"over The Moon, Jim, Over The Moon"

[SurreyGuy]

A group of us at work have got a "thing" where, in response to being asked, "How are you?", we jokingly answer with, "Over the moon, Jim, over the moon".

This has got us thinking about where that phrase came from. A couple of us are convinced that we'd heard it on a TV advert, which was a football-themed spoof interview in which one of the characters is a reporter (probably modelled on John Motson) who wears a sheepskin coat.

Can anyway put us out of our misery and tell us the details of where we "heard it first", please?

[Old_Geezer]

I'd suspect the spoof would've been based on real football related interviews where the interviewed wasn't as sick as a parrot.

[Macs66gv]

Definitely an ad - was a young lad with a super slippy panel sewn into his jeans to assist with his record breaking descent of a chute in a kids playpark. He was indeed being interviewed by another kid dressed up as Motty. Can’t remember what the ad was for though