Aussie TV Adverts from the 1990's

[Rlan]

G'day, I've been going through some old VHS tapes, bringing them to DVD, and thought I might make a few compilations of those classic advertisements from the mid 90's.

Some great stuff in here if you're feeling a bit nostalgic :)

Aussie Advertisements - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs-XsIA8hmM

Includes classic QANTAS ad and the Shane Warne Just Jeans Ad!

Aussie Food Advertisements - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AFyy1qZ9hA

Includes a whole lot of breakfast cereals, Dolmio Sauce, Hungry Jacks, KFC, Coca Cola and more.

Aussie Show Promos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64M6aJLBfC0

Some really ancient promos for "NEW AUSTRALIAN DRAMA" shows which never did well at all :dD as well as some movie adverts for Lost World Jurassic Park, and Batman & Robin :D

Aussie TV Channel News Breaks - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU2gCU-xsCU

Just some news breaks from the era - News, Today Tonight, Sports Tonight and a few promos for each channel.

Enjoy :)

While we're at it, I'm slowly getting a classic episode of Full Frontal up as well. It's not exactly popular with you Late Show fans, but I don't care :) Here's part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwsDwoGXKCw

Do they have must of the political satire bits from back then on the DVDs?

[ShitScared]

You're a legend with the Full Frontal stuff. I love it! You've just reminded me to finish my FF collection and buy Series 3 vol 2.

In fact, I had the privilege working with Gabby Milgate late 2006. It may not be significant to many here, but to me, working with her was like a 6 degree of separation. I chatted her ear off talking about Full Frontal.

Also, in 1996, my High School softball team won the finals, and our coach took us to Sydney to spend a day in Darling Harbour. We went to Harbourisde shopping centre and went to Timezone. I was the first person to see someone familiar in the shops. It was Ross Williams and his kid playing a game. I got so excited I yelled out to my friends and we started surrounding Timezone. Ross looked a little freaked and when he caught on, he and his son walked away and disappeared around the corner. I was known as a stalker for the rest of the day when I ran through the mall trying to find him.

This is my favourite Milo sketch too.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=WZCAHhLUPnU

God - I could go on and on... and I will..

nah.. you've touched a passionate subject with me :)

Something you might like to Rlan, my mate Frankster does archiving for a hobby. You might want to check his site out. He does commercials and TV shows.

http://www.frankster.zanyspace.com

[Rlan]

Heh, yeah I have many fond memories of Full Frontal. Franksters blog looks pretty cool too.

The very first thing I put on youtube was this Milo clip, which got pretty popular. It's part of the episode I'm currently putting up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frR4rxbLAHk

[13 schoolyards]

Yeah, The Full Frontal DVDs are the complete episodes. No idea if they're going to get around to season 4 though, it's been a while since the last lot.

The Micallef stuff on FF is gold, but there's a lot of very, very slow stuff inbetween...

[kat-rant]

Have the Full Frontal DVDs got The Netty Show sketches on them? I was the umpire in the opening sequence of those sketches (I remember one of the things I had to do was kiss Eric Bana on the cheek and then both of us give a whacky look to camera!) I can't remember what series that was from other than they were filmed in either 1995 or 1996 - one of the film days was the same day as Teddy Whitten's funeral (it's amazing what my brain comes up with to remember dates....)

EDIT: Never mind, just figured it out that it was series 3!

[ShitScared]

That was you? You so rock!

"Netball - where we tell dirty jokes..
Netball - where we get to pash the blokes...
Oh what a name
Oh what a game
NETBALL!"

Micallef didn't really make his appearances in FF until midway through Series 3.

Have a beer, have a beer, let your problems disappear
Watch the footy on the telly now the finals drawing near
park your arse, park your arse, have a fag and fill your glass
if your heart desires a banquet we've got chips and cocktail frankfurts
Get real pissed, get real pissed, and we'll give your arm a twist
We've got everything you need right here
So start relaxin' in your tracky dacks an'
have a beer, have a beer, have a beer, have a beer, have a beer, have a beer, have a beeeeeerrr!

[kat-rant]

Yeh, that was me. The three girls in that sketch, Kitty, Daina and Julia, were so lovely and friendly. Daina and Kitty in particular made a point of remembering my name a month or so later when I worked on the show again, when I appeared again in a Netty Show sketch as a nun on a table of other nuns. That bit was filmed at Channel 7 in South Melbourne in front of a studio audience, which really did feel like doing a theatre show, that was a fantastic experience. I remember us lowly special extras were sitting on a table on our own in the Channel 7 canteen earlier that evening eating our dinner with the main Full Frontal cast on another table, and Daina and Kitty invited us to join them on their table, in which I found myself sitting in between Ross Williams and Francis Greenslade, eating a lentil casserole coz i thought it was chilli con carne!!

Actually it must have been 1995, coz i do remember that I was working at Myer in the city at the time. I remember that coz not long after that Kitty Flannagan recognised me in Myer!

[13 schoolyards]

Micallef didn't really make his appearances in FF until midway through Series 3.


There's a fair bit of him in the first series 3 DVD set (covering the first half of that series), and tiny bits in series 2 (where he was mostly a writer). But yeah, it's the second half of series 3 that he really starts to turn up in a lot of stuff - it's when Fabio started making himself known, for starters.

And nice work Kat-rant! I'm off to the DVDs to check you out...

[Mason Hell-Cat]

I'm in the "not exactly popular with you Late Show fans" camp.

[lucasbucksheriff]

I can't believe anyone would ever consider starting (let alone finishing) their Full Frontal collection...

[ShitScared]

I can't believe anyone would ever consider starting (let alone finishing) their Full Frontal collection...

Could be worse - could be Brittas Empire

[Rlan]

Screw the haters, heres part 2-4 of the Full Frontal episode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlPPoq0hDYo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sy1I40uyXQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d579GZ8FPKQ


:mrgreen:

[Pete the Clown]

Quote:
Originally Posted by lucasbucksheriff http://www.champagnecomedy.com/forum/images/steelblue/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.champagnecomedy.com/forum/showthread.php?p=14415#post14415)
I can't believe anyone would ever consider starting (let alone finishing) their Full Frontal collection...



Yes it does have a "Have you started your Allo Allo collection?" feel about it.

"I'm drinking out of someone elses coffee mug."

[Mason Hell-Cat]

Quote:
Originally Posted by lucasbucksheriff http://www.champagnecomedy.com/forum/images/steelblue/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.champagnecomedy.com/forum/showthread.php?p=14415#post14415)
I can't believe anyone would ever consider starting (let alone finishing) their Full Frontal collection...

Yes it does have a "Have you started your Allo Allo collection?" feel about it.


yeah. I'm putting every ep of 'Birds of a Feather' online. PM me if interested.
lol.

[menagers]

Full Frontal is a fascinating insight into the cancer of Australian comedy, I think. Why didn't it work when it had such good performers and writers on it's team? Well, occasionally it did, mostly thanks to Shaun Micallef. But really, if you were in your early 20's or older when it was on, it was bloody awful shit - and that's putting it lightly. Those of you who do like it were probably a wee bit younger, and that is a brilliant age for liking anything. The passion that you have for stuff in your late teens is just so incredibly powerful, so far be it for me to knock anyone who was into Full Frontal at this time in their life. Also, the writing was undoubtedly pitched at that very demographic, which leads me into the cancer thing.
Commercial networks and their fiddling about with the whole comedy process, has long led to depressing results in this country. Everytime they employ an army for a sketch show with an agenda (ie. made for kids), all they end up producing is a very long drawn out dog turd, with the occasional speck of gold dust (esque).
The only redeeming feature of Full Frontal that I can see, is that it gave all those excellent people responsible for The Micallef P(r)ogram(me) their critical flying hours.

[ShitScared]

I was in the demo it was targetting and i fell in love with it.

One thing that still shocks my friends and I absolutely hate - Red Dwarf. Yet I enjoy keeping up appearances.

Oh.. it's Rhonda Burchmore.. don't let her near.. your Arrsssse!!
Heehee thanks for the memories Rlan!

[Rlan]

You can't really say it was targeted to children when half of it is making fun of politicians and 7:30 report :)

[menagers]

Yeah, I suppose I was half thinking of Skithouse in my rant there, a show widely reported to be aimed at 14 year olds. And a show that I have fonder memories for (because I was in the demographic) was Fast Forward. "Fukari rug", George Donikian shaving his head as he enunciated his r's, crappy Star Trek send-up's with lovable M. Vietch; deadset Yr 8 comedy right there and fond memories absolutely, but can you rewatch it like you can rewatch The Late Show? No way.
I will concede that I don't have the freshest memories of Full Frontal and I won't be starting my collection of DVD's anytime soon (although I really applaud the fact that they are out there and avaliable in shop - that sort of release of bulk material is absolutely comendable). The fact of the matter is that Full Frontal had no hope with me because it came after the enormous high of TLS, and everything else since then has just looked shit.

[13 schoolyards]

Yeah, I had much fonder memories of Fast Forward (my late teens) than Full Frontal (my post Late Show 20s)... yet upon watching them both recently thanks to the magic of DVDs I'd have to say that Full Frontal was... well, if not as good as Fast Forward, then fairly close. The first season of Full Frontal was actually a decent comedy show all 'round, and the later seasons, while crap in many parts, have Micallef shining a light of class over proceedings.

But yeah, once you've watched The Late Show regular sketch shows have to be pretty special to draw you in.

[Rlan]

Finally got around to uploading the final part of this Full Frontal Episode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL4X-A1nAeY

Featuring Shaun Micallef as "Villian in a Cowboy Hat" and classic John Howard stuff :)

[kim]

I was in the demo it was targetting and i fell in love with it.

One thing that still shocks my friends and I absolutely hate - Red Dwarf. Yet I enjoy keeping up appearances.



God, I can't stand Red Dwarf either. I didn't mind Hyacinth Bucket, I'll admit it. As for Full Frontal... I was 16 when it started and thought it was for philistines who didn't get The Late Show. :grin: I used to like Fast Forward though, but I didn't know any better! I suppose I did watch Full Frontal from time to time but seeing as I barely remember any of it, that kind of says it all for me.

[Bean Is A Carrot]

The only good bits of Full Frontal involved Micallef and Greenslade.

[13 schoolyards]

Going through some old papers late last night, what did I find but a 1994 rejection letter from Full Frontal! On Artists Services stationary (with the TV set with wobbly legs) and everything! It seems (and I'd totally forgotten about this) that I sent them some sketches, and while Alan Pentland thought my 'travel agent' one was sorta okay, they weren't looking for writers at that stage. I've got to get a solid gold frame for this one!

Not sure if I'm going to frame the rejection letter from Picture magazine as well though...

[Bean Is A Carrot]

Isn't "not looking at sketches at the moment" code for either "you're not one of our mates, piss off" or "for complex legal reasons, we are unable to read your scripts. You could be the next Peter Cook, but if we read your scripts and reject them and then come up with something a bit similar you could sue our arses off". Still, good work 13. Get yourself a nice guilt frame.

[13 schoolyards]

Isn't "not looking at sketches at the moment" code for either "you're not one of our mates, piss off" or "for complex legal reasons, we are unable to read your scripts. You could be the next Peter Cook, but if we read your scripts and reject them and then come up with something a bit similar you could sue our arses off".

These days it totally is, but back in 1994 I think things were a bit more free-wheeling. There were a few stories going around about how Full Frontal would occasionally accept sketch ideas from outside the staff (their writing credits seemed to go on for ages), and the industry as a whole was a fair bit bigger so outside stuff had a bit more of a chance.

I think the whole legal worries thing has only really come up in the last decade - I know before that (for example) comic book companies would read unsolicited pitches, whereas today they won't touch the things. It's probably traceable to one movie-related lawsuit somewhere.

I'm just amazed I bothered, really. There's zero chance of getting a submission picked up by any TV show these days. Where would you even try - Rove?

[Bean Is A Carrot]

I once talked to a guy who'd sent some sketches into Fast Forward or Full Frontal (I forget, but probably the later) and been rejected. He then claimed they'd later done a sketch similar to one he'd submitted and then moaned about how you needed to be an insider. He didn't actually sue them though (too much money and trouble, I expect).

[13 schoolyards]

Christ yeah, that (still) happens all the time in journalism. I was told at uni to expect the first three or for pitches I sent in to any magazine or newspaper to be stolen - the idea was that if you kept going, eventually they'd realise it was easier to hire you than hope you'd keep sending in ideas.

The rejection letter I got from Picture magazine comes from trying the other approach - the editor basically tells me not to bother unless I have some ideas to pitch, as he's not going to give decent story ideas to some guy off the street. Fair enough too - being able to come up with ideas is more important than being able to write if you're a freelancer.

[ShitScared]

Guess who?

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=y3iF0out08c

[ShitScared]

Hey Kat-rant - I finally got around to buying Season 3 Vol 2 of Full Frontal. You feature alot in it because of The Netty Show intro.

Pity you don't get royalities.. or do you?

[half goon half god]

I was around 9 or 10 when I watched Full Frontal, so I had fond memories of the show, especially the Milo and Poida characters. It was one of those shows that you had to watch so you could talk about it at school the next day, or you wouldn't be cool.

But when I watched the DVD last year (series 3, volume 2), I was sorely disappointed. It had not aged well at all. Very little of it was any good, and most of what was, was Shaun's stuff (surprise surprise).

Still, who'd expect advert parodies to make sense 12 years later?

Oh, and it reaffirmed my belief that Julia Morris has never been, and never will be, amusing in any way.

^^^ The Netty Show's in just about every episode. It gets old real fast.

[kat-rant]

Hey Kat-rant - I finally got around to buying Season 3 Vol 2 of Full Frontal. You feature alot in it because of The Netty Show intro.

Pity you don't get royalities.. or do you?

Unfortunately not, I was paid as an extra, as I had no lines. I was in another Netty Show sketch as well, which was filmed in front of the studio audience as (get this) a nun. I had a dressing down in rehearsal, in much the same way as Greg Fleet did by Delivery Man 1, by Nun 1, because she was paid to say a line (being "Oooh, yes!") and got a massive dirty look when I dared to verbalise in rehearsal! The rest of us lesser nuns didn't like her much....

[kat-rant]

Guess who?

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=y3iF0out08c

Oh, fuck, I'm on Youtube kissing Eric Bana....:D

[ShitScared]

Oh.. one other thing -

The final ep on Season 3, they have a scrolling text joke-like credits going.. and they say hello to some people. One of the jokes was.


Ken.
Bruce.
Has Gone Completely Mad.

[13 schoolyards]

We should all e-mail Shock asking where season 4 of Full Frontal is - it's been close to a year since they released season 3, and there's no sign of a follow-up. No sign of Welcher & Welcher either, for that matter.

[kat-rant]

How many years after the Season 2 DVD did they release Season 3 though? I reckon it was a couple. BTW, is it my imagination, or was it called Totally Full Frontal from Series 4 onwards??

I agree about Welcher and Welcher, that is definitely too long coming....

[YMV]

I agree about Welcher and Welcher, that is definitely too long coming....
Apologies for the dealy, our technical staff are right on with it...
http://www.vividly.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/griffin.jpg
In the meanwhilst, here is a little light music*
*sorry, it's only audible to canines...

[menagers]

What was it he always said? "Open Chooser"?

[ShitScared]

How many years after the Season 2 DVD did they release Season 3 though? I reckon it was a couple. BTW, is it my imagination, or was it called Totally Full Frontal from Series 4 onwards??

Full Frontal was on Ch 7 from 1993 to 1997 covering 5 Seasons. Then Ten picked it up from 1998 - 1999 and changed the name to Totally Full Frontal. As Leon the critic would say - "It's CRAP".

Towards the end of Season 3 (1995), it was at its finest. Season 4 (1996) was when it hit its peak with the ACA studio audience (Leon the Critic, Neville and Beula (spelling), and Nobby Doldrums on the 7:30 report).

[ShitScared]

In the meanwhilst, here is a little light music*
*sorry, it's only audible to canines...

Now I go cleanin' windows to earn an honest bob
For a nosy parker it's an interestin' job
Now it's a job that just suits me
A window cleaner you would be
If you can see what I can see
When I'm cleanin' windows

[subliminial edit later]

In my profession I'll work hard
But I'll never stop
I'll climb this blinkin' ladder
Till I get right to the top

The blushin' bride, she looks divine
The bridegroom he is doin' fine
I'd rather have his job than mine
When I'm cleanin' windows


yeah that'll do.

[SeanRodger]

As Leon the critic would say - "It's CRAP".


Ray : No no no, you're that man who always gets up and says the word 'crap'

Leon : Not tonight Ray

Ray : Ok, go ahead.

Leon : Do you know what Luna Park is spelt backwards Ray? Anul Krap!

[stupidmeatball]

Full Frontal was on Ch 7 from 1993 to 1997 covering 5 Seasons. Then Ten picked it up from 1998 - 1999 and changed the name to Totally Full Frontal. As Leon the critic would say - "It's CRAP".


All the good cast members had dropped off by the time it moved to Channel 10: Bana, Micallef et al, attributing to the crapness

[13 schoolyards]

How many years after the Season 2 DVD did they release Season 3 though? I reckon it was a couple. BTW, is it my imagination, or was it called Totally Full Frontal from Series 4 onwards??

I agree about Welcher and Welcher, that is definitely too long coming....

No Season 2 and 3 came out in the same year (well, about six months apart). Shock were also bringing out Fast Forward around then too, but they've finished there. Shock seems to be moving away from the old Artist Services stuff lately - I'm wondering whether their rights have run out.

Wlecher & Welcher, on the other hand, was (I think) a co-production with a bunch of places (The guys who did Stupid Stupid Man - Jigsaw?), so who knows who holds the rights. They might never free up...

[YMV]

yeah that'll do.
:D:D:D (although funnily enough, I disliked that bit on first viewing)

13, 'Your' ABC did repeat it fairly recently at the bewitching hour of around 3am, surely in an attempt to drum up hysteria over a potential DVD release?!

[stupidmeatball]

Oh, fuck, I'm on Youtube kissing Eric Bana....:D

So that's 1 link in your connection to Kevin Bacon
And I can lay money on it that there are A LOT of people who would kill (maybe literally, he may have some nutbag fans) to be in that position

[menagers]

:D:D:D (although funnily enough, I disliked that bit on first viewing)

Was it the shoddy Northern accents YMV? Or that it was so bizarrely out of place? I know I baulked at the boot thing at first. Now I just want to know how bad that ABC tuckshop really is.

Such a fabulous series! Why is the only W&W on YouTube that freaky kinetic typography clip? What's all that about? Is there some sort of kinky kinetic typography cult?? What am I saying OF COURSE THERE IS!

[YMV]

Was it the shoddy Northern accents YMV? Or that it was so bizarrely out of place?
The latter really threw me on first viewing. The former are uncannily like George Formby! (not nearly as funny as Micallef as Hitler as Formby in Micallef Tonisht of course).

[menagers]

Tonisht

I can't tell you how many times I looked at that wondering if you had managed to import a different font into the forum just to use a groovy 'g'! :D

Oh, Mr Wu....


Did George Formby write the famous one brass ball Hiltler song?

[kat-rant]

So that's 1 link in your connection to Kevin Bacon
And I can lay money on it that there are A LOT of people who would kill (maybe literally, he may have some nutbag fans) to be in that position

Good thing I haven't met any of those nutbags then, I'm at the stage of my life, a stage lasting....oooooh, 37 years now, where I really value my existence ;)

[stupidmeatball]

Yes, and did you realise at the time that he would become THE Eric Bana, of A-list fame?

[kim]

of course kat did, that's why she gave him a kiss :D

[kat-rant]

Hey, I was a good girl, I was just doing what Ted Emery told me to!

[13 schoolyards]

That's what they all say...

[ShitScared]

It's not from the 90s - more 80s, but here's some stuff from my VHS archives.

Go Lotto (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8aIeZ4EjcY) - Would You Like To Win The Big One
Kentucky Fried Chicken (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=2W_1c94O3n4) - Kentucky Nuggets
Alcan (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=2y3V_oozYMc) - "We are the Boys from ALCAN!" Look for over-enthusiastic Alcan Man on the left at the end of the ad.
Lifesavers (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=KBu6J8zralI) - Personal fav.