15 Funny UK Ads of the 90s
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- Опубліковано 30 жов 2021
- A personal selection of 15 of the funniest UK ads of the 1990s.
1. Red Rock Cider - There Go My Trousers - GGT 1991
2. Boddingtons - By 'Eck It's Gorgeous - BBH - 1993
3. Hamlet - The Wall - CDP - 1991
4. Peperami - Kebab - Lowe Howard-Spink - 1995
5. John Smith's Bitter - Penguins - BMP DDB - 1994
6. Blackcurrant Tango - Exchange Student - HHCL - 1996
7. Barclaycard - Biro - BMP DDB - 1995
8. Alka-Seltzer - Lifeboat - AMV - 1996
9. Batchelor's Super Noodles - Dog - Mother - 1997
10. Volkswagen Passat - Ruler - BMP DDB1998
11. The Economist - Henry Kissinger - AMV - 1997
12. Lynx - Velodrome - BBH - 1999
13. Scalextric - It's a Boy Thing- Lowe Howard-Spink - 1998
14. Impulse Body Spray - Art Class - Ogilvy & Mather - 1997
15. Yellow Pages - Flat - AMV - 1998
When the UK was allowed to have a sense of humour
Jesus. You people...the irony, of course, is these adverts were most likely created by highly-educated people who pandered to you to encourage consumption. But despised you.
@@Tourist1967 the irony I recognise occurring here is that you project your own generalised misanthropy on speculations in random attempts to distance yourself from your own kind ("you people"), with pathetic thinly veiled (and failed) insults aimed at strangers (whom you presume a great deal about), on the internet--referencing obvious business practices as if it's some great insight (which doesn't make you appear intelligent or educated), within petty anonymous sociopathic acting out patterns which you likely are too cowardly to ever attempt in face to face encounters for fear of repercussions. Which renders only your conduct despicable.
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I'd ask what happened to Tourist1967's sense of humour but I suspect I already know, and also doubt they do. 🙃😉😂
When adverts were better than the programmes. Jake Wood with super noodles 😂😂😂
Bril!. When ads were worth watching! 🤣 Nuff said!.
Fun fact, Johnny English was based on those BarclayCard adverts Rowan Atkinson did between 91-97
You can’t open with Leslie Neilsen I’m already crying 🤣
With laughter, I hope.
@@Adfanaticoless funny advert
The 90s. Back when ads made you actually want to buy a product. In 2024 it can be a mystery what the advert is for, or instead of wanting the product their own ad makes you want to boycott it - even if you already were buying it lol
Actually ads nowadays are more effective. But I do enjoy these 😃
That Tango advert was the real catalyst for brexit.
Certainly got Brexit vibes
It was around the time that the Red Cross migrant/refugee shelter opened/closed across the water in Calais and that made the migrant trend worse and gave the newspapers a chew toy to play with.
😂that’s exactly what I was thinking
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He would make a brilliant PM
They were brilliant adverts. WHY ARE TODAYS TV ADVERTS SO UNFUNNY ???
Because woke has no sense of humour.
I was a teenager in the 90s; this was a real reminiscence. It was really weird how some of these seemed super familar. Almost as if they were on TV about a year or two ago. Scary how quickly time flies! I still think of the Millenium as recent history...it's almost a quarter of a century ago!
The fact we still remember these shows you the power of good advertising and why companies spend so much on it. A real flash from the past. Cheers!
We don’t get adverts like this anymore because there is no one place to watch them. We are all scattered over a digital universe that instead of raising quality has only served to hide it under unknown rocks we will never find.
That plus the scalextric ad would be banned by PR soo quickly. Even Yorkie years ago stopped the whole ‘for men only’
But most ppl should realise the "For Men" tagline was ironic. It wasn't anti anyone.
you know you're old when your remember most of those.
It's even worse when it was the 90s and on top of not watching TV you remember them even though, erm, erm, you were doing "90s stuff" that might have effected your memory.... For some, erm, reason, hehe.
OLD???? These were from the '90s that's NOT old.
The Tango advert is fabulously mad... ending in three harrier jump jets. Glorious.
Was it Tango or Reebok that then had the "Belly's gonna get ya" advert. Me and my brother thought that was comedy gold as kids. My mum thought it was vile though!
@@0tispunkm3y3rha ha! Still tease my brother about that to this day
Just change the name Sebastian to Muhammad and it's more relevant today
@@0tispunkm3y3r I think it was Reebok, or maybe Nike. Advertising trainers.
That Tango advert is possibly the greatest advert ever made.
It needs to be aired again. 😁👍
American here: how can I find out what that was about? 🤔
@@reader4111 Think Mountain Dew being sold in Texas...
When these were on tv couldn’t wait till they ended. But now they’re great to watch again
I'm 44 and live in Birmingham. I remember most of these.
Today's adverts just don't hit the spot like they used to!
Old Yank bird here. I like your commercials better than US ones. You won a subscriber.
The yellow pages one, definitely remember it. Very good.
I'm sure I have memories the pepperami was voiced with Ade Edmundson and Rik Mayal, but that sounded like Hugh Laurie.
The original ads were Ade Edmondson doing his Vyvyan character from The Young Ones.
I lost it at the German version of 'Pump up the jam' 🤣
id love to hear the full version :D
So it's not just me ... modern ads are CR*P 😂
Where did we go wrong lol, I can't think of the last amusing ad on TV... anyone?
The Alka Seltzer one gets my vote.
I had to pause to compose myself after that one
Excellent. Reminds me of the olden times when you knew what an advert was for & it made the product appealing.
Huh. So that's where the Johnny English films came from.
Yes, it is.
They had quite a few funny Barclaycard ones in the 90s.
I distinctly remember Rowan Atkinson holding a rug over his shoulder that's on fire (unbeknown to him) 😂
@@Tempest_Elixirahh, I can smell those Tuareg campfires burning… 😂
@@CaptainBlackadder75 childhood come flashing back! 😂😂😂
Shmally Tuc-Tuc, tamatnoon tamatnoon.
Yes we're both fluent Boff, sadly in different languages. 🤣😜
Boddingtons ad- music is "Smoke rings" by Roger Webb. Quality
I always imagined my adult self would have a similar flat to the yellow pages guy 😅
I've got one 😂😂😂
Is the yellow pages guy Trent Crim from Ted Lasso??
The one with the two guys in the boat and the digestive tablets, I’m on the floor.
I never understood that impulse advert as a teen, but now! 😂😂
Just a few subtle hints ! 😅
Why, what’s happened to make you understand it?
Max branning with the super noodles 😂😂😂 he had hair😂😂😂
Oh that's who it was! I thought he looked familiar.
@@davew4998 took me a few minutes to work it out lol
What a breath of fresh air that was. Iv never spoke so highly of adverts since 🤔🤔🤔💙💙💙
Some iconic UK adverts - I often wonder how many of the actors went on to bigger and better things. I only recognised a few
I love the penguins
That ad was written by a guy called John Webster, who also wrote the Smash 'Martians' ad' and many other famous ads from when we were younger. Lovely man, lovely ad.
This was a great look back. Thank you for making this.
What a nice comment. I thank you for your thank you!
Come on Sebastian!!!! let's do this, dunno about you but that's got me right up for it
Puts a smile on my face.
Gone are the days of good ads
Come on SEBASTIAN! Get your arse down to the white cliffs for a square-off!
Tango "i'll take you all on" - unfortunately they seem to of took him at his word ffs
Fabulous!😂
Some absolute belters there!
needs a followup video with the Harry Enfield Dime Bar ads
Oh this brings me back. I think that Peperami ad ended up getting band for promoting bullying, a bit like those Snickers ‘get some nuts’ ads some years later. Probably an early sign that society was on the skids.
Nothing got banned mate it just ran it's course, get over yourself.
By the way you are reading this on the internet, where you can look at anything no matter how gnarly from right across the whole political and moral spectrum any time you like, the world has never been so unconcerned.
Ahhh… the 90s 😢
I remember seeing all of these very fondly.
Oh my gosh, the Barclays / Rowan Atkinson commercial 😂😂😂
Very good selection. When adverts actually contained a truer representation of the diversity in the UK! Not like the "tick box" adverts we see today, and people weren't so easily offended back then!
Thanks for finding and taking the time to upload these. My my did bring back some memories so again thank you.
How was the cut from office to cliffs done in that Tango ad?! Really well done
The lorry in the background was used to hide the join.
From when England was still English
Adverts for booze, tobacco and meat. Them were the days.
Yellow Pages - fantastic!
Hamlet cigar football one is brilliant...with Mark Burdis
Some fabulous memories, thank you for sharing 😊
When companies didn't hate us and respected our custom dearly.
Its pretty ridiculous to think either companies hate you now or respected you then.
Theyre only interested in your money
@@mrbump28So all this “diversity “ is just about money, I think not.
...got the last bit right. Marketing is all about money. Out of curiosity, what do YOU think it is?
Kissinger is in Hell right now with the best place in the house and he's in for a wild ride forever.
That’s the most random thing I’ve ever seen . Shows how naive we all once was
@@ryanwebb5082 Once was? Do you think the various administrations have changed? We eat what they feed us, even now.
@@PhilJonesIII Not me. I eat what I produce.
@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 yup. naive
Noodles had me crying and the tango ad was very clever and technical. 👏👏👏
The red rock cider gets my vote.
Ah . . . the lovely Melanie Sykes. Boddingtons Beer had good adverts at the time. Pity about the beer itself.
Yes - it also tasted like shaving foam
That wasn't Melanie Sykes.
@@cst039 Are you sure? Certainly looks like her
You can tell it's not Melanie Sykes because she wasn't attacking her make co-star.
@TallSilentGuy She can attack me any time she wants, as long as it's some form of wrestling. I'll make a token effort of defence.
Hilarious stuff. Thank you for posting these. 😂
Thank you for your thank you!
I can remember the laundry advert when everyone ran off naked to find their clothes like my grandma didn’t like too much.
Cheers, mate. Needed a good laugh today.
5:04 That's him what wrote Benidorm that is
Great stuff Patrick - wonder how the tv authorities let impulse through ( some genius account handling maybe) blackcurrant tango seems to anticipate brexit !
I remember the impulse ad- but didn't understand it when I was a innocent wee 'un...am quite surprised it was allowed in hindsight 😂
it might depend what time it was shown, I seem to remember 9pm being a watershed, after all nothing was shown just suggested.
I lived in England for 3 months in the fall of 1990. The English Civil War Weetabix commercial is hands down my all time favorite. “They had their Weetabix!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not seen any of these before, all brilliant!
Totally amazing and great nostalgia.Thanks for uploading.
Thank you so much.
Everything was better in the 90's. Peak of western civilisation.
'...I'll take you all on, I'm Ray Gardner...'
Who is he?
@@reader4111 3:15 One of the greatest of Englishmen, albeit fictional.
Love the beer foam perfume and the tap dancing 🐧 penguins! ! Posted too soon! Rowan Atkinson as the MI-7 recruiter! I’m dead! 😂
5:50 “Take over for a boff, would you, moment?” 😂
Back before PC and Blair disease. Cheers for the memories..
Ahhh yesss, I remember...
We used to have such good comedy adverts, really impressive, a bit cheeky, famous faces & well thought out, now everything today is bland, who told advertising to be boring?
I laughed at the beginning, by the end I was in absolute hysterics!
The babies all have their own babies now.
I wish we still had the yellow pages. I could use that cleaning service. 🤣😂🤣🖖💕
Kissinger would probably still rate well with 'The Economist' target audience - 2024
😅😅😂😂 Memories! Tango and Batchelors noodles! 😂
The last one was one of my all time favourites back in the day..😊
Damn, I remember all of these......................
Look up the old T-Mobile advert
Celebrating Britain
Easily one of the most funniest things you ever see
Pride of a nation that advert is
Superb! Thank you.
That Tango ad must have taken time , wonder how many practice runs
The Harriers were added by CGI - early days of that sort of clever technology. I asked the CEO of the agency (HHCL), how did you get the RAF to do that for you? He said, "My cousin is the Air Chief Marshall." Then he added, "You tosser."
@@Adfanaticolol!
What's Tango?
What's that ad about?
@@reader4111 Tango is a UK brand of fizzy drink owned by Britvic. When they launched Blackcurrant Tango, the agency (HHCL) noticed that all soft drinks advertising was very American (Coca-Cola, Pepsi, 7 Up etc) so set out to be ridiculously British. They sent out small caravans filled with sample cans of the stuff to events all over the country - towed by Bentleys.
@@Adfanatico oh, what fun!!!
@@Adfanatico Thank you!
Can't go back, can we?
Basicly 80s coke heads who were in the west london punk scene of the 70s created these adverts.
You know what I love about all of these ads? The absolute lack of DEI.
Max Branning and super noodles lol. Funny
Bet today their commercials are a lot more colorful. 😅
can you imagine the baby one now jesus haha
Genius! Hamlet and Smash adverts were the best and the Typhoo Gnu! Also Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins!
And the German Berlitz advert.
Leslie Nielsen - best dead-pan delivery in the business.
First time I remember all the adverts well
John Smiths omg wow I totally forgot about those beers my dad's friends would booze on that loads when I was young!
Brilliant 👏
I've got one of those orange tango dolls I sent off for one in a promotion tango had the best adverts by far
Wonderful 😊👏👏👏
Now I feel old. I remember almost all of those.
I know the feeling!
That alka seltzer was dark
The UK creative landscape these days is a barren desert of social media likes, and how many impressions you can get for a tenner. A shadow of its former self.
Great Ads. And no fictional mixed race families.
My favourite super noodle one is when the guy makes a tiny body out of noodles on the sofa with just his head showing and says 'look ive wasted away' to which his girlfriend holds one up saying 'cover yourself up' 😂 alluding to a tiny penis joke. Chortle
From the days when the ads were better than the programmes! lol.
English humour?! 😅 the last one was immense!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂