29 December 2010

CZECH REPUBLIC: Humorous Chuck Norris TV Ads Delight T-Mobile, Prague, Central Europe.

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   Former "Walker, Texas Ranger" and action movie actor Chuck Norris stars in a number of humorous TV ads for T-Mobile and its satellite-TV service that are rapidly becoming  pop-culture memes in the Czech republic and Central Europe.
  In them, Norris seems lost dealing with Czech Christmas customs.
  The Prague office of Saatchi & Saatchi also loves them as the response has been overwhelming for T-Mobile.
  "Everyone in the country knows him. My mother knows him," says Martin Jaros, vice president of market communication at T-Mobile in the Czech Republic. "And he's somehow got a second life among young people and the Internet generation."

To see a :31 "carp" ad, GO TO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Bhp09ricc