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Late 1990s TV Advert Identification Puzzle

Started by CaledonianGonzo, July 28, 2021, 03:54:17 PM

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CaledonianGonzo

Howdy howdy howdy

I badly need to track down - and hopefully thereby escape - a persistent earworm that originates in a nineties UK tv advert.

It'd be from circa 1997 to 1999, and I think maybe something to do with insurance or car insurance.

There'd be 30 secs or whatever of generic advert footage, followed by the business details accompanied by a jaunty muted solo trumpet playing something that sounded right out of a seventies sitcom i.e. deliberately naff and cheesy music.

It was around for a while IIRC with whatever filmed footage concluding with the semi-ironic tune.

Not much to go on, but surely someone will know of what I speak.  There are only so many 1990s adverts I can sit through on YouTube.....

Blumf


CaledonianGonzo

Thanks. Direct Line was my first thought as well, but none of the ones I could find really fit the bill.

Not Colin's Sandwich either. 

More like cinema intermission / come and buy a choc ice music but on the brass rather than on an organ. I think.  Or maybe it was an organ.

My first thought would be something along the lines of "Spanish Flea", but I can't recall that ever being used on an ad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mML2fPec7xU

Psybro

It's not this but I'm chuffed at myself for finally tracking it down and confirming that the posh woman is not as similar to Theresa May as my memory told me:

https://youtu.be/43t0mycG-eI

mippy

Quote from: Psybro on July 28, 2021, 05:42:34 PM
It's not this but I'm chuffed at myself for finally tracking it down and confirming that the posh woman is not as similar to Theresa May as my memory told me:

https://youtu.be/43t0mycG-eI

"
Eleanor Hogan
5 years ago
I loved (an still do, even though I was too young to know what premiums were) this advert because of the lady's posh voice, sadly the lady in this would be dead now, luckly she died queitly in her sleep. R.I.P the lady on this, you were fantastic."

ProvanFan

Quote from: Psybro on July 28, 2021, 05:42:34 PM
It's not this but I'm chuffed at myself for finally tracking it down and confirming that the posh woman is not as similar to Theresa May as my memory told me:

https://youtu.be/43t0mycG-eI

Fuck yes

non capisco

Quote from: Psybro on July 28, 2021, 05:42:34 PM
It's not this but I'm chuffed at myself for finally tracking it down and confirming that the posh woman is not as similar to Theresa May as my memory told me:

https://youtu.be/43t0mycG-eI

They're both a ringer for Twiki out of Buck Rogers.

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Butchers Blind

Quote from: Psybro on July 28, 2021, 05:42:34 PM
It's not this but I'm chuffed at myself for finally tracking it down and confirming that the posh woman is not as similar to Theresa May as my memory told me:

https://youtu.be/43t0mycG-eI

The ginger guy's anger really comes through on that.

Psybro

I think the establishing shot of the posh couple inspired the Avengers hero shot.

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Quote from: Psybro on August 05, 2021, 12:57:04 PM
I think the establishing shot of the posh couple inspired the Avengers hero shot.

It reminds me of the end of every episode of Thundercats.