TV Commercials

[TonyG]

What TV commercials have captured your attention? Ad execs need to know.

I hate: The ad with two people trying to pronounce the word "Boing" for Nike and the ad where the kid says "zoom, zoom" for some car.

I like: Baby animals for Pampers

 

[Expertise]

Favorite commercial right now is for Crown Royal.

Where hubby confronts the intruder.

 

[Bobtoad777]

i like the Aflack insurance commericials where they can not remember the name and the duck is always in the scene quacking aflack but the duck is always ignored

 

[Juliangel]

The commerical that really drove me nuts was a car commerical. I cannot remember what type it was for but it stressed that the airbag terminals were plated in gold to resist the elements and would not corrode from rain.

I wondered how many people who could afford the car in question were too stupid to realize that it only rains on the steering wheel if you leave your windows down in a storm so who cares what they are plated in.

 

[Chuckus]

GEICO insurance commercials with the duck saying "Smaller bill"..........I love that one....

 

[Merelan]

Hate most commercials, but this season...

weeping, weeping.....

 

[Bobtoad777]

GEICO insurance commercials with the duck saying "Smaller bill"..........I love that one....

i like the same company comericial only with the gecko getting all pissed off that that people are calling him in stead of gieco.

 

[Chuckus]

GEICO insurance commercials with the duck saying "Smaller bill"..........I love that one....

i like the same company comericial only with the gecko getting all pissed off that that people are calling him in stead of gieco.

LOL BT, those are too funny. I just think the one with the duck is so funny.......

 

[miles]

Bud Light ad with a guy and girl in a motel room. She is in the bathroom primping and getting ready to discuss the Big Bang Theory while the guy accidentally breaks off the key to the locked honor bar. I'm not going to finish it because you have to be there.

 

[Guest]

Fed Ex

 

[Juliangel]

The crocodile hunter is handling one of the most venomous snakes in the world and gets bit...No worries we overnighted the antivenom in..what? Oh cranky!

I love that one.

 

[Matthew D]

How about the GEICO commerical the cartoons, that start out, We all do dumb things... those really crack me up...

 

[Wizard]

VW comer. are pretty darn cool too..............

 

[CreamyLady]

I like weeping, weeping too.

My all time favorite commercial was for Alka Seltzer: Whatever shape your stomach's in.

I hate just about every automobile commercial. I also hate the Progresso soup commercials, particularly comparing their Chicken Noodle Soup to Campbell's Chicken with Stars.

Excuse me. Progresso has an admittedly good soup, but they don't have STARS in it, do they? If I want chicken with STARS, I'm going to have to buy Campbell's with STARS.

I don't like being told I'm a child because I want STARS.

Now. I'm going to make myself a bowl of soup -- with STARS -- and the Progresso people can put that in their bowls and slurp it.

 

[TonyG]

I also hate the Progresso soup commercials, particularly comparing their Chicken Noodle Soup to Campbell's Chicken with Stars.

I have to join you on this one.

 

[riff]

The "WASSAAAAAPP" beer commercials... WASSAAAAAAAAAAA
The AFLAC duck
Southwest Airlines "Wanna Get Away?"
Some of the Philips electronics commercials are pretty good.
William Shatner for Priceline.com
ESPN Sportscenter has some of the funniest commercials I have ever seen.

Most automobile commercials make me want to puke, as do all of the personal investment ".com" commercials.
And the US AGENCIES Insurance commercials are terrible.

 

[Skibum]

I get really irritated when I see a commercial for an SUV that shows a stunt driver doing about 50 on a snow covered road, blasting through drifts, taking corners with snow flying out from under the tires. I really get a laugh about it after a real snowstorm when I see Cheerokees and Blazers with New Jersy or Pennsylvania plates stuck in ditches along the side of the road.

 

[Ksss]

Can't remember which company it's for but it has a guy in a restaurant, he orders a sandwich without mayo, he tells the waitress and she takes the bread and scrapes the mayo off on the side of the table...Man oh man, I have always wanted to do that to someone...I hate the Geico commercials, the nike boing commercial is stupid, and I'd really like to shoot that silly pink energizer bunny.

 

[naudiz]

Hate most commercials, but this season...

weeping, weeping.....

I love that one.

 

[Unclebill]

Originally posted by Ksss
Can't remember which company it's for but it has a guy in a restaurant, he orders a sandwich without mayo, he tells the waitress and she takes the bread and scrapes the mayo off on the side of the table...Man oh man, I have always wanted to do that to someone...I hate the Geico commercials, the nike boing commercial is stupid, and I'd really like to shoot that silly pink energizer bunny.

Well, to make your day, I believe that's a GEICO commercial! Not positive but I believe its for their claims service.

CONFIRMATION: It was a GEICO commercial. I saw it again yesterday morning.

[Edited by Unclebill on 01-01-2001 at 06:54 PM]

 

[BrainyBeauty]

I like: Baby animals for Pampers

I must be every ad man's fantasy...

I loved that commercial so much I went out and bought a case of diapers. And I don't even have any children!

But seriously, it couldn't be more perfect: Adorable baby animals and a great Rod Stewart song. Doesn't get much better than that.

 

[Skibum]

I really like all the staples back to school ads that they run at the end ofevery summer. The one with Dad shopping to the song "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is one of my favorites. I also liked the one where the new sophamore was saying "All the freshmen will look up to ME!"

 

[SpecialK]

This one:

http://www.adcritic.com/content/breast-cancer-society-of-canada-cam-exam.html

I honestly thought I was going to piss myself when I saw this!

That is a great website for funny commercials! Why do I never see these good ones on tv?!

K

 

[Ticklish Girl]

I love funny commercials. There's a fitness center here in NYC that has a lot of great commercials. In one ad, a girl's blind date rings her buzzer and when she says, "Who is it?" he responds, "It's Pete Nisserman." She buzzes him up, and he climbs several flights of stairs to reach her floor. He is so out of shape that he's wheezing and gasping long before he gets to her floor, and by the time he knocks on her door he can barely talk. She opens the door and he tries to introduce himself, but all he can say between gasps is "Pe....Niss...Pe....Niss." She thinks he's a pervert and slams the door in his face.

They have another great ad in which an old man climbs into bed, gulps a pill (presumably Viagra) and then settles in to wait. An hour later he peeks under the covers and gasps. He nudges his wife, who also takes a peek and then lets out a squeal of delight. They proceed to get busy, with a lot of grunts and moans, while the message flashes on the screen: "TOO BAD THERE ISN'T A PILL TO MAKE THE REST OF YOUR BODY HARD." Loved that one! Can't believe they got away with it.

My all-time favorite commercial was one for the SmartBeep pager. This guy picks up his blind date, helps her into the passenger seat of his car, and while he's walking around to the driver's side, she raises a cheek and farts. He then climbs in and says to her, "Oh, have you met Greg and Janet?" The mortified girl turns around to see another couple in the backseat. I'm not quite sure what this had to do with pagers, but it had me on the floor.