Great Commercials

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 10:47 pm

Anybody seen the new Diet Mountian Dew commercial with the golf cart?

Any other commercials that are remembered?

"Where's the beef" (Beaten to death)
"Wassup" (Beaten to death)

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 11:01 pm

Wheres the beef, for years I've heard this and had absolutely no idea what it meant. Well at least I know that it was a commercial.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 11:05 pm

Originally posted by Tamerlane
Wheres the beef, for years I've heard this and had absolutely no idea what it meant. Well at least I know that it was a commercial.

Hamburger commercial..(IIRC) Wendys. At first there was three old little women..over time it got cut back to two..then finally one. One always said after getting her hamburger.."Where's the beef"..

(Beaten to death now)

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 11:07 pm

My best memory of it, is when Homer is recollecting on whats the best car bumper sticker that he has ever seen. He laughs himself stupid about "Wheres The Beef".

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 11:14 pm

The first one was funny....but like almost everything, it got ran into the ground.

Another one..(sorry can't think of the name)

"Ernest the electric man...possiblly called Hey Vern??

(Beaten death as well)

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Sun Jul 07, 2002 11:26 pm

The M & M's ads. They use to be hilarious, especially the one about the new blue ones. "They've even got B.B King singing the blues"

But the recent ones, search for a new colour is kind of lame...

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 4:34 am

My favourite adverts ever (sorry, none of your crappy American words here

) are the old Boddingtons ones, with Jack Dee and hordes of penguins. I don't know whether they made it to foreign shores, but all you Brits must remember them. I LMAO every time I saw them...

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 5:40 am

Originally posted by Kameleon
My favourite adverts ever (sorry, none of your crappy American words here ) are the old Boddingtons ones, with Jack Dee and hordes of penguins. I don't know whether they made it to foreign shores, but all you Brits must remember them. I LMAO every time I saw them...

Those were classic, i think Dee himself made those adverts so good

I used to like the old Churchill ones "Oh yes"

The adverts for pretty much any alcoholic beverage are good, plus the Dr Pepper ones are also excellent.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 5:46 am

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
I used to like the old Churchill ones "Oh yes"

Please, tell me you're joking...those are so BAD!!

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 5:50 am

Originally posted by Kameleon
Please, tell me you're joking...those are so BAD!!

The new ones are horrible, i like the first one they came out with, the dog was just kind of amusing, the new ones are just plain bad

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 7:23 am

Originally posted by Mr Sleep

The new ones are horrible, i like the first one they came out with, the dog was just kind of amusing, the new ones are just plain bad

LMAO!

My 4y/o stops playing when these ads come on - she knows them word for word

she does a great impersonation too

I liked the Boddies ones, also the Guinness and Stella ads are good too. My current favourite is the Carling one where the girlfriend accidentally spills the lager on the table. The boyfriend - not wanting to see it go to waste, licks the coffee table clean. Then the girlfriend proceeds to spill lager around the home for the poor bloke to lick clean (the toilet ack!

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Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 7:29 am

Originally posted by Yshania
LMAO! My 4y/o stops playing when these ads come on - she knows them word for word she does a great impersonation too

I started saying it without realising, i'd be answering the phone without realising i am talking like Churchill.

The Commercials have a surprisingly large effect on our lives.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 7:36 am

@Sleepy - ROFL!

So tell me, did you ever mimic the woman from the Shake 'n' Vac ad?

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 8:01 am

Originally posted by Yshania
@Sleepy - ROFL!

So tell me, did you ever mimic the woman from the Shake 'n' Vac ad?

How did you guess "Shake and vac to put the freshness back, do the shake and vac..." i was the shake and vac master

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 8:04 am

"When your carpet smells fresh, your room does too,
so every time you vacuum, remember what to do!"

LMAO! - I can just picture you now!

Ryo · Post by **Ryo** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 9:08 am

Hm.. I really liked the Mountain Dew commercial where the guy is headbutting this ram.. they had a special on Animal Planet once where they showed how they did it. They had the guy with, like, rope attached or something, and he would run, and then they'd jerk him back. The ram was digitally added later. ^_-

As far as Mountain Dew ads go, I also liked the one with the businessman who tries to steal the cab from the little old lady, who grabs him, throws him out onto the sidewalk, then nails him with his briefcase. Heh.

I liked the one with the Crocodile Hunter, for FedEx.. y'know, the one with the most venomous snake in the world?

The only other commercial that comes to mind immediately is the "Dumass" job interview one for root beer. A&W or Mug. Dunno. Doesn't really matter.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 9:59 am

Yes I liked the "Ram" Mountain Dew

Here is another one that started great but is now being bashed..

"Dude your getting a Dell"

How about..

"Can you hear me now? (pause three seconds) Can you hear me now?"

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 10:02 am

I like the Kevin Bacon MasterCard ads where he does the "six degrees of separation" thing while writing a check. It's a very clever ad and it's good to see His Baconness taking part in some self-effacing humour.

My favourite Super Bowl ad was only on once or twice, but last year's E*Trade "Money Out the Wazoo" ad was really, really funny. It's a shame they pulled it.

Ryo · Post by **Ryo** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 11:39 am

Oh.. I also really liked the one for the credit card, where the guy loses his wallet in the jungle but his buddies tell him not to worry about it because there's not another human for miles.. then it cuts to a bunch of chimpanzees having a wild party with stuff they bought with his credit card.. then they have a snake that hisses "What'sssssss... in -your- wallet?"

The "What's in your wallet?" commercials in general are pretty cool.. that's just the one they've been showing recently. I do sorta remember one about a bunch of viking berserkers that are on a rampage, but something about someone having that credit card prevents them from looting and rioting and pillaging and they're all disappointed and throwing their helmets on the ground and such. ^_^

The Dell guy is pretty cool. The "Can you hear me now?" guy might have been sorta funny at first but is now just really annoying. I figure that once those commercials end, he'll be asked "Can you hear me now?" by other people for the rest of his life.

I like the ones for Mike's Hard Lemonade, but the one with the guy who grows an extra evil head is somewhat unsettling. *shrug*

Oh... the "Life is best told..." ones for Miller Lite are good. Like the guy who tells his girlfriend that he doesn't think they should get married.. right before she was going to tell him she won the 63 million dollar lottery. Or the guy that hitches a ride with a truck driver when this evil ventriloquist puppet thingy appears out of nowhere and starts saying "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!", at which point he bails out of the moving truck. Stuff like that.

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Mon Jul 08, 2002 12:44 pm

E-trade commercial with the chimp also quite funny.......

There's a McD commerical where a boy toying a cat with rubber mouse then he got toyed because of a McD fries.......which was pulled around by the cat !