adverts

[geordie49]

can anyone remember an advert with the words 'chop chop work work busy busy bang bang' in it.

[Hippy]

"Chop chop busy busy work work bang bang" accompanied some pictures of a colony of penguins waddling around on the ice, all millng around as if they were engaged in ernest tasks. The advert suggested that if only we used the so-and-so product then all that stress, suggested by the penguins, would subside. I can't remember the product, but from the penguins, maybe it was a certain chocolate bar.

[kags]

I've got a feeling it was for Cadburys Hot Chocolate or something similar - didn't the song slow down then speed up again after a refreshing cup of hot choc??

[Quizmonster]

Click http://www.shazzie.com/raw/journal/2000/june.shtml and scroll about 3/4 of the way down the page to the paragraph that opens: "I decided to work..." There you will find some confirmation of the Penguin chocolate-biscuit connection, as suggested by Hippy. (I'm not guaranteeing the authority of the website, you understand...but it looks helpful.)

[Icemachine]

This was most definitely British Telecom, around 1986. Yeah, there were penguins everywhere - stock footage of the things milling around (well, it may have been sped) and a voiceover extolling the virtues of something horribly expensive and pointless. Definitely BT...no doubt.