Commercials, David Spade…Cafe Society.
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Spade has arranged to keep himself well paid and in the limelight even while his film-TV career is a bit slack. Good for him many actors would trades places with him the space of a heartbeat!
The Carden & Cherry agency introduced “Ernest” in an ad for Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky, circa 1979. It was as pitchman for Purity Dairys in Nashville that “Ernest” really took off.
An Ernest ad from '87 espousing Purity orange juice can be found toward the bottom of this page.
My favorite one is from '83: Ernest using an olive and a tomato to demonstrate the new satellite for channel 2 in Baton Rouge. “NewsStar 2, Vern, from anywhere on the face of the tomato!” Then he eats the olive.
Amen and preach it brother. The man’s sole “talent” is smirking. Why he’s had a career at all since Farley died is beyond me and yet more evidence of the validity of Deism.
I, too, am getting sick of David Spade…but I do like Capital One’s ads with the Barbarians.
I hate the ads. Having a man whose career is built on being a condescending smart-ass say “no” in an annoying, smarmy fashion doesn’t fill me with good feelings about their product.
I love that the other persons in the office do not even blink while a fat guy runs screaming and spouting flames. Like this is something that happens every day.
David Spade is nearly as funny as Pauli Shore, David Schwimmer and Adam Sandler, but without the broad range.
I like the wire one because the first time, the “I hear sometimes, you say yes” with the wink flew right over my head. So the second time, when I got it, it was twice as funny. 
Add me as someone who likes those commercials. They always make me smile… especially the one where Spade says he’s wearing a yellow shirt to the guy who wants to kill him.
There Findus takes the fish and adds a crumb crisp…crumb crisp coating. That’s hard to say. We were on a can of peas, a great big dish of peas.
Not. cool. So what do you guys think of the “cavemen” commercials?
This is absolutely my most hated commercial. I do have a new suggestion for them though. Have the sniveling fat guy laying on the floor begging for mercy while David is bludgeoning him to death with a pickax. Now that’s funny!!!
But the point is that Spade’s character is working for Capital One’s competitors, not Capital One.
How can you not love those commercials? They’re better than the barbarians by far:
Saint Thomas? ‘saint happenin’!
L.A.? N.O.!
How about ReNO, to play some keNO, in the casiNO.
And yes, “Oooh, I’m quivering in my yellow shirt” is the best one.
Granted, he’s not going to be remembered for much other than the commercials, just like the afore-mentioned Joe Isuzu.
I still won’t get a Capital One card though, not reporting credit limits takes a hit on your FICO score like you wouldn’t believe. Did you know they offer cosmetic surgery finance too? Scary thought…
My dad hates these commercials with the white-hot power of a thousand suns. He has a reason too – he says he hates them because he hates bullies and David Spade, in the commercials, is the worst sort of nasty little bully. Dad’s idea of the only possible way to turn this series of commercials around is for the fat kid to wise up (“Hey! I’m twice the size of this freaky little toad!”) and beat the stuffing out of David Spade. Then, as the paramedics carry Spade’s broken body out on a stretcher, he turns to the camera and croaks out, “Shoulda went with Capitol One…”
The barbarian ones are kinda of clever, I don’t mind those. It is the David Spade ones that assure I’ll never use their card.
All I know is that the chunky guy does the best shrieking-like-a-girl-while-running-around-in-a-panic that I’ve seen in a while, and that’s just damn funny. David Spade doesn’t enter into it at all.