Television... so fresh, and chocolatey too!

May 16, 2005 5:08 PM

My girlfriend is obsessed with the Cillit Bang advertisement remix. Back in the 80's (or early 90's), there was a similar "remix" video of 50's black and white advertisements set to a beat-box soundtrack, with "lyrics" consisting of samples the sales pitches of those ads. Can anyone ID this?

The main "chorus" went "Television! So bright... and chocolatey too!" with the words "television," "so bright," and "... and chocolatey too" taken from different ads. Or maybe it was "so fresh" instead of "so bright"... but you get the idea. IIRC, it was on one of the Dr. Demento countdowns in the late 80's.

posted by eschatfische to Media & Arts (3 answers total)

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posted by caddis at 12:36 PM on May 17, 2005

Shit... I think I know what you mean. Heard it on Peel years ago. Might have been Art of Noise?
posted by blag at 3:04 PM on May 17, 2005

Though, thinking about it, more likely Coldcut.
posted by blag at 3:14 PM on May 18, 2005