American Reacts to Hilarious Norwegian Commercials

[@jonasprebenmindejohansen930]

The lotto commercial, he "sends the call over to other family members" so the caller can repeat that he won😊

[@Frozenpurge]

he should see Verdan commercial!

[@sylface86]

the dude even think the viteapro commercial was for viagras xD

[@Frozenpurge]

@@sylface86

[@KuyaFredsvlog]

He is an imigrant that pretends he dont understands norwegian language. Thats the joke with the lottery 😂

[@benirodriguez9516]

​@@KuyaFredsvlogand it is the same guy of the chips ad. So he does the same, call a supposed family member, but it is he all the time, and wants to hear that he won that much on the lottery. And the slogan, a lottery millionaire isn't like a regular millionaire. It's cause they are normal people, and no rich assholes.

[@Marcus-cr5dj]

11:00 The guy is speaking with a heavy foreign accent, he's acting as if he doesn't understand, so that the lady will say that he won over and over again, in a way to savor the moment longer. The catch-phrase "Lotto millionaires are not like other millionaires" means that they are more playful and joyful, compared to boring old-money millionaires. In Norway, "Norsk tipping" is ran by the state, which has a monopoly on all lotto. All proceeds go to local children's sports teams, and people can elect what organizations will get their specific betting proceeds.

[@Henrik46]

People can determine where 5 % of their betting money goes. It's the illusion of choice. 😅

[@AudunWangen]

The government determined that gambling is bad, so to fight that they started their own betting company. They also determined that alcohol is bad, so they created a government owned monopoly of that as well #governmentlogic 🤣

[@TorIverWilhelmsen]

@@AudunWangen Well they made two monopolies, there is also a separate monopoly for horse betting.

[@AudunWangen]

@@TorIverWilhelmsen Oh. They though gambling was THAT bad 😂 Forgot to mention that commercials are bad, so they banned commercials from the national broadcasting channel... Well, except when it's a sports- or cultural program sponsor. I guess people who watch that are immune to whatever is bad with commercials. Makes total sense 🫣

[@ColdConceptOfficial]

im gonna give you your 100th like

[@cleverlyblonde]

At 09:35 she is doing "cow culling" - an ancient tradition of sing-calling the cows to return to the farm practiced all over scandinavia. You can find some great cow culling videos on youtube that demonstrate it (it does work).

[@Jaxeed]

4:34 Fun fact: If you recognize the dude in this commercial, he actually also had a role in the movie Oppenheimer. He played the scientist who made the bet with Oppenheimer.

[@qine6559]

Might also be actor in Norsemen?

[@Jaxeed]

@@qine6559 Yup, correct. He played one of the slaves in Norsemen. Also one of the henchmen in Lilyhammer.

[@KvaGram]

11:30 This is immigrant humor. The joke is that the immigrant on the other line pretend his Norwegian skills are so bad, the lottery agent has to talk to another relative who supposedly have better skills at Norwegian. The man just loves hearing he won the lottery. Lotteries here in Norway is highly regulated. Any large scale lottery have to to though Norsk Tipping.

[@SIeipner]

18:46 The tag line for the snack was not translated. But it says "It would be quite an achievement to just eat one" which does explain the whole fighting scene in the ad. Meaning it is hard to just stop eating this snack when you first start eating it. You usually finish the bag in one sitting. It is that good the ad says. Well i do agree, it is a very good snack though, the best, hmm no, but very good.

[@Cullyxe]

My main barrier is that it's expensive and comes in small bags.

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

"Potetgull" literally translates to "potato gold". That's what we call potato chips. Every Norwegian knows what Laban Seigmenn is. It's a jelly candy that comes in sweet and sour versions. Vitaepro is just vitamins, nothing else.

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

Typical Norwegian humor is irony and sarcasm. Also dark humor. Foreigners tends to not understand our type of humor which I think is funny as growing up in Norway during the 90’s and 2000’s I thought everyone knew irony and sarcasm. I think Norwegian commercials are good because we dare to joke about most things, and we also line to tell a story. And due to pop culture and the cultural awareness we all share everyone tends to get the point. Personally I think we did the funniest ones back when I was a kid as opposed to now. I even remember all of them…

[@ispookie1]

The Norwegian humor goes way back. I was born in the first half of the 1900, no media except radio and telefon, but the humor was ingrown in us. Just love it :)

[@Luredreier]

15:24 Commercials for actual drugs are illegal. But this is a dietary supplement. And all of those women where just his fantasies, not reality.

[@TorIverWilhelmsen]

... which kind of means it's a hallucinogen :) - that said, that product is largely a scam where you sign up for an expensive subscription then spend your time trying to cancel it.

[@bruwh8563]

if you didnt exactly get the last one because there was no text, "Det skal godt gjøres å spise bare en" pretty much means "It's hard to eat just one" and that is exactly what the entire commercial is based on

[@RoaldRoberts]

"Is it your half-brother?" 😂 Hi from Norway

[@evenberg8499]

There is a high competition in Norway between broadcast channels of making the best commercial. It even has it's own award show, known as "Gullfisken" (the Gold Fish). It airs live on TV in January/February each year, and is a very popular and funny show.

[@Jonn-Stian]

Enjoyed this! When they launched the Smash chocolate, they bombarded us with commercials of a website where you could write friends and family members name and address… Then they sent out ten thousands of Smash’es to all of them… but just one and one and one… and a note inside the box with this text "Smash, it's impossible to have just one"... 😀

[@tixie88]

Best advertisement ever! 😂

[@marionberge2681]

I ordered one for myself. 😂

[@Luredreier]

Må'ru så Maarud Is a play of words. "Må" means "must" as in have to. And "u" is slang for "du" meaning "you". So Essentially they're saying "If you have to then you have to". But the later "have to" is the name of their brand instead of the slang words for that sentence. 19:05 It says "It has to be well fone to just eat one" (directly translated), a better translation is probably that "It's difficult to just eat one."

[@Monsteretrope]

They used to show longer versions of commercials at first and then cut them short for later on (when people had seem them a lot and knew the whole context) Unsure if they still do this, not watched TV in years.

[@SotraEngine4]

I think they still do it

[@jennifernoga1540]

Smash is so good! It’s like a Bugle (snack) covered in Norwegian Milk Chocolate. It’s amazingly good!

[@thomasjacobsen9768]

Smash, and the 1st Breilett reklame where the woman fell over her bike, always makes me laugh

[@evelinebe1268]

Yeah i love it

[@kristianlarsen3543]

Lotto-Millionaires are NOT like other Millionaires... :P The guy in the commercial just liked hearing he became a millionaire.. :P

[@sindrek632]

4:38 that guys is in oppenheimer XD, he plays the guy who detonates the bomb

[@PanthereaLeonis]

You need to find and watch the full Telenor Saga! That was such a blast to have on TV! I got freaking invested in the characters! And from what I remember of watching TV, which I don't do that much anymore, they're still going!

[@groooeg]

The funny thing about that commercial where a woman tried to buy the last bag of chips, the guy behind the desk is swedish and he had the Main role at the swedish comedy movie called "Farsan". Guess this commercial was on tv when this movie was new🤣🤣

[@marionberge2681]

Best movie ever.

[@homeproduction7403]

9:37 Yess! I wanted you to see this one 😂😂😂😂😂 "KYRAA! KYRAAA!" 😂😂😂

[@aleksanderaugestad6695]

I like how this guy says hes just a typical american but hus channel is litteraly dedicated to reacting to norwegian shit. Im here for it tho

[@eivinherfindal6658]

It's an award in the end of the year for the best commercials.

[@hermanshire]

He in the Laban taxi commercial played in the film Oppenheimer

[@Emperor_Nagrom]

SilvanaDil: We have commercials in the US of A too, Tyler! Ever heard of the superball?? Gosh

[@dannyboy1789]

You weren´t far off 😂

[@Luredreier]

Well, yes, but commercials in different countries have a different style. Like, seriously, would you see that airline commercial in the US for instance?

[@lillia5333]

SilvanaDil: We have great commercials in the US of A, Tyler! What about Fentanyl and OxyContin? Ever heard of those in Indiana? (Good one, Emperor!😂)

[@Miamia_01]

😂

[@ahkkariq7406]

Love it! Something likt this has to be done for every video he make.

[@ShiftySqvirrel]

There's a mistake in the subtitles for the Laban commercial with the taxi. The subtitles say that the price was "49kr" but it was actually 94kr. The mistake probably happened because she said "firognitti" or "four and ninety" rathare than "nittifire" "ninetyfour", as we can say numbers both ways in Norway, some people struggle with the ones where we put the ones before the tens.

[@PanthereaLeonis]

I wish cab fares were still that low 😭 I only take the expense of the cab when I'm travelling with heavy suitcases that I can't walk the way over to the train station myself, a 20 minute walk, or if I'm too ill to walk to the hospital, but not ill enough to get an ambulance ride. It's "only" about 200kr, but imagine if I actually needed a ride home from the bar, and I lived 30-40 minutes away by car! That would be so expensive!

[@thenorseguy2495]

I love the chips commercial. The one with Widerø airplane are wholesome

[@trulybtd5396]

Do I have a bag of laban right here? Yes. Was the guy from the 3rd ad in oprnheimer? Also yes.

[@ssirfbrorsan]

The woman who calls her cows performs what in Sweden is called/referred to as 'Kuling'. Was practiced right into the early twentieth century in Norway and Sweden when the cows were out grazing in the so-called 'sommervisten' / 'Fäbodvallar'.

[@VikingRageGaming]

The lottery guy that gets the call just loves to hear her say how much he has won

[@loversnyah6068]

The Laban is for the playful… I do remember that you could get the game Twister with Laban. You would use the candy to decide what color and part of you body to move. So if you got red one and grabbed the leg, you would put your foot on red xD And Vitapro is vitamins to help your muscles and joints… Unfortunately it only works for celebrities xD

[@everythingamazing2379]

The idea behind that lotto commercial is that lottery millionaires are more fun than the stuck up millionaires XD

[@tixie88]

I find it funny in itself that I as a Norwegian am sitting here at home laughing my ass off at the Laban commercials! They knew how prone we are to playing with out food 😆

[@redcinnamonr]

As a norwegian, there is this commerical from a company named kolonial (now named oda) and they have a commercial of a kid going crazy over that he can't get candy. It all got us OG norwegians to laugh and laugh. It's basically an unskippable ad.

[@MajorAce_usedtobeMechchad]

Jeg vil ha godteri!!! God it is stuck in my head..

[@redcinnamonr]

​@@MajorAce_usedtobeMechchadsame

[@sofieandersen4133]

Glad to see you enjoy something from my contry

[@toolebukk]

18:00 you might see this in America, but not in commercials 😂

[@douglashtang]

I hope Tyler don't forget to finish the part 6 of the series "Why Norway is becoming the wealthiest country". I just want him to get it out of the way.

[@hwplugburz]

yes, he never got to the best part with the resent discoverys of rear-earths and phosfates.. but its been some weeks now, so im not holding my breath..

[@alfsalte9493]

The joke about the lottery is that the guy just enjoyed being told he had won 8.7 millions in Lotto, so he said he can't understand talk to some other relative so he can hear it again and again.

[@snyte9685]

11:20 the joke is that the winner is an immigrant, and act like he has trouble understanding norwegian.

[@theGreenChangeling]

Not entirely correct. The joke is that he wants to hear the caller say that he has become a millionare as many times as possible, because it makes him overjoyed. He just happens to pretend he doesn't understand Norwegian in order to facilitate this.

[@TheaFjelldal-k4p]

That man played Marvin in Jul i svingen a advent calendar. And the candys name is Seigmenn🎉

[@lilb9159]

The candy is gummy men. They sell gummy ladies too, which are the exact same thing but with breats

[@reyalPRON]

i wonder what Tyler has his telescope fixed on, it sure is not the stars.

[@Rebellen007]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Blue-Viking]

Is it your half brother? Tyler: 😮

[@Mother_nature19]

14:46 the guy in the commercial, he isnt being sexual, he is showing good health because VitaPro is good vitamins for your health, you misunderstood it completely

[@PanthereaLeonis]

It's "sort of" sexual, in that it's trying to claim in a roundabout way that you'll get all the ladies if you get in shape, which you will using our supplement, though implying that pulling all the ladies is the ideal isn't entirely kosher, at least not at the moment, but yes, it's really just about selling that this simple dietary supplement will completely upend your lifestyle from a broken shutin to becoming the ultimate sigma.

[@RaggisMaggis]

​@@PanthereaLeonis Face it, it is to get men to buy supplements. Like Coca Cola did all that macho stuff and even made a new kind of diet coke(zero), because men drank Pepsi max, not Diet Coke.

[@rogerlunde-andersen9581]

Ha ha ha...my first commercial film i was in..Smash!😅

[@MaxQ10001]

These are full of references to different parts of Norwegian culture, parody, sarcasm and other cultural links making your impression of them very different from someone living in Norway. By the way, if you have the chance, you should try Laban gummy men. They are made with real flavours. So while eating candy, and you eat one of those, they are just so much better. Tasting real, not like some chemical. The VitaePro is just a vitamin pill. It's important to know that all these commercial are using several layers of sarcasm and irony. In one of the videos, you talked about them suddenly speaking English. Norway is a sparsely populated country, only 5.2 million people. So films and TV shows are never dubbed. We read a lot of books and media in English. Most Norwegians speak and write English almost as easy as Norwegian, so you will hear a lot of English here. Some of the commercials are also shared in Scandinavia, and the English parts can be reused. Btw, let me know if you want to try the Laban or some other candy, I can send you a box.

[@VictorFeykva]

It’s called seimenn 1:58

[@PovirIsBad]

Ja😂

[@kevsehgh]

Ja jeg vet han respekterer ikke seimenn

[@ErikfromNorway]

They are very popular in Norway almost like gummybears !!😂😅

[@gmy79]

The lottery lady is a friend of mine. 😁

[@Minochu96]

I'd say part 2 and 4 are the best once the once with the cat is really funny and so are the once with the puppet 17:17 this is pretty much the very first Smash commercial (or at least one of the first)

[@jennynoren4200]

The Lotto winner just wanted to hear the winning many times

[@GoZuHaZa]

Much here is lost on you cus this wouldn't pass in America, everyone would be offended cus stereotypes, but mostly it'd s language barrier. Firstly you hear the broken Norwegian (Arabic Norwegian)"not understanding" talk to my uncle, then cousin and so on and so on.. "stereotypes"that arabs live 5-10 people in the same household, aunts uncles grandparents, basicslly the whole lot in one household. Turns out that's not the case here, it's just an arab-norwegian faking his broken Norwegian to be credible, so he can pass the phone so many times to him self and giggle his ass off everytime she lets him know he has become a millionaire.

[@Swiftthecat2024]

The song with the cows is atually a real way to get the cows to come in Norway.

[@espenandrenerlandskogstad9513]

IT's just hear the winning sum over and over again 😅

[@SaraKvammen-tx7qc]

Loved it,and yes : we do joke about everything here.Glass eye,dentures,death,cancer,politicians,Jesus,God and I love it.Helped me a lot whilst working in the health care system.It's not patronicing,or dehumanizing...it's a coping skill,and the worst jokers are the patients themselves.After major throat surgery,I called my dad and told him...they cut my head off,and put it on agsin the wrong way.Oh,well that's annoying my dad responded.

[@paltrax]

the photoshoot captions should say sour for sur, not sad.

[@NinaBjornethun]

The lottery winners is not like everybody else.. he has so much fun with her , because he is so happy to have been a new milloner.. ohh god i cry now 😂😂 this is so fun ❤❤ nb norway.again. GIVE MORE 😂😂

[@simenkolas9373]

So i think what we do in norway is, unless it is an ad about a very serious message or anything like that, it is portrayed as a joke for a slogan.

[@lanz2804]

It’s true if you taste 1 Smash you want to eat more 😂. Trust me it’s so delicious Smash

[@kenlykkeslett7501]

Have you ever done a Norwegian snack taste test? If not, I highly recommend you to do so. There is a lot of great (and some bad) Norwegian candy

[@elisabethforsberg9027]

They can make fun of it because the police is not so violent in norway than in usa

[@pemanilnoob]

Yeah, the joke is specifically the guy being violent to the point where police were called Would’ve derailed the joke if it became a whole police brutality joke

[@catatedoh3065]

Suprisee the granka-granka-granka commercial isn't here

[@palmarolavlklingholm9684]

Vitaepro is not some sort of viagra. It is a dietary suplement with vitamins and minerals, that gives the body more energy in general.

[@Cullyxe]

9:30 its a traditional way to call cows, to sing like this. If you google kukalling orsm you should find some interesting things to listen to!

[@Stafjord]

Some of these are 20+ years old, but still funny!

[@Sigmaligmas]

2:06 it is a seigman

[@Mother_nature19]

12:28 the guy is changing his voice to make it sound like she is talking to another person

[@pamelabrostrom201]

The Lotto-commercials - a "normal" millionaire are usual serious and classy and like "we are better than other people". These commercials shows "normal" people winning on the lottery and going a bit crazy. So this guy loves to hear that he's a millionaire over and over again and at the same time pranking the one that calls to give the goos news. There are a lot of different advertisements with crazy people winning a million 😂😂😂

[@linam764]

"Godt for den lekne" means "Sweets for the playful"

[@eskilharam124]

i wish norwegian ads was like this still now a days its boring low budget ads but 10-20 years ago they acualy put efort into the ads and they where acualy fun to watch

[@AndreNYH]

Well, the last commercial it doesn’t make that much sense in English, but here’s the gist of it directly. Translated from Google translate IT MUST BE DONE WELL TO EAT JUST ONE

[@Tzarakiel]

"It's difficult to eat just one" or "it would be an accomplishment to eat just one" would be the right translation.

[@AndreNYH]

@@Tzarakiel thanks it’s hard translating

[@martipotato431]

The spirit of it is more like "it's impossible to have just one." Translating is hard, it's more about the meaning than it is about keeping the words the same.

[@AndreNYH]

@@martipotato431 yeah I totally agree. I don’t know how you can really translate that as a Norwegian myself.

[@ForkynnerenTor]

hei vent eg fostår ikke vita pro men er det ikke ulovlig og ha reklame i norge for vitaminer og medsiner?

[@hansolav5924]

the vitapro commercial 'too sexual' for the US...that's a laugh and a half.

[@palmarolavlklingholm9684]

I totally agree. I never thought there was anything sexual in that commercial. Just humor. I think our good Tyler has a bit of a dirty mind, hehe.

[@ME0w_NOTHINGISAWALABLE]

I recommend watching more smash commercials!

[@thomasjacobsen9768]

I think he did in some earlier videos..the one with the " Smash wall " that turnes everything into Smash

[@TrymYoutubeMainChannel]

1:17 it's not over

[@karlhakansson5066]

i dont know if you are going to make a part 2 but if yoyu do you need to react to the lano add and rema 1000 add called doffen har daua. it also has a part to that you should also react to. norvegia is also an add you should react to. please do they are ledgerdary in norway

[@elisabethforsberg9027]

Shes jooking,but you shall do that when the cow is far away

[@hansolav5924]

15:27 good health(genes/diet/exercise) is attractive.

[@obesus787]

Do you have Norwegian family/ancestors by any chance?

[@jorgoglule1302]

You should get a norwegian to send you some candy and react to it

[@AWE1RD0_T0TH1SDATE9]

It’s called seigmenn

[@kurtpettersen6052]

Why don't you see the commercial in full before you comment: "I dont understand". See the commercial before you comment .

[@laila-holm]

Here in Norway half-brother is the same as step-brother = thats why a half gummy-godie are funny

[@marionberge2681]

No it's not. Half brother is halvbror. Stepbrother is stebror.

[@evenberg8499]

We tolerate violent commercials to some degree, as they are depicting a world that the majority of norwegians aren't participating in.

[@lezbyanke777]

I love the gay Santa Claus commercial by Post Norway (Posten Norge AS) 💙👍🏼

[@TomKirkemo-l5c]

Belive me, police in Norway can be pretty brutal. About 35 years ago a trough (??) a woman police over the hood of a police car. The four male police officers was...direct. :D That was the only time I had to do with the police. Exept in prison, I was a techer in four different prisons for 6 years. ;)

[@Teddy_Rapz]

It’s named a «Seigmann»

[@ligiafrils6308]

I’m from Norway 😂 end I no the kamursol”s I were funny 😂😂😂😂😂😊

[@mariannepedersenhagen6760]

Love it 😂😂😂

[@fredmidtgaard5487]

If you like the norwegian ones, you should try the Danish ones.

[@Realmcreator553]

2:09 seigmenn

[@KvaGram]

You lose some of the worldplay. For example: "sur" can mean both sad and sour. Which is how it is used at the photographer.

[@ahkkariq7406]

Grumpy, not sad.

[@KvaGram]

@@ahkkariq7406 That might be. It's a synonym, so both are correct. I'm not a professional translator, just a native speaker of Norwegian, like yourself (judging by your videos). But I do agree "grumpy" might be more accurate than "sad" in this context.

[@palmarolavlklingholm9684]

Sur has NEVER meant sad. Sur is more like grumpy.

[@joffe7604]

more of this please

[@Pcontracts83]

the tagline is "goodies for the playful" - hence all the ridiculusness

[@BinaryKiller_Recoded]

You should try reacting to Rema1000 commercials that were funny

[@OriginalPuro]

"So those are grass fed cows" What else would you feed cows? That's what they eat, grass. What? Why am I confused?

[@marionberge2681]

Kan svare deg som bonde, svaret er at mesteparten av storfe i Norge lever av silo og kraftfôr, ikkje grønt gress.

[@ColdConceptOfficial]

vitaepro is for the joints and heart you are correct...not viagra haha

[@jomorken4853]

Laban is super popular

[@anushkasekkingstad1300]

Sad that US Americans don’t even have the freedom to watch our ads.

[@laila-holm]

About the police is ironic about the police in the US 😅😅