Hugh Jackman dancing in Uruguay

This Lipton Ice Tea TV advert, 'Join the Dance', starring Hugh Jackman, was shot in Uruguay. Enjoy!

Lyrics | Men Without Hats lyrics - The Safety Dance lyrics

Logorama

Logorama is a Oscar-winning animated film written and directed by H5/ François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain, and produced by Autour de Minuit. The film depicts events in a stylized Los Angeles, and is told entirely through the use of more than 2500 contemporary and historical logos and mascots.

George Clooney and John Malkovich in heaven

England but...

In England we have lousy weather but the girls are always half naked. We live on an island, but you get there by train. We have a Queen, but her husband is only a prince. We built the EC, but in the end we kept the pound. We have dominated the world, but also we liked to be dominated. We invented football, but our national team is run by an Italian. We have the most ridiculous police uniforms, but somehow it seems to work. We love a well-tailored suit, but we also love a well-tailored dress. We don’t know how to cook, but we make good biscuits.

Creature discomforts: Aardman ads challenge views of disability

Leonard Cheshire Disability campaigns to change the way people think about, and respond to, disability. The campaign Creature discomforts features six animal characters, each of which is voiced by a disabled person. Characters include Flash the sausage dog, Spud the slug, Brian the bull terrier and Peg the hedgehog - all wheelchair users who have different disabilities - Slim the stick insect with a walking stick and Tim the tortoise on crutches. .

1 Watch me


2 Stick


3 Rubbish


4 Sweet shop


5 Love and sex


6 School / Sneaking up

Script:
Once kids find out you've got a disability they will play on it forever, although they didn't understand what was wrong, I'd lost my peripheral vision at school and they knew they could get up close to me, whack me in the side of a head with a book, and I'd never be able to spot who'd done it. So you develop other skills like very sensitive hearing and things like that as a counter measure. School wasn't particularly pleasant, but you learn how to deal with it.

7 Education

Script:
ADRIAN CARTER (Owl): It took me a little while to build up the courage to get back into the jist of going into education because you're interacting again isn't it you're back out there with the public. People look at you like, 'oh, he's in a wheelchair and he's in Uni, good on ya mate' you know what I mean.
CHRISTOPHER DAVIES (Chameleon): They can be quite judgemental about your disability. I mean the number of people who've told me 'you can't do that', really annoys me, especially as I can do better than they can sometimes.

8 Lesson

Script:
DEAN DAWES (Shrimp): Some people go, 'oh, look at that chair' and be all nice about it. But then I get these other people that go 'argh, look at that chair!'
DEBBIE REYNOLDS (Cat): If I did mention to someone that I was hard of hearing, they would start mouthing and talking to me like I was stupid, 'a li-ttle-bit-like-this', you know, 'a-re y-ou o-k?'
DEAN DAWES (Shrimp): They need to be taught a lesson... a very big one.

WORD OF THE MONTH JANUARY 2010: VIRAL

A viral video is a video clip that gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or instant messaging, blogs and other media sharing websites. Viral videos are often humorous in nature and include televised comedy sketches.

Matthew "Matt" Harding is an American video game designer and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various international locations. Harding has since received widespread coverage of his travel exploits in major print and broadcast media outlets and was hired by Visa to star in their Travel Happy campaign.

Fernando Torres: his pronunciation and his popularity in the UK

Christmas Wouldn't Be Christmas (Without your M&S)

M & S christmas advert 2009 Myleene Klass, Stephen Fry, Philip Glenister, Noemie Lenoir, Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley and James Nesbitt.

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Let's live like Galicians

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

George Clooney - What else?

Women:
- Dark, very intense, balanced, unique, mysterious... An intense body. Delicate and smooth with strong character... Right.. Rich. Very rich. I'd say Latin America temperament. Deep and sensual. And then delicious after you taste.
George Clooney:
- You're talking about....Nespresso, right?
Women:
- Aha.
George Clooney:
- Yeah... What else?
Nespresso. What else?

Woman 1:
- Hello, you're George Clooney, aren't you?
George Clooney:
- Well, yes ...
Woman 1:
- I've seen all your films. You're so charming and you're so sexy ... so generous ...
Woman 2:
- Excuse me, are you Mr George Clooney?
George Clooney:
- No, you must be mistaken.
Nespresso. What else?

Woman:
- The red one.
Girl:
- Excuse me. I'm sorry, do you mind if I ...
George Clooney:
- Of course. I don't think I have a pen
Girl:
- I just want a Nespresso.
George Clooney:
- Oh, Nespresso, what else?
Woman:
- Excuse, where have you been? I've been waiting for my car for about 5 minutes. I've been ... I didn't recognise you. How have you been, Camilla?
Girl:
- I've been really good.
Woman:
- It's great to see you. I think I talked to your mother 10 minutes ago.
Nespresso, what else?

Lessons in Kiwi English

Click here to find out what 'bugger' means.

New Zealand commercial using the "mate" theme to combat drink driving. Tag-line: if you drink then drive, you're a bloody idiot.
He's calling the guy by his name (Dave) rather than mate because they're not mates anymore after the crash. "Mate" is a pretty common term when you're speaking to someone. It's actually more common than using a person's name a lot of the time so to go from "mate" to "Dave" shows how far he's been separated from his friends. He's not one of them anymore. He's just someone who killed their real mate.

A hilarious commercial from New Zealand that explains when togs (the kiwi word for swimsuits) begin to be considered undies (underwear).

42 Below Vodka, made in Sydney (New Zealand)

Story of 42 Below Vodka


“Each morning the Maori people of New Zealand, which is part of Australia, rise at dawn, cook some eggs, put on their grass skirts and go out to the fields to make 42 Below vodka. There they trade with the fierce All Black tribes that live in the hill country for raw ingredients and ship them down the Shotover in traditional Americas Cup yachts to the 42 Below factory. Then using only stainless steel distilleries carved from ancient kauri trees they create the world’s smoothest vodka which they give to the white man in exchange for blankets, muskets and hobbits. And as the day turns to night, the tribes come together, drink large amounts of 42 Below, carve plastic tikis for Air New Zealand and tell the traditional Maori joke which goes like this: Knock knock. Who’s there? Statue. Statue who? Statue bro? 42 Below Vodka - made right here in Sydney, New Zealand.”

42 Below Germany


42 Below - Britain


42 Below Canada


42 Below Wallaby

Sexy kiwi men

New Zealand commercials for soft drink L&P.

Back in the day when men’s fashion wasn’t cutting it modern Kiwi males demanded more from their casual attire, well what they actually got was less, a whole lot less as they welcomed in Stubbies, available mostly in brown and a frighteningly one size too small. Finally the Kiwi male was able to liberate his thighs to a breathless country. And his puku (=maori word for belly) and his bum! Features included a handy front key pocket although no key could fit in it, which was cool ’cause back then well people just left their keys in the car anyway. Now any social occasion was one men could feel comfortable in as they drank their L&P while their mullets (=hair style that is short in the front and long in the back) sheltered their necks from the long summer sun that burned on and on. You were there and so was L&P. World famous in New Zealand since ages ago.

There's something else to impress the ladies: Sugar free “Sweet As” L&P. World famous in New Zealand since quite recently.

New Zealand kiwifruit

Famous chef Keith Floyd in a 1980's UK ad for kiwi fruit:

New Zealand commercials

New Zealand Insurance NZI

NZI - Everyone steals Kiwi
Uploaded by Zeclark

Ad from New Zealand Insurance NZI. The narrator, who has a really strong kiwi accent, presents various things and Kiwi personality stole to New Zealand.

Let's face it; everyone's stealing your stuff. It is better to have insurance.

The ad mentions: Phar Lap horse, Dragon, Split Enz, Crowded House, Maori, Coutts and Butterworth, All Blacks players, Electric fence, Pavlova, Spreadable butter, Dame Kiri ...and many others.

Pineapple Lumps (confectionery made with a pineapple flavoured centre covered in chocolate)

Pineapple Lumps True Story
Uploaded by DuncansTV

Burger King

Burger King Tribute to the Egg
by Postkiwi

Mainland Cheese Cheesemakers

This vintage ad features two old codgers taking a break from their fishing. They play a word game as they walk up to the cottage, connecting species of fish with popular singers. They try Cod Stewart, Squid Vicious, Cinammon Davis Junior, Tim and Eel Finn, Terakihi Kanawa, Tina Tuna, finishing with Pike and Tina Tuna. On the way back from the cheese tasting they find musicians with cheese sounding names: Chubby Cheddar, The Brie Gees, Camembert Humperdink, Mozarella Fitzgerald, Bryan Edam, Stilton John, Colby Stilton Nash and the Beatles. The Beatles? Yeah… Grated Hits!

This ad features bird impersonations. It’s a moa (homophone of "mower"), tern (homophone of "turn") seagull, duck, heron (sounds similar to "hearing") and a crane. Voiceover: “We wait eighteen months for our vintage cheddar to develop that distinctive sharp Mainland taste. Eighteen long months.” “It’s a fantail!”

Gingerbread Haka


Mitsubishi


Dad?
Yeah, man?
Where did I come from? Well...

Let me tell you about the birds and the bees
And the flowers and the trees
The moon up above
And a thing called love
When I look into your big brown eyes
It's very plain to see
That it's time you learned about the facts of life startin' from A to Z

That's so cool, dad, because Jimmy Johnstone only comes from Scotland.


Vodafone

“Isn’t the world a great place? I mean just think of all the things we can do now! You can change the colour of your hair, your skin and even your eyes. You can have a virtual pet, an online friend, a second life! You can become a millionaire by selling pixels for a dollar each. You can go back to school after you’ve retired. Men can stay home and look after the kids while women go to work and bring home the bacon. If you don’t have boobs you can just go buy a pair. You can dial a hubby. You can get donuts in 564 different flavours and entertain the whole world from your living room. Now we can do all these great things so let’s make the most of it. Vodafone… make the most of now…”

Ad for Steinlager from the '90s, made for cinema (reason why it is long) and with a twist at the end. The actors are British comedians Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.

Jamie Oliver's ads for Sainsbury's

Road safety ads

Have a nice Easter holiday and take care!

A grieving man walks a lonely road to place a white cross to mark the site of fatal Easter road accident in New Zealand.

One of many drink driving advertisements from New Zealand:


Land Transport New Zealand's campaign against fatigue:

Land Transport New Zealand is different from other road safety organisations. As well as concentrating on the usual suspects (speeding, seatbelts, drink driving) they also make adverts warning you to be careful at road junctions.

Land Transport New Zealand provided New Zealand television viewers with a graphic description of the impact of speed on survivability in road crashes.

“When we drive fast we don’t realise the danger we’re in. If you’re driving at 90 km per hour and crash the speed your body impacts is the same as if you’re falling from the first floor of a building. At 110 km per hour the impact is the same as falling from the fifth floor. And at 125 km per hour the impact is like falling from the ninth floor.”

A collection of school principals talk about cars speeding near their schools and the impact it's had on their children.

School principals speak with gritty honesty about having a student struck down by a vehicle outside their school, in the NZ Police road safety campaign on speeding near schools.

One teacher, pictured, tells about a road around the back of the school where some of the motorists almost go airborne as they go over the hill.

Another teacher tells about a child stepping out on the crossing. “The car just went….”

Another tells it like it is… “You can imagine what it must be like if something weighing a tonne, made of metal, hits a small body”.

“Over the bonnet and into the windscreen and over the roof”

“When I realised that the marks that were on the road were actually the boy’s bloodstains it really hit home…”

The ad finishes with a shot of an empty desk and the super, “There’s no excuse for speeding around schools.”

St Patrick's Day - Guinness ads

The song in the ad is Kiss my Irish ass by The Keltic Cowboys
LYRICS
Oh me dad, he'd be drunk on the lawn,
Yelling and screaming like he do
But sometimes my old man felt what he was feeling,
Sometimes Mr. Mackey spoke the truth
We're as stubborn as mules
With our blood on fire
When we ain't at Sunday mass
We'll look any man straight in his eyes and say
Kiss my Irish ass!
You better kiss my Irish ass!

Irish Spring Body Wash