Your favorite commercials

[Mrs Paul]

I myself confess that I'm a total sucker for anything with animals. (Well, except for those horrid animal abuse ones with Sarah McLachlan.)

While I'd never feed my pet Iams, I freely confess to getting a little teary with the "Duck" ad:

 

[DumbDosh]

 

[FemalePresident]

I know it's autistic, but I love this commercial:

 

[friedshrimp]

This'll sound nostalgiafag 100% but i love the 80s/90s commercials. There's an element of cheesiness and oddity in those that it's hard to replicate nowadays. they seem to be in their own world.

I just kinda like commercials in general. They seem to be lost in their own world of whimsy and unrealistic expectations.

 

[Another Fellow]

Even though he's inextricably Moon Man these days, there's just something kinda appealing about the presentation of the old Mac Tonight ads.

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Also, Toyota did a couple of '40s-style ads for the Avalon that I really like.

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[Rio]

This one is pretty great.

Then there's a slew of really good Dutch commercials called 'even apeldoorn bellen'

 

[AnOminous]

Even though he's inextricably Moon Man these days, there's just something kinda appealing about the presentation of the old Mac Tonight ads.

Moon Man is a much funnier white supremacist meme than Pepe, which isn't even a white supremacist meme.

 

[NARPASSWORD]

All of the Japanese commercials starring Arnold Schwarzenegger are simply amazing.

 

[Picklepower]

Even though he's inextricably Moon Man these days, there's just something kinda appealing about the presentation of the old Mac Tonight ads.

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=0c4_b5PHWg8https://youtube.com/watch?v=xXwlL_-oYdchttps://youtube.com/watch?v=ZiJKvR0RTNM

Also, Toyota did a couple of '40s-style ads for the Avalon that I really like.

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ie_vzoOcD-Yhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=6T5t-L3lA1Q

I have a feeling Mcdonalds won't ever bring that back now.

 

[Trilby]

This one is pretty great.

New to me!

Reminded years back seeing this one...

I'm a sucker for animated ads personally, here's my picks...

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[Picklepower]

Americans are totally known to carry around Japanese mints.

 

[XYZpdq]

Americans are totally known to carry around Japanese mints.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HGwEeRItPOg

I never thought about applying the Beavis and Butthead squiggle font to katakana.

I now want them to do the Talent circuit so they can have their words written on the screen when they say stupid shit, but in the squiggle font instead of the usual ones they use on those shows.

 

[Trilby]

Americans are totally known to carry around Japanese mints.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HGwEeRItPOg

This takes me back to those tape-trading days!

Someone who worked on this ad uploaded a clean copy on Vimeo, though it lacks the squiggle subtitles and the usual pitch at the end.

 

[Picklepower]

A little background for non weebs, this game was notoriously poor, and had been out for a long time in Japan, it got an American release near the end of the Ps1's life span. This commercial is amazing it is basically saying, "yeah fanboy, you'll buy anything DBZ even toilet paper, so buy this bad ps1 game!" This is one they could have kept in Japan.

Also keep in mind this was 2003, there were two DBZ games out on ps2 already.

 

[Trilby]

A little background for non weebs, this game was notoriously poor, and had been out for a long time in Japan, it got an American release near the end of the Ps1's life span. This commercial is amazing it is basically saying, "yeah fanboy, you'll buy anything DBZ even toilet paper, so buy this bad ps1 game!" This is one they could have kept in Japan.

Also keep in mind this was 2003, there were two DBZ games out on ps2 already.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GTtKmhtDXdE

Funny when you consider it didn't take long for the US to get "Final Bout" back in '97 (the only other PS1 title sold in the west). That ad is pretty demeaning to whoever was left playing PS1 titles like that.

 

[Trombonista]

A little background for non weebs, this game was notoriously poor, and had been out for a long time in Japan, it got an American release near the end of the Ps1's life span. This commercial is amazing it is basically saying, "yeah fanboy, you'll buy anything DBZ even toilet paper, so buy this bad ps1 game!" This is one they could have kept in Japan.

Also keep in mind this was 2003, there were two DBZ games out on ps2 already.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GTtKmhtDXdE

The Japanese commercial was better:

 

[Trilby]

The Japanese commercial was better:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yWpsaCwBOX8

Certainly makes the US effort come off last minute and half-assed for an already 8 year old game.