Starmart Ad starring Jemaine

**Posted:** Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:54 am

I didn't see this posted elsewhere so...

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

Quote:

Directed by Adam Strange, this commercial is part of a hilarious campaign for Startmart that tracks the progress of a group of young surfers on a summer road trip in their faithful station wagon, Big Val. Written by the hilarious Glenn Wood and art directed by Carl Van Weyk, the commercials were a huge success in New Zealand until the Starmart parent company in Singapore saw them and thought the young heros and heroines were too 'drug addict' looking and pulled them off air??!!??

**Posted:** Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:47 am

They needed more J-dog, less drug addict. How does the world not realize this is the way to solve every problem.

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well they were overly ravenous, so you never know haha. i dont think anyone's ever been that excited to see a starmart

**Posted:** Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:51 pm

My friend also pointed out that the typeface used in the word "Need" at the end makes the "N" look like a "W". :hrm:

Hugs not drugs!

**Posted:** Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:36 pm

dandy lyons wrote:

I didn't see this posted elsewhere so...

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

Quote:

Directed by Adam Strange, this commercial is part of a hilarious campaign for Startmart that tracks the progress of a group of young surfers on a summer road trip in their faithful station wagon, Big Val. Written by the hilarious Glenn Wood and art directed by Carl Van Weyk, the commercials were a huge success in New Zealand until the Starmart parent company in Singapore saw them and thought the young heros and heroines were too 'drug addict' looking and pulled them off air??!!??

Haha! Not surprising :lol:

**Posted:** Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:10 pm

dandy lyons wrote:

in their faithful station wagon, Big Val.

That's kind of awesome. Though I hope "big" never actually makes an appearance in any nickname I may have.

**Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:40 am

Venus wrote:

dandy lyons wrote:

I didn't see this posted elsewhere so...

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

Quote:

Directed by Adam Strange, this commercial is part of a hilarious campaign for Startmart that tracks the progress of a group of young surfers on a summer road trip in their faithful station wagon, Big Val. Written by the hilarious Glenn Wood and art directed by Carl Van Weyk, the commercials were a huge success in New Zealand until the Starmart parent company in Singapore saw them and thought the young heros and heroines were too 'drug addict' looking and pulled them off air??!!??

Haha! Not surprising :lol:

Yis, the first thing I thought was they all had some serious munchies going on! :lol:

Pretty pathetic of StarMart to pull them if they were popular...did they think they'd be overrun with druggies becasue of it? Sheesh...they just looked like cool stoners. :wink:

**Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:43 am

LauraK wrote:

did they think they'd be overrun with druggies becasue of it?

You must remember the sage and timely wisdom of the children's book: "If You Give a Stoner a Commercial". It foretells such horrors in disturbing detail.

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TheFool wrote:

You must remember the sage and timely wisdom of the children's book: "If You Give a Stoner a Commercial". It foretells such horrors in disturbing detail.

Ha ha! And, perhaps those mucky mucks in Singapore never read the enlightening volume, "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Twinkie After She Got Stoned and Went To Starmart". Clearly a precedent has been set.

Val - I promise I will never call you Big Val. But you're right, that is kind of awesome. *high five*

**Posted:** Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:10 pm

mockingbird wrote:

TheFool wrote:

You must remember the sage and timely wisdom of the children's book: "If You Give a Stoner a Commercial". It foretells such horrors in disturbing detail.

Ha ha! And, perhaps those mucky mucks in Singapore never read the enlightening volume, "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Twinkie After She Got Stoned and Went To Starmart". Clearly a precedent has been set.

Val - I promise I will never call you Big Val. But you're right, that is kind of awesome. *high five*

HAHA! Clearly, those in the Parent Company are too well-acquainted with what brings on the munchies and were made extremely paranoid by the response..... :rolleyes:

**Joined:** Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:44 pm **Posts:** 335

That was hilarious in a kind of WTF way.
It's closed... the whole of New Zealand is closed.

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WomanInThePark wrote:

That was hilarious in a kind of WTF way.
It's closed... the whole of New Zealand is closed.

closed, closed, closed... Look!

**Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:18 pm

Another Star Mart ad featuring Jemaine (which I haven't seen before) has resurfaced:

**Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:36 pm

Nice!

Then I went and watched a bunch of security videos of Star Marts being broken into, lol...... :lol:

Stupid criminals wherever you go!

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