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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:55:05
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Share your favourite commercial messages.  TV ads or otherwise.

Here's two I will remember forever:

Guinness - Surfer

Metz - Judderman

If anyone can find the playstation one with the girl with the very weird eyes and the scottish accent please post it.

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:09:55
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I found it.  This was the work of the genius director Chris Cunningham

Playstation - Girl (English)

A friend of mine told me that this was dubbed into many languages and the lip-syncing somehow looked perfect, but i've only ever seen the English one.

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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:51:09
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Ever turned up the volume for a commercial?

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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:57:40
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I love that Discovery channel one.
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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:48:11
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It was funnier at the time I suppose. Nyaa
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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:43:38
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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:14:10
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I liked that VW Golf one so much.  Must find that remix!! also liked the discovery channel one.

Did any of you think any of the ones I linked were good?

Just remembered another one, will try to find it now.  This was for a long time the only thing people had seen of Avid Merrion.  It was months before he started Bo Selekta.

Red Square - Chickens

still makes me laugh

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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:39:19

I like the Compare the market.com ads where they have this Meerkat saying its not his site. The recent ad is this whole epic like how the jews crossed the red sea, but with meerkats suffering. Then if you actually go to the fictional http://www.comparethemeerkat.com it actually is a spoof site that redirects you to the real site. Funny stuff.

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Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:01:05
A commercial thread! Those are all good ones. Never saw that Judderman one before.
Here's a mixed bag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWGQ-vLkII

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7MVtgXMclI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpyhpisoWf4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgfbekopynU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42chG3c59JI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZTxoysimK4&feature=related
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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:57:43

Burger King has done some pretty controversial ads, at least in the US.  This poster was from last year, and it pissed a lot of people off.  Frankly though I was a huge fan of it it since I thought it was funnier than hell.  

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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:59:58

Pretty awesome poster.

Godamn that burger would kill you.

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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:01:57

angrymonkey said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZTxoysimK4&feature=related

LOL

Where is that trojan condom one with the gymnasts?

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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:06:38
I always meant to try that burger out just on principle.  The ad agency that does Burger King's ads and commercials is easily one of the most creative, if not slightly disturbed, agencies in the country.  Hard to believe they're from Miami.  But between the Subserviant Chicken (http://www.bk.com/en/us/campaigns/subservient-chicken.html), the creepy Burger King commercials, and even the Xbox games, these guys know how to generate press and attention.
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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:58:05
Meerkats should have their own real movie.  

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Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:45:01
What about advertising slogans or catch-phrases?  

I find myself strangely affected by mass effect 2's "fight for the lost".  i was completely disinterested in the original game or in this sequel until i started seeing advertising banners on sites with that phrase on.  now i want to buy/play it ... i don't even have a 360 Sad

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Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:32:11

I saw a great one recently, avdvertising  a mobile phone, or a phone company or something:

Director: Chris Cunningham

Music by: Boards of Canada

Starring: A field, insects, flowers ... Leonardo di Caprio

Quiet

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Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:54:52

This is the best advert, ever.

wonderbra1.jpg

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Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:27:38

Push-up bras can be bad for you.

Then again women using push up bras probably don't really need a bra at all. Nyaa

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