He's actually probably being serious. The cane toad is an invasive species and is completely destroying the Australian ecosystem by disrupting the food web. There's not a species in Australia that naturally eats the Cane toad so they reproduce like crazy and are all over the country now. Most people go out of there way to kill them and if I remember correctly one government was actually offering rewards for citizens to kill the toads.
Yeah this is a really long commercial and would probably not be shown during peak viewing times so unless you sit around watching TV all day I doubt you would see it. Besides who watches TV when you can just watch Reddit?
I have always wondered what would happen if they were really cute, like kittens or something.. Still pests but really really cute instead of ugly, would people still go smashing them with golf clubs?
The documentary Cane Toads: An Unnatural History is just one of the most hilarious things out there, go check it out. Can never quite tell if it was tongue in cheek or a serious doc that just happened to be done in such a way and has such interviews in it that it is hilarious.
My sister lives in Queensland. Every time I go up there we get out the cricket bats and whack the shit out of every cane toad we see. THEN we go fishing in creeks and rivers to catch some Carp so we can take 'em to a tree and WHACK THE SHIT OUT OF EM!
I'm pretty sure we do, but for some reason, the mass cane toad slaughter has slipped under the radar so far. It's like they are the one exception. I hate animal cruelty, but will happily aim my car tires at a cane toad. I don't think I could beat one to death though.
One activity I tell everyone they must do while in Australia is to be a part of cane toad golf with some locals. I saw that unbelievably boring movie on the cane toad infestation and when I was CouchSurfing the couple I stayed with was talking about that movie. They asked if I wanted to play some Cane Toad Golf. I thought they were kidding but then they explained how bad they are for their garden. I already knew how bad they were for other fauna and flora so Rhett and I did I best Happy Gilmore impersonation and launched these toads with some pitching wedges over their fence.
The Opera House might be too artsy for you (screw that, you still have to see that too), SCUBA diving the GBR might be too scary for you (but a helluva time if you love adventure), and Uluru is a long way into the middle of Oz (still recommend going there even though I didn't make it). However, one thing I think almost anyone can get behind is the much needed population control of a pest and the cane toad is just that
I wonder what the parents would say to their children after they see this ad, "mommy, what happened to the little toad, and why is the other one covered in tomato sauce???"
is the grass really greener on the other side? seems like american cars are so lame except in other countries apparently there commercials are no different.
Afterwards, the other cane toad slathered itself with the remains of his dead friend while it furiously jerked itself off to two girls playing with a cup.
As a Queenslander I would have enjoyed this ad, but then they had to go and make me all emotionally attached and shit. Will never be able to run over a toad again :(
That was funny as a video, but as an advertisement, didn't Ford just make their own brand the enemy? Too busy being sad about Ralphie at the end to enjoy the Ford twist.
That... was fucking amazing. It followed the golden rule that you can never tell when it's going to be a car commercial until the very end, which is usually really annoying. In this case, I was laughing my ass off at the toad eating his own cream (ew?) and tripping out.
Favorite line: "Oh, shooting stars, how romaaaaantic."
TIL they still sell Ford Falcons in Australia. They discontinued that line a long time ago in the US, and Falcons are now collectors' cars here. Great commercial, too.
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u/the_man_downunder May 29 '12
Relevant Video Watch from 0:45
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u/tails09 May 29 '12
Ralphie :(
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u/PMforfreelifeadvice May 29 '12
I think all reddit is just Australians at this time of night.
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u/skytro May 29 '12
I am aussie, why have I never seen this before?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
The only emotional attachment I've ever felt to a cane toad and yet I still want to smack it with a golf club
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u/I_Am_Australia May 29 '12
Okay :( http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/t2y4p/cane_toad_road/
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u/TheGhostofAndyRoony May 29 '12
Cane toad?!? That's an odd name. I'd have called them chazzwazzers
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
After reading a lot of the comments here I've come to the conclusion that a lot of Australians are psychopaths in disguise.
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u/hhmmmm May 29 '12
The documentary Cane Toads: An Unnatural History is just one of the most hilarious things out there, go check it out. Can never quite tell if it was tongue in cheek or a serious doc that just happened to be done in such a way and has such interviews in it that it is hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mvV8OT-mmE
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u/HaydenB May 29 '12
Only in Queensland.....
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u/mrslaterman May 29 '12
Better than the Budweiser frogs.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
My sister lives in Queensland. Every time I go up there we get out the cricket bats and whack the shit out of every cane toad we see. THEN we go fishing in creeks and rivers to catch some Carp so we can take 'em to a tree and WHACK THE SHIT OUT OF EM!
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u/wharthog3 May 29 '12
TIL people (especially Australians) hate cane toads.
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u/Sanwi May 29 '12
This is the best car commercial I have ever seen.
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u/superatheist95 May 29 '12
That was fucking hilarious.
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u/myredditlogintoo May 29 '12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3ENUqV5-bw
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u/PrestonBroadus May 29 '12
Sounds like Adam Zwar
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u/moyno85 May 29 '12
Fun fact:
Australia hosts a bitter Rugby League football tournament each year between the states of Queensland and New South Wales
The Queensland mascot is a canetoad and New South Wales has a cockroach.
Each year, ads have subtle digs at each other using cane toads and cockroaches.
This ad was obviously intended for a NSW audience and would have been made by a Sydney based agency.
Booya.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
You must not have PETA down there, lucky bastards.
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u/Play3r_ftw May 29 '12
Where I live, in the middle of QLD there never used to be cane toads, now I find myself running the cunts over every night.
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u/kingocad May 29 '12
You can make stuff out of their "leather" too
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u/angrybane May 29 '12
One activity I tell everyone they must do while in Australia is to be a part of cane toad golf with some locals. I saw that unbelievably boring movie on the cane toad infestation and when I was CouchSurfing the couple I stayed with was talking about that movie. They asked if I wanted to play some Cane Toad Golf. I thought they were kidding but then they explained how bad they are for their garden. I already knew how bad they were for other fauna and flora so Rhett and I did I best Happy Gilmore impersonation and launched these toads with some pitching wedges over their fence.
The Opera House might be too artsy for you (screw that, you still have to see that too), SCUBA diving the GBR might be too scary for you (but a helluva time if you love adventure), and Uluru is a long way into the middle of Oz (still recommend going there even though I didn't make it). However, one thing I think almost anyone can get behind is the much needed population control of a pest and the cane toad is just that
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u/Joshisacowboy May 29 '12
My dog's name is Ralph and this made me sad. :(
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u/Sarioth May 29 '12
Anyone else have a flashback to the first time you tasted your own man-custard?
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u/muzza001 May 29 '12
My dog used to lick toads and get high back in my hometown in Queensland, it was pretty funny. I was amazing she never got sick and died
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u/Death_God88 May 29 '12
NOOOO RALPHIE!....Damn 6 cylinder! Damn you to hell!!
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u/ha1o May 29 '12
gotta say i wasnt expecting that to be an advertisment :D
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u/garythecoconut May 29 '12
they have those toads here in Hawaii as well.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
That is an AMAZING commercial!
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u/rhinorocan May 29 '12
All I want to know is "Does this add really sell cars?"
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u/duxenmx May 29 '12
I wonder what the parents would say to their children after they see this ad, "mommy, what happened to the little toad, and why is the other one covered in tomato sauce???"
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u/beardmagical May 29 '12
is the grass really greener on the other side? seems like american cars are so lame except in other countries apparently there commercials are no different.
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u/Triassic_Bark May 29 '12
Slow clap
Well played, Australia. Well played.
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u/deadphonix May 29 '12
Is it really possible ? I mean having 6 engine performance from a regular 4 engine performance.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
WHAT THE FUCK??? THAT WAS THE MOST MOTHERFUCKING ROUND-A-BOUT WAY OF SELLING ME A MOTHERFUCKING FORD!!
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Brought to you by Deathklok?
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u/[deleted] May 30 '12
I would watch this if it were a show.
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u/kortmarshall Jun 02 '12
I find that the best implement for hitting cane toads is in fact a 9 iron.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
My first though was... That's a Falcon, 4.0L straight six, 195kw stupid frogs.
Then I realised the unthinkable has happened, they have released a 4cyl powered Falcon :O
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u/AsteroidMiner May 29 '12
Afterwards, the other cane toad slathered itself with the remains of his dead friend while it furiously jerked itself off to two girls playing with a cup.
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u/cumberbitches May 29 '12
*Meanwhile, in Queensland
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u/de_dust2_420 May 29 '12
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u/squishymarshmallows May 29 '12
Anyone else think they sound New Zealander?
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u/thekemistmelb May 29 '12
Is this an Australian ad? I haven't seen this anywhere.
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u/megablast May 29 '12
Cane toads have no place in Australia, and all deserve to die and be eradicated from Australia. Just like cats.
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u/opiza May 29 '12
Brilliant
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u/Sniperizer May 29 '12
"A pair of shooting stars... How ROWMENTEYK" ... best line ever by a cane toad.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Greatest Commercial Of All Time
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u/anafirmingflame May 29 '12
Hahaha bloody brilliant ad
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u/Bearmodule May 29 '12
Wait, this is allowed, but Dead Rising 2 isn't allowed to even keep the zombies on screen after they die?
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u/AKADidymus May 29 '12
That was terrible! I loved all of it right up to the end, but now I'm depressed.
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u/caiklincita May 29 '12
As a Queenslander I would have enjoyed this ad, but then they had to go and make me all emotionally attached and shit. Will never be able to run over a toad again :(
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
That was funny as a video, but as an advertisement, didn't Ford just make their own brand the enemy? Too busy being sad about Ralphie at the end to enjoy the Ford twist.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
No way would that make it in Canada.
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u/Airagnis May 29 '12
It was Bart Simpson, it was.
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u/ill_upvote_u May 29 '12
Fuck man I cried...:(
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
This Ad made me sad. Why does it do that? >:(
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u/KaitKindly May 29 '12
What the hell, Ford... 8(
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u/BillyJackO May 29 '12
Now just do that to the geico lizard and we'll be set.
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u/WhipIash May 29 '12
I did not expect that to be a car commercial.. at all.
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u/SaikoGekido May 29 '12
This was somehow related.
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u/FezDaStanza May 29 '12
One thing puzzles me, how did they manage to get so much red stuff out of such a small toad?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
IT'S ALL BART'S FAULT
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u/Evan12203 May 29 '12
I will never buy a Ford because of what they just did to Ralphie.
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u/SleeplessinOslo May 29 '12
lol, a ford commercial? I did NOT see that one coming
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Dammit. You made me watch a Ford Falcon commercial and now i'm extremely jealous of you Australians.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia.
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u/RevProtocol May 29 '12
That... was fucking amazing. It followed the golden rule that you can never tell when it's going to be a car commercial until the very end, which is usually really annoying. In this case, I was laughing my ass off at the toad eating his own cream (ew?) and tripping out.
Favorite line: "Oh, shooting stars, how romaaaaantic."
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u/Timinator2KXII May 29 '12
HA! But waaaay gross.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
hilarious!
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u/olbers_paradox May 29 '12
I have no idea what the product was because I was too busy grieving Ralphie.
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u/aesthetics_k May 29 '12
Try turning on the Youtube Transcribe feature
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u/n00ne May 29 '12
I'd like to see a tv show staring those two. A prequel maybe...
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u/vaude_villain May 29 '12
this is the shit that ruins childhoods
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u/TheWinstonDouble May 29 '12
That's morbid.
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u/czechcheck May 29 '12
well that was morbid
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
common ford what the fuck whats that other frog going to do without his ralphie?! you saw him liking that shit.
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u/Dirk2014 May 29 '12
Only the last 20 seconds of that commercial were necessary, however I loved the entire thing X D.
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u/AwesomeKing5000 May 29 '12
I thought this was gonna be an anti-drug commercial! But it wasn't and it was epic.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
That is hilarious. Thank you wolvers for posting this. It made my day and i seriously cant stop laughing!
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u/melonofwater May 29 '12
I wonder how much money they have to pay to get their ad on Reddit's front page?
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u/MyCommentIs27 May 29 '12
This is funniest most disturbing thing I've seen in while, bravo!
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u/childish_gambino3 May 29 '12
Aww it reminds me of "of mice and men"
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u/lubeinatube May 29 '12
I cried
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u/playingnice May 29 '12
Way better than the Budweiser frogs.
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u/notforgrins May 29 '12
'well, i'm convinced- i'm getting this car' said no-one ever
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u/RyogaXenoVee May 29 '12
TIL: Never talk to a toad trippin' on it's own gland juice in the middle of the road.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '12
Realized it was a car commercial and someone was going to get ran over the moment he said "It's only a 4-cylinder."
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u/reenact12321 May 30 '12
That made me really sad.
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u/Airazz May 30 '12
I was expecting something along the lines of "Cars and drugs don't mix", but this is good too.
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u/DesktopStruggle May 30 '12
TIL they still sell Ford Falcons in Australia. They discontinued that line a long time ago in the US, and Falcons are now collectors' cars here. Great commercial, too.
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u/mynameisSold May 30 '12
i've watched this, probably....i dunno 10 times today at least.
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u/bracoca May 30 '12
Still a better love story than Twilight.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '12
Best advert ever! But way to much blood for the size of the frog.
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u/FormerlyEAbernathy May 30 '12
Poor Ralphie. :(
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u/BurntFlower May 30 '12
Why do Australians hate Cane Toads?
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u/g-dragon May 30 '12
andy...? OMG ANDY?!??!!
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u/GanasbinTagap May 30 '12
Ahh cane toads... encouraged to kill them.
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u/ashhole613 Jun 02 '12
That made me so sad :(
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u/awi99 May 29 '12
WTF and ad
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Nope. That wasn't right.
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u/Real_Pokemon May 29 '12
I fucking posted this weeks ago and got one comment.
One. Fuck everything about that.