15 Funny UK Ads of the 90s

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A personal selection of 15 of the funniest UK ads of the 1990s.
1. Red Rock Cider - There Go My Trousers - GGT 1991
2. Boddingtons - By 'Eck It's Gorgeous - BBH - 1993
3. Hamlet - The Wall - CDP - 1991
4. Peperami - Kebab - Lowe Howard-Spink - 1995
5. John Smith's Bitter - Penguins - BMP DDB - 1994
6. Blackcurrant Tango - Exchange Student - HHCL - 1996
7. Barclaycard - Biro - BMP DDB - 1995
8. Alka-Seltzer - Lifeboat - AMV - 1996
9. Batchelor's Super Noodles - Dog - Mother - 1997
10. Volkswagen Passat - Ruler - BMP DDB1998
11. The Economist - Henry Kissinger - AMV - 1997
12. Lynx - Velodrome - BBH - 1999
13. Scalextric - It's a Boy Thing- Lowe Howard-Spink - 1998
14. Impulse Body Spray - Art Class - Ogilvy & Mather - 1997
15. Yellow Pages - Flat - AMV - 1998

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@Dreyno Год назад

That Tango advert was the real catalyst for brexit.

@InAMinMaths Год назад

Certainly got Brexit vibes

@olivere5497 2 месяца назад

It was around the time that the Red Cross migrant/refugee shelter opened/closed across the water in Calais and that made the migrant trend worse and gave the newspapers a chew toy to play with.

@franckorphanos2998 14 дней назад

😂that’s exactly what I was thinking

@brun0inacio 14 дней назад

😂

@Jubbly1968 12 дней назад

He would make a brilliant PM

@Anakinuk007 6 дней назад

The 90s. Back when ads made you actually want to buy a product. In 2024 it can be a mystery what the advert is for, or instead of wanting the product their own ad makes you want to boycott it - even if you already were buying it lol

@autishd 4 дня назад

Actually ads nowadays are more effective. But I do enjoy these 😃

@PA-ss5cq 2 дня назад

Oh how right you are. Lots of them actually make you physically want to throw up - folk with no notion of table manners or self respect shovelling food down their faces, gobbling like pigs, bits of food falling out of their mouths, speaking with their mouths full. And as for the utterly sickening one with immensely fat people's armpits, well..... As you say, they make you stop buying things you were actually buying.

@lostintranslation1957 Час назад

@@autishdAds nowadays are far from effective.

@prizegotti 12 дней назад

Fun fact, Johnny English was based on those BarclayCard adverts Rowan Atkinson did between 91-97

@robleary3353 7 дней назад

Bril!. When ads were worth watching! 🤣 Nuff said!.

@52memor 13 дней назад

They were brilliant adverts. WHY ARE TODAYS TV ADVERTS SO UNFUNNY ???

@user-zr9nl2wl3o 9 дней назад

Because woke has no sense of humour.

@jaydolan8278 10 дней назад

You can’t open with Leslie Neilsen I’m already crying 🤣

@Adfanatico 10 дней назад

With laughter, I hope.

@vajra1171 6 дней назад

@@Adfanaticoless funny advert

@MarleyBu 9 дней назад

When adverts were better than the programmes. Jake Wood with super noodles 😂😂😂

@franksamet 13 дней назад

We don’t get adverts like this anymore because there is no one place to watch them. We are all scattered over a digital universe that instead of raising quality has only served to hide it under unknown rocks we will never find.

@caolkyle 12 дней назад

That plus the scalextric ad would be banned by PR soo quickly. Even Yorkie years ago stopped the whole ‘for men only’

@raminybhatti5740 12 дней назад

But most ppl should realise the "For Men" tagline was ironic. It wasn't anti anyone.

@johnnyseagull29 4 часа назад

@@raminybhatti5740no it wasn't.

@winsomehax 13 дней назад

The Tango advert is fabulously mad... ending in three harrier jump jets. Glorious.

@0tispunkm3y3r 13 дней назад

Was it Tango or Reebok that then had the "Belly's gonna get ya" advert. Me and my brother thought that was comedy gold as kids. My mum thought it was vile though!

@yuelingchu4361 12 дней назад

@@0tispunkm3y3rha ha! Still tease my brother about that to this day

@johnmcdonald219 11 дней назад

Just change the name Sebastian to Muhammad and it's more relevant today

@marekohampton8477 9 дней назад

@@0tispunkm3y3r I think it was Reebok, or maybe Nike. Advertising trainers.

@lostintranslation1957 Час назад

@@johnmcdonald219sadly.

@leod-sigefast 13 дней назад

I was a teenager in the 90s; this was a real reminiscence. It was really weird how some of these seemed super familar. Almost as if they were on TV about a year or two ago. Scary how quickly time flies! I still think of the Millenium as recent history...it's almost a quarter of a century ago! The fact we still remember these shows you the power of good advertising and why companies spend so much on it. A real flash from the past. Cheers!

@lamoinette23 День назад

holy shorts batman.. the millenium was nearly 25 years ago... 😳🥺😨😥😭😖

@occamraiser 14 дней назад

you know you're old when your remember most of those.

@darthwiizius 13 дней назад

It's even worse when it was the 90s and on top of not watching TV you remember them even though, erm, erm, you were doing "90s stuff" that might have effected your memory.... For some, erm, reason, hehe.

@unclegreybeard3969 13 дней назад

OLD???? These were from the '90s that's NOT old.

@ritawing1064 11 дней назад

The Alka Seltzer one gets my vote.

@myself0510 4 дня назад

I had to pause to compose myself after that one

@youtubegavemynameawaycuntbags 5 часов назад

i loved the “give it whirl” alka seltzer ad

@nps2512 13 дней назад

When these were on tv couldn’t wait till they ended. But now they’re great to watch again

@Tommieb86 2 года назад

The yellow pages one, definitely remember it. Very good.

@christinewild5935 6 дней назад

The one with the two guys in the boat and the digestive tablets, I’m on the floor.

@CharsChronicles 7 месяцев назад

I never understood that impulse advert as a teen, but now! 😂😂

@eddyp483 12 дней назад

Just a few subtle hints ! 😅

@ziggerwebdesign1704 5 дней назад

Why, what’s happened to make you understand it?

@mikitz 2 дня назад

Judging by that sentence alone, you're definitely not a dude.

@jackbuff_I 15 дней назад

I'm sure I have memories the pepperami was voiced with Ade Edmundson and Rik Mayal, but that sounded like Hugh Laurie.

@Adfanatico 14 дней назад

The original ads were Ade Edmondson doing his Vyvyan character from The Young Ones.

@angmering5899 14 дней назад

Huh. So that's where the Johnny English films came from.

@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 13 дней назад

Yes, it is.

@Tempest_Elixir 13 дней назад

They had quite a few funny Barclaycard ones in the 90s. I distinctly remember Rowan Atkinson holding a rug over his shoulder that's on fire (unbeknown to him) 😂

@CaptainBlackadder75 11 дней назад

@@Tempest_Elixirahh, I can smell those Tuareg campfires burning… 😂

@Tempest_Elixir 11 дней назад

@@CaptainBlackadder75 childhood come flashing back! 😂😂😂

@cookiemonster2299 10 дней назад

Shmally Tuc-Tuc, tamatnoon tamatnoon. Yes we're both fluent Boff, sadly in different languages. 🤣😜

@i_wouldprefer_not_to1196 Год назад

I lost it at the German version of 'Pump up the jam' 🤣

@skiathoss 3 месяца назад

id love to hear the full version :D

@Cx8103 2 дня назад

@@skiathossFunny 😁 I just found the German version like three weeks ago, it’s Pump Ab Das Bier by Werner Wichtig.

@skiathoss 2 дня назад

@@Cx8103 I've just opened youtube and first thing I see is the great news delivered by you. Cheers! Thanks a lot whoever you are :D this version is hilarious! love the lyrics 🤣

@Cx8103 День назад

@@skiathoss It is 😁👍🏼 I'm glad to have been the bearer of good news. The lyrics are fantastic, I love them too! 👋🏼 Cheers!!

@senzavolto 11 дней назад

That Tango advert is possibly the greatest advert ever made.

@cookiemonster2299 7 дней назад

It needs to be aired again. 😁👍

@reader4111 6 дней назад

American here: how can I find out what that was about? 🤔

@DM-ur8vc 5 дней назад

@@reader4111 Think Mountain Dew being sold in Texas...

@paulwood6729 День назад

@@reader4111 Look up Tango Man advert, this was quite tame compared to some of them.

@tricorvus2673 11 дней назад

Old Yank bird here. I like your commercials better than US ones. You won a subscriber.

@nigelgoodwin6954 14 дней назад

Excellent. Reminds me of the olden times when you knew what an advert was for & it made the product appealing.

@bedstag 12 дней назад

I'm 44 and live in Birmingham. I remember most of these. Today's adverts just don't hit the spot like they used to!

@petewarby7158 12 дней назад

So it's not just me ... modern ads are CR*P 😂 Where did we go wrong lol, I can't think of the last amusing ad on TV... anyone?

@alyssasage41 2 дня назад

Australia has a decent one from Dodo internet right now.

@ldabc4917 11 дней назад

When the UK was allowed to have a sense of humour

@Tourist1967 5 дней назад

Jesus. You people...the irony, of course, is these adverts were most likely created by highly-educated people who pandered to you to encourage consumption. But despised you.

@sparkythancztwise 3 дня назад

@@Tourist1967 the irony I recognise occurring here is that you project your own generalised misanthropy on speculations in random attempts to distance yourself from your own kind ("you people"), with pathetic thinly veiled (and failed) insults aimed at strangers (whom you presume a great deal about), on the internet--referencing obvious business practices as if it's some great insight (which doesn't make you appear intelligent or educated), within petty anonymous sociopathic acting out patterns which you likely are too cowardly to ever attempt in face to face encounters for fear of repercussions. Which renders only your conduct despicable. 🥁 😆🤣

@sparkythancztwise 3 дня назад

I'd ask what happened to Tourist1967's sense of humour but I suspect I already know, and also doubt they do. 🙃😉😂

@LydiaWhitting 2 дня назад

Try South Africa for no humor any more. Whilst eating dinner you are entertained by words of ..sick of the snotties.. take this med.. they trying to put us off our food now as well.

@Tourist1967 2 дня назад

@@sparkythancztwise There are few things duller and more prolix than those ghastly people who say: "We're not allowed to say/do/laugh at" whatever.

@RupertDavison 4 месяца назад

I always imagined my adult self would have a similar flat to the yellow pages guy 😅

@user-bu9nb8wr6e 13 дней назад

I've got one 😂😂😂

@simonpeaty 5 дней назад

Is the yellow pages guy Trent Crim from Ted Lasso??

@npdvvecchi7181 2 года назад

Puts a smile on my face.

@hbhmhbhm 17 дней назад

Boddingtons ad- music is "Smoke rings" by Roger Webb. Quality

@MickeyMouse-ul2zs 9 дней назад

Damn, I remember all of these......................

@georgedisorder 10 дней назад

Everything was better in the 90's. Peak of western civilisation.

@monkeymanbob 17 дней назад

Some iconic UK adverts - I often wonder how many of the actors went on to bigger and better things. I only recognised a few

@psmart4948 13 дней назад

What a breath of fresh air that was. Iv never spoke so highly of adverts since 🤔🤔🤔💙💙💙

@ljts7587 2 года назад

Thanks for finding and taking the time to upload these. My my did bring back some memories so again thank you.

@Vampire.Vegan. 2 года назад

Some absolute belters there!

@richardhockey8442 14 дней назад

needs a followup video with the Harry Enfield Dime Bar ads

@sarahdlp524 2 года назад

Yellow Pages - fantastic!

@LittleSteamMrs 6 часов назад

Ì remember this one vividly 😂

@linmorell1813 12 дней назад

I love the penguins

@Adfanatico 12 дней назад

That ad was written by a guy called John Webster, who also wrote the Smash 'Martians' ad' and many other famous ads from when we were younger. Lovely man, lovely ad.

@nitinbhatt8193 Год назад

Some fabulous memories, thank you for sharing 😊

@sham8444 15 дней назад

Come on Sebastian!!!! let's do this, dunno about you but that's got me right up for it

@Madfattdeeb 10 дней назад

This was a great look back. Thank you for making this.

@Adfanatico 10 дней назад

What a nice comment. I thank you for your thank you!

@MatthewXLY 14 дней назад

I remember seeing all of these very fondly.

@DLIN666 10 дней назад

Max branning with the super noodles 😂😂😂 he had hair😂😂😂

@davew4998 8 дней назад

Oh that's who it was! I thought he looked familiar.

@DLIN666 8 дней назад

@@davew4998 took me a few minutes to work it out lol

@michelles2299 16 дней назад

Gone are the days of good ads

@lewistaylor1965 12 дней назад

Hamlet cigar football one is brilliant...with Mark Burdis

@MalcolmMacKenzie-ou1mt 19 дней назад

Kissinger is in Hell right now with the best place in the house and he's in for a wild ride forever.

@ryanwebb5082 16 дней назад

That’s the most random thing I’ve ever seen . Shows how naive we all once was

@PhilJonesIII 13 дней назад

@@ryanwebb5082 Once was? Do you think the various administrations have changed? We eat what they feed us, even now.

@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 11 дней назад

@@PhilJonesIII Not me. I eat what I produce.

@RKroese 8 дней назад

@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 yup. naive

@billwindsor4224 4 дня назад

Oh my gosh, the Barclays / Rowan Atkinson commercial 😂😂😂

@seamusoflatcap 16 дней назад

Ah . . . the lovely Melanie Sykes. Boddingtons Beer had good adverts at the time. Pity about the beer itself.

@j1mwinn 16 дней назад

Yes - it also tasted like shaving foam

@cst039 11 дней назад

That wasn't Melanie Sykes.

@seamusoflatcap 11 дней назад

@@cst039 Are you sure? Certainly looks like her

@TallSilentGuy 11 дней назад

You can tell it's not Melanie Sykes because she wasn't attacking her make co-star.

@seamusoflatcap 11 дней назад

@TallSilentGuy She can attack me any time she wants, as long as it's some form of wrestling. I'll make a token effort of defence.

@cookiemonster2299 10 дней назад

Noodles had me crying and the tango ad was very clever and technical. 👏👏👏

@LarsBastholm 2 года назад

Cheers, mate. Needed a good laugh today.

@shughes5920 11 дней назад

Come on SEBASTIAN! Get your arse down to the white cliffs for a square-off!

@joanhoffman3702 4 дня назад

I lived in England for 3 months in the fall of 1990. The English Civil War Weetabix commercial is hands down my all time favorite. “They had their Weetabix!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@janicetaylor9795 9 дней назад

Fabulous!😂

@christopherhowells1954 18 дней назад

I can remember the laundry advert when everyone ran off naked to find their clothes like my grandma didn’t like too much.

@anthonycampbell4532 2 дня назад

Some of the most creative people are in advertising. Great compilation. 😊

@MackerelCat 2 года назад

The babies all have their own babies now.

@saltymemesmith 9 дней назад

When companies didn't hate us and respected our custom dearly.

@mrbump28 8 дней назад

Its pretty ridiculous to think either companies hate you now or respected you then. Theyre only interested in your money

@bigCyril 6 дней назад

@@mrbump28So all this “diversity “ is just about money, I think not.

@101dannybhoy 3 дня назад

...got the last bit right. Marketing is all about money. Out of curiosity, what do YOU think it is?

@mrbump28 2 дня назад

@@bigCyril Of course it is.

@mrbump28 2 дня назад

@@101dannybhoy a WEF fonspiracy I guess

@joinedupcompany 2 года назад

Great stuff Patrick - wonder how the tv authorities let impulse through ( some genius account handling maybe) blackcurrant tango seems to anticipate brexit !

@beccymalloy Год назад

I remember the impulse ad- but didn't understand it when I was a innocent wee 'un...am quite surprised it was allowed in hindsight 😂

@medler2110 16 дней назад

it might depend what time it was shown, I seem to remember 9pm being a watershed, after all nothing was shown just suggested.

@matthewbruveris680 14 дней назад

Adverts for booze, tobacco and meat. Them were the days.

@PA-ss5cq 2 дня назад

Yes, now all we have is alcohol, gambling, junk food in vast quantities, obesity, degeneracy and how to make dubious legal claims.

@1969gawa 16 дней назад

5:04 That's him what wrote Benidorm that is

@zumamaya2396 15 дней назад

Kissinger would probably still rate well with 'The Economist' target audience - 2024

@davebanting876 17 минут назад

Very witty and very clever.....and not too obvious. I normally HATE adverts but these are so good

@user-ce8ut8hr9k 16 дней назад

'...I'll take you all on, I'm Ray Gardner...'

@reader4111 6 дней назад

Who is he?

@user-ce8ut8hr9k 5 дней назад

@@reader4111 3:15 One of the greatest of Englishmen, albeit fictional.

@jameshenderson5385 7 дней назад

The red rock cider gets my vote.

@ebriggs3498 3 дня назад

Love the beer foam perfume and the tap dancing 🐧 penguins! ! Posted too soon! Rowan Atkinson as the MI-7 recruiter! I’m dead! 😂

@eddyp483 12 дней назад

How was the cut from office to cliffs done in that Tango ad?! Really well done

@TallSilentGuy 11 дней назад

The lorry in the background was used to hide the join.

@beatenbytheclown 16 дней назад

Oh this brings me back. I think that Peperami ad ended up getting band for promoting bullying, a bit like those Snickers ‘get some nuts’ ads some years later. Probably an early sign that society was on the skids.

@-TheRealChris 13 дней назад

Nothing got banned mate it just ran it's course, get over yourself.

@-TheRealChris 13 дней назад

By the way you are reading this on the internet, where you can look at anything no matter how gnarly from right across the whole political and moral spectrum any time you like, the world has never been so unconcerned.

@terranceparsons5185 12 дней назад

Not seen any of these before, all brilliant!

@OublietteTight 3 дня назад

Hilarious stuff. Thank you for posting these. 😂

@thecaplesawards 3 дня назад

Thank you for your thank you!

@CharsChronicles 7 месяцев назад

😅😅😂😂 Memories! Tango and Batchelors noodles! 😂

@lindaj5492 4 дня назад

5:50 “Take over for a boff, would you, moment?” 😂

@lauraw.7008 2 дня назад

A😂😂😂🎉 loved the last one for yellow pages.

@keithhopkins9225 4 дня назад

I laughed at the beginning, by the end I was in absolute hysterics!

@crofty565 Год назад

can you imagine the baby one now jesus haha

@dappergent9422 10 дней назад

Totally amazing and great nostalgia.Thanks for uploading.

@Adfanatico 10 дней назад

Thank you so much.

@busabrack2433 11 дней назад

Ahhh… the 90s 😢

@CIS101 13 часов назад

Very funny. Good video.

@adiem1653 11 дней назад

Tango "i'll take you all on" - unfortunately they seem to of took him at his word ffs

@rainydaylady6596 4 дня назад

I wish we still had the yellow pages. I could use that cleaning service. 🤣😂🤣🖖💕

@olivere5497 2 месяца назад

Basicly 80s coke heads who were in the west london punk scene of the 70s created these adverts.

@stevenpeeven3169 12 дней назад

Max Branning and super noodles lol. Funny

@Ali-fq3nz 11 дней назад

The last one was one of my all time favourites back in the day..😊

@Jimmythefish577 8 дней назад

You know what I love about all of these ads? The absolute lack of DEI.

@villiamo3861 2 года назад

Superb! Thank you.

@zakariyyayusuf6208 11 дней назад

First time I remember all the adverts well

@patrickedwards5804 10 дней назад

It's like an elephants graveyard of old celebs who once upon a time had the face to sell stuff. Rest in retail peace.

@Adfanatico 10 дней назад

What many celebs found was that doing funny, self-deprecating ads made them even more popular with the public. And, of course, they got paid good money.

@patrickedwards5804 10 дней назад

@@Adfanatico yep but looking at these adds is still reminds me of viewing insects whose past is now caught in aspic.

@alcoyne3333333333333 15 дней назад

Brilliant 👏

@outdooradventures8773 12 дней назад

That Tango ad must have taken time , wonder how many practice runs

@Adfanatico 12 дней назад

The Harriers were added by CGI - early days of that sort of clever technology. I asked the CEO of the agency (HHCL), how did you get the RAF to do that for you? He said, "My cousin is the Air Chief Marshall." Then he added, "You tosser."

@reader4111 6 дней назад

@@Adfanaticolol! What's Tango? What's that ad about?

@Adfanatico 6 дней назад

@@reader4111 Tango is a UK brand of fizzy drink owned by Britvic. When they launched Blackcurrant Tango, the agency (HHCL) noticed that all soft drinks advertising was very American (Coca-Cola, Pepsi, 7 Up etc) so set out to be ridiculously British. They sent out small caravans filled with sample cans of the stuff to events all over the country - towed by Bentleys.

@reader4111 5 дней назад

@@Adfanatico oh, what fun!!!

@reader4111 5 дней назад

@@Adfanatico Thank you!

@railwaychristina3192 11 дней назад

Genius! Hamlet and Smash adverts were the best and the Typhoo Gnu! Also Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins!

@emmaearnshaw3282 5 дней назад

And the German Berlitz advert.

@frannieo6128 3 дня назад

Leslie Nielsen - best dead-pan delivery in the business.

@natashafranko4951 6 дней назад

Wonderful 😊👏👏👏

@Noobsaibot21 14 дней назад

Can't go back, can we?

@petejones6030 2 года назад

Just missing Snickers Tank. Get some nutzzzzzz

@Adfanatico 2 года назад

Missing several classics, I agree....

@pmberry Год назад

@@Adfanatico That wasn't an advert until 2006!

@davidfawcett3144 2 дня назад

Impulse perfume. Very tastefully done. 😁

@AussieBob999 21 час назад

I remember back then and there was something different that I cant quite put my finger on. Maybe a smell, or a colour, or a sound, or something - but I know it was so much better back then.

@sarahlouise7163 2 года назад

brilliant

@stefaniasmanio5857 3 дня назад

English humour?! 😅 the last one was immense!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@8Ayelet 3 часа назад

Rowan Atkinson is marvelous in the Barclay card ad!

@Adfanatico 2 часа назад

Rowan Atkinson liked the character so much, when Barclaycard stopped running the ads, he asked if he could develop it. The result was the Johnny English films, which have made $350 million at the box office.

@daniellatheczarina2u915 Год назад

That impulse guy 😍😍

@TallSilentGuy 11 дней назад

Very androgynous!

@TheGodParticle 9 дней назад

Back before PC and Blair disease. Cheers for the memories..

@thecaplesawards 9 дней назад

Ahhh yesss, I remember...

@GFSTaylor 2 дня назад

You mean back when it was more acceptable to be a bigot ? OK.

@theeightytwentyrule 4 дня назад

The UK creative landscape these days is a barren desert of social media likes, and how many impressions you can get for a tenner. A shadow of its former self.