TV commercials for pubs? We don't have any of those. Nearest we had to that was when two pub regulars featured in a hilarious documentary about cowboy builders.

"Cowboy builders" may mean something different in America.Here is means they charge the earth and haven't a clue what they are doing, and can't be traced when it all comes to pieces. A bit offensive to cowboys I suppose. (When the poor old Duke of Edinburgh tried a variation on the expression, and said that a bit of electrical wiring "looked as if it had been put in by Indians", he caught hell.)

Anyway, the next night after it was broadcast someone brought in a video-recording of the pair doing some terrible workmanship, putting up a vastly overpriced garden fence, without realising they were being filmed. The whole pub fell about laughing all evening, and they haven't been seen in the pub since. Which is a pity, since one of them is a hell of a good singer.