Hell Classic Pizzas - Sock puppets - (2008) :60 (New Zealand)
Submitted by Dabitch on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 09:50.
Agency: Colenso BBDO, Auckland
Hells Pizza created this sock puppet ad, seemingly to get attention from the kids, but it will instead get the attention from their parents....
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Er... Auckland is in New Zealand, not Australia. The NZ in the web address is another clue.
Sorry, I was stressing. Fixed thanks.
Not being able to listen to the ad at this moment, it nonetheless seems to be very much like the Soupy Sales New Year's Day incident (1965). [Yes, I was around at that time].
From Wikipedia:
On New Year's Day, 1965, miffed at having to work on the holiday, Sales ended his live broadcast by encouraging his young viewers to tiptoe into their still-sleeping parents' bedrooms and remove those "funny green pieces of paper", with pictures of U.S. Presidents, from their pants and pocketbooks. "Put them in an envelope and mail them to me," Soupy instructed the children. "And you know what I'm going to send you? A nice post card from Puerto Rico!" He was then hit with a pie.[4]
A couple of days later, a chagrined Soupy announced that money was unexpectedly being received in the mail. He explained that he had only been joking and announced that unreturnable contributions would be donated to charity. As parental complaints accumulated, WNEW management felt compelled to suspend him for two weeks.
Sales describes the incident in his 2001 autobiography Soupy Sez! My Life and Zany Times.
Lordy, I remember Soupy Sales! (I was around then, too. Feeling a bit middle-aged with another birthday coming up in a couple of weeks.)
I described this commercial to Colin and he keeled over laughing. "That's EVIL!" was his main comment.
Hehe, that's the whole point of Hell Pizza's campaigns, they're always evil.