DIE YOU YUPPIE BASTARDS DIE
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Ladies and Gentlemen, my 300th upload. I HAVE WASTED MY LIFE.
To mark this milestone, here's four (4) adverts for the Renault 25 (Twenty-Five) from 1985-88, starring a familyful of smug yuppie bastards who are probably perfectly nice people but whom I still hate on general principles. These people spend their entire lives worrying about two things: their boring careers and whether their boring careers will mean they get to drive a nice car (which in this case is the Renault 25 - one of the most prestigious cars imaginable for people who couldn't afford actually prestigious cars). The Renault is positioned as a key life goal for the sort of soulless reptillian career-ladder Joneses who were the demigods of Thatcher's Britain. It's Taster's Choice for even bigger arseholes, basically.
Apparently the first advert caught on, because the second advert here is a trailer for the REAL second one two years later, although in that time Yuppiedom has ceased to be a point of aspiration as a) the economy a splode, and more importantly b) the working classes, after seven years of this sort of thing, find their patience almost used up. Consequently the trailer-advert has a deliberately ironic tone, as Renault hedge their bets about their characters' appeal.
Finally, having secured a third term for their free-market Matriarch, the family return one last time to relaunch the benighted vehicle, which had a sleeker body and new suspension but was the same damn car aimed at the same damn people. History doesn't record what happens next. Somehow, they survived Black Monday, but I can't see their bloody homeopathic ethnic trinket store (or whatever the hell it is they "do") surviving the recession. Hopefully by 1991 they've been forced to move into a council flat and eat their young.
But at least Rosalyn Landor is hot, in that unattainable upper-class sort of way. (She's a perfectly nice lady in real life, as well; it's her character I hate)
This was linked to by the Financial Times website in 2014. They would have embedded it but it had swearing in the title, for which I slightly apologise. But only slightly. It was also cited in a biography of Adam Faith by David and Caroline Stafford, and that's true.
Yay hatred! 300 uploads!
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Ahh..the 80's ..when I was much younger and we dreamed of 'Porches and Perrier'...We've come a long way, haven't we? Now we dream of living in neighborhood that the gangs haven't found yet. Hoping that that when our children graduate from High School. they can spell 'High School'. Many of the comments here tell me a lot. It's a car commercial! Look at the 'ambience' of the background.... Duhh.. Wake up people.
Rosalyn Landor in a class of her own The best of CATS EYES a smooth judo black belt and a great detective
@KingOfBev
7 жыл бұрын
She follows me on Twitter.
I would choose the R25 above Alfa or Mercedes any day. The R25 is a really nice car!
It also had interior roof totally made of suede. It´s a really nice car! :) I get so fed up with people complaing on Renault, simply because they´re Renaults. X( I don´t go round whining about people who loves i.e MB, Audi or other stuff. I can´t understand them, but I can respect their opinion.
Loved Ben Elton's take on this: "Buying a Renault - one of your better decisions. Marrying an arrogant sexists dickhead - one of your stupider ones"
Actually, the first advert to be trailed was a PG Tips ad introducing Bond, Brooke Bond. I am going to go and cry in a corner because I know that without looking it up. Oh, and no, I don't know who directed them. Should have made a note. Sorry.
It's a very expensive Renault. Absolute top of the line for people for who really prestigious cars like Alfa-Romeos or Mercedeses are out of the question.
Stoddart was,nt a bad actor,is he still with us.I agree on Cats Eyes which also had the late Jill Gascoigne who was better known for The Gentle Touch.Check out the yuppie Audi ads,the spoof "Professionals" Almira GT1 ads with the wonderful Phil Cornwell taking off John Thaw as Jack(Sweeney) Reagan & the Cointreau ads.They,re all amusing in their own way!
"It's time to go it alone." "David, that's fantastic." F**K OFF F**K OFF F**K OFF! *ahem* Sorry about that. Always nice to be reminded just how despicable this pair of ter-wats were. Between these and the 'Gold Blend couple', the 80s really was a banner decade for Twats In Ads. Happy 300 uploads!
Their names were Malcolm Stoddard and Rosalyn Landor. She was in that dreadful 80s series CATS EYES and she had a bit part as a ten year old girl in the Hammer Horror film, "The Devil Rides Out" (1968), both of which can also be seen on KZread! I'm surprised nobody else has commented on it...
@bomcabedal
8 жыл бұрын
She also played Helen Stoner in the 1980s Jeremy Brett adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story _The Speckled Band_. Did a good job there, I think, with the exact right amount of Victorian sentimentality.
@GManWrites
5 жыл бұрын
She was also Barrister Fiona Always in Rumpole of The Bailey.
@tonycowdrill2611
4 жыл бұрын
And she tried to seduce Commander Riker in ST:TNG.
I like the “soap opera” novelty of these ads...back then it would have made them stand out and want viewers to find out the “outcome” of the “story”. Also...the “objective” “might” have been accomplished as well...to consider a higher end Renault...consider it even if you have the money for a Volvo or BMW. In the USA, this probably was the Renault Premier and the USA ad people would have had these yuppies in another higher end luxury vehicle...while more “regular folk” SAVED $$$$$$ BUT had the pleasure of the LUXURY LIFE in their Renault.
@F1JV
5 жыл бұрын
Also... I was waiting for the “tongue in cheek” part to drop...but it stayed serious, “at least” for these installments to the story.
Yes. Yes, you did. You really did. I don't know how those adverts lasted so long. Maybe they were paying off the RSPCA or something.
The best car I ever owned was the Renault 25-V6T.
Happy 300 posts, Applemask! Burn these ads in celebration.
Had a R20 in '78 that I drove 110k into the ground, got £500 for it. Now I avoid French 'electrics' & Italian 'build' motors. Loved them, & cried when they let me down!
Bond, Brooke Bond was from way back in the seventies. Featuring Michael Jayston Chimp in the title role. There's a bunch of them on the Tube.
Bugattis are reserved for the properly rich. The nouveau middle classes top out with this sort of thing.
@bobtoo Good point. Most stuff on the market is a mundane piece of crap.
There's something else: we have a son!
At least Nescafé had Tony Head.
@Applemask The ads would have been more interesting with Murray Head.
Lol.. they made whole film around it.
A benz 190 2.6 is a quality car, built like a tank. How many R25's do you see around today? none, because they were shite...
"I'm going it alone: into the pornography business. I'm relying on you." "Are you sure you're not being a bit hasty about this, darling?" "Darling, I told you I'm relying on you." "Oh, very well darling. But I'm not doing horses again."
@joncullen5382
Жыл бұрын
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@Applemask But it's a Renault! Not exactly Bugatti material is it?
Shame you haven't got the final ad, where someone bursts into their business with a machine gun and shoots the pair of them repeatedly in slow motion, while a soothing orchestral piece plays in the background... ... or was that just the best dream I've ever had? Happy 300 :)
Even more, who the hell is Dany55?
@Applemask I guess it is very middle class. Yes, I agree. How foolish of me.
Wonder if this car still exists?
@CycolacFan
9 ай бұрын
About seven years apparently, then scrapped.
@glunglun Nah, that didn't happen. He just lost the house, his wife, his children and any hope of ever starting again when Ian pulled out, John stole what was left and he had to declare himself bankrupt. He hasn't worked for 20 years.
What was Black Monday?
@applemask
7 жыл бұрын
When the markets crashed overnight in 1987.
For God's sake, it's a frigging Renault! A generic car you see on the street! It's like they've tried to make such a boring car look more interesting by featuring it in soap opera-like, Nescafé-esque ads about twenty per cent of the time! AGGGH!
How well I remember the collective howl of anguish that was unleashed in my house every time this clunky old battleship hove onto the screen with its cargo of self-satisfied yuppie. I suppose machine-gunning them both would have been excessive, but they certainly merited painful public humiliation.
lol a poor person with no prospects complaining about the rich who have worked for their money. how novel!
lol a mini yuppie soap opera about a car. I wish they would have drove off that bridge.
I remember this couple of overly smug, middle class tossers - all they were ever concerned with was their car as a status symbol! Hard to believe that renault tried to make the series of adverts into some sort of "event"?
My dad's piece of crap '85 Chevy Vega looked more classy than that thing.