Well done.

@erikw: I concur.

@Thassodar: Thirded. Great stuff.

not bad...never saw the ring, i wonder what happens if you don't have a phone

@nataku83: Who doesn't have a phone?

Fantastic, just fantastic. It makes the commercials actually kind of enjoyable, just for the lampooning.

Buy a Toyota for 0%, but you only get to drive it for seven days before the Ghost of Financing and Loans comes to grab you.

Wow, it's more frightening than the actual film.

@IHaveAFreezeRay: Well, I don't have a landline...and maybe my cell phone was off. Do they leave a voicemail? Is my cell phone protected from murderers like it is from telemarketers?

That commercial really doesn't bother me much...kinda catchy, generated a lot of buzz, so it was successful.

Now, the Trojan ad where all men are pigs unless they have one night stands and use a condom...yeah, that is one I turn the channel for.

Man I hate that commercial.

@nataku83: In one of the Scary Movie flicks, the woman takes a message when her son watches the tape and isn't there to answer the phone.

Genius.

Brilliant. I can't wait to show my wife this. She gets absolutely livid if I don't mute the TV when this commercial comes on.

@Saboth: Let's be honest, most men are looking for that one night stand, but it's the truly boorish ones who go looking for booty and don't wear protection.

Brilliant! I cracked up when I saw the drawings.

That was great!

@Saboth:
I don't think I would consider it successful if it turned a large chuck of the population away from my dealerships.

I'll avoid any product with annoying advertising, be it pop-ups, TV, radio, or whatever.

There's a place in Maryland called Rocky Run. They had a radio commercial with some douche singing Rocky Run to the tune of "Over There". It was very annoying, and I'd change my radio station immediately. Never went back to that place. They went out of business 6 months ago.

I've never heard of The Ring, but I hate this commercial and this is great!

IF I made commercials, I wouldn't make anything with a song-no matter what- because that gets annoying SO easily!

ROFLCOPTER of the day!

@IHaveAFreezeRay: LOL

That was definitely entertaining!

The best thing about the parody is that it doesn't serve the purpose of the original advertisement by omitting the product! Hooray!

Also, I used to like that song, now they ruined it.

Brilliant. Now, that's *my* kind of silly.

Great parody, great stuff.

But...people still watch commercials?

Toyota needs to get a new ad agency. They've butchered several popular songs over the years in their commercials.

The Fixx - Saved By Zero
Sky And The Family Stone - Everyday People
Blur - Song 2
The Romantics - What I Like About You

There's probably more, but I can't remember them at the moment. Thank goodness. ;-)

obnoxious tv commercial jingle adaptions can ruin the original songs forever:

reason #234 why i'm glad i don't watch tv.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who hates those commercials...

@theblackdog: Boarish, then? :)

I hate that commercial so much -- and I'm crying right now because I'm laughing so hard. Thanks whoever made that vid!

Seriously people... don't you get that part of the not-so-cleverly disguised ad campaign is the parody as well. Toyota doesn't need to get a new agency as LatherRinseRepeat declares because they fooled all of you into giving even more mindshare to their annoying offer.

@Saboth: "Catchy" doesn't always equal "quality."

Oh, BTW "HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD! HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!"

@karmaghost: I hate those commercials, only because they are so vague on how to use it.

@nataku83: I guess the assumption is, since you have to watch the VHS tape for it to work, there'll probably be a phone somewhere nearby the TV/VCR even if it isn't yours.

(I recommend The Ring, someone's going to kill me for this but I think it's better than the Japanese original.)

I die a little inside every time I have to hear both the Toyota commercial, and the one with the other car company using the same song as that new Pixar movie (cue farty synth noises and macho voices screaming I LIKE TA MOVE IT or whatever).

In the future, commercials will be subjected to direct democracy. You will have to key in a series of commands on your remote, and any commercial receiving a certain number of NAY votes will be automatically pulled from the air.

Honda managed to use music (original!) effectively with the ELO ad. Toyota should have taken notes.

@LatherRinseRepeat: I hate it when companies do that kind of crap. I can't stand that I can't listen to "Godsmack - Awake" without feeling like I'm watching an Army commercial.

@IHaveAFreezeRay: It was probably a collection agent.

@LatherRinseRepeat: I think you meant SLY and the Family Stone...

I am SO relieved to know that my total and complete hatred for this commercial is neither misplaced nor isolated. Thank you so much. I want to go all Jack Nicholson in the Shining when this comes on.

@erikw: I'm actually a bit underwhelmed. It was well-done, but I just don't think they took it far enough. There needs to be some sort of conclusion, or at least a build up to one. Why not try to eradicate the commercial by putting it in some beige Camry that gets thrown off a cliff? I know they were kinda limited to the scenes in the movie proper, but I do remember something getting going off a boat.