@MsH

Over here in the UK, we've got way too many good ones to choose from to pick one as a favourite.

Not just single ads either, but whole advertising campaigns. They usually follow the same theme.

I'll go over a few of them now.

"I bet he drinks Carling Black Label."

This one went on for years. All kinds of things, from king arthur's return of excalibur to the lady (or in this case, ladies of the lake, synchronised swimmers no less)... to the dam busters, with the german soldier catching the bouncing bombs...

There was one advert that spanned almost the whole commercial break, four adverts in one. It started with an old west bar, a man sitting at it when a bunch of vigilanties catch him, he runs, they lassoo him and he drags them through the desert. One being dragged says "I bet he drinks carling black label."

Cut to a couple of housewives in a supermarket.

"Don't use that one Deirdre! Use this!" As the man drags the cowboys through the supermarket causing mayhem.

Cut to a man in a white dinner jacket throwing a rose off a bridge as romantic music begins to play. Song titles scroll across the bottom as the voice over starts plugging an album of love songs.

The man dragging the cowboys appears and the scrolly text changes, ending with I bet he drinks carling black label.

Then back to the desert. Back to him dragging those cowboys. Finally he slips the ropes and runs into another bar, grins at the camera.

And that was just one of them.

Heineken went on years before those started with some boody good ones too. Only heineken can do zis, because it refreshes ze parts other beers cannot reach.

One of the stand out ones there, probably the most famous was the reverse pygmalian (or my fair lady if you like) with a posh woman in an elecution class trying to talk common.

"The water, in mayorka, doesn't taste quite house it should?"

"No! The wa'er in maJorka don't taste like wot it oughta!"

"Mayorka?"

"MAJORKA!"

Hands her a Heineken. "Get you larfing gear around thar!"

She takes a sip. Turns instantly common as muck.

Hamlet was "Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet." Even stole from other commercials. One advert for toilet roll had labrador puppies getting tangled in andrex toilet roll and unravelling it all around the house, for example. "Soft, strong and very, very long."

The hamlet version? A man in an outhouse. A hand reaches down just as a puppy runs out taking the last of the toilet paper with it. A strike of a match, the puff of smoke and that air on a g string music plays. The theme tune for hamlet.

Search youtube for them. Most of them are on there and they all sound better than the ones so far described from America.

i can never understand this advertisement

its about two bees, two ladybirds, and flora

yes, flora margarine, and these pretty

lady bird and bees, mix all the ingredients

in the small container and they mix it well

so to the point that they nastily giggle

i mean, whats so funny in making a

tub full of margarine, and yes, oh yes,

flora margarine is always so tasty

but alas, poor people cannot ever

afford this flora nonense and i myself

buy the cheapest of margarine, that is

country soft, which is better because

it has absolutley no chelestrol in it

and much more tastier and like a country

spread, so much so like its name, country soft

and the advertisement ends, so much like

an old couple, which reminds me like my

future mother-in-law and father-in-law

both of their hearts beating as they eat

the soft bread spread with the flora margarine

and i’m like so jealous, they could be eating

cowdung for all its worth, and when the

two ladybirds and bees giggle as the old couple

is eating their flora spread and bun and alas

now you all know what i think when i look at

this flora margarine advertisement, is how

happy my mother-in-law looks on tv

as she boasts that she is eating better than me!