Don’t remember the product. (Too bad for all these companies that pay to get their product known, and all that is remembered is the set-up not the punchline.)
Commercial is titled “Blind Date”.
A guy in a car pulls up in front of a girl’s house. He gets out, runs up to the front door, then leads her back to the car. He opens her door and helps her in. After he closes her door and is walking around to his side, a close up on her shows her with a strange expression on her face. She strains, lifts up one leg, and lets rip a long, loud fart. She then smiles with satisfaction that she finished before he got around the car and got in.
He sits down behind the wheel, looks at her and says, “By the way, we’re going to double-date. Do you know Bill and Sue (names?)?” He points to the back seat of the car, the camera pulls out, and we see another couple sitting there. The girl’s expression is priceless as she realizes they were there the whole time!
The joke goes even further, the driver says, “This is going to be a great date. I can just feel the good vibrations between us all.” Sue in the back seat pipes up, “I know I felt it.” First girl slides further down in her seat …
My favorite is definately the one where the whole family in the car is dancing around to the pop song that says “I wanna fuck you in the ass!” Then at the end, it says “Want to learn English?” You should try downloading that one. (I saw it on http://www.heavy.com but its not free now.)
Without a doubt, the commercials for outpost.com are both the strangest and funniest I’ve ever seen.
My personal fav is the one that PETA had banned, dammit: shooting gerbils from a cannon into a brick wall. Of course, they’re trying to get them through the bullseye, but not many of them make it. And of course it’s obvious they aren’t REAL gerbils hitting the wall! Frickin’ PETA. (The whole point of the ad was to remember the name--Outpost.com. It definitely worked.)
I miss that commercial. I do have the video file, but it just isn’t the same.
The announcer is sitting in a chair, looking at a TV screen, explaining how they had a high school marching band spell out “outpost.com”. And then he says, “…and to help you remember it, we’ve released a pack of rabid wolves onto the field.”
Cut to scenes of a panicked high school marching band attempting to flee a pack of rabid wolves.
I really like the Heineken keg can commercial where they have a camera sitting at a an empty street corner. All of a sudden a car with “Just Married” written on the back flies by with a full sized keg tied to the back of the car by a long rope, taking out everything in it’s path.
Also liked an old ESPN commercial where they show a bunch of failed ESPN show ideas. They have one that’s the “ESPN Soap Opera.” One of the commentators (Dan Patrick I think) walks into a doorway and screams “Jennifer, how could you?!” They scan to a woman embraced by none other than the Florida Marlin mascot. Doesn’t sound that funny, but it was well done and the Marlin has a huge smile fixed on his face.
Thanks for the link. My personal fave is the one where Mark McGuire gives one of the SportsCenter guys his 63rd home run ball. The guy gets all choked up and tells him he’ll cherish it forever. Cut to the next day and he pulls up to the studio in some bitchin’ sports car with a license plate that says “63” and McGuire is standing there giving him a dirty look, lol.
There are a few good local ones from the Quad Cities, where our broadcast TV channels come from. There’s been a commercial running forever on TV and radio for a jewelry store, and at the end they give directions, the same every time: “Next to, but not in, Southpark Mall.”
Somewhat recently there were ads for the minor league baseball team and field in the QCs. It’s on the bottoms, near the river, and when the river floods, so does the baseball field. A few seasons have been canceled because the field was submarine.
Anyway, the punchline for all those commercials has been: “Next to, but not in, the Mississippi River.”
Some sort of beeper-selling service called SmartBeep.
What you point out in the first paragraph is true. That’s what killed such famous ads as “Where’s the Beef?:” You can remember the ad but not the product. Sad.
My favorite strange one is one I’d dearly love to be able to find for download…
A mom and two kids are sitting down to breakfast, and there’s a bottle of Sunny-D like drink sitting on the table. Before anyone can pour any, the mascot jumps off the bottle, and starts to attempt to attack the family. Mom screams at the kids to “Run!” and then falls over something, cue the kids screaming in fear…the best Sprite commercial ever!!
I saw one of the strangest commercials today. Actually, I think it was a community service announcement because technically, it wasn’t really a commercial.
Anyway, there’s a group of people and a pastor sitting in a dark room. The pastor says “let us all pray” and everyone bows their heads. Then everyone is getting up and talking. The pastor tells them to be careful leaving. Cut to a shot of a woman peeking through her curtains, seeing these people climbing out of a basement door outside. There’s a voiceover saying “What if America wasn’t America any more?” or something along those lines and then there’s text on the screen about freedom.
Right after that was another announcement like it, only with a college-aged guy handing a piece of paper to a librarian, saying that he was having trouble finding these books, could she help? She looks at the paper and tells him that the books are no longer available (in a rather ominous tone) and what was his name? The guy gives her a funny look, argues for a bit, and then turns to leave. As he’s walking out, he’s grabbed by two men who start to question him.
Fairly powerful, I thought…if immensely odd. They’re done by the Ad Council and apparently, you can view them at http://www.adcouncil.org
in maine, for about a year, there were these local ads for some sorta cheap clothing store.
the person doing them was a woman who was about 100 years old (literally, it wasn’t just an elderly woman, it was someone very very aged)
in one of the ads she was dressed up like… err… a hooker or something (feather boa, weird hat) and she said “there’s a saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaale” and shook her hands in the air… and that was the ad…huh?
it got on dave letterman when he did a “top local ads” things like 10 years back.
Not very funny, but strange nonetheless. The Campbell’s Soup commercial a couple of years ago where there was an uncomfortable silence between a young girl and her new stepmother, which was overcome by a hot bowl of Campbell’s tomato soup. The reason why it was uncomfortable, it was revealed later, was that the little girl’s real mother was dead and that this lady would be her new mommy.
