Sprint: 200 oxen = 200 dachsunds.
“STAMPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDE!!!”
An old “behold the power of cheese” commercial that I saw only once (but LOVED IT).
Shot of a window, looking out into the night sky. The moon hangs low and yellow, perfectly framed in the window, it’s luminescence rending the stars beside it invisible. Beneath the window, giving the impression of a country farm house, is an impressive spread of cheese, mostly in wicker baskets lined with red-checkered towels. Crickets chirp, and you half-expect to hear a baseball game quietly playing on AM radio in the background. It’s blissfully serene.
Captions appear at the bottom.
“In ancient times, humans believed the moon was made of cheese.”
“In the 1960’s, man went to the moon, and discovered it was made of rock, not cheese.”
[pause. more crickets].
“We’ve never been back since.”
“Behold the power of cheese.”
As a cheese-lover who was raised in a house full of space-geeks, it had me laughing hysterically for a good five minutes.
One of the Molson Canadian commercials where they have the beer flowing across the screen and they are talking about how Pavlov was able to make dogs salivate at the sound of a bell; then at the end of the commercial you hear ding
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The most recent commercial that cracks me up is the Meow Mix commercial where a man watches his cat walk into the kitchen and meow to the “Meow Mix” tune. His wife promply gives the cat a big bowl of cat food.
The man looks from the bowl, to the cat, to his wife and then proceeds to sing “Beer, Beer, Beer, Beer, Beer, Beer, Beer, Beer, Beer…” to the tune of the Meow Mix jingle.
I believe it was for the Visa Check Card. Where Charlie Sheen is waiting to be verified or something and he waited so long he turned old and into Martin Sheen.
That one makes me laugh every time. It shows that both had an incredible sense of humor to laugh at themselves.
There’s a series of ads for a shoe company that parody nature films:
(open on a shot of a woman trying on shoes)
announcer: “Spring is here, and the female is coming out of hibernation…”
(teenagers looking longingly at shoes older women are holding): “The younger females have to wait for the alpha females to finish hunting…”
(a mother shopping with her children): “The mother teaches her young to hunt…”
I suppose the commercials would be more effective if I could remember which shoe company was advertising - it was three initials, and I think one of them was a “D.”
There is a commercial for some finance company that has been running for a couple of years now.
There’s this approx. 3-year-old girl standing on a tennis court holding a racket to big for her. There are tennis balls flying around that are being shot from one of those serving machines. Dad is there giving words of encouragement, “come on honey, hit the ball”. Stuff like that. Finally, one of the balls hits the racket and knocks it out of her hand. Then the voice over comes on and gives the tag line, “how are you planning for your retirement”.
There’s a Miller lite series here in the UK where an American chat-show-type guy makes savvy remarks about the situations he finds himself in, usually set in bars. In one, he’s in the Scottish wilderness, painfully making his way through the bog towards the camera with a glass of beer, and wearing a furry hat. Eventually he reaches the camera, and explains his choice of headgear.
“When I told the folks back home I was visiting Auchtermuchtie, they said: Wear the fox hat”.
It’s made even better by his quizzical - and comically inaccurate - pronunciation of “Oktermuckty”.
And I’ll second Rube Goldberg’s Honda; cleverest ad I’ve ever seen, and a real conversation piece in our office.
InternetLegend - that’s for DSW Shoe Warehouse.
I’ve got a few - there was one that was on a few months ago for Heineken that was GREAT. A guy is bartending, and all of a sudden every “A guy walks into a bar” joke subject starts to literally walk into the bar. A priest, a rabbi, a guy with a two foot long bologna and a duck, there’s a devil and an angel sitting at the bar…you get the picture. The bartender is looking on in amazement and says something to the effect “This has GOT to be a joke.” Then there’s a shot of a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead sitting at a booth, and the blonde quips “I don’t get it,” as she tries to open her Heineken bottle at the worng end, and the brunette reaches over and turns the bottle the right way for her. The closing shot is of a talking horse. I was very impressed with the ad agency for that one - that was pretty smart.
Another one I like is for Mastercard - you know, the blah blah blah…priceless ones. But, this is the one about pets and pets behaving badly. There are various shots of dogs peeing in the wrong place, tearing up shoes, etc. But the shot that gets me is this dog on a bed that is under the covers. It’s standing on the edge of the covers, and waving it’s head around wildly to get out. It just makes me giggle every time.
I love the commercials for the Capri Sun Big Pouch.
There’s one with a boy and a girl sitting in the backseat of this big beastly grandma car, and little old grandma is driving and all you see over the steering wheel is the very top of her head. Grandpa is in the passenger seat and they are trying to parallel park. They pull up over the curb. back up, go over the curb again, park in the middle of the street, pull forward, back up, slam on the breaks etc. until they finally get the car “parked”. The camera kind of pans up and there’s a shot of the car, half on the curb and half on the street, with the front of the car practically pressed up against the door to the place they’re trying to get to. It’s hilarious.