Uploaded January 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Bit of a short one here and yes, it DOES have that fecking Penalli infomercial hog most of the time but...hey, what'cha gonna do?
In-between "Looney Tunes" still, not that I need to say this for you know but anyway...
CONTENTS:
1) "That's all, goddammit!" / Cartoon Network ID sting
2) Cartoon Network promo for weekday morning line-up (Weird how they had to mention kicking Johnny Bravo out of the line-up so clearly like this. Ah well!)
3) This bloated, ridiculous infomercial that I almost felt like rewinding through but decided not to this time (Yeah, this is the one infomercial they liked the most on Cartoon Network UK at this time. God knows why. Also, why does making a pen much smaller equate to "female"? Any pen can fit into a handbag. Hmm.)
4) Welcome Back promo for "Looney Tunes"
Bit of a short one here and yes, it DOES have that fecking Penalli infomercial hog most of the time but...hey, what'cha gonna do?
In-between "Looney Tunes" still, not that I need to say this for you know but anyway...
CONTENTS:
1) "That's all, goddammit!" / Cartoon Network ID sting
2) Cartoon Network promo for weekday morning line-up (Weird how they had to mention kicking Johnny Bravo out of the line-up so clearly like this. Ah well!)
3) This bloated, ridiculous infomercial that I almost felt like rewinding through but decided not to this time (Yeah, this is the one infomercial they liked the most on Cartoon Network UK at this time. God knows why. Also, why does making a pen much smaller equate to "female"? Any pen can fit into a handbag. Hmm.)
4) Welcome Back promo for "Looney Tunes"
![[Original Upload] Channel 4 (UK) Ads, continuity and junction (28th December 1998)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TRyY4Ew-oTY/mqdefault.jpg "[Original Upload] Channel 4 (UK) Ads, continuity and junction (28th December 1998)
After some random show that I had no idea what was about because most of the show was recorded over and before what seemed like the Channel 4 premiere of the 1994 film adaptation of Little Women.
Anyhoo, going by as little context as I can find, CONTENTS!:
1) Promo for Stonehenge: Secrets of the Stones
2) Coming Up Next slide for Little Women / Channel 4 ID sting
3) Nicorette ad
4) Jeep Cherokee ad (Genuinely hilarious and charming. Kinda surprising considering its for such a behemoth of a car like a JEEP!)
5) Mr. Muscle ad
6) Haze 2-in-1 Active Air Freshener ad (The goofy tobacco ghoul makes me giggle. The sound FX, the expressions, the sometimes stupid editing tricks...awesome)
7) Vicks Sinex ad (Oh if only I can smell them...)
8) Daily Mail newspaper ad w/ P&O Stena promotion (Before anyone asks me anything considering what I said over The Sun in the previous upload: I hate all newspapers. Its a terrible industry. There, I just answered all your questions. Just because The Sun IMO is the King of Shit doesnt mean everything else isnt to a degree ;) )
9) Allders ad
10) Nicorette Inhalator ad
11) Werthers Original ad (Classic? Infamous? Infamous classic? Either way, Im happy I managed to catch this commercial in the wild when discovering what this tape had taped over!)
12) Promo for Loch-Ness and To the Ends of the Earth: Return to Loch-Ness
13) Channel 4 ident")
![[UNCUT] (1/2) Channel 4 (UK) Ads and Continuity (3rd April 2005)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UJmotmUKNEk/mqdefault.jpg "[UNCUT] (1/2) Channel 4 (UK) Ads and Continuity (3rd April 2005)
So...erf...digitising this perticular VHS started with excitement on seeing what the actual final broadcast TV recording we did before we got a DVD recorder had after nearly 20 years...and it ended with me feeling weirdly depressed. Even as someone who was a kid for the first half of the decade (though at this point, I had been 13 for less than 5 months), I have complicated feelings with the 2000s. It wasnt without moments of joy and fun in my life, of course, but...I mean, after That Point in 2001, things just...it was rough being raised with media and culture that was leaning towards stuff that was so positive and pro-empathy and then somehow two buildings fall down and peoples ability to not be Monsterously Awful People suddenly just feel right the heck down.
And this is an interesting thing to have ended up being the last VHS tape we recorded off broadcast TV as our way of taking stuff that was on TV and preserving it for later turned out to proberbly be some of the worst-aged stuff we possibly couldve recorded from that time period. This first part isnt as bad as the second, to which I had to actually put a disclaimer at the start (look forward to that, I guess??!), but there are definite points where the unnecessary crudeness and lame-at-best boisterous laddish were the domineering things rather than the exceptions. There are still people out there like this and there are still corners of media thatre almost like nothing had changed, but I really dont miss it. Some of the stuff in these ad breaks are pretty bad, but what doesnt help is the show surrounding them neither. At best, it had some nice introductions to some legit good-looking sketch comedy shows but in the era of Bo Selecta and Little Britain ruling mainstream media to a putridly grotty fault...well, yeah...you dont need to watch the show btw, an ableist Little Britain sketch won the countdown. Screw this gross, brown soul-sludge that sent society back a decade or two...or three.
...oh, right right, contents:
00:00 Channel 4 ident
00:27 Nintendo DS Sponsership Bumper
00:43 Britains 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches
01:13 Nintendo DS Sponsership Sting w/ WarioWare: Touch
01:19 Channel 4 ID sting / WKD ad (Alex Horne???!)
01:50 Tesco ad for Real Eighties Music Compilation
02:20 Tesco Life Insurance ad
02:40 Abbey ad
02:50 LOreal Double Expression Waterproof Mascara
03:10 Mars Delight ad
03:40 Kronenbourg 1664 ad
04:20 AA ad
04:52 Channel 4 ID sting / Promo for Vanilla Sky
05:14 Nintendo DS Sponsership Stings w/ WarioWare: Touch
05:28 Channel 4 ID sting / The One Account ad
06:09 The Sun ad
06:29 KFC ad w/ Ice Cream Bucket promotion
06:58 Wella Xtrovert ShockWaves ad
07:29 Mercedes-Benz A-Class ad
08:28 MSN Search ad
09:01 Channel 4 ID sting / Nintendo DS Sponsership Stings w/ WarioWare: Touch
09:17 Channel 4 ID sting / Citeron C4 ad
09:48 Vodafone Live! ad
10:18 TV ad for The Album(??!) Music Compilation
10:48 Skittles ad
11:18 Muller Vitality ad
11:48 John Smith Extra Smooth ad
12:18 AirMiles ad
12:50 Channel 4 ID / The Impressionists: Revenge of the Nice? Promo
13:12 Nintendo DS Sponsership Stings w/ WarioWare: Touch
Part 2: https://youtu.be/YLn3pFGptMU")
