What worries me is that I have a clearer, better recollection of many of the adverts that I saw during the 80’s than I do the programmes I watched.
There’s an element of the repeated nature of the adverts there, but it’s also due to the skill that good adverts are put together with to make them memorable.
I can still remember the phone number for Coldseal Windows from a radio advert about 30 years ago! “Coldseal Windows are the best, Double 2, Double 1 Double 5!!” - I struggle to remember what I ate for lunch yesterday…
I can (and occasionally do) sing the full* 30 second jingle for a sewing machine brand which was advertised on TV in the 70s and 80s. It was just burned into my brain at a particular age (I guess when the sewing machine market warranted significant TV advertising budgets, and I was watching a lot of TV). I’ve never purchased a sewing machine, but if I ever decide to do so… I’ll feel pretty much obligated to include them in my considerations :).
(*) Almost. There’s two words I could never make out, so I have to mumble that bit.
Found the ad I particularly remember! https://www.101soundboards.com/sounds/115115-three-pigs-coldseal-windows-commercial-song
“We are captivated by your jellyfish body language”
(Quinns Quest: Play to Find Out: S5E1 :-))
“I’m trying to learn to play that song behind my head. I can’t even play it in front of my face.”
“…the Fray Bentos pie enigma…”
I didn’t know Dan Brown had a new book out.
[loud ‘thunk’ noise]
Gus: ‘Was that a spaniel?’
[considering pause]
Interlocutor: ‘I think it was a heavy-duty hedgehog, actually.’
“If they didn’t want to be vassals, they should have asked us to leave before the fighting started.”
“…stands out like a vibrator in a religious supply store…”
Ah, I miss my VIBRATOR
I should possibly clarify that this was a supervillain I made for Golden Heroes. He didn’t get out much and was unaware of any other connotations of the word.
No, no you shouldn’t.
My head canon is better. 
Perhaps the phonetics will be helpful here
vaɪ-breɪ-tɔː
‘So you can imagine that went down faster than a rat sandwich. [loooong silence] I think I was thinking of drainpipes but going the other way. I‘m such a dickhead sometimes.’
The faster you eat it, the less you have to taste it?
That would work, but in this instance she was expressing approval of the thing that went down faster than a rat butty.
This was said at Furnace RPG con on Saturday, but I’m only just back from there…
“I don’t want to use the handgun! I want to punch the fish!”
Talk about setting a low bar.