Ultimate Weetabix 1980s Complete UK TV Spots Adverts Ads Skinheads Kids Cereal
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Following the ‘Unbeatabix’ campaign of the early 80’s, this series of UK TV adverts featuring the Weetabix Kids, or Skins/Skinheads as they were also known, really gave the brand a boost creating a campaign that is remembered to this day.
The ‘Neat Wheat’ campaign ran for 7 years from 1982, coming to an end when Lowe Howard Spink won the account in 1989 and launched the equally popular 90's campaign “Have you had your Weetabix?".
For most people, this is Weetabix advertising at its best and features, amongst others, the voice talents of Bob Hoskins and Chris Ellison as 'Dunk' and Andrew Paul as 'Brains'.
This redux version of my original and popular video revises the order of many of the adverts, corrects the poor sound in places and adds a further 6 adverts in to the compilation.
Enjoy! (Even the little treat from Finland at the end, included for completeness!)
THIS IS MY DAD I NEVER NEW HE WAS A TH-camR
Aw this warms my heart
I'm from the states, so I didn't grow up with these commercials but they are allot like the ones we had here in the 80's. There's a charm from that era that I miss.
Back when advert/commercials were more creative.
Everyone used to run around saying "OK!" like the ad.
And we all were sure that's where the guy in mad max 2 got the "OK!" from when talking about fixing the truck.
yep true
i’m 18 but i kinda wish i was living in these times it looks so aesthetically pleasing plus weeabix is the best cereal ever idc
Dunk, Crunch, Brains, Brian and Bixie, we salute you.
"If you know what's good for you, you do!"
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Somebody graffit’d these little dudes on a wall down the Birmingham new road in Wolverhampton back in the 80’s and the council got rid the spoilsports,was a work of art aswell
You're making neat wheat, mate!
Okay!
It's so weird but I get this cozy cozy feeling when I watch these ads, like I'm about to burst!!!???
It's the nostalgic feeling.
I wish ads were like this again.
8:02 that ad was awesome in every way!
I agree. Great music. It should have been released as a single lol, I love it.
If I didn't know better I swear bob hoskins was the leader
Just a pure concentrate of catchy ad tune and overall animated cheesiness.
The animation of these commercials started out cute but as they went on they got more and more incredible than any right they had to be.
Loved The W Squad one. In homage to the soliders of fortune
Crunch and Dunk were cool.
I remember in the late '70's, if a football goalkeeper made an exagerated save, it was referred to as a "Weetabix."
"You make it neat wheat, mate."
Rgoid Weetabix are superb
love em
Okay!
Inspiration for the Mitchel brothers on Eastenders!
5:29 Super Bowl Commercial.
It blows my mind that this is one of Bob Hoskins starting points before Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
He was a well known actor before these adverts, The Long Good Friday was done by 79
I remember most of these. I'm sure there was a board game with the Weetabix crew made at some point, though it might have been a back of the box cutout thing. Still have the Deadly Shadow CYOA book featured at 4:47. The Just Do It ad at 8:02 was very cool at the time, featuring a nod to Michael Jackson's Billie Jean video and employing similar animation to Queen's A Kind of Magic.
Classic loved these ads
The Weetabix skins were all fun until their Nazi phase
They weren't Nazis, the just had a whole lot of wheat pride.
@@milesgeary9213 based
Weetabix: Never Anti-Fiber, Always Anti-Fascist
@@m0rShh Anti-antifa corrected it for you mush
My favorite commercial from Weetabix. 8:02
Must've influenced a young jason statham's character development and his whole Hollywood career...
I actually have that history book shown at the end!
Me too!
That Finnish one sounds… extraordinarily happy.
Would love to know what year the ad at 6:48 was? I have very vague memories as a child of watching a Weetabox advert which featured a vehicle which had neon or fluorescent wheels streaking across the screen, it’s a memory which had always stayed with me for some reason and I was sure I hadn’t imagined it! The bit at 7:03 makes me think it must have been this advert with that dragster showing lit up neon wheels as it races away! Although in my vague memory I thought it was a tank with neon green wheels/tracks going across the screen. Funny how your memory changes the details slightly!
It was 1985, a bit of a greatest hits megamix of the old adverts to bridge the gap whilst they re-drew the character art and changed the overall tone of the ads from 1986 on - they went in to a bit of a Queen - It's A Kind Of Magic artistic style for a year or so
@@WilmsterUK ello dad
I LUV WEETABIX
I love these
8:04 best advert song ever!!!
bob hoskins voice
I liked the okay one, brian was his name
The one at 8mins was prob the earliest one I remember
Shown on RTE advert breaks in Ireland & worldwide in them the decade.
4:29
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nothing will be as better as Weetbix the original hahaha not even weetabix
Skinheads selling me weetabix lol
The Neet Weet Bunch seemed to have a similar career path to the Beastie Boys
Bob Hoskins voiced one of these?!
Eddie valliant
Now I wanna try a Weetabix to see if its the real deal
TV Tropes' "Let's Meet the Meat" brought me here.
It's like breakfast cereal meets this is england
Lol underrated comment
Milky was an actual pint of milk
I remember eating Weetabix before going to school........
Who voiced brain and crunch?
What year was the 8 mins 02 advert? The song is so typical 80's. Catchy. I kind of recall it but I can't remember the year?
Late 1986 I believe. Uses the same type of graphics as the Queen video for It's A Kind Of Magic
Is Weetabix available in the USA?
Available online with Amazon.
So, they just entirely dropped the 'gang of street hoodlums' aspect fairly early on...
rip bob hopskins
American, and my 1st time having weetabix was today >.>
kamari kim Did you like it?
kamari kim they look like overgrown chicken nuggets!
You can just cut 'em up with your spoon!
They even had Bugs Bunny pimping this! th-cam.com/video/2feED6Bujh0/w-d-xo.html
guess you knew what was good fer you cos you ain't fuckin dead, next time just eat the god damn brickybrack and keep your mouth shut or else they will make it neat, wheat, mate jesus christ wtf
I’m currently eating Weetabix
Same.
Here too!
5:30
Still got my atlas ha! They did try every trick in the book to stay relevant, completely forgot about the W-team.
i like how the upped the quality of animation in the 90s, i think the character designs were way superior too!
*o k a y*
They definitely voted Reform
Why does the title have "skinhead" in it?
In the 80's there was a prominent oi-punk skinhead culture in the UK and this is a play on that. I don't think these characters are supposed to be parodies of white supremacist skinheads, more just regular 80's punk kids who shaved their heads at that point in time. That's why they have sort of a rough facade.
@@ohbusinessah that makes more sense. Thx for explaining
you have any idea what that watermark in the first one is from?
I do indeed. It's for TV Ark - the online television museum. Well worth a visit to their site for hundreds of great old adverts and continuity.
I gave it a look and it is pretty good, but I wish they didn't put a watermark on everything
100% agree!
Who framed roger rabbit actors
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They watered down the skinhead aspect in the later ads.
and this is why I eat weetabix
Oakaaayy
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Bob Hoskins?
Bob Hoskins was the original voice for Dunk (later replaced by The Bill actor Christopher Ellison). Brains was also voiced in the early commercials by fellow Bill actor Andrew Paul.
oi oi
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city slicker what?
Oi
This ad wouldn't be appropriate because of snowflakes.
Looks like they need some Weetabix then!
You mean Tories/UKIP? Yeah those children get offended at the slightest thing.
Ah, a nice fake culture war.
@@wildsurfer12aha nah only the left are whinges and privileged!! My lefty friend !!
The right know good humour and take it that is why there tolerant of the left so much!!
@@Hellwyck No English Defence League 😉
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