American Reacts to Nostalgic British Adverts 

The Cilit Bang ad was made in mockery of US adverts.

When we see the purple colour we know it's an ad for Cadburys.

As a Brit, I can confirm we have had some wild ads. Sometimes they can be more entertaining than whatever program they interrupt 😂

The tango ads were actually banned as school kids copying in the playground 😂

British television adverts are renowned for their humour.

Specsavers is a chain of dispensing opticians found throughout the UK, and almost as soon as the slogan "Should have gone to Specsavers" began to be used, it has been synonymous with people in odd situations and even in accidents, where it implies they went there mistakenly because they couldn't see properly!

This Tango advert was the bane of the school yard... *tap on shoulder* SLAP "Hahah, you've been Tango'd."

The spec savers advert featuring the sheep shearer is advert gold.

The 1970s adverts for smash instant mashed potato were hysterical a must watch

You wouldn't steal a TV, not in them days tvs were so big it took 3 of you to move it half an inch

Much of the point of these ads was to make them stick in your memory. That's why they don't really tell you what they're for (generally) until the end. You spend the entire ad wondering what the hell it's about, find out at the end and then you might talk to your friends about it later. Pretty much meme's before meme's became well known.

10:34 The guy in the Shreddies Nana advert was Leslie Phillips, a comic actor who often played woman chasing cads. His catch phrase was 'Ding dong!' whenever he saw an attractive girl.

"I've no idea what SpecSavers is" he says as theres a massive post it note on screen talking about "free varifocal lenses"...never change Tyler 😂

Crusha is a syrup added to milk to make a milkshake.

I know you're not the brightest spark from the grinder, but being confused by milkshakes, orange soda, steamrooms and eye-glasses really is fun to watch. 😂

I can see how you connected to the 'cilit bang' advert as it was made to mock the American style.

The best Cadbury's advert is the one with the Gorilla 🦍

You understand the naked guy thought he was going into a sauna ? Specsavers = cheap eyeglasses.

I thought the smash advert with the aliens might have been here lol

One of the best banned adverts I remember watching was for Xbox. Started with a baby being born, flying through the air getting older as he went, eventually became and old man and flew into a grave. The tagline was, ‘Xbox. Don’t die before you’ve lived’

The Cilit Bang adverts are a mockery of bad adverts. Tango still make odd ads and the Go Compare guy is still around on their ads.

The boy in the cadburys ad just made a tiktok where he proved he could still do the eyebrows 😂

my favourite Chewits advret was when godzilla starts out eating a tower block in the city, then discovers chewits instead - "Chewits, chewier than a 10 story block of flats"

Pleeeeeeaassseeee, watch the whole ad, then talk, you'll get better context!!!

The first advert for Crusher. When the cat is singing the song it says it’s for Milkshake.

The way I see advertising, you can take one of two routes: you make an ad telling potential customers every detail about your product, or you make an ad that people will remember. British advertising tends to go for the latter. We might not know what the product is or if we need it, but we'll remember the name of it and it's slogan until our deathbed!

Nice work Tyler! Specsavers is a nationwide chain of opticians, They've done plenty of great ads. However my favourite ads are from the late 70's and 80's, Hamlet cigars, the ads were brilliant!

A lot of the bizarre ads were intentionally created that way as a conversation piece. "Hey Bob, did ya see that dumb advert of the orange dude slapping a guy who was drinking some Tango?" It gets the everyday person to promote it, plus it leaves a lasting impression which means you remember the product. I haven't watched TV in over a decade and it's the same for my Dad but sometimes he'll just say or yell out a random advert like the Cillet Bang one etc from 10+ years ago and we all laugh, meanwhile the kids don't have a damn clue and think we are lunatics lol.

The Tango ad became hugely popular with kids and they had to change the ad as kids were constantly slapping each other at school and bursting eardrums.

The reason, or partly the reason, why British tv 📺 ads were so crazy was because we have less advertisement slots during a programme and because of that adverts have to be so much more impactful on viewers, unlike in the USA where it seems tv shows are fitted in between advertisement shows.

I loved the Peter Serafinowicz Cillit Bang parody on his sketch show back in the day.

'You wouldn't steal a car' I would if I could download it

The jaffa cake advert is legendary. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone growing up in that era who doesn't know, "full moon half moon total eclipse". It still gets referenced now when people eat Jaffas. The Dolmio family were in adverts for over 10 years :) And the Piracy Ad was at the beginning of every VHS and DVD, it might have even been played in the cinema but I can't 100% remember if it was. I wouldnt really have classed it as an advert personally, because its more of a PSA. But its just as recognisable.

Cadbury drumming gorilla is a classic 😂

Yeah- the Cillit Bang adverts were a direct mocking of US style direct 'Buy Our Stuff Now!' commercials. That is absolutely NOT what UK ads are usually like. That was the point. 'Specsavers' the clue is in the name - especially as the restaurant kitchen one actually listed a special offer for varifocals, which made it clear....(no extra pun intended!)

you need to react to all the tango adverts and the john smiths adverts, they are the best adverts we had

I cannot believe the Hastings Direct ads didn’t make it into this, I’ll know that phone number for the rest of my life

You think the advert for the Smiler advert was terrifying 2 years after it opened in 2013, two trains collided, causing serious injuries including lost limbs. The ride is still open to this day I went on it 3 days after it reopened after the investigation still an amazing ride

Best way to describe the Tango is imagining eating a chilli pepper but not knowing it is super hot - at the moment the heat hits you, you have that moment of shock and "wow that's hot". Where Tango tends to be a bit more sharper / citrus like than most drinks, the slap around the face is supposed to represent the moment that sharpness hits you.

Aw!!!! My dad was the cameraman on the go compare adverts ❤

@12:03 note about the MCCain advert, adverts for many years in the UK were filmed and edited on tape and were usually 4:3 in aspect ratio as most CRT televisions were ‘square’ or 4:3. It was only in the early/mid 2000s that widescreen TVs came in but were very expensive and not widely available. As widescreen grew in popularity, most things were filmed in 16:9 so older format programmes, adverts etc became ‘pillarboxed’ as they looked weird if they were stretched to fit the 16:9 aspect

Funny thing sbout the Anti Piracy ad is that they literally used pirated music in them.

It's an interesting subject. Advertising companies aren't stupid - they know their audience. Advertisements can be seen as a telling window into the broad national psyche, and I think a comparison between US and UK ads bears this out. Ads that we in the UK find hilarious, leave Tyler confused and bemused.

I wish you'd get to the end of the ad before commenting. Then you'll know what the ad was about.

Specsavers is a company that tests your eyes, and sells you glasses when your eyes are obviously classed as "faulty" So - the joke is that this guy thought he had gone into the sauna - but had accidentally stepped into Gordon Ramsay's kitchen next door because of his poor eyesight

The Orange Tango man advert was one of the funniest adverts I saw growing up. It is a great shame it was banned. Luckily, I was never "tangoed" in school, so I couldn't really work out what all the fuss was about.

The new tango advert in a prison is so tongue-in-cheek funny!! 😂😂

Peter Serafinowicz does some parody ads in his short lived sketch show based on the Cilit Bang ones. Look up 'Kitchen Gun' and 'Toilet Grenade'

When I was in NY at Christmas, every advert was for either some kind of insurance or some kind of medication.

My absolute fav ads from back in the day, are Batchelors Super Noodles "I'm wasting away" and Reeboks "Belly's gonna get ya!".

The thing with shreddies as well, when you bought the cereal the box had a picture of which nana knitted the box your eating 😂

Where is my so money supermarket advert! Please react to it in the future I need to see my boys dancing 😂 x

The Go Compare guy actually restored the theatre he grew up in off his fees from those ads... something good came out of it in the end.

Strange? You're telling me Americans don't have puppets selling you pasta sauce? BANG and her shirt is gone.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! I love it. Tyler watches Barry Scott and has the gall to say he has an annoying voice. Pots and kettles Tyler, pots and kettles. 🤣🤣🤣

The one thing about Britain is... humour first! :D

Here's a suggestion Tyler - how about LISTENING instead of second-guessing before the ad is even halfway through?

Brits are not afraid of nudity.

Aw man they didn't have the "YA BUY ONE YA GET ONE FREE" ad - you should totally do a part two with that ad in it!

Opera singer is now on 18 years as representative for go compare bur now it is the real guy who plays the opera singer doing the ad.

AOL advert voiced by late actor John Hurt who was in the film 1984 hence the Orwell bit

Oh my god I remember how hyped I was to see the smiler ads, idk what it was but they were just so cool to me

You sometimes sound like Scott disick lol. I like your appreciation for the British culture. I always have a smile when I see ppl appreciate things.

If you think there is nudity and sexuality is higher in british ads, wait until you see European.

The 'Specsaver' ad wouldn't sound the same in Americanese 'EyeGlassSaver", now would it

the piracy advert is such a bop, I'm surprised it hasn't been sampled yet

Wynn Evans the go compare opera singer, made a fortune from years of adverts for Go Compare. He is really a singer and has become more famous for his adverts.

Check out the classic Oxo food stock cube advert series - it lasted decades and was quite emotional, seeing the Oxo family grow up with Linda Bellingham as the Mum, cooking a family meal.

So funny as a Brit watching an American react to our bonkers adverts 😅😂 Funny guy!

You're laughing at the piracy notice but happy to see ads where the music has been tuned out ...???

The really, really iconic ones date back to the 70's and 80's. Although the slogans from of the modern ones have become part of British vernacular. "Simples", "Should have gone to Specsavers", "Does what it says on the tin", etc. It sounds like the AOL one is voiced by Sir John Hurt, who voiced a couple of terrifying but iconic government AIDS awareness ads c. 1986.

😂 Slapped in the face by an orange man 😂 You crack me up (That is British for you really make me laugh out loud) 😂 I just love your videos. Keep them coming 🤗😆

The Cadbury Eyebrows ad is done with using tape and string to move the children's eyebrows. Went to cadbury's on a school trip, and someone asked how they did that. Can confirm 👍 Saw the Smiler ad when I was 14, i think 🤔 so, when I was old enough, I went to Alton Towers just to ride it. Absolutely wild 👌 not a scary ride at all 😏 would go again if I hadn't lost most of the use out of my legs 😢

Specsavers is an opticians. You can get your eyes tested and buy glasses and sunglasses etc. Its still a huge company now, probably the most popular for eye tests and glasses. "Should have gone to specsavers" is still referenced to this day. Someone with glasses walks into a door frame, "You should have gone to specsavers mate" etc haha

The tango ads were the best ads of the 90s 😂

IT Crowd. The opening sequence of Moss and the German, episode hilariously spoofs the 'pirating is theft' advert. Even if you don't watch/react to the whole episode, you should, after this, do a reaction to the opening sequence.

Not sure why the Smiler ad was a special bonus ad, there are so many better ads than that to have kept as a surprise at the end.

10:30 TANGO AD WAS BANNED WITHIN HOURS OF FIRST BROADCAST - The day after this advertisement was aired, schoolchildren were slapping other schoolchildren and shouting 'You've been Tangoed'. The creators of this contraversial advert refilmed and inserted a new sequence which showed 'Orange Man' kissing his victim instead of slapping him.

SpecSavers is a chain of opticians.

The music used in the Smiler advert is Norwegian; "In the hall of the mountain king (I Dovregubbens hall)" by Edvard Grieg, made as theatre music to the play Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen. It is known outside the play and used as general scary music in Northern Europe - and used in Norwegian kindergarten/school plays to show fear, anger, or braveness in the face of danger. Sometimes a few of the kids cry a bit when the song goes fast, but generally Norwegian children are taught to be stoic listening to "trolls coming"😂 The scene in Peer Gynt when this song is played, is from inside a mountain; Peer realizes he is trapped there forever with the mountain trolls, and he will have marry a female troll and live a troll life, but can get rich and powerful as his wife- to- be is the troll princess. The switches in tone and fast pace symbolizes his conflicting feelings and getting swept away into troll society (after having left a mess in his human society). Peer being Peer, he of course escapes later, and finds new drama elsewhere 😅

The Tango ads are brilliant 😂

Omg i haven't saw the crusher ad since i was a child used to love it

Best specsavers ad had to be the one with the old shepherd . . .

I remember as a child, I used to think the GoCompare guy was my uncle.

Snickers in the Uk originally branded as marathon until it’s rebranding in the late 80’s and Specsavers is an optician .

I went INTO Specsavers, tried on a massive garish pair of granny glasses and said to my mate “should have gone to Soecsavers”

We had those piracy ads here in Norway too. They were so anoying that they mace you wan't to go to Pirat Bay at once!! :D

Still cant eat a jaffa cakes without doing one as full moon ... 😂

Tango is a soft drink or soda, as you call them, which comes in different flavours. The ‘orange’ man (the flavour being advertised), was giving a ‘slap’ of flavour, as it’s drunk by the young lad. The name of the soft drink, was and still is Tango. Tango comes in many flavours, but this was highlighting the orange flavour!

Thanks, Tyler. That was a lot of fun. Peace

That piracy ad was played every time you watched a dvd. So weird seeing it again

The tango ads caused so many kids to be slapped in the play ground 😂😂

the dodgy dvd's i used to buy always had the pirate ad on them made it more funny stoned hahah

Shreddies are also available in Canada and are wonderful, especially the honey version. Chimo

Watch the advert fully. Don’t stop to question it, until after you’ve watched it.

NO SHREDDIES!? I always thought they were American. Great to wake up to your content.

The “you know when you’ve been tango’d” ad was controversial here, because kids started doing the slap to each other & one had their ear drums burst - so they re-shot it & replaced the slap with a kiss

The smiler is an ads for a rolercoaster. It's actually pretty dangerous as it crashed with people on it and almost killed a bunch of people. It's still open today, and sometimes has small technical issues, however the park have said they spent too much money building it, so they won't get rid of it completely.

You don't know what specsavers was an advert for... The logo is a pair of glasses, the company is called specsavers, the words on the screen are telling you about varifocal lenses..and a pair of single vision Is £75. And the offer isn't on safety glasses. It doesn't really take a full squad of detectives to work out what it could possible be.

The tango ad was banned in the end because kids were doing the face slap to each other the playground and they’d end up with burst eardrums because they were doing it wrong.