# Commericals that WOULD make good TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 17, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437 "2007-05-17T12:55:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/21 "2007-05-17T18:05:35Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] That series of commercials that had Jerry Seinfeld hanging out with Superman. [/QUOTE] Actually they did show a 30 minute version of this. I thought it was horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/22 "2007-05-17T18:28:22Z")
Head on, apply directly to the forehead. Head on, apply directly to the forehead. Imagine the drama! the comedy! the pathos! a true tour de force for the ages! an instant classic! ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/23 "2007-05-17T18:36:38Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] **eSurance Saves the World**. [/QUOTE] We have that, it is called Kim Possible. Love it. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/24 "2007-05-17T19:09:39Z")
[QUOTE=Max Torque] Easy. The ongoing adventures of **Terry Tate, Office Linebacker**. [/QUOTE] Damn you, **Torque**! Idea thief!! (I still watch 'em every few months) [QUOTE=Enderw24] Bud’s Real American Heroes ads [/QUOTE] Nitpick: _Real Men of Genius_. They haven’t used Real American Heros in 5 years, 8 months, and 6 days. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/25 "2007-05-17T19:56:47Z")
Madge the Dawn manicurist from the 70s could star in a horror series. They can call it “You’re Soaking In It!” ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/26 "2007-05-17T19:57:45Z")
I second the Sonic guys- husband/wife couple live next door to the other two guys- maybe they’re gay, maybe not. Very glad the two black haired girls did not become recurring- they were painfully unfunny. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/27 "2007-05-17T20:06:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Quote: > Originally Posted by Ludovic > eSurance Saves the World. > We have that, it is called Kim Possible. Love it. Not really. The animation style’s completely different – the eSurance ads look more the **The X’s** than **Kim Possible**. Plus the eSurance babe (I forget her name) is more grown up and hotter than Kim, while her male sidekick is more capable and mature. And older. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/28 "2007-05-17T20:12:29Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Not really. The animation style’s completely different – the eSurance ads look more the **The X’s** than **Kim Possible**. Plus the eSurance babe (I forget her name) is more grown up and hotter than Kim, while her male sidekick is more capable and mature. And older. [/QUOTE] So its **Kim Possible All Growed Up** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/29 "2007-05-17T20:17:07Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] Madge the Dawn manicurist from the 70s could star in a horror series. They can call it “You’re Soaking In It!” [/QUOTE] Palmolive, please! She could team up with Josephine the Plumber and Mrs. Olsen the Folger’s coffee lady and they could solve mysteries and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/30 "2007-05-17T20:33:03Z")
[QUOTE=furryman] Actually they did show a 30 minute version of this. I thought it was horrible. [/QUOTE] Actually, it wasn’t 30 minutes. American Express comissioned two online shorts of seven or eight minutes, which were pretty funny. Superman is kind of a hang-loose kind of guy who’s obsessed with an _Oklahoma_esque musical called _Oh Yes! Wyoming!_ One of the funniest bits is when Seinfeld is asking where the name “Superman” came from. “Ma and Pa Kent didn’t call you that. Did you make it up yourself? And was that your first choice? What else did you throw around- Surprisingguy? Unbelieveablefellow? How about Remarkablechap?” I was going to tongue-in-cheekly suggest _The Apply Directly to the Forehead Show_ before **Daber** came up with it, so here’s some other ideas from commercials both old and new: _AFLAC!_: Competing against _Cavemen_ and the Esurance show, it’s a talking duck! Hilarity ensues when nobody realizes why he keeps saying “AFLAC!” _Don’t Squeeze the Charmin_: I think it’s a game show. _Your Brain on Drugs_: Would be a good title for a show, but what would it be about? Eggs, I guess. On a more serious note, if not a show, I’d like to see at least maybe a one-time special filled with spot gags based on Jack Link’s Jerky’s “Messing With Sasquatch” ads. That looks like it has potential. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/31 "2007-05-17T20:33:06Z")
From about 10 years ago… The Adventures of Eva Savalot! Who cares about the plot, as long as she ran around in tight black leather all the time. And a question about those Sonic commercials - those people are all stoners, right? They all look like they have got the munchies and went to sonic and are now having those post pot smoking conversations that seem really deep to the stoners, but when played back later just seem quirky and random. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/32 "2007-05-17T20:41:41Z")
a la Sopranos, the Geico caveman at the therapist’s office. “Just try [puppet role-playing].” “I say ‘Hello, what’s your name?’ and it doesn’t say anything, 'cause _it’s a doll_.” Then he goes home to arrange a hit on the Geico admen. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/33 "2007-05-17T21:01:11Z")
I’d watch a series which starred Peter Stormare as the “German engineering in die haauuus” guy. I’d want him to use his trebuchet to hurl the “irritating item of the week”, as chosen by audience vote, into oblivion. Nothing would be sacrosanct - Hummers, your printer from work, the brushed stainless steel applicances which you’re sick polishing - nothing. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/34 "2007-05-17T21:28:51Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] I’d watch a series which starred Peter Stormare as the “German engineering in die haauuus” guy. I’d want him to use his trebuchet to hurl the “irritating item of the week”, as chosen by audience vote, into oblivion. Nothing would be sacrosanct - Hummers, your printer from work, the brushed stainless steel applicances which you’re sick polishing - nothing. [/QUOTE] So, you want the return of Mike Myers in **Sprockets** , plus a catapult? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/35 "2007-05-17T21:37:17Z")
[QUOTE=Max Torque] Easy. The ongoing adventures of **Terry Tate, Office Linebacker**. [/QUOTE] As much as the other suggestions in this thread made me smile, I actually lept out of my chair, pointed at the screen and shouted, “YES!” when I saw this. I’ll follow **Hal** and heartily third this idea. This show would never, ever get old. _The pain train is comin’, baby! WOOOO!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/36 "2007-05-17T21:38:05Z")
Yeah, I came here to mention “Tiny House.” ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/37 "2007-05-17T23:16:12Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] I was going to tongue-in-cheekly suggest _The Apply Directly to the Forehead Show_ before **Daber** came up with it, so here’s some other ideas from commercials both old and new: [/QUOTE] What? Daber stole my idea? that bastard! ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/38 "2007-05-17T23:30:24Z")
So says **El Perro Fumando** , who is sitting in a comfy chair, and can’t be bothered to do it herself: **Sergio Garcia: Ladies’ Man** - “It’d be just like Barney on **How I Met Your Mother** , only Spanish. And more suave.” And I second both “Real Men of Genius (American Heroes)” and “Office Linebacker.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/39 "2007-05-18T01:05:26Z")
[QUOTE=Taber] What? Daber stole my idea? that bastard! [/QUOTE] I thought I spelled it correctly. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437/40 "2007-05-18T01:06:19Z")
[QUOTE=cher3] Palmolive, please! She could team up with Josephine the Plumber and Mrs. Olsen the Folger’s coffee lady and they could solve mysteries and stuff. [/QUOTE] And Mrs Marsh the colgate school teacher who keeps dipping chalk into liquids. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-would-make-good-tv/404437.md?page=3)