Commercials: which ones do you like/think are funny?

[Bjeanj]

On another thread (https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/villages-florida-non-villages-discussion-93/sub-titles-330662/) there were some comments about people’s distaste for commercials on tv. Okay, there was some outright hatred for them.

Anyway, for the most part I agree, but there are some funny ones out there. What’s your favorites?

One of mine is the golfer that wants to play through Ricky Fowler’s group, and he does everything but pace off the distance before he tees off. Fowler’s reaction is hilarious. Heck if I even remember what they’re advertising. :)

What’s yours?

[Stu from NYC]

Who watches commercials any more? Zap thru them these days.

[Michael G.]

Their all stupid and the reason I watch very little television.

Commercials are an insult to a person's intelligent, especially trying to catch a half hour of news weather and sports,
and you get 15 minutes of commercials and some commercials twice.

[MartinSE]

We watch no commercials. We stream everything and only from sources that have a subscription without commercials. It means we don't always get series on the same day as others, but we can wait.

[manaboutown]

As I never waste time watching a commercial I haven't a clue.

[davem4616]

there was a time when I looked forward to watching the commercials during the Super Bowl....but no more.

Commercials now merely offer me an opportunity to get up and do something else...but I rarely watch TV anymore

[ThirdOfFive]

On another thread (https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/villages-florida-non-villages-discussion-93/sub-titles-330662/) there were some comments about people’s distaste for commercials on tv. Okay, there was some outright hatred for them.

Anyway, for the most part I agree, but there are some funny ones out there. What’s your favorites?

One of mine is the golfer that wants to play through Ricky Fowler’s group, and he does everything but pace off the distance before he tees off. Fowler’s reaction is hilarious. Heck if I even remember what they’re advertising. :)

What’s yours?
Haven't seen many recently, except on YouTube and then you can usually click out of those after six seconds, which I almost always do. The ones I have seen (usually on Prime "free with ads"s offerings), seem sorta juvenile.

Interesting, though. Just this morning I was watching a YouTube channel about 1980s and 1990s commercials. There were some corny ones but a lot of them were pretty well-done, considering. The Pepsi commercials were catchy. And who could forget that little old grey-haired lady roaring "Where's the beef"? Some of those commercials for Polaroid cameras were good too.

I've seen little worth remembering in the last ten years or so.

[Michael G.]

there was a time when I looked forward to watching the commercials during the Super Bowl....but no more.

Commercials now merely offer me an opportunity to get up and do something else...but I rarely watch TV anymore

:BigApplause::thumbup:

[asianthree]

GM truck commercial…Truck is the back story….

Who doesn’t love Walter the Cat, who can do anything.

It just makes you smile.

[Stu from NYC]

Wonder if commercial TV has to charge less to play commercials as so many of us zap thru them.

[Two Bills]

Probably a bloke thing, but I thought this commercial was funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPzuBMM9Tgw

[JMintzer]

GM truck commercial…Truck is the back story….

Who doesn’t love Walter the Cat, who can do anything.

It just makes you smile.

"WALTER! He's a CIVIL SERVANT!!!"

[tophcfa]

I’m at a loss coming up with any modern day commercials that are funny or likable? Back in the day I could have come up with a long list, starting with Miller Light and Alka Seltzer. I guess you have to be part of the target market for products to begin to find them likable?

[mgkw1]

I like the publix ad where the guy is at the dentist and tells his wife the spaceman said there would be ice cream

[Stu from NYC]

Super Bowl ones used to be worth watching but last few years just zap thru them.

[Bjeanj]

Probably a bloke thing, but I thought this commercial was funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPzuBMM9Tgw

This is really funny! I think the US television history has prevented us from seeing “risqué “ commercials that are just hysterical.

[Bjeanj]

I also like most/all of the Budweiser commercials. They reflect humor and creativity that most of us don’t have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSE_TEtXtwY

[Garywt]

First off who is Ricky Fowler?

I watch hours of tv a day and see many commercials. For the most part I am amazed that people get paid for creating most of them, they are all so bad. Can’t think of any I like but there are plenty I don’t like.

[JGVillages]

Capitol One / Kid’s picking basketball players. Girl says I’ll take Barkley.

[Bjeanj]

First off who is Ricky Fowler?.

Dude…

He’s a golfer.

[Ecuadog]

I wish that Stan Freberg was still with us. He made some classics.

[Bjeanj]

So what’s wrong with this commercial?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs

[JMintzer]

So what’s wrong with this commercial?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs

Yeah, that one's hysterical! :ohdear::ohdear::ohdear:

[Garywt]

Dude…

He’s a golfer.

O.k, don’t really follow golf.

[Garywt]

So what’s wrong with this commercial?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs

I have never seen that one.

[pbedell]

We skip through 99% of commercials, but LOVE the Progressive “You are turning into your parents” ones.

[RBW225]

We have not viewed commercials for decades! That is what DVRs are for.

[ThirdOfFive]

We have not viewed commercials for decades! That is what DVRs are for.
Some of the commercials, especially the ones on YouTube, are beginning to be included as part of the actual program: the narrator just segues into the commercial and does the whole spiel him/herself without cutting away from the actual program. Annoying, especially if you're used to the option of being able to click out of a commercial after five or six seconds, as is often done on YouTube.

Somebody has to pay the bills, I guess.

[Boomer]

I like the dogs in Subarus, especially the one with the Dad dog watching the glamorous poodle cross the street. (I don’t know if they’re on anymore though.)

Aldi did a clever Christmas ad for wine a few years ago.

Anybody remember that 1980s ad campaign sponsored by the “National Coffee Association”…….

”You are the New American Society, the movers and the shakers. You are the new coffee generation,” exclaimed the announcer as somebody in the background was singing, “Hold on tight to your dreams.”

It was obviously aimed directly at career-minded boomers who were supposed to become more successful by swilling down copious quantities of coffee……..

Well, where I worked, the coffee tasted like bilge water and nobody ever deigned to wash the coffee pot. But, at least, we were not spending all our money paying stupid amounts for coffee at Starbucks on our way to work.

It is kind of fun to look up those old commercials to see the “Coffee Achievers.” Silly ads.

Boomer

[JMintzer]

We skip through 99% of commercials, but LOVE the Progressive “You are turning into your parents” ones.

"We all see it... We all see it..."

"HE'S GOT BLUE HAIR!!!"

That's my wife, to a "T"...

[Worldseries27]

on another thread (https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/villages-florida-non-villages-discussion-93/sub-titles-330662/) there were some comments about people’s distaste for commercials on tv. Okay, there was some outright hatred for them.

Anyway, for the most part i agree, but there are some funny ones out there. What’s your favorites?

One of mine is the golfer that wants to play through ricky fowler’s group, and he does everything but pace off the distance before he tees off. Fowler’s reaction is hilarious. Heck if i even remember what they’re advertising. :)

what’s yours?
one commercial has a family entering a car to take their boxer to the vet to be neutered. He jumps out the window.
2. A family in a car with boxer wearing birthday hat. The dressed up little girl in the backseat is told by her mother there will soon be another member of their family isnt that great. Both parents turn to face their girl and she has on a priceless angry face.