American reacts to Funny German Commercials

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[Oreton]

It's him saying "scheisse(shit)" to his father not his father saying it.

[gregorygant]

"We are sinking, we are sinking !"
"Um, what are you thinking about ?"
That cracked me up so much I nearly ruined my pants man !

[nephistar]

The coastguard's English is supposed to be exaggerated but no kidding, at my workplace, some people actually talk like this.
I really respect them for bravely trying though.

[perrosol-nsccott]

1:40 David Hasselhoff's poster came unexpectedly and hit hard.

[Attirbful]

The pun in the first video is that Günther is adopted by British parents and clearly lives in a British environment (f.e. the dad reads an English language newspaper). When Günther makes his announcement, it is clear that everyone expects him to come out to his parents as gay, but the fact that he, a black person adopted by white Brits identifies as German is hilarious, cause 1) there is still some resentment against Germans among the parent‘s generation (f.e., the dad slaps him after announcing his “Germanness“, supposing this declaration is actually WORSE than coming out as gay to the father), 2) there are only about 1% of blacks among the German population altogether (many of which do complain about being singled out if or met with prejudices, seen as refugees or immigrants rather than Germans, etc.), and 3) assuming, he only has second-hand knowledge about Germany, identifying with being a German and then subscribing to all the clichés about being German (Lederhosen, blond straight hair, doing the classical Bavarian dancing etc.) is just really funny… I have seen the coast guard ad before and think it is very funny, too. Maybe because I am an English teacher in Germany…

[dorisschneider-coutandin]

"Deutschland liebt Günther" is a series of short clips (not truly commercials, more of a skit character) on MTV that was produced almost 20 years ago. Filmed in New Zealand, btw. The Berlitz language school German Costguard one is hilarious, and a true commercial/ad.

[TheWoke]

So your baby kicked you out and now you occupied your toddler’s room?😂

[tnnt]

One of my class mates began with "I (s)think..." And our english teacher asked: "how deep?" Then it was hilarious.

[danielw.]

For me the Günther one feels extremely cringy 🙉🙈

[mathildewesendonck]

The funniest German commercial is the Mercedes‘ clip „Adolph!!!!“
(relax, I know it’s not a real ad)

[paulbeneder]

The coastguard‘s English is not the yellow from the egg. 🤔🤪

[dafonk]

"Wot are you zinking about?" – Oh man, I'm dying right now! 😂😂😂The pun is so on point! I know people talking exactly like zis.

[learn_german_with_natives]

As a native German speaker this video still made me laugh so much! 😂

[HoldMySoda]

14 years ago I started at my company and had to do a lot of training. One of my trainers was Scottish. She showed us the German coast guard clip. We had so much fun. She had such a good sense of humor, but she also had such a strong Scottish accent. For some of us she was almost not to understand.

[nephistar]

I think the first one wasn't that funny tbh. At least not in the way we expected.
I liked how you remained nice struggling through it. Partly American politeness I guess. ^^

[DirkMetall]

You even didn’t get the funniest one: in German, it sounds exactly the same: “wir sinken!”

[lykan]

The Coastguard one is a classic, it burned itself into my brain, i'll never forget it.

[JakobGaertner]

It took me a while to understand that Ryan's initial "Kchawlla" is supposed to be a German "Hallo".

[helmutfunke]

Günther reminds me of the guy in the Deichkind song "in der Natur" (maybe a reference to the mtv ads) - a video worth looking at and talking about, in fact all Deichkind Videos are worth talking about 😂

[chrismacaber]

Best german ad ever. Überlebensradar!!!! It's a meme.
There is another very infamous one for learning English from the Dutchies...but it is kinda banned 😼