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June 10, 2009

"Do You Need To Go Pee-Pee?"

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The UK has these new hilarious commercials for a gentle laundry soap meant for babies (of all things) in which a grown-up dude responds appropriately with weird looks when his middle-aged mother treats him like a baby in a variety of ways. But they're definitely funnier than that sounds! I couldn't decide between the three commercials because they're all great and go well together as sketches, mostly because the woman who plays the mom has incredible comic acting skills, so here are all three: "Rubber Ducky," "Pen Cap," and "Pee-pee."

Rubber Ducky:

Pen cap:

Do you need to go pee pee?:

For all I know she's already famous in the UK, but that lady should be a recurring character on something (at least in more commercials). She's hilarious! These remind me a little of Will Ferrell's scenes with Jane Lynch in Talladega Nights, but with the mother acting inappropriately instead of the son. (Via AdRants.)

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I guess he deserves it for living at home.

Posted by: JTHusky profile link at 06/10/09 1:54 PM  | Reply
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i love his reaction in the last one. these commercials are amazing.

Posted by: paige. profile link at 06/10/09 1:57 PM  | Reply
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If you need to tinkle just let me know.

Posted by: Anono profile link at 06/10/09 2:08 PM  | Reply
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I love that there is a "pee" tag on this website. And that it comes up with 8 posts. (SPOILER ALERT, not *all* of them are about Hugh Jackman.)

Posted by: ladders profile link at 06/10/09 2:13 PM  | Reply
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Meh.

Posted by: Mcluskyist profile link at 06/10/09 2:23 PM  | Reply
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For UK based commericals, they have very subtle accents.

And I agree with Mcluckyist.

Posted by: the dude profile link at 06/10/09 2:50 PM  | Reply
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if these are UK commercials why are the actors american?

Posted by: connor at 06/10/09 2:55 PM  | Reply
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the male actor's canadian actually!

Posted by: clockworkrobots profile link  in reply to  connor's comment at 06/10/09 3:34 PM  | Reply
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I always used to wonder come come I'd never seen any of these British ad's that get posted online. Now I know. Because they're really Canadian. Also I was watching an old Simpsons episode the other day And Groundskeeper Willie said "Shite". Do you people not know that that's not a charming and inoffensive Scottish word?

Posted by: Chestybongos profile link at 06/10/09 9:15 PM  | Reply
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I love this guy! He's from the awesome cell phone ads... "Talk-walking?! That's amazing!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNT-kHS-wo

Posted by: superyenny at 06/10/09 10:56 PM  | Reply
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I just like that the soap is called "Fairy." Isn't that mildly offensive?

Posted by: Dorkus Malorkus profile link at 06/11/09 12:38 AM  | Reply
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Ugh. No. I thought I was finally rid of those horrible Koodo commercials...I never thought innocently clicking a link in the Videogum comments section would make me relive that horror. :(

Posted by: Hyla profile link at 06/11/09 2:13 AM  | Reply
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lindsay you are really bad with accents..

Posted by: heronimous profile link at 06/11/09 4:01 AM  | Reply
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The most striking thing is the wallpaper, esp. the bathroom.

Posted by: Paperback Rioter profile link at 06/11/09 4:53 AM  | Reply
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If you were to follow the links to see more you would see that they were made "by Leo Burnett/Toronto for Fairy'.

These have never been shown in the UK, the actors speak with Canadian accents and are made in Toronto - I therefore conclude THESE ARE CANADIAN NOT BRITISH.

Posted by: Mike in London (the UK one) at 06/12/09 4:06 AM  | Reply
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