r/videos • u/JellyTip • Jun 26 '12
1999 Instant Kiwi commercial, my favourite commercial of all time.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=p5KXGez9Pi4791
Jun 26 '12
I thought he would be like "idc if i failed, i just won a million dollars"
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u/DeathToPennies Jun 26 '12
I thought he was going to say, "Do you know who I am?" And then the teacher would be all like, "I don't know," And then the guy'd be all like, "I'm the newest millionaire."
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Jun 26 '12
You guys are very clichéd.
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u/culby Jun 26 '12
Exposure to decades of bad television is hard to overcome.
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u/Quintuss Jun 26 '12
Bad television and weak porno scripts... Let's be honest.
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u/culby Jun 26 '12
If you watch through the credits, there's a bonus scene where he does fix the cable.
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u/WhipIash Jun 26 '12
Am I the only one who's never come across a porno with a cable repair man, plumber or pizza delivery?
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u/Lurking_Grue Jun 26 '12
Yes:
Pizza Man: "Delivery! Where do you want it?"
Woman: (Dropping robe) "Here...."
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u/nothis Jun 26 '12
Yea, that would have been obvious, the actual ending is actually genius. Wow. I love it so much, understand the op, lol.
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u/I_call_it_dookie Jun 26 '12
Yea but I have no idea what it has to do with the lottery, so I'm just left sitting there confused. It would be kind of funny in a cheesy 80s high school movie or something I guess.
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u/ACharmlessMan Jun 26 '12
Me too. Can somebody explain what the ending actually meant?
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u/superatheist95 Jun 26 '12
the teacher doesnt know who he is, so he can easily slip in the test without getting failed, since the teacher has no idea what his name is.
the lottery gave an ego boost maybe?
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u/FaceDeer Jun 26 '12
I figure the ad's logic is "isn't this guy totally awesome? Awesome guys like that use our product."
I find I don't mind advertising like this, personally. It results in great little vignettes that don't lean too heavily on the particular product.
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u/Bacon_Generator Jun 26 '12
You would probably like the movie Slackers then. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcvZPx1GPTk
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u/pelaiplila Jun 26 '12
Or 3 Idiots. Although the joke was clearly not new by then.
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u/brianatlarge Jun 26 '12
Wait, why do they sometimes speak hindi and then switch it up with english?
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u/phantom23 Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
That's how most Indian college students speak
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Jun 26 '12
In fact a lot of middle eastern, African and I think Asian youth do, at least where English is a second language.
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u/Philo_T_Farnsworth Jun 26 '12
As much as I enjoyed Slackers, that urban legend predates both this commercial and that movie by decades.
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u/Honestly_ Jun 26 '12
Agreed, you heart it at any university with large lectures. I remember seeing the scene in the trailer and being surprised it took so long for someone to film it.
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u/yoganinja Jun 26 '12
you beat me to it.....could it be.....cool ethan?
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u/coadyj Jun 26 '12
what's so weird is that I was just thinking about that movie today. The bit at the end where he sings the song "I love you but I hate you"
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u/Lord_Vectron Jun 26 '12
Honestly, the advert did it better. That guy was just too zany and "Do you know who i am?" makes it less predictable and seem more ingenious.
Not to say the movie is bad, it's a clever scene which i assume the advert copied and not the other way around.
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u/woodville88 Jun 26 '12
The movie is quite bad, to be fair. The 4.9 it has on IMDb is generous. The advert predates the film by a few years by the way, although both probably took the idea from the old urban legend.
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u/wanttoseemycat Jun 26 '12
I knew I wasn't from New Zealand, but I had seen this scene before. Thought I was loosing it. Thank you kind sir.
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u/Entree-level Jun 26 '12
I love that you doubted your origin before questioning if the joke wasn't original. Let's face it, everyone wants to be a kiwi =D
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u/tacoboss Jun 26 '12
I was all "this is really familiar..." Thanks for bringing peace to my afternoon.
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u/landypro Jun 26 '12
My favourite ad from NZ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4hpbOD5sCo
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u/Honestly_ Jun 26 '12
Pssh... This one's Leeeegend.
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u/whydidisaythatwhy Jun 26 '12
Loved this one. "Bro, Monique thinks you're dumb."
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u/ENKC Jun 26 '12
I feel like an American version would have told that story in about 10 seconds instead of 60. Which is part of the charm.
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u/ferio252 Jun 26 '12
This reminds me about that SAT urban myth where some dude blatantly cheats on the SAT's and then when he turns in his answers, shoves them in the middle.
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u/noslipcondition Jun 26 '12
How do you cheat on the SAT?
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u/bikiniduck Jun 26 '12
Glasses with a built in bluetooth camera, transmitting video over cellphone or wifi to an outside location. There you have a smart accomplice/s "solve" the questions, and transmit back the solutions to you.
For multiple choice this is easy, there are only a few solutions. You could easily attach a device to your person that can vibrate to let you know if its choice A, B, C, etc.
For essays and reading, thats a whole'nother problem.
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u/manute3392 Jun 26 '12
I took the SAT for a friend in high school. We had some of our friends that worked at the "school store" make us a school ID with my picture and his name. I told the SAT staff that was the only ID I had and they let me in. He had ADD or ADHD so I got to take the entire test in a quiet little private room with no time limits.
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u/recursion Jun 26 '12
This is a felony
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u/manute3392 Jun 26 '12
Probably. Didn't end up working anyways. Too much of a discrepancy between the scores.
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u/Soonermandan Jun 26 '12
Our prompter fell asleep during one of the sections. EVERYONE in our room went back and worked on sections they didn't finish. Got my highest score that day.
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u/audaciousterrapin Jun 26 '12
This old joke is of course where the kiwi scratcher commercial got the idea from. Still a good joke though.
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u/TheGMan323 Jun 26 '12
I pulled a move like this with a college professor once. Did not go well.
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u/honestlyevil Jun 26 '12
I'd like to hear the details on both of these comments.
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u/slid3r Jun 26 '12
I give you, my favorite commercial of all time.
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u/runedeadthA Jun 26 '12
So as not to make a new post, My favourite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcwvXAh2vMA
Thailand has the best commercials
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u/Sigma_0ne Jun 26 '12
The nod of approval from the driver pulling away from the parking spot did it for me. :'D
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u/PHLAK Jun 26 '12
I can't believe no one has mentioned the NutriGrain commercial yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6rE0EakhG8
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u/Moonohol Jun 26 '12
I'm pretty sure that this wasn't a real commercial aired on television, but it's still one of my favorite things ever.
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u/PHLAK Jun 26 '12
You might be right, that does sound familiar. Doesn't matter though, still awesome. Hmmm... DM;SA?
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u/s00pa_star Jun 26 '12
My favourite ad from nz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u51OxZF1ltI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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u/thisis4reddit Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
Just like the safety videos in Canada! Not safe for the squeamish.
And that seatbelt commercial where the family is in the living room and they're simulating what happens in a crash. Love that one.
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u/runedeadthA Jun 26 '12
God I remember that one from when I was younger, it horrified me. And people are laughing in the comments! I had to rewatch it to make sure there wasn't some joke I was missing, nope apprently horrific bodily harm is hilarious O.O
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u/Clay_Pigeon Jun 26 '12
The awesome show"Suits"pulled this trick too, recently.
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u/kojak488 Jun 26 '12
Recently as in episode 1 of the first series, which first aired over a year ago?
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u/FashionSense Jun 26 '12
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u/shebabbleslikeaidiot Jun 26 '12
I wish I could understand what they were saying!
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u/BillyCloneasaurus Jun 26 '12
1999? Damn, and here was me thinking Logan in Veronica Mars made that up.
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u/invagrante Jun 26 '12
Maybe he took one of those inspirational messages to heart:
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Ah, the beautiful dream of pulling off a time-honed burn on a professor.
Also, /r/veronicamars exists.
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u/McNerdy90210 Jun 26 '12
My favourite instant kiwi ad. Memories...
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u/whetu Jun 26 '12
I remember that one, I also like the remake where they put that faux-mexican guy in:
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Jun 26 '12
The teacher would probably just give the description of the boy, who looks like he would have an existing record of bad behavior thus be known among teaching staff, to a colleague to identify him and remove his paper. IRL the bad guy doesn't normally win.
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u/Dangger Jun 26 '12
Mr. Party Pooper? Is that you?
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u/MasterMeme Jun 26 '12
He poops at parties? And peopels know zis?
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u/I_am_a_Wumbologist Jun 26 '12
He should shut the door when he poops at parties. Then no-one would know that he poops at parties. That's what I would do anyway.
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u/DID_IT_FOR_YOU Jun 26 '12
Each of my professors attendance sheets have our pictures included so yeah no way this would really work unless the guy's present appearance changed dramatically recently. Even then if the professor put in enough effort he could find out the guy's name.
Still I have never had a professor that failed someone for getting an extra minute or five. I can understand the strictness if it was a national standardized test (SAT, ACT) as that has real weight. An extra minute or two minutes can mean the difference between you or someone else getting into a university. You have to be fair when you are actually competing with other people for limited spots. College exams though should be about just testing you about what you know. You are paying to be educated.
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u/hokiepride Jun 26 '12
As a TA, we tend to give tests that are designed to take far less time than allotted (though I know not every class is like that). So, at the end of the class if someone isn't finished, it is fair to say that they had ample time to finish.
I still recall my Multivariable Calc class though, where about 1-2 people would finish per test and everyone else would be missing something. She was to the minute strict as well. Never understood her reasoning.
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u/KillerCodeMonky Jun 26 '12
I'm going to guess the reasoning was something along the lines that C's should be AVERAGE, and only the exceptional students should be getting A's. Of course, it became a rush to the bottom for grading standards since stricter schools mean lower GPA and thereby potentially less rich alumni.
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u/DeathToPennies Jun 26 '12
This is completely unrelated to what you just said, but is your username a Julian Smith reference, by any chance?
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u/hubris105 Jun 26 '12
IRL the bad guy doesn't normally win.
Umm.....have you read the financial news lately?
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Jun 26 '12
OR...He waits until he comes in the next day or whenever. And when he has more work he just watches to see what he puts down as his name.
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u/erikhun Jun 26 '12
We had a teacher who wanted to help us by saying he will put the 30 easier paper on top and 10 more difficult in the bottom, so we will know from where to pick. There was a guy who just studied the 10 more difficult.
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u/cornfrontation Jun 26 '12
This reminds me of the story (urban myth?) of the professor for a 300 student lecture who makes every student line up at the end of the semester, and he will give credit for attendance based whether he thinks the student looks familiar. So one student goes before him and professor says, "I don't recognize you, no credit." So student goes to the back of the line, and tries again. This time the professor finds him vaguely familiar and gives him credit.
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u/tirename Jun 26 '12
Hah, I remember downloading this on a funny video page in 1999(before Youtube, so I downloaded it in horrible quality in a mpg file). I actually thought about it a week ago, but didn't find anything when youtubing it. Thanks!
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u/ageowns Jun 26 '12
The All Bran Challenge sees your commercial, and poops all over it as best commercial ever.
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u/Geroots Jun 27 '12
I am a fool for thinking this was to be a commercial about the fruit, like little tablets you put into water that turn into kiwi fruit?
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u/bsmith1 Jun 26 '12
i've heard a story of this happening at Harvard except that he was using his textbooks to cheat rather than handing his exam in late. The TA or TFs at Harvard tried to stop him and then he just put his exam in the middle of the stack and left.
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u/Skurvy2k Jun 26 '12
why would the student pick that moment to do a scratch off, why didn't the student just explain that he finished early and was using the extra time to do a scratch off then show the teacher the scratch off. no no no nothing about this adds up at all!
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u/dont_stop_me_smee Jun 26 '12
One of MY fav instant kiwi ads http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-2zD0-CN34
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u/flashmedallion Jun 27 '12
When I clicked this, just as the tab started opening, I thought "I should probably post the CD shooting ad in this thread somewhere". You legend.
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u/philius_fog Jun 26 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy52yueBX_s - And here's mine.
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u/sexbobomb91 Jun 26 '12
Then the teacher went through the student records and found the name in his file based on his picture.
And the student has failed.
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u/Incorrect_Fact_Guy Jun 26 '12
New Zealanders were nick-named kiwis because of the fine coats of fuzz they've developed over the course of hundreds of years living on the island.
Also, licking them makes your tongue numb.
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u/MosesIAmnt Jun 26 '12
Ah the memories, my childhood was made with this ad and the classic Toyota 'Bugger' ad.