# Favorite commercials (and why) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568 "2008-05-01T04:40:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/1 "2008-05-01T04:40:12Z")
What commercials do you just really love? I will start with [Nestle Alpine White](http://youtube.com/watch?v=xRBpLL1H3jw) from the 80s… gorgeous song. How many of you 80s kids have been singing this in your heads for the last 20 years? ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/2 "2008-05-01T05:11:38Z")
I’ve got lots, for starters: [this Adidas commercial](http://youtube.com/watch?v=ENleEsKhOj4) directed by Spike Jones. Neat concept, great music, fantastic commercial I’ve never forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/3 "2008-05-01T17:58:42Z")
Wow, I had never seen that one before. It’s a very interesting commercial. I liked the bear 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/4 "2008-05-01T18:11:51Z")
Apparently everyone else here hates it, but I love [this commercial for Skittles.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=tJTMDcCbWN4) ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/5 "2008-05-01T18:13:21Z")
The Geico commercial with Mrs. Butterworth as the celebrity. It is hysterical, especially Mrs. B’s closing line. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jkUB3e_o5s) ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/6 "2008-05-01T18:31:25Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd_jap8Qjzk) So very “Boogie Nights.” ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/7 "2008-05-01T18:40:30Z")
At work, can’t go fishing for links, but: 1. a commercial for one of those new-age music compilations from around the time that those Gregorian monks had some hit albums. The clips from the various songs were stitched together perfectly. I’d never have bought the album but I’d love to have the commercial mix. 2. a commercial for a Time-Life video series on nature. The first one was “Predators” and featured a scene of a shark chasing after a sea bird while the bird is back-pedaling away and beating at the shark with its wings. Coolest thing ever. 3. the Snickers commercial with the panda fanatic wanting to take someone to lunch so they could discuss the latest issue of his panda fancier magazine with the co-workers cowering in an office. “You know what pandas eat for lunch, don’tcha? Bamboo! ‘Coooome to luuuuunch and have some bamboooooo with meeeeee!’” That will _never_ not be funny. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/8 "2008-05-01T18:51:54Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] Apparently everyone else here hates it, but I love [this commercial for Skittles.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=tJTMDcCbWN4) [/QUOTE] I don’t hate it… but I don’t understand it. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/9 "2008-05-01T18:58:49Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] I don’t hate it… but I don’t understand it. [/QUOTE] It’s a “Pinata man.” He looks like a pinata, so the coworker hit him with a bat thinking candy would fall out. But he’s not a pinata, he just looks like one. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/10 "2008-05-01T19:00:44Z")
I mean I get the pinata part, I just don’t get the rest of it. It seems like it’s a spoof of something, and like it would be a lot funnier if I understood what they were parodying. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/11 "2008-05-01T19:42:44Z")
The ‘Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet’ ads are right up there, along with the Qualcast vs Flymo spat (newspaper: Mower Manufacturers Sharpen Blades). The distaff side tend to enjoy the Nescafe romance ads. ---
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/12 "2008-05-01T19:57:29Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] At work, can’t go fishing for links, but: 1. the Snickers commercial with the panda fanatic wanting to take someone to lunch so they could discuss the latest issue of his panda fancier magazine with the co-workers cowering in an office. “You know what pandas eat for lunch, don’tcha? Bamboo! ‘Coooome to luuuuunch and have some bamboooooo with meeeeee!’” That will _never_ not be funny. [/QUOTE] Here’s the third one that **Otto** mentions [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZAi9CWSQDAM/hqdefault.jpg "Snickers Panda commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAi9CWSQDAM) and [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1j2wljyw0tM/hqdefault.jpg "Panda Lunch") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j2wljyw0tM) ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/13 "2008-05-01T21:09:01Z")
Staples snobot: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPzyuA2Tekg) “Weeping, weeping…” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/14 "2008-05-01T21:13:26Z")
The late lamented Honda car commercial that had the people’s heads on one side and the cars on the other. The people looked like the cars. There was tinny music in the background. It was my favorite commercial ever. ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/15 "2008-05-01T21:28:03Z")
[This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry816LKgDUE) one, with the split faces of Kevin Garnett and Lebron James, is pretty cool, I think. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/16 "2008-05-01T21:31:11Z")
John West salmon [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aaRRMbPwdwc/hqdefault.jpg "Funny Salmon Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaRRMbPwdwc) That last kick…surprised to see it on TV. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/17 "2008-05-01T21:34:10Z")
The chocolate Skittles pinata guy commercial. He is so sincere in his Elephant man way… I have to buy Skittles downstairs… like everybody else! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJTMDcCbWN4) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/18 "2008-05-01T21:37:00Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] Apparently everyone else here hates it, but I love [this commercial for Skittles.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=tJTMDcCbWN4) [/QUOTE] Oops missed this one- look up one post I love love love this commercial. …like everybody else!!! I mean- he’s a pinata! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/19 "2008-05-01T21:46:05Z")
The Coors beer commercial, which I can’t find. “Alex, you better be drinking your water!” Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568/20 "2008-05-01T21:51:37Z")
When I was a tyke, my favourite commercial was a Sony Trinitron one. I was thrilled to find it on YouTube: [not the best quality but it made me glee](http://youtube.com/watch?v=3zoB9QaT0EI) I haven’t had tv in years so I’m probably missing out on some cool ones but I will throw in another that popped into my head: [Staples commercial with Alice Cooper](http://youtube.com/watch?v=OqI4xfsdv7Y) Damn, I love YouTube. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-commercials-and-why/447568.md?page=2)