I don’t watch too much TV, mostly sports, nature shows, “educational” stuff, but I saw one commercial that just cracks me up. In the commercial, a boy comes home to inform his parents that he has been accepted to an Ivy League university. The funny part is his dad’s reaction, we walks around all day with this phoney smile plastered on his face, telling everyone his son was accepted at an Ivy League university. All along you can tell he’s wondering where in the hell he’s going to get the money to pay for it.
I kinda like the current PriceLine commercials, where the account executives call in William Shatner and fire him. Shatner is shocked: “Who could you possibly get to replace me?”. Just then the door opens, and Leonard Nimoy walks in.
The look on Shatner’s face is priceless.
I hear they are going to have a commercial where Shatner and Nimoy sing a duet… :eek:
not on TV, but there is an advert on the radio in Ireland for bread, that has a man and a woman singing a duet/ 80’s naff love ballad.
The coule start singing about how great their relationship was, then about how he used the last slices to make toast, but she was saving them for a sandwich.
It has great lines in it like
Woman: Never again, will I give you a kiss
man: Fine by me, you look like Huey Lewis
great advert.
The one on the radio that I like is for some furniture place, with Brendan O’Carroll as Mrs Brown - yeah, I know drag act on the radio is on a par with a ventriloquist on the radio, but let’s not fret about that.
The Mrs Brown character is telling someone all about the great deal and the excellent service and the quick delivery she got from this shop for her new bed. Then expresses doubts about the sanity of the neighbours who went to some other shop to buy their new bed.
There are some cracking lines in it, but the one that made me nearly crash the car the first time I heard it was this one:
<Ding dong>
Goes to answer front door
“What? A new bed? And it’s ***not * ** from <Name of Shop>?
No, it’s not for here, love - it’ll be for them next door, then.
Them sleeping in the garden”
– The Jeno’s Pizza Roll commercial that parodied the “Show us your Lark Pack” commercials (run by the Lark cigarette company – which shows you how old this is). To the tune of the William Tell ocverture, a serving cart is rolled through a party, asking people to “Show us your Jeno’s Pizza Rolls!” Inexplicably (if this weren’t a commercial), people obligingly pull boxes of Jenos Pizza Rolls out of pockets and purses. At the end of the commercial, a guy walks up to the cart, holding a cigarette pack that looks suspiciously like a Lark pack. “I want to talk to you about the music you’re using!” he accuses. Instantly, a hand reaches out to his shoulder.
“I wanted to talk to you about the same thing!” says the figure. The camera pulls back – it’s The Lone Ranger! In fact, it’s Clayton Moore, the original Lone Ranger!
“Pizza Roll, Kemosabe?” asks Tonto – and it’s Jay Silverheels, the original Tonto!
A product of the great Stan Freburg, I understand.
My second favorite is the original Joe Isuzu ad, featuring compulsive liar/salesman Joe Isuzu. Ever time he speaks, a disclaimer appears at the bottom of the screen. Finally, he gets to the following two statements:
“It’ll run forever on a single tank of gas” (Disclaimer: Your mileage may vary)
“And you can buy one with your pocket change.” (Disclaimer: Provided you have $9,999.99 in quarters and nickels.)
I’ve heard that IRL Shatner and Nimoy are great friends.
This commercial would really date me. But it is one of the funniest I’ve ever seen.
(I tried looking for a video clip to direct everyone to, but couldn’t find one. Any help with that would be greatly appreciated.)
The picture’s a a mite small, but I beleive that’s the same guy from the Micro Machines commercials. I remember him as being bald, with a Matt-Dillion-in-Something-About-Mary moustache.
There’s a new one I’ve been laughing about all over the place. It’s for some SUV and a bunch of guys are riding in it. One of the guys, sitting in the middle of the back seat, between two other guys is singing along with Shania Twain, “MAN! I feel like a woman!” His friends look very uncomfortable about the whole thing. The punch line is something about how that’s the only way you’re going to feel uncomfortable in that SUV.
My gay friend in the office thinks it’s homophobic. I just think it’s being embarrassed for someone. But whatever it is, it’s funny as hell.
“It’ll go from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds.” (Disclaimer: Downhill in a hurricane)
I loved another Joe Isuzu ad set in the Utah salt flats. Joe aims a pistol straight ahead and fires. He then pulls out a mirror, straightens his hair, leaps into the Isuzu and takes off. A few seconds later he stops, jumps out of the car, and holds a bull’s eye in front of his face. You hear the paper rip and he turns toward the camera with the bullet clasped in his toothy grin.
I’m also reminded of a New VW Beetle print ad. It just showed a picture of the car on a white background with the caption “0-60. Yes.”
The Be More Open minded comercial seen on PBS got a bigg grin out of me the first time I saw it. I think the Pink Panther theme helped.
The time the talking (Can’t say Taco Bell right?) Chihuahua showed up on a Geico had me sitting there yelling “NO No No” at the screen.
But still the favorite, yet another Geico is the Squrills. I always thought squrills were up to no good. I have seen it multiple times and it still will raise a smile.
My all-time favorite was the commercial where you see a guy sitting on his front porch out in the bayou, drenching his pizza with Tabasco sauce. As he munches away, a mosquito lands on him, inserts her proboscis, and starts sucking away. The guy watches with interest. After a moment the mosquito flies away, and then explodes in a tiny mushroom cloud.
All hail the mighty mosquito – the Louisiana State Bird!
Has anyone else seen the commercial with the stenographer in court? She is typing away while a police officer gives his testimony - which is something like “I saw the suspect making an illegal left turn on Feb. 20th.” The judge asks the stenographer to read back his testimony and she reads out what she has written - which is basically a cheesy crime novel version of what the officer said - “The punk turned left on a red light. Seeing my chance, I had to follow him. Sometimes this is a dangerous job…”
It really cracks me up every time, but I can’t even remember what it is they’re advertising. Strange.
Joe Isuzu was classic. Paraphrase, “And if I’m lying, my lighting strike my mother”. In the back ground you see his mother disappearing in a puff of smoke.
All time favorite is the Blind Date. Guy picks up girl on blind date. She gets in car first, looks around, then just rips ass. The guy then gets in and introduces her to his friends sitting in the backseat that she didn’t see.
The date farting in the car (2nd of Burrido’s) made me laugh until I was in tears. That one has to be the all-time funniest.
Another funny one I’ve only seen as a clip on websites with goofy vids is an ad for salmon where a dude and a bear get into a fight.
The funniest one I’ve seen lately is (I think) a Dodge truck commercial where this dude all battered from riding a moto-cross cycle hobbles to his truck and goes to pick up his friend who’s in traction in a hospital bed. The truck pulls up outside the window and honks (or the guy yells “Come on!”, or whatever) and the dude in traction says “I’ll be right down.”
My favorite is the Verizon Wireless…? A guy sees big foot in the woods, hes amazed, big foot laughs at him and says “you ain’t got no camera,” the guy then pulls out his camera phone and the beast is like “ohhh.” Then it cuts to the ad part of the commercial. at the end you see big foot at a half jog half walk, following the guy, and says “you wanna play a fun game of chase?” hilarious…or hows aboot the beer commercial “Wingman.” I forget the words, but it shows a guy displeased listening to a talkative woman. a man with a guitar in the background is there and he eventually sings"…shes talkin bout herself and not much mor reee, so buy her a beer thats the reason your he ere, mighty wingman, youre takin onee forr the team, so your buddy can live a dreammm, WINGGMMMAAAANNN. This post is pretty incoherent…yes very…
for some reason i find myself laughing everytime i see the tv commercials for the male ehancement drug enzyte. the one with the bowling alley shows is funny but the best one is with the “smile guy” negotiating with japanese…“he is a stiff negotiator”…so funny
A few years ago there was an add during the Superbowl about the rough life of cat wranggling. It showed these grissly cowboy type guys on horses running through a swarm of house cats. I think it was for some dotcom company or possibly an investment company. Anyway, there was a scene with the cats “forging” the river that just cracked me up. Never saw it again after that game. Strange how the best commercials seem to run for only a short time, while the most annoying ones can run for years.
