Esoteric Early 80’s Humour
1) A Not the Nine O’Clock News sketch.
2) The FIAT Ritmo/Strada commercial it made reference to.
I have no idea why I know about any of this, because I think I was two at the time, but watching both jiggled my memory banks.
November 28th, 2006 at 1:13 am
The link you want is this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAI9490QmeQ
The one you link to is some German thing set on racing track. I don’t remember the original ad, so I don’t know how you do!
Whatever happened to the Hofmiester bear?
November 28th, 2006 at 1:19 am
Yup, K, I’ve amended my link. I don’t know why I posted the German race track.
I don’t specifically remember the opera + robots + hatchback advert, but I did know exactly what the “Hand built by Roberts” slogan was spoofing.
November 28th, 2006 at 1:21 am
And to see what the Fiat robots do on their days off, look at this video for the Chemical Brothers’ “Believe”…
December 3rd, 2006 at 12:49 pm
My parents had NTNOCN LPs, so I grew up with the Hedgehog Sandwich and Gerald the Gorilla (”All I ever hear is David BLOODY Attenborough!”). Think my particular favourite, or at least the bit I remember best, was Rowan Atkinson’s Barry Manilow impression which, in the same vein as Kenny Everett’s expanding Rod Stewart bum sketch, involved a progressive rhinal tumescence of (anti-semitic?) Biblical proportions!