Comments for FlyJumper Ad Promises To Make You Awesome, Then Rich, Then Dead

FlyJumper Ad Promises To Make You Awesome, Then Rich, Then Dead

2007-10-04T23:52:00Z

In the U.S. they're called PoweriZers, but in the U.K. those springy pogo-boot things are called FlyJumpers, and the company that sells them has come up with a bizarre ad that appeals to... materialistic and amoral fame-seekers who are suicidal, we guess? The commercial—which is available on the Amazon.co.uk product info page—shows a bank robber making an amazing escape on his FlyJumpers, and getting away with thousands of pound notes. Then, inexplicably, it turns into a scene from "Final Destination."

(We're not kidding—it gets Itchy & Scratchy violent without warning at the end.)

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Comment from Xerloq, we are all made of stars. on 2007-10-05

2007-10-05T20:20:16Z

@liquisoft: Mythbusters couldn't do it with an industrial steel ceiling fan and a lawnmower motor.

Comment from Rectilinear Propagation on 2007-10-05

2007-10-05T17:45:55Z

@boreddusty: How do you explain Looney Tunes and SNL?

Comment from cde on 2007-10-05

2007-10-05T08:56:15Z

@humphrmi: Well, most banks even in the UK have either cops with guns or private security with guns. And most of the non-streetwalker UK SWAT cops have big scary guns that make NYC SWAT Cop machine guns look like toys.

Comment from Grrrrrrr, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig. on 2007-10-05

2007-10-05T08:36:28Z

I think the message here is simply "Don't go jumping into your ceiling fan."
(Brought to you by the National Ceiling Fan Safety Council)

That's one weird ending.

Comment from MadMolecule on 2007-10-05

2007-10-05T08:01:42Z

I really, really want a pair of those pogo-stilts.

Comment from humphrmi on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T04:16:33Z

@cde: Which is exactly why this commercial only works in the U.K. In the U.S., it would have ended after 10 seconds with an equally final destruction ending, and a cop holding a smoking pistol.

Comment from LucyInTheSky on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T03:46:57Z

that was bizzare... why...?

Comment from UEAKCrash on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T02:56:57Z

Wow... just... wow.

Comment from cde on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T02:39:16Z

This commercial is awesome.... I'm getting me a pair. I just have to avoid cops that have guns...

Comment from mandarin on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T01:49:03Z

So basically this guy is running from the cops and every time he does some stunt, the cops are usually a couple steps behind him....

Comment from bambino on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T01:48:57Z

@theblackdog: Yeah cause it's stupid & it sucks

Comment from theblackdog_BackToWork on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T01:19:11Z

BWAHAHAHAHA, I bet a commercial like this would never make it into the states.

Comment from Obtusegoose on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T01:07:03Z

This commercial is nothing to lose your head over.

*rim shot*

Comment from Skeptic on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T01:06:32Z

Wow, I can't think of an easier way to set myself up with a broken arm or cracked skull than a set of these. I'll pass...but then I'm not a 15 year-old skate rat.

Comment from liquisoft on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T01:04:09Z

I didn't know ceiling fans had so much strength to them. Maybe I'm just buying the wrong model.

Comment from Rusted on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T00:54:54Z

@boreddusty: More like Benny Hill.

Comment from boreddusty on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T00:45:47Z

No, American humor would be "men putting on fat suits and dressing as women"

Comment from Rectilinear Propagation on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T00:38:38Z

@Nero Diavolo: That sounds a lot like American humor.

Comment from Canadian Impostor on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T00:36:41Z

@timmus: Beautiful reference.

Comment from timmus on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T00:31:37Z

At the ad agency:

Ad guy: "...Then the guy runs into the 12-story flat and through the corridor in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these..."

Corporate droid: "Do I take it that you are proposing to slaughter our customers?"

Ad guy: "Does that not fit in with your plans?"

Corporate droid: "But we asked for a simple 30-second TV commercial."

Comment from Uriel on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T00:24:09Z

British humor is strange. They find weird things funny, like men dressing up like women, and overly extreme violence. I don't get it.

Comment from j03m0mma on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T00:06:45Z

dood That commercial rawks. its not like they could let the bank robber get away with the money.

Comment from boandmichele on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T00:02:13Z

lol that is very final destination. those look fun though!