They have re-shot it a few times as he’s aged, and some stations will not air the “not afraid of burning in hell” line at the end.
The FreshPet “You have dog food in your refrigerator?” commercials appeal to me with the “You have a problem with that? GTFO!” response.
And I’m a cat person. (You have a problem with a covered half-full can of cat food in the fridge? GTFO!)
Safari ad
The commercial makes the viewer wait before revealing the product.
I think it drives home how invasive Internet eavesdropping has become. I certainly didn’t understand the loss of privacy in 1995. Most people didn’t and the Internet is a ubiquitous element of our lives.
How many of you caught the brief homage to Hitchcock? 
It’s only a few seconds.
Is it The Birds?
The Birds Aren’t Real movement was probably also an inspiration.
The music is reminiscent of Bernard Hermann, so maybe intentional?
There’s a shot where the camera flies toward someone and crashes into the window. I seem to remember a similar shot in The Birds.
You win the rusty nail prize. ;).
They copied the scene with the girl running and getting pecked. The movie had several children running. I rhink Angela Cartwright was the one getting attacked while she ran.
Also the birds crashing into the window.
I think you’re right about the girl. Wasn’t Angela in Lost In Space and The Sound Of Music?
I think Suzanne Pleshette was the teacher.
It’s actually her sister, Veronica Cartwright, in The Birds (and Alien and the episode I Sing the Body Electric on the Twilight Zone, among many other roles).
Thanks for the info. I looked up Veronica’s picture from when she was older. I remember her from The Witches Of Eastwick.
Excellent as Betty Grissom in The Right Stuff.
I recently came across an old commercial by the Royal Mail for Valentine’s Day, which I only ever saw once, but it’s stuck in my mind ever since. It’s in the British Film Institute’s animation collection, as well as on YouTube (best viewed on full screen):
Johnny Carson sometimes showed commercials from other countries for a laugh on The Tonight Show. I remember a British one from around 1970, in which a middle-aged man and woman are parting tearfully on a train platform in a setting reminiscent of the 1940s. The woman (not the man!) gets on the train and the two wave goodbye as it pulls out of the station. The man remains on the platform until the train is out of sight and then turns dejectedly to walk home through the village. We’re left to wonder who these people are and why the woman had to leave, as the man sadly unlocks the front door of his now empty cottage and goes inside …
Only to settle down in a comfy chair and watch the telly while eating a TV dinner, which is what the commercial is plugging!
This one brought the house down! I was amazed at how the writers could cram such an engaging melodrama into a mere 30–60 seconds of air time!
There was a series of “mini-sitcoms” for British Telecom which got quite a following:
And the Specsavers ads are quite amusing
I like the eTrade “Picklebabies”.
“So this is pickleball?” “Yeah, it’s basically tennis for babies, but for adults.”
This whole series is fun
I hate jerky films.
Draft Kings has one running now featuring one guy playfully insulting the other’s age, accusing him of handing out butterscotch candy to celebrate a win. He goes on to note that the candy is probably unwrapped - or, as he calls it, “raw candy.”
Raw candy. 