Favorite TV Commercials (show, Florida, Houston)

[Magnum Mike]

Originally Posted by gentlearts

Fed EX caveman commercial. It was on the superbowl a couple years ago.

I saw that, not only in the SuperBowl, but it was broadcast a few times, and it was earlier this year too! That commercial is hillarious! They were using flying dinosaur type creatures to deliver things and the creature gets nabbed by a giant dinosaur on the ground and loses the shipment. The caveman then goes back inside the cave and tells his boss about what happened, they use caveman language with translated captions on the bottom of the screen, and his boss asks "Did you use FedEx?", and the other guy answers "No" and the boss tells him "You're fired", then the guy in charge of shipping goes "But FedEx isn't around yet!"

[xscape]

There is a commercial for a cell phone company, im not sure which one, but the commercial is about text messaging and this lady is getting onto her family members about all the text messages they have been sending. The lady asks "grandma" who she has been texting and the old lady says...MYOB. I think that is so funny.

[Magnum Mike]

Speaking of cell phones, here's a parody commercial about the newest cell phone technology. It's a foreign commercial but it has English translated captions. This commercial is hillarious!

http://www.members.cox.net/mss293/NewCommunicationTechnologies.wmv (broken link)

[dojilynn]

I don't know why, but I love the Holiday Inn commercials with the 3 guys on business trips. There's about four or five of them. Make me laugh everytime.

[jdavid93225]

I loved the Budweiser commercial with the "Dog's worst day."

Bugle Boy jeans (1988) commercial

[via chicago]

still my fav


YouTube - Nike Olympic Commercial: "Move"

[ogre]

I'd say maybe the greatest run of humorous commercials ever came during a few years in the early and mid '70's. Too many to pick one, but Alka Seltzer ("Try it. You'll LIKE it."), Midas ("I got m' guarantee right heyuh, boys."), and Lite beer ("I still don't know why they asked ME to be in this commercial.") each had several good ones.

Okay, here's another from that era, maybe the greatest short (like maybe ten seconds) commercial ever, funny or serious. Panoramic view of a bunch of snow plows parked on a lot, with deep snow all around. Narrator's voice: "Have you ever wondered how the man who drives the snow plow . . . gets TO the snow plow." Vvvvvvrrrrr, up drives a VW Bug.

To get more into fairly recent times: "LASSIE, Timmy's trapped in the burning barn! Ya gotta SAVE him, girl!" "LASSIE, Timmy's been snatched up by a twistuh! Go save him, girl!" "LASSIE, Timmy's caught in a combine . . . swept away in a flood . . . kidnapped by circus folks . . . LAAASSIEEEE!" Lassie, obviously completely overwhelmed by the barrage of demands for help, is seen in front of the computer, using Verizon Online to look up ads for Pet Adoptions. Final scene shows Lassie in a plush living room, lounging on a satin couch, as a high-class looking woman lounging next to her says "Finish your CAHviAH, LAHssie."

Maybe my favorite of relatively recent times, because of the way they spoofed their own commercials, is the MasterCard "priceless" commercial about Alan Shepard playing golf on the Moon. Rocket lifting off, "Business trip, 275 million dollars." Astronauts walking on the Moon, sending radio messages back to Earth, "Calls to the office, 50 thousand dollars." Astronauts riding around in the lunar rover buggy, "Rental car, 45 million dollars." Spacesuited Alan Shepard, standing on the Moon's surface, swinging a golf club, "Chance to squeeze in a little golf . . . priceless!"

Priceless.

[velvet350]

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[captnemo]

What is your favorite tv commercial, even if you hate tv commercials like I do

[christina0001]

I don't know if it's my favorite, but the Bayada Nurses commercial - where the nurse is driving through terrible weather to get to the man in a wheelchair - makes me teary-eyed.