15 Funny UK Ads of the 90s
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ต.ค. 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
You can’t open with Leslie Neilsen I’m already crying 🤣
With laughter, I hope.
@@Adfanaticoless funny advert
No thanks. I've just eaten.
The one with the two guys in the boat and the digestive tablets, I’m on the floor.
Brilliant!
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 😃
Oh how right you are. Lots of them actually make you physically want to throw up - folk with no notion of table manners or self respect shovelling food down their faces, gobbling like pigs, bits of food falling out of their mouths, speaking with their mouths full. And as for the utterly sickening one with immensely fat people's armpits, well..... As you say, they make you stop buying things you were actually buying.
@@autishdAds nowadays are far from effective.
Yeh like the virgin Atlantic ad we used to use them but not any more there ads put me right off
:) "What's the financial package?" - There you go: When all of the current misery began!
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.
@@johnmcdonald219sadly.
Bril!. When ads were worth watching! 🤣 Nuff said!.
:) As a non-native speaker in his late 50s: English language TV provided most of my second language skills... But most ads from that era remain a mystery to me even now!
When adverts were better than the programmes. Jake Wood with super noodles 😂😂😂
Fun fact, Johnny English was based on those BarclayCard adverts Rowan Atkinson did between 91-97
Boycott Barclays ( war criminals)
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
😂
He would make a brilliant PM
The Alka Seltzer one gets my vote.
I had to pause to compose myself after that one
i loved the “give it whirl” alka seltzer ad
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!
holy shorts batman.. the millenium was nearly 25 years ago... 😳🥺😨😥😭😖
An old tortoise was casually walking by when he saw your coment. He'd like to say that the year 2025 is ages away. Couse it's much closer for those in a hurry to get there. But when you get to your pension the wish to see time fly may wane faster than some hare and hounds. Of course you do not remember The Beatles first chart hit in 1962. Or sitting by the fire during the big freeze of winter 62/63. But in the year 2049 when you are fifty you will likly experience the same thing when things seemed only yesterday.
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.
@@raminybhatti5740no it wasn't.
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.
I was already old when these were first aired.
Impulse perfume. Very tastefully done. 😁
They were brilliant adverts. WHY ARE TODAYS TV ADVERTS SO UNFUNNY ???
Because woke has no sense of humour.
@@user-zr9nl2wl3o You gave the only correct answer to the question. I was going to give the same reply.
When these were on tv couldn’t wait till they ended. But now they’re great to watch again
That's how far we've fallen, everything's become so shit we've end up pining for TV adverts from the 90s!
5:50 “Take over for a boff, would you, moment?” 😂
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?
Judging by that sentence alone, you're definitely not a dude.
@@ziggerwebdesign1704 Maturity?
Love the Boddingtons ad parodying the old Camay commercials. 👍🏻👍🏻
Boddies ad was my favourite-a pint of Boddies!
Come on SEBASTIAN! Get your arse down to the white cliffs for a square-off!
Excellent. Reminds me of the olden times when you knew what an advert was for & it made the product appealing.
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!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The yellow pages one, definitely remember it. Very good.
Noodles had me crying and the tango ad was very clever and technical. 👏👏👏
Everything was better in the 90's. Peak of western civilisation.
You must be using VHS still.
:) Not exactly the peak, but short after... Celebrating the "win" in the Cold War with losing all restrictions on capitalism didn't do 99% of us a whole lot of good.
@@dayegilharno4988 case in point: in times of peak abundance the stupidest political decisions are made. The 90's was that time, the golden age ended in 2008 when all those decisions made in blissfull ignorance started to bear their poison fruit.
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!
I lost it at the German version of 'Pump up the jam' 🤣
id love to hear the full version :D
@@skiathossFunny 😁 I just found the German version like three weeks ago, it’s Pump Ab Das Bier by Werner Wichtig.
@@Cx8103 I've just opened youtube and first thing I see is the great news delivered by you. Cheers! Thanks a lot whoever you are :D this version is hilarious! love the lyrics 🤣
@@skiathoss It is 😁👍🏼 I'm glad to have been the bearer of good news. The lyrics are fantastic, I love them too! 👋🏼 Cheers!!
Old Yank bird here. I like your commercials better than US ones. You won a subscriber.
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. 🙃😉😂
Try South Africa for no humor any more. Whilst eating dinner you are entertained by words of ..sick of the snotties.. take this med.. they trying to put us off our food now as well.
@@sparkythancztwise There are few things duller and more prolix than those ghastly people who say: "We're not allowed to say/do/laugh at" whatever.
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 Look up Tango Man advert, this was quite tame compared to some of them.
A😂😂😂🎉 loved the last one for yellow pages.
Love the beer foam perfume and the tap dancing 🐧 penguins! ! Posted too soon! Rowan Atkinson as the MI-7 recruiter! I’m dead! 😂
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.
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. 🤣😜
Very witty and very clever.....and not too obvious. I normally HATE adverts but these are so good
Leslie Nielsen - best dead-pan delivery in the business.
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??
Boddingtons ad- music is "Smoke rings" by Roger Webb. Quality
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.
Puts a smile on my face.
That was great, thanks. I found the one about the dog and the noodles the funniest! 😂😂😂
Thank you for your thank you. kind looloo4029
Some iconic UK adverts - I often wonder how many of the actors went on to bigger and better things. I only recognised a few
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
What a breath of fresh air that was. Iv never spoke so highly of adverts since 🤔🤔🤔💙💙💙
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.
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.
Damn, I remember all of these......................
Some absolute belters there!
needs a followup video with the Harry Enfield Dime Bar ads
Yellow Pages - fantastic!
Ì remember this one vividly 😂
Thanks for finding and taking the time to upload these. My my did bring back some memories so again 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.
I remember seeing all of these very fondly.
This was a great look back. Thank you for making this.
What a nice comment. I thank you for your thank you!
Some fabulous memories, thank you for sharing 😊
Hamlet cigar football one is brilliant...with Mark Burdis
Come on Sebastian!!!! let's do this, dunno about you but that's got me right up for it
That German version of pump the jam 😂
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?
Australia has a decent one from Dodo internet right now.
You mean British or UK ads are '****'. That is because you have nothing great to advertise. When all or most around you have better quality or quality at better prices. Then spending on expensive advertising becomes an obviouse 'no, no'. My comment is just chattey and not a dig at you. But it is about the state of the British Isles today. With most every industry destoyed by the Tories there is nothing left worth advertising. Sadly you know with all the privatisation going on the Torys would sell the clouds if they they thought they could. But even the clouds are no longer safe as they too are now being sold.
UK ads are the best - more please!!
Adverts for booze, tobacco and meat. Them were the days.
Yes, now all we have is alcohol, gambling, junk food in vast quantities, obesity, degeneracy and how to make dubious legal claims.
Some of the most creative people are in advertising. Great compilation. 😊
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.
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
Gone are the days of good ads
'...I'll take you all on, I'm Ray Gardner...'
Who is he?
@@reader4111 3:15 One of the greatest of Englishmen, albeit fictional.
Hilarious stuff. Thank you for posting these. 😂
Thank you for your thank you!
Cheers, mate. Needed a good laugh today.
😅😅😂😂 Memories! Tango and Batchelors noodles! 😂
The babies all have their own babies now.
It's like an elephants graveyard of old celebs who once upon a time had the face to sell stuff. Rest in retail peace.
What many celebs found was that doing funny, self-deprecating ads made them even more popular with the public. And, of course, they got paid good money.
@@Adfanatico yep but looking at these adds is still reminds me of viewing insects whose past is now caught in aspic.
Totally amazing and great nostalgia.Thanks for uploading.
Thank you so much.
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?
@@bigCyril Of course it is.
@@101dannybhoy a WEF fonspiracy I guess
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.
7:55 when the devil sits next to you on the plane
Great choices Patrick !
can you imagine the baby one now jesus haha
Oh my gosh, the Barclays / Rowan Atkinson commercial 😂😂😂
I absolutely hate adverts, any adverts. The adverts that i hate are the current ones. As for these, absolute classics. They keep your attention because they are funny and informative while advertising the product. No wokeness and no box ticking.
Rowan’s was the only advert that made me smile - and it could have been even better!
Wow! A good selection of ads! Nice job!
Thank you, chocciechippie
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
Not seen any of these before, all brilliant!
Kissinger would probably still rate well with 'The Economist' target audience - 2024
8:00 I think I'd rather have a downgrade than sit beside that warmonger.
Usually I hate advertising, if it's advertised you really don't need it. Also, once may be funny twice is definitely not and anything after that is sound off read the mail. But these are funny I laughed out loud at a couple of them. Great video thumbs up.
That's all advertising can ever hope for - to be briefly acceptable because, even if you aren't in the market for what it's selling, it treats you with respect and attempts to be interesting.
Basicly 80s coke heads who were in the west london punk scene of the 70s created these adverts.
5:04 That's him what wrote Benidorm that is
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?
Tango was the best, let’s have it France.
Typical France , still waiting for them
Superb! Thank you.
Fabulous!😂
The best days when the world had a sense of humour You know before the Y generation, millennials and Gen Z A better time in history when commercials were even better than the programme
So glad I was born in 1977. No mobiles, no internet and a brilliant time as a teenager in the 90s. I guess everyone has nostalgia when they hit my age, but life genuinely did seem better back then. No woke bullshit.
The red rock cider gets my vote.
The last one was one of my all time favourites back in the day..😊
Very funny. Good video.
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!
Tango "i'll take you all on" - unfortunately they seem to of took him at his word ffs
Genius! Hamlet and Smash adverts were the best and the Typhoo Gnu! Also Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins!
And the German Berlitz advert.
That alka seltzer was dark
Back before PC and Blair disease. Cheers for the memories..
Ahhh yesss, I remember...
You mean back when it was more acceptable to be a bigot ? OK.
Ahhh… the 90s 😢