Anyone remember the early-70s ads for Quantas Airlines? Their spokesperson was a grouchy koala who despised Quantas because their superlative service brought too many people to Australia, thus disturbing the peace and quiet of his habitat.
As a toddler, I adored him. I even had the print ads on the wall. Wait, now I’m remembering that the tag line was “Unbearable.” That’s what he always said before launching into his list of grievances. There was one ad with him surrounded by those tiny liquor bottles; my sister thought it was hilarious when I said, “There he is, with vodka and everything.”
Anyone? (In case no one’s noticed, I love koalas!)
I’m too young to recall the ads from the 70s, but there were Qantas ads last year that involved a talking koala. (From memory, I think he was extorting the virtues of leg room in Qantas business class.)
BTW, Qantas is an acronym so we drop the ‘U’.
MPSIMS, From Nat Geo’s Really Wild Animals Down Under, which I have watched with China Bambina about 2 gazillion times, the Koala is a marsupial.
Well kudos for not calling it a Koala Bear anyway. That’s always been a pet peeve of mine.
D’oh. I knew koalas are marsupials, but I forgot the spelling of “Quantas”. Terribly sorry. Anyway, they were the ones who said “Unbearable”.
Narrad: You don’t say!
[sub]I really love koalas![/sub]
[koala moan]I HATE Qantas!![/koala moan]
Queers And Nymphomaniacs Train As Stewards? 
Nice try, Iguana Boy (mind if I call you Jub Jub?) - Queensland and Northern Territory Air Service.
It beats the HELL out of Air Canada!!
Ohh. Oh my god. This explains so much! There was an episode of “The Critic,” where Jay’s new girlfriend (Jeremy’s twin sis) describes Jay as a big cuddly koala, whereupon he grabs a eucyluptus leaf and chews, stating, “I hate Qantas.” So THAT’s what that meant. 
Also, Qantas was the only airline Raymond would fly in “Rain Man” because it had never crashed.
This is true. Though I’m sure there have been close calls.
Not quite. These look like wartime crashes, and the one in '27 was probably a prototype. But no commercial crashes, it appears.
Sorry. A QANTAS 747 did crash-land in Bankok in September 1999. QANTAS did everything it could to not get it labled a “crash.” They tried to push the theory that because it wasn’t a “hull loss” a crash never occurred (even though it caused some $150 million in damages to the aircraft). However, both the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) label the incident officially as a crash in their respective reports.
QANTAS spin doctors did do some overtime on that one.
But can you imagine being the pilot? When you aquaplane your car and miss a parking spot, it’s not too bad. In a 747, though…