@@Aloh-od3ef Barry Scott became really famous as that annoying shouty guy off the adverts - American style ads don't usually work here - but Cillit Bang kind of pokes fun at US advertising methods, so they got away with it
Specsavers is a chain of dispensing opticians found throughout the UK, and almost as soon as the slogan "Should have gone to Specsavers" began to be used, it has been synonymous with people in odd situations and even in accidents, where it implies they went there mistakenly because they couldn't see properly!
Yeah I remember too with dogs one was for chewing gum where a dog was coming out of a guy's mouth. Second one I don't know what it was for but a dog was playing piano and singing that's Life by Frank Sinatra.
@@Oddballkane Yeah they did that as some kids didn't slap the cheeks and often accidentally slapped around the ears and anyone who knows about air pressure, Getting a double ear slap like that can damage eardrums and lead to hearing problems hence why this ad was changed to the kiss version.
10:34 The guy in the Shreddies Nana advert was Leslie Phillips, a comic actor who often played woman chasing cads. His catch phrase was 'Ding dong!' whenever he saw an attractive girl.
Much of the point of these ads was to make them stick in your memory. That's why they don't really tell you what they're for (generally) until the end. You spend the entire ad wondering what the hell it's about, find out at the end and then you might talk to your friends about it later. Pretty much meme's before meme's became well known.
He's a well known Welsh Tenor although his name escapes me. He was wearing a bit of padding in the early ads as actually a lot slimmer, they were a bit of a mickey take on it's not over until the fat lady sings.
I know you're not the brightest spark from the grinder, but being confused by milkshakes, orange soda, steamrooms and eye-glasses really is fun to watch. 😂
@12:03 note about the MCCain advert, adverts for many years in the UK were filmed and edited on tape and were usually 4:3 in aspect ratio as most CRT televisions were ‘square’ or 4:3. It was only in the early/mid 2000s that widescreen TVs came in but were very expensive and not widely available. As widescreen grew in popularity, most things were filmed in 16:9 so older format programmes, adverts etc became ‘pillarboxed’ as they looked weird if they were stretched to fit the 16:9 aspect
Crusha syrup. Add milk for a milkshake and milk and ice cream for a thickshake. And only a fortnight ago I finally found it again in Asda and incredibly in chocolate flavour as well !
Nice work Tyler! Specsavers is a nationwide chain of opticians, They've done plenty of great ads. However my favourite ads are from the late 70's and 80's, Hamlet cigars, the ads were brilliant!
The 50's and 60's cigarette ads, well some were brilliant others just overly sexually suggestive. Many were shot for the cinema but made their way onto an 11" or 13" B&W TV screen on ITV.
Yeah- the Cillit Bang adverts were a direct mocking of US style direct 'Buy Our Stuff Now!' commercials. That is absolutely NOT what UK ads are usually like. That was the point. 'Specsavers' the clue is in the name - especially as the restaurant kitchen one actually listed a special offer for varifocals, which made it clear....(no extra pun intended!)
The Tango ad became hugely popular with kids and they had to change the ad as kids were constantly slapping each other at school and bursting eardrums.
The reason, or partly the reason, why British tv 📺 ads were so crazy was because we have less advertisement slots during a programme and because of that adverts have to be so much more impactful on viewers, unlike in the USA where it seems tv shows are fitted in between advertisement shows.
The way I see advertising, you can take one of two routes: you make an ad telling potential customers every detail about your product, or you make an ad that people will remember. British advertising tends to go for the latter. We might not know what the product is or if we need it, but we'll remember the name of it and it's slogan until our deathbed!
my favourite Chewits advret was when godzilla starts out eating a tower block in the city, then discovers chewits instead - "Chewits, chewier than a 10 story block of flats"
The jaffa cake advert is legendary. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone growing up in that era who doesn't know, "full moon half moon total eclipse". It still gets referenced now when people eat Jaffas. The Dolmio family were in adverts for over 10 years :) And the Piracy Ad was at the beginning of every VHS and DVD, it might have even been played in the cinema but I can't 100% remember if it was. I wouldnt really have classed it as an advert personally, because its more of a PSA. But its just as recognisable.
I agree too... "pause, What is this?, I dont know this is for!" You won't know if you pause, the revels will always come at the end of the advert even if just a simple quote... don't pause and comment, just wait for it..
I only saw them on YT, but I remember Mactini and internet ham (always check for viruses). Pi Helpline was a good parody of a corny ad and I liked his diet with ice cubes 🧊
You think the advert for the Smiler advert was terrifying 2 years after it opened in 2013, two trains collided, causing serious injuries including lost limbs. The ride is still open to this day I went on it 3 days after it reopened after the investigation still an amazing ride
Smiler is awesome, still is and will remain awesome. Incompetent staff leaving test car on that tracks was the terrifying bit. I'll would keep riding Smiler, It can have all my lyms as long as I can still stay in the seat and loop them.14 inverts. .Beast of a coaster.. Love Smiler, Love Alton Towers
The Crusha ad is always nostalgic for me because it reminds me of the Viking Kittens video on Newgrounds and the whole flash animation scene of the late 90's/early 2000's
i remember when tango said that their new drink was not legal and if u see it anywhere to call a number then when u call the number it said 'uve been tangod'
A lot of the bizarre ads were intentionally created that way as a conversation piece. "Hey Bob, did ya see that dumb advert of the orange dude slapping a guy who was drinking some Tango?" It gets the everyday person to promote it, plus it leaves a lasting impression which means you remember the product. I haven't watched TV in over a decade and it's the same for my Dad but sometimes he'll just say or yell out a random advert like the Cillet Bang one etc from 10+ years ago and we all laugh, meanwhile the kids don't have a damn clue and think we are lunatics lol.
Check out the classic Oxo food stock cube advert series - it lasted decades and was quite emotional, seeing the Oxo family grow up with Linda Bellingham as the Mum, cooking a family meal.
One of the best banned adverts I remember watching was for Xbox. Started with a baby being born, flying through the air getting older as he went, eventually became and old man and flew into a grave. The tagline was, ‘Xbox. Don’t die before you’ve lived’
Best way to describe the Tango is imagining eating a chilli pepper but not knowing it is super hot - at the moment the heat hits you, you have that moment of shock and "wow that's hot". Where Tango tends to be a bit more sharper / citrus like than most drinks, the slap around the face is supposed to represent the moment that sharpness hits you.
Wynn Evans the go compare opera singer, made a fortune from years of adverts for Go Compare. He is really a singer and has become more famous for his adverts.
It's an interesting subject. Advertising companies aren't stupid - they know their audience. Advertisements can be seen as a telling window into the broad national psyche, and I think a comparison between US and UK ads bears this out. Ads that we in the UK find hilarious, leave Tyler confused and bemused.
The Orange Tango man advert was one of the funniest adverts I saw growing up. It is a great shame it was banned. Luckily, I was never "tangoed" in school, so I couldn't really work out what all the fuss was about.
In UK we generally don't get adverts for medication/drugs, unless it it's like an ovber the counter cold remedy or something. Medication is generally prescribed by our doctor and we go to collect it at a pharmacy, no need to choose or buy them.
The music used in the Smiler advert is Norwegian; "In the hall of the mountain king (I Dovregubbens hall)" by Edvard Grieg, made as theatre music to the play Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen. It is known outside the play and used as general scary music in Northern Europe - and used in Norwegian kindergarten/school plays to show fear, anger, or braveness in the face of danger. Sometimes a few of the kids cry a bit when the song goes fast, but generally Norwegian children are taught to be stoic listening to "trolls coming"😂 The scene in Peer Gynt when this song is played, is from inside a mountain; Peer realizes he is trapped there forever with the mountain trolls, and he will have marry a female troll and live a troll life, but can get rich and powerful as his wife- to- be is the troll princess. The switches in tone and fast pace symbolizes his conflicting feelings and getting swept away into troll society (after having left a mess in his human society). Peer being Peer, he of course escapes later, and finds new drama elsewhere 😅
Yes, Edvard Grieg's music has been the Alton Towers Theme Park & Resort theme for years. They change it seasonally or for new rides, hotels, and events. The Smiler has its own theme by IAMscore, called "The Smiler Theme." Look it up on UA-cam. Alton Towers also has a CD with these ride themes. The latest Nemesis re-opening advert is great. I'm a big fan of Alton Towers and The Smiler. The Smiler features 14 inversions (world record), with a sinister "Ministry of Joy" theme, flashing lights, and optical illusions. It's 98 feet high, 3,839 feet long, with a top speed of 53 mph and a G-force up to 4.5 g.
Best adverts were way back. The Smash adverts, Cinzano adverts with Leonard Rossiter & Joan Collins, the Hamlet advert with Gregor Fisher. Probably the best are the Irn Bru adverts especially the parody of the Snowman.
I agree too... "pause, What is this?, I dont know this is for!" You won't know if you pause, the revels will always come at the end of the advert even if just a simple quote... don't pause and comment, just wait for it..
The really, really iconic ones date back to the 70's and 80's. Although the slogans from of the modern ones have become part of British vernacular. "Simples", "Should have gone to Specsavers", "Does what it says on the tin", etc. It sounds like the AOL one is voiced by Sir John Hurt, who voiced a couple of terrifying but iconic government AIDS awareness ads c. 1986.
Specsavers is a company that tests your eyes, and sells you glasses when your eyes are obviously classed as "faulty" So - the joke is that this guy thought he had gone into the sauna - but had accidentally stepped into Gordon Ramsay's kitchen next door because of his poor eyesight
The Cilit bang one that feels familiar to you, really stood out to us when it aired - as that is not our style of advert. It was making fun of the style of infomercials that you are used to.
British adverts appeal to our imaginations and humour. American adverts just shout at you like you are an idiot. "HI I'M BARRY SCOTT", plus you have them thrown down your throat, ads in live sports? Wow!
Same, and it was an epic first ride, and still is till this day! 14 loops of pleasure! Still my favourite rollercosster. I have at least 3 goes each visit to alton towers
10:30 TANGO AD WAS BANNED WITHIN HOURS OF FIRST BROADCAST - The day after this advertisement was aired, schoolchildren were slapping other schoolchildren and shouting 'You've been Tangoed'. The creators of this contraversial advert refilmed and inserted a new sequence which showed 'Orange Man' kissing his victim instead of slapping him.
You don't know what specsavers was an advert for... The logo is a pair of glasses, the company is called specsavers, the words on the screen are telling you about varifocal lenses..and a pair of single vision Is £75. And the offer isn't on safety glasses. It doesn't really take a full squad of detectives to work out what it could possible be.
As my father was RAF I've been an expatriate all my life - so I've never seen any of these either.. But even though I'm as ignorant as he is about them, and some of them are for products I'm not familiar with, most of the products being advertised are self-explanatory. It's in the language used for them. so there wasn't one that I, as an English speaker, found confusing. Also: Imagine : a society where actual genitalia isn't shown, but the idea that if you can extrapolate "nudity" it gets banned!! Neither I nor my parents or children think the human body is disgusting. In a lifetime in war zones we'd rather see the human body than to watch violence and death pumping into our living rooms!
Wikipedia: Go Compare. Wynne Evans BEM MStJ (born 27 January 1972) is a Welsh singer, presenter, and actor, known for his role as Gio Compario and latterly himself in the Go.compare insurance adverts on television in the United Kingdom. Evans sang the role of Ubaldo Piangi in the 25th anniversary production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall,[1][2] and sang "Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur" at the last game at White Hart Lane.[3] He reprised the song at the opening of Spurs' new stadium. Opera singer Born in Carmarthen, Wales, Evans studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio.[1]
I remember the you've been Tangoed ad, when i was a little kid. It wasn't aired for very long. It had to be banned, because people was just going up to random people on the street and slapping them a cross the face then running away shouting you just been tangoed." Even if they wasn't even drinking Tango.
Shreddies were originally created, manufactured and marketed in Canada, by the Canadian division of an American company acquired by the American NABISCO corporation. Like most corporations, they had foreign production, including the UK. So, you also could find Shreddies in the UK and USA, as well as Canada. Like many brands, Shreddies have passed hands a few times over the decades, eventually ending up with different owners in different countries.
😂 Slapped in the face by an orange man 😂 You crack me up (That is British for you really make me laugh out loud) 😂 I just love your videos. Keep them coming 🤗😆
So I was a teenager when this came out. It describes the hit of this tango fizzy drink. The orange man comes out and shocks you, like the drink does in taste. There was a few of them. It became a craze between the young and got band to do in schools across the country..proper dunny stuff. Even youth today understand the term...you know when you've been tango'd. It's even become an analogy for something shocking 😂
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! I love it. Tyler watches Barry Scott and has the gall to say he has an annoying voice. Pots and kettles Tyler, pots and kettles. 🤣🤣🤣
Seriously Tyler why don't you watch the adverts all the way through then you wouldn't need to keep stopping the ads half way through to ask questions...
The Cilit Bang ad was made in mockery of US adverts.
HI IM BARRY SCOTT 🤣
watch peter serafinowicz's parody of this advert with the kitchen gun or the toilet grenade
@@Aloh-od3ef Barry Scott became really famous as that annoying shouty guy off the adverts - American style ads don't usually work here - but Cillit Bang kind of pokes fun at US advertising methods, so they got away with it
@@Aloh-od3ef SPEAK UP! 🙂
😂
Specsavers is a chain of dispensing opticians found throughout the UK, and almost as soon as the slogan "Should have gone to Specsavers" began to be used, it has been synonymous with people in odd situations and even in accidents, where it implies they went there mistakenly because they couldn't see properly!
Yeah its pretty much become a cultural slogan now
When we see the purple colour we know it's an ad for Cadburys.
Either Cadbury or Silk Cut cigarettes.
@@MattMcQueen1 Except cigarette ads are no longer allowed 😉
Also, a glass and a half production
U are correct
As a Brit, I can confirm we have had some wild ads. Sometimes they can be more entertaining than whatever program they interrupt 😂
That's true😂
True, lol!
Yeah I remember too with dogs one was for chewing gum where a dog was coming out of a guy's mouth. Second one I don't know what it was for but a dog was playing piano and singing that's Life by Frank Sinatra.
@@DanBen07 Which was the one where a man's head came out of a dog's anus?
The tango ads were actually banned as school kids copying in the playground 😂
They updated the advert, and the orange man ran out and put his hand over the man's face, then kissed the back of the hand.
@@OddballkaneYes!🤣😂🤣😂
@@Oddballkane yes - but the random double slapping attacks in schools quickly got out of hand - even though they toned down the adverts 😁
@@Oddballkane yep this ad was in the 1980s the kissing update was 1992.
Regrettably, I was one of those kids tapping my mates on the shoulder and then double hand slapping them when they turn around. 😂
British television adverts are renowned for their humour.
Were you mean
@@jillybrooke29Have you seen the laughable Jaguar advert?
@@theriddick2735 yes, dont like it
@@jillybrooke29 You can't fault Jaguar's sense of humour on that score.
This Tango advert was the bane of the school yard... *tap on shoulder* SLAP "Hahah, you've been Tango'd."
They updated the advert, and the orange man ran out and put his hand over the man's face, then kissed the back of the hand.
@@Oddballkane Oh yeah! I remember now. haha
@@Oddballkane Yeah they did that as some kids didn't slap the cheeks and often accidentally slapped around the ears and anyone who knows about air pressure, Getting a double ear slap like that can damage eardrums and lead to hearing problems hence why this ad was changed to the kiss version.
That was such an awesome ad too
I still feel the sting
The spec savers advert featuring the sheep shearer is advert gold.
And the clown ad.
Did the dog by mistake
The old people on the roller coaster was the best
I can see how you connected to the 'cilit bang' advert as it was made to mock the American style.
You wouldn't steal a TV, not in them days tvs were so big it took 3 of you to move it half an inch
😂😂
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
You wouldn't steal a car...shows someone stealing a car.
10:34 The guy in the Shreddies Nana advert was Leslie Phillips, a comic actor who often played woman chasing cads.
His catch phrase was 'Ding dong!' whenever he saw an attractive girl.
he was also the voice of The Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter films
The 1970s adverts for smash instant mashed potato were hysterical a must watch
They were some of the best of all time
Hahaha. I even remember them saying how primitive earth people are!!😂
"I've no idea what SpecSavers is" he says as theres a massive post it note on screen talking about "free varifocal lenses"...never change Tyler 😂
Remember though that Americans don't [generally] use the word "spectacles" for eyeglasses, and I don't think they use "varifocal" either.
Crusha is a syrup added to milk to make a milkshake.
Much of the point of these ads was to make them stick in your memory. That's why they don't really tell you what they're for (generally) until the end. You spend the entire ad wondering what the hell it's about, find out at the end and then you might talk to your friends about it later. Pretty much meme's before meme's became well known.
The best Cadbury's advert is the one with the Gorilla 🦍
The one on the drums? Lol
@@shady8479 Yes I think it was Andy Serkis, the guy who played Golum.
@davidcalvino6543 now that I didn't know, it was darn good tho
Then beautifully parodied by Foxy Bingo.
The Cilit Bang adverts are a mockery of bad adverts. Tango still make odd ads and the Go Compare guy is still around on their ads.
He's a well known Welsh Tenor although his name escapes me. He was wearing a bit of padding in the early ads as actually a lot slimmer, they were a bit of a mickey take on it's not over until the fat lady sings.
@@tonys1636 Wynne Evans
I know you're not the brightest spark from the grinder, but being confused by milkshakes, orange soda, steamrooms and eye-glasses really is fun to watch. 😂
Americans have loads of syrup to add to milk. I think they probably invented it. Why he’s trying to act like he’s never heard of it is beyond me.
Milkshakes in the US are made with ice cream, so it was confusing to me when I moved to England
@@paigemprice I lived in the US and we had a product called Nesquick, you may have seen it.
@@fishtiguayes, nesquik has been around in the UK for as long as it has been in America too 👍
@12:03 note about the MCCain advert, adverts for many years in the UK were filmed and edited on tape and were usually 4:3 in aspect ratio as most CRT televisions were ‘square’ or 4:3. It was only in the early/mid 2000s that widescreen TVs came in but were very expensive and not widely available. As widescreen grew in popularity, most things were filmed in 16:9 so older format programmes, adverts etc became ‘pillarboxed’ as they looked weird if they were stretched to fit the 16:9 aspect
The first advert for Crusher. When the cat is singing the song it says it’s for Milkshake.
Crusha syrup. Add milk for a milkshake and milk and ice cream for a thickshake.
And only a fortnight ago I finally found it again in Asda and incredibly in chocolate flavour as well !
Nice work Tyler! Specsavers is a nationwide chain of opticians, They've done plenty of great ads. However my favourite ads are from the late 70's and 80's, Hamlet cigars, the ads were brilliant!
He knows the word specs, he's just playing braindead for views or something. All ads are something a kid can guess.
The 50's and 60's cigarette ads, well some were brilliant others just overly sexually suggestive. Many were shot for the cinema but made their way onto an 11" or 13" B&W TV screen on ITV.
Yeah- the Cillit Bang adverts were a direct mocking of US style direct 'Buy Our Stuff Now!' commercials.
That is absolutely NOT what UK ads are usually like. That was the point.
'Specsavers' the clue is in the name - especially as the restaurant kitchen one actually listed a special offer for varifocals, which made it clear....(no extra pun intended!)
You understand the naked guy thought he was going into a sauna ? Specsavers = cheap eyeglasses.
or as we would say as we know where glasses are worn, glasses, ta David Mitchell.
They're spectacles, or 'specs' in the UK, not eyeglasses. That's an American term.
The Tango ad became hugely popular with kids and they had to change the ad as kids were constantly slapping each other at school and bursting eardrums.
They borrowed the ear slap from an 70’s comedy show skit where Eric did it to Ernie in the show Morecambe and Wise .
The reason, or partly the reason, why British tv 📺 ads were so crazy was because we have less advertisement slots during a programme and because of that adverts have to be so much more impactful on viewers, unlike in the USA where it seems tv shows are fitted in between advertisement shows.
The way I see advertising, you can take one of two routes: you make an ad telling potential customers every detail about your product, or you make an ad that people will remember. British advertising tends to go for the latter. We might not know what the product is or if we need it, but we'll remember the name of it and it's slogan until our deathbed!
Aw!!!! My dad was the cameraman on the go compare adverts ❤
my favourite Chewits advret was when godzilla starts out eating a tower block in the city, then discovers chewits instead - "Chewits, chewier than a 10 story block of flats"
Even chewier than Barrow-in-Furness Bus Depot 🚌 ❤
@@JIMHARVEY0yeah that’s the best one and the one I remember most 👍
The jaffa cake advert is legendary. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone growing up in that era who doesn't know, "full moon half moon total eclipse". It still gets referenced now when people eat Jaffas.
The Dolmio family were in adverts for over 10 years :)
And the Piracy Ad was at the beginning of every VHS and DVD, it might have even been played in the cinema but I can't 100% remember if it was. I wouldnt really have classed it as an advert personally, because its more of a PSA. But its just as recognisable.
Yes the piracy advert was everywhere, cinemas included
Pleeeeeeaassseeee, watch the whole ad, then talk, you'll get better context!!!
I agree too...
"pause, What is this?, I dont know this is for!"
You won't know if you pause, the revels will always come at the end of the advert even if just a simple quote...
don't pause and comment, just wait for it..
The boy in the cadburys ad just made a tiktok where he proved he could still do the eyebrows 😂
I loved the Peter Serafinowicz Cillit Bang parody on his sketch show back in the day.
HI IM DEREK BUM SAY GOODBYE TO DAILY STAINS AND DIRTY SURFACES WITH NEW KITCHEN GUN
The PI Helpline ones were better
I only saw them on YT, but I remember Mactini and internet ham (always check for viruses).
Pi Helpline was a good parody of a corny ad and I liked his diet with ice cubes 🧊
You think the advert for the Smiler advert was terrifying 2 years after it opened in 2013, two trains collided, causing serious injuries including lost limbs. The ride is still open to this day I went on it 3 days after it reopened after the investigation still an amazing ride
Smiler is awesome, still is and will remain awesome. Incompetent staff leaving test car on that tracks was the terrifying bit.
I'll would keep riding Smiler, It can have all my lyms as long as I can still stay in the seat and loop them.14 inverts. .Beast of a coaster.. Love Smiler, Love Alton Towers
The Crusha ad is always nostalgic for me because it reminds me of the Viking Kittens video on Newgrounds and the whole flash animation scene of the late 90's/early 2000's
you need to react to all the tango adverts and the john smiths adverts, they are the best adverts we had
i remember when tango said that their new drink was not legal and if u see it anywhere to call a number then when u call the number it said 'uve been tangod'
And Pot noodle ads
"Ave it!"
A lot of the bizarre ads were intentionally created that way as a conversation piece.
"Hey Bob, did ya see that dumb advert of the orange dude slapping a guy who was drinking some Tango?"
It gets the everyday person to promote it, plus it leaves a lasting impression which means you remember the product.
I haven't watched TV in over a decade and it's the same for my Dad but sometimes he'll just say or yell out a random advert like the Cillet Bang one etc from 10+ years ago and we all laugh, meanwhile the kids don't have a damn clue and think we are lunatics lol.
AOL advert voiced by late actor John Hurt who was in the film 1984 hence the Orwell bit
Cadbury drumming gorilla is a classic 😂
Funny thing sbout the Anti Piracy ad is that they literally used pirated music in them.
Yeah it was annoying and you couldn’t skip it but later got dropped from future releases .
Check out the classic Oxo food stock cube advert series - it lasted decades and was quite emotional, seeing the Oxo family grow up with Linda Bellingham as the Mum, cooking a family meal.
I thought the smash advert with the aliens might have been here lol
One of the best banned adverts I remember watching was for Xbox. Started with a baby being born, flying through the air getting older as he went, eventually became and old man and flew into a grave. The tagline was, ‘Xbox. Don’t die before you’ve lived’
Omg i haven't saw the crusher ad since i was a child used to love it
Best way to describe the Tango is imagining eating a chilli pepper but not knowing it is super hot - at the moment the heat hits you, you have that moment of shock and "wow that's hot". Where Tango tends to be a bit more sharper / citrus like than most drinks, the slap around the face is supposed to represent the moment that sharpness hits you.
The thing with shreddies as well, when you bought the cereal the box had a picture of which nana knitted the box your eating 😂
Crusha is a milkshake mix that has a orange cat on it
Wynn Evans the go compare opera singer, made a fortune from years of adverts for Go Compare. He is really a singer and has become more famous for his adverts.
Snickers in the Uk originally branded as marathon until it’s rebranding in the late 80’s and Specsavers is an optician .
Opera singer is now on 18 years as representative for go compare bur now it is the real guy who plays the opera singer doing the ad.
The tango add was banned because people were going 🙌🏻👏🏻 to peoples faces
It's an interesting subject. Advertising companies aren't stupid - they know their audience. Advertisements can be seen as a telling window into the broad national psyche, and I think a comparison between US and UK ads bears this out. Ads that we in the UK find hilarious, leave Tyler confused and bemused.
The Orange Tango man advert was one of the funniest adverts I saw growing up. It is a great shame it was banned. Luckily, I was never "tangoed" in school, so I couldn't really work out what all the fuss was about.
They were perceived as promoting violence, yes nudity and sexual innuendo is allowed but any suggestion of violence a no no.
So good to hear you call them adverts
When I was in NY at Christmas, every advert was for either some kind of insurance or some kind of medication.
sad 😪
In UK we generally don't get adverts for medication/drugs, unless it it's like an ovber the counter cold remedy or something. Medication is generally prescribed by our doctor and we go to collect it at a pharmacy, no need to choose or buy them.
The Go Compare guy actually restored the theatre he grew up in off his fees from those ads... something good came out of it in the end.
The music used in the Smiler advert is Norwegian; "In the hall of the mountain king (I Dovregubbens hall)" by Edvard Grieg, made as theatre music to the play Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen. It is known outside the play and used as general scary music in Northern Europe - and used in Norwegian kindergarten/school plays to show fear, anger, or braveness in the face of danger. Sometimes a few of the kids cry a bit when the song goes fast, but generally Norwegian children are taught to be stoic listening to "trolls coming"😂 The scene in Peer Gynt when this song is played, is from inside a mountain; Peer realizes he is trapped there forever with the mountain trolls, and he will have marry a female troll and live a troll life, but can get rich and powerful as his wife- to- be is the troll princess. The switches in tone and fast pace symbolizes his conflicting feelings and getting swept away into troll society (after having left a mess in his human society). Peer being Peer, he of course escapes later, and finds new drama elsewhere 😅
Erasure did some versions of it on the b side to It doesn't have to be like That back in 87.
Yes, Edvard Grieg's music has been the Alton Towers Theme Park & Resort theme for years. They change it seasonally or for new rides, hotels, and events.
The Smiler has its own theme by IAMscore, called "The Smiler Theme." Look it up on UA-cam. Alton Towers also has a CD with these ride themes.
The latest Nemesis re-opening advert is great. I'm a big fan of Alton Towers and The Smiler.
The Smiler features 14 inversions (world record), with a sinister "Ministry of Joy" theme, flashing lights, and optical illusions.
It's 98 feet high, 3,839 feet long, with a top speed of 53 mph and a G-force up to 4.5 g.
You know when you've been tango'd best advert ever. Thanks Tyler.
Best adverts were way back.
The Smash adverts, Cinzano adverts with Leonard Rossiter & Joan Collins, the Hamlet advert with Gregor Fisher.
Probably the best are the Irn Bru adverts especially the parody of the Snowman.
Cinzano is a pain to upload on UA-cam due to copyright issues .
and one did feature Marina Sirtis from star trek the next generation.
I wish you'd get to the end of the ad before commenting. Then you'll know what the ad was about.
I agree too...
"pause, What is this?, I dont know this is for!"
You won't know if you pause, the revels will always come at the end of the advert even if just a simple quote...
don't pause and comment, just wait for it..
Where is my so money supermarket advert! Please react to it in the future I need to see my boys dancing 😂 x
I cannot believe the Hastings Direct ads didn’t make it into this, I’ll know that phone number for the rest of my life
Same 🫣 can still say it even now 🤣
The really, really iconic ones date back to the 70's and 80's. Although the slogans from of the modern ones have become part of British vernacular. "Simples", "Should have gone to Specsavers", "Does what it says on the tin", etc. It sounds like the AOL one is voiced by Sir John Hurt, who voiced a couple of terrifying but iconic government AIDS awareness ads c. 1986.
Peter Serafinowicz does some parody ads in his short lived sketch show based on the Cilit Bang ones.
Look up 'Kitchen Gun' and 'Toilet Grenade'
Specsavers is a company that tests your eyes, and sells you glasses when your eyes are obviously classed as "faulty"
So - the joke is that this guy thought he had gone into the sauna - but had accidentally stepped into Gordon Ramsay's kitchen next door because of his poor eyesight
Thanks, Tyler. That was a lot of fun. Peace
So funny as a Brit watching an American react to our bonkers adverts 😅😂
Funny guy!
The Cilit bang one that feels familiar to you, really stood out to us when it aired - as that is not our style of advert.
It was making fun of the style of infomercials that you are used to.
'You wouldn't steal a car'
I would if I could download it
I would, I'm a scouser!
My absolute fav ads from back in the day, are Batchelors Super Noodles "I'm wasting away" and Reeboks "Belly's gonna get ya!".
We had those piracy ads here in Norway too. They were so anoying that they mace you wan't to go to Pirat Bay at once!! :D
British adverts appeal to our imaginations and humour. American adverts just shout at you like you are an idiot. "HI I'M BARRY SCOTT", plus you have them thrown down your throat, ads in live sports? Wow!
American ads consist of somebody shouting at you and then repeating it all over again. As soon as they start, i change channels.
Oh my god I remember how hyped I was to see the smiler ads, idk what it was but they were just so cool to me
Same, and it was an epic first ride, and still is till this day! 14 loops of pleasure! Still my favourite rollercosster. I have at least 3 goes each visit to alton towers
Specsavers is a glasses place not the sunglasses variant
Strange? You're telling me Americans don't have puppets selling you pasta sauce? BANG and her shirt is gone.
10:30 TANGO AD WAS BANNED WITHIN HOURS OF FIRST BROADCAST - The day after this advertisement was aired, schoolchildren were slapping other schoolchildren and shouting 'You've been Tangoed'. The creators of this contraversial advert refilmed and inserted a new sequence which showed 'Orange Man' kissing his victim instead of slapping him.
Great video Tyler as usual Specsavers is an opticians where you can buy glasses
The smiler was a ride I went on at Alton towers. A year later two teens died and several more were injured in a tragic crash on this rollercoaster.
You don't know what specsavers was an advert for...
The logo is a pair of glasses, the company is called specsavers, the words on the screen are telling you about varifocal lenses..and a pair of single vision Is £75. And the offer isn't on safety glasses.
It doesn't really take a full squad of detectives to work out what it could possible be.
As my father was RAF I've been an expatriate all my life - so I've never seen any of these either.. But even though I'm as ignorant as he is about them, and some of them are for products I'm not familiar with, most of the products being advertised are self-explanatory. It's in the language used for them. so there wasn't one that I, as an English speaker, found confusing. Also: Imagine : a society where actual genitalia isn't shown, but the idea that if you can extrapolate "nudity" it gets banned!! Neither I nor my parents or children think the human body is disgusting. In a lifetime in war zones we'd rather see the human body than to watch violence and death pumping into our living rooms!
The 'Specsaver' ad wouldn't sound the same in Americanese 'EyeGlassSaver", now would it
Best specsavers ad had to be the one with the old shepherd . . .
I liked the old couple getting on a big dipper by mistake to eat their sandwiches. What kind of cheese was that!
Oldi?? I have never heard that pronunciation of Aldi before.
Wikipedia: Go Compare.
Wynne Evans BEM MStJ (born 27 January 1972) is a Welsh singer, presenter, and actor, known for his role as Gio Compario and latterly himself in the Go.compare insurance adverts on television in the United Kingdom.
Evans sang the role of Ubaldo Piangi in the 25th anniversary production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall,[1][2] and sang "Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur" at the last game at White Hart Lane.[3] He reprised the song at the opening of Spurs' new stadium.
Opera singer
Born in Carmarthen, Wales, Evans studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio.[1]
I remember the you've been Tangoed ad, when i was a little kid. It wasn't aired for very long. It had to be banned, because people was just going up to random people on the street and slapping them a cross the face then running away shouting you just been tangoed." Even if they wasn't even drinking Tango.
The new tango advert in a prison is so tongue-in-cheek funny!! 😂😂
NO SHREDDIES!? I always thought they were American. Great to wake up to your content.
They're made by Nestle, who are Swiss and the biggest food company in the world.
Shreddies were originally created, manufactured and marketed in Canada, by the Canadian division of an American company acquired by the American NABISCO corporation. Like most corporations, they had foreign production, including the UK. So, you also could find Shreddies in the UK and USA, as well as Canada. Like many brands, Shreddies have passed hands a few times over the decades, eventually ending up with different owners in different countries.
😂 Slapped in the face by an orange man 😂
You crack me up (That is British for you really make me laugh out loud) 😂
I just love your videos. Keep them coming 🤗😆
So I was a teenager when this came out. It describes the hit of this tango fizzy drink. The orange man comes out and shocks you, like the drink does in taste. There was a few of them. It became a craze between the young and got band to do in schools across the country..proper dunny stuff. Even youth today understand the term...you know when you've been tango'd. It's even become an analogy for something shocking 😂
Specsavers is wear we buy our glasses 🤓
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! I love it. Tyler watches Barry Scott and has the gall to say he has an annoying voice. Pots and kettles Tyler, pots and kettles. 🤣🤣🤣
You have to look up the ki ora advert, that will blow your mind. 😂
Great reaction 👍. There is a full suite of hilarious Tango ads to watch and react to.
Specsaver! Optician, eye tests and new glasses. I was there for an eye test the other day 😊. And now I’m waiting for my new glasses to arrive 👍
So innocent on the first one "are all british nostalgic ads like this" 😂 nope
You're laughing at the piracy notice but happy to see ads where the music has been tuned out ...???
You know when youve been Tangoed, best TV adverts of all time
Seriously Tyler why don't you watch the adverts all the way through then you wouldn't need to keep stopping the ads half way through to ask questions...
The Tango ads are brilliant 😂
You've just become my favorite reactor ❤❤❤
Back when ads used to be good. Now most ads are corporate or irritating.