44 posts tagged “tvc”

Here’s the newest promo for the American version of Life on Mars. Notice that any footage featuring Colm Meaney or Rachelle Lefèvre has been cut, and only Jason O’Mara appears. The year has also been changed to ‘1973’, matching the original’s setting.

The youngsters at work hadn’t seen this 1979 TVC for Kentucky Fried Chicken before.

   However, the following TVC for Cadbury’s Crunchie is even older (1975) and they remembered it, due to its long run, even after the packaging changed. (There was a CGI version that updated the packaging—which is not worth talking about.)

From: Jack Yan
To: Drake

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Drake: given your recent successful assassinations, our organization will pay you to eliminate from New Zealand screens the Beaurepaires spokesman, Vince Martin. Since 1982 we have had to put up with his ads for Dunlop and Beaurepaires, listening to him whine about blunt axes and singing Christmas carols. You are free to choose what method of killing you like, but the old hallucination and dive out of a high-rise gag is a good standby. Try not to run afoul of Jim Phelps and his Mission: Impossible team if you can.—JY

When I go on YouTube, there are a lot of commercials that the posters claim are ‘banned’. I’ve spotted quite a few that weren’t banned, which is rather annoying. It’s like going to Wikipedia and finding the car pages are wrong (about 90 per cent, by my reckoning, have factual errors that no “expert” writing about them would make).
   Well, here’s a commercial for Toyota that was actually banned in New Zealand by the political correctness movement. Probably the excuse was anyone seeing this TVC would surely then commit domestic violence. I would have banned it for a lack of originality and viewing it the second and third time, it is plain stupid. The message: buy a Toyota, destroy your marriage.
   However, not everyone has my tastes, so here is a real banned TVC for the Toyota RAV4 for your viewing pleasure(?).

   Un pub interdit pour la Toyota RAV4 en Nouvelle-Zélande.

I was chatting to Nick Tomlinson au blog, and this ad for the 1988–9 Vauxhall Cavalier came to mind. Yes, the car of the future is the Opel Vectra A!

   No mention of a nuclear power cell, which GM actually did promise us in the Futurama shows of the 1950s.

Un pub britannique de 1988 pour l’Opel Vectra A, s’appelle Vauxhall Cavalier en Grande-Bretagne.

New Zealanders, remember these? Bring back the great Kiwi jingle!

The latter first ran in 1982 or 1983, I believe, and it continued into the late 1990s. I hope my friend Chloë, whom I met in 2002 but was actually at law school with prior to that, made heaps from the repeat fees.

Here’s an audience favourite from New Zealand, advertising the state-run lottery.

Un pub pour la loterie en Nouvelle-Zélande, avec la chanson plus célèbre d’Edith Piaf (‹La vie en rose›, mais en anglais).

Here’s the full publicity picture from US Life on Mars, including the American Gene Hunt himself (Colm Meaney), Sam Tyler (Jason O’Mara) and Annie Cartwright (Rachelle Lefèvre).

   What is American for ‘You great, soft, sissy, girly, nancy, French, bender, Man. United-supporting poof!’?
   Here’s another pic from the network:. Question: who’s the old dude on the left? Is this the American Ray?    And, finally, the trailer, which is of great interest to me. Fans of the original, you’ll notice many things are repeated from the first episode in the UK, except the Americans drive on the wrong side of the road—so Sam stops his Jeep on the right side. (He is, interestingly, struck from left to right, too.) The suspect’s name, Colin Raimes, is the same, Sam’s girlfriend in the present is called Maya, and even the Life on Mars title card looks very much like the original with a few changes for US tastes. IMDB says Edmund Butt, who scored the original, has the same job this time around.
   Gene seems less tough in this incarnation though. Maybe Philip Glenister desensitized us?
   I was laughing through most of it (note the American VO with ‘Back in the nick of time’, used in the second series) but unlike most Brit fans, I am looking forward to this.     Un pub pour la nouvelle série américaine Life on Mars, avec les photographies de publicité. Il y a beaucoup de similitudes avec la série originale britannique du BBC.

Now that Hillary Clinton has admitted to a problem with sleep deprivation, causing her to lie pathologically about Bosnia, then may I suggest this to the American public?
   I am often answering emails at 2 a.m. So a 3 a.m. phone call is not a biggie. (A 5 a.m. call would suck though.) Vote for me!
   Of course, we have that little problem of Art. II, s. 1 of the US Constitution.

I seem to remember one of the car brands doing a similar commercial here. This one is for Ford of Britain, made in the 1980s. If the Sierra there is a brand-new one, I would guess this was made around 1985 or 1986. It’s a nice, nostalgic trip through the 20th century and notice the British variation on the American ‘Quality is Job No. 1’ slogan at the end.

   Un pub pour Ford en Grande-Bretagne pendant les années 80. Le slogan américain est presque la même.