Please Nominate Your Favorite Awful Commercials For "Great Moments In Commercial History"
Know what needs to come back? Great Moments in Commercial History. If you'd like to nominate a commercial for this prestigious weekly award, please send a link to the commercial along with a paragraph explaining what the commercial means to you. Please, please check our archive to make sure that we have not already featured your favorite. Send your email to tips@consumerist.com and put "Great Moments" in the subject.
In celebration of this momentous event, we take a look back at where it all began... with Chicago's Moo & Oink.
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I really hope horrible infomercials count. Snuggies anyone?
My nominee would be the Zombie Orville Reddenbacher ad.
It still gives me nightmares thinking about it.
Gah! I cant find it while at work (youtube is blocked), but there is a clip of Battlestar Galactica with a very inappropriate first commercial.
@Ihaveasmartpuppy: That's so fantastically awesome. Like, Manos, Hands of Fate awesome. The only thing worse is living with my year and a half old nephew right now. Who in God's name decided that every kids toy these days needed to make noise?
Apply directly to forehead
Viagra, Cialis, Enzyte...
@Jason: What was the meeting like where they sat down and all agreed that this was a good idea for a commercial? "I can't believe nobody has ever done this before!"
LOL!!!!! Wonderfully horrible!
The ExtenZe guy! He is the ultimate example of terror and yuckola for the "what if you woke up next to this person and didn't remember the night before?" question game.
Then again, I don't know why I have to be subjected to the thought of any old man erections during prime time.
It's funny, they've kept the same footage for the modern version of the ad, except they've changed the voice over to say ''that old car MAY be worth money....''
How dare you call Moo and Oink awful?! The classic traitor suicide foods, the local joy, and my eternal favorite, the elegiac shift into the minor key at the end--that's brilliance, baby. Every now and then I'm watching an old video taped off of WGN and I'm greeted by Moo and Oink. Glad to know the legend lives on.
This is by far my favorite advertisement. But I don't think it fits here, alas.
@I am Mrs. Nerdtastic.: GO JAMIE!!!
I knew Jamie of Mythbusters had built those... but never seen the ad...
@pozican:
"Microsoft huh? So it's easy to use?"
Milk out my nose.
This would be a great product for those happenin' gospel musicians.
@Jason: If I didn't know better, I would've thought that that was the start of some weird fetish porn.
The first few times I saw the Enzyte commercials, I thought I was watching Comedy Central.
Definitely one of the top 5 of all time.
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and "Crumbelievable"
Bloody 'ell, this is so ghetto.
After looking at the people in the costumes, I feel ashamed for being a furry. XD I may have nightmares as well. O_O
@vmxeo: WTF?!?! I all of sudden feel that my life isn't so bad after watching the people in this commercial. Go me!!!
please do not click if you do not want to spoil the episode/series for yourself. but the ad placement is very..very unfortunate.
@Matt Redacted: Funny thing is that they still air that commercial during the daytime on certain stations. I grew up to that one and it's still cheesy, even to this day.
My life just became complete.