# new favorite commercial **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680 "2003-12-30T02:29:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/21 "2003-12-30T23:43:20Z")
I have to admit I’m charmed by the Pepsi ad with the girl in the big hot dog costume who meets up with the boy in the big Pepsi-cup costume. That’s mainly because I still, after ten years or so, totally love that Blind Melon song. Pepsi must be doing something right; I think I’m the third to chime in on this thread with one of theirs. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/22 "2003-12-30T23:54:16Z")
Hot damn, **jackelope** , that Blind Melon video is the first thing that popped into my head when I saw that commercial too! As for my pick: It’s another commercial from Southwest Airlines … It’s the one where there is a young fellow sitting at a conference table with a somewhat mousy woman sitting next to him. He’s sort of staring down and he says softly, “I don’t know if this is the best time to say this, but you’re really beautiful.” The woman sort of blushes and says, “Well, I’ve always been attracted to you too, Paul.” Then Paul covers up the hands free mike to the phone he was using … “Just a second, babe” and turns to the woman … “What?!?” Voice-over: “Want to get away?” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/23 "2003-12-30T23:56:22Z")
… uuuhhh … or is that Blind Melon song actually _playing_ during the commercial? If so, it would make sense that the video popped into my head, all while displaying my stunningly horrible short term memory. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/24 "2003-12-31T00:01:42Z")
I like the Best Buy commercial where the guy is buying a big screen TV and says, ‘I gotta have this for Saturday." The BEst Buy guy asks, "Whta’ Saturday." Cut to a big party with the Best Buy guy looking on when the customer climbs on some speakers and then “stagedives” onto the floor with a loud thud. Cut back to Best Buy and the worker points out some small speakers, “You might want to try these here, they’re…” “Shorter?” “Yeah, shorter,shorter is better.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/25 "2003-12-31T00:05:29Z")
I agree on all three of Pepsi’s current advertisements under the “It’s the Cola” slogan. The idea of soda going good with food has never been so humorously depicted. I also like the Target ad with all the famous food mascots, down on their luck and in ordinary places, until the fateful day they all banded together and came to a new place…the food section in larger Target stores. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/26 "2003-12-31T00:19:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*… uuuhhh … or is that Blind Melon song actually _playing_ during the commercial? > > If so, it would make sense that the video popped into my head, all while displaying my stunningly horrible short term memory. \*\* 😃 Yeah, it’s playing during the commercial. Even if it weren’t, I think the girl in the hot dog costume would still be reminiscent of the Bumblebee Girl in the video. But yeah, it’s playing. And I’m laughing. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/27 "2003-12-31T00:19:56Z")
What is it, a Visa ad? where the guy is sitting in his easy chair talking about buying a leather bustier in an obviously lip synched Vallley Girl voice . . . the inconguity of the voice and his face is always good for a chortle. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/28 "2003-12-31T02:00:56Z")
Any idea what agency’s doing the Pepsi ads? ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/29 "2003-12-31T04:04:14Z")
The Miller Lite ad with all the people falling like dominoes. That cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/30 "2003-12-31T17:06:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cheddarsnax \* > \*\*Any idea what agency’s doing the Pepsi ads? \*\* Good point. What would the campaign be without the agency to guide it? Congratulations to BBDO Worldwide, New York. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/31 "2003-12-31T18:35:06Z")
The Comedy Central ad with “The Holidays”. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/32 "2003-12-31T20:02:09Z")
The Brett Favre “Monday Morning Quarterback” ad. “I’d’ve gone with vanilla with that sweater.” Heh. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/33 "2003-12-31T21:36:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sevenwood \* > \*\*Hmm, no golfers have checked in here yet, I guess… > > I personally love the new Tiger Woods’ NIKE commercials, both with the talking head cover. Particularly the one showing Charles Barkley and his godawful swings. “Was that a practice swing or a siezure?” “Cleanup on aisle five!”. > > (The best part about that commercial is that that’s really the way Charles Barkley swings a golf club. I’ve seen him on TV in a couple of “Celebrity golf” tournaments. I have to admire him just for letting folks see it.) > > (The one where Tiger’s head cover is in the clubhouse trying to pick up a female tiger head cover is pretty good, too.) \*\* [hijack] Reminds me of a story I heard Barkley tell on the radio one time about playing golf with Tiger Woods. Tiger had honors (duh) and Charles hit after him. Tiger asked, “Hey, did you see where they’re building that new Super Wal-Mart?” Charles said, “Cool, no! Where?” “Between my ball and your ball.” I use that whenever I can. Unfortunately I’m usually the butt of the joke. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/34 "2003-12-31T21:49:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PoorYorick \* > \*\*What is it, a Visa ad? where the guy is sitting in his easy chair talking about buying a leather bustier in an obviously lip synched Vallley Girl voice . . . the inconguity of the voice and his face is always good for a chortle. \*\* That one’s great, but the one with the old lady skimming the pool is even better. It’s the laugh at the end that cracks me up! I second the Brett Favre ad. Good stuff. Another good one is the Best Buy ad with the guy standing next to a Trans Am(?), wearing a polo shirt with the collar up and “Sister Christian” is playing. I don’t know what the end of the commercial is, but I love that cheesy-80s image. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/35 "2003-12-31T21:57:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ender\_Will \* > \*\*Has anyone seen an ad for Linux that has a young kid sitting there while people tell him various stuff, then a voiceover says something to the effect of “He is the future. His name is Linux”? Neither my mother nor I watch much TV but she saw it a couple of days ago and mentioned it. \*\* You all are probably going to make fun of me for this, but when I first saw this ad I thought it was an advertisement for a new Eminem CD. The kid has the same white t-shirt, jeans, and short bleached hair as Eminem. Think about that next time you see it. He really does look like an Eminem clone. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/36 "2004-01-01T02:21:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nutty Bunny \* > \*\* > Another good one is the Best Buy ad with the guy standing next to a Trans Am(?), wearing a polo shirt with the collar up and “Sister Christian” is playing. I don’t know what the end of the commercial is, but I love that cheesy-80s image. \*\* I love his VCR _with remote_, which is attached to the VCR itself with a long cord. I laugh hysterically at this because we actually had a VCR from Montgomery Wards with a remote on a cord. It had two settings: “On/play and Off/pause.” HILARIOUS! (It also only had settings for 13 channels. If you wanted to record something on a higher channel you had to open a hatch on the top of the machine and work a bunch of switches and dials around until you found your channel, then you would place one of the numbered stickers helpfully provided over that button so you could remember what channel it was set to.) I like the Jack in the Box commercial where the deli guy won’t sell him food. I like how he goes through about 15 expressions and his kid just stands there with that sweet smile on his face. I had one of the sandwiches though and they really suck. I was pretty disappointed because the way I imagined it tasting from the picture and the way it actually tasted were not even close. ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/37 "2004-01-01T07:06:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nutty Bunny \* > \*\*Another good one is the Best Buy ad with the guy standing next to a Trans Am(?), wearing a polo shirt with the collar up and “Sister Christian” is playing. I don’t know what the end of the commercial is, but I love that cheesy-80s image. \*\* I also love the one where the woman in her late 30s/early 40s is accosted by her former teenage self while Yaz’s “Situation” is playing in the background. The teenager is disgusted by the minivan until she sees what kind of minivan it is, and the cute husband. Makes me feel old, though - I used to dance to “Situation” all the time back in the day. _sigh_ And the Pillsbury Dough Boy/cell phone ad is priceless, too. The poor little guy bats a pea between his feet and acts so resigned when the cell phone guy wants to give him a poke. ---
**Author:** ![Nurobath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a88e57/32.png) [@Nurobath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nurobath)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2004, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/38 "2004-01-01T08:24:10Z")
…pinkish…kinda green… I like most of the commercials mentioed here. The one with the kidnapped squirrel is great. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/39 "2004-01-01T15:54:19Z")
They’ve recently begun replaying the M&M commercial that was voted all time best; the one where the three M&M characters are sitting around the store eating bags of M&M’s and another customer tells them it’s “unnatural to eat your own kind”. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680/40 "2004-01-01T19:04:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jackelope \* > \*\*Yeah, it’s playing during the commercial. Even if it weren’t, I think the girl in the hot dog costume would still be reminiscent of the Bumblebee Girl in the video. > > But yeah, it’s playing. And I’m laughing. \*\* Better than that: That IS the Bee girl. Swear. J [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-favorite-commercial/221680.md?page=3)