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Offline Peter B

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Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« on: May 21, 2014, 10:01:40 AM »


Anyone else seen this one?

And with an impressively realistic depition of astronauts on the Moon...!
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Offline Andromeda

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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2014, 10:21:24 AM »
I found it horrific, sorry.
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Offline darren r

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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2014, 12:20:59 PM »
Yeah....It's very well done and everything, but it's pretty horrible. They could have made the joke in a less gruesome way.
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Offline johnbutcher

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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2014, 04:55:52 PM »


Anyone else seen this one?

And with an impressively realistic depition of astronauts on the Moon...!

I'm sorry, but I really enjoyed that.
 I showed it to herself and even she got it first time.
 Also shared it with my No.2 son and he's sharing it with his older brother.
 Definitely funny.

And, yes I got the apollo reference.

 sloop.

Offline Jason Thompson

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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2014, 05:31:00 AM »
And with an impressively realistic depition of astronauts on the Moon...!

Right up until an astronaut breaks wind and the monster hears it...

I thought the joke was amusing (if you can ignore the fundamental flaw that in space no-one can hear you fart), but a bit overdone on the horrific slaughtering of astronauts. Plenty of other commercials, TV shows and films manage to make the threat convincing without the massive violence. Wouldn't the joke have been just as funny with the monster just stalking them?
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Offline Andromeda

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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2014, 06:18:21 AM »
And with an impressively realistic depition of astronauts on the Moon...!

Right up until an astronaut breaks wind and the monster hears it...

I thought the joke was amusing (if you can ignore the fundamental flaw that in space no-one can hear you fart), but a bit overdone on the horrific slaughtering of astronauts. Plenty of other commercials, TV shows and films manage to make the threat convincing without the massive violence. Wouldn't the joke have been just as funny with the monster just stalking them?

That might have put a different spin on the Alien films.
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Offline Zakalwe

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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2014, 01:54:57 PM »
And with an impressively realistic depition of astronauts on the Moon...!

Hmm..not really. Dust doesn't billow and float about in a vacuum....
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Offline Peter B

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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2014, 08:49:02 AM »
I found it horrific, sorry.

Then I apologise unreservedly.

I didn't mean to cause any upset, and I should have realised that other people's senses of humour would be different from mine.

ETA: As a way of making it up, may I offer this link to a game where the object is to land the LM on the Moon: http://lander.dunnbypaul.net/ (My best score so far is a little over 2000 points.)
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Offline AstroBrant

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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2014, 10:44:11 PM »
Peter, sorry to post so long after the fact, but I did find it hilarious. I wish I hadn't seen the title first, because knowing it was about baked beans I knew within a couple of seconds what was going to happen. To the consternation of some of our friends here, I even thought of a somewhat sadistic one-liner response:
"So I guess something does beat an astronaut!"

C'mon, guys, comedy must be granted a wide margin of creative and aesthetic license. And scientific credibility is irrelevant in humor. The monster's movements were totally inconsistent with lunar gravity, too. Welllll, so what?

I, too, was impressed with the graphics. With so many hoax nuts claiming the photography of the Apollo missions was faked, just imagine how easily they will be able to make that claim by the next time anyone goes there.

My main objection is that they should have used a much more manly sounding fart.

Okay, Peter, I guess I'll have to share the dog house with you for awhile.
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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2014, 03:57:54 PM »
And I found this classic one:

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Offline Sus_pilot

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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2014, 04:16:47 PM »

And I found this classic one:



Wow.  That took me waaaaaay back.

Offline Dr.Acula

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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2014, 06:51:07 AM »
An interesting commercial with Neil Armstrong from 1979:

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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2014, 06:53:40 AM »
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Re: Rarely has an advertisement made me laugh so much...
« Reply #14 on: November 10, 2014, 06:55:08 AM »
Buzz Aldrin and the Volkswagen Beetle (in German: VW Käfer):

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