AMERICAN REACTS TO BRITISH CHRISTMAS ADVERTS! 😭

[@FavourInternational]

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[@johnorourke6869]

The black and white animal on the trampoline is a badger.

[@josephdolman]

European badger

[@mrjinks5641]

The Christmas adds are a huge thing in the UK and it’s all about who has the best there’s more really great one you have to do them 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@Jimmy_Jones]

570 likes in 2 hours. Part 2 for sure. Everyone loves the Christmas adverts. You haven't even got to the Lidl and Aldi ones.

[@kevinnorton7759]

The Christmas Truce ad, and it's true. GREAT REACTION.

[@lechatel]

The Sainsbury ad for the Christmas Truce is the absolute king of Christmas ads.

[@JazCorta]

Yes! Probably the best one ever. Still won't buy at Sainsbury's if I can avoid it, haha.

[@astraboots]

I agree best advert ever

[@benjichicken6929]

It’s not Christmas without a John Lewis Christmas advert. It always gets me in the mood for Christmas

[@shournharber4772]

john lewis christmas advert is now the beginning of christmas

[@kruandrew8930]

You Americans are so literal! They're metaphorical. They are scenes to evoke emotion. I'm glad they got to you and made you feel.

[@ftumschk]

9:00 Not a racoon, possum or skunk... it's a badger

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

Largest predator in the British isles

[@currymonster6516]

@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 ha... You ain't seen my ex

[@colfullbrook6901]

I was going to say it's a Scottish mountain lion 😂😂😂

[@JazCorta]

Badger, badger, badger Badger, badger, badger Badger, badger, badger Badger, badger, badger Mushroom, mushroom

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

@@JazCorta you just sent me back to being 12 years old :D

[@lewisb85]

British Christmas adverts are more about a brand than a product. Also the moon one was done in connection with Age Concern, it's about how elderly people feel isolated during the Christmas period.

[@saramarietooth]

The man on the moon!! Do they not tell you that story in America? It’s representative of how the elderly can feel so isolated and lonely at Christmas

[@HomeworkRadio]

Old man on the moon seems so much more relevant now after Covid, Old people can get lonely at Xmas

[@25dimensionsfrancis42]

Normal adverts are shorter but at Christmas the big stores are in competition to produce the best Christmas ad,which are always longer length adverts.

[@gabrielleg2765]

Every year John Lewis come out with a Christmas advert which is a full story, it’s not christmas without a John Lewis advert over here haha

[@dogstar75]

British people don't like a 'hard sell' so our Christmas commercials are more like suggestions wrapped in heartwarming ads

[@aleashashackleton5262]

me over here sobbing because the penguin found love and she starts talking bout poo lmao

[@Diysmileyface]

not everyone in the UK have tiny gardens , yes if you live in a city but lots of us live in the country side where we have big gardens because its just fields and fields

[@Newcastlecraze]

In the U.K. it’s a massive competition between the different retailers as to who brings out the best Christmas advert. It’s always a tradition at Christmas to watch the John Lewis Christmas advert. They’ve been doing them for years! Usually for the TV advert, they’ll cut it down to like 30 seconds - 1 minute

[@ianmcconnell12]

It’s not always cold and raining in uk, and double decker busses are in most towns and city’s not just London

[@greatgruff1442]

Triggered. btw @That American Girl UK has imported black friday but only US has thanks giving

[@kellypierce81]

It's not the little Girls Grandad....its the Man in the Moon 😊

[@FavourInternational]

Never heard of that saying 😬

[@cooloneuk]

@@FavourInternational if you look carefully at the moon, you can see a shape of a man, so we call it the man on the moon 😊

[@agot7fan855]

@@FavourInternational ... how?????????

[@rachelbarber8814]

I was nearly shouting this at the tv.

[@nickwebb7868]

the double decker bus is used all over the uk. Not just london

[@jim-bob-outdoors]

My back garden is quite large and I do get Foxes and Badgers visiting (or just passing through) most evenings.

[@gemmaaaxx]

John Lewis are a very popular department store here in the UK. Every year it’s their Christmas advert that everyone anticipates the most. Sadly quite a few of them (including the one in my hometown) had to close for good recently 😢💔 xx

[@0utcastAussie]

Peterborough lost it's John Lewis store too

[@samlal3618]

It’s really expensive that’s why 😂😂

[@samlal3618]

@@baylessnow I went once looked at the price tag had a mini heart attack and left ...

[@gemmaaaxx]

@@0utcastAussie that’s where I live 🙂💗 xx

[@JazCorta]

Oh no! What would you do without a John Lewis? I hope you still get a Waitrose, at least! So glad I live in Surrey.

[@Randomner2562]

Our adverts often have a running story line. I feel like a lot of the USA adverts just bombard you and its sell sell sell, in the UK they try to be emotive instead. Christmas adverts are amazing. Also as a side note, foxes do actually seem to love playing on trampolines - we've spotted them on ours a fair few times! We live by a nature reserve and have regular visits.

[@tonycasey3183]

The old man is not on the moon, he lives far away. To a little girl it may as well be the moon. It's a metaphor.

[@Gaysauropod]

People wait for John Lewis Christmas commercial every year in the UK, it's like a tradition. All their ads are so wholesome btw.

[@HomeworkRadio]

John Lewis is a department store.

[@thefannymanin144p6]

all time favourite advert was Sainsbury's Christmas Truce advert from 2014. shit was powerful

[@leilahasanov3585]

John Lewis are very well known here every year they release these Christmas adverts and people get super excited for it, my all time favourite John Lewis advert has to be the man on the moon one, it always makes me emotional ❤️

[@CharmCharlie]

Two things that need clearing up. We do sometimes have hot weather, and we have various size gardens. Added to this, the animal was a Badger and although they are cute and shy they can also be aggressive if conered. The old man was to signify the Man On The Moon which is an expression/tale that we have over here. If you look at the moon it can look a bit like a face so that is where this came from. I hope that helps a bit? x

[@idontsignin]

The biggest tear jerker is the sainsurys christmas ad. It blew everyone away.

[@shamaskhanewal5651]

It's not a racoon but a badger. All the animals are part of the wildlife found in the UK.

[@timcliffsmith]

They usually produce a 'full-length version' that they show for a while, then edit it down to about 30 secs when people get used to it.

[@littlemisshappy2002]

The penguin isn't...... [whispers] ..... real.....

[@dominique8233]

Imagination Favour ! Was yours on holiday today ?

[@FavourInternational]

🤠🖕🏾💛

[@zoeee___]

The songs aren’t made specifically for the adverts, but they’re usually cover versions

[@allisoncameron-dicker2737]

And we don't all have small back yards lol.. Love the way you think us British live. We're not so different. We even speak the same language. ♥️

[@TOYSTITCHER]

🤗 when watching British Christmas adverts you gotta suspend your rational thinking mechanism and revisit your childhood where magic lives and amazing things can happen 😁. Thanks for sharing 👍💕

[@HilaryB.]

They aren't meant to be taken literally! Lol! Kids don't really keep penguins and the old man is 'the man in the moon' the animal is a badger

[@littlewoodimp]

The differences between the European badger and the US badger has been described as: The European badger looks like a nice guy who would invite you into his cozy home and offer you tea & cake. The US badger has a knife and is waiting for you in an alley so he can rob you for meth money. Ours are definitely a more sociable lot, with each other anyway, living in family groups.

[@THamiltonL]

British here and literally yelling IT'S A BADGER at my PC !!!

[@anitacargill8321]

Forget reality, just use your imagination

[@chrisdavies9821]

It's an annual thing - the Christmas Adverts. All the major stores try to make the best each year and one up their competitors . The World War 1 Christmas cease fire and football game is beautiful.

[@YOUNGERsr4]

Who told you houses and gardens are small lol :/ all depends on what people can afford like most places

[@albertgibbs8421]

the old man on the moon is a kids story we tell them when they are young

[@philward6582]

I love that these ads have joyful whimsy. I find i9t hard to believe that you don't have the same sort of ads in the US. We have them in Australia.

[@peteince]

The song in the John Lewis man in the moon ad is a cover version of 'Half the World Away.' The original song was recorded by Oasis. It was used as the theme music to the British TV comedy 'The Royle Family.'

[@Macca-zx7gz]

Love how you take everything literally lol 😆

[@denisemeredith2436]

John Lewis adverts were about love. We had some brilliant adverts. I used to work for John Lewis and we would spend millions on our Christmas adverts. The songs in the adverts were hits in their own right. Monty the Boxer dog cost £8M. The most expensive one featured Elton John which was the worst advert. The best one was when they joined their sister company Waitrose and had Edgar the Dragon in 2019. Hell for us in the stores when they ran out of merchandise.

[@owenhargreaves9203]

Christmas literally begins when the John Lewis advert airs!

[@chrissheldon8708]

there's big gardens up and down the UK, the same for double decker buses

[@grapeman63]

One of the best Christmas adverts is the Iceland one (Ran-tan in my bedroom) that got banned a few years ago, which just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished!

[@nicholastaylor4195]

one of the greatest christmas adverts of all time Sainsburys 2014 christmas truce

[@shaunportlock4924]

I liked the one with the hibernating bear. Can't remember which one.

[@harrisonlee4408]

Please can you do a part 2, I really liked this video

[@PassiveSmoking]

The song from the first commercial is a cover of a John Lennon song. The song from the second commercial is a cover of Half The World Away by Oasis. The song from the third commercial is a cover of One Day I'll Fly Away by Randy Crawford

[@FlowerBear7]

When adverts long here, they also have short versions so the long adverts appear nowand then. The animal with the fox's is called a Badger. We have loads in the uk but they only come out at night so its rare to see them in the wild.

[@oliverbrydges]

Our gardens can be big depending on where you live, I live in the suburbs on the outskirts of London and our gardens are pretty big (about 20 meteres long or so)

[@harrynorton6271]

PLEASEEEEE react to the Sainsbury's 2014 Christmas Truce ad... It's every reactors favourite Christmas ad and by far Britains favourite

[@aquietgirlcalledsoph739]

OMG FINALLY!!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 That animal in the last is a Badger Favour 😂😂 PLEASE DO A PART 2!!!

[@Arran05]

You should react to "Russel Howard - UK vs US news coverage"

[@grandmabaddie]

oh yes please do part 2 😁. thank you for a great reaction.

[@rodstephenson2941]

Do you not know of , "the man on the moon" ?

[@ajes3987]

you should do the old government adverts they really hit hard

[@johnsimmons5951]

Often companies have a long TV ad to introduce a new theme from which different parts of it will be used in the coming months. That’s why some UK ads you may react to don’t make sense unless you’ve seen the whole set of ads.

[@missthatch119]

I love theses British videos probably because I’m British and it boost my ego 🤣

[@leilahasanov3585]

9:03 that’s a badger sis 😂

[@andray9415]

Great reaction, yes to part 2

[@stss4115]

Some I'm not sure if all the John Lewis Christmas ads are linked to a charity, so the man in the moon was Age UK which provides services to the elderly.

[@alissacathy8860]

Please do more! Really enjoyed your reaction!

[@jackowens4811]

John Lewis Christmas adverts are one of the big parts of Christmas in the last few years in the UK and the Sainsbury’s Christmas truce is probably the best ad

[@paulqueripel3493]

There are penguins just outside Cape Town, they're fine with the heat.

[@cooloneuk]

The striped animal on the trampoline is a badger. John Lewis is a department store that started the trend of these Christmas adverts. Other people started doing it including Aldi. They do them full length a few times then you get 30 second shorts after a while.

[@stelbell123]

I love your reaction videos. I hope you react to some more UK Xmas ads.. My favourite John Lewis Xmas advert is "The bear and the hare," with Lily Allen singing. Also Sainsbury's Cmas adverts are fantastic too.

[@tobiasmills9647]

I loved watching you trying to guess what a badger is. They're basically like sloths with more energy, and occasionally vicious.

[@Jbatley1]

John Lewis always have a super long high budget Christmas adverts. They are always themed around the John Lewis animals too so a penguin, dog and whatever the other animals are

[@boosterbaboon]

"She's a werewolf!".....Amazing :D

[@RyanMcnll]

Its very expensive to make adverts here so the budget is extremely high

[@danielwhyatt3278]

We absolutely hate Black Friday here now. It exploded the first time it came here just a few short years ago and we thought the scenes on our streets and shops were absolutely appalling, so after that all stores massively scaled back their Black Friday promotions, with many of them dropping it all together. We don’t want a repeat of the scenes that happen in America, as we don’t want to be seen as big a capitalist country in its more unhealthy obsession as many in the US. There are talks actually that we may just drop it all together, and just stick to the regular Christmas reduction deals. BTW, the black-and-white animal in the last advert was a Badger. They are one of the top three most iconic animals to see in a British garden and countryside at night. Right next to the Fox and the Hedgehog. And yeah, without a doubt John Lewis does some of the best Christmas adverts in the UK ever.

[@trev1801]

The animal with the stout nose white stripe is a badger , i love to see your reactions , i see the passion you have for UK its intoxicating x

[@jameshumphreys9715]

In the UK they do soft play centres for adults.

[@xhogun8578]

Just for reference.. Jackass penguins flourish in Namibia and South Africa and Humboldts live on a desert landscape near the coasts of Peru and Chile.

[@ebonylewis7187]

Loved playing crack the egg with my siblings

[@mujtabaabdlegadir4524]

epic got here early

[@alicejenkins7332]

The one on the trampoline, the black and white panda looking thing, its a badger. Very British countryside.

[@lisaslaymaker7303]

Our ads at Christmas are beautiful and really cheesy, we can’t wait for John Lewis ads at Christmas ❤️

[@Justsomebody009]

The crack egg thing on the trampoline. We called it popcorn growing up ahaha

[@alancook]

I recommend you react to the John Lewis 2018 Advert with Elton John.

[@coco63626]

And yes sometimes songs are made for the adverts. Christmas ads are REALLY big in the UK.

[@antonymash9586]

That critter is a badger. They are a close relative of the weasle, otter and wolverine. They are nocternal, shy and very tough for their size. They live in extended families in large underground burrows called badger sets. A lot of childrens books and cartoons set in england with animals as the main characters use badgers; like wind in the willows (pro tip; do not look up animals of farthing wood) Farmers do not like them because they can spread bovine TB.

[@martingibbs1179]

Badgers can get TB but when they did a controlled badger cull a few years ago around a dairy farm, not a single badger tested positive for TB. Badgers are not the wide scale TB carriers they thought they were decades ago.

[@RyanKeane9]

I think the British department store Christmas ads are akin to the NY department stores’ Christmas displays in their windows.

[@capablancauk]

British are a bit more sophisticated and direct selling will not work. You have to be subtle and win us over slowly.

[@jeffstevens4262]

The black & white dude jumping on the trampoline is a badger. I don't know if you have them in the states, but we love them over here in the UK. They're a protected species.

[@MrSammotube]

John Lewis adverts are ones that people wait for to see how classy they are.

[@elizabethfinlay9866]

I died at ...'a panda?' 😂

[@danelaw1902]

The nearest comparable department store to John Lewis in the US is Nordstrom. The John Lewis Partnership was well-known for its benevolent treatment of its partners(staff) It addition to various perks, the JLP had subsidised holiday homes for its partners, My wife worked for them for some years and a couple of times we stayed at their hotel in the Lake District, and they had another on Brownsea Island.

[@He1sbelles]

There's a youtube vid about somebody's pet boxer dog watching the boxer dog commercial and leaping up and down in front of the telly. It's the CUTEST THING. Look for 'Buzz the Boxer Loving John Lewis Advert 2016' Also, that's a badger. They're not super common, but we used to get them in our back garden when there was greenfield land behind our house (a housing estate has since been built. I miss the badgers).

[@jamesu1540]

Its a Badger that joins the 2 foxes on the trampoline. Lol You have the 1k likes that you wanted i look forward to part 2.

[@JakeSpeed69]

John Lewis is a department store, oh and the animal you wasn't sure about is called a "Badger"

[@alisonrandall3039]

Every year John Lewis has a theme for its adverts to donate for various charities The old man is about age concern. Many old people live far away from their family. Last year was about supporting the NHS during covid. Our gardens are not always small. They always get a famous person to sing the song. It’s a badger.

[@sarahjrobbins]

The big companies have a sort of informal "competition" on who can produce the most heart-string tugging Christmas advert :) They're always short stories, and in the second one he's the Man-In-The-Moon. John Lewis is a company. In the third ad its a badger.

[@majordisorder73]

believe it or not, we don't have Thanksgiving, since we're not American, but we've been knowing Black Friday since a few years, since it's a commercial thing to make people shop for things they don't need and it's even not linked to Xmas

[@sammanacer]

Trust me we don’t have penguins roaming the streets of Britain 😂😂

[@Thenerdywalrus]

Because there is a limit on advertising time on British TV the quality has to go up and the budget allows that. American style ads would just get ignored, we need something emotional to grab our attention