England Smiths is a toy shop.
Speaker 2So I was put. Imagine the horror of millions of Jeffrey Boycotts All under one roof. He's like he's Oliver Timster-Battsman. Look at the millions of Jeffrey's all under one roof. What the fuck is that all about? But I love that advert. I love that advert. What's your real favourite, then, of all time?
Speaker 3Well, I genuinely think Toys R Us makes me think of being a kid. You used to get your Argos catalogue. We've not done Argos, but you used to have your Argos catalogue and go through and pick out what you wanted. Toys R Us was always kind of good to go around that time. You'd see what they had on offer. I think probably it's a bit of a. It's a bit of a shit answer really, but I think the Coca-Cola advert is the one that I most associate with Christmas, because the format remains the same year after year, doesn't it? You get, holidays are coming, you kind of know where you are but I think it's the best one ever.
Speaker 2Yeah, I suppose. So it's not my favourite, I don't think. I think my favourite in all the ones that we've spoken about is probably that Nicholas Lindhurst one. I just think that's probably the most interesting, but it's shit. They are shit Christmas adverts. If anyone's got any better ones that we've missed out, then please do get in touch. We'll happily play them, because, yeah, that were awful. I'm really upset that I couldn't find a Dixon's one, because I've been singing it to you all week and I'm losing the Dixons remember that.
Speaker 3We've said this earlier we can't believe Arsenal didn't chant that to Lee Dixon in the night is that Dixon, dixon, dixon, they should.
Speaker 2Yeah, mr Trey, it reminds me of the first time I ever heard WibuyAnyCarthcom. Wibuyanycarthcom. I thought this is one of the best adverts of all time, but he obviously loses his charm on it. I've chosen it. There's another one I've talked about as well, actually, um selco. It's where the trade go. Security, you used to love that. It's not really good, but anyway, before we go um, I'm going to the end of the presentation.
Speaker 3Uh, there's such a ridiculous tagline after. It sums them up so well on it, but engineer it's confrontation.
Discussion About Next Week's Watch Along
Speaker 2Some of them are like perfectly Um. Before we go into the ending, I'll let you know what we're doing next week. I want to play one that I didn't pick.
Speaker 1I'm a lead into the bonus.
Speaker 2Very small on this. Is this the most sinister music for a Christmas advert of all time? It's absolutely outrageous At.
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Speaker 3So that was our Christmas advert recollection, hopefully something that you enjoyed listening to. It's time for us to tell you what we're doing next and next, because we're growing ahead of time. We still don't know if it's 12 days of May Day or 12 May Day's of Christmas, but the next of May Day of Christmas or the next day of May Day is.
Speaker 2Big break 1994 Christmas.
Speaker 3Yeah, so it's going to be a watch along. We're going to watch the episode live and talk about it. It's on YouTube, it is. I suppose you could either watch it ahead and see what we're talking about makes sense, or you can watch it with us if you get it lined up. We're actually this time, based on that what we've learned from the He-Man episode. We're going to both download it and watch it without adverts.
Speaker 1Yeah, there's no adverts.
Speaker 3Yeah, so if you come. Yeah, I suppose you might, if you want to go to this much trouble. But if you always do think you know that sounds good, yeah, download it so you can press play when we do without adverts.
Speaker 2Yeah, no one's going to do that it needs to be by the YouTube channel that was uploaded. It is ChrisVHS89. And just looking at this, it says featuring Zoe Ball, craig Charles and Charlie Drake.
Speaker 3And there's a bit of nepotism. Is it the right word? Because you actually were in this, weren't you? As Jim Davidson?
Speaker 2You know, yeah, fuck off. There's millions of children, we all under one roof.
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