quest1mark

oh man i just saw this one... http://home.attbi.com/~bernhard36/honda-ad.html
no fucking way. even if its fake, im impressed.

lets see some commercials.

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That Honda commercial is quite impressive.

One of the commercials I really like is the Kia commercial with the blonde chick that goes through a bunch of boyfriends, all of which they show being in the car with her.

At the end, her car runs out of gas, and the tow truck guy gets out and starts walking towards the car. The girl then gives the cutest look I have ever seen in a commercial, and thus also received the prestegious of the cutest female I have yet to see in any advertisement. You really have to see the ad to know what I am talking about, but I am really a fan of the girl in that advertisement.

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Loup

That Honda commercial just went on and on

I don't know if I can pick a current fav, but I loved the Kit Kat commercial of the zoo photographer who takes a 'Kit Kat break' and that's when the 2 panda bears come out on roller skates and do a dance. Very cute.

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I saw an article that said that that Honda ad was real. It supposedly took like over 600 takes to get right.

mercury-hg

that girl in the kia commercial is incredible!

Sparky

The Honda commercial can't be real unless Honda has some new tire that defies the laws of gravity. Great commercial.

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Here's the article I was talking about, referring to the Honda ad.

http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news...2Fnhonda13.xml

JoeyB

Have you seen the new beer commercial with the guy singing the praises of that hero of the bar....."The Wingman"???

Very funny.

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warrrreagl

Is the thread about best commercials?

If so, then I nominate "I can't believe I ate the whole thing."

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Scorpio

Yea I saw those tires not only do they defy gravity but they fly too!

Cynthetiq

defy gravity by putting weights on the side of the wheel to make it appear to "roll" uphill.... simple physics101.

as far as ads... i miss adcritic.com. it's back but its a pay service now...

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Scorpio

Actually I think you will find the weight inside the wheel.

wondash

The hits are amazing!
Nobody walks away from a K22 Paper Jam!!!
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JoeyB

There was a commercial during the Super Bowl a few years ago, with 2 men, in their garage, playing the harmonica and the spoons (I believe) while a monkey danced.

The tag line was "We just wasted a million dollars of our money. What are you doing with yours?"

It was for some financial service, but for the dancing monkey alone.......I SALUTE YOU!!!

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Quadraton

Yeah, I could never understand that. As far as revenue models go, Adcritic should have been the proverbial gold mine. A web site that asks <B>you</B> to run your advertisements. I would have thought companies would be paying out the yin-yang to get a good seating on that site.

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phoenix1002

I don't know if any of you remember this one, but a few years back there was a superbowl commercial for a car, I think it was Nissan. There was this flight of pigeons that were trying to shit on the car, and they were talking like they were bomber pilots. They all missed, except for one who still had some "ammunition" left. The one says "I'm going in!" and keeps flying after the car alone--right into the front of the garage. As it falls down, it says "Mayday!"

I know that one's a few years old, but it still cracks me up every time I think about it.

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Argh! "Good commercial" is an oxymoron! I have to get TiVo and thus excise all television advertisments from my life. Now if I can just get glasses that block print ads...

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bundy

the Sleepmaker ad is the best.
that elderly cheerleader dancing like no ones watching is awesome.

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heyal256

This was one of the original e-trade commercials (I think that they even had la cucharacha playing in the background while they were doing this too).

One of my favorite commercials is still the monster.com ad that had a bunch of kids saying what they wanted to be when they grew up.
"I want to be a brown noser"
"I want to be a yes man"
"I want to be underpaid and overworked",
etc.

Yes I really do miss adcritic too

deepinjello

Any sportscenter commerical while not really ads, these are great. I'll name a few of my favs.

Greg Lemond powering everything on his bicycle.
The Y2K test. (anyone remember this?)
The one with Kobe at the snack machine.

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jmf1234

That's a great commercial. the honda one

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I have to throw my 2 cents to the e-trade dancing monkey commercial. Opens garage, money hits the play button on the stereo and just starts dancing. I loved that commercial.

I found it online at http://www.pallock.com/peter/play/videos.php

Go and download etrade - wasted 2 million

omg, I forgot how great that was. I like the look on the face of the guy on the right at the end.

BulletBob

The Kylie Minogue commercial floating around on the titty board is pretty cool.

MikeyChalupa

That chick in the Kia ad always makes me think of Renee Zellweger, especially with that last look. What a cutie.

My current fave is the Heineken commercial: "The real reason they walked into the bar." Perfect!

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I like the Terry Tate commerical or the Fed Ex ad that played in the super bowl that made fun of that tom hanks movie where he was stranded on the island

Xixox

My fav is still the John West Salmon commercial, with the guy kickin the bears ass for a fish. Seeing the bear breaking into its little boxing dance cracks me up.

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quest1mark

i was just watching the final man show when they showed a reebok commercial with shakira on it. it starts off where shes on an island just wiggling and seductively dancing...and at the end we find out shes writing a giant peace sign in the sand with her shoes. i could have done without all that symbolism...but HOT DAMN SHES SMOKING....

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heccubusiv

not sure for what car company but its a pinata and this girl has a bat and she cracks a kid pretty hard. Then the comerical says "protect them while you can"... its a great one

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Phaenx

There was a commercial for caller I.D. that featured a guy talking to a sensual massuese on the phone asking a bunch of fucktarded questions about fantasy roleplaying, if he could dress up like superman, if she would dress up like wonderwoman, if not if he could bring his wife and she would dress up like wonderwoman, and if that costs extra, it did, so he asked if they wanted to have his wife as payment. It then fades to text that says "Because there's alot of sickos out there. *caller id company*"

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GSRIDER

Great commercial but how come i never see these on TV.... all the commercials I see are CRAP!!!!! Well except for a few.

Other than they have better commercials oversea.

Where's the Beef now!!!!!!!!!

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ramon

I love the Sprtscenter ads

The Y2K test with Mac smashing the computer
The field reporters vs. studio reporters West Side Story style
Kobe at the snack machine

gov135

Sportscenter ads are number one.

Second is the Superbowl ads with the monkey wasting millions of dollars.

Honda ad was cool. thanks.

Halx

I like the SC commercial...

"Do you think it's weird that we're called the White Sox, but our socks are black?"

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Bob Biter

Outpost.com ads are excellent. As are FOX News ads (with words guys understand), like the funeral, the national anthem and the newscast.

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Minx

There is one I saw a while ago on one of those shows "The World's Sexiest Commercials". It was a beer ad (don't remember the brand, sorry) with a hot chick ordering a bottle of beer and it came in a stubbie bottle (remember them?!)...she starts rubbing her hand up and down it and...voila....it turns into a long neck bottle! It was pretty good.

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The Cotb

The Honda ad is pretty cool, although I've never seen it on the tube-- only a flash version made by someone out here on the interweb...

As far as the Kia girl with the dog-- she is a cutie and you can check her out in the new Sony Vaio ad (she's the first person we see; a waitress who overfills a coffee cup because she's so entranced by the customer's Vaio).

I was listening to some old cd's recently and then two days later saw an ad starring Lance Armstrong with music by The John Spencer Blues Explosion, one of the cd's I had just revisited. I am psychic...

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Oh! Hey, has anyone seen the GM commercial pushing their new "24 Hour Test Drive"? It's got music by Meatloaf (The Dashboard Light) singing "let me sleep on it". Now, why would they choose this song? Sure, that one line fits their cause, but if you remember the song at all Meat ends up completely unhappy with his decision and prays for the sweet release of death. I see this ad and think immediately that a GM car purchase is the worst thing I could do...

Maybe it's just me...

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crfpilot

I was going to start a thread like this but searched and found this. I love the Southwest commercials "It must be football season" I especially like the one where the checker guy says "I'm open over here" and the customer dude nails him in the chest with a pineapple. It cracks me up every time I see it.

MichaelFarker

I just saw the Coors "Wingman" commercial. That was really funny. The narrator sings about a guy who is sitting with an attractive but annoying woman so his friend can have fun with her friend on the dance floor.
crfpilot's pinapple quarterback was great too, just saw that this week.

Speed_Gibson

I can think of plenty of pitches by Harlow Wilcox, Don Wilson and others from the 1930's/40's/50's that I like but damn few television spots come to mind. Some of my favourite radio ads from the golden years of the medium:
0) the Lipton Soup ads on The Inner Sanctum
1) cig commercials - Raleigh on the Red Skelton show, the "LSMFT" for lucky strike on the Jack Benny Show, Camel Cigs on the Abbot and Costello show, and others
2) Hearing Harlow Wilcox talk about Johson Glo Coat/Car Nu or Autolite sparkplugs actually makes me feel enthusiastic about the product
3) Jello/Grapenut Flakes Ads - Don Wilson did a wonderful job on them, but I still think that Orson Welles (when he subbed for Jack Benny in 1940 for three weeks) did one of the best commercials for Grapenuts Flakes.
many,many others come readily to mind (all from 1920-1955 timeframe) but will stop with those examples.

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