Acch! The hairball remover cats ask for by name! From the makers of Aiee!, the diaper for monkeys.
Don’t forget KFC Twisters, the meal that consists entirely of shredded lettuce and a tub of mayonnaise.
One of my favorites, which seems to be a bit obscure, shows Gilda Radner as a C/W singer (whose name escapes me) plugging her new album “Stretch Marks - songs for the working single woman over 40.” It features such classics by the artist as “I’m Married To My Music” “My Songs Are My Children” (insert “publicity shot” of Gilda looking forelornly as she walks past a mother w/ her infant child) and the internationally renoun “You Call Me Bitch One More Time And I’ll Scratch Your Face Off!”
Then there was the promo ad for the Union of Professional Dope-growers complete with all the Not-ready-for-prime-time-players singing the “Union Label” song. Funny as it was, I’m sure the current SNL producers don’t want to dredge that up, being such a more conservative time that no one thinks unions are a laughing matter anymore.
There was a Poland Springs parody, where there were two towns who fought for control of the spring, and the winning town enslaved and killed the townspeople of the losing town, and it looks like one of those History Channel reenactments. It ends when Will Ferrell says “This happened two weeks ago. You probably heard of this on the news.” The tagline was something like “OUR spring. Not theirs.”
I forgot to mention, the new Canon camera (or whatever the brand was) whose slogan was “So simple - even Stevie Wonder can use it!” followed by shots of a tennis match that are all off-kilter, out of frame, shots of the ground, etc. The most shocking thing of all was that the real Stevie Wonder (not Eddie Murphy parodying him) appeared in the ad!
One commercial that was featured in the promos for Saturday’s special, but wasn’t actually shown, was one featuring Jimmy Fallon for … I don’t remember precisely the product, but I believe it was a hemorrhoid cream, and the commercial was all “EXTREME” and “RADICAL” and skateboard-themed.
Ah, yes. After the Crystal Pepsi ads were everywhere at the time. I forgot about this Crystal Gravy. Funny!
One I remember, but haven’t seen posted: Hamburger Helper Antibacterial (or something similar). There came a tube of anti-bacterial ointment that you stirred into the meat for really old hamburger, or something like that. Classic.
I also remember the running for mayor (or some local office) ads with Will Ferrell (vs. Fred Pete). At the beginning of the show (the first commercial), Ferrell would argue legitimate policy issues that Fred Pete stood for in his attempt to sway voters. A 2nd commercial airs later (and more attacking of his opponent), and by the third or fourth commercial they show Ferrell chasing Fred Pete in a supermarket parking lot, calling his kids “fat” and harrassing him to no end. It was completely on-cue with the political ads at the time and how there was no line drawn when it came to attacking your opponent. Will Ferrell was just so funny!
I was just reminding someone of Hey You! perfume this weekend. It was in the context of the early morning “walk of shame” when you’ve been out all night and have to wear the same clothes home in the morning.
The original product was Fluckers. Each cast member came in with something worse. I remember Dog Vomit and Monkey Puss, but my most favorite was Mangled Baby Ducks.
With a name like Mangled Baby Ducks, it has to be good!
um… that should have been Monkey Pus. Not Puss.
I cannot believe I just typed a correction like that. You do the weirdest things on the internet…
Adding onto Sunshine’s comments, Bruce Jenner set a decathlon record in 1976, including a 1500m run of 4:12.6 The fact that a decathlete would be edged by guys who concentrate only on the mile means nothing, since he’ll be able to pole vault higher and throw shot, discuss and javelin further than they can.
At least Belushi didn’t see his kids in a truly crappy reality-TV show.
Didn’t Ferrell do another series of parody ads in which the joke was that he had already won the election, but couldn’t resist piling on the humiliation?
My memory about that fake ad is somewhat fuzzy too but I think the race in question was for Congress. What I recall is what made the ads outrageous was that Ferrell’s character had already won the election but still kept running the attack ads. (Or maybe I’m getting it mixed up with the fake post-election attack ad that Bush I (Dana Carvey) ran against Dukakis.)
Wasn’t one of the names Painful Rectal Itch?
My favorite was the Carnation Injectible Breakfast, where Jane Curtin shoots it into Chevy Chase’s ass and he says, “Mmm! Chocolate mint!”
Derivative and 70s, I know - but still funny.
Regards,
Shodan
Now, just to make absolutely sure, the joke refers to AIDS/STDs, right? Or is it some kind of voodoo gag?
Well, that joke (as well as numerous others in the special) is kind of dated. At the time (the sketch was on the Sept. 29, 1990 episode) sexual contact with someone from Haiti was (and to some degree still is) identified as a major HIV risk factor.
A number of the spoofs lose their punch today because they’re parodies of then-overexposed straight commercials. Canis, Cologne for Dogs, works best if you have the ultra-artsy “Share the Fantasy” commercial for Chanel No. 5 (featuring a nude woman reclining beside a swimming pool and approached by a man swimming across to her) in recent memory.
A few I don’t think I’ve seen mentioned:
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“What happens in Thailand, stays in Thailand.” I laughed so hard at this series of commercials that I honestly thought I might rupture something. “No, my wallet is IN THE HOOKER. Stop judging me and just give me the damn number!”
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Not sure if this technically qualifies as a commercial parody, but the skit where they replace Chris Farley’s regular coffee with “Colombian Crystals” and he then goes apeshit and becomes insane with rage is comedy gold.
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This is an old one, and I can’t remember the exact details, but the idea was that they were selling a car that had luxury detailing on the interior, but the outside looked like a piece of shit, to deter thieves. The best part was when the guy in the ad placed a marble on one of the seams, like they do in the real-life luxury car commercials to show how finely assembled the car is, but on this car, the marble skews back and forth, wobbles, and then spirals down a gigantic rust hole in the hood.
Ah yes. The Chameleon XLE.
Mom Jean’s are the type of jeans’s worn by moms 
They have a high and wide wiseband, and are usually worn a little bit to tight. They typically have an odd front panel area, not aesthetically constructed. If the chick has even one once of extra fat it all gets pushed and smushed into an unactractive pubic -to-belly button-bulge.
I seem to remember one for a new model of car called Mistress. Guy gets caught by his wife humping the car’s special access portal. Might have not been on SNL, though.