What has been your Favorite Commercial ?

[BlueJazz]

I know here in the past, at DU, we've dissed commercials we hate
but are there any that you've really loved?

I think one of mine was the scene where the Guy was in a "Womans"
movie (stuck between two crying, sobbing females and the poor dude is rolling his eyes and thinking "Oh, Brother")

He then remembers that he has brought in a bottle of beer and proceeds to open it.....his eyes lighting up!

Well, the poor f*cker drops his beer on the floor and it rolls down the floor out of his reach.

The next scene shows him sobbing uncontrollably with the women comforting and consoling him. ..... thinking he's "touched" by the movie.....LOL!

[benddem]

1. AFLAC

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. Terry Tate Office Linebacker

these just kill me. Watching him slam employees in an office setting just puts me over the edge.

[Nomad559]

9. Terry Tate Office Linebacker

Is this the Video }(

http://www.kicken.com/funnyfiles2/www.kicken.com-nieuwe.manager.asf

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. Yep, that's the one :)

when it's game time, it's pain time... LOL

[Leftist78]

38. Terry Tate

That's got to be the funniest one I've seen. Had beer coming out of nose when I saw it on the superbowl. terrible thing to do to good beer though :beer:

[rjbcar27]

3. John West Salmon.

With the bears by the lake.

You may not have seen it in the US but I assure you, it's the funniest thing you will ever see. UK commercials are by and large far, far superior to anything the US agencies come up with.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. I saw some of those JWS commercials on Japanese TV

on a "commercials of the world" show.

[TlalocW]

4. Muppets!

This was in black and white, and I've only seen it once on a retrospective of the Muppets, but they had Kermit the Frog, and I think a Grover-like character, and it was in black and white - years before Sesame Street and Jim Henson made it big. Kermit is pointing a cannon at Grover and asks him what he thinks of this one coffee. Grover says, "Well, I don't really know... I don't drink coff..." *BOOM* Kermit swivels the cannon towards the camera. "What do YOU think of so-and-so coffee?"

TlalocW

[underpants]

6. How do I do it?.......I'm in debt up to my eyeballs.

Of hte current ones that came to mind first.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. My favorite commercial of all time was an anti-smoking

public service commercial featuring a catchy Western ballad-like song about "Johnny Smoke" that appeared for a time in the late '60s/early '70s:

How many saddles will be empty tonight?
How many men will lie still beneath the stars?
How many tears will be shed because of you?
How many more will DIE?

[Nomad559]

14. Two anti-smoking videos

http://www.kicken.com/funnyfiles/www.kicken.com-rokende.hond.mpg


http://www.kicken.com/funnyfiles2/www.kicken.com-roken.mpg

[mac56]

21. "Out of the land of the tobacco plant " -

I was trying to remember all the lines to that commercial the other day!

Do you have them all? The only other bit I remember is "Feared by his friends and enemies alike."

[Art_from_Ark]

48. Maybe this is the rest of it

Out of the land of the tobacco plant
Comes a tall, fast-drawin', long lean bloke
Feared by his friends and enemies alike
Feared by all who come to know the name of...Johnny Smoke!

How many saddles will be emptied tonight?
How many men will lie still beneath the sky?
How many tears will be shed because of you?
How many more will DIE?

The "DIE" part always struck a chord with me.

Ironically, my favorite non-public-service TV advertisements from that era were almost all cigarette commercials

Most all of them had snappy jingles or theme music. In fact, the earliest commercial I can place with certainty in my memory is a Kent commercial from '62 or '63. Fortunately, I was much too young at the time to be persuaded to go out and buy a pack:D

[Kat45]

8. I like the new AFLAC commercial with Yogi Berra

It's a riot. Also like the AFLAC one where the women were talking about the insurance, the camera panned around and the duck wasn't there. Cut to a scene of the duck sitting in a club in Vegas enjoying a Wayne Newton show.

[CanuckAmok]

11. Meow Mix

The guy doing the crossword: "what's a four letter word for great taste", etc. The cat keeps going "MEOW" at him, then finally, he gets it, and says to the cat: "M-E-O-W...why didn't you say something?"

The cat turns to the camera and rolls his eyes...


Actually, anything with a talking cat gets me. And the AFLAC duck.

[meow2u3]

24. The Meow Mix commercial....

...where the guy sings, "Beer, beer, beer, beer...." and his wife won't budge. The cat starts in with the "meow, meow, meow, meow", she picks kitty up and pets her, feeds her, and then the husband gets up and gets his own damn beer! Hysterical!!

[MrBenchley]

53. The Little Friskies commercial

shot like a Riesens commercial....the guy says "I like these....they're crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside."

"Why is there a picture of a cat on the package?"

[Champion Jack]

12. My latest favorite was the...

toyota/honda/nisson/etc small SUV ad.
It's the one where all the gen-whatever "young adults" pull up to a deserted location in the desert.
The girls are nervous and a little afraid as they get out of the car in the dark.
suddenly the lights on the vehicle are turned on revealing the rock wall they are going to climb and everything is OK.
The best part is the sound track. It's just sound FX until the lights come on, then it's the opening guitar chords of the
VELVET UNDERGROUND'S "HEROIN" .

I fell out of my seat the first time I saw this. It ran for about 2 weeks, then got pulled and came back a month later with some generic guitar strumming replacing the VU stuff.
I'm sure somebody got their ass handed to them over this.

[terryg11]

13. OJ commercial with cameo by Robert Loggia

family sitting at breakfast, mom and dad trying to convince little Billy or whomever to drink his orange juice. ask him who could convince him to drink it and he says, "I don't know, maybe Robert Loggia?" and ta da, the music starts and in through the back door walks in Robert Loggia himself wearing an incredibly dapper suit and he talks to Billy explaining how good it is for you.

so odd it was great, not to mention robert loggia doing a commercial

[Nomad559]

15. One of my favorites

http://www.kicken.com/funnyfiles2/www.kicken.com-bud.light.beach.wmv

[donotpassgo]

16. The Saturn Commerical where the cars go people shopping.

Genius.

[Cheswick2.0]

17. I love the counting sheep

poor unemployed goofy sheep. They crack me up.

[asjr]

19. commercials

I love those counting sheep. The latest one I've seen have them dancing and rapping at the foot of the bed of a couple who look dazed.

[cmd]

25. You can watch there here

http://www.serta.com/pages/commericals.html

[mark0rama]

32. The sheep are great

I love Aardman Animations' work, from Wallace and Gromit to Chicken Run.

[markbark]

18. Still powerful... almost 20 years later

The Ridley Scott directed "1984" Apple Commercial






--MAB

(on edit.... for those of you who are non broadband enabled.... the link is a 13mb QuickTime download)

[markus]

20. Shooting the gerbil out of a cannon

I can't remember which Dot Com it was, but they made several commercials implying (one hopes) cruelty to animals. In this one, they were trying to shoot a small rodent out of an air cannon through the O in their name/logo, and kept missing.

It was so sick I couldn't control myself laughing.

I'm sorry. I had to confess this outloud.

I love animals, but it was just so, well, twisted.

[mark0rama]

33. That was Outpost.com

Not a strong presence anymore (division of Fry's at this point). Their 3 spots were outrageous.

The other one with animals had the animals being cruel to humans: they turned a pack of wolves loose after a marching band.

A third spot had them tattooing their logo on the foreheads of children.

They directed people to the Web site to register their complains. Their site posted a letter from the American Humane Association assuring the animals weren't really mistreated. Nothing about the kids, though.

[Southsideirish]

22. Guy falling through the ceiling.

When he hears all the sexy talk coming from an apt. downstairs and crawls though the duct work to get a better look. That girl sure is a great screamer - as many times as I've seen it she always cracks me up - and the dog "attacking" him at the end is a riot.

[underpants]

37. Progressive insurance commercial with guy stuck in the wall

"Indoor basketball got a little rough"

His head and arm (with the ball) are stuck in the wall, his knee too.

His friend doesn't want the maintenance guy to pull him out without seeing his price and that prices of his main competitors.

[cmd]

23. Mean Joe Green Coke commercial

Of course, I love the Steelers!

[SmileyBoy]

51. I did a flash animation once of a parody of that commercial.

The little kid says: "Hey, Mean Joe, you played GREAT today!! And... and... I REALLY think you're the BEST!!... You want my Coke??"

Mean Joe: "Naw, that's OK. You enjoy it."

Kid: "No really, you can have it!!"

(Joe takes the Coke and slugs it down with a parodical version of the theme playing, ignoring the kid)

(Kid walks away, dejected)

Mean Joe: "Hey kid..."

Kid (turns around, eyes gleaming, thinking he's gonna give him something special, like his JERSEY): "YEAH??..."

(Joe tosses the Coke bottle at him)

Mean Joe: "Don't forget to recycle."

(Kid walks away crying)

"Grab a Coke and a SMIIILLLLEEEE!!!!!!"

[kathee]

26. Snickers Commercial

of the old man talking to St. Peter? I think, and Peter is reminding him "and we wont even TALK about puberty!!" Loved it.

[mac56]

27. I also like the Snickers commercial with Barky the dog.

Dad with kids: What time is the water show?
Barky (standing next to sign showing the time of the water show): You know, someone should make a sign that says when the water show is. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN THE WATER SHOW IS?!

Little kid: Are you really Barky the dog?
Barky: Barky the dog is a cartoon. I'm a grown man who's made a lot of baaad decisions.

[mac56]

40. Image of Barky the dog

Couldn't resist.

[Breezy du Nord]

28. There was this one on during the super bowl

about these pigeons trying to poop on this guys car in a garage, then he closes the door just as the one's swooping in.

[SoCalDem]

29. I always chuckle at .. back to school..Most wonderful time of the year

:)

[purji]

30. The one where Frankenstein

say he used to wake up so grumpy from muscle pain. I love the part where hes in a flowered smock doing the garding.

[mark0rama]

31. "That thing got a hemi?" "Yeah." "Sweeeeeeeet...."

Dodge Ram truck ad. They made a disappointing sequel that's running now in this market.

[mkregel]

34. I'd like to teach the world to sing

Call me dumb and naive...but advertising reflects a national mood as much as it sets it...and when commercials like this air, it gives you a little hope on the attitude of most Americans.

Nowdays its all "GUNG HO USA" shite...

[Art_from_Ark]

49. Christmas 1970

I think that's when that Coke commercial appeared, '71 at the latest. I loved that one, too, especially when all the lights on the Christmas tree turned on.

[leftist_rebel1569]

35. the one snickers commercial

where that one guy has that huge SUV, and crashes it into his garage...lol, that was the best...

[RebelOne]

36. The Kibbles 'N Bits commercials with the bull dog

And also there was a beer commercial with a dog fetching a beer and you hear slurp, slurp from the kitchen and his owner saying that he hopes the dog was not drinking the beer.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. The Geico Squirrels

Gotta love their high fives when they make the car crash!



Here's a link to the commercial: www.scarysquirrel.org/special/movies/geico/

[Archae]

41. My faves!

The ones from about about 20 years ago, for Lite Beer from Miller.

"TASTES GREAT!"
"LESS FILLING!"

Especially if Rodney Dangerfield or Bob Uecker were in it.

[zbdent]

42. New Shimmer! It's a Floor Wax, AND A DESSERT TOPPING!

wait, that's not for real . . .

[zbdent]

43. Bass-O-Matic!

no, shoot . . .

[zbdent]

44. With a name like Fluckers

aw, crap . . .

[zbdent]

45. "I love Sodom"

wait, wasn't that "I Love New York" . . .

[zbdent]

46. "Little Chocolate Donuts"

hmm, I think I may be having a problem . . .

[kutastha]

47. I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke

So simple and yet so effective.

[stanwyck]

50. Driving Dog for CarMax

I love that dog. He's driving a truck while the guy riding shotgun is complaining "sometimes I don't think you even listen to me." Then the dog sees some ducks on a pond and drives into the pond. I really like that dog.

[MrBenchley]

54. Love that commercial too!

[ironflange]

52. Ikea

"Do you feel sad for the lamp? That is because you are crazy."

[newyawker99]

56. Hi ironflange!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[nuxvomica]

55. "Dancing" passenger in the Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial

I know people hate this one bit I love it. Makes me feel good, somehow.

[Rooktoven]

57. I still like the Bud light commercial

Dad and sons fishing (I love you man!)