American Reacts to the BEST UK Adverts of All Time
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2023
- As an American I grew up watching American commercials on TV and have had no exposure to adverts from other places around the world. Today I am very excited to watch some of the best UK adverts of all time as recommended by people living in the United Kingdom. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
When you say "Americans are so impatient", we know. Because you've paused every ad about 4 times in 30 seconds asking questions about whats happening. LMAO! Just watch the whole thing!
You took the words out of my mouth.......just watch the damn thing!!
@@josephinegilchrist2497 amen!
Yes Just stop talking and watch first
absolutely agree with you...well said.......look at the ladies who reacted to the marmite adverts.....they get it just about right....Natasha and Debbie...they r the best
@@josephinegilchrist24975:30
Irn- Bru isn't a beer (would he be drinking beer in a maternity ward?), it's a carbonated soft drink. And 'fanny' in the UK doesn't mean backside/butt as it does in the USA; it's used as a reference to the female genital region...
Fanny was also the shortened version of Frances 😮
It was, however, a reasonably common name for girls in the 1800s, judging from census records I've seen.
In Scotland (where the ad is set) a fanny is an insult towards someone you consider to be an idiot (at the very least).
Fanny was/is also a name in Dutch and I believe German as well. Don't hear it as much these days.
@@eddiewhite7309yes, but the joke being the modern connotation of the word fanny.
I've come to the conclusion watching Americans try to understand British adverts or humour is as painful as seeing the try and use cutlery
Yes, it's hard work having to explain everything to them.
Watching then use cutlery is painful..
Exactly what I was going to say. I know its a reaction channel, but Tylor abuses the privilege of being a reactor! He worse than usual with this reaction, to the point of switching it off. Trouble is, I really wanted to see the comb over advert but it was at the end!
These were far from the best adverts anyway.
It’s amazing how much background “cultural” knowledge you need to understand these!
Exactly - this is why so much of it went over Tyler's head. Perhaps it would mean less to younger UK folk too, only us golden oldies remember the ads, and can relate to the story.
@@janettesinclair6279 Let's be honest, most things go over Tyler's head...
AND a _fuckin_ attention SPAN!
@@janettesinclair6279 And photo booths !
@@chrisbodum3621 I think that mainly works if you understand the strapline 'happiness is a cigar called Hamlet', or put another way its all gone Pete Tong, have a Cigar, you will feel better.
The real alternative to a cup of tea..
The Christmas adverts really are mini productions all on their own. The Sainsbury’s Christmas ad for 2014, showing the Christmas truce of 1914 has me choking back the tears every time. It was a Co-production with the Royal British Legion. Definitely worth a watch.
Like the John Lewis adverts...
best christmas ad was the snowman irn bru advert 100%
Lots of adverts of the past were directed by people who go onto making movies like Alan Parker and Ridley Scott.
That one is one of my favourites!
it was a weepie. the saddest thing was that they went back to killing each other afterwards, and all because three cousins argued with each other. its based on a true story.
The "You been tangoed" advert had school children slapping the shit out of each other for months when I was at school.😂
They’re my favourite ads too….as well as the one for Trio…
Then on anyone dressed in orange been tango'd too 😂
There is nothing more hilarious than concusive brain damage and impact caused hearing damage/loss
Mann that one was SO MUCH BETTER - why didn't you show THAT one instead??? In fact that was the one I was expecting as I was watching the advert, only to be cruelly disappointed 😔😔😔😔.....
Yep, perforated ear drums when I was five due to some idiotic kid copying what he saw on the TV.
For the pool towel advert there are two things. Germans have a reputation for getting up early to reserve desired poolside sun loungers, and Brits hate it. Also the bouncing towel is a reference to a WW2 mission using a bouncing bomb to destroy Germans dams supplying power to the Nazi war effort.
Well done. You analysed all the humour out of these ads
I don't think he realised what was so funny about "fanny" in the Irn-Bru ad (and he thought it was beer) 😂😂 Fanny is a different part of the anatomy over the pond.
@@bencodykirk or that fanny is also used as an inult in Scotland "ya wee fanny" or "f***ing fanny"
😅😅😅😅
So many references went straight over your head.
The dam busters were a famous British Royal Air Force squadron tasked with blowing up the German’s dams. The towel one is a play on that too but also with a reference to the daily battles between British and German tourists on getting their towels down on the sun loungers first whilst on vacation. So it’s a British beer and it’s better than the Germans.
And? He's American
and it still goes on lol, and we always win
@@seanmc1351 Because we can party later then whack them on before we go to sleep! 🤣🤣
There is a famous film (The Dambusters) based on the real mission. The Carling adverts have the theme from the film playing. The film is well worth watching.
It was painful watching him react to the wrong things. And also pause at the most inopportune of moments. {sigh} Oh well, I'm just off to chill out after work with a nice, cool, alcoholic, erm, IRN BRU. 🤪
It would help you if you actually watched the whole commercial until the end, so that you grasp what's going on and can react more intelligently.
If you have not figured out yet, the British LOVE comedy. Its in everything we do on TV on movies, in ads and real life.
Charlie Chaplin, the greatest star In US history, specialized in this type of humor. There is no meanness in it.
@@carlajenkins1990 Charlie Chaplin was BRITISH!
@@darrellpowell6042 😀😀😀 We adopted him as one of ours. He founded United Artists.
Absolutely brilliant video illustrating the totally unbridgeable gulf between the Jonathans and the Brits.
"I think Americans have such a short attention span and are so impatient ..." (21:26). An observation brilliantly confirmed throughout the video.
The guy in the cigar advert is Scottish actor and comedian, Gregor Fisher. A rare talent. The comb over guy is a character from his to show.
Rab. C. Nesbitt.... Classic Scottish comedy.
@@enkiofsumer8374 The man that string vests were invented for.
@@primalengland aye...."I'll tell you this boy"....... lol. It used to be on late at night in the UK on a Friday. I'd get home from the pub and watch it with friends. Jeez, I'm feeling old now. That was 30+ years ago lol. It's still available on BBCi Player and other streaming services. Scottish comedy is amazing. I think I know 'Still Game' word for word by now. And I'm English. BBC Scotland makes amazing comedy.
@@enkiofsumer8374 we’re both old, then. I did exactly the same.
@@primalenglandThe good old days.
I remember several ads from the 70's, some of them wouldn't be shown nowadays! The Flake ads (Only the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate...), The PG Tips chimps, Cinzano with Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, Everyone's a Fruit and Nutcase with Frank Muir, It's all because the lady loves Milk Tray and who could forget the ''Smash'' aliens?
Loved the Cinzano ads. Joan Collins was a good British sport 😀
Some real classics there! I remember them all, and the Cinzano ads were brilliant.
I recently bought 4 PG Tips chimp egg cups from a local antiques shop. Love 'em
'For Mash get Smash😅And how about 'If a man you've never met before suddenly gives you flowers, he's acting on Impulse' - that's one that definitely would be banned nowadays😅. I also remember my Dad's Tennents Lager cans having pictures of attractive women on them - I think they were called The Tennents' Lager Lovelies' 🤣. That would never be allowed today, but it all seemed harmless at the time.
Harmony hair spray. Hai Karate aftershave.
Have you never heard of the ‘Bouncing Bomb’, it was invented during the 2nd WW. by Barnes Wallis. It was designed to be launched from a British Bomber to bounce on the water and hit the German Dam Wall. They couldn’t hit it directly. A film was made of it called The Dam Busters. They where very brave!
"... the ‘Bouncing Bomb’...It was designed to bounce on the water and hit the German Dam Wall. They couldn't hit it directly." Off-topic, but you're missing the point: Yes, of course they could have hit the dam directly - dams are enormous - you'd have a hard job to miss it! But exploding a bomb in open air won't breach a monstrously thick dam wall built strong enough to withstand the pressure of millions of gallons of water - it would like attacking an elephant with a pea-shooter! The whole idea was that by getting the explosion to take place right up against the dam wall deep underwater on the "wet side" - the explosion would be concentrated in one spot by the water all around it and crack the wall, instead of mostly dispersing harmlessly into the air. This is why the small amount of explosive carried in a torpedo is still enough to blast an underwater hole in a battleship. Air-dropping the same amount of explosive in large torpedoes against the dams was a non-starter because dam engineers were well aware of this danger, and the dams were protected by under-water anti-torpedo nets. Wallis' insight was to realise that cylindrical bomb weighing tons could be made to skip across the water like a pebble if set spinning beforehand and dropped close enough to the water. This allowed the bomb to avoid the netting and also slowed it down so that instead of smashing to bits against the wall, it stayed intact and sank down before exploding. This concentrated the explosion torpedo-style and also gave the bomber a few seconds to get clear of the explosion. (The whole point of breaching the dams, by-the-way, was NOT for propaganda or to deprive the local population of drinking-water as the utter fools on the BBC claimed recently, but was an attack on the German infrastructure intended to halt the production of armaments in the industrial heartland of the Ruhr Valley. These were hydro-electric dams - cut off the electricity and the factories came to a halt. They also supplied water for the canal system used to transport coal and iron-ore and tanks, guns etc etc. Shutting down the factories, draining the canal network, flooding the railways etc etc was the point. The easiest way to defeat a Tiger tank on the battlefield is to stop them being made in the first place....)
If The Dam Busters is shown in America, they might have to put a warning about racist language. I've heard of a version where the black dog's name is changed to Digger.
@@MsGbergh Yes, but the morse code message informing base of success still uses the dog's original name. It was always a bit stupid to change it anyway, it is a matter of historical fact.
Some old 1970's ads for Cinzano with Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins are among my favourites, but there are many more that don't immediately spring to mind.
Also a young Marina Sirtis as the flight attendant lol
The Carling beer advert about the guy throwing the towel comes from the stereotype of Germans on holiday getting up early to get all the sun loungers by the pool before anybody else can.
I think the main thing Tyler will have missed was the Dam-busters theme music.
@@stephenlee5929or even the reference to the Dambusters film in the first advert.
The bouncing bomb from the Dambusters😁
It’s not a stereotype.
EVERY Mediterranean hotel I’ve stayed in had the German early rush to put towels on the poolside sun-beds.
My favourite is the Cadbury’s Smash instant mashed potato with the giggling alien robots. Showing my age there.
‘For mash, make Smash’…
@@kp7032 They peel them with their metal knives, boil them for twenty of their minutes, then they smash them all to bits!
It has been said that the British will make fun of you if they dislike you, but they will do it even more if they like you.
"Taking the P!$$" is a favourite, if not traditional, pastime here. Which is reflected in our adverts.
UK ads were once stated to be better made than the programmes they interrupted. In the 70s/80s they major tv stars in them and production quality was very good. They were like mini movies and sometimes never even showed the product they were advertising (you just had to know the context they were in). eg: the gorilla ad - the walls were purple (Cadbury's brand colour) and the song playing was "in the air tonight" by Phil Collins who was the drummer for rock group Genesis.
Did we not hear a confession from Phil that it was him playing the drums?
Just checked up and it was not Phil and there was a person in that suite that studied his drum movements to do this.
The Instant Mash potato in the 1970s, with the little hilarious metal men.🇬🇧😊
I have to admit, the specsavers ad 'with the sheepdog' is funny, but there's one with a security guard switching lights off at the end of the day that's hilarious! my mum never 'got' that advert until I explained it to her - and then she 'got it'. 🤣
most of the specsavers adverts spawned many many memes. specsavers adverts deserve a video all of their own 🤣
“What sort of cheese was that”
having quite recently finally needed glasses in my life, I almost walked into a lamppost upon leaving the shop....which I thought was hillarious.
@@miff227 Mr Magoo!😀
As a previous commenter has said, a lot of those adverts (maybe excluding the gorilla Cadbury advert which is just odd in hindsight) requires a fair bit of cultural background context. The Dambusters advert being a great case in point, the world class German football team regularly knocked England out of European and world cups (in good part to some spectacular goals saved), so the German soldier stopping the bouncing bombs was a nod to that 👍👍
The 'Papa?' 'Nicole?' Renault adverts became so beloved characters in Britain, that when they had to come to an end the first showing of their last advert was listed in the TV papers and became a TV moment people tuned in to watch.
Aaaaaaargh no! That was my second most hated of adverts, after the stupid Shake'n'Vac woman.
The Reeves and Mortimer piss take of it was the best bit!
Fanny in the UK is Lady parts not your butt like in the USA.
VERY shocking to hear that word on the television the first time I saw that ad. But Fanny is a somewhat old-fashioned diminutive of the girl's name Frances, so they got away with it. Then just kept piling on the innuendoes. No wonder the poor lad looked shocked!
"She comes from a long line of Fanny's."
So innocent, and yet...
@@hypsyzygy506 fanny is also a term for a stupid person in scotland "he's a right fanny", so its a play on that rather than it being about genitals
The singer in the secret lemonade drinker advert is Ross McManus (also written by him) he is the dad of Elvis Costello, who had many songs in the charts himself!
Irn Bru is a soft drink and outsells Coke in Scotland.
Irn Bru is wonderful antidote for a hangover.
Irn Bru works best paired with a bacon butty for a hangover cure.
I presume you mean Coke the drink
You learn something every day.
@@jiggely_spearsno it is a Scottish based soft drink a taste of its own! Definitely fantastic..
The John Smiths one was because their tag line was "no nonsense". So in the advert the juggling of the football was considered nonsense as you don't often use those skills in a real game, so that character comes over and just boots the ball really far away :)
Yes, Peter Kay did a whole line of John Smiths "No Nonsense Bitter " (Beer) adverts.... in his inimitable style!
So sad that you skimmed over the Easy-Turn-on-and-offable advert! They were fantastic! And where made by part of the team that made "Wallace and Gromit!" I do impressions from the advert still and have had to show my son so that he doesn't think that I am having a stroke or something!! Lol!! Cute, funny and creative!
Tyler ,you should watch the UK Christmas adverts they are amazing . Especially the John Lewis ones .😊👍
Now they where good adverts. John Lewis Stores.
They're OK. They started off as unique and special but now they are just a competition to see who can make the most housewives cry.
The sainsburys ww1 has to be the best I've seen think it's the 2014 one
@@markscouler2534 I agree with you 👍
@@markscouler2534I second that!
The Cadbury's Gorilla is the drummer waiting, readying itself, for the drum section of Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight." It should be obvious how that relates to Cadbury's Chocolate, it doesn't. As an advert it makes you notice it, remember it, and remember it is for Cadbury's. Irn Bru is a soft drink, and Fanny is a traditional name, just like Dick.
They asked Phil Colins if it was OK to do that Ad, he said yes, do love Phil. czcams.com/video/yYYtgsoMap4/video.html
If Tyler ever read comments he'd get a better view of things rather than Google!
It usually works best if you watch the actual advert without stopping, forwarding and talking all the way through :)
It's bloody annoying to say the least......McJibbins channel is the same!
The Guinness adverts of about 30 years ago. Many of them starring the Dutch actor Rutger Hauer. One of my favourites was the 1998 scene of surfers riding huge waves with horses
I think that Guinness one was voted best advert couple of years ago.
And just a note: it was a wildly successful ad not only because it was so memorable, but also because it succeeded in its aim of shifting the perception of Guinness, which in the 90s still had a reputation as a bit of an old man's drink, to appeal to a much younger audience. A true marketing masterpiece. It's really worth checking out some of the "making of" stories - they're a really fun read. It just makes you even more impressed when you understand how they pulled it off.
99% agree but Rutger isn't in the horse one (he waits, it's what he does... tick follow tock) but Mr. H is definitely the best tall blonde gentleman dressed all in black.
Here's to you Ahab :)
@@NickGarratt-sr9qr Think the last one with Rutger in was his cameo in the All the Time in the World one. Remember that? The first time they showed it, it took up the whole ad break (possibly during TFI Friday, but that could be a false memory)
Hauer was cast because, dressed in black, he LOOKED like a pint of Guinness.
There was a whole series of adverts for Marmite, which were hilarious. Marmite is a love it or hate it product and these adverts really played on it. I think you would love them.
Or hate them!😁
😂😂😂😂
Were you truly wafted here from paradise ?
( I'll not spoil the joke )
They even made a song about it !
The nostalgia of those adverts made me smile so much from the 80’s being a small child through my terms to adulthood. This was so good thank you ❤❤❤
It's really interesting to see how you assumed the first thing you saw in each ad was what was being advertised. 😄 Maybe we just had a longer attention span back then ? Don't think it's just a US thing, maybe it's the advent of the internet and SM that we instantly scroll past if it hasn't grabbed our attention in the first 3 secs.
The old Hovis bread advert, set in Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, became so iconic that even the Two Ronnies did a skit based on it. As for memorable advert slogans, surely the McVities Rich Tea slogan, "A drink's too wet without one" takes the biscuit. 😂 btw, the Gorilla Cadbury adv only works if you know the song being played..."I can feel it coming in the air tonight..."
The old hovirs advert on was dricted by Redily Scott
More than one desk sergeant had to write down 'A drink's too wet without one' as the response to someone being read the charge.
The Hovis ad was directed by none other than award winning director Ridley Scott who went on to direct movies including Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator.
You need to watch the film 'The Dam Busters' to get both the Carling beer adds. Plus there's a bit of national stereotyping going on, the Germans, allegedly, always bag the best sun loungers at the pool in Spanish holiday resorts by getting up early and putting their towels on them as a form of reservation.
And when world cup matches go all the way through time and extra time the Germans always win the penalty shootouts which is what the German on the dam wall is doing. In the second ad the towel is the bouncing bomb. And at the end the cool English guy announces that "it's turned out nice again" which was a catch phrase of George Formby
I loved Maynards Wine Gums "There's juice loose aboot this hoose!" 🤣
I like the Peter Kay one where he's at a dinner party and his wife asks who he'd sleep with if he got a free pass, and he refuses to answer, so she pushes him for an answer and he says "Claire from work" 😂
All the Peter Kay ones are really funny.
There are pretty strict rules about the timing of adverts on UK TV - no more than 7 minutes per hour, the breaks mustn't exceed 3 mins 50 secs - usually a number of ads together (great time to go out and get another drink!). So ads aren't just jumping in to a show for a few seconds, they're competing with other ads and tend to be longer, and they need to entertain the audience not just shout at it to buy stuff.
THAT only applies to Live TV NOT to the majority of how people now watch TV, the LAW is based on OLD Technology.
Thank you for sharing . You looked confused most of the way through , especially the last one 😂😂. 🇬🇧👍🏻💛🤍
Cadbury used the iconic Phil Collins song for their advert. You really need to know this song to appreciate the advert
The thing about UK adverts is that they had an unexpected ending most of the time so please react to more ads, but please, please, please watch them before reading about them as otherwise the twist ending will have been revealed. (P.S. the "Ave It" ad had the ending trunkated so you didn't get the punchline.).
Fun fact , the Carling adverts never aired in Scotland as it isn't marketed here. Tyler would need to learn about the Dambusters raid on the Geman dams with a newly invented bouncing bomb.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dam_Busters_(film)
How is that a fun fact. I'm from Scotland band I see no fun in this dumb statement
@@insidiousbeatz48I absolutely pissed myself laughing over that fact…..
@amandaely9983 thanks I worked very hard on that for at least 10 seconds
I'm from Scotland and only ever lived in Scotland. I've seen the towel advert on tv here.
I remember the photo booths in the "Baldy Man" advert. Where we used to get a strip of photos for our passports etc. Baldy Man advert is from a series where different men light up a cigar, after an epic fail. The gorilla advert comes from a time when companies were competing to do the best cinema adverts. So were using famous film directors and production values.
Wish you had gone for the Creature Comforts ad over the R Whites….so good. Also loved the skating pandas for Kit-Kat! Lol x
Irn Bru is a Scottish soft drink, and fanny means something different over here (the front part of a woman's anatomy). Barr''s are famous for their adverts, they have a long tradition of funny and creative ones. When I was little, in the eighties, they used to have a small boy with ginger hair who could apparently do feats of amazing strength after drinking Irn Bru. I'm told up here they outsell Coca Cola. Some more goodies - the S1 jobs adverts, Maureen Lipman in the British Telecom adverts, the Hamlet cigars one with the guy in a motorbike sidecar, Tennents' beer ads from the nineties, Campari ads, and for non- funny but pure nostalgia, the Oxo family, Fairy Liquid, Yellow Pages, the Nescafe Gold Blend couple and the Tennents 'Caledonia' and 'One Great Thing' advert....Sometimes the ads were better than the programmes😅
In the Cadbury advert the song that is playing is, Phil Collins’, In The Air Tonight.
Phil Collins used to be the lead singer and drummer of British band Genesis.
Irn Bru isn’t a beer, it’s a soda.
Our best ads are either mini-sit-coms, or they tell a story- many over the course of several different ads. One of the most well loved of the latter was the Gold Blend (coffee) ads which followed the growing romance between a glamourous couple, running between 1987 and 1993 - always based around a drink of coffee, of course. By the end, a new 'instalment' of the saga would garner excited media attention, as if it were an actual TV programme.
The Specsavers ad (the cat/hat confusion) is one of a whole long running campaign where we see people make really dumb mistakes because they should have got better glasses....all of them amusing.
Remember 'fanny' in the UK refers to ladies 'front parts' not their bottoms- so calling a baby girl 'Fanny' would be an absolute Nono! The 'she comes from a long line of Fannies' line is about as rude as you can get in an advert. Irn Bru is not alcoholic, it's Scotlands answer to Coca Cola (it's bright orange and not coke-tasting).
The Carling Black Label (Beer) ad campaign was all about implying that you could do amazing feats if you drank their beer. The first one was based on the famous 'Dam Busters' raid in World War II - here the German soldier was able to catch and throw away the 'bouncing bombs' and save the day. The second one was based on the trope that German holidaymakers are always first to claim a sunbed space around the pool, and the Brits fail to get a look in. Here- because he drinks Carling, the Brit is able to outsmart them with his super towel throwing skills.
What always got me about the Dambusters ad is that the second guy still sounds the same _after_ he takes the mask off.
The ongoing story ads were great....... " Nicole !!! "
And of course the chap in the gold blend adverts was non other than Anthony (Stewart) Head before the Buffy librarian fame.
Ah, the days when adverts were worth watching and were actually memorable. Marketing departments try and be too clever these days, and consequently we end up with ads that half the time you don't even know what they're trying to sell till the very end.
I bet no one will be looking back on the ads of today with any nostalgia in years to come.
Christmas ads are mini stories, it's like a competition to see who produces the best Christmas ad
In my opinion, the best British ad I can think of was one called on your child's life. It's not funny but its memorable, and every time I see it, it I end up checking my fire alarms, so I find it to be an effective ad.
There's a whole CZcams compilation of most effective British adverts that includes this one. Hard watch but worth it
You might enjoy them more if you didn’t pause it every 10 seconds!
The baldy man in photo booth kills me every time that seat drops then flash goes off 😂😂😂😂
You should see the cinema one. Several minutes long. The whole cinema was falling about.
Today’s British Tv adverts are crap compared to back in 1970’s to 1990.
We have a stereotype about Germans on holiday hogging chairs by the pool on holiday, that's what that Carling ad was about
Lmao Irn Bru is a soft drink, not a beer.
I would suggest watching the compilation of "Most Effective British Adverts". It's a compilation of what you guys would call PSA's, but we pull no punches and go hard to make the messages hit home. Be advised though that in one of them the music was muted for copyright reasons. Go through with it though because it's still a great advert.
Iron brew is a soft drink, we don’t tend to encourage beer in hospitals. 😂
O my god. I was the video operator on this commercial. First it was produced by a company called Park Village. And the office and small studio is not only next to Regent park in central London. But the building was stables for horses, they had a special ramp that they walk upstairs to be stabbed. And in the blitz in World War Two , it was used to store the Elephant from London zoo, which was a small distance from them. The studio has loads of cat that treat as home, you could be filming and cat would come and sit on you, walk through shoot. But back to the commercial, the flight deck of the bomber was a real one. But weirds think was one of the crew collects World War Two memorabilia . So on the second day came in with I can only say is the driver owner book for a Lancaster bomber, it tell you what every switch and button does. And the hole joke at the about the is a play on the England Germany World Cup football game. Hope for you as you have a little more background you will love English humour. It was fun to work on, and some great crew . The hole job was fun.
Stabbed or stabled? Gotta love autocorrect 😊
The music is Phil Collins in The Air Tonight, I think the clip shown has the music speed wrong, it should be normal speed, the gorilla is imitating Phil Collins on the drums
I’d have thought “The water in Majorca don’t taste like what it oughta” Advertising Heineken, would be up there too, worth a watch 😂
I was thinking about this, as a board with that quote on it was left by our front door the other day!
I was waiting for you to be surprised and impressed by the Harrier jets appearing over the cliffs at the end of the ”Sebastian” Tango advert, but for some reason you jumped back to the beginning just before it finished, and then moved on 🙁
The dambusters (Carling Black Label ad) were a famous group of RAF personnel who used tge bouncing bomb technique to blow up a dam in WW2. The ad is a take-off of the film The Dambusters (right down to the music).
And reserving a sun lounger before the Germans take over the pool area!😂
The adverts often are running gags or variations on a theme from one ad to the next. Like a mini series. So there were several of I bet he drinks Carling Black Label, Hamlet the mild cigar (with the accompanying piano ), Should've gone to Specsavers, etc etc . Watch a few in a row, and you'll appreciate them more 😀xx
Sometimes, you need to welcome the sound of silence and STFU for a moment! 😂😂
Some of us are old enough to remember photo booths and knew exactly and immediately what “comb over man” was doing. The wait is part of it.
The best British ads of all time were the series of Guinness 'Pure Genius' ads with Rutger Hauer. They will blow your mind with how creative, surreal and cinematic they were.
Some advertising slogans have made it through into everyday UK parlance, such as "Should have gone to Specsavers" and "Does what it says on the tin". To get the absolute opposite side of the coin, look up "Most Effective British Ads". Those are modern day versions of what we used to call "Public Information Films" (PSA's). There are some heartbreaking ones in that. Not as good as the old school PIF's, though. Some of those were terrifying. Ever seen PSA's that show (fictionally) kids getting electrocuted, poisoned, or drowned by the Grim Reaper? People's heads going through windscreens due to not wearing seatbelts? Coverage of an actual rabies patient? Those were the sort of things that used to be shown in UK ads back in the day.
Didn't stop 'us' playing pylon tag tho.
@@jiggely_spears No, it didn't. Or, for that matter, all sorts of outdoor social things that kids today don't do.
The towel ad is a play on the fact that when you go on holiday abroad you have to fight the Germans to get to the sun loungers first.
The one about the lemonade wasn't repeating: the point was that he was a "secret drinker", like an alcoholic, an addicted, but to lemonade.
Remember the first time I saw the fanny advert 😂 Fanny is slang for a ladies private part but it's also a short form for the name Frances in Scotland 😂 Irn Bru is Scotland's national soft drink. It's an advert that would only work here
unfortunately the version of the Cadbury Gorilla Ad you saw has for some strange reason been doctored originally what was playing in the background was Phil Collins 'in the air tonight' then the Gorilla joins in on the drum solo to the point where on first showing thousands of Brits were convinced it was Phil Collins in the suit in US Fanny is slang for the butt in UK it's slang for the Vajayjay
Bovington "You smell gorgeous tonight petal" beer ... kills me every time
Some i havent seen but glad you enjoyed thanks tyler
The two R White's lemonade ads were different. The first is nearly 50 years old.
Irn Bru is a soft drink from Scotland.
Most ads are produced for 1 or maybe 2 showings in full on TV then they are cut to 30 seconds for the rest of there showings.
The exceptions are Christmas ads, they are now produced for the Internet and are over 2 minutes long. Cut down versions are shown on TV.
The classic 1970’s Cadbury’s Smash robot advert is missing. Kids would literally room into the room to watch it. My Dad split his sides every time at the robot on his back at the end!
You need to know The story of the Dambusters. Its not a cannonball its a bomb called a bouncing Betty. I read up on them in Denmark when i was 15-16 as Adam Ant had a reference to them in Vive le Rock back then. Adam has taught me so much about history in his songs that hes bern better for me than having 10 years of school. What he didn't know about history and famous painters and writers is insane. The most intellectual singer on this planet ever,and easily the most important brit the last 100 years to come out of that country. I owe him so much including me getting laid by an 19 year old at 15. He should be covered in gold just for that.. 😎
Remember Tyler that American ads are mainly for medicines and cars (yes I lived there once) and uk ads are long and funny.
Mate - you have got to get some knowledge about the Dambustetrs in WW2.
Just. Watch. The. Whole. Advert. Without. Stopping. At. Every. Three. Seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Regarding the Carling ads. There's three things that might help you understand them better
1) We have a traditional (friendly) rivalry with Germans (Yes stemming from the two world wars) and hence we like to poke fun at them.
2) The Dambusters were a troop of RAF soldiers that used bouncing bombs to destroy dams at German positions during the war and the theme tune being played in both ads is literally called "The Dambusters"
3) The towel adverts nods to a stereotype we have in Britain that when you go on holiday and can't find a spare sun lounger, it is because the German holiday-makers get up super early and put their towels on them to reserve them
That cigar advert is from the 1990s. He was called the baldy man. He had a whole series of comedy shows all about mishaps.
Patience Tyler, patience! I know it's difficult, as most Americans and to be fair many children over here, expect instant gratification?
Not surprised you didn't get the Dambusters reference, even though they showed the word "Beer" at the start and the clue was in the name "Dambusters" too.
The milky way advert, the red car and the blue car had a race! Absolutely one of the best!
You should definitely check out the UKs most shocking adverts one that sticks with me is ".....after killing his mother [Johnny] sat back down again."
Obviously it's hard for you to get some of our ads, like the Carling ones because of their cultural references. The German guard catching the "balls" is in fact a reference back to WW2 when we bombed significant hydro electrical dams using a newly invented "bouncing bomb" - they made a film called Dambusters. I believe the 2nd ad is about Germans always beating the Brits to the sun loungers at hotels when we are all on holiday - apparently they would get up early and put their towels on the loungers to secure them! Love your reactions but you need more patience! 😊👍
Almost impossible to understand with no context of either the product or cultural references but fair play you gave it a go. 👍
The Carling Black label adverts explained, it's basically a dig at the Germans:
The Dam busters were UK bombers that blew up German dams and bridges with bouncing bombs in WWII.
The 2nd carling advert is because in Europe the Germans usually get the best deckchairs and facilities first when on holiday abroad (often in Spain) while the Brits usually end up with crap hotels and inferior facilities.
You can only understand the towel advert if you understand that the Germans have a reputation for getting up early and saving all the pool loungers for themselves by putting their towels on them. The British man hurling his own towel was a play on the bouncing bomb that hit the German dam by the famous British Airmen the Dambusters. The towel bounces just like the bomb. The same scenario was played out with the pilots and the German soldier catching it.
The PG Tips tea adverts were iconic with monkeys playing the parts of humans.
Next best was the ad for Smash potato powder, with aliens falling about laughing
They were chimpanzees, not monkeys.
Just watch the whole adverts. It drives me mad when you keep stopping them lol
A lot of the ads are better than the actual programmes.
Technical pedantry: in the towel commercial the towel was bouncing across the water the wrong way. It was counter rotation that made the bomb bounce, not rolling in the same direction it was travelling as if it was a wheel. You'll fiind that if you do it that way it will suck itself straight into the water instead of bouncing.
“Fanny” is a girl’s name (often the shortened version of Frances): in the US it often is used to mean arse/ass; in the UK it’s an old slang word for vagina/vulva. Which is why brits often laugh at “fanny-pack” ;) Oh, and IRN-BRU (pronounced earn-brew) is a soda, slightly orange flavoured, popular in Scotland, and, the tagline often says “made frae girders” (to suggest it’s a rusty iron drink).
That's not how it's pronounced and it's not orange flavour
Top 15 best irn bru adverts is good
No it's pronounced "Iron Brew" lol 😂
Barr's used to claim it contained iron and was therefore an health drink. When it was tested it only had trace amounts of iron so they changed the spelling from 'Iron Brew' to 'Irn Bru'. I think in the company's early days in Falkirk and Glasgow, they marketed it to workers in iron foundries
So many of the beer ads were great in the 80's. Heineken and Castlemain 4X were also very funny....... "I can see the pub from here .."
Tyler, that is indeed an excellent point you made about the Tango ad all shot in one take. Definitely impressive
Something that must be born in mind with British television adverts is that it was traditional for Brits to get up and make a drink whilst VG adverts come on. Particularly during prime-time television where if there are 20 million people watching Coronation Street for example back in the 1970s and 1980s, advertisers really needed to pull out all the stops to get people to watch the television. This is why you’re not going to have immediately forgettable adverts for medications or lawyers like you would in the USA
Two of the funniest series of adverts were the Marmite ones and there is a youTube compilation of them which you must react to now you know the love/hate relationship people have with the product they will make sense. Also their was a range of cars called Skoda which didnt have the best reputation. The marketing people took this and used it in a series of really funny 'I can't believe its a Skoda' adverts.
the british meaning for fanny makes it funnier