I’m SO glad I wasn’t the only person who believed the house hippo, or never understood the message of an ad because the visuals were weird. Even if they were effective, I tuned out commercials regardless.
As many seem not to know, half the time kids aren't listening to anything being said to them, and you gotta be REALLY direct about things so they get what seems to an adult as a basic concept.
I grew up with these as a kid (btw I'm from the same city Adam grew up in). Holy fuck, that TV one really fucked with me. At the end when the TV is all like "yo btw you can also go outside and play with your friends and shit" I was like "...why?" Probably my favourite growing up was the War Amps commercial. That robot looking at the camera and being like "I can put my arm back on, you can't" always scared me
That ad with the drug dealer puppet is weird cuz it showed a bunch of flashing images of famous people that died due to drugs, and one of them was a mugshot of Jim Morrison, which is weird cuz he didn’t get arrested for drug possession, he got arrested for punching a cop before a concert and calling him a pig onstage
I owe the Super Best Friends so much just for singing the Don't Put it in Your Month song in one of their vids and forcing it on all my American friends
This stuff is so lighthearted compared to what I remember. My state (Georgia) has/had an anti-meth campaign and I distinctly remember an ad where a guy was whoring out his girlfriend for meth. It was upsettingly graphic for something they wanted 13 year old health and wellness students to watch
I remember that one. It went right over my head. Just show middle-school-me the pictures of people with horrible facial and mouth sores. I still liked Lisa Frank. Forced prostitution didn’t comprende.
This vid autoplayed while i was in the shower and all i could hear was nanalan and adam saying “this music sucks” then playing the music again and saying “thats gay propaganda”
I like the ads that just said something like "Don't do crack." It's like saying, "Hey kids, don't do trinomials." I have no idea what you're talking about, but okay.
I know words have power but I didn't think that meant I could force-choke people by calling them nerds. Thanks, Canada! This will make my bullying 10x more potent!
The absolute whiplash I experienced as a kid watching these commercials to then cut back to SpongeBob or Fairly Odd Parents…imagine seeing an ad about how drug use is horrible to then hard cut to the Nanalan’ intro 🙃
I'm slightly disappointed that after Adam said "Not uncle Fred", it didn't immediately cut to a clip of Freaky Fred saying "Nauuuuuuuuughty". Edit: I remember the house hippo advert from when I was a child. I think they reedited it to refer to the UK because I don't remember it talking about the North American house hippo.
these were all a great trip down memory lane l also loved how the house hippo didn't work at all for its purpose of you not believing everything you see on tv, tried finding one for so long after seeing this
I'm gonna have to watch this. made Canadian friends recently and they ALL know the "in your mouth" song and the house hippo the song even got a reference in Dawn of the Monsters, in the early levels where you smash through New Toronto.
Those PSAs would have kids believe people will just be throwing drugs at them. I was never even offered a cigarette. The closest I got was an older friend offering to sneak me a drink at a club when I was 18.
I'm only too old for a couple of these old PSAs, but the rest were just a part of watching tv in Canada. Mostly good nostalgia here... I feel that Canadian kids were fortunate that we had some creative people involved in the process so some of these left a lasting impression on our culture... "Don't you put it in your mouth..." will always elicit a response in a group of people similar to my age. I'm serious when I mean this shit is nearly part of our culture.
I’m not Canadian but I recognized all of the PSAs as a PSA geek who watches compilations of these as a hobby (believe me, Singapore’s got some fucked up ones!)
My plan to end adolescent drug use: Since teens are programmed to do anything the adults tell them not to do, instead of making anti-drug PSAs, we make pro-drug PSAs, but they’re still just as lame as the anti drug ones.
As far as the whole "kids need to seriously be talked down to, otherwise they won't get it", I saw those ads about texting while driving where it showed the aftermath, like a brain injury or whatever, and then the text like "this is the text I was writing when I crashed" - and all I thought was, "those people are idiots." It didn't open my eyes and make me realise I had to be careful, I just thought people were dumb. Also, I remember the House Hippo ad, even though I never lived in Canada. Maybe they showed it in other places, too.
Probably because the animation isn't grainy and the movement is really smooth. The actual clip could be a remastered version of a 70s commercial, though.
You guys remember the one where a kid is getting bullied by a shadow while eating his Eggos and it just starts off with the shadow yelling, “mOrNiN’ TiMmY”?
I remember some of those, but in french. But man, haven't seen that cartoon tv since it originally aired. Im surprised that the AIDS didnt fund "dont put it in your mouth"
House Hippo is probably my favorite of these old PSAs, & it has a message that more people should take to heart today. My question was YMS taking the piss or was he being honest when he said it was dishonest?
Ok but dont put it in your mouth has a genuine good beat, rythm and is a decent earworm for kids and hell even for adult manchildren like me xD tis a genuine bop
An ad I got: “VAPING IS STEERING ME TOWARDS DESTRUCTION” Cool, adults still don’t know how to talk to teens and use silly hyperbolic language that seems condescending. There are definitely more teens vaping from this ad. I look forward to someone reviewing modern day ads in 20 years with the lens of nostalgia.
I remember seeing the “I’m a T-Rex” thing for the first time in a YTP and laughed my ass off Will never forget EDIT: holy crap I saw that “don’t put things in your mouth” in a YTP too I think those were my first exposure to Canadian PSAs lmao
I remember almost all of these! The ones that really scared me/made me uncomfortable was the mouse trap one and the one with the fuckin muppet dude that took off his sunglasses sdfkdskl
These were my childhood. .-. I remember the TV and literally quote the boutique "why be you when, you ... can be me?" all the time. Also waking up to the "one potato" commercial in the middle of the night as the kid was unnerving. lol They are ridiculous but most of them are unforgettable.
tbf i also learned how to do the trex noise and that shit sounds exactly like jurassic park in your head also i think im in love with the cat wearing the glasses
i saw half of these in the commercial review videos that the nostalgia critic made, and because i watched those videos when i was like, 8, tons of canadian commercials are just permanently burned into my head
@ 1:13 and 1:53 Ahh. The sweet sound of Nanalan. This takes me back to mid-2015, when I first saw that video. @ 3:59 It's because you're Canadian, Adam! @ 11:12 A wild Scoot appeared!
9:25 there are _many_ Arm&Hammer cat litter ads. I know the product itself is not cat litter, but wow. Kooky? Their April 2021 commercial is an unsettling mockery of 1970s. Kind of helps me believe this could really be from that era.
“Being a boy is hard. Girls have it so easy.” That is honestly all I think they intended with the being a boy is hard ads. I genuinely don’t know what else they can be implying XD
The fact that he says "this music sucks" during something that was audio claimed is hilarious
To be fair it does suck lol
I grew up with these ads and they always had the same italian polka song. It was so annoying.
What’s interesting to me is, why would they copyright claim it if it for public service? Don’t you want as many people to see hear it as possible?
here's the audio if anyone was curious: th-cam.com/video/TEG4wEVL2YU/w-d-xo.html
Revenge
"Everybody's good at something."
Like bugs. You can be good at
bugs.
It's hip to do bugs
@@ChaosTheoryDrozz it’s hip to fuck bees
you can be good at bugsnax
Invertebrate Zoology
-Gonta Gokuhara, probably
“OH YOU’RE AFRAID OF ME, EH?!”
- Canadian kids commercial bully
Also, I was the exact kind of child that absolutely needed a jingle sung by terrifying puppets to keep me from eating random objects.
As a Canadian who had this ad forced into my brain as soon as I was old enough to sit in front of a TV, it worked
That kitty ad is on par with ones I've seen out of the 50s and 60s. Animation was always pretty good.
Plus it helps they're much shorter than a movie or TV episode so they can spend more on animation
I’m SO glad I wasn’t the only person who believed the house hippo, or never understood the message of an ad because the visuals were weird. Even if they were effective, I tuned out commercials regardless.
As many seem not to know, half the time kids aren't listening to anything being said to them, and you gotta be REALLY direct about things so they get what seems to an adult as a basic concept.
The North American House Hippo is the most incredible thing in all of Canadian history. Whoever came up with that should've won an Oscar.
I grew up with these as a kid (btw I'm from the same city Adam grew up in). Holy fuck, that TV one really fucked with me. At the end when the TV is all like "yo btw you can also go outside and play with your friends and shit" I was like "...why?"
Probably my favourite growing up was the War Amps commercial. That robot looking at the camera and being like "I can put my arm back on, you can't" always scared me
The war amps one was insane
Im also from the same city Adam grew up in. Makes me feel cooler
That ad with the drug dealer puppet is weird cuz it showed a bunch of flashing images of famous people that died due to drugs, and one of them was a mugshot of Jim Morrison, which is weird cuz he didn’t get arrested for drug possession, he got arrested for punching a cop before a concert and calling him a pig onstage
Jim Morrison ruled
I've seen a good chunk of Canadian PSAs and they really are something. As Ed from Ed Edd n Eddy once said:
"Canadians are weird."
@@donovanlocust1106 Yes it was.
When the government got Canada's first Poet Laureate to voice a lion puppet to tell kids not put shit in their mouth.
I like how the kid they chose to for the stay fit psa was not fat at all. Like did he start smoking at 5.
More the point that anyone can be unfit really.
Or they have asthma
@@nickrustyson8124 it's his fault he has asthma?
@@jameswinslow8540 "Remember, kids, don't do asthma! You don't wanna be a loser!"
Being fit is more than just weight, As building stamina and lung exercise can improve your body.
I owe the Super Best Friends so much just for singing the Don't Put it in Your Month song in one of their vids and forcing it on all my American friends
I'm gonna need a video link
Yeah you’re gonna have to give us that episode. We need that.
@@crimsondynamo615 Welp, I had to hunt back through decades of stuff, but I found it! It's at the end of the Kirby's Return to Dreamland mini episode
@@Porterhaus94 th-cam.com/video/uLcepVLWMqk/w-d-xo.html !
@@vertibelleI’m late, but thanks for providing the episode name.
This stuff is so lighthearted compared to what I remember. My state (Georgia) has/had an anti-meth campaign and I distinctly remember an ad where a guy was whoring out his girlfriend for meth. It was upsettingly graphic for something they wanted 13 year old health and wellness students to watch
I remember that one. It went right over my head.
Just show middle-school-me the pictures of people with horrible facial and mouth sores. I still liked Lisa Frank. Forced prostitution didn’t comprende.
Omg😱
oh god the chase one where the kid is being chased by girls is burnt into my brain, even though the music was cut out it still played in my head.
This vid autoplayed while i was in the shower and all i could hear was nanalan and adam saying “this music sucks” then playing the music again and saying “thats gay propaganda”
I like the ads that just said something like "Don't do crack." It's like saying, "Hey kids, don't do trinomials."
I have no idea what you're talking about, but okay.
“what’s YOUR thing?”
-insurance fraud.
-AIDS.
7:36 Adam and Scoot spotted in the background
I know words have power but I didn't think that meant I could force-choke people by calling them nerds.
Thanks, Canada! This will make my bullying 10x more potent!
The absolute whiplash I experienced as a kid watching these commercials to then cut back to SpongeBob or Fairly Odd Parents…imagine seeing an ad about how drug use is horrible to then hard cut to the Nanalan’ intro 🙃
I'm slightly disappointed that after Adam said "Not uncle Fred", it didn't immediately cut to a clip of Freaky Fred saying "Nauuuuuuuuughty".
Edit: I remember the house hippo advert from when I was a child. I think they reedited it to refer to the UK because I don't remember it talking about the North American house hippo.
these were all a great trip down memory lane l also loved how the house hippo didn't work at all for its purpose of you not believing everything you see on tv, tried finding one for so long after seeing this
that Body Electricity is literally just the schoolhouse rock song called "The Body Machine" but more jazzy.
The hook isn't as catchy either.
“You’re gonna die whether or not you do it.” Made me chuckle heartily 😂
I grew up in the US, but when I’d visit Canada I would be amazed by the different shows. I watched a weird little show called “Toopy and Binu”.
I'm gonna have to watch this. made Canadian friends recently and they ALL know the "in your mouth" song and the house hippo
the song even got a reference in Dawn of the Monsters, in the early levels where you smash through New Toronto.
I'll have to disagree with you that that cat litter commercial can't be from the 70's. Fritz the Cat came out in the 70's.
Full length movies tend to have higher budgets the 1 min long commercials. Just look up other animated commercials from the 70s to see the difference
@@tylerthompson5668 maybe arm and hammer have deep pockets you don't know man lol
I always find it weird watching these videos, I didn't grow up in Canada so it's like getting a glimpse into someone else's childhood.
The “dont put it in your mouth” song sounds real similar to spongebobs best day ever song.
Those PSAs would have kids believe people will just be throwing drugs at them. I was never even offered a cigarette. The closest I got was an older friend offering to sneak me a drink at a club when I was 18.
As a Canadian born in the 90's, I remember every goddamn one of these.
I'm only too old for a couple of these old PSAs, but the rest were just a part of watching tv in Canada. Mostly good nostalgia here... I feel that Canadian kids were fortunate that we had some creative people involved in the process so some of these left a lasting impression on our culture...
"Don't you put it in your mouth..." will always elicit a response in a group of people similar to my age. I'm serious when I mean this shit is nearly part of our culture.
"Though it might look good to eat- Like a muffin or a beat!"
Granted you probably got your own list of weird PSA made before these
The puppets from the drug PSA look like they’ve already had too many heroine injections
I’m not Canadian but I recognized all of the PSAs as a PSA geek who watches compilations of these as a hobby (believe me, Singapore’s got some fucked up ones!)
22:46 Every time he looks at the camera in this sequence is the most nightmarish thing outside of my actual nightmares
I feel like the people who made these have never spent any time with kids or know how they think or process things
But that was all 90's for kids commericals to be fair
7:55 that lion looks like it started decaying in the middle of filming the PSA.
Im not gonna let “Velma and the hot one” die
I remember the house hippos one in a commercials review and it weirded me out
Now Adam should react to our weird USA PSAs
"What's your thing? BUGS" DANANANANA
This is a trip down memory lane lmao
Remember: Don’t buy drugs from secret monster men!
Nice JonTron reference
honestly Adum and Pals could be more than random movies they wanna watch, they can branch out to random videos as well
My plan to end adolescent drug use:
Since teens are programmed to do anything the adults tell them not to do, instead of making anti-drug PSAs, we make pro-drug PSAs, but they’re still just as lame as the anti drug ones.
Make ads of millennials high as shit sitting on the couch sobbing to Harry Potter.
As far as the whole "kids need to seriously be talked down to, otherwise they won't get it", I saw those ads about texting while driving where it showed the aftermath, like a brain injury or whatever, and then the text like "this is the text I was writing when I crashed" - and all I thought was, "those people are idiots." It didn't open my eyes and make me realise I had to be careful, I just thought people were dumb.
Also, I remember the House Hippo ad, even though I never lived in Canada. Maybe they showed it in other places, too.
The house hippo was one that's stuck with me for years. Also that TV animated one drove me crazy
I still quote “my thing is sound effects” to this day. I…guess it was effective?
When Scott came in and said, “your watching fucking kitty cats without me?” threw me off
Velma and the hot one? So 2 Velmas?
remember kids, if you do drugs you'll have friends and a car
For your question about translation, yes. I remember the Talking TV ad being in French.
And it did play a fuckton along with the House Hippos one.
only 5000 people died from crack in canada and US combined? that sounds super safe actually
11:25 Now the government doesn’t want you to question the propaganda on TV.
honestly the cat with the glasses can get it
No. Bad. Bad.
funniest thing about the bully commercial is the voice over guy is also the one who plays the role of the bully
When the house hippos had better animation than lion king 2019
Why's it hard to believe the commercial was from the 70s? it looks way vintage.
And plus it's animation is possible for the 1970s, even more likely given it's a short add
Probably because the animation isn't grainy and the movement is really smooth. The actual clip could be a remastered version of a 70s commercial, though.
God, the old Canadian PSA ads. The TV one, "What's your Thing", and North American House Hippo.
They should’ve check out the PSA video about a about to be mom (having a baby shower) getting a rape whistle as a gift.
18:38 this ad invented "my 4 year old said the president should lower the national interest rate" format of online stories
That one with the puppets was in nirvanna the band the show
growing up in Southern Ontario in the 90s and 2000s, this is very awesome to see again ❤️
You guys remember the one where a kid is getting bullied by a shadow while eating his Eggos and it just starts off with the shadow yelling, “mOrNiN’ TiMmY”?
I was expecting that one.
I remember some of those, but in french. But man, haven't seen that cartoon tv since it originally aired. Im surprised that the AIDS didnt fund "dont put it in your mouth"
its funny that most parents are so bad at parenting that they needed to make these commercials.
That house hippo is so adorable lol
Man my mom and her friends still bring up the House Hippo ads she wants one as a pet lmao.
Those safe work ads were nightmare inducing as a kid especially that chef one who was burned horribly with graphically real screams of pain
House Hippo is probably my favorite of these old PSAs, & it has a message that more people should take to heart today. My question was YMS taking the piss or was he being honest when he said it was dishonest?
“My thing’s sound effects, here’s a T-Rex” (non-Euclidean elephant noise)
Did no one else notice that the Body Electricity guy balances and throws what appears to be a ball of his own poop?
Ok but dont put it in your mouth has a genuine good beat, rythm and is a decent earworm for kids and hell even for adult manchildren like me xD
tis a genuine bop
An ad I got: “VAPING IS STEERING ME TOWARDS DESTRUCTION”
Cool, adults still don’t know how to talk to teens and use silly hyperbolic language that seems condescending. There are definitely more teens vaping from this ad.
I look forward to someone reviewing modern day ads in 20 years with the lens of nostalgia.
Rip my scoot :(
Damn I remembered that we also had a French version of the hypo one in Quebec. It was in the early 2000's-2008-ish if I remember right
I remember seeing the “I’m a T-Rex” thing for the first time in a YTP and laughed my ass off
Will never forget
EDIT: holy crap I saw that “don’t put things in your mouth” in a YTP too
I think those were my first exposure to Canadian PSAs lmao
Was it Skooks? 😂. Cuz yeah that was great!
@@nsunny3897 Yes it was lmao
SKOOKS!
I remember almost all of these! The ones that really scared me/made me uncomfortable was the mouse trap one and the one with the fuckin muppet dude that took off his sunglasses sdfkdskl
4:14 This song and animation work just fine, until the part where the character shits on the floor and rolls around on it.
These were my childhood. .-. I remember the TV and literally quote the boutique "why be you when, you ... can be me?" all the time.
Also waking up to the "one potato" commercial in the middle of the night as the kid was unnerving. lol
They are ridiculous but most of them are unforgettable.
You know it’s sad when PSA music gets claimed.
tbf i also learned how to do the trex noise and that shit sounds exactly like jurassic park in your head
also i think im in love with the cat wearing the glasses
i saw half of these in the commercial review videos that the nostalgia critic made, and because i watched those videos when i was like, 8, tons of canadian commercials are just permanently burned into my head
Everyone’s good at something. Like Walter he’s good at meth.
4:13 Did he just shit, then start dancing on the shit
lool seeing most.0f these commercials again is really nostalgic. they're great! glad Adum reacted to them!
8:09 BRA-
13:50 Douglas Uppity... I, too, watched the Let's Drown Out DS2 playthrough..
"Velma and... the hot one"
as if Velma *isn't* the hot one
What, you've never seen two pretty best friends before?
Funny how they made a psa commercial about a boy getting assaulted by 3 girls, & the message was, work out & be active. So much victim blaming.
You know what? I will Enjoy the Nanalan.
This has become my favourite channel you legit brighten my day by uploading so thank you for doing these highlights
Let’s be honest with ourselves. PSAs did nothing to stop bullying. The Columbine kids stopped that shit in its tracks.
@ 1:13 and 1:53
Ahh. The sweet sound of Nanalan. This takes me back to mid-2015, when I first saw that video.
@ 3:59
It's because you're Canadian, Adam!
@ 11:12
A wild Scoot appeared!
9:25 there are _many_ Arm&Hammer cat litter ads. I know the product itself is not cat litter, but wow. Kooky? Their April 2021 commercial is an unsettling mockery of 1970s. Kind of helps me believe this could really be from that era.
That lion has had a lot in his mouth
He needs to watch Yop commercial
“Being a boy is hard. Girls have it so easy.” That is honestly all I think they intended with the being a boy is hard ads. I genuinely don’t know what else they can be implying XD
12:46 plot twist: this is all in his mind and hes in a straight jacket in a padded room
Saw the cats in the thumbnail, knew exactly what commercial it was
Ok. Scoot. You just flat out said yogger. Cmon bruh.
I was surprised by how many of these I remember