American Reacts to Weirdly Nostalgic British Adverts
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In this video I react to weirdly nostalgic British adverts. There is no denying it. Brits have the most creative and funny ads I've ever seen. It would be a lot of fun watching tv in the UK just to catch the adverts.
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These must be nostalgia for people who are about 20 because these are quite recent, i didnt see any from my era and im only in my 30s.😂
How do you think I feel, I'm 61 😂😂😂
28 I remember everyone of these.
@@samuel10125 point proven!
Agreed , I not even watched MS TV for years so none of these I know
29 and I remember the majority of these
As others have said, Walmart used to own Asda, but doesn't anymore. Yes, we had/have McDonalds Monopoly in the UK. Generally, any chips that are thin and long like McDonalds ones would be called fries or French fries here and Crusha is a syrup that you add milk to to create a milkshake.
Sorry catching up on videos but wanted to ask you is crusha or nesquik better? I been buying nesquik a lot
@@mlee6050 Personal preference I guess, and sometimes I'm in the mood for Nesquik and at other times, for Crusha. Sorry, that doesn't really help!
Very recent ads … see if you can find maynards wine gums ‘Hoots mon’ ad - its a classic 🤣
Action Man would of been our version of GI Joe here in the UK
I differentiate between biscuits and cookies, and fries and chips.
Biscuits snap, cookies bend.
Chips are thick and cut from a potato, fries are skinny and often put through a Play-Doh Fun Factory.
"Frosted Flakes" are usually the name of the cheap store brand version of Frosties in the UK.
I thought frosted flakes was frosties but a higher sugar content from same company
You should react to British Christmas adverts.
Especially John Lewis Christmas ads around 2010 onwards.
@@Jill_SmokeandMirrors that and the sainsbury's WW1 xmas advert
scrap that, he's already reacted to it haha.
the UK christmas adverts are usually really good and I love the Lloyds bank adds especially the 250 anniversary one (watch the longer one if you can find it ) it has nice music and horses so my kind of adverts :)
Not that old most of them The Cravendale cats is my favourite👏🏻👏🏻
For my generation the "Tiny Tears" doll would have been the nostalgic one. Introduced in 1965 and still sold today. A doll that would cry and wet itself when you gave it a bottle of water.
Sounds like me now I'm in my sixties, after a few beers when I reminiscing?
I had the original Tiny Tears doll that did not pee or cry, parents got it for me in 1968. The pee cry version came out decades later to suit the time. I also had Teeny Tiny Tears which was a smaller version.
My sister had several tiny tears over time, she always poked their eyes in....
I adored my Teeny Tiny Tears! I was given her for my 6th birthday in 1973.
Biscuit boy is a derogatory term we use for a man who "crumbles" under pressure.
Oh i love the cravendale biscuit boy advert i miss it 😂😊❤
These are very modern adds. I grew up in the sixties, we had Lego, (not legos), Action man (G.I. Joe), Thunderbirds models, Match box and Corgi cars, Chopper bikes and Airfix models.
Agree. Properly Lego should be called Lego bricks. So calling them 'Legos' would be like calling house bricks 'houses'.
Yeah, hardly a selection of 'nostalgic ads'... only one I remember is 'crushr'
You forgot our Dinky options :)
Oh dear you’re around the same age as my dad!
@@sameebah and Tonka.
I'm 40 and don't even recognise these ads. I think a lot if them may even be from the 2010s. My guess is someone under 25 put this list together
I only recognised a couple of them (first two Cravendale ones) and I stopped watching TV around 2018. Nostalgic ads to me are from the 80s and 90s but I'm in my 40s.
Surprising how many UK kids adverts use American voiceovers.
Canadian*. Because we share very similar/same adverts with Canada, particularly toys and relevant ages
I guess if you are in your late teens early 20's these may be nostalgic but to me they look like more recent adverts. I was thinking of say pre or 70's/80's/90's where there are some adverts where you only have to say for example; A finger of fudge is just enough...and I bet someone will sing the rest of jingle that we know for a Cadburys Fudge Bar. Or Just because the lady loves...Milk Tray (The iconic James Bondesque Milk Tray chocolate adverts), or Only the crumbliest Flake is chocolate...again some will be able to automatically finish the jingle to the advert. Last one 'It's The Milky Bar Kid'...the Milky bar kid is strong and tough. Let's see if any aspiring Milky Bar Kids of yester year are singing that advert in their head. 🤠⭐🍫
Crusher is a concentrated flavouring. You pour a little drop into a glass and add milk for a flavoured milk shake. I'm not sure how many flavours there are, but the strawberry is nice.
Add milk, or I'll crusha
Should do a reaction to 70s ads. They were mostly focused on telling us all the ways we would be killed if we went outside 😂 train tracks, water, strangers in vans, car crashes, lightening etc
Seem to remember The Grim Reaper,Drowning,Boys trapped in fly-tipped fridge',Charlie Says," Never Play With Matches " (Cat) and the cartoon with Pertunia and her husband in the sea,Drowning.Oh,Those were the days! If children were to watch that today they would probably need counselling !🤣
They weren't really ads though, they weren't actually selling anything! I think the official name for them was "Public Information Films".
The Cadbury Smash ads were the best in my humble opinion 😂
I wanted a smash alien when I was a kid. still do now. these days, I just buy smash (supermarkets own version) 🤣
@@audiocoffee Smash is horrible
@@paulguise698 supermarkets own brand not so bad though. cheaper and makes better potatocakes. it's down to flavour. I add a splash of hendersons relish, garlic granules, sea salt and butter.
smash was the only thing obtainable as a kid and the only way I'd eat mashed spuds because none of my parents could cook that well. it's how I learnt to cook better than they could to survive. smash is just stupidly expensive these days. it does make a great thickener though for soups/gravies.
Crusha is a brand of concentrated syrup meant to be added to milk to make milkshakes. We over here seem to love concentrated extracts to add to other liquids, most likely as its relatively cheap over buying cans or bottles of fizzy juice(soda).
I remember a few of these adverts, but I don't think much of the choice. There's a lot better.
Always a hazard when dunking , there can't be many who haven't lost half a biscuit in the cup . Loved the cat ones . Most of these aren't that old .
Those are all fairly recent! If you really want to see nostalgic ads, you need to look at some from the 70s, 80s and 90s, many of which had jingles and tag-lines that many of us of a certain age still sing or quote to this day!
Interesting to see that Shaker Maker ad though. We had Shaker Maker when I was a kid in the 70s, but it was completely different from the one in that ad! Ours consisted of moulds that you filled with water and a plaster powder. You shook it to mix the powder and water, then when it had dried, you painted it. The figures you ended up with were based on popular Disney and cartoon characters of the time.
Jadora Kiora....or lilt with a totally tropical taste....0r the red car and the blue car had a race but all red woukd do is stuff his face milkybar advert, my favourites.
It’s nostalgic for gen Z. I remember almost all of these from when I was under 12.
Most of these seem very Americanised and fairly modern. I hardly knew any of them tbh, I'm assuming the toy ads would have been shown late afternoon after kids got home from school
Matchbox originated in Britain, like most great things in this world!😂
"Frosted Flakes" is a generic name in the UK from many manufactures, so "Frosties" is likely the Kellogs trademarked name.
I think manufacturers have to make it totally clear what products are for the American public. They are not exactly the sharpest knife in the block!🤣🤣
I am way too old for these ads. I don't even recognize most of the products because they are too new. Also that floam thing looks like an excellent way to get microplastics even more distributed into the environment!!
Crusha is a syrup to make milkshakes
@@kirstipeters1314 I recognised that one.
Sorry, I put my reply on the wrong comment lol
Have to admit that I only recognise the Arla milk commercial as well as the Kellogg's ad through product association. The rest? Never heard them!
Edit: Except for ASDA, obviously!!
As others have said, none of these are nostalgic as they aren't very old. Also, several of them are American adverts which you can tell by the accents. The only advert that caused any response in me was the Crusha advert as it was so different to make it memorable.
Hi Steve,
These are not nostalgic, not like the nostalgic we used to have.
😁
The cravendale milk ads, I think must have worked as you still see that brand of milk in most supermarkets.
Matchbox was originally a British toy made by Lesney a British company with main manufacturing in Hackney (North East London).
Chrusher is a flavouring for Milk similar to Nesquik (which I think you have in US).
The Dolmio and Argos Alien family ads were awesome lmao. Gutted they weren’t in this compilation but defo something to check out. Well IMO anyway 😄
McDonald's had limited edition London 2012 Olympics coca cola glasses and I still got em boxed 11 years later 😂
I've still got my Great Britain Football shirt, never been wore and still got tags on
This video would have been even more fun if it had focused on some of the iconic ones from the 70's and 80's, many of which are remembered today. J R Hartley in Yellow Pages, the carling "Dambusters" one, the Heineken "Water in Majorca", Hamlet cigars, the pseudo-erotic Flake ones, R Whites Secret Lemonade drinker, as examples. Not forgetting those which were essentially the precursors (known as public information films) to the Most Effective ads, but often even more graphic. Classic examples:- "Think Bike", "Lonely Water" where the Grim Reaper causes the death of kids playing near water, "Clunk-Click" (fronted by J***y S****e), and the totally fcuked up "Rabies means Death" (there was an inexplicable paranoia at the time about the potential of someone illegally importing an animal and causing a rabies outbreak)
I think you've dipped your toes in the murky world of the 'public information films'. some of which terrified me - the 'think bike' ones did, as did the one about escalators. and the R*** H***** 'learn to swim. not forgetting the ones on electrical safety (why we don't have plug sockets in the bathroom). let alone the petrifying bonfire night ones - with actual survivors of mishandled fireworks.
those would be worth sourcing and watching for sure. you haven't grown up terrified until you've seen some of those.
there were also a number of lighthearted PIFs, that go beyond 'Charlie Says'. it was another world back then and we were easily terrified and needed a little humour to soften the blow.
thats before we hit the point where there was a very real threat of a potential nuclear attack. and some of those 'informercials' on 'what to do if...' were truly the stuff of nightmares.
@@audiocoffee Yeah, I'd encourage Steve to take a look at some of the old school ones. There'd be some definite WTF moments, especially as some of them broke the unwritten rule about never bumping off kids. Certainly not in gruesome ways....
America had GI Joe but here in the U.K. we had Action Man.
Like the US once had Barbie and the UK had Sindy dolls.
@@susanashcroft2674GI Joe was rebranded to Action Man. Barbie and Sindy were competitors.
@@andyjohnson4907 Thanks I've learned something new, I didn't have an action man but a family member had one with the moving eyes and that creeped me out a bit.
I remember years ago holidaying in florida , evening time put t.v. on and started watching a programme 5 minutes in an advert came on then back to the programme another 20mins and another advert . Bombarded with Adverts . But had a great time on my Holly bobs . 😊
omg i remembered the words to the “fluffy go walkies” song hahahaaa i loved these!!!
Hi Steve Thankyou for another great video, take care 😘
you should try the john smiths adverts, start with Peter Kay, then the Jack Dee ones then the ancient comedy john smiths adverts with the two old men, all hilarious
Not forgetting the no nonsense level head pub
The Boddingtons Bitter Ads with Melanie Sykes made far more of an impression on me when a teenager!
I love that Tim Curry voiced the Cravendale advert with the cats. My fave actor ever ❤️
GI Joe was marketed in the UK as Action Man (we don't have GIs in our forces) and was a popular toy when I was growing up. Matchbox cars were founded in the UK, originally made by a company called Lesney, the brand was sold to Mattel in the 90s.
I never knew that Action Man was GI Joe!
@@linkash4167you are very young
Do 70s adverts and the public information we're kicking
GI Joe and Action Man were pretty much identical to start with, but Action Man was gradually changed to make him/it more relevant to the British market.
We rarely say commercials, however the part where they show the ads on tv we call a commercial break.
Funnily, Frosted Flakes are what "own brand" Frosties are called here.
According to Wikipedia it reckons that the name 'Frosted Flakes' was too general a term to qualify for getting a UK Trademark applied to it so 'Frosties' is used instead, and presumably that'll be why supermarket own brands often just call them frosted flakes.
Great fun!
I'm sure the singer on the Cravendale ad sings on karaoke in my pub on a Saturday night. Excruciating!
Yes these were definitely newer adverts. You can tell the american import adverts from the quirky British ones. The 80s and 90s had really crazy adverts especially for smoking and beer.
So when I was young Lego (I remember getting one of the first Lego Space kits the then the first lego technic kits I was a member of the Lego club.
G.I. Joe was a popular brand, Branded as the Action Man range with the large toys then later as the Action force figures with the cartoon series. Along with Star Wars and He Man transformers and Gobots toy lines and cartoon series.
Corgi Dinky and Matchbox cars were very popular then hotwheels later, especially the themed ones like the batmobile and the james bond Astin martin .
Mattel, MB games, Waddingtons were common toy companies along with Peter Pan, Hornbyand Blubird Toy Companies.
The earliest form of building kits in the lego type catagory was Meccano which was a Hornby invention in 1908 who later produced model railways, models and dinky toys.
I haven’t seen half of these before you need to look at older ads for real nostalgic ads. Also look at our Christmas ads in particular John Lewis ads which pull at your heart strings
Arla is a massive farmer owned co-operative based originally in Denmark but it now has thousands of dairy farmer members across Scandinavia and the UK. Cravendale is ultra filtrated to extend its keeping quality markedly.
Crusha is a liquid milkshake mix that come's in many flavour's Raspberry is the best 😋💖
I've not watched broadcast TV for about 25 years now, so I haven't seen any of these adverts before. The ones I remember are from back in mid to late 80s. The UK advertising agencies that work for these brand companies are amazing though, lots of innovation to the point we even had a TV show called "How Do They Do That?" - it was run by the BBC that followed a group of adverts being made and showed the behind the scenes of the techniques used to create the visuals you see.
Crusha is a fruit flavoured syrup that is mixed with milk to make milkshake. My daughter had the fluffy puppy... she used to take it everywhere and treat it like a real puppy. 😂
Magnetix is the magnet toy that comes to mind for me
You still haven't done the hilarious Marmite compilation of ads.
Only discovered your channel today and have been on a little bit of a binge. Love the channel and love seeing another countries view ok what we may see as normal day to day things.
Some small recommendations
1) The history of coal in wales - sounds boring, but is a massive part of this part of the country. Big Pit being a good example for a tourist
2) The Everyone vs England rivalry - Especially in sport, look into the English or British question I.e. Andy Murray Syndrome
3) Things invented by Scottish People
Thanks for the recommendations Jordan. I'm glad you're enjoying the channel. :)
These were on tv when my son and daughter were growing up. That Floam stuff was a complete pain to clear up it stuck to everything.
Looking forward to this one.
Cadbury chocolate made incredible mix of ads especially 'Yes Sir, I WILL boogie' in the Office Cadbury Chocolate one of the best ads ever !!!!
Asda was owned by Walmart but it came back into British ownership in February 2021. Cravendale milk is filtered it’s not as nice as unfiltered milk. Crusher I believe is put into milk to make milkshake, I remember one similar in the 80s/90s. There are videos of British adverts from 70s, 80s and 90s on TH-cam.
The Cravendale advert reminded me. I do have a photo of a cat that looks like it has "thumbs".
The good ads are from 1975 to 1985. The hovis ones, the weetabix ads and monster Munch. That's my go to stuff. Used to record 4 hour VH tapes full of ads every summer on holiday in England. Had a few in the late 80s. 😊
Gi joe was called Action man over here in England 🏴
I have the whole set of the Mcdonlads glasses I must of had them nearly 20 years still in the packaging
You ought to do a reaction on British public information films from the 1970s. These were either shown during the day along with Schools & Colleges broadcasts or just before closedown.
Those were quite scary too if I remember right 😮
@@jacquelineeccles3938 That was the whole point of them - to shock us into not doing stupid shit that could ultimately kill us.
Had I not seen 'Apaches' in the late '70s I'd have not treated slurry pits with the respect they deserve as we lived right by a cattle farm back then.
@@scottneil1187 Links?
He's done 'Top 10 Most Effective British Adverts' and 'Most Disturbing British TV Adverts' but not any of the classic PIFs
The music on the first milk advert sounds a lot like the music from a show called Shock-Headed Peter that I saw in a London theatre as a teenager. It was a series of songs acted out with puppets all about children who had died because they were naughty. I believe the band that performed it was called the Tiger Lillies.
I have no idea how Biscuit Boy managed to find way home with no Head! lol
I used to make Weetabix a long time ago. My dad used to be in charge of making the tv adverts, (Cartoon "Bixies", and Robin Hood Weetabix ads) my ex father in law was a Weetabix bus driver(free bus service for workers) my ex wife used to work in one of the packaging departments, and i used to work cooking wheat.
Interesting fact, the milk with the cookie advert you liked had to change the voice over artist, it is a group called The Tiger Lillies they are a Dark cabaret, Gypsy stlye group that sings about child murder, rape and very anti-religious songs whilst wearing clownish face paint, I love them
Asda stores looked like that before Walmart took over, and people were always comparing them to Walmart because they looked similar, which is probably why they ended up owning the company for a while.
The name Asda is an abbreviation of Asquith and Dairies which came from a merger of Asquith Supermarkets and Associated Dairies.
99% of the time we in the UK hate the "hard sell" advert, we dont want to be lectured or shouted at about product, companies here know that if you can make a fun, unique and catchy advert it will win people over perhaps not to a specific product (which is why a lot of the adverts are quite detached from the product) but it will win them over to the brand in general
A strange collection. I only knew the asda one.
I thought it was going to be old milk tray, British Airways type. Not dolls lol
You just reminded me of the Milk Tray advert where they play giant chess.
Krusha is a syrup for making milkshakes.
Brooke Bond/PG Tips tea adverts were great with the chimp family before it changed to the monkey it uses now. Give them a watch. Love your channel
"Dad, do you know the piano is on my foot?" .... "you hum it son and I'll play it!" :)
Crusher is/was basically a syrup that you put into a glass, only a fairly small amount, fill the glass with milk, give it a damn good stirring and hey presto, you have a cold refreshing milkshake in whatever flavours the company did
Going way way back does anyone remember the baby elephant with the little boy and then they grew up. A Rolo Advertisement. It was voted best avert ever for many years.
I still have a few of those McDonalds glasses, they're genuinely pretty great
They didn't change the name to be in the UK for Frosties. They changed it to be in the US. Keddogs does a LOT of their production R&D over here.
We had two types of GI Joes here. The 12 figures that your could dress up were rebranded to Action Man, and the four inch figures were rebranded to Action Force.
"Action Force against Cobra the enemy, fighting to save the day!"
Yes! Asda used to be owned by walmart.
We dont use the word commercial either at all😊
We have monopoly at McDonald's every year for a month.
Never heard of most of these toys haha. Maybe i'm too old!
"For mash get Smash" .... The PG Tips Chimps ( "you hum it son and I'll play it") ....Leonard Rossiter Martini ads ....Milk Tray ....Action Man ( with his eagle eyes) .... Hamlet Cigars..... satirical ones like "Ash Trey" .... every Irn Bru advert ... yeah I'm old(ish)
Frank Muir 'Fruit and Nut' ads, John West Salmon 'Oh look! An eagle!!'
Yeah we have the McDonald's monopoly game and I still have those free coca cola glass cups from them 😂 I remember asking Santa for that card making kit every Christmas as a kid. Our version of GI Joe was a doll called action man. I think cravendale milk ads are similar to the got milk? Ads. Crush ems is like a flavour syrup to put in milk to make it like flavoured milk
I’m 22 and I remember most of these from my childhood, so mostly 2000s
Crusha is a flavoured syrup for making flavoured milk drinks
Asda was part owned by Walmart for years. I worked at Asda Walmart and it was a great place to work, one big family. Since it’s been taken over it’s gone downhill fast. I got out of there since haha
YOUR MAKING ME FEEL OLD! Christ im 28 now I grew up with all of these advertisements.😭
Wallmart tried to sell Asda to Sainsbury's but the Competition And Markets Authority blocked the sale. It was sold to a UK consortium in 2020
My brother was a fanatic Meccano builder as a little kid, I was a nerd playing with Maths toys. He became a civil engineer, I became a computer security consultant. The toys make the man.
No computers then (the 60s).
Ok the hex bug was peak advertising. That soooooong 😂😂😂 also this is all early 2000s stuff i doubt its even late 90s
That ‘biscuit’ advert would actually be called cookies. Crunchy cookies like ‘Maryland cookies’ for example. Biscuits are lights and easy to eat, usually can dip in tea and it will instantly go soft, unlike cookies.
Frosted Flakes would be what the knock off brands would call them here
We tend to say we have commercial breaks in a program which will show adverts, I think that’s how you could view it. I don’t think we say commercial for a single item much any more almost always an advert or an ad
i had an Action Man and a steve austin - 6million dollar man, loved that toy
They used to be called Commercial breaks.
i find it funny that we call it a commercial break for the adverts
Yeah so these adverts are nostalgic for me and people my age. I'm turning 20 in October. All of these were adverts from when I was a kid and I got real nostalgia from some of them, like the Cool Cardz one, hearing the song unlocked a forgotten memory. But yeah I was born in 2003 and these will be from mid-late 2000s and early 2010s, if I can remember them then I'll have been at least 5 (so late 2008).
Also Hex Bugs were amazing along with the theme tune (which was a remake of Monster by The Automatic - an early 2000s kid song)
Also Frosted Flakes are only called Frosted Flakes in NA. They're called Frosties in the UK and Ireland, in commonwealth countries, as well as in Europe and the Middle-East. So they changed the name for you guys not us lol.
Loving the videos though mate, you're one of the better reactors out there as you actually remember stuff you learn lol. Keep it up pal.
I managed to get one of the glasses but not the whole set of cola glasses from MacDonalds.
Walmart bought ASDA but sold it back to British Owners a couple of years ago
I loved Lego. I used what I had to recreate Voyager (from Star Trek Voyager). I was quite proud of myself because it looked pretty good, and the warp nacelles raised like in the show. I also remember building a car, complete with boot/trunk space. I think I put in a small motor at one point to make it move. I spent countless hours with my Lego! If only it was socially acceptable for me to break them out and play with them now. 😆
We have an Asda in our area, i remember it being part of Walmart but not sure if they still are .
Cravendale milk is filtered to remove naturally occurring bacteria and impurities to give it a much longer life. It can keep for over 3 weeks in the fridge. It is more expensive than regular pasteurised milk, but I sometimes get it if I am going away, so I have fresh milk when I get back. I am not aware of much difference in taste when added to tea, coffee or cereal. It certainly tastes much better than the alternative long live milks such as UHT or sterilised milk.
Hi Steve if feel like history maybe try the history of some of our castle's . There is a couple of video's on Ledlow castle
I still have the purple and brown Coca-Cola Can glasses, the other 3 I had smashed and for some reason none of the McDonalds near me ever had the green one.