The fact i can still recite these adverts and their company slogans just shows how DRILLED into our heads these adverts are, I'm gonna be 80 in sat with the lads in Spoons and belt out "I want some Crusha" or "HI IM BARRY SCOTT!" Ahh mate i love being British
@@Sundjer_Bob_Kockalone So amazing while watching this I found it in my room, the advert obviously indelibly marked in not just our minds but our enduring parents just as much.
Okay, but as a girl who went to an all-girls primary, lelli kellys were everything. What I wouldn’t have given to have 3 different straps for my school shoes.
I was worried that Barry Scott wasn't going to be included for most of the video, but then I heard his iconic introduction and knew all was right with the world
When I was little I was terrified of the dolmio puppet adverts because the puppets looked creepy and once I had a nightmare that the puppets put me in a oven and cooked me alive and that was one of the scariest dreams I've ever had
NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear liv
@@Inazarab I've seen American ads. They're horrific lol. Just medication and useless items. Australian/ British ads are the best. In aus, we had most of these ads
@@Hannahsx Ok, but I wasn't talking about American ads. Though American ads are basically the same as those in the UK on average. But again, I wasn't talking about America. The op said most other countries, not America. I'm asking if the op has seen enough ads from enough countries in the world to make that judgment. No offense to the UK or Australia but Japan and Mexico have ads better than the UK and Australia.
Why did they invent a character that introduces himself as if we should all know who he is to advertise their cleaning product? The whole thing is mental.
The old JR Hartley ones were even funnier. Was a Yellow Pages advert with an old geezer looking for a "Fly Fishing by JR Hartley" book and eventually using Yellow Pages to find a company which had it in stock. It had loads of people going into libraries, book stores, etc trying to buy a copy. Someone eventually got the genius idea to release it and used JR Hartley as a pseudonym for it and they were best-sellers so fetched him a decent sum of money.
i know its a bit nerdy but hex bugs work really simply. its just a small electric motor with an offset weight on it, the weight being offset makes them rumble and vibrate so when u put them in an isolated track they will just move to whatever side is heavier (the side with the motor and weight, aka the front). same thing is a game controllers vibrate feature
@@degenerate-otaku6634 yeah, could be. I just remember it coming on at the start of dvds and stuff and I was just scared of it. Also, I had family guy dvd's. I think I still have them somewhere
After watching the Geox advert as a kid I couldn't wait to get some shoes that actually breathe. The next time I went past a shoe shop I begged my mum to go in to get some Geox shoes. Not long after I'd tried them on and said I loved them the worker informed me that the shoes do not literally breathe, for the sake of my own pride I said that I knew and still wanted them. I left crushed... a five year old boy... defeated.
Swear on god, if Barry Scott doesn't show up I'm going to riot. Holy shit yessss he's here. I don't know how or why, but Barry was a massive part of my childhood.
Damn I had Hexbugs as a kid, literally for like 4 years straight all I would ask for for my birthday or Christmas was hexbugs or a new hexbugs track thing, I even had a hexbug hotel which you could pack up into this carry thing, and then you just unfold it into a hexbug arena, absolutely legendary
George's commentary for this entire video was trying to say what the ads said while getting it wrong, saying "do they still make these" and "I should buy some of these"
Omg I remember always getting the clark shoes with the little doll in it and for some reason we thought it was the ultimate crime to bring it with us in our shoe to school. We treated it like it was some secret mission to sneak it in lol
4:42 I remember my mum telling me a story of when my older brother was in his first year of school and his teacher accidentally broke her glasses during a class and my brother decided that he should stand up and sing the autoglass song thing in front of everyone and sit back down the school called my mum about my brothers “bad” behaviour during class and she had to act all professional on the phone but burst out laughing when she got off the phone and never told my brother off instead she just told him to keep stuff like that to himself and I’m pretty sure she took him out for ice cream afterwards 😂
Also the Clarks shoes for the girls had a plastic window at the bottom with a little doll instead and we would lift the sole and play with them, there were different colors etc
In cas you are curious about how hexbugs move: they vibrate! the legs made of rubber but the main body is hard and i assume has a motor inside of it. It just vibrates really fast and the vibrations move it forward. I never owned one, this is just off of my memory from holding one of my friends.
That compare the market meerkat add, it’s very big in Australia. I used to be a caterer, and we worked at one of their proper buildings, with paintings of them and a giant stuffed statue and everything
Only really beefy kids could rip the whole top off of a Frube... you know, the sausage fingered bully. Who blatantly stole and consumed all thr other kids Frubes, plus his mummy, who thought he was her adorable little snookums, would put a whole pack in his lunch box, along with a pack of Pepperami Wideboys. All that dairy and protein made for a mahoosive, chubby (ironically) wideboy. And so the circle of gluttony continues. All because Froobes are the greatest lunchbox item after dairylea triangles, Lunchables, mini Babybel and, of course... sarnies made with the left over sunday brisket and a wee bitty of mustard... but after them, Froobes are the best. Actually, a combination of all of those would be my favourite lunch in the wide wide world midday foodstuffs, believe!
I loved my hexbugs, they even sold them in the Science Museum! I bought all kinds but soon ran out of space for them and their tracks, ‘twas very sad. I was also terrified by the old Reebok advert when I was very young - I remember all of these!
Shaker Maker was on the go when I was kid, and I'm 58 now. Got my first set at Christmas (Disney) 3 characters, Mickey, Donald and Pluto IIRC... Came with the 3 moulds, a few packs of the mixture and some paints. Then the following year I got the Flintstones set. You could also get extra packets of the mix, it would set in about a minute - but we found that you could use standard wall plaster - mixed thick - if you were prepared to leave it to set overnight. I was probably 9 or 10 at the time... so WOW! that ad was.... OLD!
Woolworths is one of the oldest and most successful grocery companies in Australia. This is due to the fact that it is a seperate company from the British Woolworths and is green instead of red. Woolworths uses fresh produce from farmers and they have a little basket of fruit for children to eat while shopping. “Get your Woolies worth.”
I remember when I really wanted Lelly Kelly shoes as a kid but my mum said they were too expensive, I see what she means now (you paid like £50 for some shoes with lipgloss and a hair clip)
Lelly Kelly was echt heftig kut vroeger😂 iedereen haatte het voor een of andere reden. We hadden er ook parodie van op school, was dat in de rest van het land ook?
In primary school, one of the dinner ladies would stand at the end of the lunch hall and we would go to her to open our frubes with a scissors. That was her job, opening 8 year old's frubes. Day-in & day-out.
I like that in half of these he's having flashbacks, sometimes even remembering things he didn't know he remembered, and the other half he's just getting annoyed.
Was a kid in the UK but moved to Australia in 2011 I never saw the hex bug ad but I had loads of them my brother owned that hot wheels track and always I wanted the lellie kelly shoes but never got them. I did get the mobile phone lipgloss thing shown in the ad, for free once when I needed to buy new ballet shoes. I also own a little plushie of the pg tips monkey. So much nostalgia here.
This video triggered a memory I would rather have left forgotten. I once copied the pepperami advert as a child and my sister (10 years older than me) bullied me for weeks about it before I knew what it meant. I had a very visceral cringe reaction to this.
George you do realise prepaid phones still exist. People still regularly buy credit if they don't talk that much what's the point in paying for a whole month. You pay what you need. It's like buying a tesla when you only drive once a month. Pointless.
The fact i can still recite these adverts and their company slogans just shows how DRILLED into our heads these adverts are, I'm gonna be 80 in sat with the lads in Spoons and belt out "I want some Crusha" or "HI IM BARRY SCOTT!" Ahh mate i love being British
He
we remember barry scott because it is simply incredible
Omg I forgotten Barry Scott was a thing! *HI IM BARRY SCOTT! BANG THE DIRT IS GONE!*
Effective advertising!!
@@Sundjer_Bob_Kockalone
So amazing while watching this I found it in my room, the advert obviously indelibly marked in not just our minds but our enduring parents just as much.
Okay, but as a girl who went to an all-girls primary, lelli kellys were everything. What I wouldn’t have given to have 3 different straps for my school shoes.
Fuckin hell, lelli kellys were the only shit I wanted but I only got them when I was older and they’d gone out of fashion
Holy fuck do you remember the shoes from Clarks that had toys inside??? Those where fucking nuts back in the day
@@yeet1066I had some of those! I loved the dolls in them!
George really knows his target audience. I received great happiness from this video.
yess
same
and its crease that americans have no fucking clue about them
his actual fucking name is tom get it right
@@thejastt are you good?
I love how those old Crusha adverts were basically the exact same thing as early internet cat memes you used to send by email postcard
I was worried that Barry Scott wasn't going to be included for most of the video, but then I heard his iconic introduction and knew all was right with the world
When I was little I was terrified of the dolmio puppet adverts because the puppets looked creepy and once I had a nightmare that the puppets put me in a oven and cooked me alive and that was one of the scariest dreams I've ever had
BRO THAT PUPPET IS TERRIFYING
I guess it was your dolmio day
That's hilarious 😂😂
Lol
THOSE FUCKING PUPPETS LMAO I WAS TERRIFIED OF THEM
George, the hot wheels track you're on about is the "Junkyard Dog Attack Track"
memeulous now loves you
Hope George sees this
i actually vaguely remember seeing an ad for that track once when i was little
2 things
1. How do you know this
2. It’s a shame he hasn’t seen this yet
when he said it, the first one that jumped to my mind was the shark attack one.
The fact that you did not recognize the NGage made me feel so old. :(
Ur mom
George you're literally the longest reigning youtuber that I still watch, remember when I watched your "roadmen" video for the first time lol
NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear liv
@@AxxLAfriku what
"evolved chavs"
Do you remember that cringey american family that sung "America is the place to be"
Team 💯
I love our ads compared to other countries. Most of them are actually quite well made, with quite a few being stop motion or amazing animation.
How many ads from other countries have you seen that you can compare that to?
@@Inazarab I've seen American ads. They're horrific lol. Just medication and useless items. Australian/ British ads are the best. In aus, we had most of these ads
@@Hannahsx Ok, but I wasn't talking about American ads. Though American ads are basically the same as those in the UK on average. But again, I wasn't talking about America. The op said most other countries, not America. I'm asking if the op has seen enough ads from enough countries in the world to make that judgment. No offense to the UK or Australia but Japan and Mexico have ads better than the UK and Australia.
@@Inazarab Okay? This isn't a competition lmao. Also, you asked about other countries. I answered.
@@Inazarab I also looked it up, and ads in Mexico are riddled with misinformation. So I don't believe that for a second.
George should make a video buying everything in these adverts.
car insurance?
@@Arman-tq4jq absolutely.
Pffft he pays £9 for info he can get online for free 😂
@@Alexjk425 better safe than sorry
The fact that Barry Scott is a fictional character and everyone believes he's a real person is hilarious to me and I'd why 😂
This is literally my first time hearing this 😂 mind blown
I thought he was real, until I researched (and rewatching the adverts) about Barry Scott after the video mentioned it
Why did they invent a character that introduces himself as if we should all know who he is to advertise their cleaning product? The whole thing is mental.
The old JR Hartley ones were even funnier. Was a Yellow Pages advert with an old geezer looking for a "Fly Fishing by JR Hartley" book and eventually using Yellow Pages to find a company which had it in stock.
It had loads of people going into libraries, book stores, etc trying to buy a copy. Someone eventually got the genius idea to release it and used JR Hartley as a pseudonym for it and they were best-sellers so fetched him a decent sum of money.
i know its a bit nerdy but hex bugs work really simply. its just a small electric motor with an offset weight on it, the weight being offset makes them rumble and vibrate so when u put them in an isolated track they will just move to whatever side is heavier (the side with the motor and weight, aka the front). same thing is a game controllers vibrate feature
It's literally just a vibration motor lmao
Neek
@@3man3 😅
We all know
When I was 8 I cut the limbs off mine and used it as a vibrator
I was terrified of the anti piracy ad as a 3 year old I would always leave the room when my brothers put on our family guy DVD and come back after
Omg I was always scared of it as well. I have no idea why but I always looked away when it was on. Pure fear
@@aimee7616 i think it was the loud ass music and the fast visuals
@@degenerate-otaku6634 yeah, could be. I just remember it coming on at the start of dvds and stuff and I was just scared of it. Also, I had family guy dvd's. I think I still have them somewhere
Yh like literally i would be watching alvin and the chipmunks and like this thing would come on. And i . Was. FLIPPING TRAUMATISED
I actually kinda liked the music as a kid...
The “don’t illegally download stuff” actually got sued because they illegally used the music
The absolute mad lads
Ironic
@@catboyneilcicierega you beat me too it
Really ironic
L
Dude, the Hexbug theme started, and I was immediately hit with a freight train worth of nostalgia.
fun fact
the ad that was about why you shouldn't pirate content got sued with copyright claims over the song used in the ad
The irony
You became the very thing you swore to destroy!
@@LuDuLootYT You we’re supposed to destroy The Piracy, not join it!
The pure childish excitement of George is so wholesome
After watching the Geox advert as a kid I couldn't wait to get some shoes that actually breathe. The next time I went past a shoe shop I begged my mum to go in to get some Geox shoes. Not long after I'd tried them on and said I loved them the worker informed me that the shoes do not literally breathe, for the sake of my own pride I said that I knew and still wanted them. I left crushed... a five year old boy... defeated.
I was so terrified cause I thought the shoes were alive lol
@@moykurs bruh all I wanted were shoes that could breathe
I can feel this heartbreak even now
I remember I asked my mum if some shoes I was trying on could breathe when I was getting shoes
What kind of adult has to have all the joy sucked out of their lives to cynically correct a 5 year old?
Quite a few of these ads were and still are played in Australia. So nostalgic. Espically the ad at 4:48
Omg yes
Swear on god, if Barry Scott doesn't show up I'm going to riot.
Holy shit yessss he's here. I don't know how or why, but Barry was a massive part of my childhood.
George: "This is why Woolworths went bankrupt"
Aussies: "About that..."
Different company.
George is the only person I use to get more information on UK culture
When I was in year 3, I used to tell everyone that my uncle was Barry Scott, just because my last name is Scott. People actually believed me.
Nah why does this sound like something I would've done even though my surname isn't even Scott 💀
Crusha is basically squash, but you add milk to make a milkshake instead of adding water.
It sounds rank but it actually tasted good. Raspberry was nice!
@@scarlett-moriko1543 I enjoyed it on the few ocassions I was able to have it. It was a rare treat.
It's so good
this is genuinely one of my favourite videos of yours, the passion and feelings in this video was amazing. good job George
The hexbug ad unlocked a memory I didn’t know I had
Agreed
I remembered many of these ads, some brought happy memories, some brought back a sense of dread
Damn I had Hexbugs as a kid, literally for like 4 years straight all I would ask for for my birthday or Christmas was hexbugs or a new hexbugs track thing, I even had a hexbug hotel which you could pack up into this carry thing, and then you just unfold it into a hexbug arena, absolutely legendary
hahaha i had that too, it was brilliant
LUCKY
Barry introduces himself with such confidence, we should all aspire to be a little bit more like Barry Scott.
George's commentary for this entire video was trying to say what the ads said while getting it wrong, saying "do they still make these" and "I should buy some of these"
It works
so glad u mentioned those terrifying road safety adverts they traumatised a generation
These unlocked some memories lol
Nice name and pfp
This video really took me back man, I miss how good adverts used to be
The piracy ad was a fucking classic oh my god, I remember it on the mr beans holiday ad
Ironically, the ad makers behind the privacy, it’s a crime, stole the song
@@katsudon2048 LMFAO
The nostalgia of these ads hit different 😂
I never been to the UK but these ads feel nostalgic because there was a certain time when ads had that quality
I have not seen any of these (which makes sense cause I've lived in germany all my life) but I love how excited george gets about them.
Omg I remember always getting the clark shoes with the little doll in it and for some reason we thought it was the ultimate crime to bring it with us in our shoe to school. We treated it like it was some secret mission to sneak it in lol
4:42 I remember my mum telling me a story of when my older brother was in his first year of school and his teacher accidentally broke her glasses during a class and my brother decided that he should stand up and sing the autoglass song thing in front of everyone and sit back down the school called my mum about my brothers “bad” behaviour during class and she had to act all professional on the phone but burst out laughing when she got off the phone and never told my brother off instead she just told him to keep stuff like that to himself and I’m pretty sure she took him out for ice cream afterwards 😂
That reminds me of any time an autistic kid says anything in class and the teacher calls their parents.
I should know. That kid was me.
The fact the cadburys gorilla playing the drums isn’t on here really hurt my feeling 😂
Loving the Barry Scott inclusion, pretty sure that guy was a part of the majority of British kids' childhoods lmao
I’ve always wanted HexBugs because of those adverts
You and me both
Also the Clarks shoes for the girls had a plastic window at the bottom with a little doll instead and we would lift the sole and play with them, there were different colors etc
In cas you are curious about how hexbugs move:
they vibrate! the legs made of rubber but the main body is hard and i assume has a motor inside of it. It just vibrates really fast and the vibrations move it forward.
I never owned one, this is just off of my memory from holding one of my friends.
There was a small circular metal piece around the middle or the back of the main body of the hexbug that spins very fast and makes it vibrate
Not tryna flex but i had 3 hexbugs 😎
That compare the market meerkat add, it’s very big in Australia.
I used to be a caterer, and we worked at one of their proper buildings, with paintings of them and a giant stuffed statue and everything
We are so unworthy of the Chad technology that is the Hexbug
The one ad song I can never get out of my head is the Lelly Kelly song, it is driving me crazy!
i remember hating it with a passion, even as a child, it was so overplayed XD
Barry Scott is a legend. I remember the bang ad coming on every break and it was amazing.
I remember watching these ads growing up. This video is so nostalgic
When he said 2007 was 14 years ago I felt so old
As someone who has seen every one of these adverts multiple times I can infact confirm I am a British citizen
Only really beefy kids could rip the whole top off of a Frube... you know, the sausage fingered bully. Who blatantly stole and consumed all thr other kids Frubes, plus his mummy, who thought he was her adorable little snookums, would put a whole pack in his lunch box, along with a pack of Pepperami Wideboys. All that dairy and protein made for a mahoosive, chubby (ironically) wideboy. And so the circle of gluttony continues. All because Froobes are the greatest lunchbox item after dairylea triangles, Lunchables, mini Babybel and, of course... sarnies made with the left over sunday brisket and a wee bitty of mustard... but after them, Froobes are the best. Actually, a combination of all of those would be my favourite lunch in the wide wide world midday foodstuffs, believe!
This feels personal 😂
I remember so many of these , some of them i'd entirely forgotten until now
Only dog hotwheels thing I could find was the 'junk yard dog attack track'
This has triggered so much nostalgia for me, thank you for this phenomenal video mr big man George memeulous
I'd like to see this type of vid but reacting to old British and Irish car crash ads
Lol the RSA ad filmed in ballymun scared the shit out of me
I loved my hexbugs, they even sold them in the Science Museum! I bought all kinds but soon ran out of space for them and their tracks, ‘twas very sad. I was also terrified by the old Reebok advert when I was very young - I remember all of these!
Mr T driving up in one of our tanks handing out Snickers is all we need to get the US troops to leave Korea
2:37 'Allow drying time before pain' 😂
uk ads are either iconic or terrifying
1:35 it’s like a mixer you pour milk and then the crusha it’s really nice actually
Hi George, pretty sure the hot wheels track is called junkyard dog attack track and was discontinued awhile back, hole this helps, loved the video
Shaker Maker was on the go when I was kid, and I'm 58 now. Got my first set at Christmas (Disney) 3 characters, Mickey, Donald and Pluto IIRC... Came with the 3 moulds, a few packs of the mixture and some paints. Then the following year I got the Flintstones set. You could also get extra packets of the mix, it would set in about a minute - but we found that you could use standard wall plaster - mixed thick - if you were prepared to leave it to set overnight.
I was probably 9 or 10 at the time... so WOW! that ad was.... OLD!
exist to join #bringbackbarryscott. only legends remember that absolute incredible person
I agree with you about EE Wednesdays. I have soo much nostalgia associated with my friends' Orange Wednesdays, great trips to Vue cinema were had.
you should do a video comparing uk and usa ads for the same product i think it would be interesting
OMG YESSSSS
10:49 it’s called ‘Hot wheels Junkyard Dog Attack Track’
Woolworths is one of the oldest and most successful grocery companies in Australia. This is due to the fact that it is a seperate company from the British Woolworths and is green instead of red. Woolworths uses fresh produce from farmers and they have a little basket of fruit for children to eat while shopping. “Get your Woolies worth.”
The fuckin' dol mio ad - school gave us an after school detention for putting a "whensa your dol mio day" sign on an italian friends back.
Crusha is essentially milkshake squash like with normal squash you add water but with crusha you add milk
i thought it was cat milk its tastes so bad
11:56 “half protection is almost like no protection”
*points to child*
They knew 😂😂😂😂
Video idea: Watch the whole Nativity Quadrilogy and whenever they lie you drink.
Nah
BAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
not the last one tho, it doesn't have Mr poppy in it
George screaming Hex Bug was something I needed in my life
Ah yes as a brittish person I can relate very brittishly to these iconic brittish memories
As a Brit,I love all the British adverts
I remember when I really wanted Lelly Kelly shoes as a kid but my mum said they were too expensive, I see what she means now (you paid like £50 for some shoes with lipgloss and a hair clip)
This was a great nostalgia trip
In Year 2 my HexBug collection got stolen at school and I cried so hard I vomited
Literally half of these ads were also shown in the Netherlands, but then dubbed in Dutch. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Lelly Kelly was echt heftig kut vroeger😂 iedereen haatte het voor een of andere reden. We hadden er ook parodie van op school, was dat in de rest van het land ook?
when i saw that road safety advert with that dead girl in i thought i was going to pass away in fear
This unlocked so many memories. Watching the programmes in the morning before going on sky games
The fact that I genuinely thought George was sitting down untill I saw him moving around … such a small human
God the raw nostalgia from this vid is great
If go compare isn't here I'm throwin hands
arguably one of *the* most iconic British ads.
That was a nostalgia hit and a half... thanks George, now wheres my time machine
In primary school, one of the dinner ladies would stand at the end of the lunch hall and we would go to her to open our frubes with a scissors. That was her job, opening 8 year old's frubes. Day-in & day-out.
I like that in half of these he's having flashbacks, sometimes even remembering things he didn't know he remembered, and the other half he's just getting annoyed.
no wonder strange meme videos exist now considering we all grew up with that Crusha advert 🤣
"Safelite repair, safelite replace"
"AUTOGLASS REPAIR, AUTOGLASS REPLACE"
George is the type of guy to be allergic to peanuts, isnt he?
Was a kid in the UK but moved to Australia in 2011 I never saw the hex bug ad but I had loads of them my brother owned that hot wheels track and always I wanted the lellie kelly shoes but never got them. I did get the mobile phone lipgloss thing shown in the ad, for free once when I needed to buy new ballet shoes. I also own a little plushie of the pg tips monkey. So much nostalgia here.
This video triggered a memory I would rather have left forgotten. I once copied the pepperami advert as a child and my sister (10 years older than me) bullied me for weeks about it before I knew what it meant. I had a very visceral cringe reaction to this.
Watching adverts from the scarred for life generation would be a fun follow up.
I used to own Geox shoes...
I was heartbroken when I found out they didn't work as advertised.
I will never get over George's excitement over the hexbug ad.
I had hex bugs as a kid. Found out my girlfriend found them quite enjoyable a year ago lmao
im so glad im old enough to remember these
George you do realise prepaid phones still exist. People still regularly buy credit if they don't talk that much what's the point in paying for a whole month. You pay what you need. It's like buying a tesla when you only drive once a month. Pointless.
I absolutely loved the hexbug ads