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Diet Pepsi - Jilted Bride / The Wedding (1998) :60 (USA)

"This is diet?"

Black Currant Tango - BCT - "St George" French Exchange student / Ray Gardner (1997) 0:90 (UK)

A letter sent to Tango's headquarters upsets Ray Gardner
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Holiday Inn - Class Reunion / Bob Johnson (1997) - 0:30 (USA)

This ad was pulled only two days after it aired the superbowl - since it received so many complaints.

California Cheese - Forget about worms and lures (1996) :30 (USA)

This fisherman has a brilliant way of catching the big ones - California Cheese!

Pepsi - Northern Exposure / Frozen Tundra (1996) :60 (USA)

Way up in Alaska, a man decides to go for a cold hike in the snow. He takes a short Pepsi break... and, well. Was it worth it?
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Pepsi - Security Camera (1996) :45 (USA)

The Coke delivery guy gets caught on camera trying to buy himself a Pepsi. Oops. Awkward.

International Kennel Club - "Fish" (1995) :30 (USA)

Attempting to play Fetch with a fish doesn't go all that well.

Pepsi - Twins / Separated at birth / Rick Moranis (1995) :30 (USA)

Eddie Krone and Hans Krone are twin brothers who were separated at birth. They reconnect with each other telepathically.

Apple Tango - Home with the flu / Dressing in scuba gear / Caught Out - (1995) :30 (UK)

Man fakes the flu so that he can dress up in tin-foil shoes and mystery scuba gear and bright green tango underpants, while licking the TV set.

Kenwood - Seventies Dance Show / Play That Funky Music feat. Kathy Griffin (1994) :30 (USA)

Having starred in a few Pytka ads by now, Kathy Griffin is cast as the singer at a seventies dance show.

Pepsi - Cindy Crawford - Michael Richards / Deprivation Tank (1994) :45 (USA)

Michael Richards (famous for his character Kramer on "Seinfeld") and Cindy Crawford visit the Pepsi research lab.
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Lee - Inhale (1993) - 0:30 (USA)

This guy suck in his stomach to fit into his jeans. Well, his stomach and his canary.
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Lee - The Date / Silhouette (1993) - 0:30 (USA)

Fallon McElligott and Lee tells the story of a woman struggling to get into her jeans for date night.

Pepsi - Cindy Crawford / Gotta have it / Backlot (1992) :30 (USA)

While touring a Hollywood backlot, two elderly women caught a glimpse of Cindy Crawford.

Boddingtons - Facial cream - (1992) 0:40 (UK)

​The cream of Manchester strikes again.
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Rubber Cement - Nuns and statue - (1992) 0:90 (UK)

Dupont Corporation - "Jontue" parody (1991) :30 (USA)

Do certain women possess a beauty secret all their own?

Dupont Corporation - Walker (1991) :30 (USA)

In this advert, they showcase the exceptional durability and stain-resistance of the DuPont Stainmaster Xtra Life carpet, even in high-traffic areas a
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Nothing Sucks Like an Electrolux - billboard UK 1991

DATE - Fruit stand, Paris (1990) :60 (Sweden)

Once again, our three lovely ladies are turning heads in Paris. Every man they pass notices their scent and has to look.

DATE - Citroën accident, Paris / Krocken (1990) :60 (Sweden)

Three ladies conquer Paris.

Olvi - positive - (1990) 0:45 (Finland)

Everything is crooked until he has a drink.. and then it gets crooked in another way. Don't you just love the nod to the Levi's ad?

Volkswagen - Squeak - (1990) 0:90 (UK)

A man tries to solve the issue with his squeaky car.
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Maxell tapes - Into the Valley - (1990) :30 (UK)

See also The Israelites - the old Bob Dylan dropping card trick - except hearing the lyrics wrong.

Pepsi - Michael J Fox at the Opera (1990) :60 (USA)

Michael J Fox is in desperate need of a drink, while at the opera with his date.

Nurofen - Muskox - (1989) 0:30 (Sweden)

Up in Northern Sweden we have these bizarre creatures, who have really strange mating rituals.

Carling Black Label - bouncing bombs - (1989) 0:60 (UK)

I bet he drinks Carling Black Label.

Hamlet - Photobooth (1988) :60 (UK)

A man tries to get his picture taken in the photobooth, but mistimes the flash every time, ruining every shot.

Pepsi - Matriarch / The choice of a new generation (1988) :60 (USA)

Director Joe Pytka puts a new twist the aging tagline "the choice of a new generation" in this advert.

Walkers Poppadums - Rocking Sikh - (1988) :30 (UK)

All shook up is all different when it's this Elvis Presley impersonator singing “Keep your gums off my Poppadums” !

Bartles & Jaymes - New York City "Donuts" / Bagel (1986) :30 (USA)

Frank Bartles & Ed Jaymes visit New York City.

Pepsi-Cola - Wilbur II (1985) :30 (USA)

"You see the old Coke is the old Coke before it became the New Coke, and the new Coke is the one that used to be your old coke, then came the new

Heineken -Majorca - (1985) :30 (UK)

A sloan ranger is taught proper cockney. Pygmalion refreshes the parts, she sounds just like Eliza Doolittle before Higgins transformed her!
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Miller Lite - Yakov Smirnoff / in Soviet Russia party find you (1985) :30 (USA)

Cold war comedian is here to drop some knowledge about the things he has discovered in America. Miller Light, is one of those things.

Jacob's Cream Crackers - Noddle Grungers - (1984) 0:40 (UK)

Now Jacob's are a legend in their own lifetime.

Bic Ball Point Pen - Bic knows pens (1980) :30 (USA)

"Does Bic know pens? Do Doctors play golf on Wednesday?"

Budweiser - Tastebuds Running - (1979) :30 (USA)

Joggers quell their thirst with.. beer!?

Cinzano - "Airliner" - (1979) :30 (UK)

Joan Collins & Leonard Rossiter are on a flight, and order Cinzano, naturally. 

Lipton Filterte - Breakfast / ”Gott, jättegott!” Lill & Brasse (1978) (Sweden)

As much as he tries, he's not able to cut her off and get a word in sideways.

Black and White Scotch Whisky - Saint Bernard - print, 1974 (USA)

"Another black and white bartender, I have a heavy date tonight."

Can you spot the Camel Filters smoker? print, 1974

Almost everyone at the beach today has a gimmick. Find the one who doesn't. 
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AMC Rebel - Driving Instructor - (1970) 0:30 (USA)

Here's a classic ad that would never fly today, the poor driving instructor is teaching every stereotype in the world how to drive.

VW Volkswagen - Karmann Ghia paper race - (1963) :30 (USA)

This classic advert never fails to make me laugh.

Guinness - Tango Time - Ostrich (1957) :30 (UK)

The Ostrich first appeared on a Guinness poster in 1936 - "My goodness! My Guinness!"

Guinness - My goodness! My Guinness! Sealion (1955) :30 (UK)

This is the first Guinness commercial, and it was based on Gilroy's 1935 "Sealion" poster.

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