They don't make em like they used to. I've argued that the one thing that is missing is a jingle. Now commercial makers are trying to make a resume by making their ads look like minature movies. Booooring - and nobody ever remembers the product.
We all...decades later, can sing the bologne song, the tootsie roll song, i'd like to buy the world a coke, plop plop fizz fizz....heck I can even remember the jingle for the dallas times herald. I think that they need to go retro, suck it up and just get a jingle.
Sometimes you find a gem in the rough, and everytime i caught this on tv i smiled
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyijWbML82s
Anyone have any favorite commercials or jingles?
Here's a couple of good ones...
Ikea Commercial
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrPc9ARvoOs
Sun Fizz!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fA8ad71n94
Everytime I see this ad, it makes me laugh. :teddyr:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsPFyoEpGVA
The Little Lad Dance
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik8xpHdItrE
The Frito Bandito!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKFGyCWLbCo
GI JOE! GI JOE! FIGHTING MAN FROM HEAD TO TOE!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLL67CN2hnw
Charlie Says...
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlyoVTX3I
hard to find that berries and cream lad guy amusing.
he reminds me too much of http://pixyland.org/peterpan/petersFashionPage.html (http://pixyland.org/peterpan/petersFashionPage.html)
I watch hardly any TV. I can't stand most commercials. :teddyr:
Quote from: Susan on June 19, 2007, 10:26:13 PM
hard to find that berries and cream lad guy amusing.
he reminds me too much of http://pixyland.org/peterpan/petersFashionPage.html (http://pixyland.org/peterpan/petersFashionPage.html)
THAT is more likely to give me nightmares than any bloodbath horror film. Yikes. :buggedout:
Speaking of such, this one website X-Entertainment (no, it's not a porn) has several downloadable 80s commercials. My personal favorite is for the Bonkers candy. This was a brand of chewable candy, in the commercials everytime someone would bite into one a GIANT piece of fruit would fall from the sky and hit them in the head. Despite the fact the fruit could break through ceilings, the people who got hit were never seriously injured.
http://x-entertainment.com/downloads/ (http://x-entertainment.com/downloads/)
Probably the most disturbing commercial they have though is for Underoos Fashion Underwear. This was a line of colorful underwear for young girls. I don't know, something abouta commercial with preteens dancing up and down a modeling aisle in just their underclothes feels just plain wrong to me.
Here's the boys version...
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br7vl6z0DTE
They've also got commercials for the clapper, Castle Greyskull, New Kids On the Block dolls, even the commercial with Stephen King whoring himself out for Mastercard!
Quote from: Ash on June 19, 2007, 03:48:47 AM
Everytime I see this ad, it makes me laugh. :teddyr:
ACK! COFF! CHOKE! DAMMIT! I Was smoking my morning ciggerette and drinking hot coffe when I played the video! Good Lord,Ash! Ya 'bout killed me!!! :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: Ash on June 19, 2007, 03:48:47 AM
Everytime I see this ad, it makes me laugh. :teddyr:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsPFyoEpGVA
The Little Lad Dance
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik8xpHdItrE
That idiot annoys me. If I see him on the street, I will smack in the mouth and tell him to man up.
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That idiot annoys me. If I see him on the street, I will smack in the mouth and tell him to man up.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: Karma!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noz1d2q18wg
I predict a "B" movie, or at least a TV series for the people who made this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySN_plfiNI
soo epic :smile:
This new ad for Direct TV came out recently.
It's pretty good!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfEWtMOnCkA
I think they should bring back the crying Indian. That was quite good for it's time.
Quote from: asimpson2006 on July 19, 2007, 09:47:27 PM
I think they should bring back the crying Indian. That was quite good for it's time.
I believe that would be Iron Eyes Cody. The strange thing, is that after he died they looked into his background, and while he played Native Americans on both television and in films, he may not have been a Native American.
I have a collection of funny commercials on my site here: http://z54.org/videos/commercials/
These are fairly common. There are no thumbnails as I listed them primarily for other webmasters to be able to download them for their sites.
Hopefully you find something you like.
I see that you have a number of foreign commercials on your website. When I still had a TV and could watch television, I always made it a point to watch the specials they had on commercials. And I always found the foreign commercials to be funnier than the commericals we see in America.
Check out this old Burger King commercial from 1983.
Recognize the two actors in it? :wink:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPlcwu7NwPc
OK...I give So who is dey? I gotta Know! :question:
Here's a hint:
Weekend at Bernies and The Karate Kid.
Andrew McCarthy and Elisabeth Shue!!! I just imdb searched 'em! Well...I like Burger King too! I guess I can be a movie star now! Cool! :thumbup:
Give the man a prize!
Er...1 karma that is. :bouncegiggle:
You're absolutely right RC.
They are indeed a young Andrew McCarthy and Elisabeth Shue.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbmg5T4r-yw
I've only seen it once but this is funny.
This one has been playing on TV lately and everytime I see it, it makes me chuckle.
Don't You Want me Baby?
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz4u8XXUgxA
I think these commercials are funny...
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfkfKOwTR2I
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnt1M9S9kCo
This is the only ones I had to dig up although my favorite ones are when the girl screams "WE'RE PREGNANT" and with the silence she says, "Well, way to step up there Rick" while the guy is on the other line screaming.
Another one I saw tonight had a guy in a diner ordering roast beef and they guy said "I don't have any" and he replies with "Did your wife eat it all this morning". The guy on the other end laughs but not realizing the guy cut out the diner owner goes on to say "I mean look at me, I'm weigh as much as her..."
"Jennifer! Don't make the same mistake I made."
I crack up every time I see that one. :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: Ash on June 19, 2007, 03:48:47 AM
Everytime I see this ad, it makes me laugh. :teddyr:
Well, I thought the Berries & Cream Lad was funny, but since I have never seen it before, it might wear me out quickly... guess I don't look at too much TV these days.
Quote from: Susan on June 19, 2007, 10:26:13 PM
hard to find that berries and cream lad guy amusing.
he reminds me too much of http://pixyland.org/peterpan/petersFashionPage.html (http://pixyland.org/peterpan/petersFashionPage.html)
I also thought Susan's link to the Peter Pan Fashion pages was hilarious!
I was so inspired by the awfulness of the Berries And Cream commercial that...well...just look at my current avatar.
I like that commercial where the family is driving in their new SUV and are stopped by the troll. He has to ask three questions, but gets distracted at how comfy the SUV is that he asks questions he didn't intend to.
My all time favorite commercial is the RICOLA one from the mid '90s.
Quote from: The DarkSider on August 07, 2007, 11:17:15 AM
I was so inspired by the awfulness of the Berries And Cream commercial that...well...just look at my current avatar.
I thought the commercial was great. Just me though.
Quote from: The DarkSider on August 07, 2007, 11:17:15 AM
I was so inspired by the awfulness of the Berries And Cream commercial that...well...just look at my current avatar.
I noticed it; I'm proud of you! :teddyr: :thumbup:
Quote from: The DarkSider on August 07, 2007, 11:17:15 AM
I was so inspired by the awfulness of the Berries And Cream commercial that...well...just look at my current avatar.
Karma for you good sir!
I sing that song (complete with accent) at times to annoy my wife. Thanks to that instructional clip on YouTube, I can now include the dance. :teddyr:
I just caught this new commercial earlier tonight.
The people who made it definitely love zombie movies. :smile:
Run for your lives!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlZt6NymfPI
You know when you think about it, all those kids saw each other naked (or at least in their undies) when the clothes finally got them.
I was singing this song today for some reason...one of my favorite classics.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qayjR8Qbyfc
It's been a while since anyone has mentioned new commercials so I thought I'd bump this thread.
This Snickers ad always cracks me up. :teddyr:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEYEFfAbB5g