Nerve.com has assembled a list of 50 fake commercials for everything from Tylenol BM (you’ll sleep right through your bodily functions!) to the Woomba (it cleans your noony!). There’s even some that don’t involve body parts, like Lily Tomlin’s increasingly agitated housewife hawking “G-r-r-r Detergent” in 1975. Our favorite recent commercial parody that didn’t make the list is probably the Jamie Lee Curtis commercial for Activia, because you can never get enough of women eating yogurt.
“The 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies of All Time” [Nerve.com via Neatorama]
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I’ve never been able to understand why NBC keeps freaking out over SNL clips on YouTube. Some of them are already gone.
@timmus: It’s a marketshare thing. Pretty much, NBC wants people to use their video site instead, so they try to keep their content on there only. It’s not an insane strategy, but has major drawbacks.
They have enough content to attract some users, but because it’s closed, they won’t have enough to bring people there to browse.
They might do better to make it open-content, but then they lose the ‘brand’ they’re trying to promote.
It’s a bit of a tough spot for them, but I don’t think going hard after youtube videos is the best strategy for them. It just pisses people off and makes them less likely to seek out your content in the future.
@timmus: I can never understand why anyone thinks SNL is funny.
@huadpe: I think I would be more resistant to constant attempts to make the Internet more like TV.
@TheManator: My primitive mind can’t grasp these concepts of SNL being funny, either. But there is one thing I do know – when a man like my client slips and falls on a sidewalk in front of a public library, then he is entitled to no less than two million dollars.
The “women eating yogurt” commercial genre makes me unreasonably violent.
Old-school SNL (70s-mid 80s) = WIN
Later SNL = FAIL.
Only us fogeys can remember when SNL was actually funny, and consistently so.
No SCTV clips there. Certainly Andrea Martin’s “Connie Franklin” tops Gilda Radner’s “Patti Caldwell.”
Stop slapping my face please.
what! No Bathroom Monkey?
@ElizabethD: Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, David Spade, Tim Meadows (before tina fey came along),Mike Myers, Will Ferrel, Darrel Hammond (still the funniest cast member on SNL) aren’t funny?
Wow.
I can understand the current stuff, especially Amy “What the hell does Will Arnett see in her” Poheler is not funny, plus Sandler or Fallon weren’t funny, but really?!?
If this is a double post, sorry. This damn no edit thing…
@TheManator: There were moments of sheer genius a few years ago, in the Phil Hartman and Chris Farley eras, interspersed amongst hours of snooze-fest. Since then it’s been like taking a Nytol.
@humphrmi: You mean a Hibernol.
@beavis88: +1 Funny. I stand corrected.
Awww. I was expecting to see “Stay Free Peenie Pads.”
You try shaking it off. You try wringing it out. But you still end up with “Ring around the Peenie.”
Need to meet the quota, indeed. How is this consumer-related?
@beavis88: No question friend!
@iEddie: Oh shut up. It’s a bunch of commercial parodies. Marketing. Advertising. Purchasing things. Being a consumer. And it’s Saturday. And I wanted to put something fun online. And you’re no fun and should know better than to read any of these sorts of posts, obviously. Sheesh.
@iEddie: +click the last link about women eating yogurt for an editorial commentary on yogurt advertising to a very specific demographic. It’s almost completely devoid of humor and might suit your needs better.
No Cherokee Hair Tampons?
The robot insurance commercial was hilarious.
awww what and no coochie clamps?
@GamblesAC2:
woops forgot the url
+ Watch video
@GamblesAC2: That was odd, in a scary sort of way. I’m not saying off-topic; no sir, perfect comment for this post. Just very … strange.
Wow. Great memories.
Makes me think how funny SNL can be. Miss Belushi, Farley, Radner and Hartman even more now.
I do wish they had one of my favs up– Zingo: It’s a desert topping and floor wax… I think it was Laraine and Chevy in that one…
Best waste of my Saturday ever.
The Uncle Jemima ad makes me pine for the Brian Fellows skit. That goat has crazy eyes!
Boo! It’s for USA’s IP addresses only
@humphrmi: okay then you leave me no choice then to sick the gay energy drink on you.
+ Watch video
Still missing any John-John Mackey clip. Argh…
The scary thing is, I just read an article about a REAL couple’s toilet a week ago that was almost EXACTLY like the “love toilet”…
What, no Homocil?
“Homocil, because it’s your problem, not thiers.”
@TheManator: it’s hit or miss. lately it’s been a miss. for the last 10 years
Blocked at work under the “Sex” category, but there was no Japanese Police Officer picture