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Category Archives: Television
Just For Fun: Le Trefle
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Posted in advertising, Commercials, humor, Media, Television
Tagged advertising, foreign commercials, France, funny commercials, TV, TV commercials
The Flintstones: Fred And Barney And Winston
Return with us now to 1960 — the good old days — when you could sit down with the family to watch The Flintstones, while the folks at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company marketed Winston cigarettes to your kids.
As Fred says, “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.”
Saturday Night Live Black Friday Commercial Parody
This link is to a Hulu video of a Saturday Night Live commercial parody. I would have liked to embed the video in the blog, but there’s no way to do that with a video on Hulu and a WordPress.com blog.
By Marc Librescu
Charmin Ultra Strong: Enjoying the Go?
Unless you’ve been hibernating, you’ve seen the animated commercials for Charmin Ultra Strong featuring bears and their dingleberries. Are these commercials annoying? Does a bear sh*t in the woods?
To make matters worse, they’ve recently added the line “Enjoy the go!” Enjoy the go? Do they think I’m saying to myself, “Gee, I can’t wait until this afternoon when I can sit down and unwind with a nice long dump”?
Enjoy the go. Picture it — it’s Friday night. You had plans to go out on a hot date, but instead, you call her up and say, “Hey hun, I know we were supposed to go out to dinner tonight but I think I’m just going to stay in and pinch a loaf.”
Don’t worry. She’ll understand. She knows how much fun doing a deuce is.
Here’s a parody I found on YouTube.
If you want to find out more about enjoying your go, you’ll enjoy going to Charmin’s website.
By Marc Librescu
Posted in advertising, Commercials, copywriting, humor, Media, Television, Writing
Tagged bears, cartoons, charmin, Charmin bears, Commercials, TV commercials, Ultra Strong
EDS Keeps Those Doggies Rollin’
These are two of the funniest commercials I’ve seen in a long time.
Priceless line:
“It ain’t an easy job, but when you bring a herd into town, and you ain’t lost a-one of them, ain’t a feeling like it in the world.”
By Marc Librescu
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Posted in Commercials, copywriting, Television, Uncategorized
Tagged cat herding, Commercials, commericals, EDS, funny commercials, TV, TV commercials
Johnson Automotive: We Don’t Need No Badgers
This is a series of brilliant commercials produced for Johnson Automotive. They’re hilarious and on point. The commercials cleverly use the badger character to parody car salesmen and let the viewer know that Johnson Automotive doesn’t badger its customers.
The badger is really a puppet that’s being controlled by five operators, who were later digitally removed.
Another winner of the coveted 5 Monkey Award!
Posted in advertising, Commercials, copywriting, Television, Writing
Tagged advertising, badger commercial, badgers, commercial, Commercials, funny commercial, funny commercials, humor, Johnson Automotive, TV, TV commercials
