Favourite Adverts

[Just-Legal]

This thread was somewhat inspired by the BK thread. What's your favourite advert? The one that stuck in your head the most? It could be an old product from your childhood, or something more recent

Mine is the Guinness surfer advert. It was just... amazing. Most Guinness adverts are brilliant, but the surfer just summed up the brand message really well

 

[minsue]

Sonic had a series of two guys in a drive thru that I adored. I don't recall the lines word for word, but one where they were knocking on the window to complain that the warmth from their hands appeared to be transferring through the cup to the beverage never ceased to make me grin. I'm easily amused. It makes life ever so much fun.

 

[Guest]

how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop
a one
a two
a....CRUNCH.
or

what walks down stairs, alone or in pairs....ITS SLINKY!
or Log... either one is wonderbra.

 

[Whisky7up]

Coastguard

"Look Petunia, they're waving at us"
"Coo-ee"


Any Brits remember that one?

 

[minsue]

how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop
a one
a two
a....CRUNCH.
or

I loved that one!!!!

 

[Just-Legal]

I saw a couple of American ads whilst I was over in May, and I *love* the Geico ones!! I want a Geico Gekko! (however you spell it)

 

[hugo_sam]

This thread was somewhat inspired by the BK thread. What's your favourite advert? The one that stuck in your head the most? It could be an old product from your childhood, or something more recent

Mine is the Guinness surfer advert. It was just... amazing. Most Guinness adverts are brilliant, but the surfer just summed up the brand message really well

I have two. The first was a 'series' from alka-selzer. It was the newlyweds, with the wife leaning to cook. I remeber the ONE large dumpling and the heart shaped meatloaf.
The other memorable one is kind of back in a screwed up fashion. The new coke zero is a poor takeoff of the original. 'I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" that was a diverse group standing on a hillside singing the song.

As an honorable mention you have to list McDonalds'...'Two all beef patties...etc.' People everywhere said that phrase all the time at the time. If I remember correctly you recieved a discount or a free Big Mac if you could say it in a given amount of time.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Great cheese comes from happy cows.
Happy cows come from California.

The TV commercials are hilarious. I like the one where the cows are all standing in the field during an earthquake...whoa, foot massage. And the one where Grandma cow has a flashback to her childhood in a midwest blizzard.



I dunno. I grew up near Cheeseheads to the north.

 

[Bridget69]

The one for Wendy's. "Where's the beef?" LOL!

 

[Guest]

Great cheese comes from happy cows.
Happy cows come from California.

The TV commercials are hilarious. I like the one where the cows are all standing in the field during an earthquake...whoa, foot massage. And the one where Grandma cow has a flashback to her childhood in a midwest blizzard.



I dunno. I grew up near Cheeseheads to the north.

no nonono...
how about the one where the cows ring the door bell and run... too funny!

 

[LadyJeanne]

no nonono...
how about the one where the cows ring the door bell and run... too funny!

OMG - yes!

 

[minsue]

http://www.cfahiddenvalley.com/images/header_r1_c10.jpg

 

[cloudy]

Back when my oldest son was 8 or 10 months old, there was one for some carpet company (I forget which company). It featured a small child in a walker doing about 150 mph around the house in that damn thing.

At the end, he runs right up into mom, and she gets that mama look on her face and leans over, and he takes off again, and you can hear the sound of squealing tires.

Never failed to crack me up.

 

[woodnymph_O]

the coffee one with the couple that ran like a mini soap opera..I'm thinking it was tasters choice. I may be wrong I remember the couple more than the coffee

 

[Boxlicker101]

I like the Eveready ads with the rabbit that keeps going and going and going and....

 

[Bacigalupo]

Well the Geico ads for sure. The Speed Racer ad was mentioned in the other thread. That cracks me up every time. Tiny House does too. "I just want to make an omlette!" The first batch annoyed me. The gekko should have a tiny gekko-sized house, not a normal people-house. Everyone knows that.

There was a Folger's ad from when I was a wee lad, the son, Peter, comes home for Christmas, sneaking in, and the little sister sees him. He hushes her, they make coffee for the folks, and well, tugged at the old heartstrings.

Oh and those soap-opera coffee ads...I think the guy, played Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The babe? I dunno.

 

[matriarch]

Well the Geico ads for sure. The Speed Racer ad was mentioned in the other thread. That cracks me up every time. Tiny House does too. "I just want to make an omlette!" The first batch annoyed me. The gekko should have a tiny gekko-sized house, not a normal people-house. Everyone knows that.

There was a Folger's ad from when I was a wee lad, the son, Peter, comes home for Christmas, sneaking in, and the little sister sees him. He hushes her, they make coffee for the folks, and well, tugged at the old heartstrings.

Oh and those soap-opera coffee ads...I think the guy, played Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The babe? I dunno.

Yep. Quite Right.
It was Nescafe Gold Blend.

Everyone was watching and talking about it and waiting for the next instalment.
Bugger the cofee, the story was a hell of a lot better than most things on tv at that time.
Come to think of it.....still is.

 

[TheEarl]

A Chupa-Chups one from a year or so ago. A man is dancing in a moodily lit nightclub. The crowd parts adn he sees this gorgeous woman staring at him from across the floor, pouting her lips around a lollipop suggestively. He walks out and she strides out to meet him, his arms going around her and she draping her hands on him. They dance sexily for a second and then he looks into her eyes...

Then he stamps hard on her foot and nicks her lollipop out her mouth when she yells. Then he dances away.

I just did not see it coming.

The Earl

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Again, the Budweiser donkey was a great ad.

And the old Bartles and James commercials were interesting, especially the one when they weren't there, and they talked to us through the answering machine. "And we thank you for--BEEEEP"

Oh, and the old one... What was it for? With the old couple having soup for dinner, and the lady says something about their lovelife, "every time the lights go out, _____ falls asleep." Then the lughtbulb blows and he snores in, then you hear a thump, and the soup bubbling. That one made me cackle.

Q_C

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

I like the Serta mattress commercials with the sheep. The one where the one sheep is caught rolling around on the mattress and gets thrown out the window by the rest of his herd is hilarious.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I like the Serta mattress commercials with the sheep. The one where the one sheep is caught rolling around on the mattress and gets thrown out the window by the rest of his herd is hilarious.

I like the counting sheep too, but I don't think I have seen the one you mention.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

There's a great Pepsi ad running now featuring two baseball players on the field at night, taking turns hitting fungos (where you throw the ball up and hit it as far as you can)

The first one hits the ball out of the stadium and hits a parked car and the siren goes off.

The next guy hits the ball out of the park and breaks a steetlight in the parking lot.

The first guy swings again and you see the ball fly up and shatter the full moon, and the moon shatters just like you'd expect: like a huge, glowing plate glass window, falling in graceful, dreamy shards.

The first player looks guiltily at the second and says, "Run!"

It might be an American thing, becase baseball is the game without limits, in which the fields theoretically go on forever and time doesn't matter. The idea of hitting a ball to the moon is entirely permissable.

 

[yui]

I like the one with the kid in the garage with the robot and the adoring parents looking on. And I'm with J-Le, the Geico commercials rule.

 

[dizzylia]

The Budweiser frogs.


Buuud.

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