tv commercials thread

Obligatory post of the Legend of Zelda commercials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI3rO3PbYOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-qBkWerZDg

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I’m pretty sure this commerical has been running for literally my entire life.

I’m 29.

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God that commercial ran every summer for years.

I’ll start with what is undoubtedly the most famous political ad of all time and move on from there.


This was made to play in movie theaters back in ’82.


Animation by Aardman


Animation by Production I.G.

Lots of famous folks have made memorable commercials including…
Jim Henson

Michael Cimino

George A. Romero

Ridley Scott

Michel Gondry


This was done three years before The Matrix.

Spike Jonze

Robert Abel and Associates were a company that made a name for themselves with early CG and elaborate animation in their commercials.

That last commercial even had its own making of!

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YOU’RE ON A MISSION
TO GET NICKELODEON MAGAZINE

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folks, i have grave news concerning the coolspots


i like chin puppets, and music, and there’s an advert that has both (and alcohol), so sweet

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Come on now, how has this not been posted yet?

Or this?

Or this?

You don’t start a thread about commercials in my house do you know who I am?!

Fruit Rollups predicted Mass Effect

I agree Capri Sun, the CGI in Terminator 2 was kicking rad.

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video games

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Today’s theme is: “Jingles that will haunt me until the day I die.”

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“Haunting Jingles” you say?

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Tommy Lee Jones advertising canned coffee

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The only commercial I really remember is this fanta thing

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“Smash” is a brand of instant mashed potatoes in the UK. It’s known for two things - tasting like crap, and these ads from the 80s.


This ad for “Tango” fizzy orange drink was actually pulled in the 90s due to fears that kids would imitate the slap.

It was replaced with this version, which swaps the slap with a weird hand-covering kiss thing. I guess that’s…better?

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I think commercials and only one comes to mind.

SIX CALLERS AHEAD OF US JIMMY

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first


second

then there were those old caprisun ads that had some Yu-Gi-Oh revenge magic in them forever branding these kids as capriminals (and collectibles)

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Here’s a pre-YouTube viral video.

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Holy shit I never knew about those Twin Peak coffee ads!

I genuinely want to know how they got the cast together to do those, and who made them. I’m guessing they were done on set during season 2. And in case it wasn’t clear enough from those ads, Japan loves Twin Peaks. Pretty much the only place Fire Walk With Me was an immediate critical and commercial success was Japan.

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i remember seeing this one a lot as a kid, just nostalgia


…spanish bubsy commercial that is the only one i could find after a simple search

also

do you like trains?

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Ever wonder how Kermit the Frog got his start? He was a sociopath that bullied people into drinking coffee!

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kermit’s back deal dealings with executives of the caffeine mafia led him to do many unspeakable acts, holy shit