Hey, just a quick one to say I made my debut in/on The Guardian Australia last week when I wrote one of those 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet) pieces, which I thoroughly enjoyed compiling.
Also, VHS Revue got a great write up over at Australian Tumbleweeds.
Swish!
-DMG
Highlights from a 1996 VHS tape of the 1993 film “Jurassic Park”. Presented by David M. Green.
Featuring:
– Central Television GTS/BKN ident and explanation
– Disposals of Broken Hill TVC (55 Oxide Street)
– End of Go Kart Action TVC
– Analysis of strange audio issue
– Tedious Explanation of VCR with misaligned erase head
– Ford Explorer TVC with Back to the Future-esque music
– Sprite TVC with subliminal message in ice cubes
– Lemonade USA vs Australia comparison
– Benny the Bin charity TVC NACRO
– Broken Hill Tile Centre TVC
– Multix Alfoil TVC with crudely animated polar bears
– 1997 Collins Diary TVC
– Youth Crime CSA featuring kids being loaded into a gun ACRO
– Donkey Kong Land 2 for GameBoy TVC featuring chimpanzees
– VHS Revue Lonely Kids Club T-shirt promo.
Footage recorded from Central Television GTS BKN, 1996 and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes.
Special thanks to Alexis Kotlowy, John Hnatowych, Lochlann Dwyer, Tim Wray & Richard Sidey.
VHS Revue Links:
-DMG
We’re back! Highlights from a 1997 VHS tape of the 1992 film “Death Becomes Her”. Presented by David M. Green.
Featuring:
– Ericsson mobile phone TVC
– Payphone update with Andy Matthews
– Telstra TVC with jingle “Making it easier for you”
– West End Draught TVC with Showdown 1 tie-in
– DV Milk TVC with Rex Hunt
– Libra Ultra Thins TVC crime scene clean-up
– Cosmopolitan magazine TVC featuring man with woman’s voice
– WorkCover TVC Think Safety Talk Safety featuring bear trap blindfold
– Westpac Classic Plus TVC
– Coca-Cola TVC with polar bears and seal
Footage recorded from Channel Ten Adelaide, 1997 and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes.
Special thanks to Alexis Kotlowy, John Hnatowych, Gerard Kotlowy, Emmanuel Photakis, Tim Wray, Annika Samuelsson, Carolyn Lawlor-Smith, Richard Sidey, Andy Matthews and Rex Hunt.
VHS Revue Links:
-DMG
Highlights from a 2001 VHS tape of the 1994 box office flop “Exit to Eden”. Presented by David M. Green.
Featuring:
– A struggle today’s young people will never understand
– Mr Bankrupt TVC
– Horse racing industry “same hat” TVC
– Bernie Lewis Home Loans “hoop” TVC
– Furniture Works “no audio” TVC
– Channel 7 ident with guys in the colourful body suits
– Shaun Micallef vs. the Channel 7 body suit guys at the 2001 Logies (and cameo)
– “Can’t Do That Anymore” Segment
– Pizza Haven TVC featuring picture of woman’s arse
– Plant Liquidators TVC featuring censored racist joke
– DMG recounts his 2005 encounter with the Plant Liquidator Guy
– L. J. Hooker real estate agency TVC
Footage recorded from Channel Seven Adelaide, 28 January 2001 and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes.
Special thanks to Alexis Kotlowy, John Hnatowych & Shaun Micallef.
VHS Revue Links:
-DMG