Instead of the regular, “Most hated commercials”.
I have to admit, I kinda like the new one for Campbell’s Tomato Soup, with the little jingle about it. You know, the whole, “Sit back, relax, kick back, Campbell’s makes a perfect snack. Campbell’s Tomato Soup-possibilities!”
Those text messaging commercials where some snotty person comes along bragging about their ‘superior’ messager. The funniest one was some guy approaching a girl text messaging at college and showing off his ‘vacuum messenger’. Basically he writes a message on a piece of paper, balls it up and the machine sucks up the ball and spits it out 
Later he’s trying to message someone and the messanger accidentally sucks his shirt off 
Guy takes his two sons to his job as an automotive crash-testing technician. The kids laugh and cheer as he pushes the buttons that send each car hurtling into the wall. One kid says, “Do the brown car next.” Guy: “It’s not brown, it’s Autumn Desert Sienna.” Kid: “Whatever, just crash it.”
At last, there are no more cars to smash up. The kids are dejected when the man tells them that’s it, no more. One kid suggests, “What about your car?”
Only saw that commercial once. How come the funny commercials never last long?
Yes! I mentioned this one in a different thread, in a different forum… the one where the girl speaks into her phone, leaving a message for her date: “Thanks, Mike, I had fun last night.” And the phone, which looks like one of those clunky toy robots, says: “Thanks, Mike, I have lip fungus.”
She gets anrgy, and just makes it worse and she finally screams, so everyone in the club can hear her: “I DO NOT HAVE LIP FUNGUS!”
Then at the end, she’s pouting, and mutters “I do not have lip fungus.”
And her phone says: “Let it go.”
Also, tell me, someone else must also like the Burger King commercials with “Gabe”! Almost everyone I know just rolls their eyes at it, and hubby will laugh only because he’s laughing at me, not with me - it tickles him more seeing me get such a big kick out of them.
“Gabe” is the fellow who, a few months back, proclaimed in a high pitched voice: “I’m SPICY!” It was funny enough for me the first time… but when his co-workers are dubious, and they tell him to do it again, it’s the second, half hearted high pitched: “I’m SPIcy…” that slays me.
He’s in a newer one, with the Spongebob watches… waltzing in on his co-workers and whipping out his watch, using that same high pitched voice: “What TIME is it?” They all have Spongebob watches… so he just says “cool.” and walks out of the lunchroom - again, it’s the second time that kills me… he’s walking by a guy at the copier just outside the lunchroom door, and he does this funny little backward drive-by, flashing the watch over his shoulder at the guy: “What TIME is it?!” Old boy tries hard, and I like him for it.
As for more serious commercials, I usually like the Prego ones, “Bring Something Nice To Your Table”… shows lots of pasta and foods made with Prego… then says “Your Family.” Sometimes it just shows a baby doing something silly while they eat, or a bustling, busy looking family, or whatever, but it’s always pretty nice.
I liked the commercial for Miller Beer which pointed out how Budweiser’s claims of freshness were overrated. Not that it was an inventive commercial; I’m just glad that they weren’t letting Budweiser get away with acting like they were somehow special on the freshness issue when, honestly, the chances of coming across too-old beer aren’t that great (at least among the major brands). I just kind of in general resent commercials that work hard to convince you that a nonexistent problem actually exists, then turn around and provide a solution to that nonexistent problem.
I find all beer repulsive, so I can judge this commercial strictly on merit.
I loved Toilet Duck, especially when he rolled around the bathroom in his little Toilet Duck-mobile. On that note, the Dow Scrubbing Bubbles were cool too.
I love the car commercial with the cars falling out of the sky and crashing on the ground, and then they show the engineer balling up his concept sketches and tossing them aside, as he works on perfecting the car. I just thought that was a great ad.
I always thought those Burger King office commercials were heavily influenced by The Office, that hilarious British sitcom. One that always cracked me up was a Snickers commercial where a dork working in an office would make this panda picture “dance” on his desk for the benefit of bemused co-workers, and say in a silly voice “I want to go to lunch! Pretty pretty dancing! Let’s go to lunch! You know what a panda has for lunch, don’t you? He has BAMBOO!” COM-O-DEE!
“GLEN! GLEN, GLEN, GLEN! GLEN, GLEN, GLEN! GLEN GLEN GLENNNNNN!”
Ah, good to see that Survivor’s still getting work.
ROY! ROY, ROY, ROY! . . .
I remember two commercials starring Colin Mochrie. For the life of me, I can’t remember what they were for; I only saw them once. All I remember is:
I also liked the Outpost.com commercials, especially the one wiht the hamster cannon.
Yes! I loved that one! Except he’s spinning it in the glass and the people on the other side of the door in the conference room are just staring at it. The way the guy says “bamboo” absolutely destroyed me. So funny.
The other one that always made me laugh was the chicken sandwich commercial where people would suddenly, out of nowhere, start clucking like a chicken and flapping their elbows. The best part is when the two movers are moving a huge mirror down the truck ramp and the guy at the high side suddenly starts acting like a chicken and drops the mirror.
It doesn’t sound funny, but it never failed to make me laugh.
Though I have heard nothing good about the company, I do rather like the Capital One commercials with the Vikings rampaging through a mall going after the people using the wrong credit card.
All of the Emerald Nuts commercials. Particularly the Enormous Neighbors, Egomaniacal Normans and Electromagnetic Navigator.
There was another commercial (think it was for some brand of beer) with a big burly guy laying on his back, holding a kitten and saying “Who’s gotta furry little moustache? Who’s my little moustache man? Is it you? Is it you?” Meanwhile, a few of the guy’s friends are in the background, looking bemused.
Best commercial EVER. One thing though, the co-workers are not “bemused.” They are terrified. OK, not terrified, but they’re all hiding in an office, desperately wishing the freak will take his “Panda Fancier” magazine and go away.
The audio (warning: popups).
The “doomed” guys for FedEx (?). I don’t know if it’s the Captain Kirk delivery or what but it never failed to crack me up the few times I saw it.
Like KGS, I wonder why funny commercials never seem to last long.
I had completely forgotten about this one until I read your post, and suddenly heard with perfect clarity “Or we’re doomed! Doomed!”
So here’s a link, and it made me laugh just as hard this time as the last.
http://www.fedex.com/us/about/advertising/tvads/dramaqt.html?link=4
But I think the Staples “Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is still one of my faves. The looks on the kids’ faces… Priceless.
http://www.advertisementave.com/tv/ad.asp?u_player=realplayer&adid=372
(Sorry for the raw URLs)
Three words:
Nextel. Dance. Party
Holy shit, my brother and I laugh our asses off every Sunday when we see this one…it’s usually on during the Nextel Halftime Show on CBS. You can see if it you search for those keywords on www.ifilm.com.
One last nominee… Because this Nike commercial caught me completely off-guard the first time I saw it:
Ooh, baby baby, baby baby…
I also like the one with Owens, especially right at the beginning when he says “Hello children” like he’s a sarcastic Mr. Rogers reading kids 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.
I love the viking Capital One ads, but only because I have secret fantasies of Viking raids in unusual locations.
I swear, I could watch all of these over and over, back to back, and not get tired of them for at least an hour or so.
“Whoa! Those must have been some cookies you left for Santa.”
“I didn’t leave him cookies, I left him cheese.”
There used to be a fiberglass pink insulation commercial that I liked. There were a bunch of flamingos who all sang the same song, then an imposter flamingo would do a bad immitation of the song and get beat up. I can’t seem to find a link to the commercial but I used to find it very funny.
The Citi Idtentiy theft commercials are pretty good too.
I also loved a Nintendo commercial they played in movie theaters last year before the movies started. It was a Japanese commercial with Japanese schoolchildren running, jumping, and flying through the Tokyo streets, all on their way to get the latest Super Mario Bros. Advance game, and it had them running across the roofs of moving subways, climbing buildings, crashing through manholes, and it was all set to a beautiful Japanese-language song done by a girl singer. Just a cute, whimsical, cool commercial through and through. And this was all live-action, by the way, not animated.