Americans React to Top 15 Irn Bru Adverts - These Are Hilarious!
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The Scottish dad one was more about the ancestral rivalry between England and Scotland than the dad daughter mechanic. Clever stuff these adds.
As Americans they may have missed the significance of 66 - the year England won the world cup, and Wembley - the stadium at which England play and won that world cup. The football world cup (soccer). of course.
that one was my favourite lol
Number 2, the snow man is the Christmas advert,, there is 3,, in total, 1st of Dec is showtime
@@peterjackson4763and the English dog farting on the Scottish flag rug
"Made in Scotland, from girders" has been their main catchphrase for decades.
More like it hasnt been a catchphrase for decades. Ive never seen that in an Ad in person. Ive only ever heard people saying it
It's phenomenal was the 1 grew up on
Rusty girders,a drink for real men.
From girders?
I thought it was made from old bubble gum scraped off the streets.
And that colour...really natural looking. I won't touch it, and I live in Scotland.
G'duzz
I don't think any of them got the "nice rug mum" bit 😅
You mean" you do "think.😊
I certainly spotted it. It was the way she kinda moved the cover down a bit.
Best adverts ever.
@reluctantheist5224 he means "I don't think."🤷♂️🤦♂️
@@Davidjohnson-o6g Yup, makes sense now.
@@Davidjohnson-o6g I originally worded it weird and since corrected after they pointed it out
Lindsey hit the nail on the head at about 7.50sec. " They are so memorable" .
The entire point of an advert is to get people to remember the product.
Make the advert funny or shocking and it gets remembered.
Something which I think a lot of modern advertising companies these days have forgotten about.
That’s because of the woke mindset of some deranged individuals.
I still remember adverts from back when I was only 4 or 5 years old..
I don't remember at all anything i used to do back then. I couldn't tell you if my parents taken me to the park or not..
But, some of those adverts, never leave..
All you have to say is Gorilla - those who saw it, think of Cadburys.
@@pampennyworth I remember when, in the 80s and 90s, it was fine to always make the man the butt of the joke. Wasn't that 'woke'? What's your definition?
@@wessexdruid7598 I remember in the 70’s and early 80’s that the poor mother in law was the butt of most jokes.
Irn Bru ads have always been brilliant. They just dont care. It's great
Fanny also used to be a shortened version for Frances and I had an elderly relative as a child who was called Francis but we all used to call her Fan. There used to be a TV cook in the 60/70's called Fanny Craddock and her husband who sometimes would assist was called Johnny (a slang term for condom).
I've usually heard it as a shortened version of Stephanie.
His vole au vents looked just like Fanny's.
I think it can also be short for Florence too. So if you are called either of those avoid getting together with anyone called Richard.
"May all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's"
They also changed cousin Dick to Rick 😢 it’s a shame because children don’t think anything of these names. I’m a little concerned about changing older books, it’s a bit like changing history and sometimes it’s good to remember and discuss the differences.
Watching the snowman is an unofficial Christmas tradition in the UK. Love love love that Lindsey knows it and that Sophia has watched it and has been read it too ❤
The look on Lindsey’s face when the closing image of the Butchers shop was revealed, was worth waiting for.
My 3 × great grandmother born mid 1800s, was called Fanny. When she married she became Fanny Allcock! 😮
I had a manager in the 90s when I was a teenager, and his name was Richard allcock. no need to tell you his nickname from my workmates😂
My grandad had a sister named Frances aka Aunt Fanny. When she married her name became Fanny Hedgecock
Lindsay is right, the advert and lyrics are parodying High School Musical.
I think this is the first time I’ve seen an American reactor understand the snowman parody ad.👍
The Snowman should have been number one. As for The Snowman films there are two, and they are shown every Christmas without fail.
I agree.
Yes, I don't understand that last one at all - maybe I am too old!
Agreed. I recognised quite a few iconic Scottish landmarks.
fanny to a scottish person is like calling someone an idiot, but in most uk its lady parts. Its why that fanny ad even funnier
Also in England too
Yeah I think they get it 🤦♀️
And it's been referred to both since I was a child (age 54) in the UK 😂
I didn't realize that. Good to know.
The Irn Bru advert makers dinnae fanny aboot. 😼
The snowman advert is a parody of the 1982 movie "The Snowman", its about 25 minutes long and I HIGHLY recommend you react to it at Christmas
The fact that you both call them adverts and not commercials proves just how British you both are.
It's funny how that has stuck with me. I never even knew the term advert before going on this journey.
@@reactingtomyroots any chance of doing some irish content.don't understand why you are so nervous about irish content.The riverdance video was probably one of your most popular reactions yet you have not revisited that topic as they are loads of videos on riverdance and lord of the dance and lindsay would probably love it.Whats stopping you
Love your channel guy's....best wishes to you both from Scotland...
Thanks so much. :)
Trust me.our adverts have gone downhill massively. just cheesy and devoid of humour now.modern adverts are so lame now.its not just america
They know we don't watch linear television anymore. In addition to mistrust over marketing tactics or scepticism over such practice.
We have wised up as it were.
When boring corporate automatons, who go to bed in their suits try to relate to the general public on a 'humorous' level, and fail badly.
Everyone is so afraid that they will accidentally say or do something that gets them verbally att*cked or harassed by the woke idi*ts.
I think the word you're looking for is WOKE
Adverts don’t work the same anyone due to streaming. Before with such few channels adverts were seen by high percentage of population. Now it costs more to advertise across more channels and few now watch adverts to make it worthwhile.
I'm sitting in Scotland drinking Irn Bru while watching this. Number 3 should have been number 1, I grew up seeing that ad and I've never forgotten it.
Loraine Chase and the Campari advert. The Nicole Papa series of adverts it even had an advert with a countdown to the final advert in series as did Gold Blend Coffee ads. There was the Oxo family ads where you see them grow up and have grandkids.
One of my favourite ads was the photographer at the zoo patiently waiting for the pandas to appear. Just as he takes a break and has a Kit Kat, the pandas come out and do a dance routine only to vanish again just as he finishes his break.
I love the Knorr adverts with the Pandas "act natural! They'll never know" say Knorr to boring meals 👍🏿
The girls' name Fanny was popular back in Victorian times as it is a shortened form for Frances - one of Queen Victoria's daughters-in-law. It is also short for the popular Spanish name Estephania.
The secondary meaning comes from a NSFW book called fanny hill
@@alanrickett2537 Possibly, although it could be another example in the tradition of giving a person's name as a euphemism for genitalia - e.g. "Dick", "Willy", "Joey" and "John Thomas" as nicknames for the penis.
Cadbury did some fun ads. Dancing eyebrows, gorilla drums, here today goo tomorrow
The first Enchanted Wood book by Enid Blyton was published in 1939
I remember as a teenager reading one of the Enid Blyton Famous Five books "You have so much spunk, George". George was a girl. My late Mother said that even when she was a girl in the 1920's & 30's that the word 'spunk' had a very different meaning to what Enid Blyton had intended the word mean.
Richard, UK
Irn Bru are still doing brilliant ads now. They've just released a few revolving around Scotland going to the euros(European football championships) and joking about how Scotlands hoping again 😂😂😂
I've got VHS tapes full of UK ads from the 80s
I met a Taiwanese girl whose English name was Fanny as knew it was a traditional name, and wondered why people laughed when they heard it. I politely explained, and she was horrified. She ended up adopting my Scottish name as her British one!
Irn Bru adverts are legendary up here in Scotland. The Snowman ad has become like the Coke ad, we know it is almost Christmas when it airs on TV. There are two now, both show different areas of Scotland. 'Made in Scotland from Girders' was the slogan I remember from my teens.
The Cinzano adverts of the late 70's with Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, Cadburys Milk Tray Man ('All because the lady loves Milk Tray' ) adverts or Boddington Beers ('The Cream of Manchester')
The snowman should have been no 1. Signs it's Christmas in Scotland 1. Irn bru snowman ad 2. Famous Grouse ad. Who agrees 😂
Scotland is the only country where Coke is outsold by another soft drink - and that drink is Irn- Bru ! 🏴🏴🏴❤️❤️👍👍🏴🏴. Phenomenal!
The last time I checked, Peru was also like that. Inca Kola was also outselling Coke.
When it gets nearer the time, you should definately check out the 'John Lewis' Christmas compilations of adverts. It'sa department store
Think you'd enjoy the John Lewis ads
Yes the Elton John one was really good but really emotional
The John Lewis Christmas ads are famous, and a lot of people like them, but personally I think they're all over-sentimental and mawkish.
I do agree, you should look for collections of Christmas commercials in general. They've become a tradition, and people look forward to seeing each year's adverts. Every supermarket and most of the other big chains go all out every Christmas.
@@ajayjackson7727 I didn't care for it, was more about Elton than Christmas.
The Bear & The Hare for me - however if they do the John Lewis Xmas Ads - someone needs to make sure Lyndsey has a box of tissues at the ready! 🫣🤣 also - the McDonalds Forever Young Xmas advert was a tear jerker for me! Was so befitting of having a teenage son at the time and feeling like you’ve lost that “child bond” that you have 😢 but every now and then they do still show it! 🫶🏼
Products in the UK are often judged on how good their adverts are so many companies put the effort in.
Anything tangible to back up that assertion?
@@SpeccyHoraceyeah it’s called Marketing.
@@Looshfarmer So not particular to the UK at all then.
Few quick examples, Irn brew, Cadbury, John Lewis, Sainsbury, Guinness and a huge amount of others.
@robertobrien5709 So Cadbury and Guinness are purely judged to be good, and are therefore successful, because some people rate their advertising highly?
Fanny has a long history as a name. I remember when they put Elizabeth Bennett on one of the pound notes in the UK. I think a lot of people appreciated the tribute but were still disappointed not to see a representation of Jane Austen's Fanny on the note instead. From Mansfield Park, you know.
We have a street in Cardiff, Wales, called Fanny Street, which is from about 1908.
There is a "Fanny Street" in Saltaire, West Yorkshire also, and there is a street in Ludford, Lincolnshire called "Fanny Hands Lane".
Loved all the Scottish scenes in the Snowman
We still get adverts like this in the UK.
"Fanny" became British slang for the female southern-district sometime in the 17th and 18th centuries as a derivation of "Veneris" - meaning "of Venus." John Cleland wrote a satirical and erotic novel in 1748 called "Fanny Hill" - the full name being a pun on "Mound of Venus".
Fanny was a name used quite a lot by the Victorians and my paternal grandparents who were born in the 1850's were called Ned and Fanny 😊😊
I had a Great Aunt called 'Fanny' too. She was really lovely.
Harry Enfield is a great comedian and he does a sketch taking the mick out of American car sales ads PLEASE WATCH IT STEVE 😂
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll bookmark it for later.
You just gotta do the Marmite adverts! ("Love it, or Hate it"). They are the funniest series ever!
Im still laughing at the dog farting on the flag. "Cheeky wee fella" brilliant line.
The high school musical one was making fun of America. I don’t think the reference to American pop was about soda, but about pop music.
A few of the irn bru ads are parodies of American ads.
Fanny is a diminutive of Francis a French name meaning "free one" These ads were/are Brilliant.
In Scotland it means you are taking your time or procrastinating, you're "fannying about" or being silly. But in England it is a slang term for female private parts.
So funny when the English bulldog farted on the Scottish flag rug.
That wouldn't be you hating your equal partner in this union, would it?
Christ knows what happened on the Mayflower when fanny became back bottom rather than front bottom! 😂
Used to be a billboard that was a picture of a cow. It said - when Im a burger I want to be washed down with irn bru
Loved the snowman advert
Fanny craddock ...... The first tv chef ... Legend 😆😆😆
I met her in real life, not a nice person
But don't take my word for it, she was horrible to me, but just look at what she did to Gwen Troake
She was also a bigamist, twice
and left her two children to be raised by others
She was a bit of a dragon. I saw a play about her once and those poor assistants who followed after her husband Johnny's departure looked so frightened of her.
Omg I was terrified of her when I was a kid 🫣
@@Spiklething
My stepdad maintained
Johnny Craddock's car and his yard was just up the road from their big house in Blackheath, London. We used to go there (my stepdad, Mum & me) for drinks ('cocktails before dinner' - that sort of thing, and crudités etc), but as I was just a youngster, I sat in the kitchen and ate round slices of spam - which I loved as a kid, and drank lemonade.
Both Johnny and Fanny were nice to us...but then, Johnny liked my stepdad fixing his car, so wanted to keep us in side!! I was never aware of Fanny Craddock having a "not so nice" reputation...though she was definitely at least 'a tad weird'!! 🤔🏴❤️🇬🇧😏🖖
I remember the alleged Johnnie Craddock quote "May all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's" 😂. Of course back then it didn't have the same connotation...
My favourite advert is still the one where the little girl goes into the shop to buy some chocolate and explains it's for her mum and to pay for it puts all her most precious buttons etc on the counter and finishes by putting her most treasured possession a tiny toy unicorn on the counter and the shopkeeper bless him gives her the chocolate and tells her to take her change and gives back the unicorn, she then goes outside and hands the bar to her mum and says Happy birthday mum. I've watched that Cadbury's ad for years and it still brings a tear to my eyes, if you ever get the chance watch it.
I like that ad too, but I don't understand how the red telephone box disappears when the child leaves the store.
@@josiebridle1947doesn’t the girls hairstyle change too?
@@Yukari_Yakumo Haven't noticed that. I'll check next time it's shown.
@@josiebridle1947 Well the reason the red telephone box disappears is because they used footage from the original advert ruclips.net/video/TfMt3HN8tuY/видео.html and just added NEW footage to the 200 years advert ruclips.net/video/2eO8VNjYqRM/видео.html .
They also made a version for another country/language ruclips.net/video/XYejaGCjJl4/видео.html
@@lmcgregoruk Wow! You're really good with your research. Thank you.
The dad and daughter one you got wrong, the boy friend was English, with an English bull, and an England football top.
The Dad is Scottish, reading a magazine called Scottish Stuff, wearing a Scotland football top, in front of his braveheart photo..
It's a joke on the Scottish not liking the English
The snowman one is from The Snowman, a really traditional Christmas movie
I think a few things went over Steve's head, Lindsay seems more clued up though. 😃
That's what we thought it was. It was easy to see that the Dad was very pro Scottish and the boy was an England fan, even down to his dog.
@@reactingtomyroots ops I thought it was just he didn't like the boyfriend😂
Check out, cravendale Barry the biscuit boy ad.. Or Cadburys gorilla, or airport vehicles for some more crazy ads
The Snowman one is my favourite. You should check out an old ad for 'Smash' instant potato. They did a series of them with aliens.
Scotland,best sense of humour ever
Gutted they didn't show the rest of the Snowman one where Father Christmas gets involved too 😂
I've met loads of fannys in my life. None of them were named Fanny, though.
Come to think of I have kissed one or two 😛
😂
😂
Does the US know what we call a fanny!!
The racier/adult adverts were only screened after the watershed - after 9pm at night.
The irn bru adverts were on all through the day no matter what time inc the adult irn bru ads
@@davidmcmillan688 Really? I never saw them before 9pm.
@@Kari_B61exyeah here in Scotland they were on during the day aswell you always knew the new irn bru advert was out when the kids in school copied its content
Adverts dont work, they dont make people want to buy things, so the best anyone can hope for with adverts is to make them funny and memorable. Something alot of the UK adverts did very well in the 80s and 90s. So many little tunes come to mind.
If i went out into the middle of any city centre and shouted at the top of my lungs "if you like alot of chocolate" i would get half the people around me shout the response.
Response is "on your biscuit join our club"
@@Michael-u3j4g because they are made to believe they work. To be fair there are a lot of stupid people around
@@Michael-u3j4g Maybe its just me then, but i have never seen an advert and thought, "Oh, i must get that". Not once have i brought anything because it was advertised.
I cant remember the last time i saw a Pepsi advert, and yet their company makes billions every year.
Could just be me, but im guessing im not the only one.
Adverts don't make you leap up and buy the product that instant. But they give the product a personality, an aura of emotions around it that make it appeal to its target audience. (Which may or may not include you.) Irn-Bru spends millions a year maintaining its cheeky Scottish image.
The more similar the products, the more important advertising is in separating them from each other. Take energy drinks -- Red Bull and Monster will both give you a caffeine hit, but somebody who drinks one wouldn't be caught dead with the other.
@@robertadavies4236 I don't know about that, I know people who will drink both, BUT I remember when I first saw Red Bull as a teenager, I thought it was alcoholic, since that was the only way the exorbitant price would of made sense. 250ml can cost more than a 330ml can of any fizzy drink (Coke/Tango etc) Like more than 2x the price.
You need to watch the old Tango ads from the UK.
One of them started a slapping trend, and as far as i know they had to ban the ad because kids were slapping the shit out of each other and shouting ..... you've been Tango'd.
Tis true. T'was all in good fun.
😂 Those sound fun. Thanks for the suggestion.
You know when you've been Tangoed.
@@reactingtomyroots The tango spoof of the Sony Bravia ad is good too.
The ad was never banned, Rupert Howell (Tango ad exec) pulled it off the air, because a surgeon phoned him up and told him he'd performed an operation on a kid with a damaged eardrum, and when the surgeon asked the kid what happened, he said "I got Tango'd"
You Should checkout the old Carling black label Adverts or the Castlemaine xxxx🤣
Or Cresta soft drinks.
Boddingtons.
@@misterprecocious2491 Yes Melanie Skye's with Creamy Lips 😱
@@adampurcell5179 "you want a flake in that chuck"😂😍
Please come over and visit Scotland.... IronBru is on us🏴🏴
The snowman one is my favourite. Hi from Glasgow.
We got a new one for the football competition. Irn Bru Mannschaft - definitely one of the best ads on our TV over here at the moment
Very good that! Can't believe the "train advert" wasn't in that list! You HAVE to check that one out! By far the funniest one 🤣👍🏻
There was another famous Fanny, it was a dog called Fanny the Wonderdog and she belonged to the British comedian Julian Clary
The Irn Bru adverts have been made for laughs for decades and they cover the 80s through to the 2010s.
I've not met anyone called Fanny in years but when I was a kid I did know a couple of Fannys, today on the other hand I meet plenty of fannies😉🏴 in fact come to think of it most of our politicians are complete and utter fannies😂😂😂😂
Spot on with the highschool musical thing
One of our first ever celebrity tv chef's was Fanny Craddock. Enid Blyton was born in 1897 and Died in 1968. However Fanny has been a slang term for Lady parts in the UK since the 1830's
If you want to check them out, the best UK ads in recent years are the John Lewis Christmas ads.
Or going back to the 90s, the Tango adverts at least one of which was banned.
They were blamed for starting the "happy slapping" craze.
Number 13 with buxom mum was the funniest 🤣
Many of the bill poster adverts are hilarious too.
The Kit-Kat adverts were really good; have a break, have a Kit-Kat!
Some of the Specsavers adverts were comical to.
I liked the one that parodied Lynx/Axe. "The Specs Effect"
Hi guys glad you like the ads , I'm from Glasgow in Scotland and will confirm "Fanny" is more commonly used in Scotland not so much rest of UK , I can verify this because I myself come from a long line of fannies 😅 it may even be in the Scottish book of slang words , by the way guys Fanny in Scottish has a totally different meaning than the U.S. it's the front not the backside as in Fanny bag 😮
Recipe : Irn bru with vanilla ice cream is excellent , try it .
Great choice of ads, there were some absolute corkers in there 👍.
I'll give you 2 of my all time favourite adverts for you to check out, one is current the other is vintage from the 70's I believe. The current one is about a chocolate bar "TWIX" and the virtue of the bar is being discussed by identical twins, the vintage one is about a soft cheese called "Boursin" being enjoyed by two lover's having a picnic in a field of barley. I won't say anymore as I don't want to spoil either of them for you, hope you enjoy them as much as I do 🤞.
Love the vids keep up the good work. 👍
I had forgotten about a lot of these. Your reaction to some of these was hilarious. The fanny one is my favourite. I know lots of fannies but no one called Fanny 😜
Yes Fanny was definitely a name years ago. In fact there used to ve a very 'early ' tv chef - or cook - called Fanny Craddock. Back in the 60s and 70s. A formidable, scary woman. You should look her up and do a reaction to her! Love this channel guys, keep it up! Oh, and if and when you come to the UK, come to Norwich and Norfolk. I'll show you around, including the beautiful Norfolk Broads!
Enchanted wood books were originally from the 30s I believe. I know when I originally read them in the 80s, the girls in the edition I read, were called Bessie and Fanny.
I loved and still love those books too x
Christmas adverts are the best
Prescription drug commercials in the US always made me laugh - the 30 second ads that left me more qualified to suggest a course of treatment than the nonsense 7+ years of medical training that your family Doctor (GP) went through.
Great trip down memory lane for me guys, in many Scottish bars they have IrnBru on tap as it is supposed to clear a hangover, so the add woild appeal to both adult and youth consumers.
I don’t think they realise how big the ‘Walking in the air’ song is in the UK. Is massive Xmas song since the 80s everybody knows it really well. The context is important in the joke lol
They made an energy drink irn bru 32 - those ads live rent free in my memory!
watching this while drinking in bru and rum
Also regarding WWI and WWII FANY came from being founded in 1907. FANY being the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps). FANY or Fannies was an all female voluntary organisation, originally formed of a small unit of nurses on horseback then later in vehicles to provide a link between the battlefield and the Field Hospitals.
The "brave and "stunning" have made sure Irn Bru adverts are no longer. I uses to be the chef in the factory. You get a calendar each year with all the banned adverts that never got released. 😅
Ok, I'm waiting for the Christmas ones now.
The advertisement for the snowman they fly over lots of scotlands towns and cities thats what your seeing some of the landmarks of Scotland. I come from the west coast of scotland in a little town called Gourock it so beautiful 😍 xxx ❤❤❤
I bet you'd be hard pressed to find anyplace in Scotland that isn't stunning, honestly! :) What a wonderful place to call "home."
@@reactingtomyroots thank you xxx ❤️❤️❤️
Irn bru ads where the greatest ever loved them and love the drink.
My great great grandfather was Robert Barr, he founded the Irn Bru. Very proud of that. Haven’t got any of their royalties ha ha but all the same, still proud.
There have been loads of great Irn Bru adds. If you can find the full version of the Love Hurts add, Streakers, or Goth Holiday those are some that I particularly like.
Yorkshire Tea adverts are good too
The PG Tips chimps were brilliant, "Dad, do you know the piano's on my foot?"
The Snowman Parody isn't that old, but the short film it's parodying is a bit older, but it is a classic that is shown every Christmas, so this Irn_Bru advert came out and became a firm favourite. Growing up I used to say that it didn't feel like Christmas until the Cocoa-cola advert came on, but in the last 10 years or so I have definitely been saying that it doesn't feel like Christmas until the Irn-Bru advert comes on (meaning the Snowman parody specifically).
typically the more risque adverts would be broadcast after the 9pm watershed (after this time programmes are more adult oriented)
I love the Glasgow kiss the machine gives, in the comercial before the parody of The Snowman
Prescription drug ads are banned in the UK, but we get most of them free anyway, so it'd be pointless.
We do still pay prescription charges, but nothing like the cost of drugs in the USA. A NHS national body sets the price that the NHS pays for drugs, usually a fraction of the price the companies charge in the USA which is why our prescription charges are so low
@@grabtharshammer Prescriptions are free in Scotland for the most part.
@@grabtharshammer you pay for prescriptions? what country are you in?
I would love to see the prescription commercials here replaced by some fun adverts like the ones in this compilation.
@@alfiekelly5914 Me, bloody jealous, When will the SNP stand in English Elections ;)
The showman one is my favorite. You should check out the money supermarket adverts. Love those too. Our ads have gone downhill since everything is so sensored not to offend people these days
We in the UK love an advert that tells a story. One that just shouts "Here's our product that you need to buy!" is just so boring!
One of the most well loved ad campaigns was the Gold Blend Coffee series that ran from 1987 - 1993. It was like a mini soap opera about a couple who met when she called round to her new neighbour to borrow some coffee for a dinner party, and then we see them gradually get to know each other through a sequence of coffee based moments - the sexual chemistry is high, but they never quite get it together (until the last ad in the series where they drive into the sunset together). They were so popular that, by the end, TV listings would flag up when a new ad was about to drop!
They starred actors Anthony Head and Sharon Maughan. There are lots of YT videos of these ads.
Our ads are not what they used to be either although there's still a limited few that are ok, should check out the old Bisto gravy adverts, they were very good plus the PGtips and Tetley tea adverts. John Lewis Christmas adverts are usually good too.
Fanny be tender is one of the most known songs from the Bee Gees and I know two Fannys in my country Austria and also celebrities in Austria and Germany, its a common name here!
Most TVs in the UK are digitally received so most people skip ads now. Only in the cinema pre-movies that good adverts are enjoyed.
Irn Bru adverts have always been the best! So funny because they just dgaf. I loved number 3 - that’s such a throwback to my childhood 🥰
You missed the one where there’s a load of people talking, and it jumps to the next person just at the naughtiest word - very clever!
The current Irn-Bru adverts are about the Euros (soccer) and how we are suffering from something new as a nation... hope! Due to Scotland being in the Euros for the first time in a long time. lol so they still focus on humour over anything. (Also I live in the town where the Irn-Bru factory is.)