Are TV adverts wherever you are as exciting and humorous as ours in SA and which South African advert did you like most?
2006-10-05 02:24:04 · 13 answers · asked by Tsepo 4 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ South Africa
Few weeks ago there has been a TV show here in UK about the world's funniest TV commecials(sp?). I saw a few Vodacom ones which were indeed very funny, but the one that got me crawling on my knees with laughter was a Cell-C one, where a gorgeous girl in her flat is attacked by her own puppy, during that drama a toaster drops on the floor and sets the flat on fire. She then dives out through a window, all the way down on air and eventually sinks in the swimming pool.
2006-10-05 05:09:52 · answer #1 · answered by Diezel 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Not really that exciting here in UK but my best is spotting Cape Town in 3/4 of the adds aired on TV here. Every now and then I get a glimpse of Lions Head or the Twelve Apostles.
They don't film the obvious things like Table Mountain but the secondary recognizable stuff.
I play spot SA on UK adds.
Great game!
2006-10-06 00:47:36 · answer #2 · answered by london.oval 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nah, adverts in the UK suck. (Except for Road safety ones showing CCTV and camera phone footage of people getting knocked over, those just leave me with chills)
Just recently saw a SAB advert on line at youtube.
They play Johnny Clegg's "Osiyesa" and everyone in SA pulls the continents closer with a rope, and stands on the beach and looks at the Sydney Opera house, next to the Statue of Liberty.
It brought tears to my eyes, missing home.
Even the Telkom one they show every Christmas, with South Africans singing Shosolosa on the London Underground and the British sitting shocked and quiet hits a nerve, it is so true.
Watched a Advert Award show the other day, and South Africa was right up there, with USA, UK and Australia.
We can be proud of the creative people in our country.
2006-10-05 02:45:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anria A 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No ways...here they suck big time!! I always criticise them coz they aren't as good and funny as SA's...here they're too serous, these people have a dry sense of humour!! The ads are always about end-of-month stock and insurance for this and that!! My fav SA advert...hmmmm...that's difficult, coz there were so many!! I like the Fanta ones...the one with Barbie and Ken!! Hahahaha...and the one when the woman tells her man she likes it when he speaks foreign!!
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2006-10-05 17:02:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of the ads in America is funny, but SA's ads are the best!! Can't remember any ones right now, have been gone too long!!!!
2006-10-05 14:12:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they are. If you live long enough in another country you learn to appreciate the local humour and things that might not be funny before you lived in that country, now becomes funny.
2006-10-05 12:00:58 · answer #6 · answered by Cichlid 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nah they suck over here! my fav when i was still in SA was the opel add where the guy sits in the car and the other guy outside starts singing and rapping and stuff...so cute...their faces!
2006-10-05 02:31:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the ads in a america all suck!!!
my favourite ads in rsa is all the opel ads with the 2 indians!!!!
lol
2006-10-05 08:41:03 · answer #8 · answered by andy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No they are not so good.Our adverts rock!!Vodocam ,shield and axe!
2006-10-05 03:04:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey i have seen some pretty good international ads, they are allowed to directly attack their competitors over their. But ours are more witty (well some anyway)
2006-10-06 02:31:13 · answer #10 · answered by tay_jen1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋