Lego - Anti-Kipper Ballistic Missile

Classic Ads From Simpler Times

Join us this week as we travel back to the beginning of time, when classic sitcoms began to climb out of the primordial ooze of the British TV industry. A time when Terry and June was considered edgy and the country was so bereft of talent that the same person could play an animated rodent secret agent in one series and Rodney’s big brother in another.

Yes, welcome to 1981, where this week you get to listen to Tones and me argue about who the target audience is for a 45 second TV ad (with no people in it) for Lego, before I give Tones some bad news about Tommy Cooper and his little face goes all crumply and he has a scoring tantrum.

A cheeky listen will also allow you to decide whether I’m wrong about the working classes not being allowed to play with Yummy Mummy favourite toy Lego, because they have no imagination (because why would you buy Lego when you have a telly, duh?).

As an aside, Tony’s kids think that Lego should be used as an anti-terrorist device and strewn around sensitive Ministry of Defence sites like the place where they keep Margaret Thatcher’s talking-brain-in-a-jar so that Jacob Rees-Mogg can nip round once a week and spank one out while she reads the Wealth of Nations to him. Adam Smith has a lot to answer for. So does a five day lockdown.

Annnnnnnyway, have a squiz at the ad on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/OXpsuCX46yA and see what state-of-the art stop motion looked like in 1981.

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