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17 years ago

I saw one the other day I thought was cute,

A guy was watching a cooking show on a big-screen TV. On the show it was a close up of the chef cutting up some beef. The guys dog comes in see's the meat and starts licking the TV screen.

Seen any funny or interesting commercials, lately?? Dottie

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Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
17 years ago
Not a recent one, but I enjoy it every so often on YouTube. It makes me chuckle no matter how often I see it.

Here is a link that might be useful: Windex and birds on You Tube
Jasdip
17 years ago
We're watching golf, and they just showed a commercial of a dog with a large bone. He tried hiding it a few times, buried it in the yard and then dug it up again when he saw the cat watching him. He then took a bus into the city and up the stairs of a bank. He put his bone inside a safety deposit box.
The next day he went and got it again. The end of the commercial showed the bone in a bowl beside his bed with a Traveler's insurance umbrella over it. Very cute commercial.
PS....if a commercial has an animal in it, it's cute.
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17 years ago
I love the commercal where a car tows a big, bright sun balloon down a road through the countryside. The sun lights up the areas along the road, which, on closer inspection, turn out to be *people* costumed as parts of trees, grass, etc.

How dey do dat?

It's so interesting to watch that I've yet to pick up the name of the car being advertised!
barb_from_pa
17 years ago
I like the Jimmy Dean breakfast commercials with the sun, moon, cloud, rainbow, etc. An original idea, imagine that!
pauline13
17 years ago
Chisue, those are Prius commercials I love them too! I also love the brokerage house commercials with the talking baby. Here is one of the Prius commercials.

Here is a link that might be useful: Prius
pauline13
17 years ago
I found talking baby. It's E-trade.

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golfergrrl
17 years ago
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17 years ago
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17 years ago
I used to love the talking baby e-Trade commercials, until they had the one where the baby threw up. Don't want or need to see anybody throwing up, so now every time that baby comes on my screen I either turn the channel or look away. I don't trust that company any more.
liz
17 years ago
I love the windex one...I just rented Best of Commercial Parodies by Saturday Night Live...it is a riot!!
sue_va
17 years ago
This is my current favorite.

Watch closely. The little girl in blue should get an award for her expressions.

Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: Pony
Jasdip
17 years ago
I saw that one today too Sue, while watching golf. Cute.
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My favorite foreign commercial,advertising a sports/energy drink.....our college soccer team needs this little guy...LOL......

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angela_nor_calif
17 years ago
I love the one for Clark Pest Control with the little blonde boy singing about spiders being yucky. He reminds me so much of my great nephew. So adorable!
lydia1959
17 years ago
Chisue, those are Prius commercials I love them too! Oh, me too! Those commercials make me happy! lol

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cynic
17 years ago
I must not be watching enough TV, or at least commercial TV, or enough commercials 'cause a lot of these, I haven't seen!

But the Windex birds closing the door always made me chuckle, but the talking baby commercials of any type irritate me.

Don't have any recent ones that stand out that I can recall but I'll just say I really miss Frank Bartles and Ed Jaymes! Thank you for your support!
dotmom
Original Author
17 years ago
Mt fav, all time commercial is the one where a young man is pushing a cart through a grocery store when he sees a kid throwing a royal tantrum. The kid is yelling, knocking things off shelves, rolling on the floor and making a terrific scene. The guy watches this for a little while, then the words come on the screen.......GOT CONDOMS?
samkaren
17 years ago
There is a commercial of this little boy who is playing drums with his ceral bowl full of milk. Naturally he makes this huge mess on the floor and the mother comes out all full of smiles and whips out a sheet of paper towels. She is smililng as she is cleaning up the mess.

I laugh at this commercial because I think "Ya Right...what mother would be smiling as her child is making a mess on the floor".

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