I'm actually surprised none of them has seen this ad. They are the right generation to have seen it when it was spreading around the 'net in its early days.
The actress that was sued was an absolutely adorable Sarah Michelle Gellar. The ad was about how McDonalds made their regular hamburger with 20% less beef than Burger King. She says "Do I look 20% smaller to you? I must to McDonalds." It ends with her saying" I know how to let McDonalds know how I feel, I eat at Burger King" Apparently, for years after that she wasn't allowed to eat at McDonalds because if she did the commercial would have been lying. The ad is available on TH-cam. It's definitely worth watching.
That's why you shouldn't sell yourself for crap like that. You end up getting in trouble, while your employer gets the big bucks off of you. But... *who the hell sold this poor child?*
@@henningerhenningstone691 Because some pathetic corporate entity might act in an unreasonable and spiteful way towards a child? I think more kids should be doing this. Stick it to the suits. They suck. The last thing you should be afraid of as a kid is litigation from McDonald's, that's the hallmark of a nightmare society.
That seems funny in this day and age where a lot of people (especially those who love fast food) could stand to be 20% smaller by eating smaller portions.
Random fact. I prefer Pepsi over the other, but for some reasons, it's like getting harder to find one in my country, especially the one with flavours.
@@kelvintan3174 In Finland you find Pepsi alright, except everything with flavor is Pepsi Max, the sugarfree version. And I don't like the taste of Pepsi Max, it's one of my least favorite sodas.
@@JulesVonBasslake I see. I prefer Vanilla Pepsi though. But the other flavors are good too. Ps. The more common ones here are regular Pepsi and Pepsi Black/Bold(sorry, a little brainfart happening now)
@@kelvintan3174 When traveling to Germany it was very weird to hear that Pepsi is almost considered an off-brand drink there; Coke is more expensive and considered the "real cola", while pepsi is the stuff you buy when you want to save money. Here they both cost exactly the same and people consider them as equals; many claim they have no difference in taste, etc.
There have been many blind test tastes studies and nearly always Pepsi won them. Coke's marketing is just too good, so people assume it is the superior drink, but studies suggest the opposite.
I remember it to this day because it was the first commercial that I saw that was also kind of smart interesting and I thought to myself You need to be a genius to work in this profession and now I see all those TikTok‘s about products to buy and stupid commercials. how I romanticize about those old days where there were something of a story in those commercials, it was interesting. It was better than the movie itself.
When I heard the plot line I thought it might have been banned because it encouraged climbing near vending machines, and there was a risk that children could imitate it and be crushed by a badly installed machine. E.g. they could fall off the drinks cans, grab on to the machine, and pull the machine over.
when i heard the plotline i was remembered of an old joke about a guy a walking stick and an elevator.... havent heard it in ages, but this reminded me of it.
Death by vending machine is surprisingly common so I'd take this as a legitimate reason to ban the advert too. Also another issue potentially has to do with kids being given uncontrolled access to sugary drinks, but 2001 probably didn't care too much about that.
I had never seen the commercial, and also assumed that the Pepsi was the throw-away, but a quick web search showed me the boy buying two Cokes to stand on and leaving with the Pepsi.😆
Citation Needed was nice because Tom was just the officiator. There's no way for the other Technical Difficulties to gang up on him in the game. Outside the game...
This reminds me of the riddle about the person who always took the elevator straight to the lobby when he left his apartment, but always walked up the last two flights of stairs if he was going home alone. Never understood why the kid didn't just walk around with a pen in his pocked to get him the extra few inches he needed to press the button for his floor.
5:38: 🎶 "I was walking down the street, looking for a nice cold beverage. My dad came up to me and said, 'Hey, that's a vending machine. Want something?' And I was like, yeah, but then a Pepsi came out and I said Maaaaaaan! What, you think this is the good drink? So I took it, and Threw it on the ground." 🎶 Also, I think 5:53 was someone finding his story especially funny 🤭
Man, the fact that I knew the (first?) ad immediately from Tom's description, but the guests have no clue is astounding. I would have thought they'd all seen it plenty
My favourite part about this is that the ad was made by pepsi to say that coke was worse but in all of their hypothetical ads they put coke as the preferred beverage. The marketing apparently just doesn't work.
See, a rational human being assumes the kid selected the coke because that is what a rational human being would do when presented with a choice between Coke and Pepsi.
I believe the law in the UK is that you're allowed to say that you're the best soap powder, for example, but if you say you're better than a named competitor you have to be able to back that up with some evidence.
I love that even though I don't remember the ad at all, I knew that it had to be a Pepsi commercial, because "Coke vs Pepsi" is exclusively a Pepsi commercial thing, and they use it all the time. Coke commercials, however, *never even acknowledge that Pepsi exists*.
My theory was this: The boy bought a coke, and it got stuck on its way out of the corkscrew near the glass. So he bought a pepsi that was higher than the coke, so it would fall and knock the coke down, then he took the coke and left the pepsi (maybe it took him two tries to get it down, hence the three sodas).
writing it on a paper: it's a kid not being able to reach the top most button, thus buying the previous two to step on then and reach the button for the third
Did you also pick up on the reason why that ended up being banned though? That implied act of literally stepping on ones competitors product was a no no even in the magical world of advertising where you can pass most BS off as merely opinion. Basically due to the fact that crosses the line into implicit slander lol.
With that thumbnail, and after reading the question, I immediately know the answer as I used to have the video in my computer. One of the many random ads that I've shared in my campus sharing server.
it took me like good 5 minutes of the video to remember the ad. i am not sure if i saw it on tv but im sure i saw it on youtube, and i still remember that he gets 2 cans just to be tall enough to press the button of the soda he wants
I cannot believe how long it took them to figure this out! I was screaming the answer at the screen!!!!!! To start with I was thinking a counter & trying to figure out how he gave the money & why the server couldn't pass him the drinks, but as soon as they figured out the vending machine I had it all. It's just the dwarf who gets off the elevator 2 floors below his apartment every day, except when it's raining puzzle, with a variation
Apparently that's not the only one. I looking for this ad, I found another one where a kid wants a coke, and Stands on Pepsi cans. The difference is that it's a refrigerator, and he has to grab the cans out from the shelves in the door to reach the cans higher up. And then he returns the cans he didn't take. Honestly, it tends to make more sense, since Pepsi and Coke tend to have vendor lock in, preventing you from putting both of them in the same machine. I've only rarely seen both in the same machine, when it was an older machine that's actually owned by the property owner.
Ooooh... pausing at 2:05 to say... I think I remember this ad. :D Although if it's the one I remember, I wonder why it was b... oh, wait. no. I remember. Editing to say... nope, not the one I remember. I remember one where the can he wanted got stuck in the vending machine, and he bought two more "wrong" sodas to knock it down so he could get it (and left the two).
I thought for sure that it was that old Snapple ad campaign about how being the third most popular drink was cool. Toss the Coke and Pepsi, keep the Snapple. But now that I've heard the answer, I do recall this one as well.
I know this very well because once I saw it I couldn't forget about it, here on Brasil this kind of advertising is prohibited, it always was... so the first time I saw it was so surprising for me...
As an old guy I remembered the commercial -got it in one, though I had the players reversed in my head as well. I also knew the 'roll of dimes' whyfore, though remembered the backstory only after the narrative explained it to me. The denouement of the pause-stop-play button question had my wife leaving mid-show in exasperation, and me deciding that should've been left on the cutting room floor, replaced with another question. Yet, I'm here. I can't help myself commenting about it, so bad questions "drive engagement" as well.
I’m going to try and answer along belong as I’m watching this (I’m also going to pause the video after Tom has read out each question so that I can attempt to answer it). As you were…
Question 1 (0:47) - I’m pretty sure that it was a pepsi or Coca Cola advert where a young boy wanted to buy a can of Coca Cola from a vending machine, but he was too small to reach the button on it for Coca Cola… So he bought 2 Pepsi’s and then stood on top of those so that he could then reach high enough to buy the Coca Cola can, I’m pretty sure it was part of a World Cup or some football/soccer tournament too? As I vividly remember it being at some kind of football stadium, with a footballer walking past at the end I think?
Why exactly was the ad banned? I've seen the commercial, where the kid steps on the Coca Cola cans to reach the higher placed Pepsi button in the vending machine. These companies have a long history of advertising wars, so much so that Billy Joel put it in his "We Didn't Start the Fire" song.
It was Sarah Michelle Gellar who was in the Burger King Advert who was sued by McDonalds - aged 4 ... and was banned from McDonalds for years after ...
My favourite ad ever is of a boy putting in 2 coins to buy 2 cokes…. So that he can stand on them, put in another coin, and reach the Pepsi button 😂😂😂😂
I'm actually surprised none of them has seen this ad. They are the right generation to have seen it when it was spreading around the 'net in its early days.
Totally
I, too, am over 40 :(
Do you remember every ad you have seen?
@@a4d9 Memorable ones, yes. This one was quite memorable.
Seems like an add that would have been shown at the Super Bowl or something, and then maybe not shown very much after that.
The actress that was sued was an absolutely adorable Sarah Michelle Gellar. The ad was about how McDonalds made their regular hamburger with 20% less beef than Burger King. She says "Do I look 20% smaller to you? I must to McDonalds." It ends with her saying" I know how to let McDonalds know how I feel, I eat at Burger King" Apparently, for years after that she wasn't allowed to eat at McDonalds because if she did the commercial would have been lying. The ad is available on TH-cam. It's definitely worth watching.
That's why you shouldn't sell yourself for crap like that. You end up getting in trouble, while your employer gets the big bucks off of you. But... *who the hell sold this poor child?*
mcdonalds coping that she's right
@@Vexcenot but not about 🤢
b u r g e r k i n g🤮🤮🤮🤮
@@henningerhenningstone691 Because some pathetic corporate entity might act in an unreasonable and spiteful way towards a child? I think more kids should be doing this. Stick it to the suits. They suck. The last thing you should be afraid of as a kid is litigation from McDonald's, that's the hallmark of a nightmare society.
That seems funny in this day and age where a lot of people (especially those who love fast food) could stand to be 20% smaller by eating smaller portions.
Funny they assumed the crappy discarded ones were Pepsi, but it was the other way around in the ad.
Random fact. I prefer Pepsi over the other, but for some reasons, it's like getting harder to find one in my country, especially the one with flavours.
@@kelvintan3174 In Finland you find Pepsi alright, except everything with flavor is Pepsi Max, the sugarfree version. And I don't like the taste of Pepsi Max, it's one of my least favorite sodas.
@@JulesVonBasslake I see. I prefer Vanilla Pepsi though. But the other flavors are good too.
Ps. The more common ones here are regular Pepsi and Pepsi Black/Bold(sorry, a little brainfart happening now)
@@kelvintan3174 When traveling to Germany it was very weird to hear that Pepsi is almost considered an off-brand drink there; Coke is more expensive and considered the "real cola", while pepsi is the stuff you buy when you want to save money. Here they both cost exactly the same and people consider them as equals; many claim they have no difference in taste, etc.
There have been many blind test tastes studies and nearly always Pepsi won them. Coke's marketing is just too good, so people assume it is the superior drink, but studies suggest the opposite.
Mark was impressively good at this. I wanna see more of this secret talent of his.
Maybe he had seen the commercial but played dumb for the show
maybe toooo good 😇
How? I was only 1-2 guesses away from the very beginning (Although I did get a mental picture at the end that hints I might've seen the ad)
@@ArthurKhazbsthey admit to knowing and sit the question out normally.
As soon as he said the question, that commercial came to my mind and that I had seen it!! 😁
i remember seeing it, i didn't even know it was banned!
I remember it to this day because it was the first commercial that I saw that was also kind of smart interesting and I thought to myself You need to be a genius to work in this profession and now I see all those TikTok‘s about products to buy and stupid commercials. how I romanticize about those old days where there were something of a story in those commercials, it was interesting. It was better than the movie itself.
Same. Instantly knew
I saw that commercial. I was giggling the whole way through this video 🤭
I did, too, but I couldn't recall it until Mark described it.
Same, as soon as Tom described, I knew what was he talking about.
I only just remembered the ad about 20 seconds before they finally got it. Suddenly just came back clear as the day I saw it.
"There's something with the mechanism of the vending machine"
That *is* what an engineer would say.
This might be the first one where i knew what it was right from the start. Frustrating, but incredibly entertaining to feel like Tom for a while
that was how I was feeling to, it's OMG, come on! surely you can figure it out?????
This is the first time I actually knew the answer right away :'D The questions on Lateral are amazing. Love the show ❤
When I heard the plot line I thought it might have been banned because it encouraged climbing near vending machines, and there was a risk that children could imitate it and be crushed by a badly installed machine. E.g. they could fall off the drinks cans, grab on to the machine, and pull the machine over.
when i heard the plotline i was remembered of an old joke about a guy a walking stick and an elevator.... havent heard it in ages, but this reminded me of it.
Death by vending machine is surprisingly common so I'd take this as a legitimate reason to ban the advert too.
Also another issue potentially has to do with kids being given uncontrolled access to sugary drinks, but 2001 probably didn't care too much about that.
I thought the kid shook the machine to get a cola, three fell and he only took the Pepsi.
@@bonelesswatermelon420That is genuinely worryingly, that it is common in the real world and not only in the Sims game.
I had never seen the commercial, and also assumed that the Pepsi was the throw-away, but a quick web search showed me the boy buying two Cokes to stand on and leaving with the Pepsi.😆
I got it as he was describing it, which makes this the fastest I've gotten one of the questions since I started watching.
Remembered this straight away. Short kid stood on two cans so he could reach the higher button to get the desired drink
I had the feeling the Mark already knew it from the start.
Tom: I'm always worried when players realise they can team up against me.
**insert flashbacks to Two Of These People Are Lying and Citation Needed**
Citation Needed was nice because Tom was just the officiator. There's no way for the other Technical Difficulties to gang up on him in the game.
Outside the game...
This reminds me of the riddle about the person who always took the elevator straight to the lobby when he left his apartment, but always walked up the last two flights of stairs if he was going home alone. Never understood why the kid didn't just walk around with a pen in his pocked to get him the extra few inches he needed to press the button for his floor.
I was thinking the same thing.
I always heard this riddle with the the line "except if it was raining, then they took the elevator all the way up"
Sometimes women will go up two extra floors so you don't know what floor they live on.
since I grew up in the golden years of ''funny'' commercial videos on youtube I got this one immediately, title and thumbnail might have helped
When Tom re-emphasiszed "young boy" at 6:30 it suddenly occurred to me that I know the ad he's talking about. I'm mad I didn't get it sooner.
I wish whole shows were available as video
5:38:
🎶 "I was walking down the street, looking for a nice cold beverage. My dad came up to me and said, 'Hey, that's a vending machine. Want something?' And I was like, yeah, but then a Pepsi came out and I said Maaaaaaan! What, you think this is the good drink? So I took it, and
Threw it on the ground." 🎶
Also, I think 5:53 was someone finding his story especially funny 🤭
I got this story from the thumbnail and title alone lol.
What an iconic ad.
It's a classic, shocked that none of them got it right away
lol got this immediately and I have no idea why
must've seen it in a banned commercials compilation on YT years ago xD
This commercial was freeequently passed around in emails, gives me such nostalgia for early 2000's internet.
Man, the fact that I knew the (first?) ad immediately from Tom's description, but the guests have no clue is astounding. I would have thought they'd all seen it plenty
Is he talking about the advertisment where a boy buys 2 cans of coca cola to reach the button of the vending machine for a Pepsi? 😂
This ad was mega popular, I still see it today! Lol
Mark was referring to Sarah Michelle Gellar being sued by McDonald's.
A rare Lateral video where I knew the answer straight away! This is the second one this week, but only the third one ever for me, I believe.
I wasn't born yet at the time of this add yet I instantly knew the plot
I had forgotten about that commercial for 22 years.
My favourite part about this is that the ad was made by pepsi to say that coke was worse but in all of their hypothetical ads they put coke as the preferred beverage. The marketing apparently just doesn't work.
See, a rational human being assumes the kid selected the coke because that is what a rational human being would do when presented with a choice between Coke and Pepsi.
When Tom said "young boy” I remembered that ad 😅
I believe the law in the UK is that you're allowed to say that you're the best soap powder, for example, but if you say you're better than a named competitor you have to be able to back that up with some evidence.
I love that even though I don't remember the ad at all, I knew that it had to be a Pepsi commercial, because "Coke vs Pepsi" is exclusively a Pepsi commercial thing, and they use it all the time. Coke commercials, however, *never even acknowledge that Pepsi exists*.
Fun fact: The actor sued for comparing burgers was Sarah Michelle Gellar
My theory was this: The boy bought a coke, and it got stuck on its way out of the corkscrew near the glass. So he bought a pepsi that was higher than the coke, so it would fall and knock the coke down, then he took the coke and left the pepsi (maybe it took him two tries to get it down, hence the three sodas).
Yo, same!
When I was listening to this one last Saturday, I got it immediately because I HAVE SEEN THAT AD.
As soon as Mark said standing on the cans, I shouted "I've seen this ad before!!!"
writing it on a paper: it's a kid not being able to reach the top most button, thus buying the previous two to step on then and reach the button for the third
ayyyyyyyyy
Did you also pick up on the reason why that ended up being banned though? That implied act of literally stepping on ones competitors product was a no no even in the magical world of advertising where you can pass most BS off as merely opinion. Basically due to the fact that crosses the line into implicit slander lol.
6:28 I'm sorry, but this was an absolutely brainless moment. 😂
I very much remembered this ad and knew exactly what it was as soon as the question was asked. Very surprised none of them remembered it either.
I didn't remember this commercial until Mark described it, then I could picture it perfectly.
Mark Rober is a freaking genius!! I absolutely adore watching his mind work ✌️❤️
He's married
I am from 1992 and not even US, and still just from the plot I knew right away which commercial this is about. Cuz it was a really awesome commercial!
I've never seen the ad, but figured out the plot super fast anyway
With that thumbnail, and after reading the question, I immediately know the answer as I used to have the video in my computer. One of the many random ads that I've shared in my campus sharing server.
it took me like good 5 minutes of the video to remember the ad. i am not sure if i saw it on tv but im sure i saw it on youtube, and i still remember that he gets 2 cans just to be tall enough to press the button of the soda he wants
5:00 And it made click and I remembered the ad 😂
Showing the actual ad would have been the perfect ending for this video ! :)
The third time I knew the answer immediately after hearing the question... 😅🤣 I was born in 2001, yet even I have seen the ad.
I remember that commercial. Had no idea it ended up getting banned
Only at 0:28. The answer? A kid bought 2 cokes, stood on them and was then tall enough to reach the Pepsi button, got the Pepsi and left.
It took me a couple minutes and then I remembered the ad in question when Mark asked about a vending machine
I cannot believe how long it took them to figure this out! I was screaming the answer at the screen!!!!!!
To start with I was thinking a counter & trying to figure out how he gave the money & why the server couldn't pass him the drinks, but as soon as they figured out the vending machine I had it all.
It's just the dwarf who gets off the elevator 2 floors below his apartment every day, except when it's raining puzzle, with a variation
"Sir, a second can has hit the 12 pack."
I grew up watching 'What's My Line' and this gives me those same vibes without the constraint of a television broadcast.
This one was extra fun to watch since I instantly remembered that ad. Comes up in a lot of the best band commercials TH-cam videos.
I went and watched that commercial. It's brilliant!
The ad was actually banned because you're not allowed to show a kid getting high on Coke.
Haha, very good!
Never seen this show!
2:57 I remember this ad!
I remembered the ad instantly
I've never screamed so much so loudly at three people who can't hear me!
This was a banger 🥳
My favourite ad of all time
As soon as Scott said '3 cans of pop' I knew exactly what ad he was talking about.
First one I actually knew!
I actually remember seeing that ad somewhere
I finally guessed one before the guests did! Fun as always.
The reaction of them swing the add would be great.
As soon as I heard it I remember the ad. Am I getting too old lol.
What a great combination!!
That commercial was aired before I was even born, yet I knew exactly what he was talking about because it was viral for quite a long time
Apparently that's not the only one. I looking for this ad, I found another one where a kid wants a coke, and Stands on Pepsi cans. The difference is that it's a refrigerator, and he has to grab the cans out from the shelves in the door to reach the cans higher up. And then he returns the cans he didn't take.
Honestly, it tends to make more sense, since Pepsi and Coke tend to have vendor lock in, preventing you from putting both of them in the same machine. I've only rarely seen both in the same machine, when it was an older machine that's actually owned by the property owner.
About halfway through the guessing, I realized that I had seen this ad.
Ooooh... pausing at 2:05 to say... I think I remember this ad. :D Although if it's the one I remember, I wonder why it was b... oh, wait. no. I remember.
Editing to say... nope, not the one I remember. I remember one where the can he wanted got stuck in the vending machine, and he bought two more "wrong" sodas to knock it down so he could get it (and left the two).
The commercial: th-cam.com/video/GyY15Jkkg2A/w-d-xo.html
So I had this immediately.
Im really surprised none of them knew that ad. Thats a pretty popular one from back then.
Mark is wearing his bedbug video sweatshirt.😂
as soon as he said vending machinie and buys two cans for 1 i instantly remembered the ad
I thought for sure that it was that old Snapple ad campaign about how being the third most popular drink was cool. Toss the Coke and Pepsi, keep the Snapple.
But now that I've heard the answer, I do recall this one as well.
0:26 I audibly went "oh nooo..." when i realized what he meant
I knew the answer immediately from the thumbnail lol
I know this very well because once I saw it I couldn't forget about it, here on Brasil this kind of advertising is prohibited, it always was... so the first time I saw it was so surprising for me...
I REMEMBER THIS AD
Right in the middle of listening this, I remember the exact advertisement. They do great campaigns. Sadly I'm more hooked to their main competitor.
I remembered the ad in the first 5 seconds of the video, damn this was easy.
Took me embarrassingly long to remember the ad but it clicked in at about the 4 minute mark, didn't know it was banned though.
As an old guy I remembered the commercial -got it in one, though I had the players reversed in my head as well. I also knew the 'roll of dimes' whyfore, though remembered the backstory only after the narrative explained it to me. The denouement of the pause-stop-play button question had my wife leaving mid-show in exasperation, and me deciding that should've been left on the cutting room floor, replaced with another question.
Yet, I'm here. I can't help myself commenting about it, so bad questions "drive engagement" as well.
I knew exactly which ad it was at the very start, and it was painful how long this took
i know that, i am so so happy
I’m going to try and answer along belong as I’m watching this (I’m also going to pause the video after Tom has read out each question so that I can attempt to answer it).
As you were…
Question 1 (0:47) - I’m pretty sure that it was a pepsi or Coca Cola advert where a young boy wanted to buy a can of Coca Cola from a vending machine, but he was too small to reach the button on it for Coca Cola… So he bought 2 Pepsi’s and then stood on top of those so that he could then reach high enough to buy the Coca Cola can, I’m pretty sure it was part of a World Cup or some football/soccer tournament too? As I vividly remember it being at some kind of football stadium, with a footballer walking past at the end I think?
(So it was a coca Cola advert, final answer)
Why exactly was the ad banned? I've seen the commercial, where the kid steps on the Coca Cola cans to reach the higher placed Pepsi button in the vending machine. These companies have a long history of advertising wars, so much so that Billy Joel put it in his "We Didn't Start the Fire" song.
It was Sarah Michelle Gellar who was in the Burger King Advert who was sued by McDonalds - aged 4 ... and was banned from McDonalds for years after ...
i got it at like 2 minutes in, i remember seeing that ad lol
you didnt show the ad!
here it is
They need the question on screen, they've forgotten it was an ad.
finally, an answer I knew right after it was asked!
My favourite ad ever is of a boy putting in 2 coins to buy 2 cokes…. So that he can stand on them, put in another coin, and reach the Pepsi button 😂😂😂😂
…. I wrote this before watching the episode while an ad played … glad the story and ad live on!😊