# Ads that make you go "Damn that's a good ad." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828 "2013-04-16T12:29:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/21 "2013-04-16T23:40:37Z")
There was an underwear commercial that ran some years ago that showed a series of briefs hanging from a close line with the captioning (something like) “Some things are better heard than felt,” while [this music](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rapf3g_XvCc#t=10s) was playing in the background. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/22 "2013-04-16T23:44:14Z")
I particularly like the print version of this promotion for Iams dog food that’s running in a couple of magazines that I’ve read, but [here’s a video version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXXXTD2iKUU). ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/23 "2013-04-17T00:45:43Z")
This one for [Durex condoms](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxxz-yskYSw) is seriously amusing 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/24 "2013-04-18T05:46:46Z")
In the spirit of the OP , another Lottery ad: [Viva la Fun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EipwM77yjZA&list=PLegVV1c8CguuiCzEJ1fgx_hexMXenGJnd) Bathroom humor, and I love the last couple of seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/25 "2013-04-18T14:35:13Z")
The PSAs and condom commercials that run during RuPaul’s Drag Race (on Logo) are made of awesome. Excellently done and well targeted to their audience. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/26 "2013-04-18T14:54:51Z")
There are just some Ads that ooze quality, well to me anyway, that actually make me stop what I am doing to watch it. If I can remember what product it is then it is a great ad. I mean, it can’t be agreat Ad if you can’t remember what it is selling, right? An example of one (to me) is the Suburu Dad/daughter driving alone for the first time Ad…where the dad sees his little girl as literally a little girl. That was a great Ad. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/27 "2013-04-18T14:58:41Z")
An oldy but a goodie: [John West Salmon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVS1UfCfxlU) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/28 "2013-04-18T15:02:46Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > An example of one (to me) is the Suburu Dad/daughter driving alone for the first time Ad…where the dad sees his little girl as literally a little girl. That was a great Ad. Those are his real-life daughters. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/29 "2013-04-18T15:05:03Z")
You don’t have to be Irish but it helps. A Carlsberg ad [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Rw-ngKqVm2k/hqdefault.jpg "The Greatest Commercial Ever") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw-ngKqVm2k) Here’s another Irish Carlsberg ad that rips on the Irish language and how a lot of us only know a few words from school. The subs weren’t on the ad when shown on TV BTW. Almost everyone would know these words. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uI5_b-327Dw/hqdefault.jpg "Irish Carlsberg ad - With Subtitles") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI5_b-327Dw) ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/30 "2013-04-18T15:46:09Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > This one for [Durex condoms](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxxz-yskYSw) is seriously amusing 😛 :eek: ---
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/31 "2013-04-18T18:55:48Z")
An ad from India to mix things up. [Link.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTav-vdht0E&list=PL2042A10F4C2E9194&feature=player_detailpage) . This company does a lot of ads in the same vein. All pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/32 "2013-04-18T23:31:44Z")
Two Australian ads: One for parents 😃 [Baby Love](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paw0M7p1-8k) The best McDonalds ad ever: [Jimmy Dean](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-dNORU8bIM) I remember being in bars and people would just stop and watch this ad. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/33 "2013-04-19T04:03:09Z")
This one makes my wife tear up every time… [Lab Puppy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8kOeV56-kc) Probably helps that we have two old Chocolate Labs that we’ve had since puppies. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/34 "2013-04-19T09:59:48Z")
I have to park my inner feminist for the fabulous ‘sex sells’ approach of Virgin Atlantic. [Their James Bond ad was great](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Hbib-A6NpW8). As was their 25th anniversary ad, [recreating the mid-80s in great detail](http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2009/jan/05/virgin-atlantic-ad). [This new ad](http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/the-virgin-experience/fitfoo/our-people/watch-the-trailer.html) is like a movie trailer, based from what I can see on Salmon Rushdie’s novel Midnight Children. [This John Lewis ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYOsWWKHZVw) created national comment and got this song back in the charts. For no particular reason, it always makes me well up. (FTR, John Lewis is a very much loved chain of department stores, often voted Britain’s favourite brand). ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/35 "2013-04-19T21:48:19Z")
I don’t really watch ads but someone linked to this and I thought it was pretty amusing! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b4fk0AkDEo) Dove for Men ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/36 "2013-04-20T01:20:23Z")
This Portuguese (I think) [commercial for the Peugeot 208](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAsyF4J_klk) is full of awesomeness. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/37 "2013-04-20T04:50:39Z")
[Born to create drama.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3pXAIJFK3g) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/38 "2013-04-20T22:28:56Z")
It’s better to be fast to not be bitten by a werewolf and then you’ll be turned into one and you’ll have to stay in and you’ll have to be shaved because you’ll be too hot and then your like rarrarrarrarrar which means I wish I was back to a human… um what? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/39 "2013-04-21T05:16:13Z")
Ford “evil” Ka ads - [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLdcGSRHaaY) https://www.youtube.com/embed/EJHsbVvGPaY?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RD077Guufs3mdgg Skittles commercials [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdpi5n\_skittles-commercial-muscles-growth\_shortfilms#.UXNzO2fD9RA](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdpi5n_skittles-commercial-muscles-growth_shortfilms#.UXNzO2fD9RA) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/C3Zma2_n5CA/hqdefault.jpg ""The Skittles Touch" -- Best Skittles Commercial Ever!!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zma2_n5CA) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q-h7_6NX1A) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AWY-whkgkwg/hqdefault.jpg "Skittles Elephant") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWY-whkgkwg) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LG0zDltjL_o/hqdefault.jpg "Skittles-Stable") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG0zDltjL_o) and of course piñata man! https://www.youtube.com/embed/7Ht3JPdLFcw?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RD077Ht3JPdLFcw ---
**Author:** ![MrPestus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e79b87/32.png) [@MrPestus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrPestus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828/40 "2013-04-21T06:21:43Z")
This one makes me feel GREEAAT [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6rE0EakhG8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6rE0EakhG8) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-that-make-you-go-damn-thats-a-good-ad/655828.md?page=3)