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Favorite TV Commercials

There have been many over the years but the most recent ad by Subaru where the dad is instructing his daughter (who begins as a youngster and ages into a teenager while he is talking).

One of the funniest is Toohey's Beer where the guys are opening bottles with their foreheads, elbows, chests, teeth etc., and then a girl grabs a bottle puts it under the table and opens it grinning. Then she stands up and tosses the cap on the table with her belly button.

The other heartwarming favorite is for J.C. Penny where the little girl keeps seeing her initials and his initials in her school and she is desperate to cover them up. Finally she slides along the lunch table where their hands meet and they smile at each other. Theme is from "Love Story" I think.

...and almost every Budweiser Clydesdale commercial.
 
Remember that commercial where the guy wants fries and the drive thru robot says "Pies?" It came out in 1995, and I don't know which ad it was for.

I don't remember if it was from Shoneys, Jack In the Box, or Golden Corral?

It was Rally's Hamburgers, and they had a location where the weinersniztel is now off Perrin Beitel and 410.

Still looking for the commercial online, BTW.
 
When you think about it, it's hard to advertise insect sprays because you may have to show bugs, etc. that tend to make viewers shy away. However, Raid (owned by Johnson's Wax), smartly went to animation beginning in the early days of TV to sell its product. The ending portion of one of those still remains one of my favorites. It's from approximately 1965.

At the end of the commercial, a bug is located next to what appears to be a telephone although it is covered in mist. The phone rings and the bug picks it up and says, "hello". With that, the mist-like phone changes into a can of Raid and sprays the bug and you hear a voice saying, "good-bye".

I've looked and looked for this specific TV commerical on the internet. There are some Raid commercials there, but not this one. It's been years, but I'd like to see it again.
 
Anyone else like the smell of Raid? It's one of my favorite smells from childhood. And we loved to play with those old pump spray cans too.

Funny, mosquitoes don't like me for some reason.
 
I've always loved this commercial -- it's premise is so simple, yet the effect is hilarious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY

This commercial should serve as an example to advertisers who are trying to be funny: The best humor is often understated, subtle humor derived from somewhat believable everyday situations. In-your-face, overacted humor (or, for that matter, anything featuring annoying, Cockney-accented lizards) rarely works.
 
I'll run down some great beer commercials, in chronological order (dates approximate, by memory):

The Hamms bear (1952-75, although it's been revived periodically since then).

Harry Caray downing bottles of Falstaff during his between-innings live commercials on White Sox games (1973-75, Chicago only).

The original Miller Lite ads featuring the retired athletes and Rodney Dangerfield (1975-90).

The Budweiser Lizards (1997-2002).

The Most Interesting Man In The World (2006-present).
 
I like several of the Geico commercials, but my favorite is probably where a squirrel causes a wreck and then gives another squirrel a high five. :D
 
I really enjoy looking at the '80s ads. All those classic cheesy jingles (Pepsi's "Next Generation", Big Red gum's jingle etc) are fun to watch again after 25+ years.

Today's commercials seem to be getting dumber every day. Remember when someone would actually DESCRIBE the product, even if it wasn't one of the 800 number infomercial crap commercials? No one would have thought of using Michael Buffer's loud "noise" in a commercial back then...until now.

-crainbebo
 
The new Cheerios spot where the little girl, after her Mom confirms how heart-healthy Cheerios are, pours the cereal on her sleeping Father.
 
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