Let’s Talk About Smart Breakdown News Posted by Ian Symes on 2nd March 2020, 10:13 Ooh! Eight months and one day later, a second AA advert featuring the Red Dwarf crew has been released. It’s time for another brand new minute of Red Dwarf, everyone. We’ll have a review along at some point soon, but do let us know what you reckon in the meantime. There are also some new behind-the-scenes videos and photos on the AA website to keep you occupied.
Better than the first ad, I’d say. Couple of nice little gags, the emergency lighting made me smile. :)
Yeah that was cool. Nice inclusion of the AA man into the actions and the emergency lighting gag was fun. There’s a cool (to me anyway) shot on the behind the scenes page of the full exterio of the Starbug set which is nice.
Are you sure sir? It does mean changing the candle! Lovely treat, effective advert, nice little interviews in costume. It’s maybe 6 weeks until “The Special” airs. So good tie in time if this is now airing on tv A lot in the run up, reminding a general audience the boys from dwarf are still flying starbug. So the AA have probably fixed Norman. He’s an app now.
Noticed that the BTS music has the proper theme as opposed to the shitty version that they use on the actual ad. Maybe it’s a broadcast thing?
After that I’ve lost all hesitation in openly wishing the show would switch to a CG Starbug full time.
The Cat appears to be reading a magazine about himself. We saw that in a publicity photo some months back.
There is a 30 second version of that advert which is a tiny bit different. probably the ones thats gonna be shown on tv. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGtBQAhhjB8 Cat replies with just “What?” at the end, instead of the coffee line. i think i prefer the “What?”.
The shorter ad is better but I wish they’d kept the candle joke in. I think this ad is certainly better than the first one.
How are the characters written so well for these ads?! The “haircut” line was poor, but otherwise I don’t think you could improve this.
The first one’s better imo but I like this as well. I much prefer “What!?” to the coffee line though. When he gives his answer to ‘What’s in your glove box?’, is Craig getting at what I think he might be? I mean, if so… fucking brilliant.
Some general info: https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/aa-smart-breakdown-adam-eve-ddb/1675876 “The ad will make its TV debut during the first episode of Bake Off next week (10 March), and will include out of home, cinema, video on demand and radio activity, as well as a cover wrap in the Metro.” Saw G&T tweet that it was shown during Coronation Street this week so could all be a pack of lies above.
It was on during The Chase earlier so, yeah, looks like they jumped the gun. In other news, I’ve defected from Pointless to The Chase recently. More news as we have it.
