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On the UK's Channel 4 (http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/greatest_ads/)
and through the Sunday Times newspaper (http://www.sunday-times.co.uk)
10,000 people were surveyed on what they thought was the best television
advertisement of all the last century. The Lego advertisement of 1980 was
number 74. A Tommy Cooper impersonator voiced this ad which showed a Lego
mouse being eaten by a Lego cat being eaten by Lego dog - in the end they
all ended up inside a Lego kipper going via an
anti-submarine-eating-fish-ballistic missile launcher. Natural progression
of course. Naturally it ended with Tommy Cooper's catchphrase 'Just like
that'.
Nicholas Allan
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| (...) I saw that too. It was great to see it again after all those years. I think that it may be the last ad I saw for LEGO on TV... perhaps I should watch more kid's TV! It was was interesting to see that it was presented as a building toy, whereas (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| I taped this in case anyone missed it. Ill bring to the TV fest! Regards, Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: Nicholas Allan <nick@clunyterr.u-net.com> To: <lugnet.general@lugnet.com>; <lugnet.loc.uk@lugnet.com> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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