The gecko finds himself the unwitting recipient of a trust fall.
One of the newest ones, which casts that one Latino sports commentator at a chess match. One of the guys takes a piece, causing him to stand up and yell...
Commentator: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO(keeps going as the commercial ends)
"Hello, good citizen. I am Batman. You can be my assistant. Would you like that? Would you like to ride with Batman?"
The funniest Got Milk? commercial was hands-down the one with the Trix Rabbit. The poor guy just can not catch a break!
See also this, Time magazine's favorite from the campaign's first year in 1995.
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 my husband...I guess."
Then there's this Super Bowl commercial for Pepsi that is a parody of both the Kasparov/Deep Blue chess tournaments and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bonus points for actually getting Garry Kasparov himself to appear.
A surely unintentional example, which could be interpreted as either Hypocritical Humor or Irony, comes from a print advertisement seen in a bus shelter. The ad depicted a helpless woman trapped in the strangling coils of a gas station hose while the dastardly attendant takes all her money. (This was in San Francisco, in reference to the extremely high gas prices.) The ad suggested that instead of driving a car and thus being gouged and exploited, people should use the MUNI bus system to get around. But what was at the bottom of the sign, as it is on every single bus shelter? The typical disclaimer: "The views expressed in this ad are not necessarily those of MUNI." So they don't even believe their own pitches? Perhaps there's truth in advertising after all...
"Hello, ladies. Look at your man. Now back to me. Now back at your man. Now back to me. Sadly, he isn't me. But if he stopped using lady-scented body wash and switched to Old Spice, he could smell like he's me. Look down. Back up. Where are you? You're on a boat, with the man your man could smell like. What's in your hand? Back at me. I have it. It's an oyster with two tickets to that thing you love. Look again. The tickets are now diamonds! Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I'm on a horse.
Did you know women prefer Old Spice for their men one-bajillion times more than lady scented body washes? Did you know I'm riding this horse, backwards?
"Hello, Anonymous. I'm glad at least some of most of you are enjoying my new commercial. Random crown. That means a lot. Large book. Because that's important to me. Jewel-encrusted scepter. And I want to make you proud. Freshwater fish. So I always try my best. Delicious cake. Because you deserve the best. The fish again. So that's what I give you. Thank you, friends. You're my everything. Expensive magnifying glass."
Volkswagen Jetta plus shopping cart equals diving tackle.
The Dutch "Even Apeldoorn bellen" commercials. Going strong for over 20 years, each of them funny in their own way. Advertisement for insurance done right. More often than not there are no spoken words, so go and raid YouTube for the vids.
Cause when you try it once you'll want to try it some more.
Size doesn't matter and that's a fact,
It might be small but it has a big impact!
Bust a nut! Bust a nut! Grab a bag of corn nuts and bust a nut!
They're lightly toasted and hard as well!
Enjoy yourself, we won't tell.
This GameStop commercial for Transformers: War for Cybertron promoting the unlockable Shockwave character offered with a preorder. Shockwave flies in, at which point Megatron gives him temporary command and flies off. Shockwave orders Soundwave to transform into a tape player and begins playing "The Touch", by Stan Bush. Shockwave begins to dance and shoot in time with the music. Starscream protests, naturally, leading to:
Shockwave: When your hit percentage exceeds mine you may choose the soundtrack!
YMMV on it, but these ads also hit a bit an Awesome- and Heartwarming-Moment material when they changed the ad theme to this. Originally the ads were titled "Real American Heroes"...then 9/11 came along, after which the ads were renamed...after all, now we knew what a Real American Hero truly was.
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!".
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 "By Nestle!" voiceover at the end.
The Toyota AFL ads that Australians may be familiar with.
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 is a real woman.
Fake Woman: “I see you don't have any Snickers in your shopping cart. The neighborhood children loooove Snickers. Here, let me help you.” Begins flinging bags of Snickers into Real Woman's cart.
Toys R Us ran some impressively creative ads featuring a realistic CGI Geoffrey the Giraffe during 2004, including this ad for an easter sale they ran that year. These ads were at once memorable and easily funnier than you'd expect.
This ad for energy efficient boilers featuring a rather mouthy boiler. You know your boiler has gone bad in more ways than one when it derives amusement out of making hilarious jibes towards its owners.
Thai ads. Just pick any Thai ads.
"Try it! You'll like it!" (cheerfully)"So I tried it, ate all of it" (frowns) "thought I was going to die!"
All of the recent Summer's Eve ads. Some of them are funny (the "sideways hands ads"), but others are just dramatic... until you realize what they're advertising for.
Ladies and gentelmen, I present to you... the Star Wars Dogs.
In a TV ad for IBM, Avery Brooks says, "It's the year 2000, but where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars!" What sells it is that he's practically channeling Sisko at the time, given his stentorian delivery. Of course, he points out that we don't need flying cars; we have something better: The Internet!
