You favorite commercial, as of May 2003

* Despite the lengthy explanation, this commercial was approximately 20 seconds.

oh and i love that VW commerical but it's been a long time since I saw it.

And mr blue sky is ace

though IKEA RULES THIS THREAD

I too really like the Orbit ads, but my favorite ad will always be an AFLAC one. The one that's currently making me giggle is a slightly older one -- the one set in Vegas where the two older ladies are talking to each other while watching the young couple get married in a chapel, the camera pans around the chapel for signs of the famous duck, and then it's found that the duck is having fun at a Wayne Newton show ('cos it's a "show", not just a "concert", baby).

AFLAC!

i hate many commercials for their bad jokes, bad taste, and cultural politics. i regularly want to throw bricks at my television during them, the rotating-boyfriend/(husband?) and American Pie ones included. some of the worst are the self-adulatory General Electric and Archer-Daniels-Midland commercials that show up on the Sunday morning politix shows. they go to such lengths in showing what wonderful things these companies bring to the world that they practically scream We Make Nuclear Weapons or We Own Congress and Are Partly Responsible for Obesity in America, respectively.

I also second the Frankenstein/arthritis ad.

Apparently it's about a streetwise teen who goes to live in Orange County. They show a scene of him getting beat up by a bunch of affluent preppies, and the long haired ring leader (a teenage Ned) sneers at him "This is the way we do things in Orange County!"

Hilarious stuff.

andy

Can't remember the product, but I recently chuckled over the one with the guy whose treadmill stops and starts and winds up racking him. I dunno, it was just well-choreographed. On the other hand, I was sad to discover that now New York has Empire Carpet commercials. That man is Chicago's, you hussies leave him alone.

The evil treadmill commercial is Sears.

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i'm also about the miller hilife ads from a few years ago, especially "time was when a man knew how to control his own vehicle" and "the powdered sugar forms a protective barrier"

it is the best thing ever

THis, which someone emailed me this morning

try right clicking and saving rather than streaming it because I have no idea how fast my server is.

Washington Mutual has a hilarious ad where a guy frustrated with figuring out his banking pops a kid's balloon. Then after going to Washington Mutual, he gets dental surgery on the wrong side of his mouth and gets hit by a bowling ball in the groin but takes both with a smile on his face.

Gabbneb beat me to mine: the Miller ad where the guy imagines going a round with Evander Holyfield, and the champ knocks his head off. That was hilarious.

It's a condom commercial.

Makes me want to unplug my television and drop it off my roof onto someone's unsuspecting head.....preferably Eminem's.

Also destroy that dorky white guy singing "Baby's Got Back" or whatever it is.

Gaaaah!! Those commercials make me want to COMMIT MURDER I tell you!

We now see a view from inside the student lounge on the first floor, where various clean-cut college kid types are hanging out having some kind of idyllic uni study-in chat-up whatever thing. Guy #2 is seen trudging over towards the large window in the background. He reaches the window and throws the 13" TV through it. College students are stunned, disturbed. Guy #2 fiddles with remote through broken window, TV turns on, loud noise fills the room, it's the White Stripes.

Text:
M|2
Now Quit Asking Where All The Videos Are.

I dunno. I think it works because everybody(me) basically wants to go back to college and fuck things up and steal the lounge appliances.

It's not a comedy per se, but you'd have to look long and hard to find a more unintentionally hilarious piece of dialogue than "Welcome to the O.C., bitch. 'Cause this is how it's done in Orange County!"

I think everyone here should watch it if they get a chance, it sounds like a potential classic.