I like the Pepsi commercial where the Coca-Cola delivery guy tries to sneak a can of Pepsi in the supermarket. This causes all the cans to fall all the while “Your Cheatin’ Heart” is playing in the background.
I can’t beleive I’m saying this, but I have to watch TV more often. I haven’t seen any of the SNICKER commercials, 7UP or most of the ESPN ones.
I love commercials. I’ve always secretly wanted to work in the ad-game.
But the one’s I have seen that crack me up.
Staples: " Its the Most wonderful time of the year" one.
KIA - “How do they pick their rebates?” Spinning a fat guy around and around in a desk chair in the back room. When he dizzily falls over onto a big cushion ( one of four that are all marked with numbers) that has that months rebate. I couldn’t stop laughing over that one.
KIA - The Uncle Bob’s Last Request is great fun.
VW - Passat? Jetta? Not sure, but the one where the car is in sync with the enviroment as it drives down a street in New Orleans. ( People lifting boxes to the beat of the wiper blades, etc.) It’s hypnotic.
VW - Jetta. Guy in the car making the weirdest faces. Friend walks up, opens the door and MR. ROBOTO is blaring.
White Castle has one where you don’t know it’s WC until the end. A Range Rover type car bounces over rough terrain citing all the great things about the car with the nearly miniscule disclaimer at the bottom. Car runs through a camp sight and a few other things, I think, before heading to WC. The disclaimer reads, " We can’t beleive you are actually reading this…"
I could probably think of more commercials if I thought for a long time, but here is the one that comes to mind the most:
It starts off showing a bunch of African bushmen with spears running after a pig.
VOICEOVER 1 (male): The killing of a pig is an important rite in the ceremony of adolescents.
VOICEOVER 2 (female): Looking for a good documentary?
- Bushmen surround pig.
VOICEOVER 2: Or maybe you want a coming of age movie.
Then the people stay in the same position, but the scene suddenly changes.
Young bushman: {cheesy acting} Maybe I don’t wanna be a hunter, did you ever think of that!? I hate you dad, I hate you!
VOICEOVER 2: Or what about a family movie?
Then the pig starts talking and saying “Hey, hey, you want me to go talk to him?”
The expression of the bushman in the last scene of the commercial is hilarious. He can’t tell what the hell is going on.
The commercial is for Hollywood Video, BTW.
If you’ve been watching the stanley cup playoffs you have to have seen the new CCM (they make hockey equipment for those that don’t know) comercials witht the sperm colliding on the screen with the voice over of a hockey play and then one of the sperm breaks away and goes into an egg.
“And he breaks aways and scores!”
then the logo: “When you’re born to play.”
what was great was my 6 year old cousin was watching TV with me and asked me to explain the commercial to her…
My favorite is the VW commericial where the guy parks his VW outside of a supermarket, and he walks away. Then you see a cart slowly rolling towards the car. Then, out of nowhere, the driver flies across the parking lot and tackles the cart to save his precious VW. It makes me laugh every time.
For what it’s worth–I live in L.A., and I do believe I’ve seen that commercial.
And I live in Cleveland, and that commercial was shown here too, and it was hilarious, in a gallows-humorous sort of way.
Two recent ones I like:
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The Mountain Dew commercial with Bohemian Rhapsody and the four guys imitating the Queen video. Makes me want to listen to the song.
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A car commercial (don’t remember which car) where the announcer is saying (not verbatim):
If the Trojan horse had been the Trojan armadillo, would the people of Troy have brought it in and celebrated or would they have just said ‘what the?’.
I don’t know why, but it really cracks me up.
But, my favorite (Aside from the Great Googly-Moogly Masterpiece) is the “Chicks Dig Long Ball” commercial, with Greg Maddux.
OK the two “old men” are Gordie Howe and Stan Mikita. Gordie is the one who thinks Samoa is near Ottowa.
Pebs
That one, “Sweet 62” and the Sports Center swimsuit issue one have to be the best of the ESPN bunch.
I also like the one with the cheerleader who isn’t like “all the other cheerleaders” she actually likes sports and loves reading “espin the magazine”
Pebs
I love that VW commercial where everything is in sync.
When they were running it a lot I used to look forward to seeing it on T.V. Its just so poetic how everything falls together. Plus, I really like the music. And I love how when they get to the intersection they turn off the music and the guy goes, “that was wierd!”
I like the one that is either ESPN or Nike with the athletes playing fooseball (sp?) and the female soccer player scores and all the guys just stare at her, one says “what’s with the shirt”. It kills me everytime.
what lawsuit? are they being sued for somthing to do with the puppet?
Yeah, but I don’t think that one’s funny. It’s more surreal. Cool, definitely, but not really funny.
That’s OttAwa.
My current favourites are both Clarica commercials.
In one, there’s this woman standing at a bus stop. This guy in the bus stop across the street looks up, then he starts yelling and screaming inaudibly, gesturing inarticulately. She has no idea what he’s talking about, until another woman at the bus stop opposite grabs a sheet of cardboard and draws a big UP arrow. The first woman looks up, and then dashes out of the way just in time as a piano comes crashing down.
In the other, a guy in a trendy restaurant goes downstairs to the washroom, but both of the doors are marked with incomprehensible Picasso paintings. He can’t figure out which bathroom is which. This isn’t helped when a completely androgynous person walks out of the bathroom, looks at him like he’s an idiot, and walks away.
The slogan for both is, “There’s a lot to be said for clarity.”
Of course, the alltime champion has to be the IBM commercial with the Czech nuns. (“Whoops… my beeper.”)
The voice over guy is Hector Elizando. The one I like is where he’s going on about how after you win the game it’s godd sportsmanship to tell your opponent “good game” shake hands etc… “But deep down inside you’re really saying… (in a singsong voice) I’m better than you are.” It’s great because it’s so true. 
Pebs
I might have known you’d like those Discovery commercials! I think they’re a scream. Some genius figured out we were sick of slick production, slick acting, and slick special effects.
Buzz buzz buzz buzz . . . . smack!
I like the new batch of Snapple commercials, with the people in fruit costumes with just their legs (and sometimes arms) sticking out. Scenes come to mind:
The “screening for preservatives” where the fruits come out of bathroom stalls and put cups of fruit juice on the guy’s tray.
Something in a locker room where the guy snaps a banana with a towel, causing it to jump and drop the towel around its waist.
The guy reading a letter from the fruit that went to India to “work with” tea. At the very end, it shows the actual letter, which is covered with random scrawls.
I don’t know why, but those all crack me up every time.
Also, off topic, during the opening song for that idiotic “Jack of All Trades” show with Bruce Campbell, there’s a scene where the bad guy rips the mask off his face, revealing another, smaller mask beneath it. Honestly, it’s stupid, but the looks on their faces have me rolling every single time. Doesn’t matter how often I see it.
Wow… I just found the IBM Nuns commercial!