La Marche de l'empereur

January 16, 2007 10:07 AM

Brief advertisement for France's Canal Plus: 00:01:07 secs.
posted by econous (36 comments total)

[this is hilarious]
posted by koeselitz at 10:11 AM on January 16, 2007

(insert: Bonaparte joke here)
posted by hal9k at 10:12 AM on January 16, 2007

(insert joke about inserting things here)
posted by iconomy at 10:14 AM on January 16, 2007

I just inserted the wrong thing.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:17 AM on January 16, 2007

very funny--thanks.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 10:17 AM on January 16, 2007

I laughed.
posted by jrb223 at 10:19 AM on January 16, 2007

That was good.
posted by Penks at 10:23 AM on January 16, 2007

[spoiler alert]:
But, wouldn't anybody say right away that it had been a film about penguins?
C'est ridicule, ca.
posted by Flashman at 10:31 AM on January 16, 2007

I would pay to see that movie. Possibly without the sex part, but the rest of it looked pretty good.
posted by Hogshead at 10:32 AM on January 16, 2007

Why was the tagline at the end in English?

Or does "Movies were meant to be seen" mean, in French, "Napoleon was kind of short?" Kind of like "shoe" means "cabbage?"
posted by thecaddy at 10:37 AM on January 16, 2007

Ceci n'est pas une penguine.
posted by greycap at 10:42 AM on January 16, 2007

Very good
posted by ob at 10:47 AM on January 16, 2007

Fantastique!
posted by dreamsign at 10:57 AM on January 16, 2007

French culture has been building up to this moment.
posted by vbfg at 11:11 AM on January 16, 2007 [1 favorite]

More like this, advertising industry!
posted by kdar at 11:20 AM on January 16, 2007

Hahahaha
posted by EndsOfInvention at 11:21 AM on January 16, 2007

Je trouve ce lien fantastique!
posted by languagehat at 11:21 AM on January 16, 2007

et moi aussi.
posted by Cranberry at 1:34 PM on January 16, 2007

Et moi!
posted by joshuaconner at 2:06 PM on January 16, 2007

c'est chouette!
posted by Busithoth at 2:13 PM on January 16, 2007

Une autre voix pour plus comme celle-ci.
posted by Wolof at 2:22 PM on January 16, 2007

Bof!
posted by greycap at 2:22 PM on January 16, 2007

You could also watch it on BETC EURO RSCG's own website if you wanted too. betc-emperorsmarch.com
posted by dabitch at 3:24 PM on January 16, 2007

To anyone who may complain about a single link to youtube post: Ta mère!
posted by Dataphage at 3:30 PM on January 16, 2007

Bof!

Um, you do realize that's the French equivalent of "So what?" or (in internet terms) "Meh," right? Is that what you meant to say?
posted by languagehat at 3:37 PM on January 16, 2007

The real genius here is in recognizing just how cuuuuuuute those little emperors are!

I was anticipating a stinky raw fish dénouement, not sex, but I forgot this was Frog.
posted by Haruspex at 4:08 PM on January 16, 2007

languagehat yes I did... it was me attempting to be silly after the general escalation of francophone praise above but it obviously didn't really work, so I shall skulk away and sit in the corner. And yes I know I got the gender and spelling of pingouin wrong too, before you ask... (French lessons seem a long time ago)
posted by greycap at 4:09 PM on January 16, 2007

able was i ere I saw YouTube
posted by Falconetti at 6:05 PM on January 16, 2007

Celui-ci n'est pas l'empereur que vous recherchez...
posted by clevershark at 6:28 PM on January 16, 2007

Le singe est sur la branche.
posted by homunculus at 7:28 PM on January 16, 2007

C'est très bien réalisé et très drôle. Merci econous pour l'hyperlien.
posted by nickyskye at 10:22 PM on January 16, 2007

I wonder what the American version would look like.

(and this is great, thanks for posting)
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 3:40 AM on January 17, 2007

La plume de ma tante est dans le jardin de mon oncle.
posted by kcds at 6:02 AM on January 17, 2007

Papa fume une pipe; maman pipe papa.

what?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:52 AM on January 17, 2007

Ma tante dans l'arbre avec son singe.
posted by econous at 6:53 AM on January 17, 2007

I think it would make a great, funny series, visuals of people talking about movies or anything and misunderstanding each other.
posted by nickyskye at 8:20 AM on January 17, 2007