What about the old Bud or Bud Light commercial where the guy has his dog trained to get him a beer out of the fridge.
Then finally the dog doesn’t come back and you hear the can or bottle opening in the other room.
Outpost.com with the Gerbil rocks!!!
ESPN has the best advertising campaign on TV today though, bar none.
Ok. I must admit my favorite commercial is the sock puppet from pet.com. The Christmas ads where he is walking down the hung stockings saying to himself… “What have they done to you? What have they done to the poor stockings? <whispered…> THE HORROR…”
These are actually for Stroh’s. The dog’s name was Alex. Those were funny as hell. Bud had Spuds McKenzie around about the same time.
Speaking of dogs and beer, two of the Bud Light superbowl ads were hilarious:
-Rex the dog actor thinking back to his worst day (chasing a Bud truck only to slam into the side of another one) in order to be able to cry when it’s needed in the movie.
-The speaking dog discussing to the viewer, in dog food commercial manner, how he gives his owner Bud Light. (I never saw this after the Sperbowl Pre-game)
I love the Snickers commercial with the guy with a picture of a panda and wants someone to go to lunch with him. He gives the panda a high-pitched voice, “I’m so pretty”, “Pretty pretty dancing”. At the end, they show a bunch of people huddled in an office together, hiding from him, with the tag line, “Not going anywhere for awhile?”
Everytime that comes on, my husband and I are in hysterics. He even does a great impression of “I’m so pretty”!
There was another Outpost.com commercial, with a high school marcing band being attacked by a pack of ravenous wolves… tee hee… I’m pretty sure it’s on Adcritic.com now.
Another one I like, and I can’t remember what it’s for, has a couple of raccoons peering into a warm, cozy living room, as they sing “Wouldn’t it Be Lovely.” Also, the kitty litter ads, with a cat walking into the bathroom… the door shuts behind him… voice over discusses the product, then there’s the sound of a flushing toilet, and the cat returns to his “owner,” trailing toilet tissue from one of his hind feet.
I hate Staples as a company, but damn they have funny commercials. I also have to admit a fondness for the “Bob” baby and the pets.com sock puppet (despite the idiotic lawsuit!).
Speaking of Stan Freberg, anyone else old enough to remember his Great American Soups commercial with Ann Miller?
“Guide your feet down the soupy road to romance—
Let’s face the chicken gumbo and dance!”
Yeah, Stroh’s that was it. Wow how could I block that out. Oh yeah, Stroh’s sucks. If it wasn’t for those 15 packs when everyone else only had 12 packs…
Anyway, what about the Snickers “Chefs” commercial.
Great Googly Moogly!!!
I think it’s for Kia but I’m not sure.
A girl is walking out of a house really steamed. Her boyfriend, in longjohns and a flannel is saying "But I wasn’t kissing that girl - she was choking! She needed oxygen! She is totally trashing his SUV - three garbage cans worth of stuff - she ends up throwing a fish skeleton inside it and slamming the door…I mean she is really rocking and rolling with this garbage on this car.
Then she looks at him and yells “I’m not trashing it! I’m just giving it oxygen!”
It never fails to crack me up.
Oh, God, that “Great Googly Moogly” commercial was so funny. I still crack up whenever I see it. I also like the one where the football player who got hit too hard leaps around the sideline area going, “I’m Batman!”
The Jack in the Box commercials are really the best, though. They’ve had some great ones. Even the ones that aren’t so good are still better than most other commercials. My favorite: “It’s supposed to be UNDER a buck.” “Oh, I thought that was a typo.” Cut to Jack’s face, his smile is a perfectly straight line. “Fix it.” The first time I saw that marked the beginning of a great friendship, seeing as we both started cackling with laughter at the same time.
The most recent one that cracks me up is the one for on of those financial dot coms. All it takes for me to fall over laughing is one of my friends calling on the phone and saying in an Indian accent “Insurance? He’s got money coming out the wazoo”
Both of those Freberg commercials (and many others) are on the videocassette included in the recent collection “Tip of the Freberg.” The collection also contains two CDs of Stan’s material.
One was a Nike commercial, the only Nike commercial I ever liked actually. There was a group of old-time baseball players singing. I think it started “We’re ballplayers and we’re ok, not all lazy like the owners say”. The other one wsa for British Knights shoes, and involved a pair of sock puppets named Chuck and Mr. Stinky. If I remember correctly, the highlight was when one of the pair said “Yo’ mama was a pair of panty hose!” For some reason I still can’t even think about it without laughing.
I like the fedex one, especially the “night vision tiara sold separately” line. The “make 7up yours” guy kills me every time. There’s one from a few years back for the yellow pages. You see a bunch of guys in military style uniforms at attention in formation and all of a sudden they start playing air guitar and banging their heads. Then “rock drills” comes up on the screen. It used to send me into hysterics.
ESPN Y2K Test
“Follow me! Follow me to freedom!”
Absolutely hilarious.
It’s a commercial that airs during hockey games about how the internet has expanded the marketplace for mostly regional products.
Two old men are talking about the early days of hockey and this big Somoan talks about how he can keep up with hockey news over the internet.
Then one of the older guys turns to the other and asks “Where’s Somoa?”
And the other scratches his head and says “I think it’s up near Ottawa.”
The look on the Somoan’s face is hillarious.
I think that most of the ESPN commercials are hilarious.
Offhand, the one that I remember most is the one where Evander Holyfield is talking to one of the anchors, who tells him that Charlie Steiner’s been “dissing” him.
Holyfield: Steiner said only I’m one of the 50 best fighters in the world?? (possibly not verbatim)
Anchor (don’t remember which one): In Georgia.
Has anyone seen those new discovery.com spots, with three bad actors dressed up as asteroids, fish and mosquitos? They’re a scream!
“Aaahhhh—the atmosphere!”
qualifier: I’m a American living in England for the last 15 months…
British Airways commercial: British guy (probably famous, but I wouldn’t know) saying that England is:
the only country to invent a completely incomprehensible game (Cricket) that everyone else in the world then beats them at it, and
where the favorite national food is curry, and on and on…
but that they must be doing something right if X number of foreigners choose BA…
Gotta love a country that can make fun of itself.
The original Miller Lite ads, with sports figures were really funny. They had one with boxer “Smokin’” Joe Frazier, while surrounded by girls, singing, way off key, “When you order a beer do like Smokin’ Joe, order Lite Beer from Miller, and say no mo…” They had another one with a baseball umpire named Jim Honocheck, who’s in a bar right next to Boog Powell, who had to put on really thick eyeglasses before he realized who he was talking to, (“Hey, you’re Boog Powell!”) They had another one with old baseball teammates Frank Robinson (who is black ) and Brooks Robinson (who is white) and they said, “A lot of people think were related…” And of course there was Bob “Must be in the front row” Uecker.
As long as we’re on a sports theme, how about Charles Barkeley playing polo and wearing whites in a Right Guard commercial: anything else would be uncivilized.