Funny commercials

[saptech]

The Hopper and the iPad...

DISH iPad 2 Offer Commercial: Next Room 30) - YouTube

 

[droid_power]

the Sprint commercial showing the zombie is cool.

 

[Kaat72]

Oh yes she did!
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[sfbloodbrother]

Windows Phone Commercials are really funny. You have everyone fighting over iOS and Android, and they show off a really cool thing that only Windows Phone has. (41MP Camera)

 

[zuben el genub]

Pick Your Seat Frontier Airlines TV Commercial Ad - YouTube

Frontier: Montazuma's Revenge - YouTube

Frontier Commercial - Yellow Snow - YouTube

Colorado Day Sale - YouTube

These have to be some of the best. I love "Colorado Day"

 

[saptech]

GEICO Spelling Bee Commercial - Did You Know Old MacDonald Was a Really Bad Speller - YouTube

 

[zuben el genub]

Windows Phone Commercials are really funny. You have everyone fighting over iOS and Android, and they show off a really cool thing that only Windows Phone has. (41MP Camera)

The Surface tablet VS the Ipad is funny, too. Put that Surface up against my Acer A500----It does have a USB port, it can use a keyboard, and it can do HDMI out with no adapter. It might be older and slower, but MLB baseball works just fine.

Don't get too enamored of megapixels on cameras. The smaller the sensor, the higher the MP, the more noise. If the camera isn't noisy, then rave on the controlling software.
My DSLR is only 10 and the Bridge camera is 14.

 

[Kaat72]

How about this total body control?
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[Kaat72]

Wow!
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[64MarcoV]

Specsavers

 

[shmn]

I love the Terry Tate "Office Linebacker" series of commercials from about 10 years ago.

This was the original (there are a bunch...just search YouTube):

Terry Tate Office Linebacker - YouTube

 

[mikedt]

"Jingle Bells" Chinese ad. Students found it rather amusing at the end...."My god!!"
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzA5NzEzMzY0.html
I was using it to get them to sing Jingle Bells in English.

 

[Kaat72]

Ha! Girl Power!
http://www.upworthy.com/if-3-little...ould-to-get-them-full-rides-to-harvard-am2-8a

 

[Kaat72]

This German commercial for super market Edeka is awesome. LOL.
Note: 'supergeil' means super wicked

Spoiler

or super horny

 

[zuben el genub]

I saw that Edeka one. It is funny. I forwarded it to my boss as he does radio commercials and is into most marketing.

Wonder how that would have done in the Superbowl.

BTW - most conservatives are still annoyed with Coke's America. I need to find the words in Esperanto, then explain that I'm an alien from Akrab. I do know about translation sites but don't feel like doing it just yet.

 

[Kaat72]

 

[basic 101 user]

Long dormant thread, but what the heck.

I'm sure many of you have seen this, but I was rather amused when I first saw it.

Going back a few years further; I'm sure many have seen this one as well, and never sure I believe it's all real.....But still fun.

 

[dan330]

Long dormant thread, but what the heck.


Going back a few years further; I'm sure many have seen this one as well, and never sure I believe it's all real.....But still fun.

that is pretty cool. I saw that commercial before. but did not know it was all real with NO computer enhancements. which makes it even more awesome.

BUT!!!!
at 50 seconds in.. the wheels (several tires and all) go up hill?
how? is the floor in that area not flat and level???
something doesn't add up for me!

 

[basic 101 user]

I agree, Dan.

Spoiler: The blah, blah

I have always wanted to believe it was real, and am pretty sure Honda themselves stood behind it, says it is. Also, I was turned on to it originally by an ex-GF who had nothing to do with that particular ad, but was hooked up in the world of practical effects and post production, etc.

But my spidey sense tingles at a few of the sequences; There are several moments when something doesn't add up.

Think of the setup involved after every failed take; The oil to mop up, the potential for scratches on the hood, on and on. I doubt they ever got to a point where the could do the first 40% perfectly every time, then graduated to 50% reliably every time, etc. Must have been unimaginably frustrating. Just the camera tracking alone must have been a feat. A robot camera suspended from the ceiling?

And beyond that, who came up with the concept, and then had the horsepower to convince the people (with the money and the say-so) to green light the effort, for an ambitious concept clearly doomed to fail?

Not truly a funny one, but thought it worthwhile enough to bend the rules.

P.S.

Spoiler: More blah

Years ago, I did a museum installation for some wacky artist, one component of it was interactive; Push the button, and from a slot in the ceiling, 20 feet above, a garage door opener would pay out a tape reel, on the end of which was a white tuxedo gloved hand. It would drop down and strike a single note on a piano keyboard, then retreat and reset. Thought I would go nuts just trying to get something that simple to work reliably.

 

[basic 101 user]

I remember this one rather fondly; But then again, I was even more easily amused at that age.

Remember kids: At the time it ran, the cold war was still a very real thing, and the Berlin wall was still up.

Wendy's - 1985

 

[basic 101 user]

I enjoyed this one in the day, and it speaks to "data storage" of the time.

I had a good friend in High School, he influenced me a lot.......He came to school on Halloween dressed as the Maxell guy, complete with moussed back, blown out hair, and a bent coat hanger holding his tie out over his shoulder.

 

[basic 101 user]

This one was hilarious. Dig it, this guy has been ramping up for this moment his whole life......He has "the bullet" in a display case.

 

[Milo Williamson]

hmm... A little dated?

 

[treb1797]

Never got the attention it deserved.

 

[Unforgiven]

Never got the attention it deserved.

That was an instant classic.