I have not seen it myself, but a friend told me about a commercial where there is a family that is musically talented, and they are at a dinner table, and there are two oboes laying there, and the mother says something akin to “Get your oboes off the table…”
My sister plays the oboe, so I figured they might think it was funny…
Anybody know any details on where I could locate it?
I tried googling it, but I couldn’t come up with anything helpful.
Thanks.
I’ve seen that one, but for the life of me, I can’t remember what it’s for… Guess it wasn’t too effective.
It was for Pizza Hut. Don’t get your hopes up, though – it’s not that funny.
You might find it here: http://www.adcritic.com/
All I can remember is that it’s for some fast food place. It opens with a close-up of a man, obviously eagerly awaiting something while the opening bars of Thus Spoke Zarathustra play. The camera pulls back and we see that the music is being performed live by his family…we then get the commercial plug (which, as FCM points out, can’t be too memorable as I can’t remember what it is either). The commercial ends with the family sitting around the table eating whatever-it-is, and the mother tells two of the kids to get their oboes off the table.
On preview, I see that Giraffe identifies the product as Pizza Hut, which does sound vaguely familiar.
I thought it was Dominos. In fact, I’m pretty sure it was.
But Giraffe’s right about it not being worth your time.
I should emphasize that I’m absolutely certain it was for Pizza Hut, as I’ve seen the damn commercial about fifty times. They must show it during Simpsons reruns…
I thought it was Domino’s too.
I like the one where the mother is chasing her son around the house with a glass of water. When she finally catches up with him, he spits the goldfish in the glass.
“You’ve GOT to stop doing that!” she says…
oh, and the Staples robot at Christmas time…the one that falls in love with a printer…
You know, now that I think about it, maybe it was Domino’s… Doh!!! :o
That’s it, I’m not taking a strong stand on anything ever again.
By the way, has anyone seen the cell phone commercials with the old folks spewing slang like teenagers? Anyone remember what specifically that was for? Those crack me up every single time.
There’s a commercial for an auto repair company. Actually there are two versions of it.There’s a mechanic standing there and somebody off camera keeps throwing him engine parts which he catches and tosses aside. Then they throw a transmission at him. In one he catches it and it pushes him through a wall. In the other he dives out of the way just before the transmission hits the wall.
I get a kick out of those every time I see them.
Dang it. And I was just about to challenge you to a fist fight. Or at least start a Pit thread.
We can still fight if you want. We’ll just have to fight on the same side.
If that’s true, and it is an ad for Domino’s Pizza, I wonder what company president Tom Monoghan thinks of the spectre of Nietzsche creeping into a commercial for “The Lord’s Pizza”?
It was an ad for Domino’s Buffalo Chicken Kickers, or whatever they’re calling those things.
(Does anybody else have a mental picture of a majestic buffalo ambling across the North American prairie and punting chickens left and right, or is it just me?)