Just seen on abc1 now a PG tips advert reuniting the famous ITV Digital monkey with Johnny Vegas. the advert shows monkey going to live in Johnny Vegas's house. definitely an ad to look out for Johnny Vegas: What did ya do when that tv thing went belly up?
(Shows monkey tied to a truck's radiator grill)
Johnny Vegas: What did ya do when that tv thing went belly up?
Yeah, that line made me laugh when I caught the advert last night.
It can't be very often that the exact same thing (e.g. Johnny & Monkey) used to advertise one thing, eventually ends up being used to advertise something else altogether.
Given that the Aardman birdies were never that great IMHO, I'm glad that PG Tips are trying something else. Plus, the inclusion of a monkey (albeit not a real one) is a good hark back to the good old chimp days. I was thankful when the chimps were dropped, cuz it did always strike me as cruel/un-PC etc, but the Aardman birds were a not-as-good-as-expected replacement IMHO.
I generally adore Aardman. But the humour of the PG birdies ads seemed a bit flat. And, given the time-consuming nature of stop-frame claymation, it was never really viable for the birdie ads to last anywhere near as long as the chimps ones had. (Well, unless they just showed the same handful of ads over and over again. But keeping up to date with new ones would be a bit of a mission).
Repeating the exact same ads for donkey's years is also a pain-in-the-neck, in terms of having to use editorial/computery jiggery pokery to always put the most current packaging design of the product into an old advert.
Just seen on abc1 now a PG tips advert reuniting the famous ITV Digital monkey with Johnny Vegas. the advert shows monkey going to live in Johnny Vegas's house. definitely an ad to look out for Johnny Vegas: What did ya do when that tv thing went belly up?
(Shows monkey tied to a truck's radiator grill)
Having Carol Decker renting a room in their house, how twisted is that Ah dawn't get it monkeh!
The ad is up there with Malibu, Churchill, Privilege, Vauxhall Moreva (sp?) and E-Sure
Johnny Vegas: What did ya do when that tv thing went belly up?
Yeah, that line made me laugh when I caught the advert last night.
It can't be very often that the exact same thing (e.g. Johnny & Monkey) used to advertise one thing, eventually ends up being used to advertise something else altogether.
Given that the Aardman birdies were never that great IMHO, I'm glad that PG Tips are trying something else. Plus, the inclusion of a monkey (albeit not a real one) is a good hark back to the good old chimp days. I was thankful when the chimps were dropped, cuz it did always strike me as cruel/un-PC etc, but the Aardman birds were a not-as-good-as-expected replacement IMHO.
I generally adore Aardman. But the humour of the PG birdies ads seemed a bit flat. And, given the time-consuming nature of stop-frame claymation, it was never really viable for the birdie ads to last anywhere near as long as the chimps ones had. (Well, unless they just showed the same handful of ads over and over again. But keeping up to date with new ones would be a bit of a mission).
Repeating the exact same ads for donkey's years is also a pain-in-the-neck, in terms of having to use editorial/computery jiggery pokery to always put the most current packaging design of the product into an old advert.
Didn't Aardman use Wallace and Gromit in one or two of the PG Tips adverts around the time of their film?
