PG Tips UK Commercial (c.1971)
Monday, January 23rd, 2012 at
11:28 am
Commercial of PG Tips in Britain during 1971 starring chimpanzees. Title:Mr. Shifter Haha, the funniest ad when it comes to monkey business.
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I find this funny because the year is stated as 1971, yet the Dad chimpanzee looks like he’s dressed like Alex from A Clockwork Orange which was about that time. Does anyone else think this?
@leonaofficial perhaps they never had EQUITY cards
Chimpanzees smile when their scared or intimdated like at 0.25, their probably doing it in this video because the owner is behind the camera. People misconceive it as them being happy its not, probably why these adverts got banned.
Best advert ever, I remember it so well. My Dad owned a removal firm and we used to call him Mr Shifter after this advert.
@ELGROOVER the best ad ever to be shown on tv.Why don’t pg remaster them all???
@Scullnblades LOL…….Bollox. LOL
“Coo-eeey mister shifterr like refreshment?” hahaha Irene Handl what a legend!
which is better tetley or PG tips?
Animal rights, cruelty, electric prods. Load of bollocks. They did a documentary on the adverts not long back, and the entire crew had to work around the chimps’ “demands”. The dad refused to play the fake piano because it didn’t make noise so they had to buy him a real one.
If they ever bring these character back they’d better not replace them with CGI chimps or there’ll be hell to pay.
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I boycotted PG Tips for over 20 years because of these ads. I’m glad to say that since they stopped this distasteful anthropomorphism I have relented and a box of their teabags stands in my kitchen. Such a pity because their tea is rather good. I expect they treated the chimps well but I plain disliked the ad. I also boycott any product whose ad. includes messy eating or slurping, because I don’t wish to encourage them.
She calls him Mr Shitter @ 0:10
@MuseOfTheWest nothing distasteful at all about chips portraying humanlike activities .the adverts were highly amusing. surly you are aware that chimps in the wild show human traits like using a stick like a tool to poke things for 1 and their facial expressions.. i dont believe that they were treated bad or forcefully in the making of this if they were then i certainly would object to the ads
I’ve quoted the last two lines of this ad’ to my sons for over 30 years, wait ’til they see this! The PG Tips ad’s were some of the funniest and memorable of those times, thanks for sharing. And before anyone gets all pc and uppity, yes it was animal exploitation, but it was long before we realised how unsavoury it was, and no worse than the Chimps tea party on Zoo Time every Friday. They were treated well as they were in the public eye, but I’m pleased they don’t use chimps like this any more.
i cant believe carl pilkington actually thought those monkeys were real removal men lol
@MuseOfTheWest Do you eat meat?
@colmalbar Oh yes for sure I eat meat and always have. Not chimpanzee meat, though, because they are too close to us genetically and that would be too much like cannibalism. I just find this kind of ad. annoying. I’m not alone because animal acts in circuses are disappearing fast. I object on grounds of taste rather than animal rights. I objected even more to the slurping than the chimps and boycotted Quorn for years purely on slurping grounds.
Stephen Fry’s Planet Word brought me here
@OKwoteva1 they weren’t hurt or injured like animals are in slaughterhouses and circuses. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with ads like this – we need more of them. Screw political correctness!
@MuseOfTheWest jesus christ what a pussy and a faggot you are. lol
I’d buy anything a chimp in a hat advertises.
cooeeee Mister Shifter.
@MuseOfTheWest Your tv must be off all the time then with all the provocative traits now days