Brit Reacts To POLITICALLY INCORRECT TV COMMERCIALS FROM THE 80s & 90s!

[@kellyp136]

Oh my God, that's Graham Greene. He's just a baby there. ❤️❤️

[@clarencewalker3925]

In show business, you've got to start somewhere.

[@theblackbear211]

The Cartoon (ad #2) features Jimmy Durante, W.C. Fields, Louis Armstrong, the "Rockettes", Groucho Marx, Al Jolson, & Mae West - all stars who reached the peak of their success prior to 1960 - most before 1940. (The Rockettes Goup is still around - but date from 1932.) The last of these folks passed away in 1980....

[@briankirchhoefer]

Yep 1930 and before stars that were well known through the 80s. Young people miss out not watching those old B+W movies.

[@user-mg5mv2tn8q]

The politically incorrect part was Al Jolson, a white singer who became famous for performing in blackface.

[@moxiedawn4370]

The main difference between fur aand leather is that 90 percent of leather used in clothing, shoes, etc., comes from cattle that are also slaughtered for food, whereas the fur coat animals are only killed for the fur. Obviously there are people who object to both, but if you already eat beef you can feel OK about leather.

[@shelaughs185]

These days, mink farms don't waste anything. The fat is used to make mink oil, the meat and bones become bone meal. That wasn't always the case. I do wear my grandmother's mink cape and my best older friend's full length mink coat for special occasions. They remind me of them, and I know how much the coats meant to them. Those animals died before I was born. Can't undead the animals by not wearing it. Since my loved ones' names are in them, I call each coat by name. Wanda and Barbara.

[@stevedavis5704]

As a kid I had a neighbor who raised beavers for the fur. The carcasses were sent to a place that processed them into pet food. Not the greatest thing but at least the carcass wasn’t wasted.

[@ToniMcGinty]

3:57 - Hey! It's Oscar-nominee Graham Greene!

[@mortensen1961]

Edgar K. B. Montrose!

[@marcpower4167]

One that stands out to me, there was an appetite suppressant candy many years ago called "Ayds". Pronounced the same way as the deadly and similarly spelled illness. Amazingly the company refused to change its name after the illness became known. You can imagine how bad the commercials sound now in hindsight: "why take diet pills, when you can enjoy ayds?"

[@maloyo7901]

Oh gosh, I'd forgotten all about this!

[@julienielsen3746]

My mother used to diet with those.

[@NormaWills]

There were commercials in the 70s & 80s for a product called Calgon water softener. They would usually have an Asian person running a dry cleaner or laundromat. A woman would ask how do they get their clothes so clean. The catch phrase was "ancient Chinese secret".

[@julienielsen3746]

That was a good one from when I was a kid.

[@videogamevalley7523]

Yea that last one was wild

[@lalida6432]

In the ‘80s, one of the pizza deals was order one, get one free. That’s why Little Caesars got popular. I imagine, there were two pizzas in that box.

[@KenniKaye]

Except that was Pizza Pizza, a completely different chain that started in Ontario. I haven't lived there for over 40 years but I will never forget that phone number and jingle.

[@yugioht42]

Most fur was replaced by synthetics as manufacturers can easily change its colors at drop of a hat. You may see the odd real fur but they pretty much disappeared from stores.

[@julienielsen3746]

These commercials look so much better than what they have now in my opinion. They look real instead of fake. I miss the old commercials with real quality. The one at 1:18 was just a nostalgic cartoon. From the 1930s. Nothing really wrong with it.

[@DennisDA]

The Toshiba Indian (or First Nation) was Graham Greene from "Dances With Wolfs" and "Maverick" with Mel Gibson is a Canadian actor.

[@cyndicook7755]

I loved him in Maverick. Especially that joke he told about the old Indian woman😂😂😂😂

[@SJHFoto]

I remember the provincial lottery commercials from back in the day! I forgot "the Jazz Singer" was one of the golden age personalities cartooned in the advert! I was wondering what was wrong with it at first, but the Blackface is a no-no

[@hannabertrand4460]

Have you ever seen the movie Crazy People? That's what this reminds me of. It's about an advertising agent that has a mental breakdown and makes all these offensive ads so he's sent to a mental institution. The ads accidentally get printed and they're extremely effective so the company hires all the psych patients to write ads. It's an older movie but hilarious!

[@lindarogers2271]

😂😂😂 I did not know the first one was saying , " Real Lemons ". 😂😂😂

[@lalida6432]

I’m Asian and I didn’t find anything wrong with it. “R” and “L” are very exchangable for many Asians.

[@TheGelasiaBlythe]

I had the best chemistry professor in college who was Japanese. She told us her kids made fun of her for mixing up her Rs and Ls. She was giving us a lecture and stopped in the middle of it to ask if she was saying "palladium" correctly. She was not. We didn't care, either. It wasn't like we couldn't understand her meaning. No one was making fun of her for it. She had a PhD, so she was much more informed than we were about the topic. We all have accents.

[@verribarry]

Whoever made this compilation video thinks that American Indians are offensive? that Toshiba commercial didn't disparage Indians in any way.

[@mikejordan8259]

It did "Evolve" it's Devolved.

[@JenSell1626]

Literally in the liner notes, this the band Devo’s manifesto

[@julienielsen3746]

It hasn't evolved. It's devolved.

[@LancerX916]

I did not expect the end of that lottery commercial.

[@hopeklemann1]

I think sometimes things Devolve, sadly

[@Justanotherconsumer]

My favorite politically incorrect commercials are from Bundaberg in Australia. They’re not that shocking, but they are hilarious.

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

Back when the world was fun

[@revgurley]

I inherited my grandmother's mink coat. I've worn it exactly once in 20 years.

[@TimpossibleOne]

Imagine winning a $1000 for life back in the 80s and now it's the 2020s and that can't even cover rent for most folks.

[@TJ.Turner]

Maybe Im too old but I didnt see how most of those were offensive. Silly yes, but not offensive.

[@stephanieallangarman5598]

Wow 🤷🏻‍♀️ commercial quality has come a long way. I love seeing GRAHAM GREENE in the TOSHIBA one. Excellent Episode.

[@julienielsen3746]

I love the real look of the old commercials. Better written commercials back then also.

[@lalida6432]

Yeah, fur coats were very popular in the ‘80s.

[@ericdaniel74]

i was disappointed that "Ayds"appetite suppressant wasn't in these.

[@SJHFoto]

That's really more of an unfortunate coincidence than an insensitive advert. It's like if Corona beer had to change their name because of the pandemic-every old commercial for beer doesn't suddenly become taboo or obscene

[@VelkanAngels]

@@SJHFoto - Good point. If the compilation had been named "commercials that didn't age well", they'd definitely both have fit :D

[@SJHFoto]

I have to be honest, I still don't see a problem with a lot of these adverts. They are from my childhood! (Thanks for doing Canada television. Usually, it's just from the States that people react to)

[@WriterOfMany]

The one with the portable VCR and the pretty women walking by (hinting at the man videotaping them without their permission) is terrifying.

[@EricW800]

That "Provincial Lottery" was Canadian....actually, quite a few were Canadian.

[@SJHFoto]

I think they are all Canadian. I remember most from my childhood

[@bluebird3281]

Oh, so that was Trudeau and not Al Joslin

[@loriharris8928]

Hahahhaa! I remember most of these Canadian commercials. Crazy what was allowed

[@SansAziza]

Bro. I am drinking Realemon right now.... 😮

[@JAB2010]

Straight lemon juice?! 😂

[@GenXfrom75]

Love it 😂

[@headache1959]

I recently saw a commercial where a woman sneezed a bucket of snot directly into the camera, I don't see how that is acceptable in any ones book.

[@julienielsen3746]

Really . A lot of stuff I really rather not see. I like eating while watching TV. I miss when they used to have mostly food commercials.

[@kenziedayne4234]

I miss those days.

[@nathanaelstephens2973]

Bring back political incorrectness!

[@ViolentKisses87]

The guy in blackface was Al Jolson. The biggest star in Vaudeville and Hero in the black community. He has a super interesting story and would make for a great video.

[@clarencewalker3925]

What the hell have you been drinking?

[@ViolentKisses87]

He was a Black Civil rights leader in the US.@@clarencewalker3925

[@JenSell1626]

@@clarencewalker3925they had to go all capital-H Hero with it, too 😅

[@Kettlecadd]

I miss the 80's and glad I grew up in the 80's and 90's. I get that the blatantly racist ad's shouldn't have been made but comedy and our sense of humor was so much more relaxed people weren't so uptight as they are now. We could laugh at ourselves and many comics that wouldn't fly today didn't pull any punches and everyone was fair game. In my opinion if everyone is fair game to make fun of then it's all inclusive and not offensive.

[@JenSell1626]

Then why did the Kinison and Dice fans have to work so hard defending them since it was all so chillaxed.

[@Kettlecadd]

@@JenSell1626 that is a good point and those 2 comics especially Dice were considered quite misogynistic even at the time. I'm not really a Dice fan, and though I do like most of Kinison's stuff he has some very homophobic material I can't and wont defend.

[@SJHFoto]

5:20 You didn't react to the home grown tomatoes reference. I don't know if that is Canadian slang, or generational, but I was surprised you didn't say anything

[@bluebird3281]

It is a joke in the U.S too. In Britian they don't call women tomatoes, they call them tomahhtoes

[@AlannaWilliams24]

I think you missed the point with the Toshiba TV ad, it's not about the size of the screen, it's the fact that they used a native american to show the difference in "color"

[@FirstNameLastName-wt5to]

What’s your point? Should they have hired a white man instead?

[@julienielsen3746]

There used to be a Native American in headdress on the old test patterns sometimes. That's why he was there.

[@MorrisB1971]

God I miss the 70s 80s 90s

[@shadow1674]

😂😂😂😂😂😂thank you😂😂😂😂

[@WhodatLucy]

You should listen to Comedian Billy Crystal eulogy of Muhammad Ali

[@PaulGAckerman]

Ancient Chinese Secret... Wisk. I hope it's there. I just started the video.

[@nolajoy7759]

I don't see the problem with that one 🤷‍♀️

[@bernardmayles6564]

I think these are all Canadian commercials. I didn't find any offensive. Tvs were square, they're rectangular now

[@reneehomen2226]

I have a problem with the politically correct issue. I hate that its acceptable to curse on tv, use God's nmae in vain. Explicit sexual scenes. It bothers me a lot. Also the new ads for legal, online gambling.

[@paulbattson834]

Canadian commercials.

[@What_Makes_Climate_Tick]

Several of these commercials seem identifiably Canadian.

[@reginafarley1325]

If there's people in society that don't want to be called He/him, she/her why don't they create a name/word that works for them. I mean, that's how words came to be in the first place. I don't want to be disrespectful to anyone. I will gladly use whatever name/word that is created. I just need to know, that's all.

[@theblackbear211]

Real-Lemon... oh, lord....

[@jstrahan2]

A thousand dollars a month for life? I'm all set. Don't need anything else today. Yessir, $12K a year is plenty.

[@Sandman60077]

That first one isn't politically incorrect, that's actually their accent and how they talk. By calling that incorrect it's saying that portraying someone as they actually are in real life is wrong.

[@ViolentKisses87]

Correct in Japanese, there is no distinction between the sounds of L and R

[@micheleh3851]

@Sandman60077- Making fun of someone's accent can be considered offensive and mocking. I definitely thought it was politically incorrect. They even misspelled the product name with an R instead of an L to reinforce the accent. The difference between that commercial and the recent one with Arnold S. and Danny DiVito is the Superbowl one was capitalizing on the accent of one famous person who played himself, not making fun of an entire ethnic group where each person in that group wasn't asked if they wanted to be represented that way or not.

[@julienielsen3746]

I like accents.

[@josecarbajal5710]

Im having a nervous breakdown

[@hobbgreen4529]

more like 60s

[@candybarney5469]

I thought 60's or 70's. A few of them I remember!

[@SJHFoto]

@@candybarney5469 70s and 80s. I remember quite a few of them

[@jwb52z9]

Kabir, decades ago, a great number of Asian people had a lot of difficulty saying an L sound, so it came out as an R sound. The difference with leather is that a cow isn't just used for one thing. TVs have always been square, it was a racist ad using a Native American as a way to show a color difference.

[@Sandman60077]

It's not racist to acknowledge that there are people of all different colors in the world. Pretending they didn't exist and not allowing them on tv would be racist. If you want to show off your new color tv it makes sense to use someone of a darker skin tone, if they used a white person you wouldn't see any difference.

[@hackerx7329]

I honestly don't see how the ad was racist at all. He was wearing a colorful headdress.

[@jwb52z9]

@@hackerx7329 Using an indigenous person to test a color difference is not ok.

[@hackerx7329]

@@jwb52z9 He wasn't in any way being mocked or being made fun of, the only colors he was being compared to were another image of him. There was no cultural appropriation. He was in the entire ad and not just in a color comparison image. They didn't have him stereotyped as savage or anything stupid like that. He was just a native American wearing a ceremonial headdress starring in an ad for a TV. This isn't something Native Americans have an issue with so don't gatekeep for them or you'll end up sounding like the idiot reporter that first accused a kid of being in blackface and then doubled down and said the kid was racist for wearing a headdress and it turned out the kid was in team colors face paint for the Chiefs at one of their games AND he is Native American. And in that whole mess multiple tribes came out and said that even if the kid hadn't been part of a tribe they wouldn't have cared about him or anybody else wearing a headdress because it wasn't done in a mocking manner.

[@VelkanAngels]

@@jwb52z9 - So you're saying that the mere portrayal of someone who's native to north America is racist...? LOL, so the anti-racist thing to do is to erase all native American depictions from all media, both written and digital and pretend like they never existed? Man, anti-racism sure sounds a lot like good ol' fashioned racism these days. The ad was showing the difference between black-white vs. colour, via a person wearing something colourful. That person doesn't need to be white for the ad to be just fine.

[@bobapjok4241]

IDK, most of these i cant figure out what was "politically incorrect" i mean, some were obvious, but a lot just seemed like a normal commercial, just dated.

[@MannyLoxx2010]

Nothing offensive about 1980s and 1990s commercials in my view, in general! The blackface one is racist. To be honest, something could be offensive or racist and still be funny!!

[@Varzaak]

Today's commercials are awful. They arent funny. 40 years ago because of the lack of effects advertisers became really good at humor and messaging. Brands were remembered because of the ad. Outside of Liberty Insurance, Farmers Insurance, and Old Spice they arent any good. In the old days you could remember a lot more ads because of the hilarity. Ads are so bad now I mute them. If I see a funny ad I will watch it. If I know its not funny I won't, because the way I see it is you are wasting my life showing me something Im not interested in.

[@charlessands3458]

No. Most of it is for the worse because it's a control mechanism. Either people have become pussies in the fact that they don't want to say anything or that they're too afraid to let other people say anything.

[@randalmayeux8880]

Hi Kabir! I don't really see a problem with fur coats other than the price. The animals they're made of are raised in nice cages and fed well before they're killed and skinned. They process all of the remains and don't just throw them away. If you eat beef, chicken, pork or mutton, yet object to furs you're a hypocrite!

[@traybaby1587]

Who eats mink, fox, chinchilla, sable.....?????

[@randalmayeux8880]

@@traybaby1587 They extract mink oil from the carcass and use meat and bones for fertilizer. I wouldn't be surprised if they fed the meat to the other minks. I don't know, but mink meat might be good to eat. People eat bugs, snakes, iguanas, fish eggs, turtles and other "delicacies", so why not mink? lol

[@GeorgeMaster-xg7lg]

Today's commercials are loaded with stupidity,especially the Progressive commercials.

[@chrisjarvis2287]

Graham Greene looked so young in that Toshiba commercial. Some of these are only Politically Incorrect if your a Woke cry baby.

[@johnwatrous8982]

Ads. used to be great and funny before all of this woke and you hurt my feelings snowflake society they’re trying to force us into.

[@Wellch]

Some PC commercials are ok, but some people are snowflakes.