Weird toys from TV adverts | Ashens

hello ah advertising where would we be without it well the way YouTube's going asked me in about 12 months and I'll tell you anyway the point is today we are going to be looking at advertising characters which became so popular and such a thing in their own right that people wanted to buy toys of them actually that may not be true toys were made of them let's say that whether people actually wanted them or not that is arguably something different and no we're not doing the meerkats to bloody obvious right I'm gonna do them in chronological order cast your mind back to 1992 unless obviously you were born after 1992 because that like your brain explodes or something anybody in the UK will remember Tango's orange man advertisements you'll know when you've been tangoed what you know when you've been Taggard actually there we are it's been so long I've forgotten the tenths of it but yeah um basically they had a man spray-painted orange who ran up to another man when he drank some tango and could only be seen on the replay and slapped him with both hands across the face and that's you see my friends was kind of the orange II hit hitting him because tango is a fizzy drink a fizzy orange flavored drink doesn't really taste that orange II to be honest with you and it's just was very sweet sugary syrupy things yeah it was massively popular adverts bla bla bla a lot of people think it was banned off the telly it was never banned it was actually pulled voluntarily after the sore head of advertising and tango ever got a phone call saying that a child had had eardrums burst by some other child slapping him across both the ears because that used to happen this was a massive well it's call it sort of a viral hit I suppose in the days before the internet proper well before the internet all most people really but yeah that was a thing and they then had different versions we ran on kiss them instead and there was like this weird mutant Scotsman who jumped on and his foot come off so it's all very strange all these different methods of oh my goodness you've been tangoed and got the hit sensation and one of the latter-day ones was well just called the tango doll I believe that we often refer to it as goat and for best results always follow these instructions picture chosen victim in your mind chance tango wildly poor tango under doll laugh tonight manically but never even likely and then mop up tango tango Romeo and Bruce four six eight postage-paid yes here it is some of the paint's covers eyes but I'm sure you get the idea so the advert basically was like a weird cult type thing where the leader had one of these dolls live hundreds chanting goat an goat and Goten of course the faster you go that turns into go tango tango tango tango tango so it's actually saying tango and then he like poured some tango on this doll which is some sort of voodoo doll and that then causes somebody somewhere to get tangoed I think specifically the one I remember had a Viking coming and I don't know rub him in the face with a rubber fish or something like that I don't know but there we are that look is ass you know it's tango is the tango Donna frankly it's a bit dog toy like slightly lighter rubber it's got this sort of weird stitching on it to make it look like a sort of voodoo doll or something but it is quite obviously made of rubber it means a friendly enough thing is there with it's silly eyes and goofy grin and all that kind of thing but yeah he's being eyed I remember seeing any of these back in the day I remember there being available that time obviously this one I got a fever recently but there we are that is your goat and Stroke tango doll from your overlords at tango but in 1995 this was released to tie in with the mighty TV adverts don't really know if it's that good an image for advertising campaign you know what is it saying if you drink tango you'll become a sort of amorphous orange bug-eyed wired blob then with sort of weird slightly overweight look that's a thought isn't it au sugary drinks anyway let's now move on move on to the space year 2001 no not the Space Odyssey the okay come on monkey oh my god he's he's so huge we must move the camera Tintin did it in there he is in a better angle on in there hello monkey he's a sidekick do you see because he always had like referential t-shirt so there's a long story behind old monkey here this is a really nice thing by the way it's like a proper knitted soft toy look so I could do the wash particularly just roses got like a bloody stain on the see then yeah yeah dirty monkey so here's the story 2001 there was chemical on digital which did sort of TVT house kind of stuff changed his name to ITV digital and monkey became its mascot along with Johnny Vegas the comedian who played a character called owl and monkey was kind of his sidekick and the reason we refer to him often as monkey rather than monkey is an attempt to well copy what Johnny Vegas said in his and his accent really every wondering why so nice so designed by Jim Henson's Creature Workshop it's nice innit we have really popular adverts got I to be digital into the minds of the public and interestingly you got a free one of these if you subscribed to ITV digital and a Christmas that year you could sell them on eBay for like two hundred quid or something I remember looking at them and thinking if I actually signed up for ITV digital got one of these things free I could sell this and it would pay for the entire years worth of ITV digital and wait for it I didn't make some money as well absolutely astonishing can I go and I didn't know because I to be digital went bust the next year like well within a few months of Christmas if I remember they owed the Football Association money for matches or something because I had to be digital and a lot of people have managed to hack the cards for them which basically meant you could watch all the channels for free and all some news international was implicit and all there was all this or government anyway the fact remains that that was the end of monkey so it wasn't really the next year right I am NOT hundred percent sure this is true but I've heard this from multiple sources that like about a year after I to be digital went bust due to the popularity of the character here voiced by Ben Miller if you're wondering and from Armstrong Miller you know they actually filmed a TV pilot where the monkey was like presenting a variety show with Dawn French or something very very odd um it didn't go anywhere quite obviously but that was the end of monkey except it wasn't because monkey was too bloody popular so PG tipps right the company that makes you know tea and tea bags all that kind of stuff brought it back in 2007 with Johnny Vegas and everything except this time he's advertising PG tipps and I think that's sort of a testament to the discipline of the character and its popularity that it kind of disappeared and then came back advertising an entirely different thing it's just bizarre can't you another example of that also I only just realized one of the size is bigger than the other but you could get little monkey toys and this is obviously the big one I think this is one of the ones that was given away free from ITV digital back in the day and I'll tell you what it's really bloody nice yes it's definitely we didn't look it's got a thing on it yeah it's just like a really nice toys a big squidgy but also weighty knitted thing I'm only it must've cost quite a lot to produce but I know what you're all thinking you're all looking at its mouth and you're thinking I wonder can you fit a copy of Pirates Cove on cartridge for the vic-20 in its mouth well there's one way to find out no not quite well sorry yar oh well thank you for that monkey you go back there and I'm going to move the camera down again so we can actually see what we're bloody doing sorry you can have to give away he's gone away now oh god hang on that's a bit straighter isn't it there we are now we can all see what we're doing as we bring in an item from the year 2011 Oh 2011 anybody know what it is yet bad news is a bloody Argus aliens right there's the number so Argos is like worthless then the old joke everybody comes out with Argos the Greek god of queueing it's like a big warehouse you go in and you put a number in a machine or speak to a person and they bring the item out and you pay for it and you leave you know like a shop with access to more stuff I suppose gosh like a coffin isn't it so in 2011 they had a Christmas advert with these aliens which were basically big puppets so sort of CGI enhanced puppets with a father voiced by Bill Nighy I think you know did Davy Jones in parts of the Caribbean and all that kind of stuff and yeah this is them well this is the mother character I believe I don't think of them names as seen on TV oh look yep here they are look being freakish and all here they are in there they're loving London because they came down from space even at Abbey Road and I don't know just bought loads of products from bloody Argos apparently there's ran their whole lives from the place very very old campaign frankly but it captured the imagination I never liked it because they're entirely homogenous they like they all look exactly the same the entire family look every single one of them looks identical said they had a baby later on which was kind of weird bug-eyed thing God who's a little bit freaky actually so this is Astrid yay Astrid is only 7 years old but with intelligence beyond her years oh I thought it was her mother no this is the daughter apparel there we are what more testament you want they all of the pissing saying that I couldn't tell she could do the Rubik's Cube in 10 seconds flat trembling like a limit gymnast and play any musical instrument even the fur lump asset she suffers from embarrassing dad syndrome she's little puzzled by earthen behavior probably because she's a lot smarter than everyone else she meets despite a huge brain juice a little girl that loves ice cream and get he went over on her brother great produced for Chad Valley toys well let's have a look at the toy itself in you have escaped Astrid hooray your weird boots have come off weird square feet like the witches from that Roald Dahl book oh right get your ugg boots back on look well there it is it's sort of hard rigid thing or the head doesn't move the head really looks like it should move it doesn't just a rigid doll it's covered in flock so it's got a sort of slightly velvety feel to it and it can do terrifying zombie poses no take me to your boss yeah you can it sit there not really it's there's not much of a thing to be honest with you visibility camera oh good god that's actually terrifying dude don't don't in behold the face of your future overlord scan that's what that was the last advert it's considered less popular than the others yeah so there's a thing dearie me they just continue it in 2014 I believe and that was it okay remember they replaced it with the big science had come to Argos no bloody idea right moving on through the years to 2013 2013 and confused calm which is one of those websites that lets you compare insurance you know like compare the market there was popular meerkat characters which is probably the err example of this kind of thing but not doing it so no and go compare that had a crazy campaign as well with an opera singer with a crazy moustache go Kanpur and all that as money supermarkets which has currently got recently had this weird campaign the Skeletor and he-man actually all these comparison websites seem to have crazy ad words this one's probably the least crazy it is Brian the confused dot-com robots he's like Johnny five only more consumer-friendly and rounded there we are Terri's brightful in but let's not worry about yep there's a switch and batteries we'll get on to that in a minute oh there he is so yeah basically he's like a cheeky robot and then later on he had some friends I think and they took him joy he was take kidnapped into a scrap yard but his friends rescued him that's about all I can really remember of that Oh God doesn't speaks for itself all right it's got some wheels no friction motor or anything standard wheels goes back to look forwards a bit of articulation it's quite nicely built actually the arms don't stay up really for something around hands rotate but wait for it here's the fun hello Brian there's no the creepy alien over your head why yes now I hate you you've never even played pub gee I say I've got it seems the drink or the next one I'm convinced great other comparison websites are available specifically compare the markets kill for their own money supermarkets and they're all better than confused or comma I'm sure I'm not sure at all the nobody idea and so yeah that's that's kind of a thing it says annoying things till you turn it off and chuck it in the bin this was not expensive to say the least bass are pleasing enough design I mean kid might get five minutes of fun out of it before feeble arms break off of them here we are go sit over there with aunty megalomaniac and finally we go to 2015 and we bring back this Yeti bastard who we barely see him in there from anchor butter so this is Sam who is a cute little the alien thing apparently they're officially called hug lers that's a thing isn't it hug lers so yeah basically these he's lying on a picnic with his parents and they're trying to get rid of him so they throw the ball and he goes running after it this is Sam he's a bouncy bundle of fur who just needs someone to keep up with energy and CGI costs Sam loves going for picnics playing football and munching cheese sandwiches they are is favorite so make sure you take him along in your adventures wherever you go Oh looking give it as a gift and everything look and different counter you so it was advertising cheese in the first place than butter second I believe right gotta be careful of this because it's collectible so this is Sam yes it's it's a cute enough little thing I suppose it's quite hairy it's it's got arms and this is quite well maybe it was not much more you can say about these all soft toys is it it's the sort of quality of one of the better things you find in Poundland maybe sometimes you get sort of dodgy soft toys in there but sometimes you have good ones this is like one of the good ones bullrings say about it really is another advert where like a relative gave him an elephant toy that when you squeaked it made annoying noise need to piss the mother off actually do you know the whole subtext of this thing is that the child is annoying I don't know how that helps sell butter but there's Chad is annoying his parents don't really like him buy butter and cheese everyone Deary me I don't know the message behind the aliens are there be a faceless homogeneous consumer advise every thing at Argos and maybe you'll get long blue fingers I don't know do you know what I don't bloody care anymore go and sit over there mate well there we are that what a jolly set of people we've got and just think there's probably some god-awful advert you hate on television right at the moment and before long you'll be able to buy a toy of it and if you're really lucky one of your kids will get it and all you with it forever what do you got to say about that Brian nothing because you've turned off and that's the way your bloody staying subscribe for more [Music]

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Keywords: as seen on tv, meerkat, argos, aliens, argos aliens, monkey, itv digital monkey, advert, ad, commercial, anchor butter advert, sam, confused.com, confused.com brian, brian the robot, tango doll, gotan, ashens, review, funny, itv digital monkey advert

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Length: 17min 28sec (1048 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 23 2019

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[u/walterjohnhunt]

Turn the adverts back on, you must, for humanity's sake!

[u/crasswriter]

Nobody can go to the shops now! Quickly, fix it!