What are some good ones? Off the top of my head..

I love the Circuit City (I think) one where the wife and husband go in and she lets him loose and he runs giggling down the aisle. I reinacted that last night in Target.

I loved the Terry Tate one from the Superbowl.

I love the Puppy chow one where the puppy shoots through the door. For some reason that cracks me up everytime.

I need to watch tv some more and then I will get back to you.

I used to not like them, but I've grown to enjoy the Geico/Gecco commercials...especially the one where he's in love with the girl and they twirl in the grass together.

My favorite commericials usually involve animals. I love commercials with Boston Terriers. They're my favorite breed of doggies.

I really love the ads on TVLand. The current ones running for "I Dream Of Jeannie" are hilarious. This is going to make me sound pathetic...which isn't any different from everything else I post, so here goes. I have a lot of fond memories of being nothing but a wee tot and watching Nick @ Nite. I still remember a lot of those commercials. The one where they added lyrics to "The Dick Van Dyke Show" theme that ended with "After that Rob and Sally and Buddy shake hands, then the episode title comes on" and the one where they analyzed the frame when Mary Tyler Moore throws her hat in the air, and also the Suzanne Vega parody "Jeannie's Diner." Those commercials rocked.

I also like the Ebay commercials with that short bald dude acting like he was in a musical after winning an auction. Musicals rock. I miss the energizer bunny commercials...and I was obsessed with the Taco Bell Chihuahua...

"Dick Van Dyke is Robert Petry. He comes home, hugs Laura, and accidentally trips over that thing...But sometimes he doesn't do that because they change it, instead he skirts it with a nifty step.... And there's yet another version, he clears the ottoman, but ironically he trips over the rug...And then, Rob and Buddy and Sally shake hands and the episode title comes on (obscuring Richie), and notice Rob shakes hands with Buddy again...And that's it."

or something like that... I may be wrong on a few words.

It's one of my favorite commercials ever. And I also love the Tom's Diner one. I just don't dig Jeanie too much.

(Edited by Sexy Sadie at 9:31 pm on Jun. 2, 2003)

My fav. one is an oldie as well. It was the E-trade commercial from the '99 superbowl. All it is is a monkey jumping on a trampoline in Hawaii or something. after like 30 sec. or so they flash a blank screen that reads "well, we just blew $30,000,000" also, 90% of Southwestern's "Wanna Get Away?" commercials are hilarious!

Oh gee willickers, that was amazing. So many memories have come flooding back to me...aah...I can't wait until "The DVD Show" DVD comes out in September. It has original commercials for the show and the pilot episode that featured Carl Reiner as Robert Petrie and a whole other cast. Aaah...

And I do love Jeannie. I think I prefer it to "Bewitched," but this will be decided after I watch this weekend's marathon. There was a Jeannie reunion tonight on Larry King with Bill Daily, Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden. It ruled me (copyright stephanie).

To bet back on topic, I usually worship movie trailers. If I see a trailer for a movie that I'm anticipating, I stop whatever I'm doing and gaze in amazement, followed by a squeal. This happend with both X-Men films as well as the new Star Wars Episodes. I'm currently on the look out for Hulk ones.

I have to say I prefer "Bewitched." I caught a little bit of an episode this past weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. It brought back lots of memories of when I watched tons of episodes as an 8-10 yr. old.

I'm not sure what to think about The Hulk. I'm sure I'll go see it, but those previews don't really guarantee an enjoyable experience to me. I hope I'm pleasantly surprised.

I read an article about the Hulk in Entertainment Weekly and it made me more positive about the movie. The CGI Hulk is starting to look a little more realistic to me and to read how enthusiastic Ang Lee was about the movie makes me think it'll be okay. The themes and whatnot that are supposed to be discussed in the movie sound cool...

I really really like black and white "Bewitched" and original Darrin. The color ones are foreign to me since I think TBS had the rights to them and not Nick @ Nite, so I never saw them. I think I just watched more Jeannie growing up, and I think Bill Daily is super-cool.

And to say something relevant, I have to say that I hate Carrot Top and cannot imagine why someone would put him in charge of selling something. Geez Louise, could anyone be more grating?

gotta go gota go gotta go right now; gotta go gotta go gotta go right now . . . .








and i don't havw to go right now

priceless... for some reason that brought a ton of snl commercials to mind. "Ooops I Crapped In My Pants" "kitty creations" fun times...fun times

The girl in that Circuit City commercial is so cute. She was in another commercial as well, but I don't remember which. For some reason, I fall for small-framed, 30-something year-old women that have that hairstyle, which she shares with Paige from Trading Spaces. Anyway, she's hot.

As far as commercials, I hate most of them. Why? Most of them don't focus on the product itself and that irritates me to no end. Cases in point:

1. Artsy commercials for colognes/perfumes, jeans, etc.

2. Stock/money management/communications commercials never have jack shit to say about what the hell it is that they do. They just talk about how old their company is, how convenient they are and how they are the best, but they never actually tell me what they do for me. I hate them for their assumptions of what I know. After I graduate, I want to take my better ideas to the advertising world and make them suck it while I'm making lots of cash off of their ignorance. The commercials that they have now are totally irrelevant to gaining customers.

3. Chihuahuas are ugly. I liked Taco Bell less after associating them with a hairless dog. Spudz Mackenzie will always be superior.

4. 80's beer & tobacco advertising will never be topped in coolness. I still remember the Milwaukee's Best & Pabst Blue Ribbon commercials that I saw during episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard. The 80's had the best commercials ever. They were relevant and got to the point. "You want chicken? Well, here's Colonel Sanders to tell you about it." "Why are our burgers better? They have more beef." Simple, to the point, and relevant. People have to make things so complicated these days.

(Edited by richarddawson at 1:17 am on Jun. 3, 2003)

Along these lines, there's the juicyfruit commercial that was in eno2's sig file for awhile...

Will

I think that commercial where a bunch of beautiful women are telling their boyfriends all sorts of unexpected things (Do you mind if my best friend joins us?) is cute, but the fact that I can't remember what it advertises (beer?) proves Richarddawson's point.

I love the commercials for the new VW Beetle convertible. I tend to like VW commercials all the way around.

For my money, the best top 5 SNL commercials are:

5. Infiniti Q45 Toilet
4. Uncle Jemima's Liquor
3. A.M. Ale
2. Big Red
1. Schmitt's Gay

It advertises some brand of men's body spray, though I can't remember the brand name.

Axe. Those are probably the best commercials on TV right now (due to their hilarity). I like them. There are some beer commercials similar to the one Token mentioned.

I know you ain't touchin' my mannequin!

I love that one! I'd feel like such a fool if I had to be that lady. She's great in the commercials but I know those were awkward to film.

Chihuahuas are the cutest things ever! I love them and I love how they always have Mexican accents in movies. I'd get one but my dobermen would tear it to pieces. Someday little Santiago.. someday we will be together.

my favorite commercial is the micchelinas lowfat frozen meal commercial. its a remake of "the macarana" but reworded to sing about micchelinas!!!!!!!!!!! "dont pay a lot for top a-qualitia, HEY MICCHELINAS!!!!" GENIUS!!! MUST EAT FROZEN VEGETABLE BY-PRODUCTS!!!! whoooooooooooooooo

I liked the commercial that was advertising for, I think, paper towels or toilet paper, and the family comes home, and unpacks the groceries and sets the toilet paper or whatever on the floor in front of the cabinet and the little dog comes barrelling in, sliding on his paws, and then smacks into the paper. I thought that was the one Rachel was talking about, but it didn't have anything to do with dog food.

Yeah, the only Geico commercial I liked was the one where they sing the "I wanna hold you till I die" song and the woman and the gecko are in love.

I liked the Aflac commercials for a while, but only b/c I have a soft spot for ducks since those were the only pets I ever had (besides the occasional fish that lasted for a week). My brother got to name them, so they were always like Spud Webb or Shaq or Elajuwan (sp?).

On a separate note, I've learned that kids are never too young to be gotten into cool music (screw sing-a-longs). I just realized that my 6 year-old niece knows Beatles lyrics and Smiths lyrics from when we listened to that when she was like 2 or something. Amazing. To-day I introduced her to the Velvet Underground and The Clash. I got her to sing the "oh yeah" part on "Police and Thieves."

Because you would liken a meager, hairless dog with the people of Mexico. Racist.

No! Because they are so little so its funny that they are always so fiesty in movies. Plus that association would be a compliment since I stated how much I loved Chihuahuas. You discrimanate against dogs that are ugly. That's worse.

i like the "let's spend the night together" hotel commercial with the band running from fans.

Yes, there is a blue polka-dotted shirt in it. Very cool.

I hate the new commercials for Subway with the guy asking just how spicy something is. I also hate them darn Fandango commercials that play before movies...

I dont think I have ever wanted to slap someone as much I as I do the girl who tells him how spicy the sandwich is.

I know! And I hate how they pronounce "Chipotle." Yeah, I guess it's the correct way, but that has to be one of the most awkward words ever. It should be "Chipotel." I need something to occupy my time...

I agree. I think it should be said "chi-pot-ul".. thats fun to say actually. Or.. is that what you said? I read yours as "chip-otel" with the end part rhyming with "hotel."

Wow. Yeah, I think I better go occupy my time with sleep.

(Edited by rachel1808 at 1:15 am on Jun. 4, 2003)

I fucking hate that commercial. I too want to pimp-slap that bitch. No, wait, that would be wrong. I'll let Rachel take my turn for me.

IN Chicago we have a restaraunt called Chipotle. I've always mocked it by calling it Chipotul, but that has something to do with my hatred of Mexican food and the fact that they are the only business that consistently donate food to student film shoots, so it serves as one or two meals every weekend of my life.

Will

Score!

I also hate the commcercials where the girls end up pregnant because they smoked pot. Shut up.


(Edited by rachel1808 at 5:26 pm on Jun. 4, 2003)

Don't even get me started on that. I personally haven't got what you would call plenty of experience with Mr. Dosha, but lots of my friends are well acquainted with him. I do, however, think that those commercials are stupid and do not do a good job of convincing people against pot when most everyone knows it's not that bad. The majority of viewers are smart enough to know that alcohol is far more likely to lead ugly people to have sex than pot ever will.

haha

They showed some talk show in Drivers Ed where everyone was speaking up and yelling at this 17 year old who drinks everyday. The topic of the show was drinking and driving and she stated that she doesnt drink and drive but they kept going on about her drinking. Its like shut uppp why do you care? As long as shes not on the road or threatening anyone elses life then mind your own buisness. Sorry, had to vent.

And yes, I won't get started either on those commercials. Rar.

On a lighter note, I think my favorite commerical now is the Del Taco one where he goes to the nude beach. So funny.

The first time I got pregnant was from taking a couple of hits from the bong at a party.

i'm not even going to get riled up on this topic. I'll just say that I'd like to spit on the creators of those commercials.

Anytime the DEA starts to throw "facts" around is a good time to either not listen or at least be skeptical.

Man, that must have been some powerful shit.

Anyway, has anyone else hated those "Truth" commercials since they came out? I despise them more than any commercials known to man. What is even worse is that they are funded from the Tobacco settlement money. The main reason that I hate them is not so much that they overstate the chemicals used in cigarettes, but that they act like assholes when trying to convince people to stop. I remember one where they went into a cigarette company's convention and ran around like jackasses, pushing into people, etc. These corporate guys are working at their jobs. Leave them alone. I think this particular commercial was irrelevant to influencing anyone against smoking. It just gave some kids a reason to act like dicks. It actually made me want to smoke more, so I could be cooler than them. The corporate people were way cooler anyway, especially when security threw the "Truth" jackasses out of the building.

(Edited by richarddawson at 10:06 pm on Jun. 4, 2003)

That commercial seriously makes me feel like I'm going to vomit. I'm serious. I want to kill that woman, or at least slap her.

Man, that's great. My sister taught my neice some Beatles songs last summer, and I was very proud of her. She's now four years old and she knows just about every word to the Peter Paul and Mary CD her mom has. It's hilarious and adorable to listen to her sing along. I could get that kid into some really good music if I got to babysit her. Oh, she also loves "Come on Eileen", which I greatly approve.

The Aflec commercials were just annoying to me. I love dogs, but I hated the Taco-Bell chihuahua commercials. I thought his accent made him uncute. I loved that paper towel commercial with the dog. I also loved that cat herding commercial they played during the super bowl a few years ago. I think it was for some sort of citrus drink (7-Up, Mountain Dew).

I know I hate that. I just hate how they make it look like people that work for tobacco companies are deliberatley trying to kill people with their cigerettes.. they are just doing thier job. I pretty much hate all the antidrug campaigns. I think kids should get some sort of basic info in sixth grade or whatever but then thats it. Everyone knows cigerettes are dangerous by now and no one is going to not try them because of some stupid commercial. If anything they are going to be like RichardDawson and smoke an extra cig to spite these little punks. Just let it go. Why do they care. Just let the kids smoke thier pot and drink thier beer. They aren't hurting anyone else. Pot isnt even abused very often right? Gateway, schmateway.

(Edited by rachel1808 at 11:19 pm on Jun. 4, 2003)

I 100% agree. Whenever I see these commercials, I literally stop what I'm doing and watch in disgust as this atrocity of an advertisement unfolds. Who in their right mind thinks that a grating, horribly written parody of a song that won't be nostalgic for another 10 years will get us to buy their lame product? I swear...it makes me really want to puke up all of my intestines and eat them instead of Michelina's.

Yeah, now I have that horrible jingle in my head. That's great...stupid lean woman.

Ugh. I hate her too. I just want to beat her with one of her stupid boxes of Michalinas.


I really really wanted to see this expedia.com commerical now that I know that Matt is the voice (yall werent kidding were you?).

I assume you guys mean Matt Mahaffey, right?

I thought they were talking about Matt Pelham. I might have misunderstood. Lemme find it.

Yeah, you're right. I'm retarded. Now I don't care if I see it. I was wondering how Matt got his voice so low..

i didn't even read this post; im trashed and im pissed about fielday fest!

sorry...

no one else seems to think its funny, but i like that commercial for some sort of banking/financial service where there is a grown man dressed up in a dollar bill costume. it is about people neglecting their funds. and the money-man acts like a kid and tries to get attention from his -parents- and they ignore him and he is really hurt.

Donelson Air Conditioning...those commercials need to be no more.

OH, and I think possibly the worst commercials I've seen in a long time are those stupid Gold Fish commercials. "tasty snack that smiles back until you bite their heads off"...or something like that...I hate that. It's like they're trying to be witty or something and it's just not working out.

I just remembered my favorite is for Life Alert. I love how the guy is just walking along then is like "Im... having a heartattack" and falls over. Its just soooo bad but sooo funny.

I hate the "until you bite thier heads off" line as well.

I'm really starting to hate the new AOL commercials as well, although not nearly as much as Micalina's. Their whole "welcome to the world wide WOW" slogan is just too annoying... for many of the same reasons as the goldfish jingle

I hate the commercial that uses the Dick Van Dyke show theme for NO REASON. I think there are also some that use the Odd Couple and I Dream Of Jeannie ones. If your product isn't related to those shows, why use the theme songs? At least include a cheesy parody of the show...come on...

I do not think I have seen these commercials you speak of...and I'm glad.

My new favorite commercials are the "Vegas: What Happens Here, Stays Here" ads. Those are fucking hilarious, because they don't pull any punches. I'm waiting for one about going to a brothel.

To touch on radio commercials for a moment ... Has anyone heard the new Outback Steakhouse commercials for Father's Day? I loathe them so badly. The jingle is quite possibly the worst one ever. I have actually grown to like the Mother's Day ad (No one loves you like your mum, your mum...), but this newfangled Father's Day ad is absolutely intolerable. Has anyone else heard this? It was on 96.3 about 10 times today at work.

Let's not forget the commercials for the old people scooters. Those are the best.

And Damon, I like the hotel commercial too. Cute boys in vintage clothes, what's not to like?

i have a hard time believing that franciscan monks are logged into aol instead of copying old manuscripts with caligraphy.

(Edited by deathscythe257 at 10:21 am on Jun. 6, 2003)

this reminded me of the ocharlies commercial: "tell me honey do you wanna go where the good food and good times start with o?" as much as i hate it, i sing along with it every time.

i also hate every safe auto [the insurance company] commercial. especially the one with the man in the womens lingere store and the woman is such a bitch to him.

About those O'Charlies "Good times start with O" commercials:

When I was watching TV with our very own Mike_D one time, the tag line of that commercial came on - "Good times start with O" - and Mike said, "Shit. Good times end with O." It was funny to me.

I miss him. He' the only person I've seen sport a Family Guy avatar. And, he was funny. Case in point being JC's post. Where are you Mike_D?! God speed you back to us...

for real. why wouldnt she belive he was buying it for his wife? is he really the first guy to come in and browse the lingere? "would you like to wear that home?" what a bitch.

Ray Davies and I were going through some of my old tapes from the eighties and nineties where I had taped various programs such as Garfield and Friends and, for some unknown reason, Friday Night Videos...there were some great commercials on those tapes. We saw a Carebear Cousins commercial, some cool Playdough commercials, Cabbage Patch Kids, and the famous "I've Fallen and I can't get up" commercial. Fun stuff.

I've done that very same thing, Sadie. I love watching old videos and seeing old commercials. My favorite was "Take the Nestea Plunge" where she falls on the floor, but it turns into a pool. I used to always pretend that when I was little. I never really felt like I lived in the 80's until I watched those commercials.

One of my all time favorites is the one where the son comes home and surprises his mother by waking her up with the great smell of Foldger's coffee. I also liked the old Stetson commercial where the woman is a DJ and a Stetson-wearing cowboy helps her after her car breaks down, and she thanks him over the air. It was so bad, but so fun to watch now.

I remember that Folger's commercial too! Isn't it Christmas or something?

Yes, it is about Christmas. That commercial ran for several holiday seasons.

i keep thinking of more that i hate. i also hate that ranch dressing commercial where a landscape is created out of vegetables and a river out of ranch dressing. if im not mistaken, i think someone actually dives into the ranch river. it is so disgusting.

i also hate that weird animated commercial for some metamucil/digestion medicine with the animated woman bouncing on the blanket. its really disturbing.

i used to love the series of "love scene" commercials for Taster's Choice in the '80s. They starred Anthony Stewart Head.

Dang straight.

I actually found myself laughing out loud to a KIA minivan commercial. It featured a blind-folded kid smacking his birthday party attendees with a baseball bat instead of a pinata. I don't know why that amused me...

Hair color and tampon commercials are pretty bad too...

You guys are forgetting the most influential, groundbreaking commercial of the 80s:

The commercial for the game Crossfire!

Crossfire! You get caught up in the, Crossfire...Crossfire!

It has two kids playing the game wearing bandanas and flying. Awww yeuh.

Check out this link for more info:

Crossfire Article

Haha, wow. It already "influenced" your avatar. I remember that commercial.. actually I am not sure if it was that exact one but I do remember Crossfire commercials.

(Edited by rachel1808 at 9:43 pm on Jun. 8, 2003)

Speaking of the x-mas commercials.. that campbell's soup commercial were the kid comes in as a snow man then he melts while eating the soup is soo cute.. ya know u need to finish buying your gifts when u see that commercial. That and the coca-cola polar bear commercials.

Crossfire rocked! I'm in favor of most kids commercial that are so aggressive that young minds are attacked.

i liked crossfire. but hungry hungry hippos was cooler...

Yes, the Christmas commercials were the greatest... remember the Tino's pizza rolls one where the grandfather dressed up as Santa? That one was great. And I think it was a different one where a grandfather kept stealing all the pillsbury cinnamon rolls before the kids could get them, and the kids would say, "Aw, Grandpa!"...or something like that.

I taped White Christmas (one of my favorite movies of all time) when I was probably about four or five years old, and it has some great 80's Christmas commercials on it. I have since acquired the box set and DVD copy of it, so I rarely watch this copy but like to because of the commercials.

I just remembered that commercial for some game, and played the Turtles song "So Happy Together" with Mario, Yoshi, and some other character holding hands and skipping in a field, and then they started to beat each other up. My 2 year-old niece and I used to always laugh at that one. What game was that for?

is is super smash brothers melee?

commercials that i haaate:
-the levi's type 1 jeans commercial where the guy and the girl are walking down the city street and suddenly encounter a herd of buffalo. but do they run and hide? no way! they are bold! they let the herd run right past them! a single tear runs down the girl's cheek. i hurl every time i see this.
-that commercial that comes on mtv for some band called south fm. the most horrible song in the world. "dear claudia, you should try not to sleep with your best friend's boyfriend..."

commercials that scaaare me:
-the muppets christmas "did you say get a free watch?" commercial
-the budweiser penguin "dooby dooby doo" commercial

commercials that i looove to laugh at the stupidity of:
-the commercial they used to have for that mr. personality show. there was a row of masked men and the voice said somethign like "you never know what's underneath" or something. then this "ugly" guy removed his mask. he wasn't really even ugly. i just thought it was funny in a weird way.
-the maxim hair color for men commercial. it's just so ridiculous that you have to laugh at it. the way carmen electra is rubbing that guy's head is just absurd.

I hate this commercial as well. It's so soft-bellied. Like we can and/or should do something about buffalo in fucking Tennessee. Like we will relate buffalo to anything endangered in Tennessee. They should think about regional marketing.

Emo and nu-metal is soo two years ago.

(Edited by richarddawson at 9:37 pm on Jun. 10, 2003)

Just a comment about the Beyonce pepsi commercial.. did anyone else notice that the guy "named zeik" in the commercial looks soooo much like a clean cut "Old Navy" version of Zack deLa Rocha of Rage against the machine!

The one commercial that I CAN NOT stand is Luvell Glanton. I'm sorry if anyone is related to him or anything, but I can't listen to him talk on those commercials. I'm sure he's a perfectly good lawyer, but if he were representing me I would ask to just go straight to jail.
One of my favorite commercials is that little guy dancing around for the Joe Boxer ads. He just makes me smile. like this...

i hate jc penney commercials. and the daisy sour cream commercials where they sing a ridiculous song... bad jingles are awful.

come to think of, good jingles aren't much better.

I completely agree with you about luvell glanton LOL! There first time I saw that commercial I thought it was a joke or something. He reminds me of a character that damon wayans played on "In Living Color"