Americans React to INSANE Tango Adverts - We Can't Un-See These! 😳

[@Mermiam]

Some British adverts were absolute gold. Tango did start as Orange but now it's got loads of flavours. They had to stop the big slap adverts because kids were slapping the crap out of each other and screaming "You've been Tango'd!"

[@sallyannwheeler6327]

YES!😂😂

[@peternedelec-spencer565]

Remember those days well in the school playground 😂

[@madams2312]

I was one of those kids years ago lol

[@matthewbishop9342]

I remember it well, I got suspended from school for a week for slapping my history teacher and shouting 'you've been tangoed' on the school P.A system 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 ahhh the good old days

[@odin741]

I was one of them lol

[@simonmetcalfe5926]

The face slap advert was banned, because kids in school (including myself) took up the idea and slapped the crap out of each other.

[@kiddcapri1711]

Yeah everyone at school was doing this in the early 90's...

[@KernowWarrior]

As was the shouting in the ear advert, band due to many burst ear drums in the school yard.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

* 'banned' (not "band").

[@simonmetcalfe5926]

@@KernowWarrior The face slap burst a few eardrums too.

[@Allthebestboys]

TANGOED.....

[@RoryOdonnell-py4om]

Here in England, if somebody had too much fake tan on, people would say "they've been tango'd".

[@alho9231]

Or Trumped! 😜

[@eh-i1841]

That’s been a great ad campaign.

[@Pupperski]

Typical British humour, elements of surprise, randomness and nonsense equals comedy genius ❤😂

[@CUFC247]

The look on both your faces as you watched the adverts was priceless and as entertaining as the adverts.

[@reactingtomyroots]

haha glad we could provide some entertainment 😂

[@shelleyjackson8793]

No, we weren’t scared at all. We just found them hilariously funny.

[@Witchaven]

I grew up with these ads and I'm still sitting here in tears watching them 😂😂😂😂

[@paulbo9033]

Me too 😂😂

[@petemartin998]

I remember when the exploding granny got banned

[@bridgeburner909]

Same! I'd forgotten some of them 😂

[@tracymuckle8512]

When you phoned the numbers someone screamed "You've been Tango~d" lol

[@briancassidy6663]

The "You Know when you've been Tango'd" saying is so iconic it still gets said today for daft little accidents and things and the ad with the sprouts was, to us, self explanatory that we all knew it was a Tango ad just by the saying! And yes we did slap the hell out of each other as kids lol

[@reactingtomyroots]

😂

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

What Americans define as "creepy" us Brits just see as absurd or surreal.

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

I just said the same type of thing in my comment. As kids we'd go on school trips to castles and see torture devices, axes, armour etc. A fat orange man isn't likely to phase our kids! 😂

[@petemartin998]

This sums up the League of gentlemen perfectly

[@staticbuilds7613]

Perfectly explained

[@Xoferif]

Sometimes I'm very proud to be British. 😄

[@chrisellis3797]

The blackcurrant Tango office walk and fight offer to the French on the White Cliffs of Dover was genius.😂

[@Millennial_Manc]

@@chrisellis3797 oh wow I’m such a retard… I never noticed he was fighting France. I was just distracted by how they did the whole thing in two continuous shots and the lovely chalky white cliffs of Dover

[@andyjdhurley]

Yes, this was an amazing piece which for all the world looks like a singe shot to camera way before AI or even decent CGI - genius indeed.

[@Millennial_Manc]

@@andyjdhurley I can see one transition as he walks out of the door, so I guess they recreated a low detail facade of the same building on the cliffs to give the impression the building he wS in is located there. Very well done for an advert. I suppose we’ll never see that again now as advertising is too fragmented across platforms to get an audience big enough to justify that complexity.

[@marksapollo]

It was brilliant but, sadly, and unsurprisingly banned almost the instant it was first aired lol.

[@1979rhino]

@@marksapollo is that right cos I do remeber seeing it I think and they brought that guy who was walking in the advert on TFI friday and had him do a walk out on the program like in the advert.

[@tjay9646]

You're right.Our humour has no limits.😂

[@RefutingTheDumb]

British humour... we cannot be beaten 🤣

[@johnbowman7389]

The adverts are the best things on British TV 😂😂😂.

[@TheRatlord74]

were the best thing. they are just irritating now.

[@lisab9734]

These just didn’t seem as weird back in the day I don’t think. Now I’m watching them, I remember most of them. They are nuts ! I can see why we all need therapy 😂

[@lisab9734]

Your faces are cracking me up! 😂😂😂😂

[@mkb.1]

peperami ad's next 😂😂😂😂

[@GullyFootTony]

They definitely need to check those out 🤣🤣🤣👏🏾

[@rjim1]

Great idea! 👏

[@brumplum]

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[@ianrose56]

Wow, wow. That was a trip down memory lane i can tell you.!!! Wiping my eyes from crying with laughter.!! Also, some in there i hadn't seen before, the really early ones at the start, and a few midway. Well found clip guys enjoyed that more than you know.!! 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧✌️👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@101steel4]

They stopped the slapping as kids were slapping each other nearly to death😂😂😂

[@sallyannwheeler6327]

🤣😂🤣😂

[@raphaelperry8159]

They called it happy slapping (which is bizarre because it was usually a really aggressive angry slap or punch with very little happiness involved).

[@amyjones4482]

​@@raphaelperry8159that's not what happy slapping is. Happy slapping is when someone films someone getting assaulted, then they spread the video around for fun 🫤

[@101steel4]

On a side note, who is old enough to remember spam? And I don't mean the food

[@eclectica1]

Whoa there...no need to exaggerate!

[@karenblackadder1183]

British kids are obviously a lot tougher than American kids. These adverts were just considered funny!

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

Our history is brutal... what's an overweight orange man compared to fields of blood or heads on pikes! That's why we're well 'ard. 🤣

[@kes0287]

I remember some of these from the 80s and 90s 🤣 some were probably only shown after the watershed which is 9 pm in the UK

[@LaPOLEA]

No we didn't have watershed in the eighties for most of the nineties.

[@kes0287]

@@LaPOLEA Watershed started in 1964

[@kendryden7575]

It wasn't just kids at school! People in the street were getting slapped by strangers who were shouting you've been tango'd. I still say it to my wife's friend who get a very orange fake sun tan done .lol

[@sallysmith7778]

6 November 24. The UK sends its commiseratons to the US. You’ve been Tango'd!

[@Muckylittleme]

I knew a Brazilian couple who came over about 30 years ago. They literally stayed in for a few nights just to watch British adverts, they had never seen anything like it. They said all their adds were basically a woman in a bikini showing off the product 🤣🤣

[@Gavlaa80]

Yes, they were on tv. Back when things made you laugh! I miss those days ❤❤

[@Mark-Haddow]

I was in High School when the "You've been Tango'd" slapping was a thing. Almost as brutal as the 'Teflon' craze, where you got palmed right on your forehead. The Egg Head slap.

[@danceswithferrets]

That was genuinely emotional. Made a 46 year old man giggle like a loon. I remember the buzz at school when a new ad dropped.

[@1979rhino]

44 man here feels the same so many memories

[@Zero_Ninety]

I'd forgotten how great these adverts were.

[@1979rhino]

Yeah man turned 45 yesterday lol bring it on I don't get old I level up lol

[@skipper409]

The Smash Robots were definitely the best over the past decades

[@LukeSkinner84]

I liked the skeletons in the scotch vhs tape ads personally 😅

[@awall1701]

The bald head orange tango man, was Peter Geeves (RIP 2022). You might have seen Peter in The Muppets Treasure Island.

[@mandwheresmepantstaylor3573]

He's my cousin ❤

[@Chris_34]

I've still got one of those Tango Dolls in its box.

[@mikeyaustin]

I remember these adverts well from my years growing up. Glad to see you beauts reacting to them over the pond 😂 they were as mental to us back then as they are to you now

[@davidholwell2060]

🎉🎉 Thanks guy's. Bought back some fond memories.

[@warpocmuse]

James Cordon in the mega phone ad

[@itsstephenjackson]

So many now-famous British cameos. Rob Brydon. James Corden. John Culshaw. Jeremy Swift (from ‘Ted Lasso’). Pretty sure James McAvoy’s in there too.

[@scottythedawg]

ralph ineson too

[@BogusDudeGW]

That James Corden one was him all over

[@vallejomach6721]

The first Tango slap ad was Hugh Dennis and Ray Wilkins.

[@SirHilaryManfat]

Jessica Hynes also.

[@TylerB1723]

Oh, the 90s, let's just say certain pills probably played a part I these ads 😂😂😂

[@reactingtomyroots]

😂

[@davidmarshall6616]

At 24-40 James Cordon with an early attempt at acting. Of course things went down hill subsequently.

[@BassandoForte]

So much so we wish he'd stayed in the US... 🤣👍

[@conversemackem8653]

All these ads WERE shown on TV in the UK.

[@Rachel_M_]

If you called the phone number they would send vouchers or gifts. I got the megaphone when it was out 😂

[@wulfgold]

Yeah, I had the Morph-doll thing - had to beg mum for the "expensive" phone call, but she caved in eventually :)

[@Rachel_M_]

@@wulfgold awesome 😂

[@FeedbackPete]

What's so hilarious about the last one head massager is that one of my family asked their mum for a muscle massaging gun for Christmas for after soccer and workouts etc. She didn't know much about them and bought what she thought was one off amazon as the present. When they opened it on Xmas day they found out it was one of those wands 😂. We couldn't stop laughing about it.

[@IanLavery-o7j]

Hi John from Glasgow welcome to the mad world of the Brits .

[@b-moviefestival]

You should do the marmite adverts they are the best especially the rehoming ones

[@thecornedbeefcouncil9792]

Back in the 90s Orange and Apple Tango was amazing, it was easily one of the best soft drinks you could buy. Sadly like most fizzy drinks in the U.K. they’ve had the sugar replaced with horrible sweeteners and just don’t taste the same any more.

[@Mermiam]

Heart breakingly factual. God I miss those old drinks.

[@wulfgold]

That's not true, you can still get full-fat - just that due to changing sales the sugar-free get more sales-space. You're probably grabbing the 1st one you see + assuming it's full-fat, that's probably 1x facing vs 2-3 facings of sugar-free. Slowly we're getting a bit more health conscious. I'm a diabetic, so "learned to like" the sugar-free/zero flavours, but if I've got low blood-sugar, I NEED the full-fat version + still available. AVOID caffeine-free though, that's really horrible.

[@thecornedbeefcouncil9792]

@@wulfgold no that’s incorrect, I haven’t just been ‘grabbing’ the wrong can for the last 20 years. Both Orange Tango and Apple Tango have changed in flavour and the drive to reduce sugar on food and drink has caused this. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing btw, I think it’s important to try to be as healthy as possible BUT it does mean that the quality has gone down….but only for people like me. I appreciate many will prefer the ‘sweetener’ version.

[@reactingtomyroots]

Aw, that's disappointing!

[@wulfgold]

@@thecornedbeefcouncil9792 fair enough - it's kinda necessary for some of us, I still want treats :)

[@markjones127]

I had a Tango doll, they were awesome, your videos aren't showing up in my feed which is weird as I've been a subscriber for a long time and have all selected

[@mallon201]

The British sense of humour, you've been tangoed

[@debbie4913]

I love you guys. I'm laughing so much because of the silly adverts but mostly your reactions. I'm going to have to pause this I can't see through tears in my eyes. 😂😂

[@martinsear5470]

Gave and recieved many a Tango slap, It caused a problem with school kids back in the day. My ears still ring🤣 Can remember seeing most of these on TV.

[@rod370]

Hi, You two. At 17:29. The person in just his orange pants off the TV. Was in a BBC TV show called Eastenders. His name is Tom Watt. His character was Lofty Holloway. And Eastenders is still on the BBC 1 today.

[@deanmitchell4233]

British humour got to love it.... I still remember all these adds. Especially the orange man lol....we used to copy him and smack the devil out of each other hahaha

[@mikadavies660]

The kids totally loved the Tango adverts...

[@skemite]

Without getting political, when ex president Trump was first elected a lot of Brits called him the Tango man due to his heavy orange makeup. 😁

[@richardkent]

That's not political. It's a fact. The man is orange.

[@misslannie73]

Now we just call him a criminal. That’s political.

[@sashacottier9581]

😂

[@jaynecessford1431]

lol hahaha I love being English !!!!

[@juliecowen3641]

Its a carbonated drink and it started out as just orange but now theres at least four or five other flavours.

[@botticellirejectbotticelli2668]

Marmite ads and Irn Bru ads are good too.

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

They've done irn bru... couple of weeks ago 😘

[@botticellirejectbotticelli2668]

@@tamielizabethallaway2413 Thanks!

[@jaysnaystube]

you know when you've been tangoed

[@harrymanback3475]

Tango is basically Fanta for those in the USA but in a variety of flavors. Was that James Corden? Hahahahaha

[@adamnewman6846]

Fanta has zero orange in it in America it is all just chemicals and isotopes

[@mrskgiggles]

Everyone knows ‘you know when you’ve been Tango’d’ and I haven’t watched tv in over a decade. Girls looking like they have been Tango’d is also a big insult. If you have used too much fake tan and you look orange its degrading to have it said to you 😂

[@RyanJones-i8u]

I loved these adverts. The slapping ones got banned because people were bursting people's ear drums doing it. I also had the tango man doll and i think i may have the squashed tango man coaster 😂😂 i forgot i had the tango megaphone too

[@68lyn68]

Omg you been tangoed 😅😅 these adverts caused many school chaos the ads were banned cause of the happy slapping In school play grounds,our UK adverts are crazy and nuts which is brill😅😅

[@NeilusNihilus]

OK you simply must watch 'Peter Kay - John Smith Adverts - Full Collection' Please do. They are hilarious.

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

Do the Marmite ads next 😅

[@LilMonkeyFella87]

Can't. The compilation got deleted

[@wulfgold]

@@LilMonkeyFella87 youtube's weird like that, probably "too many" people reacting to it without Marmite paying youtube for an actual "advertising" slot.

[@sliverwolf1992]

The tango ads may be a bit crazy but you'll remember them forever. Like we all have in the comments section. The gold blend coffee adverts where a must see. The will they won't they storyline in those adverts millions watched them and couldn't wait for the next ones. They must have sold millions of coffee jars. There's so many creative adverts from back in the day. To many to choose from, I wish they'd go back to doing these sorts of adverts again. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@101steel4]

Not had tango In years. Don't even know if they still make it tbh. Was always the best orange fizzy drinks. The adverts were brilliant.

[@timglennon6814]

I take it you don’t live in the United Kingdom?

[@Mermiam]

They do still make it but it's not the same. It's fine but nowhere near as good as the old recipe.

[@matthewwalker5430]

Britvic are still making it, and they've literally just been bought by Carlsberg which is weird.

[@ekatep6362]

Course they do, I have it all the time

[@skemite]

They've just released a new mango flavour

[@KJW648]

I remember Tango in the 60's, weekly delivery by Corona(A fizzy drink company (owner)). Remember Orange, Apple flavours. New flavours change all the time.

[@JackNap1er14]

If you think the Tango ads are off the wall crazy you should see the Marmite ads

[@MikePerigo]

Or even better … Irn Bru - Made from rusty girders.

[@reactingtomyroots]

We have done Irn Bru recently! :)

[@concerneddad5561]

The advertisers knew nobody watched adverts anymore so they upped their game and people started watching the ads again. Genius.

[@gotmygoodelf]

"you knoiw when you've been tango'd"

[@mattysykes2121]

I was at school and we would run around slapping each other on the back of the neck and shout out you been tangoed!

[@themoderntemplar1567]

The ad where the "big orange fella" slaps the lad was hastily changed to the fake kiss because it kicked off a trend in schools all over the UK called "Happy slapping" , it was even on the news.😂

[@raivedarkstone7378]

Our ad's in the 80's and 90's were wild, they didn't give a daaaaamn!, as someone below said, that slapping advert at the beginning of the video actually had to get pulled because kids in school were "Tangoing" each other and rupturing each others eardrums. All of these adverts were live and real, all of the numbers were genuine and worked, the apple one had the apple's voice talking filth at you down the phone if you called it. I actually still have one of those little Tangoman toys in my attic, I managed to acquire it by me and my buddies p*ssing off a bunch of binmen (garbage men) that had one stuck on their wagon (was kinda custom to cable tie toys they found to their trucks to the point he threw it at me in rage, so I kept it, that thing with the blue hair was genuinely terrifying too. The raunchier adverts sometimes had a 9pm watershed though, bloody Mary Whitehouse! There was like a mini war between flavours and that Blackcurrant advert with the boxing ring is on the white cliffs of Dover, literally just on the coast to France. Oh and at 24:35 that is indeed James Corden the TV host and I think I still have one of those megaphones too, they were annoying as hell and battery powered. Hope you guys make it to the UK, if you do, swing by Glastonbury and meet the brummie wizard Merlin, don't forget to get yourselves a Greggs, try Sausage rolls, cornish pasties, pork pies, fish and chips with curry sauce, a traditional English fry up for breakfast, a Sunday roast/carvery and if you're my neck of the woods, you HAVE to try the Cider.

[@pobsdad]

Say what you want, but 20 years from now if you hear the word Tango, you'll remember these adverts. Which is the whole point!

[@ritahamblin1043]

There visual representation of the faces some people pull drinking tango is is a very nice drink with a bite

[@JanineCrainich-rj6sx]

To the cutest family in the USA 🇺🇸, great reaction 😂 I can’t wait for you to learn about our Garden Centres and to see Lindsay’s reaction to How much we offer in addition to plants and flowers 💐….if you ever visit a garden centre when you visit the UK 🇬🇧 I really don’t like your chances of getting Lindsay out once she sees everything 😂

[@reactingtomyroots]

Thanks, Janine! It's definitely on our list of things to check out. Not sure I want her knowing about them, though 😅

[@jillosler9353]

Its a fizzy drink - like Cola but made with oranges. The biggest difference between American and British Adverts appears to be one of promotion; in the USA you promote the product only, in the UK the adverts are more create rather than pushy.

[@KGardner01010]

So pleased that you both finally got to watch my suggestion from a while back to you . . . another one you might like could also be the Marmite ad compilation - just by seeing how much you enjoyed these ones . . . and to be fair, as an oldie now - even I hadn't seen all these newer ones myself and was laughing so much at them and you . . .

[@thomasclarke2880]

As kids we used say to girls with too much fake tan that they'd been tangoed.

[@jonathanmeare1123]

The next 100+ box openings...... Tango 🍊🍊

[@Mermiam]

Was thinking the same thing. Shame they won't get to taste the old recipe ones since they were so much nicer.

[@emilyjayne77]

@@Mermiam it’s nothing like I used to be 😋 so disappointing

[@madams2312]

Yes they was on TV and really funny

[@TanyaRando]

Half the time I looked forward to the adverts more than the TV shows, we've had some fab adverts over the years haha

[@kirstymabbott7862]

The ones with the orange man were banned because children were copying the actions of the orange man at school and children were getting hurt, but I remember them vividly in the 80s and 90s

[@TranquilAscension]

I miss the older adverts. They were very imaginative, memorable, carefree. I still remember the Kia Ora, Um Bongo, Trio adverts.

[@oojimmyflip]

Umbongo umbongo they drink it in the Congo 😂😂😂

[@danellacoffey5836]

Omg thank you for doing this! I forgot just how funny these ads were

[@SeasideBandit]

The marketing team at Tango sure knew what made a good advertisement. I am absolutely bewildered how advertisements are lacking in humour, and play it too safe these days. One exception, Warburton's recent ads with Samuel L Jackson are gold.

[@wulfgold]

Steve + Lindsay should probably check out the US stars that sneak into UK adverts. It's easy-money, does no harm to their reputation in the US (where it might actually be a negative) and improves their rep here (for being good sports). Kevin Bacon in the phone adverts is a pretty good example* * Bacon got ripped off/scammed by one of his own lawyers so needed paying work quick + did a bunch of lower-budget films to pay the bills.

[@matthewjenkins1161]

Some of these would have been for broadcast only past 9pm. I recall there was a craze at one time called happy slapping where teenagers would give a stranger a double handed slap and one of these adverts was blamed and banned. Think only the fizzy orange and apple is still around today and I've not seen a Tango advert in years.

[@jules.8443]

The spectacled guy in the shopping centre wearing the orange pants on the still Tango ad, starred in a British soap opera called Eastenders. So even though you wont recognise him, some of us will. His character name was Lofty & he was on the program in the 1980's.

[@ehughes8829]

These adds were especially made for people who came home from a night club and sat down at the TV and were still buzzing and coming down from the night out. That's what I always thought. 😅😂

[@liamhennelly3961]

😂😂😂 When I first seen one of these adverts all them years ago my face was as surprised as your two faces watching them 😂😂😂✌🏻

[@conollytom7049]

21:04 the marketing team are all now in rehab 😂

[@peterjackson4763]

Tango (orange) was introduced by the Welsh soft drinks manufacturer in the 1950s. In the 80s Corona was taken over by Britvic, who dropped all its other brands. Tango has a stronger flavour than most soft drinks. Currently I think orange, apple and mango are available. You might still be able to find dark berry or tropical punch.

[@wulfgold]

Damn - I remember really liking the lemon flavour.

[@ceedavies]

Vividly remember the slapping ones and how outraged people were!

[@karenwilkes2220]

These are from the 90's & the tag line 'you know when you've been tangoed' is still said. Especially if someone's fake tan has gone wrong😂😂 🍊

[@reactingtomyroots]

I literally just laughed out loud. Glad I wasn't taking a drink 😂

[@Mikefizzled]

I remember someone describing Trump as a Tango Trump on TV when he first ran for president.

[@jameswright...]

You could save ring pulls and get a orange man toy😂 I had one 😁 I also got detention for slapping people 🤣

[@matthewbishop9342]

I got suspended from school for a week for slapping my history teacher and shouting 'you've been tangoed' on the school P.A system 😂😂😂😂😂😂 ahhh the good old days

[@TheMattzki]

These brpught back so many gŕeat memories.....uk ads were mental in the 90s

[@triv7252]

I'm British, brought up on Tango commercials, they were hilarious! Watched this just to see them all again

[@albrussell7184]

Just checked and still do have my original Tango Doll

[@thomassharmer7127]

The subtlety of the 'sprouts' ad is that the Tango campaigns had become so well known they didn't even need to feature the brand. The orange on the donkey's hooves and the surreal scenario with the kick in the face were enough for everyone to know what it was really about. It also played on the fact that many people don't like sprouts (I love them), so there's more of that British self-deprecating humour going on. A brand that can laugh at itself and laugh with us as we laugh at ourselves is onto a winner over here.

[@Randi-Rabbit]

WHAT?! NO Kevin feeling the hit of the whole fruit in the church? BLASPHEMY! That was one of my favorite ones too, was happily waiting for it, and it never came!

[@yorkshireoutdoorsmen2746]

There was a series of those tango adds where the orange guy slaps the actors face, but they were banned after a while and replaced with other silly stuff like the balloon etc because school kids were going round "Tangoing" each other (slapping them) complaint were made that it was a bad influence lol

[@juliebaldwin2900]

the tango ads were brilliant and so funny i used tolook forward to them coming on when i was younger