Reaction To BANNED Australian Adverts
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Reaction To BANNED Australian Adverts | Australian Commercials React
This is my reaction to BANNED Australian Adverts | Australian Commercials React
In this video I react to Australian adverts that were banned from Australian television
#australia #television #reaction
Dick Smith was a very famous electronics retailer out here for decades and he went into food products after constant frustration of seeing Aussie brands being bought out by foreign companies. I think the food company is still around but the electronics company went into liquidation years ago now. Dick Smith was like if you bought Richard Branson on Wish.
Funny you should call him the Wish version of Branson because he made his name selling rebranded stuff he got from China 20 years before anyone else was doing it, a bit rich for him to jump on the anti-import bandwagon(& anti immigration too).
@@milksheihk didnt say anything about immigration. And yeah that was the basis of his food business.
@@NomadUniverse He has expressed anti-immigration sentiment before, maybe not directly in relation to promoting his businesses but it's there, especially in the policies of his attempt to launch his own political party(2015).
@@milksheihk Yes but had nothing to do with his food business as you implied. And I didnt say he was anti import either.
If you dont like the guy that's fine but dont start fights by bringing irrelevant points into conversations just because you see an opportunity to trash someone.
@@NomadUniverse I never said you said, but he said. His whole foods business was based on anti import rhetoric.
The KFC ad was banned because Americans view fried chicken as being closely associated with age-old racist stereotypes about black people in the once segregated south, even though this was only shown in Australia! Dick Smith is the founder of Dick Smith Electronics, Australian Geographic and Dick Smith Foods. He is an Australian entrepreneur, aviator and philanthropist. Smith founded Dick Smith Foods in 1999, a crusade against foreign ownership of Australian food producers, particularly Arnott's Biscuits, which in 1997 became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Campbell Soup Company. Dick Smith Foods only sold foods produced in Australia by Australian-owned companies and all profits went to charity.
They're all owned by Philip Morris. Big Tobacco.
You forgot to mention that he sold Dick Smiths Electronics to the foreign owned Radio Shack, so is obviously a hypocrite.
@@Bruski68. Kogan, an Australian company, purchased Dick Smith in 2016 as far as I know.
It's a pity that the food was a bit tasteless, the cordial was half strength to the competition for example. Good idea, but not the quality to sell.
yeah but like Ralphie May said, "of course african Americans loved fried chicken! Everone loves fried chicken.
So car advertising is super strict in Australia, basically you can't show speed, power, dangerous driving or any sort of Unsafe driving. Basicly too many people caught hooning, the government doesn't want to encourage it. If it wasn't in breach of ad standards, then someone probably complained about some other aspect of the ad.
They can't show it on ads, but it happens on our roads everyday
Also in the first part it eludes to ripping the cow in half
@@michaelconnaireoates5344
I think @kaiakoa was referring to the commercial with the yellow car hooning around a carpark building.
@@gangstertopo
And?
Just because there are idiots hooning around our neighbourhoods every day, doesn't mean that advertising companies should be glamourising such behaviour.
The "frogs" were cane toads, an invasive species all up and down the east coast of Australia. Although killing them is an Australian pass time I'm guess the combination of the gore and the anthopomorphisation of them was too much.
Rainy days and nights in Nth Queensland cane toad splat while driving is a sport 😊 terrible species
It was also kind of encouraging licking them, which is ridiculous but I can see the standards people not being keen on that messaging.
These are a very bad species of frog they have invaded quiet a bit of the east of OZZ killing all the small wild life as they are very poisonous there was so many on the roads at night in the morning you'd see hundreds of squashed ones they are a threat to our native flora and fauna
i still miss them with a cricket bat or golf club!
In oz we have a brand of matches called " redheads ". Smith brings out his own brand......" Dickheads "....hahaha...i love it.
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That Ford Ad just cracked me up! I do love the Bugga Ads.
I've never seen the Ford-Cane Toad ad, but I like it.
The look on your face when the toad got squashed by the car was priceless. I never saw that ad but I am guessing it was banned because there were a lot of people who had the same reaction as you did.
LOL my dad loved dick Smith's cheese singles in plastic wrap.. he couldn't find it one day and went to the cashier and asked "where do you keep your Dick Cheese"
I was horrified and told him you can't ask for that, so dad wouldn't move until I explained what dick cheese was, and then replied "well I've never had that problem"..
The check out chick was trying not to laugh so hard 🤣🤣🤣
Not banned in Australia....maybe in America ? 😅
Dick Smith foods were real and this ad from 20 years was fun.
As I said these ads weren't banned here.
Just because they did go to air for a short period, does not mean that they weren't soon pulled off air and banned from being shown ever again in Australia.
Why would any of these ads even be airing in the U.S, let alone be banned there? 😂
Apart from being Australia’s most famous entrepreneur and philanthropist, Dick Smith was also the first person the circumnavigate the world in a helicopter.
A “ Greenie “ with his “ Helicopter Fumes “ Poluting the Pristine Antartica 😅
He was & still is a xenophobic old fart.
A couple may have been banned. The others were just on limited rotation.
Kinda.
Some were banned. Others were just made to go to air at a later evening time slot.
The Suzuki ad was banned because the passenger was not wearing a seat belt . The car ads in Australia even when being ghost driven in the new Hilux ad has the Dad ghost belt up before driving off into the night on the property . We can't advertise alcohol or cigarettes and some ads are just borderline risque so they ban them .
Vegemite's history is one smattered with relentless custody battles and smoke screens, between the US and Australia. Proud to say that since 2017, Vegemite has been safely back at home in Aus, with ownership and branding by Bega.
Thank goodness for that. America has enough crap already. They don’t even eat it, if they do, they do it all wrong 🤦🏻♀️
Bega should buy back Arnotts biscuits
Speaking of banned, We’ve had ‘ Coon’ Cheese, ‘Chico’s’ lollies both renamed as its apparently ‘Racist’ oh and the Gollywog doll. Anyone else remember anything else? We are becoming like Americans ( Karen’s ) lol
And Golliwog biscuits
Before the word 'gay' was stolen, we must never forget Noddy in his red convertable, he was a little gay (happy) at times.
“Coon” is not racist in terms of cheese at least, because it was simply named after Edward Coon, though I’ve heard “coon” used too many times to count as a vitriolic derogatory insult for aboriginals especially through my younger years in the 1970s and 80s. The gollywog has had racist connotations for nearly 100 years. Nazi Germany banned it in the 1930s because it was considered unsuitable for nice white German kids. They’re just facts. Nobody has to like them.
@@donpearson735 I had a Noddy in his red car toothbrush holder back in the 60's.
Shit you knowing about Noddy makes you an old fart like me.
Early Notables of the Coon Clan/family (pre 1700)
Notable amongst the Clan at this time was Cuthbert Cunningham, 3rd Earl of Glencairn; William Cunningham, 4th Earl of Glencairn (c. 1490-1548), a Scottish nobleman; Alexander Cunningham, 5th Earl of Glencairn (died 1574), Scottish nobleman and Protestant reformer; William Cunningham, 6th Earl of Glencairn (ca. 1520-1578); James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn. Karft and the yanks are calling the clan RACIST, the name dates back to at least 1050 AD
It's the Coon Clan, Cunningham is part of the Clan.
The rugged west coast of Scotland and the desolate Hebrides islands are the ancestral home of the Coon family. Their name indicates that the original bearer lived at Cunningham in Ayrshire.
@MATV #MSTV
I *loved* the *BUGGER* ads, I thought they were around for ages, let alone banned.
I think the farmers were upset being used to look stupid in the bugger ads. That's the story I heard back in the 90s, but not sure if that was the case.
Dick Smith was a thing, he started as an electronics store like Tandy. Dick Smith Electronics entered voluntary administration in 2016 and ended up closing, the same happened to Dick Smith Foods in 2019. DSF was a push to buy Australian and keep the profits in Australia, I never really liked the products and I guess not many other people did either, preferring taste over patriotism.
The Ford ad was featuring Cane Toads that are a huge pest that kills the wild life. Back in the 80s in Queensland it wasn't uncommon to see cars swerve to hit them on the road. People played cane toad golf and baseball, they were just everywhere. They were introduced to counter the cane beetle that were destroying the cane sugar crops but they never really ate the beetles but killed everything else, they have now traveled to most parts of Australia and are probably one of the biggest threats to our ecosystem, so I can understand why these ads were shown, people wouldn't have been grossed out by this ad, it would have given them some satisfaction. A bit bloodthirsty, I know, but that's just how hated they are.
I've never seen the ad, but being Aussie I cheered when that bastard got squished!😂😂
The "bugger" ads were simply due to the use of the word bugger. Even copped the same complaints in NZ.
And they weren't banned entirely. Just had to change their rating from G to PG and shown in a later daily time slot.
Dick Smith electronics was bought by Woolworths decades before it went into administration and sale of the branding to Kogan. But Dick Smith was no stranger to controversy and innuendo, in the early days of his electronics business he had a store on the corner of a major road in Sydney which he had plastered with a giant sign that read “The Electronic Dick”. Council would get weekly complaints but there was nothing they could do. And then there was the epic April Fools prank about towing an iceberg into Sydney harbour to sell as “Dicksicles” 😂
If you think the Ford/Cane Toad ad was graphic you should see some of the TAC ads from the 90s.
And the world class Quit Smoking ads! So powerful.
Dick Smith was Australia's answer for a rich adventurer entrepreneur. Think Richard Branson, and Elon Musk. He once tried towing an iceberg from Antarctica to Sydney to solve the drought problem. It melted. They had to put it in a cup in the freezer on the ship.
The scuttlebutt about the Ads with "Bugger" were banned because some bloody snowflake considered cruelty to animals was being promoted. This particular one was that he didn't wait for the dog and the other one was when the dog (unrestrained in the back of the ute) went flying and landed in the thunder-box (out door toilet).
The Ford Ad Is one I have never seen it before. I remember the Dick Smith Ads being on TV as a Buy Australian to prevent reliance on other countries for common food staples. In a nut shell it started the Buy Australian/Aussie Made to keep profits in Australia.
Actually, I believe it was the use of the word "bugger" that offended some people.
Nothing at all to do with animals in the ads.
Even attracted criticism in NZ for the use of the word "bugger", when the same ads aired over there.
The ad was never actually entirely banned, though, either. Here or across the Tasman.
Just shown in a later time slot, so young children weren't able to see it (unless their feral parents let them stay up later than they should have been).
The animal abuse complaint referred to the decapitation of the cow stuck in the mud. The main complaint was dangerous driving depictions.
@@Foxtrot369
No according to Toyota.
And if anyone knows the exact reason why, they would.
In Aus there is a general rule in car advertising that you can't depict the vehicle being used illegally or unsafely on what would be perceived to be a public road.(this could by extension include car parks used by the public)
Dick Smith is a famous Aussie millionaire. He used to own an electronics chain. He has/had a range of Aussie-owned range of foods. Haven't seen that particular ad before. No wonder, if it was banned for certain references 😅
Don't know why the 'bugger' ads would have been banned. I've seen them heaps of times, and bugger is a pretty mild swear word in Australia. As for the Ford ad, I used to live in north Queensland, where ppl would deliberately swerve across the road so they could run over cane toads. Classy behaviour 🙄😅
Vegemite WAS bought by Kraft which is a US company but it has since been bought off Kraft by Bega which is an Australian company so it is once again Australian owned, Dick Smith had a chain of electrical stores in Australia with his name, this company has since been sold multiple times, the store fronts were shut down and Kogan bought the Dick Smith online store
In 1919, following the disruption of British Marmite imports after World War I, the Australian company Fred Walker & Co. gave Cyril Callister the task of developing a spread from the used yeast being dumped by breweries. Callister had been hired by the chairman Fred Walker.
Following a competition to name the new spread with a prize pool of £A50 (equivalent to $1,995 in 2018), "Vegemite" was selected by Fred Walker's daughter Sheilah, and it was registered as a trademark in Australia in 1919; the name of the person who coined the name is lost to history.
Vegemite first appeared on the market in 1923 with advertising emphasising the value of Vegemite to children's health, but it failed to sell well. Faced with growing competition from Marmite, from 1928 to 1935 the product was renamed "Parwill" to make use of the advertising slogan "Marmite but Parwill", a two-step pun on the new name and that of its competitor; i.e. "If Ma [mother] might... then Pa [father] will." This attempt to expand market share was unsuccessful and the name reverted to Vegemite, but it did not recover its lost market share.
In 1925, Walker had established the Kraft Walker Cheese Co. as a joint venture company with J.L. Kraft & Bros to market processed cheese and, following the failure of Parwill, in 1935 he used the success of Kraft Walker Cheese to promote Vegemite. In a two-year campaign to promote sales, Vegemite was given away free with Kraft Walker cheese products (with a coupon redemption) and this was followed by poetry competitions with imported American Pontiac cars being offered as prizes. Sales responded and in 1939 Vegemite was officially endorsed by the British Medical Association as a rich source of B vitamins. Rationed in Australia during World War II, Vegemite was included in Australian Army rations and by the late 1940s was used in nine out of ten Australian homes.
The Vegemite brand was owned by Mondelez International (formerly Kraft Foods Inc. until 2012).
And in January 2017, it was acquired by the Australian Bega Cheese group in an agreement for full Australian ownership after Bega would buy most of Mondelez International's Australia and New Zealand grocery and cheese business.
Dick Smith used to have a chain of electrical stores.
He's rich, and to say he's off kilter would be generous.
Yes, Australia favourite peanut butter and Vegemite and soft cheader cheese were all owned by Kraft, a US company for ages, now owned by Bega, an Australian own company. Dick Simth was an Australian millionaire who made his money from an electronic store. He got sick of Australian products being bought up and being sold back to Australians. So he started brands to compete with them. One of the brands were Red Head match. his were called Dick Head matches.
I thought it was Kraft? 🤔
@Kimmy58 Yes, it is Kraft. How soon we forget.
@@peterlinsley4287 all good I thought I was having one of those Mandela effects things 😂
@@Kimmy58
Kraft doesn't even exist anymore, either.
it was bought by some company with an hispanic kind of name. (Can't recall it at this moment). And they sell so many brands around the world.
Some of these ads may never have made it to the screen. Banned before. The ‘bugger’ ad showed for a long time.
That's because the "bugger" ad was never really banned.
Just had to change it from a G rating to a PG rating. And then were only allowed to be on air during a later evening time slot.
The KFC ban was ridiculous as some complained thinking it was racist. The fact is KFC was the main cricket sponsor and they had many ads. Pretty sure this was right at the time social media was just getting started. The idea behind it was everyone will be your friend if you share a piece bucket but some people took it the wrong way
Kfc themselves sponsored the West Indies team for years.
The Toyota Bugger commercial was big here in New Zealand, certainly wasn't banned, it's quite typical Kiwi and Australian humour... now that I listen to the accents, I'm thinking it might have been Aussie made, I'd bever really thought about it before.
Hadn't seen the KFC ad before but I can see the racist connotation with the ad Fried Chicken and Black People being a stereotype, the only thing missing was watermelon, so yeah can understand there being issues with it...
I never saw anything about fried chicken 🍗 and watermelon 🍉 with Africans until all this soft cock/snowflake crap came along. I still don’t see anything wrong with that and yeah everyone has stereotypes and some times it’s humorous. People just need to take their head out of their arses and get a life and stop being so sensitive about everything. That’s just my opinion 🤦🏻♀️ 🤷🏻♀️
@@sareenac9348 me neither, my watermelon comment was just pointing out that it was akin to the nessage potentially being implied in the KFC ad
I'm guessing the Suzuki one was banned not for the cleavage but for the reckless endangerment of speeding through a carpark and falsely triggering fire suppression systems.
Loved that last one....there really wasnt many that I could see why they banned, except the cane toad one...very confronting...and I guess the car ones to do with speeding and young people....Dick Smith was an aussie icon, who owned an electronics empire here...His frustration with us importing so many food products from overseas, led him to make and market his own brand....He was also the first person to go solo around the world piloting a helicopter....
Dick Smith has always done puns based on his name. He originally had electronics stores and the catch phrase was ‘the electronic duck’ and it’s his real name. He decided to make his own brands of foods at one point. Ozemite was his version of vegemite.
The bugger ad was banned because of some complaints by idiots with no common sense or a sense of humor thinking the cow in the ad was actually ripped apart. I loved those ads too. It only takes a few bad apples to spoil everyones fun.
Nothing to do with the cow, at all.
It was simply the use of the word "bugger". Not good for young ears at the time.
And it wasn't entirely banned, just had to change the tv viewer rating from G to PG and made to be shown at a later time slot.
Remember, it wasn't all that long ago you wouldn't even hear the word "shit" on Aussie tv.
Yet now, it pops up often, like it's a normal every day word.
@@mebeme007 Yeah whatever. I remember the uproar about the perceived cruelty to animals pieces in the newspaper at the time.
@@lindab424
It's not whatever.
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There's a whole thing about it found via a Google search that linked to the Toyota website, where it was explained what the problem with the tv commercial was.
And if anyone knows what the issue was, they would.
@@mebeme007 Whatever!
Mate. I may not be the first person to say. Dick Smith had matches. I think you can guess what they were called. A brand new packet fetches a good price these days. He is real person. A great philanthropist and proud Aussie.
Dick Smiths is a real brand. All Australian and profits go to charities.
Reasons the ads were banned: 1) It was the cow. 2) It was the nudity. 3) For encouraging hooning. 4) Underaged driving. 5) Sexual implications. 6) sexual implications. 10) For just being disgusting. 11) Sexual implications.
The 'Frogs' are Cane Toads, an introduced species to kill something else affecting crops, sugar cane if I remember right, and it very legal to kill them. They are in the north of Australia but I guess they're slowly making their way south.
I don't know that the Bugger series of ads did get banned, they ran for over a year which is a good run for any ad campaign, there was controversy because bugger refers to buggery.
Cane Toads, cats, rabbits and blackberry bushes, a blight on Australian wildlife and fauna.
The Hilux ad is a New Zealand ad, but was also show here. We don't use bugger here as much as Kiwis do.
Yes we do especially older Australians.
The one with the baby taking the car was cute. Never seen it before. No idea why it was banned.
Yeah I’ve never seen it, but I enjoyed it!
Probably the P-word.
Because it depicted toddlers driving & hitchhiking. Seems pretty obvious...
Dick Smith used to own a chain of electronics stores, then sold them all to the owners of Woolworths years ago. His food brands are legit,but the ad is rather outdated.
Dick Smith's foods was a real brand, also made matches parody of Red Heads, also banned.
Dick Smith made Millions with Dick Smith Electronics. True Aussie that later entered to Food Business to compete with overseas owned brands.
Because the cow ripping its head off fun police
Oh... Bugger.
That 'Bugger' was here in NZ, too. Was kinda funny the first time. Not so much after that. It was overplayed. Got annoying.
The Dick Smith brand is 100% real. He's an eccentric businessman and all-round good guy.
I don't think the bu66er ad was banned...It was on until the car model changed and a new ad was made for it.
At first, I had no idea why the KFC ad was banned but then I saw an American reacting to it and they could not believe how racist it was. Apparently, eating fired chicken is associated with black people in the US. In Australia, everyone eats it, so I don't know why it needed to be banned here just because it offended the sensibilities of Americans, poor dears.
It was a real brand! Nanny state spoils everything!
The two "frogs" were Cane Toads. A recently introduced pest that is spreading rapidly across the Northern parts of Australia. Unfortunately Australian fauna has no natural resistance to them and when they eat the Toads they will die. The toads are devastating the wildlife in certain areas.
Cane toad cricket.
"Recently introduced"..You call 1935 recent?? 😲
Dick Smith Electronics 40 years ago (or so) used to have vans with his photo and “the electronic Dick” written on the side. 🤣
Unfortunately not a cool Aussie frog. It was an imported invasive poisonous cane toad. The little shits have spread all over tropical Oz and have taken a terrible toll on our wildlife.
I’ve never seen a few of those adverts before maybe they were interstate ads
first one was likely because of the details around the cow being murdered, the seconded one definitely from the speeding,
That's not two frogs , they are Cane Toads a pest that kills native animals with the stuff the other one was licking off itself . The ad is brilliant because the toad thinks its got so much more time b4 having to move off the road . Turbo 4 but the power of a V6 lol .
Trouble with Dick Smith is quality has never been a strong point of his products. In the 80s there was an ad for breast cancer checks with a topless woman checking her own. It was banned. - probably because it appeared to be more sexual than a health service. I was a teen at the time and all my mates and I talked about was how beautiful she was. I believe it was only shown once.
Buggered if I know mate. 😮😮😮
That was a cane toad not a frog. Frogs are a protected species, cane toads on the other hand are a menace and people kill them any which way they can.
The issue with the KFC ad was the misconception of racism. Fried chicken and watermelon, I think that's what racist americans say. KFC sponsored our cricket competition and we were playing the world-class West Indies team when this ad came out. You remove the fried chicken and remember which country you live in and it's a respectful ad.
The bugger ad was made in New Zealand
Queensland is full of horrible cane toads that destroy the environment. Flattened toads are all over the roads in north Queensland. I’ve seen most of those ads a decade or more ago, so not banned.
I think the swift one was banned for "Don't do this in parking lots you buncha drongos!"
I liked that Swift ad
Vegemite is back in Aussie hands. Bega Cheese owns it now.
Dick Smith food products were great. Sorry they went out of business.
Sadly Dick Smith went broke, was a damned good product too.
A Scottish guy interested in baseball in Erdrea and learns about baseball in Australia.
Dick Smith made a fortune in electronics & he did try to rename Vegemite to Ozziemite & some other brands but fell on his blot.
None of these ads were banned I remember them all. Aussie slang "bugga" is normal. Americans got upset by the word as it means a certain sex act there. Dick Smith is real as in the eighties al our brands were bought out by overseas companies. Dick had a hugely successful electronics company that was bought by Woolies i think and they stuffed it up. Aussie sense of humour is simple Take the piss out of everything take no prisoners.
It wasn't a frog it was a toad!
Bugger is a very very bad word...accordingly to the middle aged women we now have on committees that decide this stuff.
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Vegie's Australian owned again 🙂Hooray!
I know the word "bugga or Bugger" a bad word in America it means something way different to what us Australians grew up with, car speeding adverts are banned, and a baby drivin a car LOL come one, and Dick Smith is real or was real not sure he is still around, no clue on that KFC advert, betting adverts should be banned, cane toads are a drug if you lick them LOL, that wine advert HAHAHAA
Miss leading hilux unbreakable show pony couldn't pull the pud off a custard gut lux 😂
Bugger was the equivalent of fuck,before fuck was a word in Australia...look up what to bugger something is 😂
Buggery was a very particular thing and was a criminal offence.
He's Scottish & use of the word 'bugger' pre-dates the colonisation of Australia, he knows what it means.
Every add bar one I saw was NOT banned in My Australia . So ned]ed to know banned by who ?
i doubt any of those ads are banned
yes dick smiths was a real company, it seems most of their products have been sold off to other companies now due to them shutting down dick smiths in 2018
Ive see a fair few of those haha
The best one was the frog. Those bastards are the greatest sport at night but yeah, it was a bit graphic. The cotton wool mob certainly wouldn't like it they also don't like the fact that the rotten bastards kill heaps of native wildlife each as well and still try and stop us from destroying the frogs any way possible.
Dick smiths is definitely real
A cane toad
Dick Smith is an australian icon. He is awesome.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bugger me ! It's ridiculous why some of these ads got banned. We're turning into a 'nanny-state'. So pathetic.
_"turning into a nanny state"_ 🙄🙄
All of these ads are 10+ years old numbnuts...
Heaps of dead squashed cane toads on the roads of magnetic island qld
They weren't banned.
Dick smith used to be dick smith electronics
dick smiths is his real name oh well bugger!
Woke hit cane toads with golf clubs
They weren’t banned! You got click baited