Funniest Swedish Commercials | American in Sweden Reacts 

These have been translated, specifically for showcasing in this kind of compilation. When they originally aired they were in Swedish.

We love Norwegians, we just pick on each other like siblings usually do :)

I like Norway and Norwegian people, an incredibly beautiful country and nice people. I don't think I'm the only one who feels that way :)

Sweden has a deep rooted tradition of having great and funny commercials. This is due to the fact that back in the day commercials were not allowed on TV. (When this changed it opened up for other channels and cable to generate profit and therefore exist.) However, when you went to the movie theater, you would not want to miss the 20-30 min of "reklam" commercials shown before the movie started, because of the great bonus entertainment! It was, and perhaps still is (I live in the US nowadays), similar to a permanent Super Bowl commercial experience.

You should react to the more classic commercials. ”Fulöl”, Lotto (Snälla Åke), stryktipset, Ipren (Iprenmannen), Dafgårds and Vasakronan. 😄

5:20 she showed a photo of the haircut she wanted, the hairdresser took it a too literal and included the background..🤣

I think those commercials were dubbed, because I recognized all the Vattenfall commercials from the late 90's and they were all in swedish. Granted, the one with the men in the "Sweden in the 1950's" gym didn't have any dialogue, but the one in the tattoo shop was definitely dubbed from swedish and didn't sound like that originally. (The last one, with the construction workers and the electric drill, used the original audio.) One I recommend looking up offline is the hilariously svenglish mistake Locum made for one of they newspaper/magazine xmas ads. That one was clearly made by someone who didn't study enough english in school. One that was deliberately playing on words was the old Electrolux commercial for their vacuum cleaners in the 60's, who did a european marketing campaign with the tagline "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux" and a picture of a vacuum cleaner with the mouth piece of it held toward the leaning tower of Pisa.

That was hilarious! Fler såna tack! =) Also, ICA's commercials is/were comedy gold, especially the ones with Praktikanten Jerry.

I so hope you realize that Swedes and Norwegians love each other….. in a sort of sibling way!

We really love Norway my grand grandfather immigrated from Norway to Sweden, but we are like the older and younger siblings that make fun of eachother you know USA - Canada ;)

3:44 - These specific version of the ads were never shown in Sweden. The reason these altered ads are in English is because they were specially made (or dubbed) for the ad firm's portfolio. The only people who would watch these are either prospecting international clients or judges for international ad awards. If you go to any ad firm's RU-vid channel you will most likely find English versions of all their non-English commercials. Same thing happened before the Internet, but they were instead kept in the firm's archive and sent to clients upon request.

The lady in the hairstyling commercial wanted the same kind of hairstyle as the lady in the picture. But for some reason the stylist added the roller coaster in the background to her hair style.

They weren't in English to begin with. These were shown on a German TV show about the worlds funniest commercials.. And the Brits then had them all dubbed for their viewers.

How about a few of the Gevalia adverts? - When Vikingline went aground on a small island a year or two ago and when a hot-air balloon nearly landed in my garden once I always think of Gevalia and only my Swedish aquintances will ever get the joke!

He incorporated the roller coaster into the hair design.

Many of the commercials were labelled " Lustige Webungen" ( that´s German), especially those about Vattenfall, which operates also in Germany. So I think they were used in Germany, which might explain why they were in English. Or not. I never saw them,

Yeah as some others here say, they are originally in Swedish and then there are some in English versions/dubbed

On tv the Treo commercial was in swedish. And there are other versions of it as well. Haven´t seen the others before. Bruce Springsteen once sat on a parkbench in Stockholm hammered after to many shots of vodka, people just passed him by so he said.

For classical Swedish humour - the GEMS of Swedish culture! Hasse och Tage, Povel Ramel and others of that calibre - often so painfully spot on - that politicians have cowered from their ridicule - Especially Tage Danielsson's monologue on Nuclear Power - changed the face of Swedish nuclear politics! Such sharp wit, scathing humour - that is unrelenting and sharp as a razorblade! I hope that you will enjoy!

The first one has all the signs of being made by Roy Andersson, a great film director that's more famous and appreciated abroad than in Sweden. He has made more than 300 commercials since 1969. Once you get to know his style you immediately recognise his works. He has only made four movies since the 70's, 2000-2019. They are a little weird and artistic but really great.

As others said, didn’t recognise any apart from Treo. In general I think Swedish commercials are aim much more entertaining than, say German ads. Lots of gems to be found.

I like your content. Lots of fun. And as you said, fun to see other using your work to react to. Keep it up. Take care, stay well

My boss is Swedish and swears by those water fizzy tablets for headaches. She hosted a work ski trip weekend in Trysil at her friend's cabin and I had a hangover headache so she gave me one. Worked pretty good!

Ofc we love Norway in Sweden, we trash talk each other because siblings bicker but we still love one another.

Du har verkligen valt de absolut sämsta reklamfilmerna någonsin!😄😄 Bara det är jätteroligt!😂😂😂

As someone has already mentioned - I think you got a hold of a compilation of dubbed commenrcials, for international purposes. All those commercials are originally in the swedish language of cousre. But funny reactions.. GJ.

They're dubbed for youtube because I remember several if them and I know they aired in Swedish :)

In Sweden the polite thing is not the "please" because "snälla" sounds more like you're annoyed like..."snälla du.." But if you ask for something in the form of a question instead of a demand then you're polite. Don't forget to say "tack"!

there is no word for please in danish, swedes have created a word that sort of means it, but it is not scandinavian to say please, we say thank you afterwards instead :D

i like this a lot, more content like this please

Surprised you didn't show the original Ipren commercial, that one is iconic. :)

It says Lustige Werbungen means funny commercials in German. Likely many of the adverts are dubbed into English.

Awesome vid!

Correction I did not see the commercials before this video, but I did see Treo products before :) Also I'm just joking about hating Norway. I joke a lot on my tiktok about Norway. All in good fun.

that is true we give people their space. sure some can get starstruck but MOST of us say it in a polite way, if we can take a selfie or get an aoutograf

Hey Andrew, the timing is insane! I just saw a Swedish commercial with Will Ferrel in it just a couple of days ago! You should try to find it! Maybe it's on TV, i rarely watch regular TV but somehow i saw this commercial, like 48 hours ago tops. Look for it and review it! God bless, brother!

The only commercial I recognized was the Will Ferrell one 😂

Where is the ”hallå hallå!” one. My all time favorite.

Ye reactions are always fun! :D

The tattoo commercial, the song played in the end is called "Elektricitetsvisan"...

The song on vattenfall/electricity is in its turn a small cute song about ...granny and an electric "massage thing" sort of...

These commercials were originally in swedish but was translated to english, and as you said rather old.

The old banned IKEA midsommer commercial is the best. Check it out if you haven't already. I've been living out in Göteborg since 2011.

As someone who is swedish i can say this video is good

You could react to the swedish fascination of the artist Eddie Meduza, banned by mainstream, loved by everyone using snus. It would be interesting to hear what someone with experience from the 'outside' would say about a phenomena not working (at all) outside of Sweden, except maybe for Norway. Imagine Johnny Cash, but far over the top. "A boy named Sue" could be a Meduza song, one of the cuter and less extreme ones. The guy was a musical genius but could help himself from critizing government beyond the limit where freedom of speech ended, couldn't help himself from repeatedly gential jokes or songtitles. A musician with Tourette syndrome if there ever was one. His manager, another famous person with more in common with a cartoon than reality, was pissed because his absolutely best tunes got lyrics that was impossible to go mainstream. He also wrote "serious" music like Rockabilly, pop and close to the swedish "dansband" music but were an impossible mainstream celebrity because of "the other stuff". His song "Reaktorn läck i Barsebäck" ("the nuclear plant in Barsebäck is leaking") came as a comment to Three Mile Island, later he passed it on to the rockband Europe, today it's the one song "every" dance party in latin america closes with (Himno a la banda) which kind of proves his qualities as a music writer. Before you do a reaction video on this guy you should do some research I think, and listen to some songs, maybe translate/read the lyrics, find out more about the fascination that swedes have. Question is, the guy is super-intelligent, why do he do this stuff, waisting his chance to a 'real' career and to the brink that all audible media boycotted him? Why do so many swedes find it likeable, even some mainstream artists that keep it as a secret? Why do some hate it just as much? What's in our souls that appeal to this madman? You don't have to go as deep as into his home-made cassettes from Studio Ronka (Studio Wank) under a different alias, the LP's he got out there is enough to discover the phenomena. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zCDeduPvcBo.html

They have been dubbed. I remember most of them. And they were most certainly in swedish back then.

Kalles caviar dancing baby commercial was my favorite as a kid

The Vattenfall commercials are made by or inspired by Roy Andersson. He is a director with a very personal style.

Valio: You taste so good. Oh yeah. And so creamy.

i think the TREO one was also shown in Denmark, might explain why they just opted to make one and just sent it to multiple countries

Another contributing factor that they both have Swedish and English spoken, is that back in the day, commersials was only shown in theathers (cinemas) and abroad. It was only when TV3 and ZTV (Swedish but with HQ in England) started, the TV-channels got to show commersials. TV in Sweden was not allowed to show commersials since they were operated/financed/regulated by the state. This is a 90´s thing that evolved to what it is today..... (feel free to correct me if I am wrong....)

Prisma commercials from Finland. They are in Swedish. Prisma fanit - keittiö ja kattaus: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9kKHmH5IV6c.html Prisma kuninkaalliset - lelut: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BiGqErH3b-M.html Prisma fanit - pienet kodinkoneet: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ANlzgmAoIHo.html Prisma kuninkaalliset - vesilelut: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oUwl4yFOWwc.html Prisma joulu: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-apJ0wiJiiFE.html Prisma - uusi elämä: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yIxS0Vp0XMc.html Prisma halpuutus: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yx2UuxbYLEQ.html Prisma fanit - koti ja viihde: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O0pUpqKvroM.html Prisma fanit - pyörät: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q14vo1xeXSw.html Kaikki kesään Prismasta: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bRmnIov0aOc.html Prismafanit, kesäkampanja grilliruoat ja kattaminen: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M9MJuG3ROZc.html Prismafanit, valmistujaiset: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r1qwDZ-5jLM.html

I had never seen this commercials

Here's an old MER commercial I like: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-35IHKSE8doc.html And another insurance commercial: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y7lmXJwH3xU.html

Where did you get those commercials? I've never seen them

Ett klart underhållande koncept av video. Fortsätt med detta!

In the wedding commercial you did miss the part that it was not the bride that got hit in the head who receive the pain reliever.

A great number of swedish comercials are made to start up a movie or in a cinema and the produkts are sold globaly

What the… I have never seen these commercials. Where did you find them? Must be commercials for other countries somehow (?). And most commercials on Swedish TV are in Swedish.

Funniest/stupidest commercials ever was for Rocky Bad Idea Jeans (not the SNL thing but the real Swedish H&M ad campaign) , check it out, they are avaliabe on YT

Will Ferrell is married to a Swedish lady and spend time in his summerhouse south of Stockholm from time to time and speak a bit of Swedish. Been on US late night talk shows with Swedish stars talking over the head of the show host in Swedish as a joke.

Haha, take a look at the old Japp commercials!

Dude u need to see the "rocky jeans comercial"... its in english as well though but funny! Search for "rocky jeans bad idea" and u will find it as the firs one 👌

those are old ads, in the new ones are almost none swedish people participating at, in the new ads there are really most 'multicultural' actors in those new swedish advertisings.

I love the old Japp commercials.

Nope . . But we do say , when not saying "Är du snäll" = please , tack ( = thank´s ) instead afterwards . Or we say both är du snäll plus tack . . :O) .

Someone has translated the commercials, they were no in English when they aired in Sweden.

In a video in 2019 you said you live in linköping do you still live there?

Vattenfall is on the European market so those commercials might not have been made for Swedish TV, maybe that's why they are in English?

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I dont think many swedes remember this one buuut some will totally get it. "Vill du ha en snigel på ögat "? We are a strange People with strange humor. The treo commercial? Laughed my ass off. How you were sittning there calm as you please is beyond me

Watch Roy Andersson comercials on youtube. Its about insurance companys and lotto. Great comercials

I am kind of dissapointed that the old commercial for start ( a kind of müsli) with knäckehäxan was not on the list. :P

It would be nice to see you react to some older swedish punk rock..

Andrew do you know about the Swedish RU-vidrs Montefjanton? They are great fun and I think you could enjoy their stuff.

You missed one of the greatest ones ever. ‘First you marry, then you statoil”! :)

there should be more swedish comercials these are not like the typical commercials its like they are translated

Who put this list together. 😂 Super old and not really any funny ones.

I can't recall seeing a single english commercial on TV here. Use of english or an english speaking foregin character sure, but a commecial completely in english... Never. That's weird. First thing that popped in my head was "Why is it in english?". Btw I've never seen a single one of these either regardless. Plenty of other Vattenfall and Treo commercial though.

These commercials must be at least 20 years old. At least I have not seem them in my lifetime.

check out "Nisse - from Manpower" and the ICA commercials. Those old ones you shown was quite bad.

Vattenfall Injuring people since 1909

- Var är brudarna? - Näääe... Har ni fest eller? If you know you know

Will Ferrell is actually married to a Swedish woman. They have a house outside of Gnesta.

There's a whole ton of responses to that last add that you just *have* to see. ;-) I'll share them as a comment to this one.

React to the classical swedish tv comercials like Start (IVmVnvIZGsA), vasakronan (TjBjgV8U2M0), comviq (xfv1DzXkxj8), 118888 (6kXHf4d6yik), lotto (HCpBgL-mQu4), irpen (DHJKF32Amzw), olw (W4EbsUiVug8), Felix (1xUH9NScI08) and/or of course ICA's commerical which is the world's longest on going commerial series (started in Nov 2001)

Im Sweden and havent seen the most of these

As a swede I don´t know any of these. I was born in the 90s so...

"men mamma de e ju lööda!"

I haven't seen any of these lol

Mm just because of tha last bonus.. We don't hate Norway here in Sweden... Norway and Sweden are brothers. But there is this Love/hate- joke thing

Treo is not Vitamin C it's used against pain and fever ;)

Haven't seen any of those I guess they are probably very old ones XD

More reactions!

you should allso reakt to the swedish commercial when it comes to the military,

You should watch Norrlands Guld old commercial

Best commercial EVER is with NHL-legends Mikael Renberg, Tomas Sandström and Börje Salming. Check it right here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7dXkKDwPNM4.html

they are dubbed by the uploader i guess but they are in swedish. sorry if im late to the party but just wanted to say it

I think these commercials are dubbed. I remember them in swedish from my youth

Hi Andrew! Love your stuff! I'm born and raised in Sweden, so a Swede all the way - BUT I love to travel - so among other places I've been to the US at least half a dozen times, worked in Denmark and Saudi Arabia, etc… So I'm quite aware of the social differences between different cultures! THIS - makes me appreciate your videos even more! If you are looking for Swedish humour - in Swedish? Then I'd like to recommend - on one hand - "He who laughs loses" - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eJd8vPenvgQ.html For the WORST Dad-Jokes, cheap puns and UN-PC Humour! On the other hand I warmly recommend stand up by among others - Özz Nujen - A Curdish immigrant with often spot on observations - In Swedish! Also Magnus Betnèr, Björn Gustafsson and Måns Möller! For an expats stand-up about Sweden in English - Al Pitcher! I especially love his bit about Swedish sugar addicted kids shovelling - lördagsgodis! LÖRDAGSGODIS, Fredagsmys and Swedens Relationships with COFFEE, Sugar and CANDY! Could be funny talking points? Or what do you think? Please feel free to contact me if you would like a dialogue? Keep up the good work and I'm Wishing you a Wonderful Weekend! With Fredagsmys and LÖRDAGSGODIS! Take care! Swedish Bob