American Reacts to Irn Bru Top 15 | American Reacts | Scottish Adverts 

#1 is not the best advert. #2 has a legendary status in the whole of the UK and went viral on release. That is classed as the all time best Irn Bru ad.

Some of these adverts are from the 90s, probably why the picture quality sucks on some of them. PS Irn Bru is also an awesome hangover cure :)

Had just sat down with an Irn Bru when this popped up in my feed!

Just want to point out since I've seen a lot of Americans miss the context is that #2 with the Snowman is a parody remake of the Christmas short film The Snowman, which is one of those films they show every year, every one knows and recognises the music and art style, and lives up to the description of being iconic. I think the closest equivalent in America would be something like a Charlie Brown Christmas. The original is really sweet and the featured snowman is really sweet so that's part of the Irn Bru twist.

The Snowman ad really took me back! That was my childhood right there 😆👌

What I love about Irn Bru adverts is that they don’t need to advertise, they already outsell Coca Cola in Scotland but make very amusing ads. I always look forward to new ones. My favourite will always be the family singing round the piano closely followed by the Snowman. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤣🐿️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Fanny one was the best and he didn't get it! 😅

11:45 Love the Glasgow Kiss from the vending machine😅

The snowman one - they’re all places in Scotland they flew over.

I agree number one is not the best one, we Scots all grew up on IRN-BRU, every year since time began IRN=BRU has out sold Coca cola and all the other famous brands, much to the annoyance of coca cola....I'm talking about sales in Scotland only.

Fanny is a slang word in the U.K for those lady bits down below. The other one you said you didn’t sort’ve get was a parody of Coca Cola adverts.

Irn-Bru's advertising slogans used to be 'Scotland's other National Drink', referring to whisky, and 'Made in Scotland from girders ', a reference to the rusty colour of the drink; though the closest one can come to substantiating this claim is the 0.002% ammonium ferric citrate listed in the ingredients

The Funniest Irn Bru billboard ad I ever saw was a pic of a cute Calf looking into the camera with a caption saying `when I grow up I want to be washed down with Irn Bru. lmao

Man, No. 3 was a blast from the past! That's one of the first ones I remember from the 80's.

You were so right about number one, number two should have been number one. Irn Bru's poster adverts are hilarious too. Some of them were eventually banned for public decency issues but that alone tells you they were hilarious. Irn Bru has kind of become a symbol of Scotland much like Vegemite for our Australian kinfolk. I have found Irn Bru in New York, Floridian cities and in California.

They used to say Scotland was the only country where Coke was not the most popular soft drink; don't know if that is still the case.

The snowman ad is a beautiful pastiche of the The Snowman, a book by Raymond Briggs that was made into a film, and shown nearly every Christmas. The story of a boy who makes a snowman who then takes him in a marvellous adventure, only to finally melt away when the warmer weather comes. The song, Walking in the Air, was realised by Aled Jones and made him a household name in the UK - worth a listen

The Snowman one should have been number 1! Classic take off of the children's Christmas film, with iconic Scottish scenes as they fly overhead, and a brilliant finish!

I am by sheer coincidence drinking a can of Irn Bru right now xD

The old fellas having conversations are some of the best, not to mention the one where mum walks in on her teenage son.

I liked the one with the goths at the fairground. It should have made the top 5

some of the references will possibly go past you. Irn-Bru was always known as being a bit of a tough drink as it was from Scotland, going hand in hand with the hard as nails Scot's image. Also the Fanny thing is possibly not clear as Fanny over here means a women's front bottom not her back bottom. That's why we laugh when we hear you guys say Fanny packs as we call them bum bags.

Scotland is the only country in the world where Coca Cola is not the most popular soft drink, Irn Bru is top quality 👌

You should check out the old people adverts (make & female), for Fiery Irn-Bru. They’ve got to be the best.

Irn Bru made in Scotland from girders. gets you through .... any situation 🤣🤣

Really enjoyed this! Irn Bru is advertising and Scottish humour at it's best.

IRN BRU is so good when you have a hangover that Billy Connolly wrote a poem/song dedicated to it called The Afternoon After The Morning After The Night Before

@Hey Look Squirrel in Scotland, especially Glasgow, those ads created a saying when Irn Bru was mentioned, it was immediately associated with being Made In Scotland.....From Girders.....hence the name Irn (Iron) Bru (Drink) an old wives tale of making you strong, helps you get through the day.....like a coffee or bar of chocolate would, as it was packed with sugar, the adverts were meant to be like a comedy, cheesy and some, old fashioned, piss takes to be precise lol, anyways, it was packed with sugar and when the UK Government introduced a sugar tax in 2018 they changed the recipe in order to avoid paying the extra on tax and it didn't go down to well, thousands of people stopped drinking it and sales plummeted because it just didn't taste the same, they recently brought out a limited edition bottle which had a lot of sugar back in it, "like the old recipe" as it was marketed as Irn Bru 1901, but it was priced far to high, double the price to be exact, of a normal glass bottle of Irn Bru, so sales weren't very good, as off 2021 there are countless petitions pleading for them to go back to the old recipe, but so far it's fallen on deaf ears, so I hope this help you or anyone watching this video, know what the ads are about, I have to say, there's better ones than what was showed in this clip, the Snowman one is a parody of the children's Christmas film called The Snowman, it's a traditional UK short film that's shown every Christmas, up here in Scotland we associate it with the likes of the Coca Cola advert, when you see that truck on TV you know it's Christmas, well we, Glaswegians especially say that it's not Christmas until the Irn Bru Snowman advert is on 😂👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It’s is a Scottish National pop I love it as I’m from Scotland

Number one is the most iconic if not everyone’s bottle of jeg. Remember these are spanning some 30 years. We’re suffering from a cola esque crisis now. Changed the recipe about 5 year back. These great adverts advertise a better drink.

Imo the best advert is the Frank McAvennie 1at the petrol station with the 2 lassies & Macca goes to pay for his & the guy behind the counter says pump 2 & Macca answers not yet fucking hilarious man

#3 was the ad during the 80s.

Number 3 was made in the late 80's parodying the coke and pepsi adverts of the time.

Scotland is, I believe, the only country in the World where Coca Cola is sold where it is not the biggest selling soft drink, Irn Bru is the biggest seller. Irn Bru have had quite a few adverts banned over the years too, one I remember that caused great controversy was a billboard add that featured an old guy sat on an armchair with two large dogs beside him. The caption read "I love Irn Bru and so do my two bitches". Another featured a cow and the caption "When I come back as a burger I want to be washed down with a can of Irn Bru". That one got the animal rights people up in arms and was even said to have been insensitive to cows.

I’am sorry but the Iru Bru 32 ad in the library is still the best to me

The fanny one is the best one. Nothing beats it.

The strength shown in the Irn Bru adverts dates back to the 1970s, an ginger kid building ships etc.

The two older pop star theme adds are parodies of other ads on tv around the same time

Made in Scotland, from girders. They replaced sugar with aspertame a few years ago and now it's undrinkable which is tragic. Every now and then they release a 'classic recipe' limited edition.

Irn Bru and McDaids Football Special two of my favourite drinks

I don't think you've done any Micky flanagan yet, you should take a look, i think you'll really enjoy him.

The older ones were laughing at 1980s Pepsi ads.

British advertising uses a LOT of comedy, and many are really hilarious. Irn Bru is hugely popular in Scotland as a hangover cure also. "Made in Scotland from Girders" was a common tag line, which led to the suggestion anyone drinking it would be endowed with super-human strength, the comedy in some of the ads. As a born and raised Scot I loved the stuff, and now living in the US I drink it whenever I get back to the 'auld country'.

Made from Girders. Non-alchohalic & My Granny did the original recipe & it's made by Robb Brothers Aberdeen now who bought the recipe from my grandad who was their syrup man. The Irn Bru from Barr in Glasgow is a copy that's why it's spelt the way it is

The scooter granny 🛵 was funny... the snowman ☃️ was funny too they all seem like spoofs of America commercial 😊😹😂

Thought I would watch these again

Irn Bru is literally my favorite fizzy drink! It's very much a stereotype for Scottish people, but I'm south England and I love it! Also, the sugar-free tastes the same as the regular!

Iron bru , made in Scotland from girders as in its made from girders , the old adverts used to show how it give you strength because it had iron in it which is why in some of the older adverts it shows things getting bent and the wee lassie throwing the baton in the air and it takes ages to come back down . and in scotland we will call someone a fanny as in arsehole , dickhead clown idiot etc

Irn Bru is also the only soft drink to outsell coca-cola in any country

Pricelees, good laugh watching as a Scott and getting every joke, it's even funnier to watch from your side of the pond. Thx

We only got Irn Bru when we were sick!

I'm surprised, "Crazy Yanks," only got to #3.

This is a breath of fresh air, other American react videos to irn bru reacted like we're (scots) aliens

I remember no.3. That was classic and I was hoping it would be on the list.

Hi Squirrel, you need to see Warburton Bakeries adverts featuring, The Muppets, Peter Kaye, Sly Stallone and Robert De Niro.

12 has that Weird Al vibe (You Don't Love Me Anymore)...

one of the things in the Snowman spoof is that it features famous Scottish buildings etc did you notice the railway viaduct ? it's real and it's the one that leads to Hogwarts

Number 3 odd one as you say was a classic, lost in translation perhaps. Some of these you need to be Scottish to get the humour and references

No 2 is the best one. You need to be familiar with ‘The Snowman’ movies to 100% get how ingenious it really is. The high school one was around the time of ‘HighSchool Musical’ and it was (quite rightly) pointing out you’d never get away with that nonsense in Scotland. The bad quality ones are really old and during a time when the advertisements was it made you indestructible and strong because it was “Made in Scotland from girders” iron girders.

Fun Fact: Popular belief (derived mostly from a comedy sketch as far as I can tell) has it that 'iron brew' were forced to change their name to 'irn-bru' to avoid legal trouble because it neither contains iron (at least not in any meaningful amount) nor is it brewed. In reality, Barr had trademarked 'irn-bru' well before WW2, and while they ultimate changed the name partly because new labelling restrictions to crack down on spurious health claims were about to be enforced, it was mostly due to the fact that 'iron brew' had come to be used as a generic term for the flavour of the product by rival manufacturers. Irn-Bru allowed them to retain their recognisability while also giving Barr a legally protected brand identity for the product.

What about the advert where the kid drops his Irn Bru and it is rolled over by a Steamroller 😁

It used to be 'Made in Scotland from girders'!

those adverts cover more than 30 years of adverts

O my days, I remember the fuss No2 caused! So many humourless sods complaining it was somehow cruel to take the piss out of a beloved children's xmas film. Every kid I knew thought it was bloody hilarious. Irn Bru is delicious by the way, tastes unlike anything else.

Irn bru is a soft drink... until you add vodka.

The 'Crazy Yanks' is my favourite Irn Brew ad. The number 1 ad sounds a lot like 'Simply irresistable' by Robert Palmer. The guy with the bending mic stand and the girls behind him is a nod to Robert Palmer videos. Now please check out Peter Kays "John Smiths" bitter adverts.

i fucking love irn bru

Scotch, IRN-BRU, and Duncan's. 3 of my favorite things from up North

Add 14 never got 1 complaint 15 years ago they reshowed it last year and it thousands .says a lot really when you think about it

I love the number two & number five ads

If you see this or have been told about it but you should check out the Irn Bru 32 adverts (it was a short-lived run of the original drink kinda like Pepsi max to regular pepsi, the one ad where a bird breaks through a wall n talks to a guy in the library especially), check out some of the Jobseekers adverts ("oi you lavvi heed your gettin it"). Number 2 is so nostalgic for me. Fanny is slang for vagina but if you call someone a fanny it's more like your calling them an idiot as opposed to a vagina. Werid contextual double meanings.

Folks always seem to have a problem describing the taste, to me it is very similar to bazooka joe bubble gum." Irn Bru made in Scotland from girders" was the original sloggan

So wheres the ad that started the 'Made from Girders' and had everyone trying to do the Scottish accent at school and stuff? 'Gurderrs' 😂

They didn't show the one that got banned! An orange bloke in a nappy smacks a bloke drinking IB on both ears. We all started doing it at school, many deafened and then banned!!

There is actually a part two to the snowman one. In the second one the kid chases the snowman with an airplane. And then he jumps out the airplane to land on the snowman's back. And just then Santa comes and takes it from both of them.

Pretty funny cool bunch of commercials

Best hangover cure in the world.... scottish humour at its best

Those were the days

IRN-BRU make some amazing tv ads...proper funny.....two catagories that most of their ads fall into are, 1-funny humour related to scotland or 2-lets take the piss out of american tv ads 😂😂😂 my fave and probably most famous is the number 3 "made in scotland from girders" one....love the way they parody the american tv ads 😂😂😂

Fun fact Scotland is the only country in the world where coke isn't the most popular drink

The holding a can to the woman in labour was in 2001, I remember because I done it to my wife while my son was being born and the midwife and nurse laughed their asses off, my wife with half a baby poking out her hole was not to pleased, 😂

Great taste man😂not se much the irn bru the advert quality is hilarious! And aye a fanny is a fanny arl arund the world ! Enjoyed it squirrel brilliant a live about 45mins from Scots border so Wembley the bulldog gets me no1 vote as best in class ⭐️⭐️⭐️😍😘

Scotlands the only country in the world where coca cola isn't the no 1 soft drink.

Irn Bru + Whiskey = A Girder

Watch teaching my American Freinds Scottish 🤣

Some of the shitty quality is due to some being from the early eighties maybe a couple from the late seventies....👍

Love from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

So a bit of context: most of these adverts are taking the piss out of something else, their advertising department loves to send up other cultures and make satirical references to pop culture. A couple of examples of that are the high school musical one making fun of programs like Glee, number 3 is making fun of the American style of commercial. These ads are from the last 30 years and don't really age that well, but when they are released they are really good satire. I can't remember what number one is sending up, but I do remember it being very appropriate at the time.

06:48 Good grief. Song of the South meets Animal Farm. 11:53 Bingo! 12:50 Now we just need the sequel.

Where's the happy goths at Blackpool?

No 2 my favorite,,,, snowman,,,, 👍👍😁😁✌️

I did hear once that Scotland is the only country in the world where Coca Cola isn't the best selling soda, it's Irn Bru. Whether that is still case or not I don't know

Scottish people are amazing , that's part of why i like to be referred to as British rather than english haha :P its also got a cool ride in Blackpool pleasure beach :P:P

The Irn Bru Goths...

Fun fact: Irn Bru was first produced and sold in America.

'ginger juice' 8-D

I'd happily send you a can or small bottle to try if I knew where to send it !

A Fanny is a vagina in Scotland.When you think someone is an idiot you call them a Fanny.Some of the advertising for Irn Bru got banned as offensive.-posters and TV commercials.

#2 is the best all day long.

Irn-Bru is the top soft drink in Scotland; it outsells Coca-Cola and has done for years.