Yep, some proper classics there. "Not. Happy. Jan!" became part of everyday language for a decade or so, and yes, well spotted, that was a very young Cate Blanchett flogging Tim Tams 😂. ❤
Not happy Jan is still used with a laugh (usually). I favourite of mine was " we like football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars,......." It's probably on here.
Any treatment to "balance" your gut is just a simple way to scam idiots by charging way too much for nothing! Best of all its most prob having a negative effect on you!
The Yellow Pages ad made the phrase "Not happy Jan" part of every day Aussie language. Still to this day you will hear people say "Not happy Jan" whenever something disappointing happens.
I’m surprised the ‘reading writing hotline’ ad wasn’t there, I think every Aussie (at least the 25 years and older) can recite the ad perfectly… ‘one three double oh six triple five oh six’. Such a catchy ad, I recon it did a lot of good, or at leas I hope it did.
It still runs today, in pretty much the same format (think of who the target audience is and what service they are promoting). Sometimes, simple over fancy is much more memorable.
What I found funny was, they said the letter 'o' in lieu of the number zero even though they were reciting a phone 'number'. Confused me when I was younger, unless they did it intentionally?
AAMI Insurance have a funny series of commercials. It starts with the main character Rhonda being rewarded for being insured with them and follows her life after she meets Ketut on an overseas holiday. Very funny.
Fun fact about the Carlton Draught ad: it was filmed in New Zealand, around the time they were making the Lord of the Rings movies - that's where they got all the extras!
One of the big Maoris close to the camera is recognizable. The terrain looks a lot like the Land of the Rohan. I read somewhere that the ad was not very successful at selling beer.
Fun fact about the Telstra ad. They've recently done a sequel with the child actor now grown up and playing the uncle driving his nephew who asks him the Great Wall question. It's very well done!! Also did another Jan ad for the Darrel Lea lol!!
There was also a love Story in the Nescafe ad as well, a whole series, when they first met, he was running a country shop, and they bonded over a cup of coffee, until they ended up getting married.
When I 1st arrived in Australia from the UK in 2004 I introduced myself to people I meet as Jan (being my real name) and they would all instantly shout into my face "not happy Jan". Took me about 6 months to find out why people were always angry with me 😅😅😅
Carlton Draught was a real ad, real people. "Aeroplane Jelly" theme is burnt into our souls haha Yes, that was "Alf" from Home and Away (Ray Stewart, the longest single played character in a TV series in the World) and still on today... SLIP SLOP SLAP!!! Another earworm!
The Carlton Draft ad had a cast of only 300 people and was made by VFX company Animal Logic. Some of it was real but there was definitely some computer enhancements.
That Slip Slop Slap song sounds like it could have been sung by 'Kevin Bloody Wilson', the voice sounds familiar. Not that well known in the UK, but I found him funny many many years ago ........
Either the once a year Australia Day, Lamb advertisements see if you get the Vegan joke in every one of them or almost any Qantas advertisement with the Peter Allen song “I Still call Australia home” start with 1998 or 1987
I was expecting Louie the fly!! First aired in the 50s and still going today I think 🤔 These tunes are so ingrained. I'll be sitting in a nursing home with no memory singing commercials from the 80s! 😅
These are from a time when TV was really the only form of digital entertainment, so these ad's were seen by everyone and repeated over and over everyday. Most of these songs and catchphrases have become part of the Australian culture
Most of that was not digital but analogue. Digital terrestrial television was not introduced until 1 January 2001 in Australia's five largest capital cities, later to be expanded to smaller cities and regional areas. Cheers!
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This is a pretty classic ad lineup 😊 Yep, that's a young Cate Blanchett in the Tim Tam ad. The ad was a lot more famous than her back then! The Aeroplane Jelly and Vegemite ads are from the 50s, but both have been re-run or modernised overthe years, so multiple generations know them. "Not happy, Jan!" became a standard phrase ppl used to express disappointment/disapproval. Slip, slop, slap is a skin cancer prevention ad, very well known to kids of the 80s and 90s. The "Emperor Nasi Goreng" line is one of my all-time favourites, bc it's clear the Dad has no idea what he's talking about 😂
@@doubledee9675 Spot on. Aeroplane Jelly has been around that long, and it certainly did have commercials for it in cinemas back before tv was introduced in Australia.
@@doubledee9675 I'm 80 and mum made me a dress same and 2bows in my long hair and I was 8 so was about 1951 if I recall and we had just got first release of TV.. only few hrs a day..lifetime ago and just remember this from this video..omg
@@helenredmond2742 I'm approaching 80, and the speed of my approach comes as a shock to the system. At least it's not as fast as the approach by my sisters. That aside, my recollection is that snippets of TV became available from mid-1956 so that it could be fully in operation for the Melbourne Olympics in November that year.
I love the one where the family has run out of milk so the mum stomps down to the corner store, which is being held up. She whacks the robber over the head with the milk, slaps the money on the counter, and stomps off home again. So funny, and relatable to every mum.
My most memorable Aussie ads include: 1. Gogglemobile ad 2. Tim Shaw from Demtel 3. Frank Walker from National Tiles (radio ad) 4. Chris and Marie's Plant Farm (radio ad) The AAMi ads are pretty good too.
The actor that plays Alf Stewart (home and away) is legit one of the nicest people ever. When my son saw him on a plane and was like stone the flamin crows (he was four) Ray high fived him. These brought back a lot of memories growing up in Oz in the 90s.
As an 60’s kid, I could watch these ads all day! The not happy Jan will always be one of my favourite ads ever! Forgot how great some of our ads were. This was terrific and brought back lots of memories ❤️❤️
I remember basically all of these, and honestly the ability to recount that last milk ad word for word is slightly terrifying 😂 Aus is clearly very good at the brain worm ad, the songs live in my brain rent free and i still say 'not happy jan' and 'CHOP IT'!
My niece (another cute blonde kid now a tall, blonde, glamorous employee for Goldmann Sachs, and rich, married lady) went to school with the "CHOP IT!" kid. She also went to school with one of the Mister Cruel abductees. Life is a fucking roller coaster. Her paternal Grandmother's name is Jan, and ole Nanny Janny went through hell in the "NOT HAPPY JAN!!" days.
The Spray n Wipe ads were pretty iconic also, they had the actress Paula Duncan in them. The jingle got me singing along every time. Got a call from Mr. Fryer, he's bringin round a buyer The kitchen looked a fright from the little do last night Although I thought quite sickly, I had to clean it quickly With Spary n Wipe All Purpose, I cleaned up every surface Spray n Wipe's a breeze, coz it cuts through toughest grease The kitchen's sparkling clean, and the buyers very keen So thank you..... Spray n Wipe After all these years I still can't believe I remember it word for word. LOL
There’s still some classic left, Louie the fly, Palmolive gold, wash your hands Jeffrey, You’re the voice and Horses, Antz Pants, daily juice, Razza Matazz. 😀
wasn't there was a good drumstick ice cream adv back in the 1980's or 90's? Also there was a RACQ adv that was the funniest adv I have ever seen, with the lady hanging out washing on the line can't remember the words that made it funny.
Not Happy Jan is a phrase we use quite often when something doesn't go to plan. The Slip Slop Slap ad was from the eighties and was produced by the advertising company Mojo. They made the majority of Australian ads in the eighties. The Pauls Milk ad "I just want milk that tastes like real milk" is an option on almost every online poll posted in any Australian social media page.
The Mojo company didn't make the majority of the ads. But they did make many of the classic ads in the 80's that became rather iconic. I think of the cricket ads when I think of them. Come on Aussie, Come on, Come on. 👍
My dad’s friend’s son had the album that song came from. The whole album is full of great footy songs. The Thing About Football and I’d Like to See That being both of my fave tracks.
The Aeroplane Jelly song is from the 1930s… all Aussie children know it by heart, as well as the ‘We’re Happy Little Vegemites”, the Cottee’s cordial song & the Weetbix song. and yes, that is Cate Blanchette (Elizabeth) in the TimTam ad.
On top of the rabbits ad they did a follow up in the paper that year for Easter. It was a full page spread that had a photo of the great wall of china and a whole pile pf rabbits on front of it.
HI ALL Australia here fun FACT the add at the end with the milk LOW FAT no fat DOLLOP ? it was filmed on mason street delicatessen my local and the owner received $5 k and they used his shop from 4am till 10 am he was happy crazy hay true thx
I remember every one of these ads. Yes, that was Cate Blanchett and Alf from Home & Away. Some of my other fav ads are: The Reading Writing Hotline, Lube Mobile, AAMI (Rhonda and Ketut), Banana Boat, QANTAS (Still call Australia home), McCain Corn, Bloody Idiot (Drink & Drive), Lamb Ads, Libra Pads, Dumb Ways to Die, Barossa
Mate. Most of us haven't even heard the Aeroplane Jelly or Vegemite songs on air, they're that old. But we still know it by heart, its built itself into our DNA
When Cate Blanchett did that Tim Tam ad she wasn’t yet well-known. You have eagle eyes. I remember most of the others. In case you were too young to know the British musician Donovan, the music in the Caramello ad that you liked is his song “Mellow Yellow”. It was a classic here as well. Keep up the interesting topics. 🤗
I remember all of those ads even the black & white aeroplane jelly ad, that one bought back really old memories from the black & white TV days, Australia didn't get colour TV until 1977 if i remember correctly that's a long time ago, holy crap I'm friggin old .
Me too luv.... I remember when our family got a colour TV.... that my mum regularly put on the 'wood pile'..... because she was so pissed off with us kids wanting to watch TV lmfao (my Dad would come home and rescue it lmfao)..... gotta love being a kid in Oz in the 70's/80's :D
@No One yep the good old day when life was truly so much easier & with much more fun & freedom, we got our colour TV in 78 i remember it well we were so excited about a colour TV 📺. I even remember going shopping for the colour TV, do you remember the old Beta video recorder with the cable connected to the remote control 😀 you had to get up to use the remote because the cord was not long enough to reach the lounge 🤣🤣.
Colour tv came in 1975, we had just moved into our house and there was no way we could afford it. It was 1982 before we finally could afford to replace the old black and white tv.
God, these ads are so nostalgic. Missed those days when I see em on TV. Now I am here on PC watching ADs on TH-cam instead. Though I will never forget the OG Roof Seals, Victory Blinds, Lube Mobile, Carpet Call and QANTAS. Great songs, great ads and very memorable.
Yes, that was Cate Blanchett :) And "Not happy, Jan!!" has become so much of our vernacular that most young people don't even know where it came from. "I love Aeroplane Jelly" and "We are happy little Vegemites" are old old ads from the 60s and EVERY Aussie knows them, even the youngsters of today who don't know why they know them but it is because their parents sang the songs to them as kids. Another in the same genre would be the ad for Cottee's cordial ("My Dad picks the fruit that makes the cordial, that I like best!) Another old classic is the KFC ad from the 1970s/80s (th-cam.com/video/0YtAVIGq1ko/w-d-xo.html)
The weird thing about that Tim Tam ad is that I can remember the Genie dusting his shoulder and saying "How dull!" but I never realised until today that the woman was Cate Blanchett. I guess that's how "getting famous" works.
Some absolute classics there. The Aeroplane Jelly and Vegemite ads are old classics. We all know those songs... I love the "Not happy Jan" Yellow Pages ad and the Great Wall of China internet ad. To keep the rabbits out...😂...classic! And "Don't chop the dinosaur Daddy". There's been so many very clever and funny ads over the years, this was just a few. 😂
The Telstra ad has been trimmed. A non-Australian might not know that Australia actually does have very long fences erected to keep rabbits out of agricultural areas.
Ahh so many memories… sadly I was singing along they are branded on my brain … yep antzpantz was missing and the lamb roast Tom cruise one… with Naomi Watts. Cate Blanchett looks so young in the TimTam ad… not happy Jan, is a classic & still said in my circles& also another ad we still quote is the Telstra Mobilenet ad with ‘we do Chucky, we do’ thanks Mat another great Aussie post. ❤
The Yellow Pages ad is one my hubby worked on & the window getting stuck was not supposed to happen, it's a blooper! But my Hubs said Deborah the actor just kept going, never lost a beat & did it perfectly! He had to go fix the window and they did more takes but went with the blooper because it made the ad brilliant!!! Hubby loves her BTW, reckons she's one of the best actors ever 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 You should also check out the "Kiss Me Katut!!!" series of ads, Australia got emotionally invested about them! We totally fell in love with Katut & Rhonda, bigger than Kylie and Jason on "Neighbours" they were!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😘😘🥰🥰🥰
The two old looking ads are the originals from the 50s. They were used again with coloured highlights not that long ago. During the 70s there was an ad agency that did their own songs which were extremely catchy! And the language used does sometimes become part of our every day usage.
Some more classic aussie ads would have to be Lube Mobile, The Reading Writing Hotline, Solo soft drink, the old ads for Winfield cigarettes which are now banned from all broadcast media, ads for Holden from the 70s - Football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars... there are so many good and cringey ads from days gone by it's hard to remember them all...🥴 🙃🐨🇦🇺
I love the nastalgia of old Ozzy ads. First time I ever saw any of these reactios and had a couple of ads that wers soo old I had never seen them before. 'Not Happy Jan' Heard and said that many times over the years lol
One of the funniest things I've seen is an Aussie quiz show with American guests and the host starts singing the vegemite jingle as part of a clue, and the entire audience sings along... the dumbfounded looks on the yanks' faces was hilarious!
Yes,that was Cate Blanchett. I forgot she did that ad and yes she is Australian. She is always coming home and not that long ago they made her the Director of the Sydney Opera House. She accepted the job for 4 years and she still made movies all over the world. Antz pantz ads or Tradies underwear or QANTAS ads. There are years of those when they used the Seekers song. They are all beautiful.
The best ads for me were the Toyota 'BUGGA' ads, I would almost pass out from laughing too hard. They were eventually banned as the world got all too serious over nothing.
I remember as a kid watching that Vegemite ad in B/W in the 60's then everything got colorful in 75 I believe I seen everyone of them ad's over the years I'm getting old!
Well that was a walk through nostalgia, back when we were more culture and less corporate copy cats, I've only seen a couple recent adds that made me think. Hey someone's keeping true blue
Cate Blanchett started acting after entering NIDA(National Institute of Dramatic Art) in 1992. After several successful roles on Australian theatre stages, she starred in an ABC prime time tv drama Heartland in 1994; followed by roles in Bordertown(1995), G.P.(1989), Police Rescue(1994), with her debut film Paradise Road in 1997. She then went on to become an International Star.
My mum almost got that role as 'Not Happy Jan' but the casting decided that woman said it better. I laughed when my mum did her impromptu in front me , the right woman got the job (sorry mummy)
I still find myself saying 'not happy Jan' to this day, and I can't type it now but I could say word for word the "ate my guts out'' kids line as he said it. Only 1 in that lot I didn't clearly remember The Grim Reaper AIDS add was pretty full on for the day, and some of the TAC (Traffic Accident Commission) adds are pretty intense when it comes to road safety.
I remember them all. 😂 “Not happy Jan” used to be heard all across Australia for many years while that ad was on tv 😂😂😂😂 You missed out on the Farmers Union Iced Coffee ads. They were always classic! Ballet dancing skid steers and lots of Aussie larakins! There was also an ad where a lady had run out of milk so she was angry and when she got to the shop a bloke was trying to rob the shop so she smashed the robber in the head with her milk! Can’t remember what they were advertising but I will always laugh when remembering that one!
Another famous (at the time) series of adds were the "Clayton's" (a non alcoholic) drink adds. .ike the not happy Jan. Fhe word Clayton's has also entered our slang. The odd thing is most young people don't know it means "fake". As I mentioned in another vid. The skin cancer add is famous. Its been updated numerous times. And EVERYONE knows what Slip Slop Slap means. And it is indeed use in the vernacular as a term for applying sun lotion.
OK some absolute classic Oz ads: - Solo Man series. Solo is an Australian soft drink. It had a guy kayaking an d wrestling a crocodile with the tag line "you have to work it hard to be a solo man" and "you've got to crack a solo". - Golden Gaytime Ice cream . slogan "you can't have a gaytime on your own". - John West 1980's ads with the Japanese guy who says "ah kahn anoo!" Believe it or not that became a cult phrase in 1980's Australian high schools. - Telecom 1980's ads "The Way we Were". - AIDS 1980's PSA with the Grim Reapers at a bowling alley - "Norm" Life Be in it PSA to get people into sports and exercise. - PSA "Don't be a Wally with Water". - American Express "Mr Wong Mr Wong I've lost all my travellers cheques". He says "what kind were they?" - Razzamattazz pantyhose "razzamattazz oh oh" - Franco Cozzo furniture ads. Megallo Megallo Megallo come and buy it at Franco Cozzo - Cadbury block of chocolate with Professor Julius Sumner Miller. Enjoy!
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They missed the most Aussie ad ever....AntzPantz sic em rex
It gets my vote.
Yes!!
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Oh yes, that’s a favourite
Love that one! 😅
Yep, some proper classics there. "Not. Happy. Jan!" became part of everyday language for a decade or so, and yes, well spotted, that was a very young Cate Blanchett flogging Tim Tams 😂. ❤
Not happy Jan is still used around my friends lol
Also No Gary No!
Yup, became classic Aussie language! 😂
Not happy Jan is still used with a laugh (usually). I favourite of mine was " we like football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars,......." It's probably on here.
Any treatment to "balance" your gut is just a simple way to scam idiots by charging way too much for nothing! Best of all its most prob having a negative effect on you!
The Yellow Pages ad made the phrase "Not happy Jan" part of every day Aussie language. Still to this day you will hear people say "Not happy Jan" whenever something disappointing happens.
Absolutely 💯 from an Aussie x
it's one of a list of basic vernacular mileposts
@@braininjurydiy Teach the daughter to drive always involves a lovely braking foot.
And when it’s said to this day everyone who can hear knows exactly where it came from & what it means!!!!!!
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Like a sunrise 😂
My favourite is still the Qantas "I still call Australia home" ad, idk why but after all these years it still makes me cry lol
Any version of them over the years does the same to me.
Brilliant
Mine is a radio add.
Helloooooooooo
Frank Walker from national tiles
It will forever live rent free in my head.
I’m surprised the ‘reading writing hotline’ ad wasn’t there, I think every Aussie (at least the 25 years and older) can recite the ad perfectly… ‘one three double oh six triple five oh six’. Such a catchy ad, I recon it did a lot of good, or at leas I hope it did.
It still runs today, in pretty much the same format (think of who the target audience is and what service they are promoting). Sometimes, simple over fancy is much more memorable.
I can hear it just reading this.
1 threee double ooooh six tripppplee fiiiiiiive o6
I couldn't remember it... Until...
"One Three Double Oh..."
And I knew exactly what it was 😂
What I found funny was, they said the letter 'o' in lieu of the number zero even though they were reciting a phone 'number'. Confused me when I was younger, unless they did it intentionally?
AAMI Insurance have a funny series of commercials. It starts with the main character Rhonda being rewarded for being insured with them and follows her life after she meets Ketut on an overseas holiday.
Very funny.
kiss me ketut
Go Rhonda go... Go Rhonda... GOOOO... RHONDA!
beautiful brake foot
Going to Bali the year of those ads was insane! 😂 the amount of Ketut shirts and being called Rhonda.. good times
The story progression was perfection👍
I was always excited for a new AAMI ad with Rhonda.
Fun fact about the Carlton Draught ad: it was filmed in New Zealand, around the time they were making the Lord of the Rings movies - that's where they got all the extras!
One of the big Maoris close to the camera is recognizable. The terrain looks a lot like the Land of the Rohan.
I read somewhere that the ad was not very successful at selling beer.
I had never seen the Carlton draught ad. Epic!
For real, is that true, no way, if so, that ‘s a great fun fact.
Fun fact about the Telstra ad. They've recently done a sequel with the child actor now grown up and playing the uncle driving his nephew who asks him the Great Wall question. It's very well done!! Also did another Jan ad for the Darrel Lea lol!!
Now you need to go and follow the love story of Rhonda and Ketut in the AAMI ads😊
There was also a love Story in the Nescafe ad as well, a whole series, when they first met, he was running a country shop, and they bonded over a cup of coffee, until they ended up getting married.
I used to love the porridge ad with the Scottish kid saying ' but thats not how you make porridge'😊
Oh speaking of Scottish accents in ads what about the John West ad "They're no sardines - they're baby whales!
When I 1st arrived in Australia from the UK in 2004 I introduced myself to people I meet as Jan (being my real name) and they would all instantly shout into my face "not happy Jan". Took me about 6 months to find out why people were always angry with me 😅😅😅
I feel sorry for all the ladies named Karen
Oh good grief hahaha. Welcome to Australia hey?! 😅
Got blasted by an obscure local meme before memes were a thing.
Carlton Draught was a real ad, real people. "Aeroplane Jelly" theme is burnt into our souls haha
Yes, that was "Alf" from Home and Away (Ray Stewart, the longest single played character in a TV series in the World) and still on today...
SLIP SLOP SLAP!!! Another earworm!
Alf Stewart played by Ray Meagher - you were so close XD
@@troybradford856 If you want the scottish guy to comment on something funny, show him some Doodleburger starring Ray Meagher.
The Carlton Draft ad had a cast of only 300 people and was made by VFX company Animal Logic. Some of it was real but there was definitely some computer enhancements.
That Slip Slop Slap song sounds like it could have been sung by 'Kevin Bloody Wilson', the voice sounds familiar. Not that well known in the UK, but I found him funny many many years ago ........
@@jumpjet777 "slip on a shirt, slop on some sunscreen and slap on a hat"
One of the all time hilarious ad that even won an award was
Toyota Hilux ad”Bugger” (1999)
Definitely worth watching right till the end
That was my favourite
Agreed...totally worth watching.
isn’t that a NZ tvc?
@@mst7806 it’s Australian but this version was the only one I could find ( it played in N.Z too
Yes - I thought this one too. Cracked up every single time! This ad made watching TV worth while . . . ..
Either the once a year Australia Day, Lamb advertisements see if you get the Vegan joke in every one of them or almost any Qantas advertisement with the Peter Allen song “I Still call Australia home” start with 1998 or 1987
I was expecting Louie the fly!! First aired in the 50s and still going today I think 🤔 These tunes are so ingrained. I'll be sitting in a nursing home with no memory singing commercials from the 80s! 😅
1962
More Smart More Safe Morrteeeein. 😁
Straight from rubbish tip to you 🪰
And was quoted by AC/DC in the song “TNT”
@Roddy Jones yep Bons favourite TV add 🪰
These are from a time when TV was really the only form of digital entertainment, so these ad's were seen by everyone and repeated over and over everyday. Most of these songs and catchphrases have become part of the Australian culture
Most of that was not digital but analogue. Digital terrestrial television was not introduced until 1 January 2001 in Australia's five largest capital cities, later to be expanded to smaller cities and regional areas.
Cheers!
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Commercials and jingles also appeared in cinemas before tv, and were heard on radio as well.
Dudes lucky he didn't see the mentos nipple comercial.
This is a pretty classic ad lineup 😊 Yep, that's a young Cate Blanchett in the Tim Tam ad. The ad was a lot more famous than her back then! The Aeroplane Jelly and Vegemite ads are from the 50s, but both have been re-run or modernised overthe years, so multiple generations know them. "Not happy, Jan!" became a standard phrase ppl used to express disappointment/disapproval. Slip, slop, slap is a skin cancer prevention ad, very well known to kids of the 80s and 90s. The "Emperor Nasi Goreng" line is one of my all-time favourites, bc it's clear the Dad has no idea what he's talking about 😂
I think the Aeroplane Jelly ad was made for showing in cinemas and is older that the 50s.
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Spot on. Aeroplane Jelly has been around that long, and it certainly did have commercials for it in cinemas back before tv was introduced in Australia.
@@doubledee9675 I'm 80 and mum made me a dress same and 2bows in my long hair and I was 8 so was about 1951 if I recall and we had just got first release of TV.. only few hrs a day..lifetime ago and just remember this from this video..omg
@@helenredmond2742 I'm approaching 80, and the speed of my approach comes as a shock to the system. At least it's not as fast as the approach by my sisters. That aside, my recollection is that snippets of TV became available from mid-1956 so that it could be fully in operation for the Melbourne Olympics in November that year.
I love the one where the family has run out of milk so the mum stomps down to the corner store, which is being held up. She whacks the robber over the head with the milk, slaps the money on the counter, and stomps off home again.
So funny, and relatable to every mum.
I still use the Not Happy Jan line to this day 😂
Me too 😂😂
Please stop.
same
@@fishjj76 absolutely not
Same
Omfg...... I still use the 'Not Happy Jan' line today (2023) SUCH an iconic ad :D xx and yes, that was Cate Blanchett in the Tim Tam ad lol
Me too. I always say that.
How could they miss the best one???
Five words. "Charter boat? What charter boat?" 😂
Probably because it was RACQ and was only played in Qld and northern NSW.
I’m Aussie and I don’t know what ad this refers to
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@dilemma713 Oh this is just sad... and makes me feel SO OLD. Google "RACQ charter boat" and I'm sure you'll find a video
it is Cate Blanchette. "not happy Jan" became an expression we all liked to use...it works so well in any situation!
My most memorable Aussie ads include:
1. Gogglemobile ad
2. Tim Shaw from Demtel
3. Frank Walker from National Tiles (radio ad)
4. Chris and Marie's Plant Farm (radio ad)
The AAMi ads are pretty good too.
The Scottish guy saying Gogomobile was great!
Franco Cozzo…
But wait, there's more!
But wait, there is still more!
Roof Seal, IKEA "Start the car!", Mortein "More smart, more safe, Mortein" and Banana Boat are all iconic Aussie ads as well.
The actor that plays Alf Stewart (home and away) is legit one of the nicest people ever. When my son saw him on a plane and was like stone the flamin crows (he was four) Ray high fived him.
These brought back a lot of memories growing up in Oz in the 90s.
As an 60’s kid, I could watch these ads all day! The not happy Jan will always be one of my favourite ads ever! Forgot how great some of our ads were. This was terrific and brought back lots of memories ❤️❤️
"You know you're soaking in it"
I love the Telstra Great Wall of China for rabbits one…😂😂
Yep it’s a young Cate Blanchett in the Tim Tam ad.
All fantastic ads. The Smarter Milk ad is a classic, but "Not! Happy! Jan!" entered the idiom. 😅
Agree re the Smarter Milk! Never knew where not happy Jan came from, but always used it 😂
Not. Happy. Jan!!! 😄 Part of the Aussie every day language now. If someone yells this at you better take it seriously.
That phrase ‘not happy Jan’ really took off after that advert aired. We said it for years.
"NOT. HAPPY. JAN!!!" Lives on in my household til today. Along with the kid who said "A crocodile came up and bit my guts out"!
I remember basically all of these, and honestly the ability to recount that last milk ad word for word is slightly terrifying 😂 Aus is clearly very good at the brain worm ad, the songs live in my brain rent free and i still say 'not happy jan' and 'CHOP IT'!
My niece (another cute blonde kid now a tall, blonde, glamorous employee for Goldmann Sachs, and rich, married lady) went to school with the "CHOP IT!" kid. She also went to school with one of the Mister Cruel abductees. Life is a fucking roller coaster. Her paternal Grandmother's name is Jan, and ole Nanny Janny went through hell in the "NOT HAPPY JAN!!" days.
The Spray n Wipe ads were pretty iconic also, they had the actress Paula Duncan in them.
The jingle got me singing along every time.
Got a call from Mr. Fryer, he's bringin round a buyer
The kitchen looked a fright from the little do last night
Although I thought quite sickly, I had to clean it quickly
With Spary n Wipe All Purpose, I cleaned up every surface
Spray n Wipe's a breeze, coz it cuts through toughest grease
The kitchen's sparkling clean, and the buyers very keen
So thank you..... Spray n Wipe
After all these years I still can't believe I remember it word for word. LOL
There’s still some classic left, Louie the fly, Palmolive gold, wash your hands Jeffrey, You’re the voice and Horses, Antz Pants, daily juice, Razza Matazz. 😀
Australian ad's from back in the day were brilliant, much better than the normal programmes.
wasn't there was a good drumstick ice cream adv back in the 1980's or 90's?
Also there was a RACQ adv that was the funniest adv I have ever seen, with the lady hanging out washing on the line can't remember the words that made it funny.
Found the drumstick adv 1980's
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Go to america.their ads are SHITE
@@katel7309 charter boat what charter boat
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My all time favourite is the crocodile bit my guts out kid - I often wonder what he’s doing now… such a little character! ❤❤
RACQ’s ad, charter boat? What charter boat!? Still gets me every time!
Check out the Decore (shampoo) ad from the 1980s. One minute ad with a jingle everyone loved.
Not Happy Jan is a phrase we use quite often when something doesn't go to plan. The Slip Slop Slap ad was from the eighties and was produced by the advertising company Mojo. They made the majority of Australian ads in the eighties. The Pauls Milk ad "I just want milk that tastes like real milk" is an option on almost every online poll posted in any Australian social media page.
Slip slop slap became a verb!
The Mojo company didn't make the majority of the ads.
But they did make many of the classic ads in the 80's that became rather iconic.
I think of the cricket ads when I think of them. Come on Aussie, Come on, Come on. 👍
The AFL "I'd like to see that" ad was awesome.
My dad’s friend’s son had the album that song came from. The whole album is full of great footy songs. The Thing About Football and I’d Like to See That being both of my fave tracks.
The Aeroplane Jelly song is from the 1930s… all Aussie children know it by heart, as well as the ‘We’re Happy Little Vegemites”, the Cottee’s cordial song & the Weetbix song. and yes, that is Cate Blanchette (Elizabeth) in the TimTam ad.
On top of the rabbits ad they did a follow up in the paper that year for Easter. It was a full page spread that had a photo of the great wall of china and a whole pile pf rabbits on front of it.
You know you're an aussie when you sing or talk along with every one. 😂
How do I know every single word to all of them?
HI ALL Australia here
fun FACT the add at the end with the milk LOW FAT no fat DOLLOP ? it was filmed on mason street delicatessen my local and the owner received $5 k and they used his shop from 4am till 10 am he was happy crazy hay true thx
wow did i just go back to my childhood so good were those days in Australia growing up 😁
That Carlton draught ad, they were all real people! The costumes, choreography, area and filming, made it an expensive ad.
They missed the solo man and the Qantas ads "I still call Australia home" with the Australian's children's choir...
The original. Not that newer version with the celebrities in it.
I was waiting for it - "Not happy, Jan" has passed into our everyday speech now, at least for those of us old enough to remember that ad 😉
I remember every one of these ads.
Yes, that was Cate Blanchett and Alf from Home & Away.
Some of my other fav ads are: The Reading Writing Hotline, Lube Mobile, AAMI (Rhonda and Ketut), Banana Boat, QANTAS (Still call Australia home), McCain Corn, Bloody Idiot (Drink & Drive), Lamb Ads, Libra Pads, Dumb Ways to Die, Barossa
Mate. Most of us haven't even heard the Aeroplane Jelly or Vegemite songs on air, they're that old. But we still know it by heart, its built itself into our DNA
"Not happy, Jan" gained a life of its own and is now a common Australian expression meaning "You effed up."
When Cate Blanchett did that Tim Tam ad she wasn’t yet well-known. You have eagle eyes. I remember most of the others. In case you were too young to know the British musician Donovan, the music in the Caramello ad that you liked is his song “Mellow Yellow”. It was a classic here as well. Keep up the interesting topics. 🤗
I remember all of those ads even the black & white aeroplane jelly ad, that one bought back really old memories from the black & white TV days, Australia didn't get colour TV until 1977 if i remember correctly that's a long time ago, holy crap I'm friggin old .
Me too luv.... I remember when our family got a colour TV.... that my mum regularly put on the 'wood pile'..... because she was so pissed off with us kids wanting to watch TV lmfao (my Dad would come home and rescue it lmfao)..... gotta love being a kid in Oz in the 70's/80's :D
@No One yep the good old day when life was truly so much easier & with much more fun & freedom, we got our colour TV in 78 i remember it well we were so excited about a colour TV 📺. I even remember going shopping for the colour TV, do you remember the old Beta video recorder with the cable connected to the remote control 😀 you had to get up to use the remote because the cord was not long enough to reach the lounge 🤣🤣.
You ain't the only one that's OLD 😉😆
@Stanley Wiggins 🤣🤣🤣🤣 O how times have changed right.
Colour tv came in 1975, we had just moved into our house and there was no way we could afford it. It was 1982 before we finally could afford to replace the old black and white tv.
God, these ads are so nostalgic. Missed those days when I see em on TV.
Now I am here on PC watching ADs on TH-cam instead.
Though I will never forget the OG Roof Seals, Victory Blinds, Lube Mobile, Carpet Call and QANTAS. Great songs, great ads and very memorable.
Not happy Jan is now part of the Aussie vocabulary.
"Not happy Jan" is now part of the Aussie language.
Yes it is Kate Blanchett
Every single Aussie watching this sang the Aeroplane jelly song while watching this. I guarantee it.
The Milky Bar Kid! Paul Hogan & Strop in the Winfield ads...
I love how I can sing/quote almost all of these. The vegemite song is pretty much part of aussie folk music at this stage :P
I was wagging class one day and my teacher saw me and yelled out the windows "not happy Dan!" It was funny.
Yes, that was Cate Blanchett :) And "Not happy, Jan!!" has become so much of our vernacular that most young people don't even know where it came from. "I love Aeroplane Jelly" and "We are happy little Vegemites" are old old ads from the 60s and EVERY Aussie knows them, even the youngsters of today who don't know why they know them but it is because their parents sang the songs to them as kids. Another in the same genre would be the ad for Cottee's cordial ("My Dad picks the fruit that makes the cordial, that I like best!) Another old classic is the KFC ad from the 1970s/80s (th-cam.com/video/0YtAVIGq1ko/w-d-xo.html)
the banana ads from not long after those too "make those bodies sing"
The weird thing about that Tim Tam ad is that I can remember the Genie dusting his shoulder and saying "How dull!" but I never realised until today that the woman was Cate Blanchett. I guess that's how "getting famous" works.
Oh my! “Hugo said you go, but I said no you go…” has earwormed me for 40 years.
To this day I will still the phrase "Not happy Jan" when I am pissed off with someone. lol
Or when something goes wrong.. LOL
My favourite was the, 'how to upgrade your Holden' ad that had a short run 😂 psst, buy a Ford. The Hilux bugger ads are classic Aussie
"Not happy Jan" is now a saying in Australia.
Some absolute classics there. The Aeroplane Jelly and Vegemite ads are old classics. We all know those songs... I love the "Not happy Jan" Yellow Pages ad and the Great Wall of China internet ad. To keep the rabbits out...😂...classic! And "Don't chop the dinosaur Daddy". There's been so many very clever and funny ads over the years, this was just a few. 😂
The Telstra ad has been trimmed. A non-Australian might not know that Australia actually does have very long fences erected to keep rabbits out of agricultural areas.
The beer add was all people, no CGI. Awesome choreography.
Ahh so many memories… sadly I was singing along they are branded on my brain … yep antzpantz was missing and the lamb roast Tom cruise one… with Naomi Watts. Cate Blanchett looks so young in the TimTam ad… not happy Jan, is a classic & still said in my circles& also another ad we still quote is the Telstra Mobilenet ad with ‘we do Chucky, we do’ thanks Mat another great Aussie post. ❤
I'd forgotten about Tom Cruise and the lamb roast. Used the phrase a couple of times when my son invited me to dinner!
@@juliewoodman2439 and “wash your hands Geoffrey” Solvol ad… but I might be showing my age lol
The Yellow Pages ad is one my hubby worked on & the window getting stuck was not supposed to happen, it's a blooper! But my Hubs said Deborah the actor just kept going, never lost a beat & did it perfectly! He had to go fix the window and they did more takes but went with the blooper because it made the ad brilliant!!! Hubby loves her BTW, reckons she's one of the best actors ever 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 You should also check out the "Kiss Me Katut!!!" series of ads, Australia got emotionally invested about them! We totally fell in love with Katut & Rhonda, bigger than Kylie and Jason on "Neighbours" they were!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😘😘🥰🥰🥰
"Not happy Jan" became a saying after that.
The two old looking ads are the originals from the 50s. They were used again with coloured highlights not that long ago. During the 70s there was an ad agency that did their own songs which were extremely catchy! And the language used does sometimes become part of our every day usage.
Not happy Jan, there were no Hilux Ads or Australian Lamb! 😠 I'll look for some others!
Strongbow Cider ad from 80s, where guy goes to whistle and everyone ducks for cover. Cracked me up every time
As a result of that ad, whenever someone made a two-fingered whistle for attention the immediate reply was “sweet, dry or draught?”
Slip, Slop, Slap (just after I came to Oz from UK) was as iconic as, say, Clunk-Click in the UK.
The Carlton Draught Big Ad was actually filmed in New Zealand
Some more classic aussie ads would have to be Lube Mobile, The Reading Writing Hotline, Solo soft drink, the old ads for Winfield cigarettes which are now banned from all broadcast media, ads for Holden from the 70s - Football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars... there are so many good and cringey ads from days gone by it's hard to remember them all...🥴
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I love the nastalgia of old Ozzy ads. First time I ever saw any of these reactios and had a couple of ads that wers soo old I had never seen them before.
'Not Happy Jan' Heard and said that many times over the years lol
Made me feel nostalgic, and great to see first time reactions! Thanks.
One of the funniest things I've seen is an Aussie quiz show with American guests and the host starts singing the vegemite jingle as part of a clue, and the entire audience sings along... the dumbfounded looks on the yanks' faces was hilarious!
Was that in an ep of Spicks ‘n’ Specks?
Nah Good News Week (or was it one of the more 'variety' spin offs? Not 100% sure there) Definitely Paul McDermott though.
@@paine_inflicta Thanks!
Yes,that was Cate Blanchett. I forgot she did that ad and yes she is Australian. She is always coming home and not that long ago they made her the Director of the Sydney Opera House. She accepted the job for 4 years and she still made movies all over the world.
Antz pantz ads or Tradies underwear or QANTAS ads. There are years of those when they used the Seekers song. They are all beautiful.
The grim reaper Aids awareness ad. Without a doubt the most gruesome yet effective ad of all time
……with the beautiful vocal tones of great Aussie actor John Stanton……
Omg not happy Jan! Most Aussie response to a bad choice ever. These were brilliant. It was like reliving my youth
Thank you!
I always loved the Carlton Draught ad to the music, Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff. Awesome.
The best ads for me were the Toyota 'BUGGA' ads, I would almost pass out from laughing too hard. They were eventually banned as the world got all too serious over nothing.
I remember as a kid watching that Vegemite ad in B/W in the 60's then everything got colorful in 75 I believe I seen everyone of them ad's over the years I'm getting old!
Well that was a walk through nostalgia, back when we were more culture and less corporate copy cats, I've only seen a couple recent adds that made me think. Hey someone's keeping true blue
Not Happy Jan has become a complete Aussie, answer to many stuff ups🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There is a series of Toyota adds with the punch line of BUGGER
Just added the link
Cate Blanchett started acting after entering NIDA(National Institute of Dramatic Art) in 1992. After several successful roles on Australian theatre stages, she starred in an ABC prime time tv drama Heartland in 1994; followed by roles in Bordertown(1995), G.P.(1989), Police Rescue(1994), with her debut film Paradise Road in 1997. She then went on to become an International Star.
The tune and structure for the Caramello Koala ad comes originally from a song called "Mellow Yellow". You'll love it.
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@@goodo5691yep. Mello yellow by Donovan.
@@goodo5691 yes! Sung by Donovan, who also sung Jennifer Juniper.
My mum almost got that role as 'Not Happy Jan' but the casting decided that woman said it better. I laughed when my mum did her impromptu in front me , the right woman got the job (sorry mummy)
They don't make ads like they used to anymore. I can't think of any modern ones that are as catchy or as memorable as those.
Aw didn't get the McCain corn 'Marge the Rains are here!'
Come on Aussie come on, come on....
I still find myself saying 'not happy Jan' to this day, and I can't type it now but I could say word for word the "ate my guts out'' kids line as he said it. Only 1 in that lot I didn't clearly remember
The Grim Reaper AIDS add was pretty full on for the day, and some of the TAC (Traffic Accident Commission) adds are pretty intense when it comes to road safety.
Yes it’s Cate Blanchett. She was 20 years old in that ad. 👍🇦🇺
Damm she that old already
These are some classic ones from our early years. Thank you for reminding us how good it was.
I remember them all. 😂
“Not happy Jan” used to be heard all across Australia for many years while that ad was on tv 😂😂😂😂
You missed out on the Farmers Union Iced Coffee ads. They were always classic! Ballet dancing skid steers and lots of Aussie larakins!
There was also an ad where a lady had run out of milk so she was angry and when she got to the shop a bloke was trying to rob the shop so she smashed the robber in the head with her milk! Can’t remember what they were advertising but I will always laugh when remembering that one!
Farmers Union shows your South Aussie roots mate
@@bkeckk it’s a farmers union or it’s nothing 👍😂
Born in the 60's, i remember every single one of them.
Another famous (at the time) series of adds were the "Clayton's" (a non alcoholic) drink adds. .ike the not happy Jan. Fhe word Clayton's has also entered our slang. The odd thing is most young people don't know it means "fake".
As I mentioned in another vid. The skin cancer add is famous. Its been updated numerous times. And EVERYONE knows what Slip Slop Slap means. And it is indeed use in the vernacular as a term for applying sun lotion.
Claytons, the drink you have, when you're not having a drink!
These days it’s Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek and Slide, right? Slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a hat, seek out shade and slide on sunnies.
OK some absolute classic Oz ads:
- Solo Man series. Solo is an Australian soft drink. It had a guy kayaking an d wrestling a crocodile with the tag line "you have to work it hard to be a solo man" and "you've got to crack a solo".
- Golden Gaytime Ice cream . slogan "you can't have a gaytime on your own".
- John West 1980's ads with the Japanese guy who says "ah kahn anoo!" Believe it or not that became a cult phrase in 1980's Australian high schools.
- Telecom 1980's ads "The Way we Were".
- AIDS 1980's PSA with the Grim Reapers at a bowling alley
- "Norm" Life Be in it PSA to get people into sports and exercise.
- PSA "Don't be a Wally with Water".
- American Express "Mr Wong Mr Wong I've lost all my travellers cheques". He says "what kind were they?"
- Razzamattazz pantyhose "razzamattazz oh oh"
- Franco Cozzo furniture ads. Megallo Megallo Megallo come and buy it at Franco Cozzo
- Cadbury block of chocolate with Professor Julius Sumner Miller.
Enjoy!