There are some queries in life that even Brad & Dan, stars of the Fosters ad series, are flummoxed by. Usually nothing throws these two laid back Aussies, who sit answering calls while drinking chilled cans of Fosters in their beach shack.
But when they answer the bloke who starts off with: “I’m thinking about shaping my eyebrows…What’s better, plucking or waxing?” the two Aussies look perplexed. Instead of saying anything, they put a Dictaphone on the table, on which a woman’s voice repeats “You are held in a queue, you are held in a queue…” and make their escape from this creepy caller.
Over the last year Brad & Dan have dealt with all kinds of tricky questions, posed by British lads without a clue. They’ve covered issues such as how to get out of getting a girlfriend’s name tattooed on your body, whether to shave or wax a hairy back (“Remember, Jacko, waxing’s for cars!”), and how to deal with someone who stands too close in the pub.
But for the ones they just can’t cope with, the boys reach for the Dictaphone to handle the call!
In the latest Fosters advert seen on British TV, we see a great example of the clashes between British and Aussie culture. Brad is out of the shack and at an English garden party. He calls Dan because he’s confused: “They’re serving Foster’s Gold…but all the sangers have just got greenery in them” Dan’s back in Oz cooking sausages on the BBQ and wants to make sure he’s heard right: “No sausage? That is a crime against sliced bread!”
Brad’s thinking about refusing to eat the sandwiches on the grounds that he’s an Australian, and a man. Dan says no, he should play along and feel sorry for them as they can’t afford meat for the sarnies.
The Fosters ad ends with Brad telling his host that his secret’s safe with him: “Spent all the? sandwich money on Gold eh?” You little ripper!”
The two agony uncles from Australia have been keeping us amused for a good year now, this one could run and run.