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# Film pastiche misses mark, hits vein
- URL: https://toodlepip.co.uk/blog-2008-06-film-pastiche-misses-mark-hits-vein/
- Published: 2008-06-06T16:20:46.000Z
- Updated: 2019-01-22T15:41:36.000Z
- Author: Sam Michel
- Tags: Cantankerism, Half-baked, Marketing, advertising, funny, trainspotting, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-23 15:06

Whilst on a [Friday afternoon diversion](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4075247.ece?ref=toodlepip.co.uk) sent to me by a friend who knows I have the attention span of a….ooo, look a shiny piece of paper…

My gaze drifted towards this banner advert for Times Online’s Good University Guide – and there’s an expression that you don’t hear often:

![trainspotting1.gif](https://toodlepip.co.uk/content/images/legacy/trainspotting1.gif "trainspotting1.gif")

Remind you of anything? Ah yes…

![trainspotting2.gif](https://toodlepip.co.uk/content/images/legacy/trainspotting2.gif "trainspotting2.gif")

**Seriously?** Are you kidding me?

Aside from the lame pastiche, have I missed the ‘obvious’ humour in this? Yes, I suppose there is the unintentional comedy in advising potential students on their future academic institution and a film about anti-establishment heroin addicts. Maybe they’re trying to say something subversive and politically poignant about the weight of student debt and the difficulty in kicking hard drugs?

Or not.

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**Ian Delaney** · 6 June 2008

Account Muppet: We need this to appeal to 17-18-year-olds.

Creative Muppet:Â Ah yes. Yoof. \*racks brain back to youth\* Trainspotting. That is \*so\* 2008.

Client Muppet: Guys, you’ve hit the nail on the head with this one.

Dear Lord.