This is how you do an insurance commercial

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-09-03 03:03pm

There's a Dutch insurer called... well, they changed their name but their catchline is still "better call Apeldoorn". Their commercials were always pretty good (example the first, the second) but their latest effort is without a doubt the best home insurance commercial I've ever seen. The first bit of Dutch text in the clip is "better call Apeldoorn", the second one "...perhaps not".

The clip

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2008-09-03 04:32pm

ROFL, that was great.
I liked how all the initial imagery implied that the ship was huge, the invaders were ruthless, and we were fucked, when the situation was actually vastly to the contrary.

TithonusSyndrome · Post by **TithonusSyndrome** » 2008-09-03 04:38pm

Brilliantly executed and a stylish HGTTG riff. I actually enjoy watching clever or entertaining commercials when they crop up, I pissed myself laughing at that British Nike commercial that involved a giant belly bouncing around town after a dude. The tagline? "Ditch the belly."

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2008-09-03 05:03pm

TithonusSyndrome wrote:Brilliantly executed and a stylish HGTTG riff. I actually enjoy watching clever or entertaining commercials when they crop up, I pissed myself laughing at that British Nike commercial that involved a giant belly bouncing around town after a dude. The tagline? "Ditch the belly."

The band with the song "Belly's gonna getcha" in that ad is Raging Speedhorn. Totally wasn't expecting them to get in a Nike advert.

Also, that advert probably stole that gag from south park.

Pulp Hero · Post by **Pulp Hero** » 2008-09-03 06:37pm

Zuul wrote:
TithonusSyndrome wrote:Brilliantly executed and a stylish HGTTG riff. I actually enjoy watching clever or entertaining commercials when they crop up, I pissed myself laughing at that British Nike commercial that involved a giant belly bouncing around town after a dude. The tagline? "Ditch the belly."
The band with the song "Belly's gonna getcha" in that ad is Raging Speedhorn. Totally wasn't expecting them to get in a Nike advert.

Also, that advert probably stole that gag from south park.

Holy crap that Nike one is fantastic, and I really didn't expect the music to as cool as it was. Belly

TithonusSyndrome · Post by **TithonusSyndrome** » 2008-09-03 06:50pm

Zuul wrote:
TithonusSyndrome wrote:Brilliantly executed and a stylish HGTTG riff. I actually enjoy watching clever or entertaining commercials when they crop up, I pissed myself laughing at that British Nike commercial that involved a giant belly bouncing around town after a dude. The tagline? "Ditch the belly."
The band with the song "Belly's gonna getcha" in that ad is Raging Speedhorn. Totally wasn't expecting them to get in a Nike advert.

Also, that advert probably stole that gag from south park.

No South Park episode I have seen, I tell you. That ad is at least five years old and probably older; how old is the episode you're thinking of?

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2008-09-04 12:57pm

Oh man, those were hilarious! The Voodoo doll, ooh, and the poor copper.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-09-04 01:11pm

Phantasee wrote:Oh man, those were hilarious! The Voodoo doll, ooh, and the poor copper.

I don't know what it is with Dutch insurers, but they do some pretty sweet commercials.

"Must be insured by Delta Lloyd"

Skates and balls of steel

You don't mess with an angry midget

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2008-09-04 01:23pm

Midget one was awesome! And it's even funnier to me cause a day ago, me and my criminal justice classmates were asking one of our teachers if a midget could be a real police officer, and then we suggested the midget could be a mounted K-9 officer.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2008-09-04 04:48pm

TithonusSyndrome wrote:
Zuul wrote:
TithonusSyndrome wrote:Brilliantly executed and a stylish HGTTG riff. I actually enjoy watching clever or entertaining commercials when they crop up, I pissed myself laughing at that British Nike commercial that involved a giant belly bouncing around town after a dude. The tagline? "Ditch the belly."
The band with the song "Belly's gonna getcha" in that ad is Raging Speedhorn. Totally wasn't expecting them to get in a Nike advert.

Also, that advert probably stole that gag from south park.
No South Park episode I have seen, I tell you. That ad is at least five years old and probably older; how old is the episode you're thinking of?

Excuse my work-addled mind. The second paragraph is actually referencing the advert in the OP, not the Nike one.

There was a south park episode that started with a really fearsome looking alien invading Earth, the craft made a suitably awesome entrance, the alien emerged and then the schoolbus ran it over since it was tiny.

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2008-09-04 04:50pm

Zuul wrote: There was a south park episode that started with a really fearsome looking alien invading Earth, the craft made a suitably awesome entrance, the alien emerged and then the schoolbus ran it over since it was tiny.

They do it in Both Men In Black Movies as well. It's hardly an original idea.

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-09-04 07:30pm

Didn't Douglas Adams originally do the tiny invasion force thwarted by banal earth object shtick?

TithonusSyndrome · Post by **TithonusSyndrome** » 2008-09-04 07:32pm

Yeah, that's what I said.

TithonusSyndrome wrote:Brilliantly executed and a stylish HGTTG riff

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2008-09-04 08:18pm

I just assumed that was some band I'd never heard of, to be honest.

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-09-05 08:26am

lol same. Should have looked harder