Cadbury’s Smash - Martians (1973 - 1992)

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  • Every Commercial featuring everyone’s favourite Advert aliens, the Smash Martians! Just mention potatoes and they’ll be laughing their heads off! Because why bother peeling, boiling and mashing them when you can just use Smash? So primitive of us….
    Also features some early animatics for the Ads, including ones that never even got made into proper Ads!

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  • @tabeccaletford408
    @tabeccaletford408 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I loved these ads,when tv ads were more imaginative and entertaining than TV programmes

    • @hagar6359
      @hagar6359 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      totally agree

    • @pydepiper7798
      @pydepiper7798 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Brainwashing children to eat cardboard foods. Yes.

    • @tabeccaletford408
      @tabeccaletford408 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@pydepiper7798 well it's up to their parents what they eat. I never said Smash was good, I would never eat it it's horrible,I just thought the ad's were funny

  • @brandontheeveryfan305
    @brandontheeveryfan305 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    "30 pents? We've got to be worth _more_ than that!"

  • @SanFran51
    @SanFran51 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Fun Fact. The personalities of the Smash Martians were all improvised by the puppeteers having fun on set.

    • @DJ3lectrical
      @DJ3lectrical  2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And they way they spoke was based on a bossy guy they worked with, if I recall correctly.

    • @SanFran51
      @SanFran51 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@DJ3lectrical The laugh made it in.

    • @martynbolam9932
      @martynbolam9932 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      They were voiced by Peter Hawkins, the original voice of the Daleks in Doctor Who.
      You can hear it in these robots voices, they do sound like Daleks.

    • @AndrewGivens
      @AndrewGivens 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@martynbolam9932 In the later run, they start to sound like Cybermen, oddly.

    • @alfiekelly5914
      @alfiekelly5914 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@martynbolam9932 That's an effect called a comb filter. The same effect can be heard if you talk into a fan. Try saying 'you will be destroyed' 2 inches from a running fan!

  • @voiskumbeaver3285
    @voiskumbeaver3285 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    2:39. The absolute best. Me and my mates were in hysterics at the two gossiping alien neighbours ("I said 'Ooh' I said.. ")

  • @alfiekelly5914
    @alfiekelly5914 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I hate ads, but these were hilarious.

  • @CoolDude911
    @CoolDude911 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Zippy was a spy sent by these aliens. Sadly the aliens died out because they were obsessed with instant mash potatoes and failed to maintain their space ships but Zippy is still around to this day, albeit in retirement.

  • @andrewc4612
    @andrewc4612 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "And afterwards you can retire to the lounge, and show them your latest antiques."😄😁😆"And of course no education would be complete, without a study of primitive crafts."😄😁😆Great/hilarious Smash Martin compilation. Also love the one where that family of Smash Martians have go through customs, and have their Smash container confiscated!😄😁😆

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl หลายเดือนก่อน

      I still think the first one was the best. At school many of us knew the dialogue word for word and laugh for laugh.

  • @mpa-vr
    @mpa-vr ปีที่แล้ว +4

    5:40 the kid with the bib having a seizure got me on the floor

  • @lukedavis3703
    @lukedavis3703 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Rest In Peace
    Smash Martian Ads
    1973-1992
    You Will Be Sorely Missed

    • @pydepiper7798
      @pydepiper7798 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Brainwashing to make fools of us. Thank God the effect only lasted until my 30s. Later I started buying and growing my own potatoes.

    • @allisonbinns4536
      @allisonbinns4536 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    • @lukedavis3703
      @lukedavis3703 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      2023....Would have been their 50th

    • @Aye-McHunt
      @Aye-McHunt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I miss the ads. Not so much the Smash which was quite vile and needed a lot of marge to mask the flavour.

  • @hugebartlett1884
    @hugebartlett1884 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Always ran to the TV set when these ads. came on. We'd be laughing for hours afterwards. The heyday of the enjoyable advert. What was the series of the running romance about I think,dark chocolate. We were agog to see how that turned out. Some ads.you really looked forward to,and miss even today. But then,TV was a novelty for many people,like cars,only one or two in the street.

  • @andysvehiclehistorychannel
    @andysvehiclehistorychannel หลายเดือนก่อน

    By far the best

  • @nickyoung4799
    @nickyoung4799 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Joss Ackland's deadpan voice-over added to the comic effect

    • @stumagoo2395
      @stumagoo2395 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Joss Ackland narrated loads of adverts, another I recall was for Rolos "soft creamy toffee in a milk chocolate cup"

  • @idiedoflaughterinc.4418
    @idiedoflaughterinc.4418 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    my fav adverts when i was growing up in the 70s. encouraged me to do drugs in the 80s, and still find them funny as fuck

  • @BluetheFortune2006
    @BluetheFortune2006 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I bet i watched the same thing before, i'm glad that you reuploaded it since i saved some of the animatic adverts, thus, the Smash Martians were the best advert campaign i've ever heard from the brand.

    • @DJ3lectrical
      @DJ3lectrical  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks! This upload isn’t exactly the same as the one from my old channel by the way, I remastered some of the Ads with better quality footage and added those animatics.

  • @porkolabs
    @porkolabs ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Royle family brought me here where Jim mentions that this is his favourite ad.

  • @mustangmike8515
    @mustangmike8515 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    After watching Black Mirror`s Demon 79 is was courius about what was the wierd Tv commercial. The sound as Doctor Who`s Daleks.

  • @alfiekelly5914
    @alfiekelly5914 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Simply hilarious. I hate Smash, but these ads almost had me needing Smoxygen. So clever and nothing these days can compare.

  • @jordanwebster1492
    @jordanwebster1492 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    At 3:33, it sounds like a Dalek throwing a temper tantrum.

    • @soupmanstevens160
      @soupmanstevens160 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They had the same voice actor!

  • @JIMBO8472
    @JIMBO8472 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    yep love me some smash when I camping

  • @andrewc4612
    @andrewc4612 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "They eat a great many of these .. They peel them with their metal knives .. " Absolutely hilarious.😄😁😆And don't The Smash Martians sound a bit like The Daleks?

  • @StFidjnr
    @StFidjnr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    2:26 how come a cooking show can be a comedy program for the smash robots

    • @DJ3lectrical
      @DJ3lectrical  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They find the traditional way to make mashed potatoes funny because all they need to do is use Smash

    • @MovieFan1912
      @MovieFan1912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because they are laughing at how “primitive” terrans make mashed potatoes the hard way instead of using Smash.

  • @Marie579
    @Marie579 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I never realised how many different adds there were.

  • @GARYINLEEDS
    @GARYINLEEDS ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for sharing, shared.

  • @user-qq3mv3qs8x
    @user-qq3mv3qs8x ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Those were the days when everything was simple.😂😆

  • @pambromley7481
    @pambromley7481 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ads a lot better than the product.

  • @michaelturner4457
    @michaelturner4457 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i remember these ads so welll, but these days i dont even think of cadbusrys for making potato products.

    • @Mike-77-YT
      @Mike-77-YT ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cadbury's wanted themselves to be attributed as a general food company, but it didn't really work out because of their immensely popular chocolate products. The fate of the Smash production is that they've been sold off to Batchelors.

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Mike-77-YT Now they are owned by an American Processed Cheese company.

  • @robfinlay8058
    @robfinlay8058 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I always thought Smash would have made potatoes obsolete by now. How wrong I was.

    • @pydepiper7798
      @pydepiper7798 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank God. And people still grow potatoes as well.

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl หลายเดือนก่อน

      In junior school I wrote an essay predicting that peoples stomachs would disappear because they would get all their nutrients from one pill a day !
      On a more serious thought did you ever see an obese actor on Star Trek ?

  • @ravey99
    @ravey99 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:10 in, just cannot stop laughing. It's brilliant.

  • @ThatToonDudeNamedKai
    @ThatToonDudeNamedKai 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Return

  • @ThisIsTEC
    @ThisIsTEC 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    0:03
    “On your last trip, did you discover what the Earth people eat?”
    - Red Smash Martian, 1973

  • @LBPreviews
    @LBPreviews ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Black Mirror brought me here

  • @lukedavis3703
    @lukedavis3703 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The last one made me tear up

  • @bernadettemurray8260
    @bernadettemurray8260 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Loved this ❤❤

  • @thegreatdominion949
    @thegreatdominion949 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Anybody else expecting them to say "exterminate exterminate!"?

  • @RISERefuge
    @RISERefuge ปีที่แล้ว +9

    How did they get away with calling this nutritious? 😂

  • @fundayswithcoltonhowell.7007
    @fundayswithcoltonhowell.7007 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If only i have figured out the song on the workout commercial

    • @DJ3lectrical
      @DJ3lectrical  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s a familiar sounding tune, sadly I don’t know what it is exactly either.

    • @karenwolstenholme5706
      @karenwolstenholme5706 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's called "Wheels Cha Cha", also known as The Muscle Man Tune.

  • @bobstay1
    @bobstay1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The other day, i discovered that there's a whole generation who don't know what Smash is. Lucky them😬😂

    • @bigbigarchive
      @bigbigarchive 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Smash is still in supermarkets

    • @BD-bditw
      @BD-bditw ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bigbigarchive Good to hear. What brand is it? Who sells it? So handy for picnics and camping.

    • @bigbigarchive
      @bigbigarchive ปีที่แล้ว +3

      In the major supermarkets like Asda and Tesco if you look hard enough.

  • @thecaledoniansleeper2648
    @thecaledoniansleeper2648 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know that Cadbury does chocolate, and that’s what they’re usually known for. But they also done…….potatoes?

    • @edmundprice5276
      @edmundprice5276 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not anymore, Cadburys sold the smash brand in 2006

    • @thecaledoniansleeper2648
      @thecaledoniansleeper2648 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@edmundprice5276 It’s still kinda jarring to see Cadbury selling products that don’t pertain to chocolate. It would be like Hershey selling their orange juice brand.

  • @mr.mickey3757
    @mr.mickey3757 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had a 'memory' of about 6 of those aliens rolling around on the floor laughing at us lot - seems like there were only two of them...and a dog🙄
    How we all miss those days when adverts entertained and weren't designed to be planted in your memory like a brainwashing, headfcuking MK Ultra microchip😡

  • @jameszian-qr5zj
    @jameszian-qr5zj 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Didnt anyone know the pawn as the antennas

  • @MrDuncl
    @MrDuncl หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm sure you are missing one. Anyone else remember one where the Martians are admiring a metal train and are then horrified when people get out of it. Or was that a comedy sketch ?

    • @DJ3lectrical
      @DJ3lectrical  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MrDuncl Chances are they are some lost Ads out there, never heard of that one though. Will show this comment to my ad-finding experts who are good at finding lost ads.

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DJ3lectrical It is possible I am muddling it up with something else. I have just realised how similar the Martians are to the The Clangers Froglets who date from 1969.

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl หลายเดือนก่อน

      On the Do You Remember Forum there is a long discussion about an advert in which the Martians look through their monitor at Huddersfield, see someone making Smash and decide "There is intelligent life on earth !"

    • @DJ3lectrical
      @DJ3lectrical  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MrDuncl That ad can be seen at 1:02

  • @xray14562
    @xray14562 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    REALLY FUNNY

  • @NatecomediansBoxofAirings
    @NatecomediansBoxofAirings 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:18 Okay. How did the smash tin get here and the Martians start whooping and laughing about it?

    • @DJ3lectrical
      @DJ3lectrical  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He smuggled it

  • @steve_and_lolas_hikes
    @steve_and_lolas_hikes 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Good times before now, where you cant even have same race white families in ads.

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nowaday's people would complain that there isn't an equal balance of Red and Blue Martians.

  • @AndrewGivens
    @AndrewGivens 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Martians - always failing to take into consideration a simple yet vital Earth Thing.
    In this case, Ready Steady Cook! and hipsters.

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe Fanny Cradock and The Galloping Gourmet drove people to Smash 🙂

  • @tjg9778
    @tjg9778 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    6:52 Sounds like a dalek

    • @AshleyDuffy974
      @AshleyDuffy974 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      3:16

    • @AshleyDuffy974
      @AshleyDuffy974 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      and 3:34

    • @michaelturner4457
      @michaelturner4457 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sounds like a ring modulator. Which is what was used to make the Dalek voices.

    • @liamthrasher
      @liamthrasher ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@michaelturner4457 EXTERMINATE!!!!

  • @spooktasticaparanormal
    @spooktasticaparanormal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This sounds like SSB CB radio 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @DJ3lectrical
      @DJ3lectrical  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Y’what?

    • @michaelturner4457
      @michaelturner4457 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm sure the Smash robot voices were done with a vocoder, that's certainly what they sound like.

    • @michaelturner4457
      @michaelturner4457 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DJ3lectrical SSB, Single Side-Band. It's a radio transmission mode, often used on Citizen's Band(CB) radio and other short wave transmissions, like ham radio. If it's not tuned-in perfectly, it can make voices sound like the Smash robots. :D

    • @DJ3lectrical
      @DJ3lectrical  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@michaelturner4457 Oh I see now. Cool!

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@michaelturner4457 When I studied communications theory at college I noticed that for everything that can go wrong in a communications circuit there was an equivalent guitar effects pedal to do it deliberately.

  • @CharlesStevenage
    @CharlesStevenage 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fake space and alien programming! Wow lol, I’m glad I lived to see this busted ❤

  • @jacobdavidcunningham1440
    @jacobdavidcunningham1440 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    lmao that's funny it's real

  • @mazraz7257
    @mazraz7257 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I missed the doll

  • @DHAdArchivez
    @DHAdArchivez 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cadbury used to have potatos?

  • @sdfghgtrew
    @sdfghgtrew ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is that chess pieces they have as antennas?

  • @stephenbelcher
    @stephenbelcher ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh yeah👻✍️

  • @tomservo75
    @tomservo75 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So the good advanced humans are the ones who get mashed potatoes from pieces of potato in a box? Looks like they have this backwards. That's gotta taste like paper.

    • @BD-bditw
      @BD-bditw ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It actually tasted OK. As kids we would eat it dry for a treat.

    • @pydepiper7798
      @pydepiper7798 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree with you. They have it backwards. You're swapping goodness for one of Bill Gates' bleached turd, diced up for ignorant children n lazy housewives.

    • @itsjemmabond
      @itsjemmabond 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I bought Smash a few years ago, and I can confirm it DID taste like paper.

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl หลายเดือนก่อน

      But at least they didn't have one arm longer than the other 🙂
      As kids we found these adverts hilarious.

  • @GetleOst
    @GetleOst 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did Rachel Reeves do the voice over?

  • @StFidjnr
    @StFidjnr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:51 boing

    • @MovieFan1912
      @MovieFan1912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      “Longer arms.”
      “Hahahahahahaha!”
      🎶For mash, get Smash.🎶

  • @SomeBizarretaSomeBizzareLabel0
    @SomeBizarretaSomeBizzareLabel0 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    • @DJ3lectrical
      @DJ3lectrical  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And that’s how I met your grandmother.

  • @Nolanator324
    @Nolanator324 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why do these Gillbacks make fun of us?

    • @DJ3lectrical
      @DJ3lectrical  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Because we prefer real mash to shitty Smash