Did the BBC ever comment on the 'pisstakes' of their adverts? (UKcentric)

Cafe Society
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E4 has done a couple of hilarious pisstakes of the BBC’s series of balet, synchronised wheelchairing, and rope ‘gymanstics’ adsverts. I love them. And now Sky1 has done a pisstake of the guy leaping and flipping his way along the rooftops from work to home, with a ‘more realistic’ (in the UK anyway) guy attempting to do the same thing. Very FUnny.

I wondered, did the BBC ever comment? What was their reaction if they did? If I were the BBC I’d be flattered.

More recently the BBC did a pisstake of one of their own adverts (the wheelchair one again) for Comic Relief, with Peter Kay (in phenix nights guise) joining the wheelchair people.

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What is a pisstake?

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A pisstake is a spoof, a satire, a play on words or pictures. From “taking the piss” or “taking the mickey” – think humourous, if vicious, sarcasm.

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Considering the intros have been criticised repeatedly as being a pointless waste of the license payers’ money, I think the BBC would be overjoyed that anyone had paid enough attention to them to bother with a parody version.

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I think they should bring back the ones of overhead shots of cities because my House was on the Cardiff one.

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You mean these?

Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon… (go down the page)