I don’t even remember what the commercial was for, but it mainly consisted of a guy sitting at a table, reading the morning paper over breakfast. He’s holding the paper with one hand and a coffee in the other. He then decides he wants to check the time, so he turns the wrist with his watch on it towards his face. The arm with the watch just happens to be the one with the coffee, so he dumps the coffee into his lap, looks at the coffee in his lap, then goes back to reading the paper. That one gets me rolling every time I see it.
Jeremy…
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine - Kurt Vonnegut
Just saw another one that cracks me up, for Kinko’s. The older, big-haired lady receptionist answering the phone. “Heaven.” Love the stuff they say in that one:
Caller:“I’m being audited.”
Lady: “Oh, I’ll put you right through, Senator.”
Caller: “SHAAAAAAAARK!”
Lady:“I’ll put you right through.”
And my personal fave (becasue I know my dad had to have said the same thing…)
Caller: “My daughter is marrying a musician.”
Geez!
Did nobody see all of the bud lite commercials in the 80’s?
Best one ever:
Starts off with a caveman trekking across the open tundra, carrying something not quite discernable…
Next scene is him arriving back at his clan’s camp, and you now see that he has brought FIRE… everybody is gathered around, primitively grunting, when the clan leader walks up, and completely coherently says: “That’s great… but we wanted a BUD LITE!!!”… the courier then gets a confused look on his face, like he’s thinking: “What an Idiot… I ONLY BROUGHT FIRE!!!”
The closing scene is everybody gathered around the fire, drinking beer, and the leader then says: “Now go get a pizza…” and courier runs off, out of the scene…
…Anybody know where I can get a copy (in any video format) of that one???
plz email me…
My favorite commecial these days is the one for Sprite with the executives sitting around discussing the marketing of their new movie, “Death Slug,” or something like that.
“What have you got?”
“Giant slug.” (Throws green toy slug against the window.) “Leaves a slime trail.”
“Great, what else have you got?”
“Slug taco. Put salt on it, and it shrivels up.”
“Great, what else have you got?”
“The Slug Slide” (Showing rap video)
“Great, what else have you got?”
“Slug slippers.”
“Slug slug.”
“Slug on a stick.”
“Great, what about the script?”
“Umm… we don’t have one yet, but we can pound one out by Friday.”
“Great.”
I keep thinking the pitches for Wild Wild West, Batman & Robin, The Avengers, and every other blockbuster extravaganza affiliated with a fast food joint and/or with it’s own toy line started out like this.
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
I don’t know if the sponsor is only Canadian, but the ads are probably widespread. I think everybody has seen the “This is your brain… This is your brain on drugs” ads with the frying egg. A while back I saw a variation that blew me away.
An attractive teenage girl, IIRC, shows the egg and says “This is your brain.” She picks up the cast-iron pan, smashes the egg on the counter, and holds up the pan with egg dripping down her wrist. “This is your brain on heroin.” (So far I thought it was a little over the top, but OK, fine.) Then she turns to a dish rack full of plates, says “This is your family on heroin”, and takes a big two-handed swing with the pan. “And this is … on heroin” over and over until the whole kitchen is trashed. “Any questions?”, as she holds up the pan.
I only saw it a couple of times; maybe the sponsor got too much of a reaction.
Bob the Random Expert
“If we don’t have the answer, we’ll make one up.”
I like Little Caesar’s and Jack in the Box commercials but my two favorites involve Cars. I like the Mustang commercial with Mustang going down a country road and it cuts to inside a house with the lights flickering and static over the TV. An old man puts down his newspaper and looks out the window. The Mustang whizzes by with static electricity sound and lightning around the car a la Back to the Future.
The other one is a beer commercial, I think it was Miller. You hear ZZ top music start to build and hear the most awesome car ever, Cadzilla. That big block with 4bbl carb screams over the rise and the music bursts out louder. Man! I didn’t want beer, just that car. (What was that song?)
Sorry, clvn: I live in California where hit-and-run is a criminal offense. (I have been a licensed driver for 30 years and the worst I did was strike a police car. Nobody hurt, thankfully; they didn’t even write me a ticket.)
Besides, I am totally insensitive to *Schadenfreude. * (Look it up.)
