After 40 years still made me laugh out loud .. brilliant..a great advert and a proud story and a epitaph to those on both sides who lost lives ..may we never be enemies again 🙏
I was serving with the RAF in Germany at the time of this Ad, visited the real Dam, walked across the dam whistling the dam busters march with my son. love it.
Plain silliness of course but very clever. It's brilliant advertising because we associate the product with the ad. Rather like we all remember the Cinzano ads with Leonard Rossiter & Joan Collins.
My personal favourite was the one where all the Germans woke up to blag the best sunbeds at the hotel, and the English guy leans over his hotel balcony, flinging his towel across the pool Dambusters style, to bounce it onto the prime spot; whereupon it falls open to reveal the Black Label can...!
That raised a smile !!! 😊 Incidentally, Carling BL was only available in Canada originally - and wasn't sold in the UK until 1952. I don't remember this ad being screened in Scotland - possibly because Tennents Lager, owned by the same group, was their principal market choice north of Hadrian's Wall.
I fondly remember this and the 3 ads in one western spoof, ads were often better than some of the shit on TV i haven't watched broadcast TV in six years
I can understand older people who lived through WW2 being offended or upset by this advert. Personally I think it shows our unique British humour to laugh at adversity. I do not see it as being disrespectful to those brave airmen as some people think but actually reminding us of the importance and value of their military service.
Best ww2 beer ad I ever saw was for a brewery in southern England. It showed a lovely, foamy pint & written next to it: "Just like the Luftwaffe in 1940, they've been going down all over Kent this summer."
I first heard of the DAMBUSTERS in may 1983. I was only a child and blue Peter had a feature on them for the 40th anniversary. I was hook, they have become part of me, they're all most in my blood. when this advert was first screened, I loved it. it was brilliant. then shortly afterwards the up and coming lefties( or leftwaffer) had it removed from the airwaves. I still think of it as a brilliant advert. I would bring the story to a new audience.
I also enjoyed the bouncing union jack towels rolling out onto the sunbeds before the germans got there.They don't make them like that anymore.We're not allowed to have a sense of humour anymore,as the HR department has cancelled it forthwith.
"I bet he drinks Carling black label" "Urgembler pofmgernish eerk splunkdim gimscerp, Skipper." "Dusseldorf. Yes, bloody good goalkeeping. I bet he'll be in the World Cup in '66"
I've been to the Mohne Dam. A huge information board detailing how many cubic metres of water per second, feeding so many square miles of farmland yadda yadda. NOT A WORD about the raid !
Always a fun favourite add. Tom Lehrer's musical adds for CBL to the tune of 'Abdul Ambubul Amir' were genious: Shame they are so hard to find to watch again
Same with Fosters and Castlemaine 4X. These ads very cleverly got British drinkers to choose fizzy cold tasteless p*ss instead of traditional British ale.
Parodia de la película británica "The Dam Busters" (1955), dirigida por Michael Anderson y protagonizada por Michael Redgrave y Richard Todd. En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial y en el transcurso del bombardeo a las presas de la cuenca del Rhur, los soldados alemanes (grandes rivales futbolísticos de Inglaterra) responden al ataque de un modo muy peculiar. Producto: Cerveza Carling Agencia: WCRS Fecha: 1989 Guión: Kes Grey Director Artístico: Jonathan Greenhalgh Director: Roger Woodburn Productora: Park Village
53 young men lost theirs on this operation. To make fun of them is disgraceful. I thought so at the time and still thinks so to. Plus, 1500 civilians died the same night.
I remember this advert well, but not as well as I remember the dozens of dozy German soldier supporting actors who repeatedly failed to notice allied soldier leading actors passing by them in full view in war film after war film. Unruly cinema audiences shouting: 'Behind you, Fritz!' etc. Same thing at home on TV when I was growing up. 'Behind you; just look, man!' It was better than panto.
The joke at the end where the bombaimer takes off his mask, and still has the same radio voice in real life! Brilliant
He wasn't the bomber aimer, he was the flight engineer
I'm raising a glass for the 53 heroes who didn't return from this raid. LEST WE FORGET.
🍺 I'm there with you. Never forget the sacrifices these men made
Well said
Yes. But there's something particularly British about being able to laugh, as well. Personally, I loved this ad. My dad (ex RAF) was offended by it.
Hear Hear
Amen to that ❤.
One of my all-time favourite British TV ads. When ads in the Uk were the best in the world!! Thank you for posting.
I absolutely agree.
Instead of the ridiculous, politically correct tripe we have now.
Yup. Those days are OVER.
One word... Brilliant!
No that's Guinness's line.
It is a masterpiece. So much crammed in to that short film! Brilliant!
That’s exactly what I was thinking (after seeing for the first time in decades). 👌🏼
I really thought they were throwing him can of beer at first
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@@jozwrxif you haven't seen the Dambusters: Death Star Trench Run be sure to check it out. Lines up very well and is quite humorous.
@@jozwrx if you haven't seen the Dambusters: Death Star Trench Run be sure to check it out.
After 40 years still made me laugh out loud .. brilliant..a great advert and a proud story and a epitaph to those on both sides who lost lives ..may we never be enemies again 🙏
Brilliant! I’d forgotten about this one. The ads used to be worth watching the programmes for.
I was serving with the RAF in Germany at the time of this Ad, visited the real Dam, walked across the dam whistling the dam busters march with my son. love it.
Did you drop anything?
Wat about all the civillians killed?
@@ardongrainford8004 Yes there had been a lot of people killed in England, Holland, and France by the German bombing before the Dams raid.
still timeless pure legendary ad the days when ads sometimes where better then shows or programs etc :)
Absolutely 💯 The kids in the class I work in are researching the Dambusters, I immediately thought of this advert❤
Plain silliness of course but very clever. It's brilliant advertising because we associate the product with the ad. Rather like we all remember the Cinzano ads with Leonard Rossiter & Joan Collins.
My dad used to say this when I was a kid during the 80’s. Now I’m older I agree with him.
Hamlet cigars and Grouse Whisky around Christmas time too
When as today both aren't any good and half the time you even know what the ads are about
My personal favourite was the one where all the Germans woke up to blag the best sunbeds at the hotel, and the English guy leans over his hotel balcony, flinging his towel across the pool Dambusters style, to bounce it onto the prime spot; whereupon it falls open to reveal the Black Label can...!
Pure genius and a classic forever!
I heard a rumour about then that some busybody complaned about this ad, it was blocked, but Germans said no! We like it!
Todays society in a nut shell
And that person spawned the pathetic shower that surrounds us - and goverrns us - now.
I remember it, seeing it again made me laugh out loud, very clever
Fantastic ad! Brings back memories of better days gone.
Probably my favourite advert ever. Thanks for the reminder!
Finest advert ever made.
I don't think so:
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@kingcurry6594 ok, alright, fair enough, I tip my hat to you sir 🥇
@@Wherethehellarewegoing It did get banned, unfortunately.
@kingcurry6594 ha. All the best ones do. The xbox "life is short" ad was great, but banned
the moment that soldier's eyes almost popped and he started running throwing away his sandwich, that is when I lost it :D
Thank you for posting this one - it never tarnishes. Advertising gold 🤣👍
Brilliant good times when we could have a laugh.
As a German living close to the Edersee-dam i find this hilarious :D :D :D Great Clip
The 80s TV Ads for Holsten Pils with Griff Reece Jones and old Film Footage were brilliant as well.
Hilarious, pure advertising genius! 👍🍺
That raised a smile !!! 😊
Incidentally, Carling BL was only available in Canada originally - and wasn't sold in the UK until 1952.
I don't remember this ad being screened in Scotland - possibly because Tennents Lager, owned by the same group, was their principal market choice north of Hadrian's Wall.
Ah those were the days. British adverts at their finest.
These days I don't even understand the adverts and usually mute the sound, now if only the wife would mute the programs I would be a happy man.
Best tv ad ever.
The best bit is the sound of that Lancaster flying over at 0:45
I fondly remember this and the 3 ads in one western spoof, ads were often better than some of the shit on TV i haven't watched broadcast TV in six years
still laughing at this quality advert
If only the beer was as good as the adverts
If only anything was ever as good as the adverts.
@@gdutfulkbhh7537Absolutely true on that.👊👍
As if a German would voluntarily drink carling😂
George Leonard “Johnny” Johnson RIP 101 07
pure advert genius, Carling later brought the theme back, this time, for the sunbeds advert
Australinas would give a castlemaine four xxxx how rude lol
I bet you drank calrling black label
lol the Suuppermarket skit still cracks me up
tSill using that cheap syudff Deardrie xD i i fucking roll every time lol
dragging in the dirt xD
Best advert ever.
Perfect demonstration that the better the ad, the worse the beer.
Absolutely priceless!
I can understand older people who lived through WW2 being offended or upset by this advert. Personally I think it shows our unique British humour to laugh at adversity. I do not see it as being disrespectful to those brave airmen as some people think but actually reminding us of the importance and value of their military service.
No need to understand, because they never would be. It's only young idiots and amoebas with chips for shoulders who would get wound up about this.
Best ww2 beer ad I ever saw was for a brewery in southern England.
It showed a lovely, foamy pint & written next to it:
"Just like the Luftwaffe in 1940, they've been going down all over Kent this summer."
There was also Shepherd Neame’s poster campaign: ‘Spitfire Ale - no Fokker comes close!’
Bloody brilliant 😄
A reference to the English experience at penalty shoot-outs, perhaps?
I first heard of the DAMBUSTERS in may 1983. I was only a child and blue Peter had a feature on them for the 40th anniversary. I was hook, they have become part of me, they're all most in my blood. when this advert was first screened, I loved it. it was brilliant. then shortly afterwards the up and coming lefties( or leftwaffer) had it removed from the airwaves. I still think of it as a brilliant advert. I would bring the story to a new audience.
Jolly good show old chap !
Hey BUDWEISER...this is how you make beer adverts.. :)
American Budweiser is not beer - it's dishwater.
WASSSSSUUUP, 😂
The boys would have so proud to know an advert was made for them 🫡
They've sold me a Carling next time I'm in the pub! 😂
When people were allowed to have a sense of humour and the adverts were as good as the programs.
This is a true story … the German sentry was awarded the Iron Cross . 😊
The best Advert ever......Or...the best Dam thing !
They don't make ads as good as this nowadays.
They’d replace the real flight crew with a mixed-race couple !
I also enjoyed the bouncing union jack towels rolling out onto the sunbeds before the germans got there.They don't make them like that anymore.We're not allowed to have a sense of humour anymore,as the HR department has cancelled it forthwith.
Love this one. Classic.
I forgot about this little gem.
The Jaaaaaaaaaag advertising execs could have taken lesson from this😊
Surely the greatest advert after the Guinness ‘surfing with horses’ one!
…There’s a theme emerging 🤔 lol
"I bet he drinks Carling black label"
"Urgembler pofmgernish eerk splunkdim gimscerp, Skipper."
"Dusseldorf. Yes, bloody good goalkeeping. I bet he'll be in the World Cup in '66"
This ad plus the KitKat ice skating pandas - genius!
Marvellous on every level!
Back in the time when marketing people and advertising had professionals who were talented and creative...unlike the dross we have today
I remember watching this as a kid and thinking and saying to my dad, it's the 617 crews that bet they drink CBL. Except they wouldn't touch that crap.
I've been to the Mohne Dam. A huge information board detailing how many cubic metres of water per second, feeding so many square miles of farmland yadda yadda. NOT A WORD about the raid !
Always a fun favourite add. Tom Lehrer's musical adds for CBL to the tune of 'Abdul Ambubul Amir' were genious: Shame they are so hard to find to watch again
I'd forgotten that ad 😂😂
The beer is like pee water, but the ads were great.
Whoever came up with was pure genius, yes I still drink carling😅
Can't stand adverts, that was clever though. I like the bounce at the end, across the pints.
Now imagine if it were re-made today!
I’m just in for the beer!
When he took his mask off and still had the ‘garbled radio voice)
Got to love British humour.
They don’t make them like that anymore 🍺👏👏👏
Better than tv shows.
Terrible beer but the adverts were always fantastic
Same with Fosters and Castlemaine 4X. These ads very cleverly got British drinkers to choose fizzy cold tasteless p*ss instead of traditional British ale.
Hey Mabel! Black Label!
Parodia de la película británica "The Dam Busters" (1955), dirigida por Michael Anderson y protagonizada por Michael Redgrave y Richard Todd.
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial y en el transcurso del bombardeo a las presas de la cuenca del Rhur, los soldados alemanes (grandes rivales futbolísticos de Inglaterra) responden al ataque de un modo muy peculiar.
Producto: Cerveza Carling
Agencia: WCRS
Fecha: 1989
Guión: Kes Grey
Director Artístico: Jonathan Greenhalgh
Director: Roger Woodburn
Productora: Park Village
The carling ads were the best by a long long way
And for the many others whom died from the flooding 😢
This advert was shown in British cinemas.
The last line😂
Classic and still funny as f***k 😂
Nobody takes the piss out of themselves like the British!
They've graduated to dismantling the entire country.
😂😂😂 Love it 😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣 very funny , from a different time. A compliment to the Germans in spite of the history. Peace 🙏🏼
I dont know where you would fit the mixed race/ same sex couple in for todays adverts
You could miss them out altogether for me 😡
It'd be called Carling Black Tick Box now!
53 young men lost theirs on this operation. To make fun of them is disgraceful. I thought so at the time and still thinks so to. Plus, 1500 civilians died the same night.
when people had creativity & humour
Those dambusters…
Now what if they made that ad today, what would be different?
The days when we had a sense of humour, No woke crap back then!!
Classic !!
I remember this advert well, but not as well as I remember the dozens of dozy German soldier supporting actors who repeatedly failed to notice allied soldier leading actors passing by them in full view in war film after war film. Unruly cinema audiences shouting: 'Behind you, Fritz!' etc. Same thing at home on TV when I was growing up. 'Behind you; just look, man!' It was better than panto.
Top show what , black label all round , short hands and long pockets , your shout !!!!!!
We had humour once.
Sadly would be offensive nowadays ,brilliant advert 😂
Mum And Dad
The advertisement was better than the Lager 😂
Was done when people had a sense of humour. There were some brilliant adverts at the time.
When commercials were funny.
If India filmed the Dambusters
Back when we could laugh at ourselves and have a good time. This ad still makes me laugh to this day 40 years later/
Classic, classic advert. Adverts these days are just no fun.
Proper Ad
Now that is funny 👍👍