+Sean Dali me and my mate Ryan king used this advert as our manifesto and did everything we could to be the tree, we were born in 1985 so we can't have been older than 5 or 6 yet we stuck to our decision and I am now, officially a tree.
😂 I want to be a tree. That line popped into my head now from a long time ago , didn’t think I would find it so quickly but thanks to you I did. I always remember the “I want to be a tree” as the last line but that’s probably because that’s the only line I remembered
CONGLOMERATES! I remember this advert as a kid and could never understand what she was saying, the best I could make out was "I want to be King Loberts". So that's that 30 year personal mystery solved.
Same here, me and my best mate could never understand what she was saying. We were also curious about the woman who wanted to be a mermaid until they re-dubbed it.
it wasnt some wierd dream, i want to be a tree, was a bloody commercial lol. it was stuck in my head for so many years and i was not sure where ti came from.
They kid with the plaster cast on his leg was my best friend at school. We had an argument before he did the shoot and wrote "brookman is a bozo" on the plaster!
No WAAAAYYYY!!! Even after all these years, tonight a relative said "I want to be a tree". Lo and behold, here it is. And CZcams even predicted my search terms after "Prudential I w....". Internet, you amaze me again. #Happytimes
I'm only here for the "I want to be a tree" quote to add to someone's post about a company that will bury you with a tree growing out the top of your dirt clump.
Hello haribokey, It's just amazing that this ad is available on CZcams. I just typed in "ad i want to be a tree" and there it was. Amazing. Many thanks for uploading this. Where did you get it from? Peter. Dublin.
candice h Hello candice h, Amazing! :) The ad dates back to 1989 I think. I'm sure trees have spirits and the Native Americans felt that even the mountains made from rock have spirits too. I am almost 63. I wonder if you meditate say. I am unable to meditate even though I have tried to do so many times. That's because I do not have an advanced soul. I know a man who does, though, and if you want to learn more about this saint this man who I believe is a seventh level soul just type in "transpersonal counselling" into google. His name is Thomas Jordan. I have spent time in his company back in 1994 and it was really something awesome to experience what I experienced when I was sitting there in group of about twenty others while he was mediating or transmuting as he called it because he was having such a profound effect on everybody else in the room. It was just incredible. I would just love to be able to meditate to be one with God but I will have to wait to live future lives on earth before I will earn my stripes if you know what I mean. Take care and it was wonderful to hear from you. Peter. Dublin. Ireland.
I thought i remembered it well but weren't there a couple at the end that said "we want to be together " and the women just has this hilarious look of oh god!! 🤣🤣
2023 The unemployed children of the upperclasses now identifying as trees. This is what happens when you tuck your children away in some boarding school and only speak to them at Christmas.
OK, that's gonna be my outfit for the Rewind festival ; raw grass skirt, no top + "I Want To Be A Tree" written on my chest ! ! I already have the long brown hair !
The “I WANT TO BE A TREE” line, will live in infamy. I have remembered that line from the age of 5 and I will remember it until the day I die :)
Infamy 🤣
Me too ooo!!
Whoever thought it would become a law 😂😂😂
Same
Try 12 and everyone at school keep saying it. 😂😂
"I want to be, a tree"
^
Everyone in school.
Everyone.
+Sean Dali me and my mate Ryan king used this advert as our manifesto and did everything we could to be the tree, we were born in 1985 so we can't have been older than 5 or 6 yet we stuck to our decision and I am now, officially a tree.
***** FUCKING PURPLE AKI!!! Leaf it alone
Yep, Everyone! Born in 1980 n this was a definite thing haha
Yep, your school, my school, everyone's fucking school.
Yep. I loved the music in these ads. I remember there was another version that had, “I want to be first… I want to be last”
I was looking for it for years! I found it and put it up here immediately!
😂 I want to be a tree. That line popped into my head now from a long time ago , didn’t think I would find it so quickly but thanks to you I did. I always remember the “I want to be a tree” as the last line but that’s probably because that’s the only line I remembered
5 years ago I went to the 80s Rewing festival in Henley + dressed up as the 'I Want To Be A Tree' man; only a handful of people got the joke !
My god I feel old!! I used to copy the "I want to be a tree" expression ad nauseum as a child!!!!!!
+brandybuck1984 do you still want to be a tree?
I still remember this!
CONGLOMERATES! I remember this advert as a kid and could never understand what she was saying, the best I could make out was "I want to be King Loberts". So that's that 30 year personal mystery solved.
Same here, me and my best mate could never understand what she was saying. We were also curious about the woman who wanted to be a mermaid until they re-dubbed it.
Yep, me too. Took me years before I figured out what she was actually saying.
I heard it correctly but thought at the time that Conglomerates was a place that was famous for its scones.
🤣🤣🤣
Inklant Roberts to my and my brother.
I always say I wanna be a tomato when I dont get I was expecting coz of this ad. Good to see the Tree guy is here at last!!!
it wasnt some wierd dream, i want to be a tree, was a bloody commercial lol.
it was stuck in my head for so many years and i was not sure where ti came from.
haha every kid at the time remembers this
This advert is possibly the beginning of you can be anything you want movement, male, female, human puppy, tree...
They kid with the plaster cast on his leg was my best friend at school. We had an argument before he did the shoot and wrote "brookman is a bozo" on the plaster!
had he actually broken his leg ?
Don’t believe you!
Awww, you remembered. I'm touched.
i was looking for it obviously over a year ago and couldn't find it. i looked again, and i thank you! :)
I want to be a tomato - have loved this for over 30 years 😁
my uncle frank is the guy who wants to be a tree lol
rufus rozelaar tell him he's awesome :D
he is and he knows it too :-)
He made loads of kids smile.
+rufus rozelaar is he still a tree?
did he ever become a tree though lol
The 'I want to be in conglomerates' was to my 11 year old years 'I want to be Inklant Roberts'. I asked my dad who he was and he wet himself laughing.
wow. this literally brings back memories.
My brother was a bit of a hippie and we always used to taunt him by saying: "I used to be a tree".
I love the "I want to be a tree". I love trees. I'm a self confessed tree hugger! 😁
I bet that hippy is wishing he'd understood compound interest now instead of hugging trees.
Plot twist. It was actually a tree impersonating a human.
LOL... great plot twist!
No WAAAAYYYY!!! Even after all these years, tonight a relative said "I want to be a tree". Lo and behold, here it is. And CZcams even predicted my search terms after "Prudential I w....". Internet, you amaze me again. #Happytimes
ALL THE FEELS... 1989 though - that makes me feel utterly ANCIENT.
Guy sitting in traffic says "I want to be an individual" ... still looking for that one.
That advert is on here, type Prudential advert 1993 in search and you'll find it
The little girl who wanted to be expelled later appeared in Grange Hill
I want to be,RICK HARRISON! AND THIS IS MY PAWN SHOP!
I WANT TO BE A TREEEE
Well now you can! bigthink.com/design-for-good/this-awesome-urn-will-turn-you-into-a-tree-after-you-die
And then there was the Shloer advert of the kid dressed as a tomato saying he wants to be a Shloer. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm only here for the "I want to be a tree" quote to add to someone's post about a company that will bury you with a tree growing out the top of your dirt clump.
Hello haribokey, It's just amazing that this ad is available on CZcams. I just typed in "ad i want to be a tree" and there it was. Amazing. Many thanks for uploading this. Where did you get it from? Peter. Dublin.
candice h Hello candice h, Amazing! :) The ad dates back to 1989 I think. I'm sure trees have spirits and the Native Americans felt that even the mountains made from rock have spirits too. I am almost 63. I wonder if you meditate say. I am unable to meditate even though I have tried to do so many times. That's because I do not have an advanced soul. I know a man who does, though, and if you want to learn more about this saint this man who I believe is a seventh level soul just type in "transpersonal counselling" into google. His name is Thomas Jordan. I have spent time in his company back in 1994 and it was really something awesome to experience what I experienced when I was sitting there in group of about twenty others while he was mediating or transmuting as he called it because he was having such a profound effect on everybody else in the room. It was just incredible. I would just love to be able to meditate to be one with God but I will have to wait to live future lives on earth before I will earn my stripes if you know what I mean. Take care and it was wonderful to hear from you. Peter. Dublin. Ireland.
0:29. Best part 😂😂
Predictive programming and we didn't even know it!
I thought i remembered it well but weren't there a couple at the end that said "we want to be together " and the women just has this hilarious look of oh god!! 🤣🤣
That was a later version of the “I want to be” adverts, sometime in the 90’s.
czcams.com/video/V9DIDMeOJlY/video.html
What does the old lady say at the end? Could never work it out years ago, still can't now.
Why is the woman at 0' 32" apparently fitting a fire extinguisher halfway up the living room wall?
😂
I want to be a tree!
Wjat does the lady swimming underwater say ? ....anyone ?
@bedfordcrusader -- She's saying "I want to be a mermaid!"
Is the boy with the cast on his leg Matt Bellamy?
Holy shit 1989?
to this day i still can’t understand what the old lady is saying . as i kid i thought she was saying i want to be with McRoberts
'Conglomerates'. It's a finance thing.
She said "I want to be in conglomerates" :)
I couldn't tell because of the biscuits she was stuffing her face with.
I came here because I want to be Colonel Mustard. I'm disappointed...😂
The Dolly Parton one?
Wow did that tree just talk
How many still want to be a tree?
When this ad came out I never knew that one day I would plant a wood.
No way was this 1989 😮😮😮
What does the little girl say at the beginning? It's driving me mad. Is it "I want to be a tortoise"?
I want to be a tomato
How long this this advert run because I can't believe I could remember it from being a 4 year old
It was around for a few years.
The series ran until around 1994
At 0:46, is it a traffic warden or a homeless person?
A homeless traffic warden 😁 It's a traffic warden I believe
0:28
0:16 Sarah Solemani?
I want to be a slug
I wanna be a slug
is that Sycamore Gap 🫠🌳
congroberance? anyone ?
Serene Chaos UK always thought it was conglomerates. Don’t know how you’d be ‘in’ conglomerates though!
Serene Chaos UK - I always assumed it was “in” conglomerates as in to be invested in them.
Prudential I want to be expelled
2023
The unemployed children of the upperclasses now identifying as trees.
This is what happens when you tuck your children away in some boarding school and only speak to them at Christmas.
1989!?! WTF!
+Chris Boggett 17 years kater and I'm still not a tree :(
You mean 27.
wow, I remember thinking 17 years!?!how can it be THAT long?... back in feb....fml
The guy who wanted to be a tree, can be now with the trans lunacy we’re seeing
What a pointless comment
"Art of Social" I hope this is some ironic joke.
i think this ad gave birth to a whole generation of kids who dared to flick their rubber at their teacher with their ruler !
THE BEST EEEVVVEEERRR TV AD ! !
OK, that's gonna be my outfit for the Rewind festival ; raw grass skirt, no top + "I Want To Be A Tree" written on my chest ! ! I already have the long brown hair !
@Brettcoopclips
OH CLASSIC ! I WANT TO BE A TREE ! Mate, whoever came up with that would be institutionalized nowadays !
what does the old lady want to be ??
I know i never got that one either.
She wants to be "in conglomerates".