What's your favourite TV commercial?

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I still laugh at the John West salmon one where the fisherman kicks the poor bear in the nuts. Cruel, but funny.

― C J (C J), Sunday, 12 January 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry to spoil the fun, but probably one of these.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 12 January 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's some of my favourites:

The Shake'n'Vac housewife still holds a special place in my heart.

The Um Bongo mantra ("Um Bongo, Um Bongo, they drink it in the Congo...")

Those Cinzano ads with Leonard "Reggie Perrin" Rossiter and Joan "Bitch" Collins.

The Scotch VHS tape skeleton.

And who was your favourite Flake girl???

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Caffrey's A Storm Brewing. Featured the first time I heard Played To Death... sorry Clubbed To Death... and intimated that if you drank Caffrey's you were constantly on the edge of VIOLENCE. Or SEX. Or VIOLENT SEX. But most probably VIOLENCE as people were bumping into each other and giving out hard stares.

The One-2-One with Gary Oldman because it had 'Lovely Head' on it by Goldfrapp and introduced me to them.

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What was the ad on not so long ago with Samuel L. Jackson in it?

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

AFLAC!

― gabbneb, Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

The Southwest Airlines campaigns have been uniformly funny.

The Charlie (into Martin) Sheen Visa. Also the Barber twins.

And a soft spot for all VW ads.

― Leee (Leee), Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Specif. the "Aspen to Tuscon on One Tank of Gas" VW ad where the girl slowly disrobes from a full parka to a tanktop. beautiful.

The Pepsi/Lays chips (american) football ad with the father and his kid and his wife rooting for the other team...

― jm (jtm), Monday, 13 January 2003 05:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god and the IKEA commercials...

― jm (jtm), Monday, 13 January 2003 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not sure if I like the commercial itself, but the "older" woman in the (Budweiser?) commercial who gets i.d.'d is stunning enough to make up for it.

― gabbneb, Monday, 13 January 2003 05:25 (twenty-three years ago)

my all time fave is still that one with the bloke
taking ages to get the sentence right
("mamma mia - that's a spicy meatball !")
he's done it 25 times or so, taking a mouthful
of italian food on each one, and he's feeling
sick (it was for alka seltzer).
finally after many a comic mispronunciation, he musters
up all he can to deliver on the final take,
gets it right and without furher ado the door on the oven
in the background falls loudly off it's
hinges and clatters to the floor in shot.

ambulance-calling hysterics ensued on 1st viewing.

― piscesboy, Monday, 13 January 2003 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

The wee cars playing hide and seek makes me smile every time. It's the way the one counting cheats: "51, 52, 59". And the "hey hey hey hey" from Touch Sensitive is lovely. No idea what kind of car it is, though, natch.

― Jane, Monday, 13 January 2003 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the XXXX one where the doc tells the sick fella that he's got 6 months to live or something but then tells him "there is some good news. you know the hospital raffle? free XXXX for a year?" sick fella:"yeah" doc:"i won". the execution from the guy playing the doc was poifect.

― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 13 January 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

That McDonalds two-by-two song is stuck in your right now too, isn't it?

― Graham (graham), Monday, 13 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Hurrah! Hurrah!

― Graham (graham), Monday, 13 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

For some reason i really love the advert with the japanese guy skipping across the road, I think he's just been on the phone to his wife or something. I don't know what the ad is for either.

most of the XXXX ads are great, as are some of the Stella ads.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Monday, 13 January 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

has someone been deleting stuff here?

― chris (chris), Monday, 13 January 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

i always liked the tabasco hot sauce one with the big guy eating a slice of pizza, occasionally pausing to put more tabasco on the slice...he has a mosquito buzzing around him, with all the requisite annoying sound effects. when the mosquito bites him--there's a pause in the sound, then a little bug-sized explosion, and the guy just laughs.

i like the cooper mini ad with the bulldog that's on lately too.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 13 January 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know if you'd call them "favourites," but there were some pretty brutal adverts in the early '70s which used to scare this particular toddler shitless. On a vaguely kitsch level there were the old Brut 33 adverts which featured Bond-style stuntmen crashing through and demolishing boat sheds, emerging from burning cars, etc. with a weirdly sinister John Barry-esque soundtrack; they'd probably look extremely naff now, but they scared me at the time.

But for genuine, unalloyed scariness, the "Keep Your Distance" ("you're dead if you don't") road safety adverts in the early '70s really were frightening, with graphic car crashes, blood and gore; one involved a family returning from holiday, another a newlywed couple on their way from the church. All part of that apocalyptic 1973-ish feeling so eloquently expressed in series like The Changes.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 13 January 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh the er... Vauxhaull Corsola or something (yes yes I know that's a pokémon but never mind...), yeah I like that advert. It makes me want to learn how to drive so I can play hide'n'seek with other drivers!

The bloody McDonalds one is NOW - but luckily I still have the A-Team!

Ones with LITTLE BABIES are always good.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 13 January 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

John Smiths, I think it is. Father to daughter back home with babysitter "there are no wardrobe monsters! It's the burglars climbing thru the window you need to worry about!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 13 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All the John Smiths ones are good.

I'm sure some stuff has been deleted here.

― chris (chris), Monday, 13 January 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

(Why? Maybe it was posted here: Ads which rip off popular tunes without actually using them exactly)

― Graham (graham), Monday, 13 January 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

a good point Graham, very well made. hmmm, must be time for Ice-cream.

― chris (chris), Monday, 13 January 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The AXE EFFECT deodorant spray ad, because of the little man.

All of those Thermasilk ads with Medusa and girls taming dragons and things while their hair looks beautiful.

― Genevieve, Monday, 13 January 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

All of the Axe ads are hilarious. The woman rubbing the mannequin's nipple and saying, "Yeah... You like that, baby?" is HILARIOUS.

Unlike Sarah, I want to see some ads with BIG HONKING BABIES in them.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 January 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

My new favorite ad is an American War on Drugs commercial.
Two kids are sitting in the father's study smoking up, giggling and whatever. One picks up a gun and says 'check this out' and the other one asks if it's loaded. The kid replies in the negative and shoots his buddy.

The tagline is something like "Drugs destroy your sense of reality".

The snickerable part is that it's not a commercial condemning keeping loaded guns in your house....it's against pot!

― Miss Laura, Monday, 13 January 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

another good one: the one for the cable station that has star trek marathons. there's a big pic of some strange looking alien woman and one guy points to it and says to the other:
"wouldja?"...(gets a perplexed look from other guy)
"you know..."(suggestive gesture)
..."because *i* would".

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, the BIG HONKING BABIES already exist in the T-Mobile advert and are NAUSEATING AND PETRIFYING!

Or is it a bank?

You know which one I mean. Scary bloody baby.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Big baby brother = grebt ph34r

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

That long Nike one with the amazing editing and the piano song.
More recently the Volkswagon with all the square things.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

ECWM says that he liked the advert for Immac (?) with the gurlie in a short skirt who is walking the puppies (hahahahahahahahahahahah walking her puppies hahahaha no not in that sense hahahahaha) and then two other gurls come along and say "can we stroke them" and start feeling up her LEGz0r inna mock dyke stylee.

I think ECWM wd like FRONT magazine.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

They have brought back the 'don't you want me?' Fiat one. I still love it unreasonably.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

OMIGOD SARAH! "stroking her puppies" HAHAHAHAHA!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 January 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I find the Lunn Poly ones amusing due to the amount of tiem taken for to work out what they were about. I also admire them expecting us to remember.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a Vodafone ad that is really getting on my nerves at the moment, cos I'm sure it must have been shot in either Edinburgh or Glasgow, but I can't spot where.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 24 January 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, how i love that commercial for Sn*ckers, i think, with the snobby rich guy flaunting about how he never skis the northeast because the mountains here are "so-tiny" and how he's constantly flitting off to Milan to visit his "supermodel girlfriend" etc etc - and subsequently skis directly into the side of a shed. Satisfying crunch? boy, yes.
please tell me someone else enjoys this commercial as much as i do?

― stolenbus (stolenbus), Thursday, 6 February 2003 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with you on that one, stolenbus :)

I also like the ad for Visa with Kevin Bacon playing that game of Six-Degrees of Separation and the Yogurt ads with the couple playing dress-up/fantasy games.

And anything with cute baby animals in it. But not that damn iguana.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit -shit -shit - not that damn GECKO I meant to type!!!

(Sorry, my sister's iguana, Hobbes, went to the Happy Iguana Frolicking Grounds this past weekend - guess that was my subconscious self reminding me I am supposed to be upset about his moving to the other side.)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:06 (twenty-three years ago)

vic bitter.

"you can get it any old how - matter of fact, i've got it now"

― minna (minna), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I gotta admit I still think the Energizer Bunny parodies of whatever-other-ads-were-timely are damn funny. But yeah, I like the Kevin Bacon one, too, maybe because it seems as much like an ad for Kevin Bacon as anything else.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:17 (twenty-three years ago)

The wine (Turning Leaf?) commercials where the guy makes a romantic dinner for two. Great images/editing/sound, food looks delish, it's relevant to the product... I think there are two of these commercial and I actually PREFER THE SEQUEL!! on the rooftop. Though I forget what the entree is (it's salmon and sushi rolls in the first one).

Plus Turning Leaf wine ~~sucks~~ is terrific!

― Aaron A., Thursday, 6 February 2003 05:50 (twenty-three years ago)

My favorite commercial is the "EGOISTE!" one they had sometime in 1996 or so?

― phil-two, Thursday, 6 February 2003 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

absolutely, positively, without a doubt:

Chanel - 'Share the Fantasy' (dir. Ridley Scott) '79[I think]

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 February 2003 08:31 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a Vodafone ad that is really getting on my nerves at the moment, cos I'm sure it must have been shot in either Edinburgh or Glasgow, but I can't spot where.

I haven't seen this one but I know a Vodafone one was filmed in Glasgow ages ago, the streets were shut for a few days.

― smee (smee), Thursday, 6 February 2003 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

ooh, ooh, the new honda accord advert with the heath-robinson / mousetrap / domino rally thing going on

andy

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 7 April 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

does anyone know who does the music that's in the current O2 ad? The one with all the folks in black hoods, think its for O2 interaction or something. The music is brill.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 June 2003 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

this website is pretty much your bible here

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Toyota Sequoia commercial with pretty folksy music

Dow: The Human Element

― remy bean, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 06:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uB6Bh5DVdW0

monster.com ads lately have been very, very good

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 07:13 (eighteen years ago)

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this is a great commercial but the only thing that puzzles me is the elevator descends to -6300 miles, putting the "office" on the other side of the planet. It would make more sense
to descend to approx 3,500 feet, the center of the earth, presumably where the "rotation guys" would work.
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The earth is 12756 Km in diameter 6378 Km is half way. Ad takes place in Europe not USA.

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The ad is in the US too...

Gotta love youtube comments.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 07:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6D_s1aE-Ac&eurl

(by Harmony Korine)

― sydz, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

^ wow @ both

― remy bean, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

This is the greatest commercial of all time:

Oh no you ain't! You're gonna play... POLE POSITION!!

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qAp-VdBkIDE

― remy bean, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

Of all time? :

HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTYLY TO THE FORHEAD.
HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTYLY TO THE FORHEAD.
HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTYLY TO THE FORHEAD.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=f_SwD7RveNE

Especially when they used to play it three times in a row (without the ActivOn part).

Currently:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e6nDyeV0i6w

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wYX_zhlTDr8

― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

berries and cream!

― remy bean, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

omg

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

favorite, maybe not, but:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=g6R5cDqhaRU&feature=related

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 02:49 (seventeen years ago)

Not quite as good as the one I posted upthread, but still an all-time classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEF0cg1j35o

It's all totally legit with no computer special effects. It took 606 tries to get everything right.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 03:14 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWl66WdOK5o

― kate78, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 07:22 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3vN_o4mQv4

― kate78, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 07:31 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HXGIFPxbtk
BATTLE TANKS N64 MEETS SNUGGLES
there's a part 2 also

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 07:41 (seventeen years ago)

Part 2 might be even funnier

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 08:14 (seventeen years ago)

MY favourite is the one for some kind of fruit twisty sweet with some Japanese warrior / cowboy on a horse in a park going "You love it! You love it!" at these two bewildered kids on bikes. If only all television was like this.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 09:30 (seventeen years ago)

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