The 2021 wall was not so much an American wall reference but that many states totally shut there borders for extended periods to prevent the spread of Covid. The guy on the plane from Hawaii at the end was the Prime Minister who was criticised for a family holiday in Hawaii during big bush fires in Australia
That was "our" Princess Mary of Denmark, rescued off the balcony, she is originally from Tassie! My fav I think is 2017, it gives me emotional goosebumps. That 2021 one was very relevant at the time, because of stresses between the states due to Covid, particularly Queensland's Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Gladys Berejikliam the NSW Premier, I think they just about hated each other at that time, sniping back and forth, as Queensland shut the borders big time. Yes maybe a lamb chop could have been the ice breaker!
We in WA really do threaten to break off a lot. The border closures during the pandemic just kicked all the arguments back up again. I could go into the details of why that would or wouldn't be a good idea, but I'd rather we all laugh at Clive Palmer instead, the massive Trump-wannabe dickhead!
The gruff guy in the first video is sports commentator Sam Ketkovich. The lamb industry engaged him to promote their products & the ads became legendary. The 2nd ad features cricket captain & commentator Richie Benaud inviting famous Aussies (and Captain Cook who charted the east coast in 1770) to an Australia Day barbie. The third ad features Lee Lin Chin, a straightlaced newsreader who unexpectedly became a deadpan comic sensation.
These ads are brilliant, but so many jokes loaded in to them are very Australian and would be hard for others to understand. Taking the piss brilliantly.
Lamb used to be the cheapest meat when I was growing up - now it's the most expensive - but can drive to Wagga and buy a lamb for $30 bucks! Figure that one out?
In response to the 2019 "New Australia" one, the New Zealand tourism department bought up the New Australia domain name and did up a tourism website with all the sights of New Australia... which just so happened to be in New Zealand.
A bit of explanation on the second one, the main player in that ad is the legendary late Richie Benaud, famous cricketing commentator. And the guy he said no to, was comedian Billy Birmingham, who made a living imitating Richie's voice and all the other Australian cricket commentators in the equally legendary The 12th Man albums, something you would also like but they are a lot better if you know the personalities on he chopping block.
2015 was Captain James Cook (explorer), Richie Benaud (cricketer and commentator RIP), Burke & Wills (explorers), Ned Kelly (outlaw), Don Bradman (cricketer), Ida Buttrose (journalist), Billy Birmingham (comedian) and Sam Kekovich (football player and commentator). For context, a vego is a vegetarian. And yes, Australia Day is typically celebrated with a BBQ.
That musical left vs right was apparently outsourced to an American company. It never happened again. Most ads are topical about the time, and half the fun is spotting the cameos.
as an aboriginal i love the 2017 one i dont personally celebrate australia day ( i still go to a bbq though lol) cause of the history behind australia day but its nice to see the representation of aboriginals
Thank you for your comment. Glad you don't use that Canadian invented phrase 'first nation'. When someone in the media uses this phrase, what ever they are preaching, I lose interest. Blackfellas I worked with in outback WA never called themselves with this phrase, called themselves blackfellas or Wongi (local mob in the Great Victoria Desert) and called us whitefellas. It works very well for whites and blacks with no racist implications. The blackfellas there even had a joke about blacks and whites! 'If you are a white guy you're not a Wongi!'
@@keithad6485yeah a lot of people are interested in making us fight each other and stirring up resentment. That's why they invented the term invasion day too and try to take away Australia day, cause Australia day is for everyone in Australia, but calling it invasion day divides us. Glad to see more pushback on the words they use to manipulate us.
Australia for years considered itself to be “built on” or to “ride on the sheep’s back”. The sheep farming industry was huge, with Aussie (and NZ) lamb amongst the best in the world s well as our wool industry. Australia grew the first million dollar bale of wool earlier this century.
We had more sheep than we knew what to do with and as a result lamb was ubiquitous and cheap. Then we screwed it up with the wool stockpile and our flock numbers plummeted and lamb became more expensive than beef and only available as flavourless "yearling lamb" so we had to give money to advertisers (it only encourages them) to convince us to buy lamb again. :\
@@EmbraceThePing Yeah, what happened to the amazingly tasty mutton roast? Still, yearling is still streets ahead of US lamb🤮. Lived there recently and we hunted around madly for Aussie and NZ lamb.
I’m so glad you reviewed these ads!!! As an Aussie, I knew most of them, but I think the funniest was the “UnAustralian” one!!! Also, the one where we are ALL boat people, was brilliant!! ❤
The best ones were from before 2014. Sam Kekovitch, one of our best dead-pan comedians with his trademark "I'm Sam Kekovitch, you know it makes sense!", was really in his element in those earlier ads.
The Asian Aussie in Warsaw is Lee Lin Chin, a popular newsreader and TV personality for the SBS Network (Special Broadcasting Service). Lots of Aussie actors throughout these ads, we know their faces even if we don’t know all their names. The chef in white (well done) is former MasterChef host, George Calombaris, Greek Aussies love lamb too! “Hang on, aren’t we all boat people?” Was Po Ling Yeow, former MC contestant (2nd place) and now TV cook and very popular personality.
The 2021 one was based on the laws stopping people from crossing the borders during and because of the pandemic. Right at the end was Scott Morrison coming back from Hawaii. That's a reference to him pissing off to Hawaii for a holiday during the worst bush fires in recent history.
Sam keckovich was a champion footballer in the AFL. A premiership player for North Melbourne F.C and later played for Collingwood FC. A great character after his retirement from playing, he went on to ply his trade in the commentary booth and as a speaker at sportsmen’s nights around the country. Now he is recognised as Australia’s ambassador for the lamb industry and promotes lamb as the official food for Australia Day celebrations.
I'm not a TV watcher and am Australian so I laughed all the though this lot because I've never seen any of them before. They were brilliant. Thank you so much for putting them on.
@@dadoftwinsau Because I don't watche television? Tell me, what's on television that's even Australian? The vast majority of it is American and 40% of the time is ads. Why would any normal human being sit though that? Being brainwashed by junk they wouldn't buy?
@@toni4729 you obviously missed the wink emoji and the sarcasm that was intended. I haven’t watched TV for 30+ years. In simpler terms…it was a joke….*sigh*
The ad with the people being pulled back to Oz had a reference to princess Mary of Denmark, she was Tasmanian and married crown prince Frederick of Denmark, there many references to particular Aussies, Richie Benaud one of the most notable cricketers of all time who was inviting many notable Aussies to his Australia day bbq, celebrated as the day Captain Phillip landed with the first fleet of white colonial settlers the Australian aborigines refer to it as invasion day understandably.
Just a little thing for you, the Military Commander in the third (2016) ad, is an actor called Huw Higginson, best remembered from The Bill, as PC George Garfield.
The “We’re all boat people” bbq on the beach is still my favourite, but the latest “Un-Australian” ad with someone saying beetroot doesn’t belong on a burger is a very very close second. During Covid Australia removed it and kept it out of the country for a year via travel restrictions and lockdown periods. Then there was a year? Of it gradually going state to state because there were travel bans between the states that were effective at delaying the spread of it. So that’s what the wall ad in 2021 was about. Travel bans between all states due to covid.
I adored the little digs at vegans throughout the series of ads, though they'd probably get brought up in front of the australian human rights commission if they did any today.
Mary, the Crown Princess (and future Queen) of Denmark is an Aussie. She met the crown prince at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. She probably doesn't even get to celebrate Australia day, let alone fang down on a lamb chop.
Thanks- these are hilarious! There are so many references that it is probably difficult for others, such as a Scotsman, to manage to decipher. So glad you found the ads fun!
21:50 thats scomo, our last PM, he went on holiday to hawaii at the beginning of 2020 when we had massive bush fires. that add was less about donald trump, more about lockdowns due to covid, a lot of state borders were locked down to prevent the spread.
That's Crown Princess Mary of Denmark... Tassie'e own princess. She met Prince Fred in a Sydney pub during the Sydney Olympics. A true, real life Aussie love story!
Yes and there are usually free BBQs in most parks. My family grew up eating the Sunday lamb roast and cutlets during the week. Now it can be so expensive you need to lay-by it. Yes! Queen Mary is from Tasmania. She is home right now. I do love lamb but no missing year, I think it was called Covid. Before these there were a whole lot of lamb ads using Tom Cruise. Like young teen fans would get a phone call from a radio station telling them they had won a date with Tom Cruise that night. They were so excited but then they could smell their Mother’s cooking lamb and make up an excuse to stay home. I know the woman who had those ads stopped because they were teaching young people to lie. I never said I ever liked her and young teens have always known how to lie.😂
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The 'West Side Story' musical ad missed because no one under 55 would 'get it'....and it went on too long. The Wall was a dig at Queensland for keeping travel restrictions going during the Pandemic.....and what happened when they lowered the restrictions? The figures blew out, so thanks for that southern states. But the ad was terrific. Best of all was the Exile one at the end...that was just epic! I haven't owned a TV since 2009 (everything I do is on computer) so I've never seen these ads before. Oh and Australia's connection with the Danish Royals is that Crown Prince Frederik (next king of Denmark) is married to an Aussie, Mary - Crown Princess of Denmark.
Irony is that to see these great ads on a yt reaction channel. I haven't seen the majority of them and they're fucking great. Ps lamb is so frigging expensive, watching these ads is closest I'll get
in the 2017 one the Chinese arrive with fireworks from "Fyshwick" - an industrial suburb in Canberra (Canberra at times has been a bit more liberal than the rest of the nation - and has a bit of a reputation (particularly in Fyshwick) for dope, porn (or at least adult shops) and fireworks.....)
I think I liked 2015 the most, no the 3rd one 😂Still liked a few others. It made me think of the roast lamb mum cooked every single Sunday, didn’t matter how hot it was. Happy every Sunday lunch, not only Australia Day lamb dinner 😊
Hi again Mat thanks again for this I can't stoplaughing I remember them all. The one where Richie Benno phones captain Cook to invite for a lamb chop cracks me up. The lady in the big chair is Leelin Chin an Aussies fashion icon . Also the the guys dying in the bush were Burke and Will's who were earlier Australian explorers and tragically perished on one of their explorations. Also on a different issue you want to listen to Led Zeppilin, Immigrant Song, friends of mine still play this song when they do pub gigs it's obviously not Australian but it was played on radio all the time here back in the 70s. For best ever Aussie bands listen to Mondo Rock state of the heart and Icehouse, I don't believe anymore. Please keep making your videos you are absolutely brilliant. Oh and yes I've cooked many a lamb chop on the baby. All the best from Western Australia, Clare
You won't catch me eating lamb (yes... I'm VEGAN!!!!!), but I can appreciate a good ad when I see one. I had no clue about any of these ads, as I haven't watched the telly in decades, but the production of these really are epic.
Sam was an Aussie rules football star, Richie was an Australian cricket captain. The people in these ads are largely Australian icons, not just actors. Yes we love our BBQ on Australia Day.
That last bit in the 'wall' ad is the ex PM Scott Morrison who was famously on a Hawaiian holiday during the devastating bush fires in NSW. He say's , "What did I miss?" as he exits the plane , LOL
These Lamb have so many in-jokes that it would be difficult for non-Australians to understand even most of them. Eg in the Wall ad the man in the floral shirt getting off the plane, is Scott Morrison the PM. In the bringing Australians home for lamb ad, it isPrincess Mary of Denmark, being extracted from Copenhagen. Spotting the jokes is the best part, and often requires viewing multiple times
These ads are quintessentially Australian. There was so much to the 2017 ad that you missed, simply because you didn't live in Australia during 2016. We don't know what you went through in your home during that year either. It was ALL in-jokes, so I am impressed that you got the point, if not the nuance.
Yeah the lamb ads are fantastic, but what is interesting is that most of these I haven't even seen. Maybe some were made for different states of Australia? And most of the ads I watched living in western Sydney and the mid north coast were not in the video? So they must have made a ton of them which is even more interesting, WOW!
In the 2021 add the miner who comes out of the ground is a reference to Western Australia as which has a lot of mining especially iron ore. The reference to trying to become another country again is that in 1933 WA held a referendum to become a seperate nation and there was a 62% in favour a petition was sent to the British Parliament to aloow WA to seceed but was rejected by the British. During covid WA had the strictest and longest quarentine arrangements in Australia.
The 2021 add played on all the border closures due to the pandemic. The guy at the end is the Former PM Who Shall Not Be Named; who famously went on holiday to Hawaii while half of Australia was burning; famously commenting "I don't work in a control centre and I don't hold a hose. " "Not my job". We're not sure what he thought his job was.
We are talking about the Fwit whose wife had to explain to him that r493 is bad, and decided telling the Nation he got an empathy coach was a good idea
@@TheKrispyfort Yep the guy who had a Pedo Protector Brian Houston as his Mentor and couldn't get a job with the most corrupt company in a decade PWC, as he would damage their reputation . Pox Morrison
@@diannesmith2249 as someone with a pin, citation, letter, and hat from Gladys marking the occasion, all I will say is the Fires started very early September 2019. When was Scotty's holiday?
Sam Kekovich (who appears in most of those ads) was an AFL player and personality who through these ads (and I think a few even earlier) became the Lambassador of Australia....some great ads in there (I sort of like the one with first nations people bemused by the different groups of immigrants). EDIT: this might have been the ad that started it: th-cam.com/video/ZtWVJikNnx4/w-d-xo.html
A lot of the first nation people don't celebrate Australia day as it was when the British landed on their land. But nobody complains about the public holiday.
As Kiwi's we know quite a bit about Australia Day. Celebrating their national day but not only with barbies. A lot of these guys are well known cricketers. NZ also barbecue a lot of lamb
Hi, yep, Australians love lamb ! Yes, most of us BBQ either at home or by the beach or some body of water (east coast) is where I live. The second ~~ the guy in the white shirt that calls everyone for the ‘barbie’ is famous Australian cricketer, Ritchie Benaud QBE, who played for New South Wales and Australia, then became the most well known, fantastic commentator of the cricket. The first guy he calls is Captain Cook, (hey Cookie !), then Burke and Wills, first Europeans to cross Australia from south to north, Ned Kelly, Australian bush ranger, Don Bradman (The Don) he called but didn’t answer, was Australia’s greatest batsman of all time, next, and the only woman was Ita BuButtrose QBE, Australian, tv, radio, media personality and more, the last guy was Billy Birmingham, he wrote The Twelfth Man, which you can listen to, imitating Ritchie Benaud (the host) he the. Became known as the best Beanaud impersonator ever, which is why Ritchie gave him the big “NOPE” ! Of course the last guy was our lamb man, Sam Kekovich, who does all the lamb ads. 💕💕💕🐾🐾🐾🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺xoxox
Australia's "love for lamb" particularly on Australia Day was (IMHO) a very clever marketing campaign. I certainly don't recall it being a thing until these ads
Always had lamb growing up, long before these ads. Never associated it with Australia Day though. And now lamb is so ridiculously expensive, I haven't eaten it for almost as long as these ads have been running.
We ate a lot of lamb back in the day because it was good and cheap, not because we loved it especially or thought it was patriotic. With a decline of the wool industry and an increase in meat exports lamb's not cheap in Australia any more.
A generation or two ago, lamb was a staple in every Australian household. It was cheap and available in abundance. Somewhere along the line lamb became less popular, more expensive and therefore not a household staple anymore. So the lamb farming industry started these Australia Day advertising campaigns. You’re welcome 😉
Princess Mary of Denmark is an Aussie from Tasmania and will be Queen one day. She met Crown Prince Frederick when she was working for the 2000 Sydney Olympics organisation and he was part of the Danish contingent. She didn't know who he was and he just said he was Fred from Denmark. Gotta extract her from that depressing northern winter to have a lamb chop on the barbie on Australia Day. 😂😂😂😂😂😂🐨🐨
Ned Kelly, Captain James Cook, explorers, Burke & Wills, who got lost and their bodies were found under a tree, Ita Buttrose, former publisher of the Australian Women’s Weekly and well known Aussie identity, and of course, Richie Benaud, former top cricketer. Yes, Mary is an Aussie girl whom Prince Frederick met on a trip to Australia and subsequently married. They come back nearly every hear to visit her family.
I'm sure someone else mentioned it but in the 3rd video it was the Denmark royals and Princess Mary who is originaly from Tasmania. The guy coming out of the plane was Scott Morrison. Always on trips that weren't at all productive and he comes back without a clue.
The Broadway show is adapted from West Side Story (Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer in movie version). BTW, I have never seen any of those ads on TV before and I live in Sydney!
Sam Kekovich is now a sports presenter and did some adds promoting meat for the Lamb industry but is best known to sports fans as one of the football greats when football was a much more brutal game than it is today. Most of the players from the 70s back to the early days were more thug like than they were sportsmen. Sam has an endearing style and one of the driest sense humour on TV, gotta love his honest style, from enough bullshit generation, only found in what is known as boomers, I recommend that you don’t use that term if you are within arms reach, hard bustards are hard bastards and will take disrespect lightly, shame that quality is now missing,
The 2021 wall was not so much an American wall reference but that many states totally shut there borders for extended periods to prevent the spread of Covid. The guy on the plane from Hawaii at the end was the Prime Minister who was criticised for a family holiday in Hawaii during big bush fires in Australia
I lost it laughing at that.
Most likely he wouldn’t of come back until 2031 if wasn’t forced to
Lol baaaa
Boags were making wall ads 20 years ago .... Not political lol
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That was "our" Princess Mary of Denmark, rescued off the balcony, she is originally from Tassie! My fav I think is 2017, it gives me emotional goosebumps. That 2021 one was very relevant at the time, because of stresses between the states due to Covid, particularly Queensland's Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Gladys Berejikliam the NSW Premier, I think they just about hated each other at that time, sniping back and forth, as Queensland shut the borders big time. Yes maybe a lamb chop could have been the ice breaker!
And WA closing the border hard. That sucked for us more than anyone else in Australia.
We in WA really do threaten to break off a lot. The border closures during the pandemic just kicked all the arguments back up again. I could go into the details of why that would or wouldn't be a good idea, but I'd rather we all laugh at Clive Palmer instead, the massive Trump-wannabe dickhead!
2017 was the best by the length of the back straight at Flemington. One word always makes me laugh….. The Chinese saying “Fyshwick”
The Princess Mary story is sooo Aussie. She and Prince Fredrik (Heir to the Danish throne) met in a pub (The Slip Inn) during the Sydney Olympics.
The hard border saved thousands of lives. WA was basically Covid free for two years, until early 2022.
I wait all year for Sams Australia Day lamb ads. Slammin Sam was his nickname when he played AFL
The gruff guy in the first video is sports commentator Sam Ketkovich. The lamb industry engaged him to promote their products & the ads became legendary. The 2nd ad features cricket captain & commentator Richie Benaud inviting famous Aussies (and Captain Cook who charted the east coast in 1770) to an Australia Day barbie. The third ad features Lee Lin Chin, a straightlaced newsreader who unexpectedly became a deadpan comic sensation.
Lee Lin Chin is both a deadpan comic sensation, and highbrow fashion icon.
@@PiersDJackson And former newsreader at SBS.
@@PiersDJackson Sam Kekovich was an AFL player in the 60s, Carlton, I think.
Lee Lin Chin is iconic! She became a low grade badarse
@@cgkennedy North Melbourne.
like the boat people and the last one. That’s how it really feels to be Australian. Be proud.
Skivvy loving kids entertainer is a reference to the Wiggles!
These ads are brilliant, but so many jokes loaded in to them are very Australian and would be hard for others to understand. Taking the piss brilliantly.
Always love Sam's Australia Day adverts for lamb. He's so serious about lamb it's comical.
Lamb used to be the cheapest meat when I was growing up - now it's the most expensive - but can drive to Wagga and buy a lamb for $30 bucks! Figure that one out?
@@gidgitvonlarue9972 At the moment it's beef, lambs actually come down now. but the cheapest is pork. always changing
In response to the 2019 "New Australia" one, the New Zealand tourism department bought up the New Australia domain name and did up a tourism website with all the sights of New Australia... which just so happened to be in New Zealand.
"Where did you get the explosives?" "Fishwick" Such an obscure reference !!!
A lot of people wouldn't have got that. I thought it was hilarious.
@@marealanham2900yeah I got it.
We have all been to fyshwick just for the fireworks…..😂
I'm in Canberra and I missed that. btw its Fyshwick not Fishwick.
I got it😂
A bit of explanation on the second one, the main player in that ad is the legendary late Richie Benaud, famous cricketing commentator. And the guy he said no to, was comedian Billy Birmingham, who made a living imitating Richie's voice and all the other Australian cricket commentators in the equally legendary The 12th Man albums, something you would also like but they are a lot better if you know the personalities on he chopping block.
2015 was Captain James Cook (explorer), Richie Benaud (cricketer and commentator RIP), Burke & Wills (explorers), Ned Kelly (outlaw), Don Bradman (cricketer), Ida Buttrose (journalist), Billy Birmingham (comedian) and Sam Kekovich (football player and commentator). For context, a vego is a vegetarian. And yes, Australia Day is typically celebrated with a BBQ.
That musical left vs right was apparently outsourced to an American company. It never happened again.
Most ads are topical about the time, and half the fun is spotting the cameos.
Out-sourced to USA. Figures. Politicised and lame humour.
That ad was soooo boring
2018 was an absolute crap advertisement.
Ahhh that makes sense now - looks like the opening to a US award show.
How UnAustralian
as an aboriginal i love the 2017 one i dont personally celebrate australia day ( i still go to a bbq though lol) cause of the history behind australia day but its nice to see the representation of aboriginals
Thank you for your comment. Glad you don't use that Canadian invented phrase 'first nation'. When someone in the media uses this phrase, what ever they are preaching, I lose interest. Blackfellas I worked with in outback WA never called themselves with this phrase, called themselves blackfellas or Wongi (local mob in the Great Victoria Desert) and called us whitefellas. It works very well for whites and blacks with no racist implications. The blackfellas there even had a joke about blacks and whites! 'If you are a white guy you're not a Wongi!'
@@keithad6485yeah a lot of people are interested in making us fight each other and stirring up resentment. That's why they invented the term invasion day too and try to take away Australia day, cause Australia day is for everyone in Australia, but calling it invasion day divides us. Glad to see more pushback on the words they use to manipulate us.
Australia for years considered itself to be “built on” or to “ride on the sheep’s back”. The sheep farming industry was huge, with Aussie (and NZ) lamb amongst the best in the world s well as our wool industry. Australia grew the first million dollar bale of wool earlier this century.
We had more sheep than we knew what to do with and as a result lamb was ubiquitous and cheap. Then we screwed it up with the wool stockpile and our flock numbers plummeted and lamb became more expensive than beef and only available as flavourless "yearling lamb" so we had to give money to advertisers (it only encourages them) to convince us to buy lamb again.
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@@EmbraceThePing Yeah, what happened to the amazingly tasty mutton roast? Still, yearling is still streets ahead of US lamb🤮. Lived there recently and we hunted around madly for Aussie and NZ lamb.
...and curently 'Albo' and the lefties are destroying the WA lamb industry. Shameful
I’m so glad you reviewed these ads!!! As an Aussie, I knew most of them, but I think the funniest was the “UnAustralian” one!!!
Also, the one where we are ALL boat people, was brilliant!! ❤
The best ones were from before 2014. Sam Kekovitch, one of our best dead-pan comedians with his trademark "I'm Sam Kekovitch, you know it makes sense!", was really in his element in those earlier ads.
The Asian Aussie in Warsaw is Lee Lin Chin, a popular newsreader and TV personality for the SBS Network (Special Broadcasting Service). Lots of Aussie actors throughout these ads, we know their faces even if we don’t know all their names. The chef in white (well done) is former MasterChef host, George Calombaris, Greek Aussies love lamb too! “Hang on, aren’t we all boat people?” Was Po Ling Yeow, former MC contestant (2nd place) and now TV cook and very popular personality.
This is so good. back when everyone had a laugh and was not offended!
Except during the 2018 abomination.
2018 offended us all
The 2021 one was based on the laws stopping people from crossing the borders during and because of the pandemic. Right at the end was Scott Morrison coming back from Hawaii. That's a reference to him pissing off to Hawaii for a holiday during the worst bush fires in recent history.
Scomo was in advertising pre politics and brought to us 'Where the bloody hell are you'. Such class.
He was already in Hawaii before the Bush fires started so get your facts right.
Who cares if he was already there, he made no attempt to come back during a devastating time.
@@leoniemcd Did you have the same reaction when Whitlam was in Greece when Cyclone Tracey happened?
@@cgkennedy❤
I used to work with Sam Kekovich. He is a great bloke. Suffered with bad knees - after playing Australian Rules football for North Melbourne.
Sam keckovich was a champion footballer in the AFL. A premiership player for North Melbourne F.C and later played for Collingwood FC. A great character after his retirement from playing, he went on to ply his trade in the commentary booth and as a speaker at sportsmen’s nights around the country. Now he is recognised as Australia’s ambassador for the lamb industry and promotes lamb as the official food for Australia Day celebrations.
I'm not a TV watcher and am Australian so I laughed all the though this lot because I've never seen any of them before. They were brilliant. Thank you so much for putting them on.
Un-Australian!! 😉😂
how the actual fu' have you not seen these?!
@@dadoftwinsau Because I don't watche television? Tell me, what's on television that's even Australian? The vast majority of it is American and 40% of the time is ads. Why would any normal human being sit though that? Being brainwashed by junk they wouldn't buy?
@@toni4729 you obviously missed the wink emoji and the sarcasm that was intended. I haven’t watched TV for 30+ years.
In simpler terms…it was a joke….*sigh*
These lamb ads are legendary in Australia ! Thanks for the awesome retrospective
P.s. the Wall episode was Covid related when we all locked down
The ad with the people being pulled back to Oz had a reference to princess Mary of Denmark, she was Tasmanian and married crown prince Frederick of Denmark, there many references to particular Aussies, Richie Benaud one of the most notable cricketers of all time who was inviting many notable Aussies to his Australia day bbq, celebrated as the day Captain Phillip landed with the first fleet of white colonial settlers the Australian aborigines refer to it as invasion day understandably.
With large protests over Invasion Day as a result on Australia Day.
They are wrong!!
Just a little thing for you, the Military Commander in the third (2016) ad, is an actor called Huw Higginson, best remembered from The Bill, as PC George Garfield.
Theses ads are gold! Sam is an Australian icon!
The 'Un-Australian' one makes me guffaw every time: "Go the All Blacks!" Bwahahahahahaha
Eat more lamb and Help rid Australia of unAustralianism, Sam K is very clever and funny!
The “We’re all boat people” bbq on the beach is still my favourite, but the latest “Un-Australian” ad with someone saying beetroot doesn’t belong on a burger is a very very close second. During Covid Australia removed it and kept it out of the country for a year via travel restrictions and lockdown periods. Then there was a year? Of it gradually going state to state because there were travel bans between the states that were effective at delaying the spread of it. So that’s what the wall ad in 2021 was about. Travel bans between all states due to covid.
Beetroot doesn't belong anywhere in a civilised society.
@@leglessinozNext you're gonna say apples don't go in a salad. Un-Australian!
And yes, the Queen of Denmark is Australian.
She's a princess
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark was born in Tassie.
@@Coooeee I was being funny, I know she's a princess.
Crown Princess, she will be a Queen of which Australia can be proud. All from a drink at a Darling Harbour pub for the 2000 Olympics. Priceless!
The NEXT Queen, Margarete is not deceased or unable to rule yet!! 🤨
The guy in the 1st ad is Sam Keckovic. He was an Aussie Rules Footballer back in the 1970’s. He played for North Melbourne
Being a carnivore, I must say, thank you for bringing up these ads.
I’m a carnivore too. Go ruminant animals. Yum.
I adored the little digs at vegans throughout the series of ads, though they'd probably get brought up in front of the australian human rights commission if they did any today.
Mary, the Crown Princess (and future Queen) of Denmark is an Aussie. She met the crown prince at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. She probably doesn't even get to celebrate Australia day, let alone fang down on a lamb chop.
Princess Mary of Denmark is Australian and the Wall Ad was when the states were divided due to Covid
Thanks- these are hilarious! There are so many references that it is probably difficult for others, such as a Scotsman, to manage to decipher. So glad you found the ads fun!
21:50 thats scomo, our last PM, he went on holiday to hawaii at the beginning of 2020 when we had massive bush fires.
that add was less about donald trump, more about lockdowns due to covid, a lot of state borders were locked down to prevent the spread.
That's Crown Princess Mary of Denmark... Tassie'e own princess. She met Prince Fred in a Sydney pub during the Sydney Olympics. A true, real life Aussie love story!
Each ad has a lot of gags only an Australian would get.
The guy on the plane was our PM who left and went the Hawaii when the bushfires were raging in NSW and qld .
Great post. I love the Australia lamb day posts, especially Sam Kekovitch. 👍
I’m an Aussie and I loved gluten free ‘that’s not even a thing!’’
I have a dad and sister who both legitimately have it, but I always make a point of mentioning 'its not a thing' when we meet up for a meal lol
Yes and there are usually free BBQs in most parks. My family grew up eating the Sunday lamb roast and cutlets during the week. Now it can be so expensive you need to lay-by it.
Yes! Queen Mary is from Tasmania. She is home right now.
I do love lamb but no missing year, I think it was called Covid. Before these there were a whole lot of lamb ads using Tom Cruise. Like young teen fans would get a phone call from a radio station telling them they had won a date with Tom Cruise that night. They were so excited but then they could smell their Mother’s cooking lamb and make up an excuse to stay home. I know the woman who had those ads stopped because they were teaching young people to lie. I never said I ever liked her and young teens have always known how to lie.😂
Meat, particularly lamb, used to be so cheap in the country.
Lord, take me back to the 70s and 80's.
Oh I can't... Mum's cooking a lamb roast.
She's Crown Princess Mary, Queen Margarethe II still lives.
The girl in the Tom Cruise ad was Naomi Watts who was BFF with Nicole Kidman. Ironic
@@nikkil2580 I can't remember who it was now....might have been my sister, anyway I knew someone that was friendly with Naomi.
The 04 telephone area code in Australia was originally reserved for New Zealand phone numbers (but never used). New Zealand ISDN numbers start with 64 instead…
Ive lived here all of my life and I swear Ive never seen most of these ads!
Im from Melbourne and i ain't seen most of these ads either
The 'West Side Story' musical ad missed because no one under 55 would 'get it'....and it went on too long. The Wall was a dig at Queensland for keeping travel restrictions going during the Pandemic.....and what happened when they lowered the restrictions? The figures blew out, so thanks for that southern states. But the ad was terrific. Best of all was the Exile one at the end...that was just epic! I haven't owned a TV since 2009 (everything I do is on computer) so I've never seen these ads before. Oh and Australia's connection with the Danish Royals is that Crown Prince Frederik (next king of Denmark) is married to an Aussie, Mary - Crown Princess of Denmark.
I have a tv but haven’t turned it on for a long time 😊
@@lozinozz7567 And nothing of value was missed.
Australia Day is our version of the 4th of July for America, that’s the easiest way to explain it! So BBQs and lots of beers… to many beers in fact!
Thanks for showing all of these wonderful Ads..Sam Kerovitch is a sportsmen.. he does a great job every year .
Irony is that to see these great ads on a yt reaction channel. I haven't seen the majority of them and they're fucking great.
Ps lamb is so frigging expensive, watching these ads is closest I'll get
One of the greatest Australian rules footballers to Aussie lambassador !! Total legend!!!
Best adds ever
in the 2017 one the Chinese arrive with fireworks from "Fyshwick" - an industrial suburb in Canberra (Canberra at times has been a bit more liberal than the rest of the nation - and has a bit of a reputation (particularly in Fyshwick) for dope, porn (or at least adult shops) and fireworks.....)
I think I liked 2015 the most, no the 3rd one 😂Still liked a few others. It made me think of the roast lamb mum cooked every single Sunday, didn’t matter how hot it was. Happy every Sunday lunch, not only Australia Day lamb dinner 😊
Hi again Mat thanks again for this I can't stoplaughing I remember them all. The one where Richie Benno phones captain Cook to invite for a lamb chop cracks me up. The lady in the big chair is Leelin Chin an Aussies fashion icon . Also the the guys dying in the bush were Burke and Will's who were earlier Australian explorers and tragically perished on one of their explorations. Also on a different issue you want to listen to Led Zeppilin, Immigrant Song, friends of mine still play this song when they do pub gigs it's obviously not Australian but it was played on radio all the time here back in the 70s. For best ever Aussie bands listen to Mondo Rock state of the heart and Icehouse, I don't believe anymore. Please keep making your videos you are absolutely brilliant. Oh and yes I've cooked many a lamb chop on the baby. All the best from Western Australia, Clare
In all of these clips there are so many iconic Australians....... good point we are all boat people.
I'm Australian and I'VE NEVER SEEN THESE ADS BEFORE!!! That's what streaming's done to me.
Me neither. But probably because I haven’t had a tv since 1991.
You won't catch me eating lamb (yes... I'm VEGAN!!!!!), but I can appreciate a good ad when I see one. I had no clue about any of these ads, as I haven't watched the telly in decades, but the production of these really are epic.
I believe you're a vegan because you told us, and ... in UPPERCASE!
How did you manage the strength to type? 😉😁✌️
😂 Those ads were great. THANKS
I'd never seen the captain cook ad before.. good one! 👍
Sam was an Aussie rules football star, Richie was an Australian cricket captain. The people in these ads are largely Australian icons, not just actors. Yes we love our BBQ on Australia Day.
Sam was an Aussie rules footballer, turned lamb ambassador
Spec savers and Telstra ads ( rowbota) one cracked me up
They went mental through the COVID years because...
Well, everyone went mental through the COVID years.
Pollies and wowsers (fun spoilers) went mental. Rest of us, especially us Victorians, had to suffer the likes of Dictator Dan.
the last one was the best by far. thats comming from an aussie. great work on your channel mate plz keep it up cos its very entertaining
Hahaha Adam Gilchrist asking if they need a wicket. Slap the esky lid out there anytime. Gilly will smash it up
As a pom been here since 84, travelled around world Australia is the best mixed race country.
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark is originally from Tasmania.
That last bit in the 'wall' ad is the ex PM Scott Morrison who was famously on a Hawaiian holiday during the devastating bush fires in NSW. He say's , "What did I miss?" as he exits the plane , LOL
These Lamb have so many in-jokes that it would be difficult for non-Australians to understand even most of them. Eg in the Wall ad the man in the floral shirt getting off the plane, is Scott Morrison the PM. In the bringing Australians home for lamb ad, it isPrincess Mary of Denmark, being extracted from Copenhagen. Spotting the jokes is the best part, and often requires viewing multiple times
These ads are quintessentially Australian. There was so much to the 2017 ad that you missed, simply because you didn't live in Australia during 2016. We don't know what you went through in your home during that year either. It was ALL in-jokes, so I am impressed that you got the point, if not the nuance.
Yeah the lamb ads are fantastic, but what is interesting is that most of these I haven't even seen. Maybe some were made for different states of Australia? And most of the ads I watched living in western Sydney and the mid north coast were not in the video? So they must have made a ton of them which is even more interesting, WOW!
I haven't seen any of these before, but l remember the original Sam Kekovich series of Australia Day ads. Classic!
At rhe end of the 2021 ad, when you said "Who's that?"... Yeah, that was what a lot of Australians had said about him
In the 2021 add the miner who comes out of the ground is a reference to Western Australia as which has a lot of mining especially iron ore. The reference to trying to become another country again is that in 1933 WA held a referendum to become a seperate nation and there was a 62% in favour a petition was sent to the British Parliament to aloow WA to seceed but was rejected by the British. During covid WA had the strictest and longest quarentine arrangements in Australia.
I somehow never saw the Richie Benaud one, brilliant
As a very proud West Australian... the WA Still Resisting caption in the wall ad had me actually laughing out loud. Hadn't seen that one.
The 2021 add played on all the border closures due to the pandemic. The guy at the end is the Former PM Who Shall Not Be Named; who famously went on holiday to Hawaii while half of Australia was burning; famously commenting "I don't work in a control centre and I don't hold a hose. " "Not my job". We're not sure what he thought his job was.
We are talking about the Fwit whose wife had to explain to him that r493 is bad, and decided telling the Nation he got an empathy coach was a good idea
@@TheKrispyfort Yep the guy who had a Pedo Protector Brian Houston as his Mentor and couldn't get a job with the most corrupt company in a decade PWC, as he would damage their reputation . Pox Morrison
Wrong he was already in Hawaii before the fires started so get your facts right.
@@diannesmith2249 as someone with a pin, citation, letter, and hat from Gladys marking the occasion, all I will say is the Fires started very early September 2019.
When was Scotty's holiday?
@@diannesmith2249 No he went to Hawaii anyway because he "promised the kids" How about you get your facts straight.
Sam Kekovich (who appears in most of those ads) was an AFL player and personality who through these ads (and I think a few even earlier) became the Lambassador of Australia....some great ads in there (I sort of like the one with first nations people bemused by the different groups of immigrants).
EDIT: this might have been the ad that started it: th-cam.com/video/ZtWVJikNnx4/w-d-xo.html
Brilliant stuff. Especially the Lamb. Love it.
A lot of the first nation people don't celebrate Australia day as it was when the British landed on their land. But nobody complains about the public holiday.
it doesnt represent that at all. A simple google search would clear that up
As Kiwi's we know quite a bit about Australia Day. Celebrating their national day but not only with barbies. A lot of these guys are well known cricketers. NZ also barbecue a lot of lamb
Hi, yep, Australians love lamb ! Yes, most of us BBQ either at home or by the beach or some body of water (east coast) is where I live. The second ~~ the guy in the white shirt that calls everyone for the ‘barbie’ is famous Australian cricketer, Ritchie Benaud QBE, who played for New South Wales and Australia, then became the most well known, fantastic commentator of the cricket. The first guy he calls is Captain Cook, (hey Cookie !), then Burke and Wills, first Europeans to cross Australia from south to north, Ned Kelly, Australian bush ranger, Don Bradman (The Don) he called but didn’t answer, was Australia’s greatest batsman of all time, next, and the only woman was Ita BuButtrose QBE, Australian, tv, radio, media personality and more, the last guy was Billy Birmingham, he wrote The Twelfth Man, which you can listen to, imitating Ritchie Benaud (the host) he the. Became known as the best Beanaud impersonator ever, which is why Ritchie gave him the big “NOPE” ! Of course the last guy was our lamb man, Sam Kekovich, who does all the lamb ads. 💕💕💕🐾🐾🐾🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺xoxox
Australia's "love for lamb" particularly on Australia Day was (IMHO) a very clever marketing campaign. I certainly don't recall it being a thing until these ads
I was born in 1965 - grew up with lamb roast every Sunday lunch.
Always had lamb growing up, long before these ads. Never associated it with Australia Day though. And now lamb is so ridiculously expensive, I haven't eaten it for almost as long as these ads have been running.
We ate a lot of lamb back in the day because it was good and cheap, not because we loved it especially or thought it was patriotic. With a decline of the wool industry and an increase in meat exports lamb's not cheap in Australia any more.
A generation or two ago, lamb was a staple in every Australian household. It was cheap and available in abundance.
Somewhere along the line lamb became less popular, more expensive and therefore not a household staple anymore. So the lamb farming industry started these Australia Day advertising campaigns.
You’re welcome 😉
Best Lambassador Aus has ever seen. What a legend
I am with you on your overall judging of those.... totally!
hes actually a famous aussie rules footballer Sam Kekovich .. Richie also a famous Cricket commentator
Way before he was a commentator Richie was a great Aussie batsman and captained Australia in several test series!
Princess Mary of Denmark is an Aussie from Tasmania and will be Queen one day. She met Crown Prince Frederick when she was working for the 2000 Sydney Olympics organisation and he was part of the Danish contingent. She didn't know who he was and he just said he was Fred from Denmark.
Gotta extract her from that depressing northern winter to have a lamb chop on the barbie on Australia Day. 😂😂😂😂😂😂🐨🐨
Funniest line in the 2019 advert was when they were going to call the NZ prime minster and the number was 04.
the irony is Sam is not an actor. He is a retired footballer and commentator
Ned Kelly, Captain James Cook, explorers, Burke & Wills, who got lost and their bodies were found under a tree, Ita Buttrose, former publisher of the Australian Women’s Weekly and well known Aussie identity, and of course, Richie Benaud, former top cricketer.
Yes, Mary is an Aussie girl whom Prince Frederick met on a trip to Australia and subsequently married. They come back nearly every hear to visit her family.
You missed The12th man/Billy Birmingham. Richie telling him he couldn't come to the BBQ was a hilarious 🤣🤣
When it comes to lamb, the Italians know it - Lambretta, Lambrusco, Lamborghini! Sam's ads are so entertaining!
I'm sure someone else mentioned it but in the 3rd video it was the Denmark royals and Princess Mary who is originaly from Tasmania. The guy coming out of the plane was Scott Morrison. Always on trips that weren't at all productive and he comes back without a clue.
U have to be joking,worst P.M in history is airbus albosleezy,hes NEVER home!!
2019 australia/new zealand and this years one are my faves..so many in house jokes :)
Sam Kekovich: Played for North Melbourne in VFL(AFL)....... smoked a dart and chugged a beer at half time every game, so the "story" goes
2021 was the barriers against interstate travel due to covid
The Broadway show is adapted from West Side Story (Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer in movie version).
BTW, I have never seen any of those ads on TV before and I live in Sydney!
I am an Australian and loved everything that you said about my country.:
My wife and youngest son are Lamb mad. These ads worked on them for sure.
Sam Kekovich is now a sports presenter and did some adds promoting meat for the Lamb industry but is best known to sports fans as one of the football greats when football was a much more brutal game than it is today. Most of the players from the 70s back to the early days were more thug like than they were sportsmen. Sam has an endearing style and one of the driest sense humour on TV, gotta love his honest style, from enough bullshit generation, only found in what is known as boomers, I recommend that you don’t use that term if you are within arms reach, hard bustards are hard bastards and will take disrespect lightly, shame that quality is now missing,
❤❤❤no one is more lay back than an Aussie!!!!!❤❤❤
Absolutely nothin beats a well cooked Lamp chop and Sam, he's like the Lambassador Dude