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Elaine

Commercial Ads

I just LOVE LOVE LOVE the new Gap ad featuring the exquisite late, great Audrey Hepburn. If you haven't seen it yet, here it is:

Ad: Audrey Falls Into the Gap

Who knew the "skinny black pant" was back in fashion? I guess I'll have to stop eating those pan dulces. :roll:

But my all-time favorite has to be the Gap ad campaign starring the deliciously sexy Italian actor-model Raoul Bova :wink: :

Ad: Bova, Pt 1

Ad: Bova, Pt 2
Joanne

Elaine wrote:
Who knew the "skinny black pant" was back in fashion? I guess I'll have to stop eating those pan dulces. :roll:

Of course they'd have to come back in fashion at the age when every Dunkin' Donut I've ever eaten in my life start making fashionably late appearances on my ass... :cussing: :roll:

Elaine wrote:
But my all-time favorite has to be the Gap ad campaign starring the deliciously sexy Italian actor-model Raoul Bova :wink: :

I can't look at him! I'll forget why I'm getting married, if I do! :wink:
André in Zuid-Afrika

Joanne wrote:
Elaine wrote:
But my all-time favorite has to be the Gap ad campaign starring the deliciously sexy Italian actor-model Raoul Bova :wink: :

I can't look at him! I'll forget why I'm getting married, if I do! :wink:


Why? :? He's not that beautiful that he could let you forge.... er... let you... er....I'm sorry, what were we talking about?

Walker

How come that Gap ad is your favorite? I was just waiting for something funny to happen, like that Bova guy tripping or hitting his head on something, or something. :x
Elaine

Walker wrote:
How come that Gap ad is your favorite? I was just waiting for something funny to happen, like that Bova guy tripping or hitting his head on something, or something. :x


You just don't get it, do you? :roll:
Walker

Elaine wrote:
Walker wrote:
How come that Gap ad is your favorite? I was just waiting for something funny to happen, like that Bova guy tripping or hitting his head on something, or something. :x


You just don't get it, do you? :roll:


Yes, I do. I was just kidding. I'll agree it's an attractive guy. But I guess "attractive" would be an understatement to you.
Elaine

Walker wrote:
Elaine wrote:
Walker wrote:
How come that Gap ad is your favorite? I was just waiting for something funny to happen, like that Bova guy tripping or hitting his head on something, or something. :x


You just don't get it, do you? :roll:


Yes, I do. I was just kidding. I'll agree it's an attractive guy. But I guess "attractive" would be an understatement to you.


Yes I know you were kidding. I was being facetious myself. And what do you mean by that last statement? :gaf:
Walker

Elaine wrote:
Walker wrote:
Elaine wrote:
Walker wrote:
How come that Gap ad is your favorite? I was just waiting for something funny to happen, like that Bova guy tripping or hitting his head on something, or something. :x


You just don't get it, do you? :roll:


Yes, I do. I was just kidding. I'll agree it's an attractive guy. But I guess "attractive" would be an understatement to you.


Yes I know you were kidding. I was being facetious myself. And what do you mean by that last statement? :gaf:


I only meant that you might find him more that just attractive, since you posted the ads and all. It came out wrong. Maybe "attractive" is a stronger word in English than it is in Swedish. Let me tell you about yesterday. I went to the swimming hall (or whatever it's called in English) to do a swimming test. When I swam there were a few other people in the pool, for instance there was a girl there with a friend and they were also swimming stretches. Well, each time this girl and I met, or passed each other in the pool, she looked at me and smiled. I swam the distance I was supposed to swim and stuff, and then I got up and sat down on a bench next to the pool to catch my breath a little. I felt relieved and a little excited that I was done but also because of her. So I felt like saying something, and I did. When she came swimming by me I said "how's it going?" (går det bra? - lit. goes it well?). I shouldn't have said that. When somebody's struggling with something and another person says that, it's often to be malicious or mean. She got a serious face, turned her head straight forward and kept swimming. I so blew it! Me and words, Elaine, me and words...
Elaine

Walker wrote:

I only meant that you might find him more that just attractive, since you posted the ads and all. It came out wrong. Maybe "attractive" is a stronger word in English than it is in Swedish.


No not really, and yes, "attractive" to describe Raoul would definitely be an understatement. I just didn't know what you meant, so I needed clarification. Now that I've re-read what you wrote-- Of course!! It's plain as day what you meant. I guess things weren't clicking in Elaine's widdle brain at the time.

Quote:
I so blew it! Me and words, Elaine, me and words...


I actually find that endearing. What a cute story.
Walker

Elaine wrote:
No not really, and yes, "attractive" to describe Raoul would definitely be an understatement. I just didn't know what you meant, so I needed clarification. Now that I've re-read what you wrote-- Of course!! It's plain as day what you meant. I guess things weren't clicking in Elaine's widdle brain at the time.


No worries, Elaine! :) And thank you for what you said.
Deborah

I was perusing cute bunny videos on youtube and found this Blaupunkt ad:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4SUfT-1YnRw&mode=related&search=
Elaine

Deborah wrote:
I was perusing cute bunny videos on youtube and found this Blaupunkt ad:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4SUfT-1YnRw&mode=related&search=


:D

Where do these "questionable" commercials air? They would never get past the FCC here.
Deborah

Elaine wrote:
Where do these "questionable" commercials air? They would never get past the FCC here.

"Questionable?" But it's so cute! Just a bunny wabbit an' a teddy bear...
Joanne

What about those disturbing Burger King ads?

1) Burger King - Dog

:peur: Eeeeeeek! Holy God, dude, keep your damn sandwich! The fear! The FEAR! If someone freakin' did a "Samara" on me like that, I'd have a heart attack right there on the spot (as if that 50000-calorie sandwich wouldn't kill me fast enough by itself!)

2) Burger King on speed
Again... keep your cup o' Joe, you creepy, probable-pedophillic Burger Freak... :peur: :shudder:
Joanne

YouTube is great! " alt="" border="0" />

This commercial was first shown during the last Super Bowl:
Fabio Shampoo

And I thought this one was just cute:
Romeo & Juliet
Elaine

Okay, I detest those Dr. Scholl's Are you gellin' commercials, but as if Gellin' with Magellen wasn't cringe-inducing enough, the other night I heard someone bust out with Zinfandellin'. A new low.

Are you all with me??
Deborah

Elaine wrote:
Are you all with me??

Yes. They're one of the reasons I don't mind having a nonfunctioning TV set.
Joanne

Last night, I saw the most irritating commercial ever, and for some reason, they showed it four times consecutively! I still have a headache (which was probably the point.) Somebody at USA Network needs to die!

Head On!
Julian

Joanne wrote:
Last night, I saw the most irritating commercial ever, and for some reason, they showed it four times consecutively! I still have a headache (which was probably the point.) Somebody at USA Network needs to die!

Head On!


I had never seen this commercial but judging by all the parodies of it on You Tube, it has apparently captured the pop cultural zeitgeist (Wait, did I just say that??? ). Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Joanne.

HeadOn! spoof

HeadOn! THA Remix

VH1: Big in '06
Walker

There are many commercials that are just made to piss you off! What about the Merci commercial? You know, "Merci for being you!". I hate it!
Walker

There are many commercials that are just made to piss you off! What about the Merci commercial? You know, "Merci for being you!". I hate it!
Deborah

That first Head On Spoof is great! I'd like to look at the rest of them, but I'm at work -- 2 hours early. I feel like applying a brick wall directly to my forehead.
Julian

This is quite possibly the best commercial ad of 2006:

J'adore
Shouga

Julian wrote:
This is quite possibly the best commercial ad of 2006:

J'adore


Never seen that
Deborah

(I found this link on a dance forum.)

Freixenet has a new ad for Cordon Negro featuring Gwynneth Paltrow and Angel Corrella, a world-famous Spanish ballet dancer. Enter a contest and you could win a signed photo of this unusual pareja!

André in Zuid-Afrika

Julian wrote:
This is quite possibly the best commercial ad of 2006:

J'adore


Of course! Charlize....
Deborah

This is the most beautiful camera commercial I've ever seen! (The model looks like my Ratso when he was young.)
Fredrik

Cute!
Joanne

I'm still giggling uncontrollably over that Super Bowl Snickers commercial. It was rude, sophmoric, and not too flashy.

"Quick! Do something manly!"
Julian

Joanne wrote:
I'm still giggling uncontrollably over that Super Bowl Snickers commercial. It was rude, sophmoric, and not too flashy.

"Quick! Do something manly!"


You can watch all four endings here:

http://www.snickerssatisfies.com/mechanics/Default.aspx?v=A

And here's the Kevin Federline Super Bowl commercial that's got the fast food industry up in arms:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0sAC24oHuY
Porthos

Charlize was so freakin hot in that commercial!!!! That ad was such a tease though. The camera remained above her neck after she was fully undressed. What a rip!
Deborah

Julian wrote:
And here's the Kevin Federline Super Bowl commercial that's got the fast food industry up in arms:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0sAC24oHuY

I don't get it. Why is the fast food industry up in arms?
Lazar

Porthos wrote:
Charlize was so freakin hot in that commercial!!!!

I couldn't agree with you more. That ad is intense.

Deborah wrote:
I don't get it. Why is the fast food industry up in arms?

I guess they think it's disparaging, um, "rapid culinary technicians" as having a menial job.
Deborah

Lazar wrote:
I guess they think it's disparaging, um, "rapid culinary technicians" as having a menial job.

Do you mean they're under the impression that most of us think being a "rapid culinary technician" is a great job?
André in Zuid-Afrika

Porthos wrote:
Charlize was so freakin hot in that commercial!!!!


Well, of course she was.... She's South African, after all.... And Afrikaans...



Now, if only we could teach you Americans to pronounce her surname correctly....
Lazar

Wow, Andre!
Porthos

André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
Porthos wrote:
Charlize was so freakin hot in that commercial!!!!


Well, of course she was.... She's South African, after all.... And Afrikaans...



Now, if only we could teach you Americans to pronounce her surname correctly....


Hey Andre, aren't most Afrikaaners just Dutch-Africans anyway? How many of you guys are actually French or English or whatever else? Aren't moost of you just descendants of Dutch colonists, and essentially Dutch by ancestry?
Julian

André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
Now, if only we could teach you Americans to pronounce her surname correctly....


She can teach us herself :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjMRTvsdX8s

More Charlize: Martini Ad

What a woman!
Julian

Lazar wrote:
Deborah wrote:
I don't get it. Why is the fast food industry up in arms?

I guess they think it's disparaging, um, "rapid culinary technicians" as having a menial job.


That's exactly it. Well, actually it's the National Restaurant Assocation that's making all the fuss.

Quote:
Federline fast-food spot assailed
By The Associated Press

Columbus, Ohio - A restaurant trade group says it is insulted by an insurance company's planned Super Bowl ad that stars Kevin Federline as a fast-food worker.

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.'s 30-second spot shows Federline, who is estranged from pop princess Britney Spears, performing in a glitzy music video. However, the punch line is that he's daydreaming - while cooking french fries at a fast-food joint.

The ad amounts to a "strong and direct insult to the 12.8 million Americans who work in the restaurant industry," wrote National Restaurant Association President and Chief Executive Steven Anderson in a letter to Nationwide CEO Jerry Jurgensen.

The commercial "would give the impression that working in a restaurant is demeaning and unpleasant," Anderson wrote.

If the Columbus-based insurer airs the spot during the televised Feb. 4 Super Bowl, Anderson said his organization will "make sure that our membership - many of whom are customers of Nationwide - know the negative implications this ad portrays of the restaurant industry." A Nationwide executive shrugged off the criticism, saying that where humor is involved, there always will be somebody who doesn't get it.

The company doesn't mean to offend restaurant employees, said Steven Schreibman, vice president of advertising and brand management.

"We're not making fun of anybody, except maybe Kevin Federline." Spears, 25, filed for divorce from 28-year-old Federline in November, after two years of marriage. They have two sons, 4-month-old Jayden James and 1-year-old Sean Preston.
Shouga

Julian wrote:
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
Now, if only we could teach you Americans to pronounce her surname correctly....


She can teach us herself :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjMRTvsdX8s

More Charlize: Martini Ad

What a woman!


...That sounds impossible to pronounce!
André in Zuid-Afrika

Julian wrote:
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
Now, if only we could teach you Americans to pronounce her surname correctly....


She can teach us herself :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjMRTvsdX8s

More Charlize: Martini Ad

What a woman!


Ah, excellent!! I hope you guys will get it right from now on!! Ellen Degeneres even got the R right!
André in Zuid-Afrika

Shouga wrote:
Julian wrote:
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
Now, if only we could teach you Americans to pronounce her surname correctly....


She can teach us herself :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjMRTvsdX8s

More Charlize: Martini Ad

What a woman!


...That sounds impossible to pronounce!


It's quite easy - it's simply pronounced TRON.
Porthos

Wow. I particularly like the ending of the martini ad.
Fredrik

André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:

Now, if only we could teach you Americans to pronounce her surname correctly....


I find it very strange that people make an issue out of her name being mispronounced when she in fact spells her name with an antiquated French spelling that in no way reflects its actual pronounciation in Afrikaans. She should change it into Trron or just live with it.

Concerning all those commercials:
Coming from a culture (Scandinavia) famous for its use of understatement, humour and irony in commercials, I tend to find the "smoking hot" commercials posted here awfully vulgar. They are exactly what Norwegians refer to when they moan about "Americanization". This is our idea of a good commercial (with Norwegian folk music as an extra treat):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3krlhEZ0Gos&NR
(The text at the end says: "The chocolate you don't have to chew.")

And some more modern dancing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr...ZaMs&mode=related&search=
(In the end the speaker says: "Everybody doesn't like that shopping is so fast in our shops".)
André in Zuid-Afrika

Fredrik wrote:
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:

Now, if only we could teach you Americans to pronounce her surname correctly....


I find it very strange that people make an issue out of her name being mispronounced when she in fact spells her name with an antiquated French spelling that in no way reflects its actual pronounciation in Afrikaans. She should change it into Trron or just live with it.


I guess you're right! Is the surname Theron (a fairly common Afrikaans surname) spelled differently in French today? We do that all the time with surnames, for example the (German) surname Kruger is pronounced without the G in Afrikaans (it becomes Kruer), De Villiers is pronounced in two different ways in Afrikaans, and so on. What happened to Theron was that Afrikaans has no "TH"-sound, so it became Te-ron, with the E eventually falling away.
Joanne

OK, everybody. Alla yous need to start opening new threads for different topics. Don't make me take this velvet off my iron fist!


Identity in South Africa
Differences between Standard English and American English
Shouga: Computer help needed!
Shouga

Joanne wrote:
OK, everybody. Alla yous need to start opening new threads for different topics. Don't make me take this velvet off my iron fist!


Identity in South Africa
Differences between Standard English and American English
Shouga: Computer help needed!


Thanks for that, lol Was starting to get confusing in this thread!
Deborah

Fredrik wrote:
Concerning all those commercials:
Coming from a culture (Scandinavia) famous for its use of understatement, humour and irony in commercials, I tend to find the "smoking hot" commercials posted here awfully vulgar. They are exactly what Norwegians refer to when they moan about "Americanization". This is our idea of a good commercial (with Norwegian folk music as an extra treat):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3krlhEZ0Gos&NR
(The text at the end says: "The chocolate you don't have to chew.")

And some more modern dancing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr...ZaMs&mode=related&search=
(In the end the speaker says: "Everybody doesn't like that shopping is so fast in our shops".)

I don't know, Fredrik -- the cross-dresser in the second commercial was smoking hot!!!

(No human is as hot as the cat in the camera commercial I posted a link to.)
André in Zuid-Afrika

Joanne wrote:
Don't make me take this velvet off my iron fist!



Oh, promises, promises...
Julian

Quite possibly the greatest commercial ever made :

Axe 1



This one's cute:

Axe 2

Shouga

Oh, we know Axe as 'Lynx' over here! I've never seen that first commercial, although I found it funny Certainly very good advertisement, lol! And the second commerical, we used to have that over here, but without that music - and obviously, referred to as Lynx, not Axe.
Julian

A funny but potentially offensive German commercial:

WARNING: ADULT CONTENT
Julian

The LA County Fair is back in town and so too are the highlarious commercials promoting it.







Last year's commercial



2005
Rio

Im going to put up some famous ads from my childhood, which to this day has left an indelible memory on my mind. However the problem with these old Aussie ads is the terrible RP accent that they all carried. Australian accents were stigmatised on commercials until the last 10 or so years.

Pro Hart - he was quite a famous and unique artist, died last year I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qb4n8yc2so

And the awesome Chaser reply (love them boys!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsJ-bqwZGUc&feature=related

I still know the words to this and this was shown when I was 5 to about 8 on TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLXkL46-Ml0

This was an ad that was played continuously at the time with now an Hollywood actress in it (who appeared in a lot of commercials). Its not her most famous ad, the most famous one being an ad for Australian Lamb where she wins a date with Tom Cruise from a radio competition (who her bestie subsequently married):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuKITlpAENo&NR=1

And I remember this one too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB_ZCX971aU

Some famous Aussie products and songs:

Weetbix (again a song that has been burnt in my mind from childhood):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRnI9C--X2o&feature=related

The old Airplane jelly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HSMVpSsdWM&feature=related

Recent Vegemite commercial (with the famous song):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGxG6r6I7i4&feature=related
Rio

And you must see this one, would have to be one of the most revered commercials and loved ads of Australia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO2SnpfP18A
Lazar

I think this ad is beautiful:

http://www.splendad.com/ads/show/1677-Ford-Edge-Same-City-Better-View
Deborah

Rio, what is the reluctant animal in the RSPCA ad?
Deborah

Rio wrote:
Weetbix (again a song that has been burnt in my mind from childhood):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRnI9C--X2o&feature=related

And now it's burned in mine, after only one viewing!
Rio

Deborah wrote:
Rio, what is the reluctant animal in the RSPCA ad?


I've always thought it was a wombat.
Deborah

That's what I thought it was, from its shape, but I'd only seen brown ones, so I wasn't sure.
Didier69

André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
Fredrik wrote:
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:

Now, if only we could teach you Americans to pronounce her surname correctly....


I find it very strange that people make an issue out of her name being mispronounced when she in fact spells her name with an antiquated French spelling that in no way reflects its actual pronounciation in Afrikaans. She should change it into Trron or just live with it.  


I guess you're right! Is the surname Theron (a fairly common Afrikaans surname) spelled differently in French today? We do that all the time with surnames, for example the (German) surname Kruger is pronounced without the G in  Afrikaans (it becomes Kruer), De Villiers is pronounced in two different ways in Afrikaans, and so on. What happened to Theron was that Afrikaans has no "TH"-sound, so it became Te-ron, with the E eventually falling away.


I thought "G" in "Kruger"  was pronounced  as a Spanish jota or a German "ACH" Laut.  
Walker

Here are a few commercials by the Swedish director Roy Andersson. He has a pretty unique style.

Bashar

I'm sure we can all appreciate this.  Jimmy John's, a chain of sandwich restaurants in parts of the USA, makes commercials in different languages.  

Here's one in Spanish:


This commercial is in Japanese:


And best of all...THIS commercial is in Hungarian!
Elaine

Bashar wrote:
I'm sure we can all appreciate this.  Jimmy John's, a chain of sandwich restaurants in parts of the USA, makes commercials in different languages.


They're a bit cheesy, but I guess that's their charm.  I've never actually heard of Jimmy John's but apparently they've got franchises out here in California.  It's probably like Sonic Drive-in.  Sonic commercials air on basic television all the time (and the food actually looks good!), but nobody I know has ever seen an actual Sonic restaurant.
André in Zuid-Afrika

Didier69 wrote:
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:
Fredrik wrote:
André in Zuid-Afrika wrote:

Now, if only we could teach you Americans to pronounce her surname correctly....


I find it very strange that people make an issue out of her name being mispronounced when she in fact spells her name with an antiquated French spelling that in no way reflects its actual pronounciation in Afrikaans. She should change it into Trron or just live with it.  


I guess you're right! Is the surname Theron (a fairly common Afrikaans surname) spelled differently in French today? We do that all the time with surnames, for example the (German) surname Kruger is pronounced without the G in  Afrikaans (it becomes Kruer), De Villiers is pronounced in two different ways in Afrikaans, and so on. What happened to Theron was that Afrikaans has no "TH"-sound, so it became Te-ron, with the E eventually falling away.


I thought "G" in "Kruger"  was pronounced  as a Spanish jota or a German "ACH" Laut.  


No, it's left out completely. The surname is pronounced to more or less rhyme with "clear", but with a more rounded sound. In the surname KrugeL (which is far less common that Kruger in South Africa), the G is retained in the pronounciation.
Julian

This one's hilarious. But I warn you -- you'll be singing the Bee Gees tune the rest of the day.


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