I’m a big fan of commercials if they are funny, or just plain odd.
I’ve seen a lot that I have really enjoyed, but my current favourtire is the smarties one where the guy is eating his red smarties first, then the two guys hi-5 at the end.
I also like, I believe it is for a Honda…the guy rests his hand on the car, and gets all these visions of zooming around, then squishes his orange.
Anyone else?
Does anyone remember the Labatt beer commercials from 7 years ago about Pierre and Jacques?
Dude / Bob
Commercials are one of my guilty pleasures, particularly ones that make clever use of language.
Among my recent favorites are one for a car, focusing on the suspension. A group of 20 somethings are carpooling to work and each has a hot cup of uncovered coffee. As they head towards a railroad crossing the passengers become increasingly alarmed that the driver is not slowing down. They utter, with various levels of intensity and concern as the tracks approach, the single word, “Dude”. As they pass the tracks and no coffee is spilled they again utter only the word, “Dude” but this time with an expression of admiration.
I had this experience at work once when I picked up a call for my boss, whose name was “Bob”. The caller said only “Bob?” when I answered the phone. I said no, this is Raphael, whereupon he said only “Bob”, as in let me talk to Bob. I said, “may I ask who’s calling” whereupon he said only, Bob!, whereupon I figured who needs the trouble, put him on hold and told Bob he had a call.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
my name is Jagur and im a commercialholic…
yes,i am one of those saps who watches the StuperBowl for the commercials,hell the game always stinks anyhow.right?
last years best was that pun on the movie Castaway.if you saw the movie then you know that there was one box that T.Hanks didnt open and although most people think it was because of the angelic symbol on the package it wasnt,as a former bike messenger i feel he held on to it because it gave him the drive to deliver…anyway in the movie he delivers the package but we never get to know what was inside.
in the Fed-EX commercial the T.Hanks look alike delivers,turns away,turns back and asks “by the way could i ask what is in the box”?
the lady says sure,opens it and says "oh nothing just an emergency blanket,satilite phone,GPS locater etc…!!!
I saw a great commercial that was in German, but you could still get the jist of it. It had a guy base jumping off a cliff and when his parachute didn’t open, he tried to scream but no sound came out. Then he took some sort of sore throat tablet thing and got his voice back. I thought it was great.
Andrew
I remember seeing a guy ride a mountain bike down a very steep slope (pretty much a cliff) then got to a point of no return, jumped the bike off the edge (where the slope went vertical and he couldnt ride anymore) and he fell into a BASE jump…pulling his chute as the bike landed on the ground…that was pretty wild. cant remember the product though.
I also remember an ad for p##si where a guy chases a cheetah down on his mtb then slams on the front brake, flys over the handlebars, and tackles the cheetah, just to get his p##si back that the cheetah stole…
I like the Honda one…It just works or whatever.
Where everything just rolls and hits each other and balances perfectly 
It was actually Moun##in D#w
They seem to have really good commercials. Always fun to watch. Same as most beer commercials.
If I’m going to go buy a product, like house cleaning stuff, or somethign like that that has several options of companies to buy from, but deep down all do the same work, I’ll buy whichever one’s commercial entertained me the most.
I only drink Kokanee because their commercials were fun, and generally played during Mountain bike shows.
The best commercial ever is that one for the Coffee Creamer. Wayne Brady get’s his smiley face cup and starts singing, and dancing, and signing, and dancing, and it’s funny. I don’t know why I like it, because I’ve seen better commercials.
I heard that he ad libbed that commercial, like he does on Whose Line. Is that true?
I also like that Castaway one, Jagur.
My favourite commercial has to be the Viagra commercial in which the guy comes out of his door and dances down the street to the tune of “Good morning, good morning!”
It probably has something to do with the fact that my pastor actually referred to the commercial 4 times during a single sermon (which has since been referred to as his “Viagra sermon”). I honestly can’t remember what the sermon was about, but I remember all of the references to the Viagra commercial.
There are two old beer commercials that stick in my mind.
Rainier Beer had a commercial with a motorcycle driving on a road near Mount Rainier. The motorcycle is revving loudly as it goes by and it’s shifting gears. The combination of the revving and gear shifts makes the sound “Raaaaai Neeeeeer Beeeeerrrrr”. Think of the sound of a Japanese motorcycle revving as you say “Raaaaai Neeeeeer Beeeeerrrrr”. It definitely wasn’t a Harley sound. It’s an old commercial probably from the 70’s or early 80’s.
Another memorable beer commercial from the 70’s or early 80’s was the Blitz-Weinhard ads where two truckers try to bring “Schludwiller” beer across the state border in to Oregon. The Oregon border guard stops the truck and asks the driver “Well now, Where you boys going with all that beer?”. The next scene in the commercial is the truckers driving off to find a different state where they can sell their beer. The idea being that Oregon was Blitz-Weinhard’s country and other beers (especially bad beers) were not welcome. Blitz-Weinhard’s used to be brewed in Portland Oregon, but the Portland brewery is now closed and Henry Weinhard’s is now owned by and brewed by Miller Brewing.
I don’t know how much play these commercials got in other parts of the country. They were popular on the west coast.
I just saw another commercial that was really stupid, so I decided to post it here.
You know those squooshy gel pads people put in their shoes? The commercial was about that, and apparently when you put those in your shoes,then you are ‘gellin,’ so the first guy said to the lady, “I’m gellin! You gellin?” Or something like that, all in street person talk. Then the lady said, “I’m gellin like a felon! Want some melon?” And the guy said, “No, but I’m so gellin, that I’m MAgellan!” And everyone went oooh, aaah, due to his very creative rhyme. Then all the people were talking with words that rhyme with gellin, and this little guy came up and says, “Hey… I’m gellin!” And all the people are like, “You’re not gellin!”
I like that one.
I have two favorites. They’re not funny, as such, but good commercials anyway.
The one is about a new (at the time) autofocus in Cannon cameras which was able to focus on moving objects. The slogan was “If it moves…shoot it … with a Cannon”
Next one was a cigarette commercial, i guess it was aimed at the traditional Marlborough smokers. It started out in Marlborough country, cowboys, horses etc. Suddenly a big truck drives by leaving the cowboys caughing in a cloud of dust.
Message: Better than Marlborough and more modern.
Mike’s Hard Lemonade
those ones rule!
i remember there was a thread about that ad that contained the link to the video and a bunch of articles
search is coming up empty
does anyone still have those links?
http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25038
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
Just Google on “Honda cog commercial” and you’ll find a bunch of links. Here are some of the good ones.
Honda Cog links:
snopes.com This is a good summary
slashdot.org Has some links to news articles
Honda Videos This person must really like Hondas
Official Honda Web Page The source
Too late to edit my previous post. Scratch the above link. That site naughty and spawns additional windows. Avoid it. Sorry about that. It had a download link for the video, but the other sites also have download links so you’re not missing anything by avoiding that site.