Post by Jarrad_ on Sept 1, 2020 9:53:02 GMT
I remember seeing an ad when I was young that's bizarre enough to justify tracking down, I think. It is a TV ad (for what product or service, I have no earthly idea...).
In it, a man is laying on his back, while a golf ball rests on a golf tee in his mouth. A woman prepares to hit it with a golf club. She takes her swing and we see the golf ball soar. Then comes the surprise, the last image is a close low angle of... a detached nose sitting on the grass.
When:
I was young enough to hide behind the couch, rather than just covering my eyes or looking away. But I think I was old enough to tell my mother how much I disliked the ad. I was born 1990 so I'm thinking 1994-'96.
Where:
It aired in Adelaide, Australia. In my mind, the ad has high production values though, so it could probably have been produced and aired internationally (at the time, most locally produced ads looked and sounded cheaper).
Things I'm sure of:
- It was a woman striking the ball, and a man acting as tee. I know this because I briefly thought that women were more violent than men, purely on the basis of seeing this thing.
- It definitely wasn't a stumble-across-the-TV-at-3am situation. No idea what the time actually was but it wasn't unusual that I was awake.
Things I could have wrong:
- The ball might have been balanced on his nose, not on a tee at all (but that would give away the weird "punchline" so... probably tee
- I think it was an ad, but it could have been some kind of channel bumper. I was probably young enough not to know the difference.
