“Ok, again. Who rules?”
“Cowws ruuullle”
“And why do they rule?”
“Because they are the farm masters.”
“And do you think they’re pretty?”
“Yeesss”
"Yes what?
“Yes I think cows are pretty…”
“Do you want to marry a cow?”
“Look can we just have our ball back?”
There’s a local MACY*S Christmas commercial with a song that is so cool…
He’s got a sleigh full
That’s not gonna stay full…
I drop everything when that commercial comes on
It’s probably not on anymore, but there was one where a woman snuggles up to her husband on the couch and starts licking his fingers. Turns out she’s licking off the cheesy orange dust left from the Cheezits.
Some of the Food Network ones are pretty good. I like the one where a couple orders Chinese food. From China.
There’s a commercial on with a woman and her daughter in the kitchen making Christmas cookies. The daughter, in her 20’s, is babbling on about something silly that happened at work; the mother gives her a fond smile, and the daughter transforms into her 10-year-old self, babbling on about something silly that happened at school… the message, to me, that parents always see their children as unchanging was so powerful that I have no idea what the commercial was about… banks? insurance? cookie mix? no clue.
I really liked the Joe Isuzu commercials.
My newest favorite is the latest Budweiser clydesdale one: one group of clydesdales make snowballs with their hoofs and kick them at another group of clydesdales in a field with a single snow-laden pine tree. One of the snowball victims calmly trots over to the pine tree, kicks it and blankets the snowball kickers with snow.
I like even better the one where they are at the ski resort trying to ski in august. “I’m OK”…SLAM! slays me every time.
I love the Geico commercials, Real Men of Genius, Real American Heroes commercials, and one of my favorites is the (direct tv, dish network?) commercial with the socially inept guy and the redhead standing in their respecive driveways by their cars.
Guy: My mom has a red car. She doesn’t have red hair like you though.
Woman: My mom has red hair too
Guy: Really? That’s crazy! (nerdy socially retarded smile)
(uncomfortable silence. )
Guy: Well, welcome to the neighborhood.
Later on that night woman is upstairs in her bedroom, she walks to close her curtains and sees the guy on his roof, in the rain. He looks up at her and she screams and closes the curtains. He panics and points to his satellite dish
Guy: No! My tv went out! My tv went out! My tv went out.
Then there’s the beer commercial (forgot which beer) where a beautiful woman is in a sunken bathtub, candles lit, caressing her sexy body and sipping wine, a completely sexy and serene moment. Then a man flings open the bathroom door, runs towards the tub, and cannonballs into it. He comes up from under the surface, slopplily grabs a beer off the edge, cracks it open, takes a man-size gulp, realizes she’s staring at him in disbelief and he says, “What?”
TEEE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
There’s a cell phone commercial on (cingular, I think) that shows the bars in different forms. In one a guy drives to what looks like San Francisco and texts a girl inside an apartment to look outside. She does and there he is waving his arms. They never cut back to the girl and I always wondered if her reaction was like “oh crap!” of if she was happy to see the guy.
In a subsequent commercial they answer that question. I realized I had way too much emotion involved in rooting for that guy.
There’s one currently running for WestJet that I like.
It shows a guy standing by himself in the airport as a plane arrives and watching all the other passengers being greeted and hugged by loved ones. He is standing there by himself looking so lonely and sad.
Two WestJet babes working at the ticket counter notice him and decide to cheer him up by going over and giving him a big hug. As he stands there, now with a big smile on his face, with the hot chicks hugging him, his wife walks up and just stares….
Sooo, was she happy to see him?
Yup. Gave him a great big hug. Made my day.
I love the Bud (Light?) Real Men of Genius campaign. My favorite was for “Mr. First Pitch Thrower-Outer.” Something like,
Announcer: “As your pitch flies at a breathtaking eight miles per hour–”
Singer: “That’s almost ten!”
Hilarious.
My current favorite is for Tide detergent stain fighting pen. A group of military recruits are being inspected by their drill instructor, who finds a stain on one of the guy’s t-shirts. As the DI goes into his spiel, the recruits transfer the pen to the unlucky guy behind their backs and the guy uses the pen to obliterate the stain. While this is going on, the DI is working himself into a frenzy and his best line is, "How dare you disrespect me, your country and your mama? At this he confronts the recruit who then says, “What stain sir?” The DI recoils and says, “Ah no, what did they send me, another Houdini?” Funny stuff.
Hysterical! This is the one I thought of immeditately. Very clever work there.
I like:
The Geico commercials with the cavemen; and the one where the Cat Lady says she likes to give her cats all kinds of special treats, including “fresh things” - focus on the gekko sitting right there among all those meowing cats. There’s another good Geico one but I can’t think of it right now.
The “Sticking it to the Man” commercial.
The one with the two guys unloading a truck and one’s humming a Boy George song, and the other calls him on it, and he claims it’s “Dead in the 'hood” or something like that. He hums a few bars of gangsta rap and then unconsciously goes back to Boy George.
The Geico ad with the caveman commericial set is here: http://www.martinagency.com/flashJump.html
Click on What We’ve Done, Geico, then TV: Insult. The others aren’t there for some reason.
I didn’t connect Avarie’s description with that commerical at first ( :smack: ), but I saw it twice yesterday and it finally “clicked” – and I love that commercial!
“oooh, baby baby” 