A more recent one would be the new “Presto” nike commercial, where that guy is being chased by a crazed chicken.
This thread should bring back memories…
Where’s the Beef - Wendy’s
Don’t know what the commercial was even about, but I remember one about a guy sleeping on the couch and then being awoken his cat licking his nipples.
In the DE Valley, my friend happened to have a hysterical Toyota ad on his VHS tape. The guy on the screen is acting out what the announcer is saying, like “think” (he imitates the thinker) “be” (he mimes the act of swatting and running from a bee), etc…
You should have seen it, it was a hoot!
- Jinx
Just about any Cartoon Network ad. In particular:
– the Superfriends in a movie theater. “Can’t…move… Feet…stuck to…floor…”
– Jinx the cat rides his Big Wheel down the hallway of a hotel, turns a corner and sees Pixie and Dixie at the end of the hall. “Come play with us, Jinxie…”
– the Legion of Doom in “Whiners Can Be Losers.” “All I want is a pair of pants! A decent pair of pants!”
Jack in the Box ads are consistently funny, too:
– Jack’s campaign ads, where he’s shown hugging trees and getting kids into their homework.
– The ad campaign for the “Meaty Beefy Boys,” the Jack in the Box boy band.
Nothing compares to Stan Freberg’s commercial for Gino’s Pizza Rolls, which was by far the funniest in the history of TV.
Well, it’s not an official commercial, but it’s a spoof of one of the priceless ones. It has a guy asking his girlfriend for a blowjob in front of her house, and he has his elbow on the intercom button.
I can’t remember what the product being advertised was, but the commercial had a bunch of kittens running amok in this really big house, getting into all manner of mischeif. Instead of meowing, the sound of cars revving their engines was dubbed over it whenever they opened their little cat mouths.
My sister dresses like a floozie
Dad had to get a new secretary
We don’t pay for cable
Mom’s in the shower…Dad’s with her
That’s right, Chewy stops the chatter
My favorite was the one where Yogi Bear (I think it was Yogi) left his ID at home and the front desk guards wouldn’t let him in.
One of my favorite commercials was where the guy woke up in a trance in the middle of the night to take his dog out - only it showed the dog driving the car, the owner in the back seat spaced out. They picked up all the dog’s friends, and then left the owner on the side of the road when they needed to make room for one more. The music playing was “Low Rider.” Never failed to make me laugh out loud.
Sheri
I think I mentioned this a long time ago, but it’s still the funniest ad I’ve ever seen.
A youngish man, early 20s, in a supermarket checkout line, with a couple of items including a box of Trix.
Cut to the man entering his apartment, closing and locking the door, then dramatically riiiippping the mask off to be revealed as…
Du du duuuuuuh!
The Trix Rabbit! “Ooh!” I say to myself, “They’re finally letting him have his Trix!”
Cut to the kitchen, where TR lovingly pours out a bowl of the forbidden ambrosia and heads for the refrigerator. Opens the door. Picks up the milk carton.
And screams.
Downscreen splash text… “Got Milk?”
I died. I literally died, went to Heaven, told God about the damn thing, and got sent back. I was rolling for half an hour, breathless with laughter. The final Gotcha! was just. too. funny.
Unfortunately, I’m more than a little suspicious that it wasn’t an actual full-release commercial, but made especially for the “Greatest Commercials” special that featured it, because I never saw it again.
jayjay
Yes, it was Yogi. That’s a good one.
“You know me! You named your kid after me!”
“You named your kid Space Ghost?”
Cartoon Network, eh?
Two windows, one labeled “Super Heroes,” the other labeled “Talk Show Hosts.” People lined up at each window. Spaceghost stands in between the lines, looking confused. Finally he says “wait a minute…there’s no salad bar here.”
I’m trying desperately to come up with some of the commercials that used to crack me up as a kid, but I can’t remember any of them…
The funniest to me is still the Leo Burnett/London’s famous spot for John West Salmon:
That’s the one were a bear and a fisherman do a kung-fu fight for a salmon and. . .
http://www.adage.com/cannes2001/cn01_0621_03.shtml
That, and the final quote of the narrator, always kills me.
- The series of Fox Sports ads featuring foreign sports broadcasts …
- Russia- face-slapping contest
- Turkey - cliff diving into dirt
- India - blindfolded guys clubbing each other
- South Africa - bicyclist roping (in real Afrikaans, I’ve been told)
http://users.ev1.net/~walrus85/pages/foxregional.html
- A commercial for Hampton Inn, showing a very elderly woman driving very slowly on a long desert row – you can hear the car wheels groan as they turn about as fast as the second hand on a clock. Her husband yells “Slow down … you’re driving like a bat out of Hades!” Someone is stuck behind them. A sign reads “NO PASSING - NEXT 25 MILES”
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There were two for the same thing. Quisnos I think. Anyway:
(Cavemen sitting around talking each holding a large rock)
(another caveman comes he does not have a rock)
Caveman1: Hey you! Where is your large rock?
Caveman with no rock: I don’t have one I have this pointy stick
Cm1: A pointy stick? AHAHAHAHAHAHA
CMWNR: (stabs caveman1)
Cm1: Oh, I see the advantage now dies
Quisnos Guy: Quisnos, we’re like that guy with the pointed stick.
And the other:
(bunch of cavemen out in a field, they’re wearing bushes and thats it)
(Caveman wearing pants enters)
Cm1: Haha! Look! He’s been cursed with the legs of a goat!
Caveman wearing pants: These aren’t goat legs, these are pants!
Cm2: YOU CAN’T TAKE MY THISLY BUSH! runs away
Quisnos Guy: Quisnos, we’re like that guy that wore pants.
These both made me laugh hysterically.
** GIGObuster ** you beat me to that one.
One of the best ones I can think of is recent, a Doritos Bold/Daring ad that ties into Austin Powers in Goldmember.
You have to see it. Maybe it’s a bit Benny Hill for some tastes (personally, I like Benny Hill), but man, it cracked me up first time I saw it.
Oh, and I love the Visa Check Card commercial at the pet store with the bunnies. The sight of that shopkeeper putting the bunny to his ear like a phone never fails to bring a smile to my face.
Gotta agree with this. The Geno’s Pizza Rolls ad spoofed the “Show us your Lark Pack” cigarette commercials of the 1960s, and for the punch line they dragged in Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels to play The Lone Ranger and Tonto. Hilarious!
But my second-best choice has to be an ad made for drive-ins by some film students. I’ve only seen it at a showing of ads and bloopers.
You hear chanting and see the hand of a robed person lighting black candles. Pull back on a dark room filled with robed, chanting figures. They gather together around a table. Close-up of a hand holding an elaborately carved knife. It descends, cutting up whatever’s on the table. It continues to fall, again and again. Close-up of the acolytes sloppily stuffing bits of red, messy stuff into their mouths with both hands, the result of this grisly sacrifice. Camera cranes up and over the group to reveal —
–a pizza.
Voice: “Why not visit the Refreshment Stand?”
Of modern commercials, my favorite is the Kevin Bacon “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” commercial.
From the 60’s, a whole series of Alka-Seltzer commercials. My personal favorite: “Mama Mia, that’s some-a spicy meatball.”
More recently, the Nissan commercial where GI Joe snakes Barbie from Ken with Van Halen’s cover of “You Really Got Me” as the sound track.
I like the on on TNN where it shows the two guys who work in the TNN office—one’s all serious, while the other one’s a misfit—and the serious guy is remarking over the good Star Trek ratings. The misfit points to picture of one the Duras sisters, the Klingon with the huge knockers, and says “Hey Jeff, would ya?”
“Would I what?”
“You know…” ogles pic.
“OH!” he clams up.
Cuts to TNN logo
“I would.”