What is your favorite Commercial
 

this is a two fold question, what is you favorite commercial that is currently running or very recently past,

and what is your favorite of all time?


Mine

Current:

The Payton Manning "Sweet" Master card commercial where the girl tells him to take a hike

All Time:

Cat Herding from EDS

I'll have to agree that the Peyton Manning commercial is good.

I don't watch too many commercials right now, but my favorite is the FedEx commercial during the super bowl. The one with the dinosaurs.

I think one of my all time favs was the commercial for pepsi twist where Ozzy is having the nightmare where his kids turn into Donnie and Marie and he *wakes up* next to Florence Henderson.

Currently I like the WOW Ozzy commercial and all the ones with the free credit report band....oh and the all the versions of the Geico commercials, the gecko, the celebrities, and Flo (LOVE FLo)

oh and the citibank commercials were a crack up too lol

Shani, I love Flo and her tricked out name tag!

Yes I have to agree the Flo ones are good, the OZZY texting one is good. Me and my wife just talked about the Free Credit Report guys last night she hates them and I like em.

I liked the bank commercials that were against identity theft.

I loved this one when they had the worlds funniest commercials on tv.


And I always thought this should have been as PSA atleast.


And these are pretty funny as well

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I think this is the funniest commercial ever.

Most of my favourites were on a different medium and at least 50-60 years back. On the television side, that O.J. Simpson commercial sticks in my mind as effective where he is running and jumping through the airport.
all time favourites (high on the list at least): Harlow Wilcox pitching Johnson's Glo Coat or CarNu on Fibber McGee & Molly - such enthusiam and the show never actually stops for the commercial.
or Raymond Edward Johnson pitching Lipton's Tea on the Inner Sanctum. Good samples of both are on my site but not playing attention whore and posting the link in this thread.
another edit: Recent/running ads mostly annoy me or worse, and are good reason for the mute button. Especially that freecredit report spot just mentioned that clearly states enrollment and a monthly fee are required. I heartily recommend www.mycreditinform.com for credit monitoring purposes.

The freecreditreport.com ads make me want to stab myself in the ears with a pair of metal sporks! Repeatedly! When is the FTC going to shut that operation DOWN? Same goes for Enzyte. It's deceitful, if you really want a free credit report you need to talk to the credit reporting agencies, and they're just taking advantage of everyone who doesn't know that (or that a pill is not going to grow your penis).

My favorite now airing has to be Ozzy texting. The first few times I saw it, I had no f*** clue what he was saying either.

My favorite of all time is the Molson ad to the tune of Blur's Song 2 (also an awesome music video), which I seem to recall involved racing down hills in shopping carts, but I only saw it once. It might have only aired in Canada, but I was living near Detroit at the time and we had CBC. If you can find it on the internet let me know.

that um er... "bank" one is my favorite so far!

Since I'm in the biz, I look at commercials a different way. I look at how they are made, it's quite annoying as I'm often saying, damn that was easy or they used "x" product for that blah blah blah.. a few that I do like are the Audi Q5 spot




the trapcode work in this spot is tremendously good

BBQ | Lexus Hybrid Drive - Film

and here's 24 great works of art by editor Josh Bodnar.. I want to be like him one day.. he's my hero..

Josh Bodnar

the guiness ad is my fav.

I really like Josh Bodnar's work. Great link. He did my favorite opening sequence from a TV show.

And the Guiness Ad is good.

Yeah Josh is a great editor and he's lucky that he gets to work with some of the best compositors out there.

Andrew Kramer is another great compositor (his most recent work is the FX in Fringe) but the guys that Josh works with blows Andrew out of the water IMO.


Commercials for me are like a work of art. They are mini-stories.. most people view them as simple sales pitches.. but a really good commercial tells a story and delivers a message... even if part of that message is a sales pitch. I can tell you from direct experience that the art that goes into works such as those on Josh's site is no different than masterpieces hanging in a museum.. it's just a different medium.

or maybe it's just because I get paid to do it that I see it that way :p

I don't watch a lot of TV, but there are some campaigns that stick out to me. One thing I will say is that whichever agency Molson is using, they better be well paid. For whatever reason, their commercials tend to be memorable to me.

The bottom line: they certainly know their market.

I think much of it has to do with the commercials' ability to tap into our "Canadianness" in light of being bombarded by so many American ads. They resonate emotionally, and with humour.

Here are three examples. I don't really like Molson Canadian, as I don't typically drink mass-produced beer. But if I had to choose one, it would likely be it...yes, as a result of their advertising.... *shudder*

The Canadian classic:


Funny as hell:


If I saw this in college, Canadian would have been my beer of choice:

guccilvr - I agree with your statement. Do you have any commmercials? I live in NC and may have seen them.

I have a tough time picking favorites, but some of the ones in the first post by Moyaboy are some of the best I've seen

I have plenty.. but you probably haven't seen them since you are in the Charlotte DMA. I'm in the Raleigh/Greenville DMA and as far as I know.. no buys have been made in your area..

I'll see if I can set up a show reel sometime.. I'm still relatively new in the field so my stuff looks like crap compared to Josh's :sad:

It's annoying but the slap chop with sham wow's vince.. he says so many weird things it cracks me up. My favorite line is you're gonna love my nuts...cracks me up every time.. and the GEICO burt backarak one..

There's one that sticks out in my mind simply because the model is out of this world:

I wonder if she's into Chopin and Hemingway...

I used to live in Winston Salem, until a year ago. So I might have seen some.

hrmm maybe.. let me try and get a show reel up and you can see

I think the hardest I've laughed in a long time was at the end of the Tom Cruise commercial for the Jimmy Kimmel Show during the Oscars.
The expression on his face when he looked at the camera and said, "I don't have a cat," was perfect.

Me too! This is the most innovative commercial ever:

Fairly recent favorite ends with "and I'm in debt up to my eyeballs" Favorite of all time was aired for the first time quite a few superbowls back.

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Love those budweiser frogs.

I'd love to list a few of my favorite commericals right now, but I'd have to open up the vault to retrieve them from the deep recesses of my funny unconsciousness, and it's a bit too late at night for that right now.


I do, however, recall a certain ad spot that I am not 100% was a Super Bowl Ad, and I've tried and failed on several occasions to locate it on the net, but never could pinpoint it; so I offer it up to you good folks who frequent TFP and idle in the past, and perhaps know how to channel the right sources out of google to obtain this specific selling spot.

All right, the commercial I saw was as follows: It starts with a smoky 2nd-or-3rd-story building that is most likely about to erupt in flames, and a very elderly woman crying out for help from the window above. She is fighting and screaming, not only for her life to be saved, but also that of her precious little baby, a tabby cat she is cradling in her arms. Suddenly, the fire brigade, in the form of a couple of Tampa Bay Buccaneers, arrive at the scene to coax the woman out of her apartment building to the relative safety of a trampoline chute down below. The jersey-wearing firemen shout to her to throw down her cat first, so that it, then presumbably here thereafter, will be saved. They keep re-assuring her that it will be safely caught, but she is hesitant to heave her cat down some three stories. Finally, she tosses the cat out of the burning window and it is triumphantly caught by the footballing fire marshall, who in his celebration of such a rescue, is then seen doing an endzone dance, and while hoisting the cat up in one hand about to attempt to "spike the ball", his teammate shouts, "No, man, don't!" and the commercial ends. (Perhaps not ending there, as most likely what was actually being advertised would be shown in the final five seconds with a white screen and narrator informing you in a summation what that whole situation was indicative of, or something.)


I have no idea what they were advertising, but it was very funny the first time I saw it, and still is each time, remembering it. Anybody have a clue, or remember watching it as well?

You are not imagining that commercial. I think it was just one of those NFL commercials probably advertising teamwork or things to do to help your community.

One of my favorites from a few superbowls ago was the etrade ad about having money coming out the wazoo (with the patient literally having this issue).

There are tons of commercials that I like... makes me wish for adcritic was still free.

I think I'm probably one of a small handful of people that saw and loved the reebok pump commercial with them bungee jumping off the bridge.

Doublemint gum commercial.

This is my absolute, all time favorite commercial:

My favorite commercial of all time

Miller Light's Evil Beaver

anything with Billy Maize? (the oxi clean guy) every time I hear him talking about the new amazing (insert name) product thats changing lives, I can't help smiling
or the capitol one commercials that feature the barbarians
those are awesome
must say I really don't like the family guy ones (its fine if your show isn't family appropriate, but your commercials shouldn't be)

I love the Snickers commercials :D

OMG, how could I have forgot the frogs, the lizards, and the ferret?!?! This is the one of those, which was actually part of a series during the SuperBowl, that had me laughing so hard I cried:

I hate Molson's products too (I'm a Sleeman guy and Labatt if I'm drinking on the cheap) but damn they do make good ads. Everyone in Canada knows the "I AM CANADIAN" ads. Thats damn good marketing.

My current fav

While I'm still searching for the aforementioned "Tampa Bay Fireman Poodle Rescue & Spike", I have to admit that the Bridgestone Tire commercials are becoming increasingly funnier each February they first run.

I have so much fun playing along with this ad:



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Oh, and here's the rest of the ones that have premiered during the SuperBowl, I guess...

YouTube - BridgestoneSuperBowl's Channel

OH MY GOD. I almost forgot the greatest commercial of all time, bar none.

This is, quite simply, the perfect commercial. It features the product without shoving it down your throat, it's not only got heart, but Christmas spirit (and I love Christmas), it's not bogged down with distractions, and there's a hero you can really root for: the E flat Hershey's Kiss. It's not Christmas without this commercial.

And did you notice they're in the shape of a Christmas tree? *sigh*

I love the Green Sleeves one! Also the Volkswagon 'un-pimp the auto' commercials were good:

At the moment, it's the Suave commercial with the top/bottom split screen, the top half is a smokin' hot redhead tossin' her hair around, the bottom half is her doing domestic stuff. She makes me tingly in the pants.

I understand your tingly sentiments.

This phrase could pleasantly mirror my sentiments with this forgotten yet newly-recalled commercial by De Beers; only difference is the supplantation of the hero in the advertisement.



What's better, and it does get better, is that the commercial has a history and analysis of the composition, courtesy of an interesting new site I happened upon called splendAd.com
Link to ad above: splendAd - De Beers - Christmas Morning commercial

I've all but stopped watching the TV so I don't have a current favorite, but while my fiancee was studying in Italy she sent me a link to this add that was running there at the time.


The second you see him 'going down' cracks me up.

Canon Rebel XSi - Journey - Football commercial
 

This is the current commercial that makes me stop whatever I'm doing at the moment, take time to watch, listen, and appreciate.

[The organization that composed the piece is known as Sacred Noise, and have worked with other companies to produce intelligent musical advertisements]





It has also inspired many others, as I have come to discover




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