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This 2006 spot is very far from a great ad. It doesn’t even sell Berlitz very well. But it is darkly twisted in that a boatload of British sailors are heading to briny deaths because a German Coast Guard trainee doesn’t speak English so well.
“WHAT ARE YOU SINKING ABOUT?”
Ad agency: Bates United, Olso, Norway.
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This screams for comment: https://twitter.com/dpatrikarakos/status/1552906293026988033
tb, I didn't get a chance to watch the ad.