Where the bloody hell are you?
Last year, I blogged about the above campaign (although Google no longer indexes my blog properly since I switched to new Blogger—ironical, since Blogger is owned by Google—so I can’t show you the link). It was known for its use of the word hell, which I believe Americans took exception to, and the British took exception to bloody. Still, it’s a beautiful compilation of imagery, and one blogger said that if we had had jiggle TV in the 1970s, maybe it was time for jiggle advertising (by the well endowed girl on the beach).
What got me posting was seeing the below parody made by the chaps at Fair Go, the consumer affairs’ show, of their comparable version from New Zealand. I have not seen Fair Go since, probably, the year they gave the best ad award to the cat-and-bird NZI commercial (‘Maurice was very depressed. What would he do with no TV? You guessed it’) since I never know what time it is on. I think that show was around 1989.
Still, good to know that Kevin Milne (Fair Go’s own Ken Barlow) and co. are still on form and concocted the below for a laugh.
La pub pour le tourisme australien, et une parodie néo-zélandaise. La version originale australienne a inclu les mots bloody hell: il y avait des problèmes en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis, mais ils sont les parties du discourse en Australie.
Comments
I'm the bloody hell here, mate, stuck here in the Midwest! LOL
I want to see the Outback, box a Roo (LOL, yeah right) and dip inthe blue, blue waters of both New Zealand and Australia.
Sigh.