# Okay, what TV commercials do you actually LIKE? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855 "2002-03-12T15:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/61 "2002-03-16T17:52:05Z")
**Soup\_du\_jour** wrote: > [@](#): > > My favourite series has to be the “Wanna get away?” Southwest Airlines commercials. I agree that this series is pretty damn good. But i think one of the greatest ad slogans of recent times must be Southwest’s end-of-commercial tagline - a pilot’s voice, following an intercom ‘ping’, saying “You are now free to move about the country.” That was an inspired piece of writing. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/62 "2002-03-16T19:29:08Z")
I have two that have already sort of been mentioned, but need more detail. The first was the old Sprite commercial that had the streetballers talking all hard about their game and then one says, “That’s why I drink Sprite!” and holds the can up upside down. The director then yells cut, and says “Hey, genius, you’ve got the can upside down.” All the actors drop the macho act and start acting a bit more Frasier Crane-like and one yells “You can’t talk to me like that! I studied at CAMBRIDGE!” in an upper class British accent. The commercial then cuts to the usual “don’t trust other people, obey your thirst” tag. The other was the Snickers commerical when the quarterback gets hit really hard and is lying on the ground. The coach runs over and asks how many fingers he’s holding up and the QB answers correctly, then the coach asks what city their in and the QB answers correctly. The coach finally asks, “Who are you?” and the QB gets a wild look in his eye and says “I am…BATMAN!” The voiceover then says the not going anywhere for a while, have a Snickers tag. The best part is the end though, and there were two. The first one was the QB prancing around using a blanket as cape and holding it out like Batman does. The alternate was when the QB looks over at a lineman and asks “would you like to be my sidekick, citizen?” totally deadpan and the lineman just gives him the greatest look. I loved those commericals. Bring them back. ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/63 "2002-03-16T20:44:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osip \* > \*\*I love the M&M commercial. The one at the hotel it goes something like this. > > \ > > MBC: How about our turn down service with a complementary chocolate on your pillow. > > c: Uh sure. > > (cut scene) In Hotel room. > C is laying on bed. > > Red M&M (laying on second pillow) :Can I watch TV? > > C: No.\*\* I really like that commercial, too. But I thought it would’ve been more clever if the M&M had said something like “Hey, you look real nice in those pajamas” instead of asking if he could watch TV. You know, if he had given a compliment. It would’ve been a great play on words. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/64 "2002-03-16T22:34:20Z")
The hedgehog commercials are for a video game starring Sonic the Hedgehog. The idea, of course, is that there’s only one Sonic and one can’t replace him. Kind of reminds me of the Snuggle commercial already mentioned here with animals like lobster and armadillo trying to be the mascot- no one can represent “snuggly soft” like a snuggly soft teddy bear. Commercials like that are pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/65 "2002-03-16T22:34:32Z")
I still love those Mcdonalds commercials with the guys running off. woman: Ahhh I broke a nail. guy :Wait here, I’ll go for help. Woman: Would it be great to go to Europe? Guy: yes. (runs off) Hehe, the best part is the look on the chicks faces, I’ve gotten that exact ‘what the hell’ look myself many times. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/66 "2002-03-16T23:59:19Z")
Oh oh! and tis the season for the clucking bunny from the Cadbury eggs commercial. I like that one every year. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/67 "2002-03-17T07:03:15Z")
I love any of the California Cheese ads with the talking cows. Examples: Two young bulls on top of a grassy knoll are surveying a lush, green pasture full of cows when a “particularly fine” cow walks up. One of the bulls says, “Boy the fresh air and sunshine have sure been good to _ **her.** _ Watch this.” Then, to the cow he shouts, “Hey! You work out?” Two cows are waking up to the crowing of a rooster. One says, “Morning,” and is answered by the kind of groan they could have recorded in my bedroom when I had to be at work early. “Wanna get up?” says the first. “Naw, hit the snooze.” Wherewith the first cow kicks the rooster and sends him flying (not under his own power) out of the barn. These and some others crack me up. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/68 "2002-03-18T13:24:52Z")
I am quite sure this is the funniest commercial ever : [http://www.kicken.com/funnyfiles/Patrick\_Kicken\_Radio3FM-](http://www.kicken.com/funnyfiles/Patrick_Kicken_Radio3FM-) cursusengels.qt Try and download it before you play it. I won’t tell too much about the content of this commercial, you just have to see it. WARNING : it does contain shocking language.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/69 "2002-03-18T15:34:06Z")
Sorry about that bad link. Let’s try again : [http://www.kicken.com/funnyfiles/Patrick\_Kicken\_Radio3FM-cursusengels.qt](http://www.kicken.com/funnyfiles/Patrick_Kicken_Radio3FM-cursusengels.qt) ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/70 "2002-03-19T01:07:56Z")
An older guy takes the bite and says “When I bite into a peppermint patty I get the sensation…Hell I’m happy that I get a sensation at all” Now you know that is a guy who you can relate to. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/71 "2002-03-19T01:44:37Z")
My son likes the commercial for Diet Mountain Dew where the old granny is trying to wave down a taxi. None will stop for her. When she finally gets one to stop, and is about to enter, a young man quickly runs in before she can enter. The granny then snatches the man by the collar and flings him out, gets in, tosses his brief case out, and is driven away. _(This is his first post in the SDMB. He dictated it to me.)_ Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/72 "2002-03-19T02:54:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wolfman \* > \*\*I still love those Mcdonalds commercials with the guys running off. > woman: Ahhh I broke a nail. > > guy :Wait here, I’ll go for help. > > Woman: Would it be great to go to Europe? > > Guy: yes. (runs off) > > Hehe, the best part is the look on the chicks faces, I’ve gotten that exact ‘what the hell’ look myself many times. \*\* Ah, I love that one. “Honey, do we have a…” “Trombone? No, I’ll go get one.” ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/73 "2002-03-19T04:28:50Z")
Just remembered another one: The Chrysler minivan commercial where the driver of the minivan is asked to drop off a bunch of people at different places as he motors through town. He picks up a jockey and his horse, a kid going to his tuba lesson and a company of Civil War reenactors. As the group goes down the road, they happen upon a group of beautiful school girls in short skirted uniforms who ask for a ride. Cut to the reenactors, tuba kid and jockey on the curb as the van pulls away with the horse still in his trailer. The jockey says, “My pony!” in a plaintive voice. For some reason, the jockey’s squeal cracks me up. Zap! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/74 "2002-03-19T04:36:29Z")
One of my personal favorites is the Visa Check Card commercial in the pet store, where the paper check clearing process takes so long that the two rabbits the father is buying for his daughter multiply like crazy. Mostly because seeing that old shopkeeper putting that bunny up to his ear like a phone never fails to crack me up. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/75 "2002-03-20T05:46:25Z")
There’s a Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner commercial out there that takes the cake. It’s produced like a Wallace and Gromit short and directed like a sitcom. The setting is a Leave-it-to-Beaver type of home in a goldfish bowl. Mom’s in a blue-checkered apron, the works. (DAD fish swims in (from where?) and takes his hat off. He leaves it floating in the water as if it were on a hatstand (nice touch).) DAD: Hi everyone, I’m home! MOM: Hello, Dear. JUNIOR: Hi Dad! I’m helping Mom make Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner! DAD: Great! Now I won’t have to eat you like I did you’re little brothers and sisters! (MOM, DAD, and JUNIOR all laugh, JUNIOR opens up package of yellow chemicals.) MOM: Wait, dear! Don’t open the package! (Yellow chemicals go POOF! and volumetrically fill up the bowl. It’s now a completely opaque orange yellow. CUT to view from high above the bowl. DAD’s lips appear just above the water.) DAD: Nice work, son. (MOM’s lips appear beside DAD’s.) MOM: Ooooo dear… (Junior’s lips and fins appear. One fin is holding the box, the other fin is pointing at the instructions on the box.) JUNIOR: Guess it’s just as well. Says here we’d have to boil the water. Is that brilliant or what? ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/76 "2002-03-20T10:00:17Z")
My personal favorite is one for some kind of throat lozenges, I can’t remember what brand. There is a guy playing golf, and he can’t call “fore” because he has lost his voice. He keeps beaning people with the ball. For some reason, the way the people fall to the ground after they have been hit reduces both me and my brother to helpless giggling every time. ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/77 "2002-03-20T16:16:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jet Jaguar \* > \*\*There was this commercial which I only saw once (during the Olympics). I don’t remember the company, but it had something to do with corporate computer network security. The commercial takes place on an automotive assembly line. The technicians lose control of the line, and the robotic arms go crazy and spray paint the name “Suki” on one of the cars going by. The camera cuts to some little Japanese girl named Suki on her computer at home, and her mother telling her it’s bed time. \*\* EDS - the IT company I work for. The company also had the Cat Herders commerical from the Superbowl 2 (?) years ago… ---
**Author:** ![annieclaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@annieclaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annieclaus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/78 "2002-03-24T20:04:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Winnowill \* > \*\* > > [Monster.com](http://Monster.com) > > There’s one (and it’s been mentioned in a thread on the temp board, or I’d have forgotten it) - like Battlebots. One is this undefeated techno marvel; the other is a little refrigerator with arms and legs. The fridge opens itself, pulls out a Bud Light (I think) and offers it to the big robot. When the big robot goes to take the beer, a giant hammer comes out of the fridge and smashes it to bit. I cracked up! \*\* That is absolutely my favorite, too! ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/79 "2002-03-24T21:42:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Winnowill \* > \*\* There’s one (and it’s been mentioned in a thread on the temp board, or I’d have forgotten it) - like Battlebots. One is this undefeated techno marvel; the other is a little refrigerator with arms and legs. The fridge opens itself, pulls out a Bud Light (I think) and offers it to the big robot. When the big robot goes to take the beer, a giant hammer comes out of the fridge and smashes it to bit. I cracked up! \*\* I like the other one with Mr. Quackers. Same as above, except there’s a robot duck instead of a fridge. It runs around the track wearing down the other bots’ batteries and wins by default. I also like the Geico commercial with the squirrels. You can’t convince me they don’t really do that. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855/80 "2002-03-24T23:22:23Z")
I love the Universal Studios commercial that plays on all the old travel cliches. “I want to be pampered by locals” means Frankenstein painting a woman’s toenails, “I want to taste something exotic” means a shower of green slime. This ad always makes me smile, especially the woman crushing her two kids against her on the roller coaster. I’ll still probably never set foot in the park, but I smile. I also like the Goldfish commercial with the catchy, folky jingle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-what-tv-commercials-do-you-actually-like/97855.md?page=5)