How commercials miss-lead people

[Uncle Al]

Cute & Funny! Great humor from the Brits

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligen ... dyson.html

Uncle Al

[Sinned]

I've never seen that advert on tele over here. I wonder if it's a spoof advert.

[dillon]

Someone went to a lot of work if it is a spoof, but I can't imagine them actually showing that without offending a lot of portly ladies, so maybe it was canned before it was ever shown? It was clever, though.

[crfriend]

I just watched it, and my suspicion is that it's either a spoof or a one-off internal concept piece.

But, yes, hilarious -- and a brilliant satire of "size 0". "Size Zero sans Photoshop.")

That said, I do have a weakness for some British vacuum-cleaner adverts -- especially the one from the '80s which claimed, "Nothing sucks like a VAX!", which on the other side of the pond was Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC's) new flagship 32-bit supermini. A lawsuit did arise from the matter and the judges finally ruled that the two so-named devices really could not be realistically compared nor confused with one another and both trademarks held up. But the incident does live on in the minds and memories of computer-historians. (This author's take on the matter was that, yes, the VAX sucked; it sported a bloated instruction set, a design too far ahead of its time, and an execution speed that made sloths look sprightly. Data General's (DG's) 32-bit Eclipse had similar issues but was a tad faster.)

[Yuki]

I know this topic is a little old but I wanted to add something to it. A commercial made in Japan that is made to trick the audience.

https://youtu.be/fG61A7PCCLE

[Sinned]

OK it says it's a funny ad but TBH \I found it interesting but not funny. But then my sense of humour is obviously not tuned to the Japanese level. Not sure after all that whether the students were male or female. Or was that the point of the ad. Or was it just that with the right makeup one could be made to look like the other. But then we all knew that already, right?

[Kirbstone]

My theory is that the film was run backwards and for the make-up applying/stripping bit, filmed at delayed action speed, so they all started off as blokes and they applied the wigs & make-up to make them 'girls'.

No humour, of course, just presumably an ad or make-up & wigs.

Tom