Tareknour.tv copies pretty much everyone.

It looks like Marketing 3.0 has uncovered a factory-system of copied films, he posted "International ads Egyptianized" a while back, and now there's even a facebook group dedicated to collecting the stolen promos that are produced by Tarek Noor TV “new satellite channel”. There's plenty of examples, elevator fart and Berlitz language school being only two drops in the bucket. Joelapompe has badlanded the Berlitz language school copy, but there are plenty more where that came from. Lets compare an example, shall we?

ictv.ua - Elevator fart - (2009) :30 (Ukraine)

And the Tareknour.tv one;

Eh? What on earth? Isn't that pretty much exactly the same old joke? (Like the Berlitz language school, this advert seems to be based in what is a rather old joke, I should know I tell old jokes like a parrot all the time.) And since that is only one out of many examples, what is going on here? On Facebook there's this comment:

A topic started on the official group on 15 august (1 am ya3ni 14 bas belel shewaya) stating that: “TNTV is proud to compare the funniest TV content and duplicate it in Arabic. However, in each promo there is a difference. Find out and win an interview on Al Kahera Wal Nas in front of 70 Million viewers.Check out the fillers on YouTube and compare them to the original.”

So... They meant it as a game? but wait, there's more:

Notice that the previous was posted only on facebook and the website, for internet geeks to shut up, but never on TV, as only facebook users knew then about the whole rip off thing, tv watchers supposedly didn't know, han3arrafhom leh???

OK, that does seem rather odd. I have no idea what is the gameplan here. Did they make that "Game" thing up as to cover their asses after they got caught, or was there in fact a "game" in it? If so , what do us badland-obessed people win? I'd love a trip to Egypt! If you have a facebook account, you can check out the rather impressive video collection of copy-cat skits here. We can at the very least conclude that Tareknour.tv are pretty productive.