Favourite commercials

[Natrushka]

Share some, please.

Right now this is mine; Robert Goulet for Emerald Nuts.

YouTube - "Robert Goulet" emerald nuts commercial

 

[Ivy]

I love the Sonic commercials with the couple sitting in their car, imbibing a variety of Sonic beverages and engaging in witty repartee.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

I love Jack In The Box commercials. They're absurd and completely funny, and have created their own world to inhabit.

I also enjoy the Emerald Nuts commercials mentioned above. Some commercials really do display wit and storytelling on a par with narrative TV and film.

On the topic, car commercials are uniformly and without exception horrible. Any ideas why?

 

[Ivy]

Ooh! I just remembered a great one! The Geico (I think?) car insurance commercial with voiceover actor Don La Fontaine! "In a world... where both of our cars were totally underwater..."

I think there are a lot of very creative people who are earning a living with their craft through advertising. It gets a bad rap. But car commercials DO suck, nearly universally. Except V-Dub! Those are great, particularly the ones with the nihilist from The Big Lebowski.

 

[Totenkindly]

I have seen so many hilarious commercials I can't possibly name them all... so I am going to nod to the only one I can recall that has ever choked me up, even after the original viewing:

Budweiser Baby Horse

 

[cafe]

I love most of the Geico commercials.

 

[The Ü™]

I had a few of my own ideas for Geico commercials.

I also laugh at those Pepto-Bismol commercials for some reason.

 

[J1129]

Eagleman commercial 1
Eagleman commerical 2
Eaglewoman commercial

These commercials actually showed in the Chicagoland area & I do miss them because they always made me laugh. They still do.

 

[Llenyd]

I love the Sonic commercials with the couple sitting in their car, imbibing a variety of Sonic beverages and engaging in witty repartee.

I love those also. The actors they use are improv specialists. The commercials are totally unscripted.

 

[Ivy]

I love those also. The actors they use are improv specialists. The commercials are totally unscripted.

Second City, right? I had only seen a few of them on various VH1 meta-shows.

 

[INTJewel]

IKEA had one years ago....

Black and white film. The face of a man staring directly into the camera, intently. He comes closer, closer, head tilting, almost menacing. Turns his head from side to side, as if looking right into your living room, then shouts, "You need some new furniture!"

Hilarious.

~Jewel

 

[563 740]

AMP'd

This ad never stops being hilarious - I almost spit up my coffee watching it just now and the sound wasn't even turned on!

 

[miss fortune]

Favorite Commercials?

Yes- I know that commercials are evil since they're just trying to sell us stuff, but some of them are pretty damned amusing sometimes I thought I might as well take advantage of the new video linking abilities by starting a thread where we can show our favorite commercials- I'll start with one of the online BMW commercials from The Hire series- if you hate Madonna you'll actually probably love this one directed by her husband!

[youtube=nK87YLmagt4]Star[/youtube]

 

[MetalWounds]

Damn...I should really download flashplayer.

 

[swordpath]

How'd you embed that, Whatever????

YouTube - Skittles advert - Midas Touch

 

[miss fortune]

Instructions on imbedding

at the horrible curse!

 

[Geoff]

I like the Grand Theft Auto style ad done by Coke.

 

[swordpath]

I like the Grand Theft Auto style ad done by Coke.

Useless without links, bro.

 

[swordpath]

Instructions on imbedding

at the horrible curse!

What would I manage to accomplish without you.

Tankz.

 

[Geoff]

Useless without links, bro.

Bully! Enjoy..

[YOUTUBE=zfhZfSVuup4]Coke Ad, Grand Theft Auto style[/YOUTUBE]