The one that was shown most often showed a man practicing putting in his yard, wich is nice and green. The camera follows the ball as it rolls into his neighbor’s yard. The grass in his yard is totally brown. It then shows the neigbor pouring ugly, bright, almost-neon green paint into a fertilizer spreader. Time lapses and it shows him painting his whole lawn green. The whole time the older neighbor is looking on with a halarious look on his face. Then the announcer says “Thats not natural, but Oak Express is.” Then it shows the guy laying down and detailing a weed with a paint brush, a dog runs across and leaves green paw prints on the sidewalk. The desert music and the squeaking of the wheels on the spreader are what really make the commercial.
The next one is my favorite of the series.
The opening scene shoes some people playing poker, naked. The cards and the table are stratigically placed to hide the naughty bits. Then we see the outside of the cabin, there is a sign by the door that says “dress poker tonight”. Cue announcer: “Thats not natural, but Oak Express is.” THen it goes back to the interior shot. I believe some of the players are now wearing hats. One player says "he has to be hiding card somewhere. The accused player gets a nervous look on his face and an off screen female voice says “eeeeew.”
They haven’t been on lately, so I hope I remembered them right. I just cauf=ght the end of the lawn painting one on TV and it inspired me to find this thread. I hope they play them regularly again.
i absolutely loved the “pretty pretty panda” snickers commercial. there was also one for snickers where i guy is playing football and he gets hit really bad and passes out. when he comes through, his coach starts asking him all these questions like “are you ok?”, “where are you?”, “how old are you?”, “what day is it?” to see if he’s ok. he answers them all correctly until finally, when the coach asks him his name, the player gets this serious look on his face and responds: “i am…batman!”. that always cracks me up. then later in the commercial you see him run up to this random guy in the stands and says “would you like to join me for a ride in my batmobile?”
I like the Celebrex commercial set in a park. One scene shows people in red jackets performing a series of ritual exercises. Meanwhile, a dog leaves a group of dogs handled by one person, and crosses the grounds like he really knows where he’s going. He goes to the people in red jackets and approaches a woman who must be HIS human. Then he delights her by raising his paw when she and the others raise their arms. I’ve always liked that…
Years and years ago they had a XXXX beer or was it fosters it was a real long time ago so stay with me here , and it came on between films on ITV each commercial would start the same way but end differently there must have been about 80+ endings as me and my sister counted and stopped counting after a while since there were so many. oh it was UK btw
I’m currently loving the “Looks Fast” Toyota commercials. I love dogs - I know I shouldn’t get so much glee out of watching one bonk into a car, but it’s hilarious (as is the old man and the cop looking ashamed as he tries to slink away from the car).
Lady Juliet I love you! Those are two of my favorite all time commercials…“I’m batman!” he says it with such conviction. I also enjoy the one where the field painter realizes he spelled the name of the team wrong.
I also really enjoy the cable ads (I think Direct TV) where the the customers are fainting or hugging their cable installers.
Of the commercials that I’ve seen, I like the one with the talking cats. It’s a litter box filler commercial. Two less sophisticated cats think that they have found diamonds in the litter box, only to be told by a snooty Persian cat that the “diamonds” they have found are odor-absorbing crystals. It SO cracks me up when the two plebian kitties just go, “Whatever” in unison.
SNICKERS: “My sister dresses like a floozy.” Where a variety of kids are telling family secrets. " We don’t pay for cable." “Dad has to sleep on the couch.” " My dad has to get a new secratary." Need a little quiet time. Try Snickers. Some insurance company ( I think): Again, kids talking to the camera: “When I grow up, I want to file all day.” " I want be in middle management." " I want to do the same work for less money."
Oh, and any ** AFLAC **commerical with the talking duck.
Staples: Back to School Commerical. With the Xmas song " It’s the most wonderful time of the year." Cracks me up.
I really like the ones for Mercury where the camera keeps pulling back and the view changes from a view of the road to a view in a rearview mirror to a model railroad set.
I love the new one with the Miller Light Wiseguys doing the “howyadoin?” one at a time to a bug they found. As they go down the line, we see the FBI guy carefully listening and jotting down the ‘doins’. At last they get to the last wiseguy and all of them shout
“HOWYADOIN!?”
Shot of the FBI guy reacting in pain and ripping the headset off as the wiseguys laugh silently.
A stage coach is being chased by Indians. The guy riding shotgun is throwing stuff off the top, trying to lighten the load. Inside the stage coach are two men and a woman. The men hear the driver yell, “Throw off the Stroh’s!” The two guys look at each other. In the next scene, the stage coach is riding off, chased by Indians, while the woman sits by the side of the road. Inside, the two guys are drinking Stroh’s.
Favorite:
Brooke Shields, back in the late 70’s, at the height of her modeling career, made a series of ads (poster and commercial) that were anti-smoking. The poster I saw was her in full Cosmo get-up, with cigarettes stuck in her ears. The caption read, “Smoking spoils your looks.”
The commercial I saw was Brooke sitting on a stool on an empty sound stage, talking to the camera: “I was at a party the other night. There was this guy, who had everything right. Right clothes, right haircut, knew the right things to say, knew how to dance. Then he lit a cigarette.”
“Too bad he was such a loser.”
The tobacco lobby got the ad campaign deep-sixed, by the way, saying that it would be so effective an anti-smoking campaign as to hurt their business out of proportion to the dangers involved in smoking.
“Oh, and any AFLAC commerical with the talking duck.”
—I hate those damn things, but they have given me a giggle lately, as I can’t help thinking:
Mailroom guy: Hey, what the hell is in this letter?
Duck: ANTHRAX!
Other mailroom guy: I dunno, let’s sniff it—what’s it smell like?
Duck: ANTHRAX!
Mailroom guy: Nuthin’ I ever smelled . . . I don’t feel so good, ya think I got a cold?
Duck: ANTHRAX! ANTHRAX!
Anyway, I actually love the new fabric-softener spot that uses—hold onto your hats!—Snuggles, the Goddam Fucking Bear. They finally hired an ad agency with a sense of humor, and show auditions for the spokes-animal. A porcupine, a lizard, something else disgusting, then ootsy-cutsey Snuggles shows up. Hilarious.
As for real commercials, I’m surprised no one’s yet mentioned the Snickers commercial that aired during the last presidential campaign, with the cartoon elephant and donkey talking to the guy in the voting booth. “I wear my daddy’s pants!” “I invented pants!”
Superbowl commercials…I know I’m forgetting plenty, but the one that sticks out in my mind in recent years is “Doctor, he’s got money coming out the wazoo!”
Plus another vote for the stork one and the OP’s Jetta commercial. The ambiguity is the point.
I like the one with Alice Cooper asking the guy " You don’t want you kids to be weirdos, do you ? " and then you see him jump roping. I don’t remember what it’s for though.
