Funniest commercials ever made.

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An ad for Levi (?) cords:

A guy is walking through the woods, wearing his fancy new cords. They are making the obligatory *svoosh-svoosh[/I} sound. From somewhere behind him, an answering svoosh-svoosh sound is heard. Alarmed, the guy starts moving faster, the sound his pants makes increases in volume and intensity, and from somewhere behind him, so does the unknown svoosh-svoosh sound.

Cut to: the guy sprinting madly across a road as a love-struck badger chases after him.

The first time I saw this, I laughed for half and hour. My roommate thought I was high.

Also,
During the last presidental campaign, the snickers commercial with the guy in the voting booth. “I invented pants!”

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Another Stan Freberg commercial, from about 30 years ago: the Ann Miller “Great American Soups” ad, with the Busby Berkeley number.

And more recently, the one for some cable channel, with the guys dressed up as cheesy asteroids: “Ahhhh! De atmosphere! Ahhh!”

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That cable channel would be the Discovery Channel. This is one of my favorites too. It was aired along with another commercial that showed a guy that drops into a shark’s stomach dressed as a partially digested fish. He even had a piece of flesh missing from his fish costume. Those were hilarious.

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Well, I’ve mentioned before I am easily amused, but the old ads for Wheaties make me laugh.

Mountain Climber: (singing) “Before I climb one thousand feeties, I get the eaties for my Wheaties”

Baseball Player: (singing) “Before I swing for the bleacher seaties, I get the eaties for my Wheaties.”

My dad and I would make up our own…his were always very funny too. I was probably five, which made them a bit funnier.

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So would I. [Insert Klingon mating growl here]

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The Nintendo (I think it was Nintendo) ads where it had the teddy bear describing a fabric softener, and suddenly, it gets chased down by a tank. Very funny.

Unfortunately, it got them sued by Downy.

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“Svimvear, Very Niiiiicee…”

:slight_smile:

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That new Zima ad with the guy at the party choosing his drinks.

He reaches for the beer. Asks the girl, “would you like to dance?” Envisions them dancing hard to club music.

He shakes himself out of that daydream, decides instead to reach for the wine. Asks the girl, “would you like to dance?” Envisions the two of them dancing slow to piano music.

He doesn’t like that either, and grabs the Zima instead. This time for real, he goes over to the girl and asks her if she’d like to dance. She stands up and he sits down in her chair, looking up at her expectantly. “Well?” he says. “Dance!” She starts to give him a lapdance.

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Ah, someone else finally remembers that ad! In moments in which I am at a loss for words, I find myself saying “Ees next, svimvear!”

Yes, I am strange. Thanks for asking. :smiley:

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Actually, a third-party developer, 3DO, for their BattleTanx game for the N64. It was Snuggle that sued them (seeing as Downy has no mascot, whereas Snuggle has that cute wil’ bear). Twice.

“Is next, eveningwear! Very nice.”

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The Sportscenter ads are really funny: the one where someone’s sitting in a chair asking Trey Winger, “No, really, what’s your REAL name?” and the one where everyone going about their daily business routinely does The Wave never fail to get to me.

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I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but the funniest commercial I’ve ever seen was one for Sprite a few years back (the whole “Obey Your Thirst” campaign).

Anyway, these two little kids come in to the kitchen and say in unison with their shrill, nasely voices:

“MOM, WE’RE THIRSTY!”

MOM: “I’ve got two glasses of Sun-Fizz coming right up.” (Mom sets bottle of product on table with glasses.)

KIDS: SUNFIZZ? THAT’S OUR FAVORITE!

And then the cute little cartoony sun mascot LEAPS off the bottle and says:

“That’s cause I’m filled with nature’s goodness!”

MOM & KIDS: AAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!

MOM: RUN KIDS!!!

(They flee down the hall. The mascot bounces after them, smiling its big, goofy smile the whole time.)

MASCOT: What’s with you people? I’ve got seven vitamins and minerals!

Mom suddenly trips and falls. In the background, we can see the mascot bounding ever closer. Her daughter desperately reaches out to her, screaming.

Daughter: MAAAAAAAAAAHHHHMMMMM!

Mom: RUUUUUNNNNNNNNNN!

And then the screen goes black and you get the whole “Obey Your Thirst” bit.

BWUH-HOO-HOO-HA-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I’ve also seen some commericals for Dial-A-Mattress which doesn’t operate where I grew up. Anyway, one of them involved two delivery guys showing up and being met at the door by a GIGANTIC squirrel with some sort of NY/NJ accent (please don’t kill a poor midwestern girl for not knowing the difference) who has ordered the mattress for his winter hibernation. While they put the mattress in the cellar, among several large bags of nuts, he keeps arguing with his (human) wife and shouting such things as:

Wife: (from somewhere upstairs) Honey, what’s going on down there?

Squirrel: WILL YOU SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE?!
Brilliant!

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My absolute fave is a recent one by DiGiorno, where it shows a man dancing in the kitchen, I wish I could describe it better but it is hilarious

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Cat herding!

Oh, and the adorable Blockbuster ads with the guinea pig and the rabbit, love Ray and Carl!

“Look Carl, I’m a maniac, maniac!”

“No argument here!”

“Let’s see their entertainment do THIS!”

“Whoa, Ray, I don’t want to see anything do that.”

“That’s it, Carl, shake what your mamma gave ya!”

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Glory- as a former employee of said company, I’m afraid I have to tell you that the majority of the folks that work for that company (the cat herders) absolutly hate the commercial. And, they suck, but that’s a whole other thread.

And the rabbit/guinea pig ones kill me each and every time. The first time I saw the guinea pig juggling the mice I damn near had a seizure I was laughing so hard. My girlfriend thought I had snapped.

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Oh. I stand corrected then.

And I occasionally see the “swimvear” commercial on TVLand. I would imagine it would make more sense if there was a Soviet Union.

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I’m a huge PTI fan, so I see this commercial almost daily, and it still cracks me up: Two guys overhear a suave Spaniard with a bevy hot hot women and pretend to have a friend in common: “You know Sergio? COME! Join us!”

That one and the one where a guy parks a silver Jetta in front of a supermarket and walks off… you hear a cart rattling towards the car… as it looks like the cart is about to hit the Jetta, the guy runs full speed into the cart crosswise to knock it out of the way… classic (In fact, all of VW’s advertsing for the past few years is great)

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Actually… I saw it at least twice on regular television… don’t ask me to remember the channel, though.

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I think my favorite would be a VW commercial that aired quite a while back which was a Speed Racer parody. The Mach 5 get sabotaged and a VW dealer gives him the keys to a Jetta or something. At the end, Spritle and Chim-Chim pop out the trunk I think :slight_smile:

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A Bud Lite commercial based on a “robot wars” theme. On one side a chrome-and-titanium-whirling-razor-edged maker of robotic death. On the other side what appears to be a second-hand dorm fridge on wheels…

Just as the first metallic mercenary makes its move, the fridge door swings open to reveal one frosty bottle of beer… The death machine hesitates, of course, at the sight of the brew… Then, suddenly, and a la Warner Bros cartoons… A giant hammer appears swinging over the top of the fridge, crushing the shiny monster to death.