Damn! That’s the one I was going to mention. I love that commercial!
“We have 6000 converters”
“The trucks on I-4”
'Mecklinberg, where are you? At the Airport."
Total deadpan look, and then it’s base beat and DANCE!
I saw a Subway commercial the other day that had me hopping up and down and yelling, it was so cool.
Jared’s on a stage.
“You know those McDonalds’s ads, the ones where they say, ‘Keep away from my Chicken Selects?’ Turns out that’s actually pretty good advice, because they’ve got 33 grams of fat per serving.”
Once again,
Mwahahaha.
That one ticks me off, because the song goes:
It’s okay if you’re a Christian, a Muslim or a Jew;
It’s okay if you’re agnostic and you don’t know what to do.
… as though agnostics are just a bunch of fence-sitters who haven’t picked a god yet.
… right, because that’s Unitarians.
Or that picture he holds up with him posing with the guy he thought was a celebrity, but turned out to be some normal guy.
Same here, so I went digging and found a cite for that ad, apparently titled “Language Tape”:
hehheh. I like the current one with Archie reading a bedtime story to Peyton, Eli, and Cooper. Archie’s look of disgust at the end is perfect.
God yes. That’s hillarious. I especially love the phone’s ‘Get over it!’ at the end.
The other ones in the campaign are good for a giggle, too, but nowhere near as funny as that one.
I like the FedEx ad where the grouchy boss comes out asking who shipped those boxes, and everybody in the office hides themselves whatever furniture makes good camouflage. I watch closely, but I know I’m missing some of them.
Another is for the Canadian Bravo cable channel, composed of brief clips of people whose lives have been changed by watching. Highlights include:
[ul]
[li]The businessman leaning against his desk with a silly smile and saying “My toenails are painted fuchsia! Thanks, Bravo!”[/li][li]Same guy, same pose, saying “I’m wearing my wife’s underwear!”[/li][li]The woman apparently photocopying her chest[/li][li]Two guys in the mailroom taking turns giving each other wedgies[/li][li]The guy popping up in his cube to say “I’m gay-for-a-day! Thanks, Bravo!” and high-fiving his neighbours[/li][/ul]
I don’t know if it counts as a commercial, but I really like the new promo for “The Essentials” on Turner Classic Movies.
A couple is going to the theater hoping to see “Visually Stunning but Ultimately Pointless Sequel.”
“It’s sold out,” the girl at the ticket counter deadpans.
So, a discussion follows on what will they see instead: “Painfully Unfunny Comedy”?
“Star Pairing Totally Lacking in Chemistry”? “Big-Budget Buddy Picture”? “Cop Goes on Rampage to Avenge the Death of His Murdered Partner”? These are the names they use, and a glance at the marquee above the ticket counter shows that they are indeed the names of the films playing.
I laughed out loud the first time I saw it. Not just the film names, but the dialog is hilarious.
There’s a new one for Target advertising a wake-up call service for their after-Thanksgiving sale. Apparently, the wake-up call is a recording of a celebrity reminding you about the sale. The ads show the celebrities sitting behind desks getting ready to make the calls. In one Darth Vader is sitting behind a name plate that says “Lord Vader”, breathing slowly, the way he does. Next to him is an empty name plate that says “Heidi Klum”. Then, Heidi comes in and sits down. Vader looks over at her, then, his breathing suddenly gets twice as fast.
The description might not sound like much, but the ad is hilarious.
yeah, that was it.
“your defense is offensive.” that was hilarious.
i haven’t seen the bedtime story one.
peyton is just blowing up. it’s almost embarrassing watching him play, because the commentators can’t stop gushing about him. sure, he changes plays at the line of scrimmage. he’s waving his hands and even physical moving his line around at times. it’s pretty cool, but i don’t need those guys pointing it out every drive.
how many times have i heard “you know, jim, 75 percent of what he’s doing out there is just a sham to confuse the defenders”?
My favorite one has to be the one about truck bed abuse that’s modeled after those Sally Struthers “adopt a starving African orphan” ads… except the woman in them is much, much hotter.
“For the cost of only three soy lattes a day, you can help end truck bed abuse.”
tear streams down cheek
“Won’t you help?”
Awesome. 