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September 17, 2008 at 5:51 pm #2164042
Great TV ads
Lockedby charliespencer · about 15 years, 6 months ago
The heck with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld; what’s the best TV ad you can remember? One per customer, please, so make it a good one. Oh, and you have to remember the product, not just the ad.
My favorite? The best Super Bowl commercial ever. This guy uses almost as much of the product as I do.
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September 17, 2008 at 5:56 pm #2791408
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September 18, 2008 at 5:41 pm #2784189
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September 17, 2008 at 6:46 pm #2791399
I have a favorite ad
by boxfiddler · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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but for the life of me I can’t think of who the auto manufacturer is. If I figure it out, I’ll be back to post. I’ll be back to read, anyway. 😉
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September 18, 2008 at 5:33 am #2791297
Get it figured out yet?
by ontheropes · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to I have a favorite ad
Bump
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September 18, 2008 at 5:55 am #2791288
It’s an auto ad…
by boxfiddler · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Get it figured out yet?
a couple in a car driving down a side street in the rain. Some music is playing, and the windshield wipers are keeping time to the music. They drive past a kid with a basketball, and he’s dribbling in time with the music and the wipers. Next is someone with a broom sweeping the sidewalk, just in time with a brush on the snares in the music. I got a huge grin out of that ad.
But no, I can’t figure out which auto maker, or I’d try to post it. Great ad, just a great ad. -
September 18, 2008 at 6:02 am #2791282
I remember the ad.
by ontheropes · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to It’s an auto ad…
I recall it as being Volkswagen.
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September 18, 2008 at 5:49 am #2791293
Since I can’t click on the link at work…
by cmiller5400 · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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I don’t know exactly what ad you are referring to, but my favorite was the Budweiser ad where an old refrigerator smashed the crap out of the big mean robot, back when Robot Wars was the fad. I laughed my a$$ off when I saw that (sadly it grew back 🙁 ). A close second would be the Clydesdale horse that farts into the candle. I usually can’t wait to see what they have dreamed up each year.
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September 18, 2008 at 6:08 am #2791277
Your Budweiser horse fart.
by ontheropes · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Since I can’t click on the link at work…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOo73Vj8jmg
Man, we’re a classy bunch here at TR aren’t we? :^0
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September 18, 2008 at 6:22 am #2791270
Bwahahahahahaha
by cmiller5400 · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Your Budweiser horse fart.
Wherever thou shall be, let the wind blow free!!!!
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September 18, 2008 at 12:26 pm #2784296
Clydesdale Rocky
by gsg · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Your Budweiser horse fart.
I like the one that played during the olympics of the Clydesdale horse turned down as a member of the Budweiser team that pulls the old beer wagon.
A dalmation trains the horse like Mickey trains Rocky in the movie, and Rocky’s theme plays in the background. The horse trains through heat, rain, and snow, and in the end makes the team and gets to pull the wagon.
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September 18, 2008 at 5:44 pm #2784188
:^0 yup
by w2ktechman · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Your Budweiser horse fart.
those Bud commercials are often pretty good.
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September 18, 2008 at 7:31 am #2791231
I always remember this one….
by the ‘g-man.’ · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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It is a bit strange however…for a beer advert.
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September 18, 2008 at 7:34 am #2791228
Define “Great”?
by cupcake · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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I don’t know how you define great… does it mean it
makes you laugh or cry or that it makes you buy the
product or what… but I have to tell you that my current
favorite ad is the one for Discovery Channel… the ‘boom
di adda’ ad…I think its classy, catchy and well done visually. ‘Great’ in
my view…And me too… I can’t go to the links from work 🙁
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September 18, 2008 at 9:01 am #2784367
The coke guy
by gsg · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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I personally loved the commercial where the construction worker would take off his shirt and sweatily drink the soda.
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September 18, 2008 at 9:07 am #2784362
Odd, I liked it too
by charliespencer · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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but not for him. That young lady with the glasses, chewing on her bottom lip, was a hottie.
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September 18, 2008 at 9:30 am #2784353
Freecredit report.com…
by Tammy.Cavadias · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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baby 😀
Sorry but I just love them darn commercials – the pirate one, the one where he buys a car and the one where he got married
-Tammy 🙂
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September 19, 2008 at 1:48 pm #2781325
The married slacker was unusual
by delbertpgh · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Freecredit report.com…
His position was that if he had known his wife had a bad loan outstanding, he wouldn’t have married her. Such a practical outlook on love & marriage is pretty uncommon… most people would say, once smitten, you’re on the hook, ’cause you can’t turn away from luv.
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September 19, 2008 at 1:51 pm #2781323
“I’d be a happy bachelor with a dog and a yard!”
by charliespencer · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to The married slacker was unusual
Shows he’s got his priorities in order.
What are the last words a single man says? “I do.”
What are the first words a married man says? “Yes, dear.”
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September 18, 2008 at 9:38 am #2784347
funny
by shasca · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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It’s got the the three B’s………………..
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September 18, 2008 at 9:55 am #2784342
My all time favorite, and FUNNY as all get out.
by locrian_lyric · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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Remember the AT&T ad with the mother crying, and the father asking if there son was allright, and the mother saying that he called to say I love you?
Somehow, Sprint got hold of the same actors, and set up the same bit, but the mother answers “HAVE YOU SEEN OUR PHONE BILL?”
Then the pitch for sprint. I laughed so hard I almost peed myself.
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September 18, 2008 at 10:41 am #2784321
Cadbury Gorllia Ad
by oz_media · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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Sorry to be so biased but I find UK ads hilarious (British Airways are very clever and Hands off Humphrey (milk ads) are an old favorite), Japanese have some REALLY clever ones too.
I don’t get into most of our ads tough, US or Canada, they are too tacky, not clever and definitely not very funny or engaging.
I find they are based on stupid jingles and ugly kids and show no real imagination, talent or creativity, much like most comedy movies these days.So with that said: Here’s ONE of my favorite ads for Cadbury, Phil Colins eat your heart out.
(Though this one isn’t exactly the cerebral type of ad I was referring to, it certainly is one COOOOOOL gorilla!)
turn it up!
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September 18, 2008 at 11:40 am #2784310
I liked it. Cranked it up.
by ontheropes · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Cadbury Gorllia Ad
As a former drummer I don’t know how many times I’ve played air drums to that song but I know it’s more than once. 😀
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September 18, 2008 at 11:39 am #2784311
Japanese
by oz_media · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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I find the japanese and European ads are usually the most creative, like these:
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September 18, 2008 at 12:22 pm #2784297
Where’s the Beef (Wendy’s)
by dadspad · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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Loved that commercial.
Still funny.
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September 18, 2008 at 12:55 pm #2784288
Wendy’s Soviet Slam
by prefbid ii · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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This one was so good it was banned within a few weeks of airing.
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September 18, 2008 at 1:10 pm #2784282
Cat Herding
by tig2 · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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A superlative Super Bowl ad from 2000. EDS- Why managing
consultants is like herding cats. I don’t You Tube much so if
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September 18, 2008 at 1:27 pm #2784277
I remember that one! It was funny!
by locrian_lyric · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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I can’t think of one that’s been funny as of late though.
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September 18, 2008 at 1:42 pm #2784273
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September 18, 2008 at 1:57 pm #2784268
Trying to narrow down the field….
by captbilly1eye · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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…there are tons of memorable ones.
I remember laughing at the Alka-Seltzer commercials…. “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing”The Budweiser Ads were usually pretty good.
The ones on now that I like best are the “Messin’ with Sasquatch” series for Jack Link’s Beef Jerky.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpTXjxU3WLQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NAMu7AGj9E
They even have their own site: http://www.messinwithsasquatch.com/BUT… my [b]favorite[/b] one is the second one of these two for the Ford Sportka (sold in Europe):
I guarantee you’ll never see either of those in the US!
:^0Hey Palmetto… Thanks for the fun diversion today. I needed it!
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September 18, 2008 at 5:07 pm #2784198
nope definitely not!
by tink! · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Trying to narrow down the field….
Received any angry peer mails from cat lovers yet? 😀
One thing though, wouldn’t that make an awful mess inside the car? I would think it would not have wanted that. 🙂
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September 18, 2008 at 6:01 pm #2784180
As a cat lover
by michael jay · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Trying to narrow down the field….
I have been assured that no cats were harmed in the making of those videos, birds however are another matter.
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September 19, 2008 at 8:59 am #2783162
Elvis was ashamed of me….
by captbilly1eye · about 15 years, 6 months ago
In reply to As a cat lover
…. for laughing so hard at that one.
(and playing it so many times)
🙂
Ya have to admit… Great F/X!Pic of Elvis:
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10878_11-221133-3.html
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September 18, 2008 at 5:39 pm #2784190
Good One Palmetto
by w2ktechman · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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I had french fries and Tobasco at lunch 😀
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September 19, 2008 at 10:58 am #2783089
They’re fake, and they’re spectacular
by delbertpgh · about 15 years, 6 months ago
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You didn’t see this one in the United States. It’s for Vigorsol, a chewing gum that chills you down so much you sort of harden up.
http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/812/?q=nipples;m=812;startat=0
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