Comments on: Tourism Victoria Play Hide And Seek With Run Rabbit Run

By: Mark Carpenter

Mark Carpenter — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:59:50 +0000

I love it and I deliberately seek it out every now and again to cheer myself up.
If they ever did a remake, I would put my hand up in an instant for the lead role,and I’d happily do it for free.
There’s something endearing about letting an eccentric loose in
the countryside. Love it.

By: Suzanne King

Suzanne King — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:50:42 +0000

Loved this ad so much at the time and the tune so catchy that I sing it when I take my dog to the park, words changed slightly to ” Run Puppy, run Puppy, run run run; down at the park we have fun, fun, fun” etc.

The entire ad is still my favourite after all these years, I have just played it 3 times on You Tube and love to watch Rod Mullinar’s fabulous eye movements and smile. I enjoy watching his joy and pleasure while he was dancing through the vineyards; spreading it to all who watched his wonderful antics. A fabulous ad. that can’t help but make you smile and feel happy, if all ads did this there’d be a lot more sales out there.

Hope it comes back again soon. Congratulations to all those who had a part in its production, especially Rod -- just love that funny face.

By: Mark Kawecki

Mark Kawecki — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:59:36 +0000

My friend tells me there is a longer version of this add. Does anyone have a link to it.

By: Jack Pendrick

Jack Pendrick — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:27:57 +0000

best ad commercial eva!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Haris

Haris — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:23:37 +0000

One of my most fav ads ever.. This has a unique character to it, very beautiful, romantic, colourful, cheery and reminscing at the same time.. sounds like I am describing my ex girl friend.. but unlike her, I still love this ad.

Run rabbit… run rabbit.. run…..

By: Anton Lang

Anton Lang — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:37:26 +0000

This ad has a history for me.
I first saw it in 2004. Our daughter would visit with her mother and while they were nattering in the other room, or out shopping I got to sit with our grand daughter who was 4 at the time. She would play with her toys at my feet while I watched the cricket. During the breaks between overs they would play advertisements.
Two of them especially caused her to snap onto her feet, look at the TV and rock on with them. One was the Target ad with that catchy tune, and this was the other. Every time without fail. At a later date when I was taping another program, I saw this ad when we were watching it later, I learned the words from the ad. We later moved to where our daughter lived in Central Queensland and I got to see our grand daughter every day in the main. I would croon the song to her at times and she would often ask for me to ‘sing the song Poppy.’
I later traced the full version to Flanagan and Allan who rewrote the words and made it a smash.
Those last 2 verses you see above are not the Flanagan and Allen verses, dropped for their smash hit from 1939.
These are the original lyrics by Ralph Butler to go with the melody by Noel Gay (real name Reg Armitage) The Flanagan and Allen lyrics are used for the TV ad here except for the bang bang bang part so as not to offend some listeners.
The song can be found on YouTube.
The actor in question is Rod Mullinar, renowned character actor from Australian TV, from the last series of Hunter, and then starring as Ryan in the series of the same name with his secretary Pamela Stephenson (Mrs Billy Connolly)
This will probably never be read, but I just had to comment.
Tony.

By: Bek

Bek — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:02:15 +0000

Sorry, but can I bring Chris’ question regarding the other tourism Victoria ad back to the top? I have been trying to find it for so long too, can someone fill us in on what the piece of music is please?

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:00:21 +0000

I actually liked this so much I’ve downloaded the song and searched out various sites on lyrics. Granted, pretty hard on the poor rabbit but there’s some pretty horrible lyrics out these days. Cute ad too.

By: boing

boing — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:21:07 +0000

Yuck! I hated it. Have you people read the words to the song???? How can it be your children’s favourite??? I remember this ad & hated it to the point of changing the channel. Of course it’s not as bad as the recent 2006 Telstra ad (eeeeek!) and the scenery was lovely but really, don’t use it again as I’m sick of negative remarks about rabbits!

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:44:59 +0000

Hi,
A related sort of question: there was a tourism victoria ad a few years back; it had a big band, jazz sort of soundtrack, prominent clarinet; does anyone know the name of the piece of music?
Chris