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  • "Cheeky Monkey" TV Advert (Late 1970s?)

    I am trying to remember an ITV advert from the late 1970s, I think, in which a family (Northern?) are gathered around the dinner table and the mother exclaims "Ooh, you cheeky monkey!" to her son (or one of her sons?). I think it was an advert for some kind of convenience food. Does anyone remember? I also seem to recall mimicking that line in around 1979 which is why I date it to the late seventies.

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    Re: "Cheeky Monkey" TV Advert (Late 1970s?)

    I am certain that the "cheeky monkey" phrase has been used in quite a few adverts over the years - I obviously would not remember the advert that you are referring to, but I am getting a de ja vu feel with regards to that being mentioned in adverts.
    I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
    There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
    I'm having so much fun
    My lucky number's one
    Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!

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      Re: "Cheeky Monkey" TV Advert (Late 1970s?)

      Originally posted by George 1978 View Post
      I am certain that the "cheeky monkey" phrase has been used in quite a few adverts over the years - I obviously would not remember the advert that you are referring to, but I am getting a de ja vu feel with regards to that being mentioned in adverts.
      Yes, I think the phrase been mentioned in more recent adverts. The one I'm thinking of was, I am pretty sure, to do with 'convenience' foods: possibly one of the Findus products that were always being advertised at that time.

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        Re: "Cheeky Monkey" TV Advert (Late 1970s?)

        Johnny vegas also used the phrase in the ad campaign for PG tips
        Ejector seat?...your jokin!

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          Re: "Cheeky Monkey" TV Advert (Late 1970s?)

          Yes, I remember that Tex. It was Johnny Vegas who stirred my earlier half-memory of the late 70s advert.

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            Re: "Cheeky Monkey" TV Advert (Late 1970s?)

            Was it a Birds Eye product? That advert for steak and kidney pies which featured Una Stubbs and Pinocchio in it perhaps?
            I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
            There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
            I'm having so much fun
            My lucky number's one
            Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh!

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              Re: "Cheeky Monkey" TV Advert (Late 1970s?)

              I think you’re right. It could well have been Birds Eye!

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                Re: "Cheeky Monkey" TV Advert (Late 1970s?)

                Originally posted by George 1978 View Post
                Was it a Birds Eye product? That advert for steak and kidney pies which featured Una Stubbs and Pinocchio in it perhaps?
                June Whitfield used to do the Birdseye ads didn’t she?

                I know cheeky monkey was also used in a PG Tips ad when they used real chimpanzees, but that was mid 80s.

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