American Reacts to the Most Disturbing British TV Adverts 

i was about to say the same lol

Where's Mary Whitehouse when we need her. The tory queen of cancel culture.

I came to the comments to say exactly that.

Same in Italy, except here everyone goes to bed later (and gets up later), so the threshold hour is pushed forward to 9,30 or 10 pm.

@@susanplatt5331 ... She's brown bread, 2001 I believe.

They never do ... some people just look for things to complain about.

@@martinwebb1681 Absolutely bang on mate it's the WOKE BRIGADE who seem to be offended by anything these day's y.You can't say this you can't say that You can't show this you can't show that absolutely sick of them..

there is funny and there is ugly that add is ugly not funny if you don't see why you should probably contact a psychiatrist, its not even "black" humour which I totally understand and use on occasion myself

I love the marmite ads their hilarious

@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13idk man, you sound pretty offended lmao

Wow really?? I never heard about that?? Poor kids RIP

@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Yes they were between the ages of 6, 8, 10 and 11. The 6 and 8 year olds were brothers. The 11 year old their cousin and 10 year old their friend.

@@alisonscurr4395 That's absolutely awful thanks anyway..

@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Police/Fire officers almost lost his feet, and his legs were servilely damaged, from how cold the water was, trying to retrieve them..

@@alisonscurr4395 I wondered why the 6 year old was with them? 8 is bad enough. My kids would not have been allowed out by themselves, terrible to lose one let alone Brothers.

About ten years ago two young men who SHOULD have known better tried to steal copper wire from an electricity substation. They were literally cooked.

I remember the atomic bomb drills too, it was a scary time to be a child, I also remember the coastguard films they were weird cartoon people and the Charlie says films, they alway gave me the creeps, then the 80's came along with AIDS notices in every public toilet,

I remember the nuclear attack ones. I was so scared as a child I used to get up in the middle of the night to check my sisters were still alive. Definitely agree these scary things should not be seen by children.

Ah yes, the boy electrocuted on the overhead high-voltage wires. They don''t make them like that anymore!!

Scary, yes !...... but we had the Tufty Club 😂😂

It's up there as 1 of the most creative ads, playing off the trend of the time to have shows following RSPCA and the like

Charlie says were the best, especially don’t go off with strangers

I know right! The disclaimers at the bottom of the ads in the US scared the hell out of me!

I guess it depends on the age of the child and their emotional level at that time.

@@saraloking5993i mean i remember watching these at like 6.

I want to the US in 2004 and was amazed how many drug ads there were. I bet it's worse now

The gloves and bucket one right? 🤣 Same

They were all scary the fireworks one and also the electricity pylon one freaked me out

@@melwhite157 forgot about the pylon one😱

@@CinobiteReacts yep!!😂

The one about fireworks freaked me out so much that I wouldn't even hold sparklers for years. I do now though.

I came here to say the same 😂😂

It was in his contract. He is protecting his career on stage and the silver screen.

I was in the Tuffty club, we had a monthly magazine and Tuffty badges.

There was also a melon getting smashed in a road accident advert from memory, to show what happens to your head.

There's one for seatbelts where the grown son with no seatbelt on is sat behind the driver in a violent rear shunt. His forehead smashes into the back of his mums head and kills her 😮😮😮 Still burned in my mind

@@sunshine_pond7951 oh yes, I remember the one now...

The one that I always remember is "if you hit me at 40 there's an 80% chance I'll die, if you hit me at 30 there's an 80% chance I'll live"

@@animationcreations42 OOh yes, I do remember that one also..

I hope you mean 10 years ❤

Yes definitely, most of them are tailored to our British sense of humour.

Remember TV programme " Children of the Stones"? Showed on ITV kids programming. Can you imagine that today? Even the intro song is creepy as hell (it's on youtube if you look!)

@@welshgit I loved that show at the time - It was an era when TV companies didn't treat kids (or adults for that matter) as idiots. The show was filmed in and around Avebury in Wiltshire - a prehistoric site that pre-dates Stonehenge by at least a thousand years - during the long hot summer of 1976, when I can remember my dad having to collect water from a tanker because of the severe drought.

You might of been but I had nightmares!

I have a tendancy to agree with your idea that people were mentally stronger back then. To me, it seems like we've become a society of weak and sensitive "snowflakes" where the slightest thing can cause outrage, potentially leading to political discussion. I remember my dad telling me that some of what I was learning in High School is what he learned in Primary School, and that if you came home with a black eye and said: "Mr Jones (or whoever) hit me", you'd get hit by your mum as well because clearly you were doing something wrong! lol Whilst I don't entirely agree with that (as well as the likes of teachers physically disciplining kids), I do agree with the seemingly lack of quality in education, as well as the general idea of the culture of that time - you do something wrong, you need to understand and respect it, and anyone is free to tell you so. Nowadays, people would be put into prison, or at least majorly criticised or "cancelled", for retaining and enacting even a modicum of such beliefs and principles. I feel we need to find some middle ground between back then and now, where we retain the best of both. The learning curve never stops, no matter how old an individual is, nor how old a country or nation is. Look at how so many reacted to COVID, and compare that to WW2. We are a weak and fragile society when compared to back then. However, I do have my hopes. We've always overcome adversity and come through the otherside eventually better off.

Simon the cat says. Was it Simon? Sooo long ago.

They worked too, I have yet to drown, be electrocuted, run over, or had limbs amputated by a train. Although having said that, it's sods law tomorrow is going to be an interesting day.

@@susanplatt5331 Charley Says......"Meow, meow, meow"

Camelia Crafts Designs ... Yes, along with keep Britain tidy, don't play with matches, and keep off the railway tracks. 👍

I like to add the coastguard one, with Petunia and her husband sitting on the cliffs.

Children need to learn responsibility and consequences and they need to be prepared for the real world. And the real world has a lot of bad in it. Do you not think even something simple like teaching your children to be scared of strangers is any different ?

@@liamblack2574. Teaching children to be scared of strangers might make them anti-social, just teach them to be wary and careful with strangers!

I agree. I remember them well and they definitely jnfluenced my behaviour, but they didn't traumatise me. What did traumatise me at the time were the special lessons at school about what would happen in case of a nuclear attack. Those lessons scared the hell out of me. I clearly remember being told that if the four minute warning was given we should get family and supplies under a table and take down four doors to block the openings on the table ... and wait 😂

@@lunapuella2611 you missed the paper bag for over your head, I remember our teacher in primary school telling us all what to do, it was very scary, and it was on TV too at the time

@diane64yorks72 I thought I was prepared with a screwdriver for the doors. I'm not sure we were told we needed a paper bag. My teachers didn't give us the full instructions! Thank goodness we didn't have a nuclear war. I would never have survived under the table without a paper bag!

@@lunapuella2611 it all sounds ridiculous now, but when you think back it really was scary, we must have been tougher kids back then, the youth these days would be jibbering wrecks if they had these sort of messages aimed at them lol

@@diane64yorks 😂

Great ads!

Yes, "TOP 10: MOST EFFECTIVE BRITISH ADVERTS" by "HelloImAPizza" Mojos list was hit-and-miss and also ruined by the guy who wouldn't shut up, and the ridiculous editting of the adverts themselves.

JIMMMMMYYYY

In about 1983 or thereabouts, a young boy went missing and the local police asked for volunteers to assist them in seaching a large area of countryside for the missing boy, so I volunteered to help, as did many friends and neighburs from the local community and many people turned up from neighbouring towns as well. It took two full days before the boy was found. Tragically it turned out that the kid had died after climbing up an electricity pylon :( To this day I don't know if he was actually electrocuted or if he simply fell, but I am eternally thankful that I was not the guy who found his body. I knew the guy who did though - he was much older than me (I was around 19 at the time) and lived in my street, and the experience of finding that poor kid messed him up for the rest of his life and he absolutely refused to ever talk about it. Very, very sad :(

@@countzero1136 yeah didn't have the psychological support stuff we have now

Watch Mojo isn’t the place to go for reliable info.

AH back in the day When kids were kids

If you'd been born a little latter then you could have learned the Green Cross Code from Darth Vader. Well the actor anyway (David Prowse not James Earl Jones).

Charlie the cat was one of my favourite characters on tv back when I was a kid. "Charlie says...." etc etc

​@@adamcashin4021 and Alvin Stardust! "You must be out of your tiny minds" 😅

I learnt from the two hedgehogs. “ then you can be…. King of the road”

My thoughts exactly.

Not true at all. Many of these were shown pre 9pm including the climate change advert

It was definitely something I (and my parents) was well aware of and affected our judgement. 9pm was the official watershed and we all knew that what was on TV could be aimed for a mature audience and my parents actively decided if I could watch a particular program after that point.

Also, I still have my Tufty club book.

But weren't the Public service ads were shown on these BBC channels?

@@stephenlee5929 yes they were, as they weren't adverts to sell anything. There was one about safety on the beach and getting help for people in trouble in the water. That was funny but sensible advice

Just learning. You need to study advertising. You have forgotten the sixties.

@@QPRTokyo no I haven't forgotten the ,60s but not as many people had a TV in the 60s. We never had a TV until 1968 ourselves. Plus I wasn't even 10 years old by the time 1970 arrived.

Oh my god, I still remember the electrocution one, over 30 years after I saw it... the ads certainly worked that's for sure.

Yes. Deffo. The Charlie ads, that kid who got fried in the substation... And the learn to swim with saville and rolf, if only we knew then what we know now. No wonder they were promoting swimming

@@Rachel_M_ yes if only we knew. It still amazes today. Also that Gary Glitter has just been freed so god help any kids out there.

I'm 59 never have I

Tufty Club member!

You missed out on all of the fun of throwing a frisbee at an electricity substation while sitting in an old fridge on a railway track.

Yes! Me too! Saw these films at school with a police officer attending! Still have the badge! @@fayesouthall6604

@bobbybigboyyes blame auto correct as I meant to put Prowse. Thanks for the other ads.

Wait until he stumbles across the 80s AIDS PSAs. His reaction will be priceless.

Agreed ... along with the early seat belt ads that were pretty graphic.

Only if they make it to adulthood. Humans aren't the smartest, sometimes fear is the only thing the lizard brain can understand.

Most are from the seventies, usually shown later in the evening. Some were shown in schools.

There is a railway line right near my sisters house and next to it a fenced in electrical boxd pylon of some sort. She got out the old videos we grew up on and showed her kids before they were allowed to play out. Guess which kids in the neighbourhood were never tempted to play on them and used to run straight home to tell their parents!

Yep, even as an adult I was shocked by that one.

Or some of the NI road safety adverts, some of them are horrific. Not a chance they'd ever get shown on the English channels.

Exactly!!!

I grew up in East Anglia and the public information films about the dangers in farms seemed to be shown quite a lot. I remember one featuring a child falling into a baling machine.

Was that the one where a child died in agonising pain after being poisoned?

@@cmdfarsight Yeah - she was just meant to take a pretend sip but ended up getting more than she bargained for.

@@geoffpoole483 I was in Kent but it was much the same for us - the village copper (PC Carr) would come to school to show us these films. Also had the train safety ones shown to us by a BR train driver.

Just found it's still on here (not sure if this reply will show up because of the link.): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1_J6_O4bn0s.html The quality's not great, but you get the idea.