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Anyone remember this ad for Hacks? Was there a later version?

  • 21-10-2016 09:08PM
    #1
    Irish Guitarist
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    I remember an advert that was on television when I was maybe four or five (which would have been 1980 or 1981). It showed someone with a frog in their throat taking a lozenge. It always made me sad to see the poor frog get killed by this lozenge.

    I've found an ad very similar to the this one. However it's not quite the same as I remember. I don't know if I'm imagining things but I remember the frog punching the tonsils a bit more and his death being sightly more violent.

    Was there another version of this ad made a few years later?



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  • #2
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    I remember an advert that was on television when I was maybe four or five (which would have been 1980 or 1981). It showed someone with a frog in their throat taking a lozenge. It always made me sad to see the poor frog get killed by this lozenge.

    I've found an ad very similar to the this one. However it's not quite the same as I remember. I don't know if I'm imagining things but I remember the frog punching the tonsils a bit more and his death being sightly more violent.

    Was there another version of this ad made a few years later?


    There was a shorter version of this ad that cut to where he punches the tonsils,it didn't have the bit with him singing or the thing about Hackney at the start.It ran well into the 80's from what I remember


  • #3
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    I've never seen that long version which the op posted but the shorter one ran for years, possibly was still being shown in the early 90's.I'd say this is the one op remembers.


  • #4
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    The shorter version is on here from 1.35. It's the one I always remember being shown. Can see how it might have come across as more violent than the longer version. There's no context to his tonsil battering and his death seems really sudden here.



  • #5
    The Crowman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    darkdubh wrote: »
    The shorter version is on here from 1.35. It's the one I always remember being shown. Can see how it might have come across as more violent than the longer version. There's no context to his tonsil battering and his death seems really sudden here.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03JfBuA7evc

    Fyp. I remember this.


  • #6
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,471 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    The Marathon guy looks very pleased with himself.


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