Internet Artifacts

WRT “You Wouldn't Steal a Car”:

> ironically, the ad’s music was used without the creator’s permission.

The font was not correctly licensed either.

Also, we can safely say the advert completely failed on its mission.

I never saw it mentioned in anything but the most derisive and mocking terms.

If you were around and paying for media at the time, good have seen it before films at the cinema and as a pre-menu sting (sometimes unskippable) on some DVDs. One of those examples where paying customers were the only ones irritated by such a measure.

It certainly had wide audience awareness in its intended form, which is why the many comedy interpretations (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg probably being the most famous) came into being and worked so well.