"Arctic"

4 September 2017

40s

Send in the Clowns

This amusing ad from Specsavers illustrates the importance of getting your hearing tested... particularly if your job involves communicating by radio.

We see a bloke working at a remote station, surrounded by snow, emptiness, and very little in the way of supplies. Before the film can turn full Thing, however, help arrives. He sees a plane dropping off a crate and rushes to open it... only to be greeted by something unexpected.

We won't spoil the joke, but needless to say lovers of so-called 'dad jokes' will have a chuckle. There's a wonderful central performance here, as the exasperated scientist radios to correct his order with a long-suffering resignation. Thoroughly entertaining stuff.

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