History Funny / Advertising

** The magazine counterparts with the celebrity milk mustaches generally aren't as funny, but this woman still smiles to recall a mid-'90s one featuring supermodel Iman proclaiming that the benefits of milk are "everything a woman could want. Well, except for a chance to meet [[Main/DavidBowie my husband]]...I guess."

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CDmPf4a8I4&feature=channel The new word in the dictionary is "freshershist"]]

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKGKB5bc9DU U.S. Postal Service ad]] with the family that's trying to get rid of the clown doll - funny and creepy both!
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Yl24z8b_c MAMA MIA! That's a spicy meatball!]]

* Volkswagen Jetta plus Shopping Cart equals [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6EL0FPZHA diving tackle.]]

** The Jeno's Pizza Rolls commercial (which actually got a ''standing ovation'' on TheTonightShow when it first aired). [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE-NdrzfFOo It's available for viewing here.]]

* Um. Guys. Budweiser's Real Men of Genius ads. A particularly good one is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rObUmdRMPoI&feature=related Rolling Cooler]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Cooler Roller]]. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome "It's got wheels~!"]] and [[DeadpanSnarker "Only you understand the best way to carry 9 ounces of macaroni salad is in a 43-pound cooler"]] are some of the best lines in the history of advertising.

** My favorite of the long series of Butterfinger ads was for the bite-sized [=BBs=] candies, as Homer gets distracted from reading an [=ABC=] book to Maggie by Bart and Lisa tossing them about. Big bonus points for Kent Brockman handling the voiceover at the end.

** The magazine counterparts with the celebrity milk mustaches generally aren't as funny, but this woman still smiles to recall a mid-'90s one featuring supermodel Iman proclaiming that the benefits of milk are "everything a woman could want. Well, that and a chance to meet [[Main/DavidBowie my husband]]...I guess."

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YZcFrBKKCk like this one]]

* E*Trade: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnQMq5wtZcg "Well, we just wasted two million bucks. What are you doing with your money?"]]

The commercials for the Epic phone from Sprint.

* In an offbeat case of {{Japandering}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BasbwLRu_E4 this Italian bottled water ad]] featuring DavidBowie was reedited to serve as the U.S. commercial for his album ''Reality'', based as it is on the witty premise of TurnOfTheMillennium Bowie sharing a house with most of the 1967-through-1980 Bowies.

* In an offbeat case of {{Japandering}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BasbwLRu_E4 this Italian bottled water ad]] featuring DavidBowie was reedited to serve as the U.S. commercial for his album ''Reality'', based as it is on the witty premise of TurnOfTheMillennium Bowie sharing a house with most of the 1967-1980 Bowies.

* {{Japandering}} usually doesn't escape its country of origin, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BasbwLRu_E4 this Italian bottled water ad]] featuring DavidBowie did when it was reedited to serve as the U.S. commercial for his album ''Reality'', based as it is on the witty premise of Bowie sharing a house with [[spoiler: his various stage/screen personas up through 1980]]...

* Snickers didn't just hit the nail on the head for a funny Halloween commercial—they took a one-ton brick of lead to it. For the sake of reference, Fake Woman is two kids dressed as an eight-foot-tall woman with a rubber mask for a face, and Real Woman [[ShapedLikeItself is a real woman]]. [[hottip:*:Video needed.]]

** My favorite of the long series of Butterfinger ads was for the bite-sized [=BBs=] candies, as Homer gets distracted from reading an [=ABC=] book to Maggie by the other kids enjoyign them. Big bonus points for Kent Brockman handling the voiceover at the end.

* The Toyota AFL ads that Australians may be familiar with.

** See also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnIjgw5A-iI&feature=PlayList&p=17D002C58CCEC3F5&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=2 this]].
** The magazine counterparts with the celebrity milk mustaches generally aren't as funny, but this woman still smiles to recall a circa-1995 one featuring supermodel Iman proclaiming that the benefits of milk are "everything a woman could want. Well, that and a chance to meet [[Main/DavidBowie my husband]]...I guess."

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z--ntETyNYo Put a mustache on]] [[{{Barbie}} Ken]], and make believe he's the bad guy

* All this time, and not a single mention of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnIjgw5A-iI&feature=PlayList&p=17D002C58CCEC3F5&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=2 Got Milk]] campaign?
** Except the one with the trix rabbit up there.

* On one of the early {{Simpsons}}} box sets (Season 2?), one of the extras is a set of {{Simpsons}} commercials. One was of a fast-food chain lovingly describing a sharing platter, with Homer drooling and reckoning that he's going to have one all to himself, and then the punchline -- "Offer not available to cartoon characters". Cue a big "D'oh!".

-->'''Commentator''': GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO''[[OverlyLongGag (keeps going as the commercial ends)]]''