The Aussies Are Coming! The Aussies Are Coming!

Every week, an Australian show called The Gruen Transfer asks two advertising companies to compete with each other to sell the unsellable. This week’s challenge: create a TV ad to whip up support in Oz for a military invasion of New Zealand. One of the ads is okay — but this one had me laughing so hard there were tears running down my face:

The ad pokes fun at the 100% New Zealand advertising campaign that is all over the Antipodean airwaves, in case you were wondering.

Watch it!