Inessential shit from the backwaters of years old TV that you somehow still remember

[beanheadmcginty]

Panama. Size 7.

[Gulftastic]

Panama. Size 7.

I'll see your 'Panama, size 7' and raise you an 'R186 Signal Box'.

[pigamus]

What goes up
Must come down
Super Fresco makes it easy
It's by Graham & Brown

[Gulftastic]

Everything today is thoroughly modern
Bird Eye Oven Crispy is
Cod in batter in the oven you pop
Traditional-delitional
Goodbye, old frying pan
I'm changing and how
Cos here's that birds eye cod and
Thoroughly modern batter now....

[Bently Sheds]

"Don Amott - the king of caravans!
The price is right and the choice is yours!"

[kalowski]

Fads, Fads,
The paint and paper people,
Fads, Fads,
F-A-D-S
Fads!

[Phil_A]

BULL BOYS SHOES IS WHAT YOU NEED
GET THE POWER
ON YOUR FEET

With Bull Boys Shoes you get a free pair of shinpaaaads
"SIGNED BY ME, ALAN HANSEN"

BULL BOYS SHOES IS WHAT YOU NEED
GET THE POWER
ON YOUR FEET

[petril]

DIXONS... DICK DICK DIXONS

[Gulftastic]

'You could have Bryan Robson, kicking in your desk,
You could have Daley Thompson, putting on your running vest..'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9C-YjJtxaY

Hen-Ree C raps.

[olliebean]

Watch out, watch out, there's a Humphrey about.

[Norton Canes]

A stocking... shocking!

[jobotic]

You make a tree, a frog
A mushroom, a log.
A fierce alligator
A volcano crater
A wide, wide mouth

You make it with Play-doh




Oh I didn't know that Rumbelows could better any deal on the spot
Oh no, I had not rumbled it



Breaststroke, backstroke
Butterfly and crawl
Doggie paddle, bellyflop
You can do them all
LEARN TO SWIM

[touchingcloth]

BULL BOYS SHOES IS WHAT YOU NEED
GET THE POWER
ON YOUR FEET

With Bull Boys Shoes you get a free pair of shinpaaaads
"SIGNED BY ME, ALAN HANSEN"

BULL BOYS SHOES IS WHAT YOU NEED
GET THE POWER
ON YOUR FEET

When I read your first paragraph, my brain automatically filled in the second before reading it, but verbatim to what you wrote. Amazing that I can remember that shite after, what, twenty five years?

[Drop Dead Fred]

A white, mk2 Vauxhall Cavalier being crushed with a body in the boot in an episode of Taggart. My mate's mum had exactly the same make and model and colour of car at the time.

[Cold Meat Platter]

Glen's,
Hutchinson,
Robertson's
and Stepek.

[Satchmo Distel]

Saturday Live, December 1988, just after Roy Orbison died, a singer (I did not recognize him) is making a draw, points to the bowl and says "Are these the ashes?" Sarah Greene admonishes him, "That's sick!"

[imitationleather]

When I read your first paragraph, my brain automatically filled in the second before reading it, but verbatim to what you wrote. Amazing that I can remember that shite after, what, twenty five years?

How strange, I only remember the Gareth Southgate version of the advert. If I recall correctly, it was just after Euro '96 when Gareth was at his penalty-missing and Pizza Hut-adverting peak.

[Phil_A]

How strange, I only remember the Gareth Southgate version of the advert. If I recall correctly, it was just after Euro '96 when Gareth was at his penalty-missing and Pizza Hut-adverting peak.

Ha, yes! The ruthless Bull Boys marketing team dropped Southgate like a hot spud following Euro 96 and Hansen was roped in instead. Originally the promotional gift was a Southgate-signed football (printed obviously, they didn't make him sign every one), I remember seeing a basket full of them in the shoe shop the summer of that year.

[touchingcloth]

I don't remember that other version at all! Alan Hansen and the shin pads are burned into my brain, though. I'm not a football fan now and never have been, but I remember the general playground mood being that Alan Hansen shinpads were decidedly uncool - have I remembered correctly?

There's a pair of Euro size 27s going on eBay at the moment - £37 plus £11 postage if anyone needs a fix.

[Norton Canes]

David Platt's Tic Tac ad. Still hasn't turned up on YouTube.

[DrGreggles]

"CHIPSTEAKS"

[Space ghost]

After ninety minutes of sheer hull John Barnes wants to sell you new isotonic Lucozade spart from an oddly colour filtered changing room.

[jamiefairlie]

Glen's,
Hutchinson,
Robertson's
and Stepek.

Well that narrows you down to a very specific locale and time range 😃

[petril]

After ninety minutes of sheer hull John Barnes wants to sell you new isotonic Lucozade spart from an oddly colour filtered changing room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVyFSA1DCTg

note the way he throws it up for a right-footed volley then he's suddenly whipping it into the bin with his left

[Norton Canes]

It's good but it's not David Platt's Tic Tac ad.

[Drop Dead Fred]

Blockaboots
Blockaboots.
Block
Block
Blockaboots.
They're in fashion today!

[An Actual Propeller]

An advert for Lightwater Valley that I can't find on YouTube that rips off Sabrina Johnston's 'Peace (In The Valley)' with lyrics that went:

Peace in the valley
Thrills in the valley
Lightwater Valley
Yeah Eah Eah Eah.

[paruses]

"Don Amott - the king of caravans!
The price is right and the choice is yours!"

For a long time I thought they were in one place: Darley Dale, in Measham.

What a fool I was.

[petril]

The off-brand Star Wars world of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. That slightly-too-long pause on a black screen leading in was always a bit eerie to me

[Gulftastic]

'Carcroft, Brigg, Thorp Arch near Wetherby..'