It dosen't matter because it will never top this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV3gA7hNItY

and thanks to Latarina for that link....

This one always makes me laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL6ysSActVU

I'll tell you what, the early Geico cavemen ads are some of my favorites from the past few years.

"Not cool!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5JV0Fs_GE8

And thanks to Bill Picard for this classic.

"It's just like a mini...mall!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3oHpup-pk

This has always been one of my favorites:

Man VS Bear

I don't think this one ever actually aired. Too bad.

Nutrigrain ad

I'll dig deeper, but I gotta start here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tITErSN_NY

:D

I saw this one 3 times and then was suddenly like, "hey! that's a deliberate.... that's pretty funny!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwX8MzOKOzI

Any commercials directed by David Lynch are usually good.

(sorry about the low quality on this one): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE6TolZxm1Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSWv90msTUc (Do PSAs count as commercials?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDgQp__xaco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vor65mNB8Uk (I hate that this one is for evil cancer sticks, but it's still pretty cool)

Anything from Japan with Arnold Schwarzenegger is usually pretty amusing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6srWriYMBA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqoZqJd4pvQ

My favoritest ad campaign ever(warning: SPOILERS for PLANET OF THE APES and mispronunciation for "orangutan").

You asked...

"Make 7 Up Yours!"

I don't know why this ad for Mastercard doesn't get more play.

That unaired Nitrigrain ad that Joel posted plays like SHIVERS as an American sitcom.

Check out this Trippy Nesbitt's Orange Soda Pop commercial but check your brain at the door.

Another ad which I don't think actually aired--

VW Polo

Anybody got that link for those demented early Jim Henson b&w commercials that was posted here a while back...?

best,
FBC

They're not on YouTube anymore for some reason, but I found this:

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=...videoid=2768290

Well since this delightful thread has started to turn macabre...

here's my favorite

OK, here are some of my favorites that actually did air.

Budweiser (Not a Wazzup! ad, although I did enjoy those, too.)
WTF Burger King
It's the battle of the century!
Swiss Miss pudding bars
Birth to death
Gotta love this fab campaign: One, Two, Three, and Four
Stunt City
FedEx
and a FedEx classic.

Does anyone remember that commercial where a family are sitting around the table and an orange juice drink suddenly comes to life. As its going on about how healthy and nutritious it is, the family are screaming and running away from it. It chases them through the house and the mom trips and screams as the animated drink bottle catches up to her?

I think this thing still runs in the Chicago area:

Victory Auto Wreckers

And they don't do 'em like this anymore:

Salem's

And here's a bizarre way to sell cars:

Charger

This one might too:

Eagle Man!

Well, that VW Polo ad got an "Oh...my...gawd." out of me, and those don't come easy.

I got a kick out of this one..

Speaking of commercials, did anyone see the Office this week? Having Michael's commercial turn out to be as good as it did is why this is the only sitcom I watch.

I uploaded a few commercials for your viewing pleasure:

If you're going to ask Godard to sell your blue jeans, you can't really complain when he turns in this. I mean, they must've known, right?

80's synth + Fiat + gliding camera = Dario Argento.

If Chabrol had directed The Big Sleep, it would have looked like this.

A clever early commercial from Jeunet.

Roman Polanski channels Tenebrae and Dressed to Kill to show us why Condè Nast kills.

A Cinzano commercial from the man who invented Felliniesque. Does anyone know if that's a genuine or faux-Rota score?

This commercial makes my jaw drop. I'd love to see it run during Oprah.

Car vs. pigeon.

If you were OK with that, you might want to check out this next one, but be warned-- even keeping in mind that it is computer generated, it's still rather grotesque, especially for cat lovers.

Car vs. cat.

Holy crap... I could see those two being storyboarded, but to actually shoot the commercial (especially the cat one) makes you wonder what they're thinking.

Although the pigeon one got a "Bwa-ha-ha!" out of me.

And to be honest... the cat one was brilliant. I doubt that someone could get away with doing it in even a horror film, but still...

Then there's this. Slightly less gruesome.

Here are some lighter ones, for BEER and A LOTTERY.

This is fun!

Jeno pizza rolls

This is a parody by Stan Freberg of the then-popular ad for the cigarette Larks. In the Lark commercial which also used the William Tell Overture, someone would drive around some area and ask people to show them their Larks. People would proudly wave their cigarette packs in the air.

Many baby boomers found this particular jingle difficult to forget.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yuej5igoKCo

And an Aha! moment for me when I realized that (1) that's Ali McGraw and (2) the product name was actually designed to appeal to those reluctant to drop their rolls off at Walgreens:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=h7k2uwJmwxo

Don't know about my favourite advert ever, but of the ones currently showing on TV, I really like this Cadbury one. Weird.

In New York we're currently seeing a TV spot about why a car was built a certain way - "because we promised you a Mercedes."

The male voice doesn't quite match the lips once the model shows up at the end of the ad, and I suspect this is a European spot which has been dubbed.

Any thoughts?

...Just encountered THIS and had to share. :blink:

This one cracks me up. It's a New Zealand ad for Fresh TV, loaded with visual and spoken sexual metaphors (some of which are new to me). Safe for work, for the slightly immature mature viewer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=025FoqHpy3A

My favorite new commercials:

The Build-a-Bear commercial where the little girl imagines all the animals she passes by on the street wearing costumes she'd like to create (the cats in different getups, the horse with big funny glasses & and a pink backpack).

The new Sprint commercial with the light signal that bounces all around the city to get to a cell-phone---didn't know this,but it's called flashlight-animation and I thought it was pretty sweet and imaginative:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOmijBESP3o

Here's another similar Sprint commercial I stumbled across while looking for the 1st one,which is even goofier---I haven't seen it on T.V:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n08xpmW_CkU&feature=related

Not one of my faves.


"Remember, when you were a kid?"

"Remember that dream you totally had, and we're not auto-suggesting you did at all?"

"The one about the screen that fit in your pocket, and did wondrous gadgety things? You know, that dream all kids had. The one also equipped with a GPS system."


"That was us. You're welcome. Aren't dreams fun?"

Time for someone to post the Loggia orange juice spot again.

Loggia.

Be sure to watch to the very end.

Here's a new KIA ad that makes me laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOyQK5jBalE

Polanski trots out some old steps for a new DANCE.

This Christmas, vote for Chris Christmas Rodriguez to replace Santa Claus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OY4VHmej8g

I think that this actually is an ad for something, but I can't figure out exactly what it is.