Comments on: Sie sind unter uns!

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:35:05 +0000

@30. Peter Henderson : Nice clip .. but I need a subtitled version, I cannae understand a woerrd they sed.

By: German Star Trek ads. by Schierer Space

German Star Trek ads. by Schierer Space — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:07:48 +0000

[...] you read the Bad Astronomy Blog, and many of you do, you’ve already seen this. For the rest, here are a series of TV spots [...]

By: Peter Henderson

Peter Henderson — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:51:03 +0000

What about the Scottish star trek Phil:

By: Daniel J. Andrews

Daniel J. Andrews — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:57:31 +0000

ahh…thank you, Adam.

dan

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:26:02 +0000

If folks haven’t heard of the lion cross tigers & are curious see :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger

& for more on mules see :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule

Including weirdly enough the idea they are less stubborn (“obstinate”) than donkeys despite the saying.

For another well~ish known naturally occurring mammalian hybrid see :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly%E2%80%93polar_bear_hybrid

the Polar Bear / Grizzly bear cross.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:20:20 +0000

LOL!

I can imagine a whole story from that on who she was and what Spock was doing there.

I guess Spock was out of pon far at the time although being half-human as well … Hmm ..?

BTW. A bit off topic but I have to say there’s some very bad biology (& I’m not even a biologist) in Star Trek. Vulcans and humans being able to interbreed equals they are very closely related species – essentially the same species – and if Spock really is a hybrid human-vulcan the same way as we get hybrid “liger / tiglon” lions & tigers, horse and donkeys then it implys he’s sterile like a mule. Logically.

The same applies to most alien-human cross breeds with the possible exception of Minbari-human Delenn & her son given her “Chrysalis” machine alteration of her body.

By: ND

ND — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:18:09 +0000

The mentos commercials were from Germany? I knew there was something European about those ads.

By: Grand Lunar

Grand Lunar — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:42:06 +0000

Excellent find, Phil!

Too bad Sci-Fi..oops, I mean SyFy, here in the US doesn’t do a similar series of ads.
Nope, got to focus on the ghost plumbers!

By: Lars

Lars — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:14:44 +0000

That ‘German Star Trek’ video up there is from a comedian called ‘Bully’ which in no way means what the English word bully means. Anyways he has/had a comedy show on TV similar to Mad TV. One of the regular skits he did was a gay star trek. And as for German TV ads, normaly quite horrible. A perfect example is the Mentos commercials that played here in the US.

By: Georg

Georg — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:22:02 +0000

Are You sure those ads are German production really?
In general, German ads are boring, this is a fact, which is
produced by a cooperation of traditional German civil law
and cowardice of ordering parties.
Georg

By: GumbyTheCat

GumbyTheCat — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:54:18 +0000

#4 Dave

Oh noes! You invoked the name of the evil entity Oliver! Now Phil’s blog is going to have nothing but bad luck… the only cure is for Fonzie to jump a shark NOW!!!

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:54:02 +0000

@Daniel J. Andrews: data was putting money into a tanning chamber.

By: Geek humour » FNQhome.com

Geek humour » FNQhome.com — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:34:38 +0000

[...] Via Bad Astronomy [...]

By: DrFlimmer

DrFlimmer — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:34:56 +0000

@ Ivan3man

Good one

By: Daniel J. Andrews

Daniel J. Andrews — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:22:04 +0000

Guess I’m dense, but I didn’t get the one with Data and with Quark. I thought Quark was buying q-tips for his ears but perhaps not? And I don’t know what Data was putting money into…a sleeping chamber??

By: theMark

theMark — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:14:50 +0000

@timebinder Huh? If you’re referring to the first ad, the Vulcan nerve pinch usually puts people to sleep …

By: timebinder

timebinder — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:05:29 +0000

You can tell it’s German, because someone had to die in it.

By: IVAN3MAN_AT_LARGE

IVAN3MAN_AT_LARGE — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:23:32 +0000

DemetriosX:

Not to mention really bad market targeting: toy ads after 10 PM, beer and car ads during kids programming.

Actually, there are good reasons for that:

1. Adverts for toys are shown after 10 p.m. so that long-suffering parents of bloody spoiled brats aren’t pestered for the latest “Ich will eins!” (I want one!) toy, because the brats will be in bed!

2. Beer and car adverts are shown during kids’ programming so that long-suffering wives are not pestered by their beer-bellied Mannsvolk (menfolk) shouting, “Ich will eins!”, because the men will be at work!

By: Douglas Troy

Douglas Troy — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:13:28 +0000

LOL! Those were great. Needed a good laugh today.

By: Tribeca Mike

Tribeca Mike — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:37:06 +0000

Wunderbar! Tribbles nächstes?

By: DemetriosX

DemetriosX — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:40:30 +0000

OK, I haven’t seen any of these either, but then like the other commenters, I watch very little television. I’m not even sure my cable company carries SciFi/SyFy. Most of these are pretty good (though given Ferengi physiology, the one with Quark has some rather R-rated overtones) and German commercials do generally suck. Half of them are like 70s era, big market independent station ads and most of the rest are either the same ads you get everywhere or have an 80s style. Heck, I still see ads that I first saw when I moved here over a decade ago. Not to mention really bad market targeting: toy ads after 10 PM, beer and car ads during kids programming.

Anyway, maybe it’s just me, but for all their cleverness, the slogan carries certain… uncomfortable associations. I’m just sayin’.

By: cimddwc

cimddwc — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:19:15 +0000

@dave: Coincidentally, German SciFi changed the name to Syfy today…

“unter” = under, below, beneath, among, between –and not just colloquial.

By: Strahlungsamt

Strahlungsamt — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:09:05 +0000

Here's the German Star Trek. :)

By: AliCali

AliCali — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:48:56 +0000

While “Unter” means under, “unter uns” means “among us” colloquially.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:38:48 +0000

“Unter” is “under,” not “among,” unless there’s an unfamiliar idiom at work here.