What are your favorite Saturday Night Live “commercials”? Mine is an ad for a “Depends” type undergarment called “Oops, I Crapped My Pants”. There’s a wise old guy introducing his older lady friend to this product, and at the end she asks him, “How do you know so much about Oops, I Crapped My Pants?” He says with a little smile: “Because I use it . . . and I just did”.
And of course, there’s Happy Fun Ball.
That’s my favorite as well, because…oh…Nevermind, TMI. 
Oh come on, Cosmopolitan, We’re all friends here…
I like the commercial for Colon Blow cereal.
Hmm, I’m noticing a theme here.
Isn’t that kind of a replay of the one that Leslie Neilson did for them much earlier where he advertised that all kinds of Senior products and finished up by reliving himself in the diapers?
Anyhoo my absolute favorite are the military cat toys like “Cat-a-tonic” and “Stega-kitty” All these poor cats dressed up with these huge He-Man type plastic weaponry on their back. And then the real clincher, the free “Mimi-Mite” which is this adorable little kitten with a plastic laser on its back. I so want those.
That and I’d like a pair of three-leg jeans to wear to school one day.
Mine is the Folger’s parody where the guy uses Folger’s coffee as a replacement for blood in blood transfusions. “Folger’s…rich enough to replace human blood.”
That goes back a ways (both it and the normal commercial it was based on), but it still cracks me up.
Just one favorite …
Chess For Girls
Nerf Crotch Bat
The commercial for Insurance against Robot Attacks. Oh god, i still laugh when i think about it, “It’s only a matter of time before the metal ones come for you.”
Magic Mouth…Pricless
[Robotic Voice]
Did you see Charlie Rose last night?
[Robotic Voice]
Bwhahaha
~Kittie
Anyone remember the pet pharmacutical commercial, “Puppy-Uppers and Doggy-Downers”?
My favorite was the for the car, the Royal Deluxe where they went down a bumpy street and to prove how smooth the ride was, they circumcised a baby in the back seat, finally exclaiming “perfect”!
This was a parody of a Ford LTD commercial where they split a diamond in the back seat.
My dad was walking through the room at the time (sometimes in the 70s), stopped, fell on the floor laughing, and thereafter always watched SNL with me.
PLEASE
you mention SNL commercials and no one has yet to mention the Cadillac (or was it Lincoln?) “Mistress”: The car you can have sex with?
Truly a epic in styling and handling but the secret was the removable cap on the back that beheld…yes a working part of the female anatomy! Seeing the 40 year old guy look around after coming home, removing his pants and ‘mounting’ his huge car is probably something a few men have thought of.
Scary but absolutely hilarious as you see the guy sneak down for a late night with his Mistress
I forgot that one…I love it, though it reminds me of the very real insurance commercials that take advantage of the elderly, which REALLY piss me off (my parents are senior citizens and I am VERY protective of them).
We loved it. It was much better then Cats. We’re going to see it again and again.
We loved it. It was much better then Cats. We’re going to see it again and again.
We loved it. It was much better then Cats. We’re going to see it again and again.
We loved it. It was much better then Cats. We’re going to see it again and again.
We loved it. It was much better then Cats. We’re going to see it again and again.
Remember when McDonalds was having a bizarre run of commercials where the employees dance around slapping hands? SNL parodied that in their ad for “McSooshi” (yeah, that’s how they spelled ‘sushi’, no doubt an homage to ‘cheez’). Oh, that ad was great…especially the Japanese fella at the end eating his burger, looking at everyone else going crazy for McSooshi, and shrugging.
Another one that I thought was funny was just a five second blurb, one of those “this show was brought to you by…” things. The product was “Spider Whistle.” “Spiders come running when you blow Spider Whistle!” Like, EEEW!
But remember: Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
From c. 1985, that one that looks like a beer commercial, they start out with “Where you’re going you’ve always known it…”, and the punchline is…“Hell”.
I think my favorite was a commercial for a prescription scalp itch medication.
It started out like most prescription medication commercials: People running through a field, with a voiceover ”… consult your doctor to see if Viodine is right for you!”.
At the end of the commercial came the side effects, which (from memory) included stuff like dry mouth, fatigue, mild constipation, paralysis, blackout and a terrifying vision: You pass through a mirror and meet your reflection, but discover that it is not really you at all, but a doppelganger. It laughs madly. The doppelganger turns into a raven and flies into the blood red sun. You are suddenly on a ship sailing on a frozen river of death. In the distance you can hear the distant and angry cry of the ice wolf. You try to scream but your scream congeals into the form of a hideous baby smoking a long pipe. You then find yourself before two doors. One door leads to an eternity of torment and misery, but if you pick the right door, you’re on your way to an itch free scalp!
It struck me funny at the time.
Oh gosh, there’s so many:
Levi’s Three-Legged Jeans. I still remember the “Three at last/A leg and a leg and a leg” song and the tagline: “Hey, it isn’t any stupider than acid wash.”
The Love Toilet – a loveseat-style double toilet.
The one for the “feminine pad” you wear all month.
The Michael Jordan douche ad (“Do you ever feel…‘not so fresh’?”)
Joe Piscopo advertising “Peenie Pads!”, to prevent those little post-lavatory wet spots.
John Belushi in a Wheaties-style ad for “Little chocolate donuts”.
And didn’t SNL do a three-bladed razor ad back when the double-blade ads were big (you know: “the first blade shaves close, the second blade shaves even closer”)? I remember it because the triple-bladed razors really exist now, and the ads look suspiciously the same to the SNL one (apart from the tagline: “Because you’ll buy anything”).
The Adobe car (Fender Bender? Just mold it back into place!), the happy dancing dripping blood chicken head, and the backyard catapult to get rid of trash.
One word:
BASS-A-MATIC
I think I saw that ad the very first time I watched SNL, and I laughed until it hurt. The funniest part was watching Jane Curtain (?) take a sip of the pureed fish parts, smile, and say “delicious”.