Reaction To DARK German Commercials!!

[@Dr_Klops]

The best German commercial ever is "Coast Guard" by Berlitz.

[@wiaf8937]

WHAT ARE YOU SINKING ABOUT?

[@wiaf8937]

live rent free in my head ever since i saw that.

[@Markxgaming2]

Best joke ever. Btw, heard the one with the warship having to divert it's course?

[@wiaf8937]

@@Markxgaming2 I am aware yes:)

[@der.Schtefan]

Classic. Also the one sink all your foreign friendz will make jooks about yuuu

[@otschikaminski]

Yes, KAPPA is an Italian Brand. This Commercial was made for KAPPA Germany.. Fun fact, I was involved in the idea and production of this movie. I worked in an advertising agency in Hamburg and we made this movie. It was ages ago, I can't remember exactly. Early 2000s maybe. Funny coincidence that it appears on your channel.

[@Dennsemann1]

solidarität muss praxis werden fick die abschiebebehörden.

[@Rick2010100]

Most of the very spacial commercials are only made for the cinema, they are usually also longer than the TV commercials. They often come from small and young advertising agencies that use particular creativity to promote themselves.

[@rhysodunloe2463]

6:45 13th Street is not a brand but a TV channel specialised on the crime and thriller genre. So this commercial basically says "Our program will give you the creeps and make you see serial killers everywere".

[@RevCode]

Wasn't that a part of Premiere? I could swear I remember it beeing on the old Premiere Box of my parents, and having seen one movie or another with friends that we weren't supposed to, because father was lazy and his child pin was 2580 (the keypard of the remote up (or down, not sure) :D

[@marloelefant7500]

I didn't really get this ad. What did he do?

[@Karmasu_L]

Most memorable commercial: Willst du mal nen echten Hasen sehen?

[@rhysodunloe2463]

Not a real commercial but a film student's project looking like a commercial: An old man passing by a brothel, looking at the women sitting in the windows to attract customers. He's getting flirty with one, walks into the building and a voice goes "French style: 50 Euros". Another day, another woman in the window. He walks in and the voice goes "Greek style: 150 Euros". Yet another day, yet another woman, the voice goes "One hour all inclusive: 300 Euros". In the next scene two morticians are carrying a zinc casket out of the front door, a policeman interviews the prostitutes, an ambulance is parked next to the hearse. The voice goes "To know when it's enough: priceless. There are things money can't buy. For everything else there's Mastercard." 😅 Another student made a mock-up Mercedes commercial that was so dark but also so authentic that the lawyers of Mercedes-Daimler threatened to sue him and his team if they didn't have disclaimers throughout the whole clip that this isn't authorized or connected to the brand Mercedes. It shows the anti collision system in action. Only that it plays in Braunau am Inn around the year 1900 and instead of braking for a 10 year old boy running across the street the car speeds up and runs him over. You then hear his mum yell "Adolf! No!" and then a writing says "Discovers dangers before they arise". Then the camera looks down on the boy's body and his arms and legs form a swastika.

[@aaron_22766]

LOEWE was really high quality back in the day, my dad still uses his 30 year old tube tv and refuses to get rid of it because it still works.

[@JacobSprenger]

I've got one of those from 1978 that we also had back when I was a child. Doesn't even have a remote. But: It still works! I'll keep good care of it, because one day, CRTs in general might be expensive antiques for financially liquid retro gamers! ;)

[@Reaktanzkreis]

The Loewe company is the only TV maker which surve the consumer electronic industrie in german , all other great names like Grundig, Telefunken , Nordmende, Schaub-Lorenz , SABA and Blaupunkt are longe gone and vanished from the scene. Long lastinmg products with good circuit design protect the costly CRT from unnecceassary wear and tear bring the customers allways back to purchases their products.

[@pizzakeks4816]

@@Reaktanzkreis Sadly they were bankrupt a few years ago and are now owned by foreign investors, which planned to switch to smartphones and things like washing machines etc iirc.

[@JacobSprenger]

@@pizzakeks4816 Yes, I read about that long ago. They also dropped the high-grade TVs back then, going for cheaper throwaway trash like the rest of them.

[@aaron_22766]

@@Reaktanzkreis Yes it’s sad that capitalism is suffocating these kinds of innovations

[@derFuchsi]

Thanks to shortage of skilled workers now the plumber ad is more realistic than ever...

[@sehrgrossesglied5000]

what are you sinking about really got me 🤣😂

[@florete2310]

9:56 Man... I mean, sure... that ad clip was pretty dark - but that sheer disbelief in your facial expression, really cracked me up😂...

[@Chrinik]

The Shoemaker commercial was so intense because it was advertising a horror and thriller focused TV channel. So that was the vibe they were trying to instill. Funny to us because it's such a mundane situation. And yes, germans have no trouble with sex in TV, the ad didn't show penetration, just implied a porn being filmed while you're stuck in traffic next to them, so you get a free show. And the last one was literally advertising sound design for commercials. "We give our all for the best sounds"

[@Vampirzaehnchen]

As if nobody knew that the sound of the cracking chocolate in the magnum commercial was produced by a squirrel that got its neck broken.

[@kfusei]

My usual problem with memorable commercials is that I remember the commercial, but don't connect it with its product.

[@andreasu.3546]

It's sufficient if your subconsciousness does.

[@steffenpanning2776]

I haven't been watching TV for over 10 years and thanks to adblock I almost never see commercials online. I've seen these commercials here for the first time and I a had to laugh, which rarely happens when I sit alone in front of my PC. But I would be very annoyed after 10+ times. It's like getting told a good joke over and over again. You start to hate the joke and you start to hate the person that tells the joke, because he killed the fun.

[@nsl_black8053]

@@steffenpanning2776thats why many of these memorable ads are made for the cinema

[@PetraNaefcke]

Check out the Hornbach commercial where the neglected plants run wild. It's hilarious.

[@andreasu.3546]

Or the one for the hammers they had forged from decomissioned Russian tanks. Though that one probably didn't age all that well.

[@voyance4elle]

In fact check out a best Hornbach conmercials compilation!!! They are all so good 😂

[@KaiHenningsen]

@@andreasu.3546 Given that Russia has this current program of tank mass-decommissioning, why not? They might be cheap from second hand.

[@Roberternst72]

„13th Street“ is a German horror movie pay TV channel… 😂

[@19lisamaria92]

crime channel

[@Roberternst72]

@@19lisamaria92 interesting… it feels like they have refocused in the meantime… I am pretty convinced they used to have some gory stuff, but today, it’s pretty much Law & Order, Magnum P.I., NCIS and that sort of stuff all day and all of the night, which doesn’t really fit their older commercials. Could be I‘m mixing that one up with a similar channel that I also don’t watch…

[@Roberternst72]

@@19lisamaria92 ….oops… you are correct… I have mixed up „13th Street“ and „silverline“… in my defense: I think both these programmes used to be very close together in terms of channel numbers on my cable provider‘s menu, in the upper 900s, and they both have only very marginal viewer ratings…

[@Flo-vn9ty]

​@@19lisamaria92Exactly, there is no horror in series like Law & Order.

[@DasIstDochMalEinName]

The one at 9:00 with the "punch and judy show" ("Kasperletheater" in german) with inappropriate content for children is a bit hard to understand, since there seems to be something missing at the end of the spot... IIRC, it was a sort of an official PSA/campaign for enforcing age-restrictions in media or online content.

[@drei-zwei-eins]

Best German add still is "German Costguard"😊

[@Kaffeestrudel]

Even as an german I don´t saw all of them even in my 52 years.

[@marekriebmann1495]

I'm a german for over 30 years now and I recognized exactly one commercial of this reaction video.

[@danielsch.6463]

hab nicht einen davon gesehen

[@benjaminloehner257]

@@danielsch.6463 Alles Kino-Werbung, also verständlich. Ich kannte auch nur den mit "what are you sinking about" und HDI.

[@jansix4287]

-1

[@tstbr_1234]

I'm not sure, it counts as a funny commercial but it most certainly was memorable, at least for me: The "Klicksafe" commercial "Schützen Sie Ihre Kinder im Internet" (Protect your children on the internet).

[@ReeN1995]

I had a TV from Loewe, that thing was indestructable. I'd say it's pretty good quality.

[@Nachtmahr79]

Hornbach commercials are always very memorable. My favorite is "the smell of spring" And yes: this was broadcasted in german TV... at every time of the day...

[@nessasan7]

That Apollo commercial with the woman sitting on a bench with ugly glasses on, and then the daffodil next to her throws up vilontly. lol

[@TigruArdavi]

I remember that one, it was so great!🤣

[@miakonigspython]

My mom still refers to daffodils as "Kotzeblumen" (vomit flowers) till this day 😂

[@TVirus91]

What are you thinking about? That really got me :D

[@wiaf8937]

what are you sinking about has been living rent free in my head for decades. - greetings from cologne Mert :)

[@sandrathiebe1190]

The Mercedes ad with the Austrian painter crossover is definitely the best 😂

[@FrolleinFroschbein]

My favourite is the commercial with the guy putting a leafblower into a mole hill and the moles flying EVERYWHERE. I think it was Hornbach too.

[@kleinerrebell6691]

You should watch the Hitler Mercedes commercial

[@maukschilol]

That's not a real commercial if I remembre correctly. Was some artstudents work I think

[@kleinerrebell6691]

@@maukschilol yes it was an art project, but it's still funny as hell

[@maukschilol]

@@kleinerrebell6691 maybe that little boy should also have been successful at art. Would have avoided a lot of pain and suffering. But yeah that "commercial" is hilarious

[@McDachpappe]

The northern German brewery "Flensburger" or sometimes short "Flens" has made some of the best (linguistic) jokes. You should give them a go sometime. Best regards

[@McDachpappe]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIfHoZ6gZqtjgrsfeature=shared

[@Aaackermann]

Wouldn't work in english though.

[@McDachpappe]

​@@Aaackermann Mert will get it and not everything is purely linguistic. I think this very video is not necessarily a good representation of German humor/ ads.

[@blauelilie2049]

I really love the Seitenbacher Müsli advert

[@c0d3warrior]

Damn, that HDI ad is old, 20 years at least, maybe even 25. Can't remember seeing the others, though.

[@cheffscream]

I remember that Hornbach ad from way back :D never made sense to me either xD

[@DasIstDochMalEinName]

It pays of to be in a waiting queue for attending Hornbach. Even if it's very long.

[@cheffscream]

@@DasIstDochMalEinName das ist mir mittlerweile schon bewusst, aber als Kind damals nicht^^

[@Dudelhoefer]

Strange that none of the guys making the Ad with the doctor at 10:00 realised the spelling error in the advertised website. The R in op-nachwurchs is definitely not supposed to be there.

[@dschanriihl9043]

The essence of german comercials are "Ruthe Werbeparodie"

[@ACEsParkJunheeWreckedMeHard]

2:55 yeah I had to google it, they are from Italy

[@khazaddum6570]

There is a very recent commercial by Europa insurance which I find funny as hell. It's basically a pregnant couple looking at the ultrasound at the pediatrician. They look at the screen, the man says "Dennis" (boy name) the wife says "Denise" (female name) and the pediatrician turns around holding the ultrasound picture and says "Triplets" 😂😂

[@SaniSensei]

"Feierabend wie das duftet.."

[@Anthyrion]

"...kräftig, deftig, würzig, gut!"

[@GeneralGoodGames]

"...Pommersche aus dem Buchenrauch..."

[@stuborn-complaining-german]

"...frisch auf den Tisch, so ist das Brauch!"

[@marcgyver677]

Ja die Pommersche aus dem Buchenrauch Ja die ist zum kotzen und das schmeckt man auch Ja die Pommersche aus dem Buchenrauch Frisch ausgekotzt, so ist der Brauch!

[@heinzentertainments4661]

Ja aber das ist einfach nur nervig und dumm😂😂

[@grouchy88]

ah yes, staplerfahrer klaus. i see you're a man of culture

[@terronbrainafk3287]

The best commercial i've ever seen is "Doppelherz - Augen Vital Kapseln"

[@RadekSuski]

I might be wrong but I am pretty sure the insurance would deny any claims in such a case/.

[@mercatorjubio3804]

as they usually do

[@CaptainBlagbird]

IMO the most memorable German commercial is the K-fee car ad, I'm surprised it didn't show up here..

[@gravedigger1454]

What immediately came to my mind is "WO IST DER DEINHARDT!?"

[@pahhw1533]

i think the commercial with the show maker was only on private tv since it was for a channel thats only private the commercial where the guy gets the boiling oil to get the sound for sparkling water, and it gave me second hand pain when i saw it as a teenager, there is another one where a guy gets his teeth crushed for a sound effect and that one was worse for me the commercial where they have intercourse on the street i also remember on regular tv same with the plumber kidnapping even when the plumber one was funny after seeing it

[@Drangi33]

I've lived in Germany for 47 years since I was born, but I've never seen any of these commercials before. Where are they supposed to have been shown? Some of the videos are funny, but you don't really see such crude advertising here. Every product is illuminated from all sides, staged, etc. and are expensive productions.

[@annasannanas2044]

Maybe its cinema advertisement? These clips are a bit longer and feel different than normal TV ads

[@Drangi33]

@@annasannanas2044 Yes, that will probably be it.

[@martinszmidt6121]

Happens if you can't get out of asi tv

[@ghostthelizard]

Well they either were shown on cinema or maybe on different channels. Like clearly these wouldnt appear on childrens channels. Pro7 has pretty different kinds of ads from channels like ZDF.

[@domaniac9119]

Half of those are in English, so certainly no German ads. And some others are parodies. I remember the HDI one though :D

[@kpanic23]

They were dubbed in English for presentation at an international advertisement festival.

[@marine69183]

Very confusing: I know all these brands but I‘ve never seen one of these commercials on TV. 😅

[@zwitschimcvogel5360]

The funniest German commercial I know of is the one from Hornbach with the title: the smell of spring 😁

[@amuthi1]

The plumber-commercial is a hommage to "Der dritte Mann": Cast & Crew Darsteller: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli; Regie: Carol Reed Drehbuch: Graham Greene, Alexander Korda; Kamera: Robert Krasker Produktion: Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, David O. Selznick; Weitere Infos Originaltitel: The Third Man; Produktionsland: Großbritannien Produktionsjahr: 1949.

[@hansulrichboning8551]

I recommend the old commercials of the Flensburger Brewery. The play vituously with north-german sterotypes.

[@ACEsParkJunheeWreckedMeHard]

Another ad I think you should try to look up is "Afri Cola" they have some of the weirdest stuff out there 😂but their famous 60s advertisment is very odd tho... especially for the "award winning" music they put in there (yes the guy who composed the song for their 60s ad won an award for it)

[@cornelia6276]

I have been in Germany for 50 years, but I have never seen any of these adverts on TV....

[@NetzKaiser]

7:25 Hornbach is a home-improvement /DIY market. The commercial has more than one meaning. It could be a long way to their market and people possibly think it isn't worth the way. 1. But wait what could happen during the way? Maybe it will be an interesting adventure. 2. But wait how much fun is it to do it yourself? Watch for example that couple making a baby. Is it important how long it takes or if the baby looks good or is most important that you did it yourself? Their commercials are often try to be appealing to men like Tim Taylor(that tooltime guy).

[@DasIstDochMalEinName]

"making a baby"? - Most likely they're making a porn movie, since there's a huge camera involved. 😉

[@germaniatv1870]

10:58 That made my day 😂

[@DoctorNicolasGames]

The commercials you'll find in most meme compilations are gonna be Marcel Davis - 1&1 and the Alpecin commercial

[@SirKinoc]

One of the best commercials, that never aired is this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHawdmyinsiimrs "recognizes dangers before they arise"

[@DeFilmKater]

I've never seen any of those commercials in Germany, neither TV nor cinema. 😁

[@Chuckiele]

The HDI adverts were legendary, you could make an entire video out of those :D

[@Annie-ex3ge]

We love dark humour and we hate commercials in general...

[@leisen9679]

So? That doesn't have to do anything with the topic. And please, please, have the decency to say I, not we. Don't include me on your painfully simple musings.

[@atconnys8786]

@@leisen9679 Title sayes "...Dark...". Smart people don`t watch it if it`s not their taste and more important, they don`t give their frustrated mind free way to a comment that`s basically right.

[@Gebirges]

We do love Hornbach though.

[@fanOFcreativity]

Never knew Germany has such disturbung advertisement 😂 i think the one with the shoemaker wasn't meant to be funny, but scary, because it was for an horror movie TV channel

[@maskharat]

We really can't do good movies or TV series, but our ads are/were quite nice. There's quite some brilliant ones out there. Music videos is also something we're good at. Everything you've seen was on TV throughout the day. Some quite worth a look: 'Alfa Telefon - Beladen verboten' is also a very good one to watch.

[@olgahein4384]

I disagree about german movies or tv series not being good. Considering how most german talents and equipment (thanks to a 5yr exclusivity contract) run off to Hollywood, we have quite good movies and series. The Empress, The Boat, The Lives Of Others, The Perfume, Babylon Berlin - just some that come to mind. The Perfume is the one that impressed me the most, cause the movie was really beautiful and mezmerizing while the original book was utterly boring. And that's from someone who usually prefers books over movies, but in that case the author was just not a good writer.

[@det999666]

There is a quite old VW commercial. Asking how the snowplow driver is going to get to work. For sure he uses a VW beetle

[@evaneumoro156]

The funniest German ads i know are still from Red Bull.

[@voyance4elle]

I love all the Hornbach conmercials!!? XD

[@voyance4elle]

Please watch a few of them and also the short movie!!!

[@Flo-vn9ty]

LOEWE is one of the last remaining German TV brands. It used to be high quality, but like all German TV brands it became quite irelevant a long time ago when Sony, Samsung, LG, Sharp etc. took over the market. I don't know how good their current products are. Since 2019 or 2020 they have a new owner and CEO that previously worked in a company that cooperated with Sharp and that wants to reestablish the brand as a manufacturer of premium TVs.

[@atconnys8786]

I used to have a Metz. Was good too. Dunno what they do today

[@Lichtzauberfoto]

LOEWE & METZ, are buying the panel from LG and implement it in their product. The focus is on the design. That's why they are still able to sell TVs nowadays.

[@dasaggropop1244]

a lot of these super creative commercials never really run on tv, they are broadcast once to make them elligible for advertising competitions where agencies get awards

[@Alex45622]

7:25 You should make a video in which you look at all the Hornbach commercials, it will be crazy enough.

[@aster934]

I highly recommend the dutch commercials "even apeldoorn bellen". Not sure i wrote it right. Greetings from Germany!

[@teknofreak2387]

Daamn i love forklift driver klaus he would make an excellent doomslayer with his glory kills by only using a forklift

[@franks_9254]

Cannot remember any of these commercials. Watching German TV since the 1970s. Probably watching the "wrong" channels. 🤷

[@mikemilsim2626]

thats funny im german watching a lot tvv and cant remember that i see any of this spots

[@fate5263]

Can you react to German battle rap? A best of was uploaded with subtitles and explanations and it's going pretty viral right now, definitely something for you!

[@sofie-marievogel5712]

The best commercial is still the Pepsi commercial with Manuel neuer

[@ACEsParkJunheeWreckedMeHard]

You mean Cola Zero not Pepsi!

[@juricarmichael2534]

I've seen something similar to Kappa in Spain that summer! But the logo was face to face and it's was named Hoppa. Don't know what it meant?🤷 But you know, when you've been tangoed in german commercials!😉😂

[@silviahannak3213]

13th Street is a Crime and Theiller Channel. Not dark funny but a scary Channel. That Doctor Commercial Was wild.

[@Vizewelle]

Ah yes the Hornbach commercials were something else at that Time. Must also be around that Time when Hornbach gave out the Hornbach Sommerspiele CDs (Hornbach Olympics).

[@GrüneFarbe]

Noch nie gesehen im herkömmlichen Fernsehen.

[@mercatorjubio3804]

Auch im Persil-Fernsehen nie gesehen.

[@danielsch.6463]

German here - haven’t seen one of those

[@Tanjacs]

Geht mir genauso 😅

[@krccmsitp2884]

I knew the one from OBI with the dog, but none of the others.

[@andreasschmitt2307]

The brand is "LOEWE", he says "luff" :-D

[@nidhoggvomwalde2280]

Staplerfahrer Klaus!!!!!

[@ImKinoNichtSabbeln]

#3, the hard-hard-napping's chasing scene was a clear reference to the absolute classic & must-know movie "The Thrid Man" (which's title was literally translated to "Der dritte Mann" -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man), partially scene by scene! (Btw, The Thrid Man plays in Vienna, Austria [beware American, that's Alps, skiing, and yodeling, wheras cangoroos and "pretty good English" is AustrALia]) And yes, "Gelbe Seiten" literally means "Yellow Pages". And yes, by times, good craftsmen like plumbers were hard to come by, thus the ad means "try Gelbe Seiten first". In a funny twist, _Polish_ craftsmen became a staple is Germany. Not for Gelbe Seiten, but because if their quality work (traditionally, German realky do love quality).

[@brentisone]

I never saw one of those commercials in Germany, must be older ones?!

[@h.1699]

7:07 13th street is a tv channel specialised on (true) crime and horror (last time i checked)... not sure how else you'd get that across

[@niddhoeggr75]

Loewe was highest quality and therfore they failed

[@brusecco]

10:24 that's a spot from some sound design guys in frankfurt… they did another one like this maaaaaany, many years ago called "The Jump": kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4qrfmqDe9qUgck f***ing hilarious!

[@db-jugg3r]

OMG :D

[@brusecco]

@@db-jugg3r yeah, i thought someone might like this one, too :-D

[@hape7539]

4:50 best ;))

[@mel.s.5848]

I've never seen one of these before. 🤷‍♀️

[@lilg2300]

wow, as a German I have never seen the commerciaös. They really are from a different era I guess.

[@jorgbo3909]

One that I lost it was "Mr Boombastic - Levis Ad" its not dark, just funny. enjoy

[@leisen9679]

I am not sure these last commercials are real. I have never ever seen them, especially the disturbing one with the "doctor". They appear old, but don't ring a bell. I am not saying they are fake, but it does make me wonder never having seen it. Or hear someone talking about it either. Weird.

[@tj_roehre]

That one looks like fake because of the spelling error in the web address.

[@lukasboi8958]

suprised you didnt react to the teenage mutant ninja turtle pickle ad

[@Leftyotism]

Bruh, I mean it well, there is no f in w.

[@guntereckle9839]

The first brand is LOEWE not loewe.

[@wikinger844]

Jürgen Klopp hatte doch beim BVB gerne KAPPA getragen

[@senffabrik4903]

why is the picture so, black and whitish but not black and white the same time?

[@nietzscheente1271]

Better question: why are all of your videos so dark? :-)

[@Flo-vn9ty]

Are they all real commercials and from Germany? Especially that Hornbach ad is suspicious. English catch phrases are not uncommon in German commercials, but commercials completely in English not so much. And I never heard that they call themselves 'home improvement superstore'. And that commercial with the doctor even has spelling errors.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Some commercials,are only for the use in cinema. And it seems, the produced it for a wider audience, perhaps whole Europe...

[@suoquainen]

"OP-Nachwurchs"? That looks strange to me... :)

[@ExceedProduction]

The original video is not available in Germany... wtf

[@benjaminloehner257]

One of the funniest commercials will always be the MediaMarkt "ice princess" 🤣 kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3bJdpSAiZ2iiNUfeature=shared

[@DerGroßeKaktus]

Marcel Davis 1&1

[@cluelesskitty8356]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3msfal7irycl9E The best ad imo ! Can remember it from like 20 years ago and it's content is as important today as it was then. also... "Komm ich zeig dir einen richtigen Hasen"🥴🥸😂

[@ponym8289]

Hornbach ads are always funny. This wasn't the best one.