American Reacts to FUNNY Norwegian Commercials (Part 2)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ค. 2023
- As an American I am very used to the the same old boring commercials that we show here in the United States. Today I am very excited to watch some of the funniest Norwegian commercials that I have never seen before. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
It's illegal here to have ads for prescription medications, exaggerated or wrongly worded effects of medications, alcohol (above 2.5% alcohol content) and political propaganda. You really should adopt the political part...
You should maybe replace "you" with "America". It's not the general people's fault when a country is questionable.
@@kunilsen2519 In this context, "you" is contextually used for denoting "America" in the first place, not individuals.
@@Atlas_Redux "You" is personal in American English. Anyways, he's wrong about the people not being responsible for what the elite is doing with the country. The Elite wouldn't be able to rule without support from the people, not even for a week. America is crazy because most people brave enough to escape Europe over the dangerous ocean were the worst kind of religious morons while at the same time, Europe was rid of them. This is why you can't have the right side of politics without moronic Christianity today - in America. Really sad isn't it.
Something to note about commercials in Norway, is that we have something called "Gullfisken" (I don't know if it's a thing anymore or whatever, but it used to be at least) which is kind of a Emmy's, but for commercials in Norway. They'd hand out awards for each month, and then the commercial of the year voted by the viewing audience. So commercials have been quite competitive, and wanting to grab your interest and attention.
And having fun commercials instead of the dull American Infomercials, is less bothersome as well, the only decent American commercials are the ones during Superbowl... and they barely qualify.
oooh right I forgot about that was so fun
Its called Gullruten.
Gullruten is an annual award for the Norwegian TV industry, founded in 1998 by Norske Film- og TV-produsenters forening. The awarding committee has representatives from the major national TV companies, NRK, TV 2, TV3 and TVNorge. In 1998, the show was hosted by Nadia Hasnaoui, and from 1999 to 2012, by Dorthe Skappel.
Gullfisken is a separate award specifically for commercials. Every year, a jury picks one commercial for each month, called Sølvfisker, then viewers vote for their favourite during a live show. It's usually broadcasted on TV2.
Cussing is fairly common in Norway really, I remember a radio interview where Norwegian radio was interviewing some American star of some sort, and the radio host was cussing casually while asking questions, the American sounded so worried for a moment "isn't this on national radio?" the interviewer confirmed and asked why? "can you curse on the radio?" which was once again confirmed, and the American really took well to it and was cussing up a storm throughout the interview. :P
Only children are offended by words.
@@OriginalPuro well said
😂😂😂
@@OriginalPuro Don't disrespect Children by comparing them to U.S. Americans...
It's strange how a "sexual situation" would be bad, but live images from car chases, pictures of murders, shootings and whatnot is completely fine.
And yet, drag queens, half naked, perform in front of children and is actually being defended. The hypocrisy is unbelievable
Or war in Irak. Invading a Muslim country
Oh, and swearing is extremely common on Norwegian TV in general.
The folkdance is called Hallingdans.
It's a sort of competition dance where the hat is raised for each round.
(I think the concept could be compared to limbo dancing... as in... a dance/contest)
Or rather breakdance, some of the moves are similar
are people really dressed up in bunad for this competition?
@@jazzochannel Yes. I think it's more often than not.
Norwegian comedy is gold. You can watch a lot of drama and documentaries from the other Nordic countries, but comedy is rare these days. Netflix would be too addictive for a person like me.
He loved his mom's cooking too much to move out! 😂
Mom's cooking for the win.
The Smash are like cone shaped Doritos which is then chocolate covered. Sweet and salty.
Much softer than Doritos. Chocolate covered sombreros practically. Dont know if they have sombreros in the us but they got them in Thailand and Israel
They have them in the US, Bugels I think they're called, just without the chocolate coating.
Chocolate covered Bugles (Sombreros)
they are hilarious! Canadian here.
Smash is so dangerously good,
you have to stay far away from them if you're on a diet.
Most fattys should stay away from candy in general
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@AmericaIsA3rdWorldCountry
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- To be fair, it's not just overweight people who diets.
Sadly, even a lot of underweight people diet too.
Just goes to show that the media is not just a blessing, but also a curse.
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Can I be honest, I don’t really like smash. Don’t cancel me.
this is the only person i know that actually enjoys watching comercials
Smash is amazing.
If u check out youtubers testing norwegian snacks .. everyone is completely sold on the Smash
Telenors reklame is the best one. Its a hole series about one familie. Very funny.
Technically it was two families in the very beginning, but its one big family now.. Love that its just a years long series at this point.. It got a better story then Twilight ;)
American, and British, commercials are so in your face! A good commercial is one you actually WANT to see because it’s funny or has good music or something else endearing.
The best hands down Norwegian Commercial is "Vossafår - Pirattaxi på Voss (2012)" - "Vossafår- Pirate Taxi in Voss" its a commercial for sliced sausage, it is really good.
The end says "Pålegg frå Voss" - "Topping/Condiment from Voss" "No på Faisbokk" - "Now on Facebook" however Faisbokk is how most Norwegians pronounce it. In that region "på" - "on" is usually written "pao" the sentence should really be "Nao pao Faisbokk" to get the real pronunciation, however this is a national commercial and people have to understand it, for sale reasons.
"Vossafår" - "Voss-sheep" sausage made from "Får" - "Sheep", it is also a verb "Får" - "Obtain" present. "Få" - "Few" and "Obtain" infinitive.
They used to be pretty entertaining, but it has been a long while since I last saw one of this quality
I`ve been subscribed to you for a long time (since I like Norway) but didn`t watch a single video. After this one I think I will stay here also for a long time. Thanks for such an entertaining and educational content:))
One thing I noticed about American commercials is they almost look homemade, while Norwegian commercials look like they were produced by a professional studio.
2:08 it's called hallingdans and it is for the men to impress the girls😂
I love these commercial reactions ❤
I am afraid most Norwegian commercials are much like American, but generally I agree with you. Supposedly, one reason is small bugdets. Little budget require more creativity. But the culture is different and there is no law against swearing. :-)
Americans are so convinced that America is best, and yet one glimpse is enough to realize they are not actually.
thats because there is an annual awards for the best commercial, Gullfisken
we need part 3
Happy to watch a typical average American react to stuff. Actually, the Norwegian commercials that are funny, are often talked about between friends and family, so the payback for the brand is in word of mouth as well as the brand name at the end. Oh, and the first brand, Freia, is owned by an American company, though Freia only produces for the Norwegian market.
Norwegian here, cool video and you are right about the hat very pop in folkmusic then kick the hat. I like Us and Canadian because they have raw beer commercial that is not alowed here, like Blond beer.
? you have people running outside with AR-15s but a footkick in a comercial is too much? you are joking
I think they actually beeped themself in the smash commercial when they swear, so the "beep" is in the actual commercial, not just censored later on the youtube video. it is normal to have a "don't take yourself to seriously" attitude in norway, it reflects in our commercial well🤣
I do think we can joke about just about anything though we do usually bleep or cleverly "swear but are interrupted or bleeped" in commercials if swearing is used.
I think we take foul language more seriously than sexual jokes😂🙈 just since kids tend to repeat whatever they see and hear.
The original ad was in Norwegian. No swearing at all.
Lock at KONDOMERIET. 😂
Aker is the best commercial. The most catchy and nice tune and historical and very well produced. I think it won an award back then. Theres a bunch of more funny ones as it’s not supposed to be funny, but I just love that one😊
Laughed so hard,that I cried😂
One VERY big thing worth mentioning is that most of these commercials are from the 80s-90s-early 2000s.
Yes, most of these commercials wouldn't fly today in Norway either lol.
Oh, they would.
i think the Cream from Tine, is like American/Canadian "stopping giving them cheese"... ie if you stop having cheese in the fridge your teenagers will move out...
Old Norwegian commercials are a different breed
Smash is reaally good ❤️❤️ its like a salty cone shaped chips, with chocolate around it. Sweet chocolate and salt chips, Perfect combination ❤️❤️
the cream was especially made for cooking. Makes it even harder to leave mom's kitchen and her food. is my take
10:55 not postal banks as in plural, but the postal bank, or the bank run by the postal service. It's been closed since 2016 or so. Rebranded as DNB "the norwegian bank".
Search for «VG - Puppy love». A true classic!
I often look at america as the teenager in the world, young and full of possibility, but naive and dramatic. Impatient, emotional, bombastic yet insecure. Perhaps I am wrong, but it often fits :-)
One thing that gets us mad is when an American guy test our Kvikk-Lunsj and says its like a Kit-Kat. Its not like it at all
"I had no idea how funny Norwegian commercials were ..."
Neither did we in Denmark - we didn't even know Norwegians could be funny at all 😂
Well, apart from Marve Fleksnes of course 😉
Well, then you need to update yourself. Among the Nordic countries, Norway stands out in humor, compared to it’s rather not so funny neighbours like Finland, Sweden and Danish neighbours.
Yes he's supposed to kick the hat off the stick lol
There is one with a lady swearing at her grandkid witch is hilarious
Smash are amazing and so yummy too. If you ever goto Norway I highly recommend giving them a try! :)
Certain commercials are only aired after 9 or 10 pm.
you should watch the Norwegian condom commercials! many reasons to why you should buy them.
These commercials are very funny
10:59 That one appeared in your first video where you react to commercials
One of my all time favourites is this: Trond Kirkvaag milkshake, please check it out....
Smash...we have them in Sweden too...delish!! 😋
Most of these are from the 90s and early 2000. Today, most commercials in Norway are boring like the ones in the US.
isnt that amazing how norweigens use smex, violence and curses openly in like that in movies and comercials and STILL has rather low crimerate. and are really nice and respectful...(said by a swed thats like being nice to your obnoxius brother. lol ;) ) its almost like thats not the gateway for the badness in the world. who would have thought...
Yeah, our "dear" Norwegian brothers and sisters are really not that bad after all (Dane here 😉), but we would of course never admit that openly to their faces 😂
The TINE cream commercial is because the cream is oh sooo delicious and his mothers cooking is to stay forever at home for.
First video: He was meant to kick the hat off the stick, as you speculated. He missed.
The move is called “hallingkast”; there are more videos of how it’s supposed to go down.
You need to watch Rema 1000 Comercials about a guy who lives in a smart home. Its hilarious 🤣
They make the commercials in bad English as an inside joke in Norway
How did you forget the Smash commercial you reacted to in 4 months (your other reaction video)? It was like 3 smash commercials in your other video lol >
3:34
Yep, the goal is the hat.
People used to show of with this dance.
And the further up your hat was, the more impressive, girls often have to stand on a chair to get high enough these days.
7:08
Went bad?
I think that the point is more that the taste is amazing and makes you want to stay?
9:04
Exactly.
Tyler “could never exist in America” Walker
If you wanna see more of Hallingdans or Laus, the dance in the first commercial, check out this video with some traditional Norwegian dancing made to impress. I think some of the moves might surprise you:
"Hallingdans HallGrim landskappleiken 2013 halling dance" th-cam.com/video/jxhNWYTUiQQ/w-d-xo.html
Sounds like she wanted to see Olsenbanden. 4:51
00:14:40😅😅😅😅😅your face,,,!,fart jokes never grows old
You should find Doffen har daua :D
Yes smash is corn cones/bugles that are salty and dipped in milk chocolate.
These were all 20 year old commercials
Smash is amazing
Smash are chocolate covered Bugles.
Neither had we in Denmark next door ( with a very similar language to Norwegian ) - we never knew that the Norwegians had any sense of humour at all 😂
th-cam.com/video/ykj3Kpm3O0g/w-d-xo.html
I think Norwegians think the same about the Danish and Swedish. Never seen anything funny from any of those 2 countries.
Are you ever going to visit Norway?
yes the kick was accidental ofc
Is this a re-post?
In the fart commercial at @09:09 they speak Swedish... it is basically the same as Norwegian so the commersial might have been Norwegian in origin but with Swedish actors. Me don't know.
Regardless, there are fart joke commercials from the states. I find this particular one to be funnier than the Scandinavian one.
th-cam.com/video/d2QNuDUTocE/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=NicolasCooper
I am actually eating smash while watching this
“You cannot show violence” on tv, just go to school and see some shootings 🙈🙈🙈
No, they would not show it in America, because they are prudish 😂
Commercials from New Zealand are not bad either
Yes, you would think that advertising companies could sell their best ideas to each others.
Time for some more serious Norwegian culture. Or perhaps not... Here is some classical Norwegian humour that I think you will enjoy: th-cam.com/video/HNGiyQJrPtw/w-d-xo.html
I think Norwegian commercials are more patient because they're usually on TV (though some are on TH-cam, etc, and those tend to be more fast paced),
And you can't skip those commercials without having prerecorded it and watching it later, so you'll have to just wait through it.
(though this is just my unprofessional opinion)
Most Norwegians speak and understand English pretty well or better - and they even learn English from a very early age these days, foreign movies and TV-shows (mainly in English) here in Scandinavia are always subtitled, never dubbed! *} - so we are also used to hearing all sorts of spoken English - , and our three very similar languages in Scandinavia are actually like close cousins of English with many deep similarities in basic vocabulary and in grammar, so it's like we already know a simplistic English from day one, making it fairly easy for us to learn English.
You just can't hear all these similarities on the fly when hearing our spoken Scandinavian languages due to our "peculiar" pronounciation traditions, but you would be able to spot the meaning of many of our basic words, if you saw them in writing.
*} They do however use dubbing all the time for such foreign TV-programmes in Germany South of us, so we joke up here in Scandinavia that
"Dubbing is only for small children ... and Germans" 😂
Also because of the Scandinavian dialects. Me as an example. I would rather speak English with some from Norway or Sweden. I don’t understand what your saying when you speak your own language, and you don’t understand me. 😂
@@plantepedellen But you could easily learn it with just a bit of practice and focus, so it's a actually a bit tragic.
@@Bjowolf2 is it tragic that I don’t want to learn your language? Thats new… :)
@@plantepedellen 😂
No, but it's simply tragic when the speakers of the very similar Danish, Norwegian & Swedish languages don't even bother understanding each others directly, but just straight away prefer speaking English together instead.
Understanding the other two languages is mostly just a question of tuning in, listening up and the others speaking a bit slower and more clearly.
As long as they are not speaking in extreme dialects, I understand almost everything in Norwegian & Swedish without ever having learnt them deliberately, but simply via watching their TV-channels.
I watched the youtube video 10 best superbowls commercials. They just seems over the top and have nothing to do if it taste or is good. It's a person who tell another person they are doing something wrong.
Smash is like Chocolate covered Bugles, my american wife loves them alot
It's baffling that the corn snacks/chocolate combo is not a thing in AMERICA of all places.
@@DivineFalconyeah good point
Det e´forskjell på fisk og FESK - Lofoten fiskeburger e en av mine favoritta
Hi Tyler, do you want a bag of smash, just to try them out? 🙂 It's salty, crisp corn snacks, with delicious sweet chocolate on them🙂 I'll be happy to do that🙂🙂 Irene.
😂
Halling dance... The story goes that one man once stabbed another to death at a dance event, and whe he ended up in court, he stated that the other man had said that he couldn't dance. He was of course deeply offended and drew his knife. Who wouldn't? Story goes on to the judge getting hold of a fiddler to let him prove if he could dance or not. He was aquitted for murder.
Now, for something not quite so fun...
Do you like dogs?
You may or may not want to see this video about Nor-Dog.
th-cam.com/video/tbOMLuw5vDc/w-d-xo.html
Yes, it involves a crazy Norwegian. He could probably use a bit of help, too.
Full version th-cam.com/video/WcZItyTEmC8/w-d-xo.html
You have missed out of the REALLY funny one's. I cant find them with subtitles. But we Norwegians will never forget "Doffen har daua" 16 years old and we are still laughing.
th-cam.com/video/7iSki63ZDg0/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ingolfzp
I'll try to translate(or more explain) it:
Mother; "Oh.. Doffen is probably just really tired. He'll just need some rest. Now I'm finding a cup and I'll drive him to the vacation place so he can be with his brothers and REALLY rest"
Sister: "Wazz up..?"
Boy; "Doffen has kicked the bucket!"
(Message is: Keep it simple. A com. for a grocery store REMA 1000)
Steike fine gardine ")
Sadly we got fewer funny commercials now, still some but there was allot more of them in the 90s and earlyer 2k. I think companies etc has gotten a bit to afraid of insulting someone.
This one is still great!
IKEA - Pig Hunt Commercial 2002
th-cam.com/video/w4t652Usg10/w-d-xo.html
Hi. If you give me your adress, i can send you the candy from the commercials. you eating norwegian candy ( Way better than american, believe me ) could also be a fun video.
Smash is from USA
How can i send you some Norwegian candy?
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It was the guy blindfolded who farted, not the lady
..but the lady laughed and spoiled the surprise..
Your not allowed to say Ì swear" in comercials?
you should search for " hallingdans"
no they can´t show that in america but they can show someone get shot in the face on news
Let's guess what the commercial is for...
Sturdy Footwear...
Dental Insurance...
Plastic Surgery...
Eye Glasses or Contacts for the Man...
Learning to duck...
Selecting women for high-contact sports(hockey, boxing, etc...), I mean she took the shot & still remained on her feet...