Comments on: Ford SportKa Deals With Cat and Pigeon

By: Keith Sketchley

Keith Sketchley — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:14:19 +0000

Clever, but why would an ad agency – let alone a car company – label its product as “evil”.
Marketing people are so dumb so often!

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:43:07 +0000

I thought they were shockingly funny… Surely No one wants to harm an animal. But how many of You Animal Rights Whiners whine about things that “Appear” in likeness?

Do you have any idea how many frogs you squash on the roads after it rains? What About Worms? have you Recorded how many monrach Butterflies YOU kill On your average Commute on a rural route?

What About Catepillars?

Yeah It seems to me you only bitch when it’s “in your face” or if it’s Fuzzy and Cute….

By: deadthevideo

deadthevideo — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:21:32 +0000

I actually like both of these ads. The admakers combined real animals in the ads with fake ones. I would say that they used trickery to get the animals to do what was required of them to get the right effect. The cat ad did get some press coverage with articles about the advert appearing in national newspapers. In a country (UK) where advertising is supposed to be the best but is governed by authoritarian guidelines the average ad break would serve to argue against that particular belief, it is good to see that Ogilvy and Mather were prepared to go against those rules. Of course, ads like these would get their moaners, people who believe our no-particularly-great ad breaks should stay that way, but that would be expected, they even complained about a toilet roll ad featuring naked backsides. Some people may not like it, look at the fuss generated by a Wrigley’s ad showing a man throwing up a dog, but we should have more daring ads on air, even if it is after the UK watershed.

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By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:38:03 +0000

The cat, and the pidgeon, are both hilarious. I wish they could show them on TV. I would like to see more of the same. It extracts a certain levity within our humerous nature, and plays upon the unexpected emotions of being part of something different.

Hail evil-twins uk………….

By: kayakjim

kayakjim — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:25:56 +0000

bob; how’s your testing coming along???

The pigeon one was funny, though the cat I literally fell out of my chair laughing so hard!! Lighten up, people!!
No wonder the world is so bloody stressed out! I hope the PETA folks puke on their bile-filed tirades.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:58:05 +0000

I love these two adverts, there is absolutly nothing wrong with them.
The pidgon one was funny, the Cat one was unexpected, but all the more funny, and the Ford SportKa was a hard F****r!
Wish they wern’t banned, though!
(It’s always the best ad’s on T.V that get banned!)
Oh, how I yearn for more…

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:00:34 +0000

With all due respect to all preceding comments: Firstly, I am the proud owner of two cats and happen to know that even though they are lazy they are quick enough to get their heads out of that situation anytime.
Second, as a safety procedure, electric sunroofs and windows are never ever powerful enough to do something like that unless the car company wants to risk a serious lawsuit. I found both ads totally piss-funny and the cat one more so, and I also was smart enough to realise as soon as I saw it happen that IT ISN’T REAL…… To the ad people: MORE PLEASE

By: Julius

Julius — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:23:58 +0000

For people who don’t like having cat footprints and sometimes scratches on their cars and trucks, the cat video is hilarious.
Both ads are great and since no animals were harmed, well I guess no harm done. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it.
When you watch a Hollywood movie in which there is a murder, do you call the police to report it?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:42:24 +0000

To those morally outraged-
Please get a sense of humor. Not only are these advertisements funny for what seems to be the majority of people (it’s slapstick comedy), the cat one wasn’t broadcast on television anyways. Besides, if you don’t like it, why not just ignore it? You don’t have much of a right to castrate the media that I enjoy, especially when it’s relatively harmless compared to the majority of public broadcasting. By your logic, I ought to start crusading against gay porn because I, a straight male, don’t like the idea of anyone on the planet watching two men suck each other’s cocks.