To balance the three or so commercial threads slamming them, I thought a new thread applauding a few good efforts is due.
I am nominating the commercial that has the guy and his son throwing a ball in the front yard. Now, the guy throws worse than a girl, and he’s teaching his son to throw the same way, which I find hilarious.
I don’t even know what the commercial is for, but I liked it. I always felt bad for those guys in high school that had no idea how to throw a ball. That has to be the most humiliating thing in the world to show to your gym class. I mean, how does a guy not learn how to throw a ball properly? No one taught me. It just happened. And I know no one taught me because my father spent less time tossing the ball around with me in my childhood that the length of that commercial. So it has to be a pretty natural motion.
I love this USPS commercial with the guy returning the holiday sweater. When he thanks the mailman at the end, he is just so sweet and sincere I want to hug him!
I love the Cheese It cracker commercial where the guy in the white lab coat pulls the “Kick Me!” sign off of his back!
God bless you always!!!
Holly
P.S. I also love the commercial where a guy comes into his daughter’s bedroom and asks her if she wants to go out to Red Robin and after coming out from his hiding place and yelling out “Yum!”, her boyfriend jumps out of her window when he sees her dad standing there.
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“The track was produced by The Roots with vocal support from Jack Black, Chris Martin, John Legend, Jim James, Jason Schwartzman, Nate Ruess, Melanie Fiona, Carrie Brownstein, Regina Spektor and Consequence.”
Here’s a recent one for Ikea that’s got the local transgendered community up in arms. A middle-aged guy is hooked up with a ladyboy, and they’re shopping at Ikea. The ladyboy, becoming excited by a sale price, inadvertently relapses into a masculine voice, giving the middle-aged guy his first clue that this is not a woman he’s picked up. At the end of the commercial, he sneaks away, leaving the ladyboy to cart out the goods single-handed.
This new one from VWis killing meeeeee!!! He’s got the accent quite nicely.
It may never air on tv though, because I hear people are complaining.
ETA: Watching it again, I think the complainers are missing the point. They seem to be saying it is racist because it is saying all Jamaicans are happy or something. That is what they were saying on the Today show this morning…the lady actually said it makes it seem as all black people are happy, but she was confused.
But, no, it isn’t just a Jamaican accent…it is a Rastafarian impression! There is nothing racist about it no matter how you look at it…Rastafarians DO have a more laid back philosophy!
I can’t link to Youtube from work, but the latest Jack In the Box commercial is hilarious. Weiner-dogs with lasers strapped to their heads is a fool-proof combination. Bonus points for the Segway.
My favorite singer James Otto did a commercial for Pepsi back in late 2007/early 2008 and to me it couldn’t have been more funny. His wife is sitting there thinking that James is singing his song named “I Just Got Started Loving You” to her, but really the “apple of his eye” is the can of Pepsi that she has in her hand.
God bless you and them always!!!
Holly
P.S. If you have never seen James sing live before, go here to see him sing live on your screen tomorrow night at 9 PM EST.
I can’t link to YouTube from here, but I like the commercials AT&T is running now (I think that’s who it is), with the guy sitting at the little table with kids, almost as if they’re a focus group or something, and he asks them questions like “So, tell me- what’s better: faster, or slower?” And the kids’ responses are pretty funny but the guy remains really deadpan and serious.
I already brought this up in another thread that wasn’t about it’s comedic value but this commercial does feature one little bit that is quite funny. In one of the phony “customer testimonials” they have a guy named “Ken P.” “Ken P.” in a commercial for a product that is supposed to relieve a guy’s prostate issues. The subtlety is what makes it fucking hilarious.
I’m always moved whenever I see that anthropomorphic wheel of cheese and its desperate attempts to avoid being carved up into delicious snack crackers by its cruel human overlords. Whether it’s a “Kick Me!” sign or a trick mug or one of those little containers that are supposed to contain peanuts but actually have a bunch of pretend snakes inside, that brave little wheel does what it needs to do in order to survive. And all the while, it dreams of escape and one day reuniting with its cheese family.
See, this one doesn’t work for me, because I can’t buy the premise that anyone cares enough to have ever gotten involved in an internet conversation about whether Allstate does or does not have internet apps. In fact, I’d be willing to be that no such conversation has ever taken place in the history of the internet.
Also – it’s an exceptionally odd trajectory for a conversation to take. I’d expect it to go more like this:
“Oh, I’m just diagramming this accident on my phone.”
“Oh, did you ding your car?”
“No, this is some random person’s car.”
“You incredible tool. While you’re at it, remove my number from your phone.”
