What is your favorite commercial?

United States
July 18, 2007 1:00pm CST
What is your favorite commercial on television, radio, or the Internet? I want to hear about it even if it is from another country. For me it is the Progressive commercials. I really like the one where the guy is standing out in the parking lot talking about Progressive Insurance will come out to you to give you an estimate on the damage do on your vehicles. The guy says he is a musician and he says that Progressive will come out to see the damage done to his van if it is pummeled by adoring fans or if he is hit by light poles. The he goes to say, “It just came out of nowhere.”
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13 responses
• United States
19 Jul 07
I love that one too. My latest favorite is the commercial where Beckham is coming to the U.s. and the Spanish are taking the news real hard. There's a little girl crying, a man is adding Beckham's name to a stop sign, another is peeling the 2 from the 23 sticker, A woman is reading the paper and she is in shock, meanwhile Beckham is greeting crowds and suiting up to play in the U.S. and the music playing is " You say Good bye and I say Hello" by the Beatles.
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• United States
19 Jul 07
I just saw another great commerical. There is a Red VW Bug convertible parked and a car thief steals it.He puts do the top and is driving. He stops for school children to cross the street and the last child waves at him. He passes a bus stop where an older couple waves at him. He makes a u-turn and returns the car. The last scene the true car owner comes to the car. This is the second VW commerical. The first a VW Bug is parked in a towing zone, and the tow truck guy gets in the car and instead of towing the car, he moves it up to a non towing parking spot.
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• United States
19 Jul 07
I did see the second VW commecial where the tow truck driver moves the car up a spot so as not to tow the car away. I have not seen the Beckham commercial. I know they are going to be airing a reality show about their life and who hard it is to find a home and find a decent school for the boys. I am sure it will be a big hit.
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• United States
19 Jul 07
Yeah I like that one...I just saw one yesterday for the first time with Sigourney Weaver in that machine-thing beating the crap out of that Alien, and she says, "Stay away from her, you -----!", and then suddenly turns to the camera and starts talking about how great direct tv is...anyway, it was pretty wierd to see that. I like the caveman commericials, too. There's a few others but I just can't think of them right this minute.
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• United States
19 Jul 07
Yes when it comes down to writing down all the commericials we like I tent to have touble remembering all of them until someone brings them up.
@rimsha (806)
• Pakistan
19 Jul 07
I like ice cream very much therefore Ice Cream commercials are my favorite commercials.
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• United States
19 Jul 07
yum
• India
19 Jul 07
I like the Chlor-mint commercial.Whenever we eat chlor-mint a sexy girl jumps on us from anywhere,we only have to catch her.A guy is watching all this,the people who eat chlor-mint always get a sexy babe,and atlast when he eats chlor-mint a sheep jumps on him.So the moral of the sory is you will get love when you eat Chlor-mint,but love from anyone.
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• United States
19 Jul 07
At least it was not from an ugly women or something discusting like a snake
@beyonce03 (2331)
• Canada
19 Jul 07
I am from Canada (quebec) and one of my fav was one by the yaourt Danone. it doesnt play anymore, but it still one of my favorite of all time :) The little girl come and wake up his daddy : Daddy daddy, can I have a yaourt. The dad : go and ask your mom Then the little girl go wake up her mom and say : mommy, mommy, can daddy give me a yaourt It,s the cutest commercial I ever saw :P
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• United States
19 Jul 07
Yes I do think that is funny. I am in the USA and we do not have that but it sounds funny.
@totty1969 (1468)
• United States
19 Jul 07
I like the Geiko Caveman commercials "So easy even a caveman can do it!"
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• United States
19 Jul 07
Poor cavemen.
• United States
19 Jul 07
I like the green lizard for the car insurance not sure how to spell either one but I think he is cute.
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• United States
19 Jul 07
Yes I like the Geico gecko also. He is go cute.
@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
18 Jul 07
I think that Geico has to be my favorite with the little gecko I think it is. He talks and has an accent. He walk around like a human and sells the service of insurance. Glad that they keep using that and hope that they do for a long time. I remember the commercial that you mention. They work on the care it looks like while he speaks of the product.
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• United States
19 Jul 07
I do like the Geico gecko, I also like the comcast turtles. I like the one where he is pushing the laptop out in the yard away from the hook up to make it go slower. She says "Push it" and he say "You come push it Push it real good". I think they are so funny.
@soccermom (3198)
• United States
18 Jul 07
I have a couple. One is the Home Depot commercial with the girl who looks about 12, and she's in the kitchen and her dad walks in and she goes "what's up with these cupboards? and what about the lights? and the appliances? You should go to Home Depot" like the kitchen looks sooo uncool. Then she walks out ot the living room and her mom is sitting there and doesn't say a word, just holds some money up and the girl takes it as she walks by. Also there is a Diet Mountain Dew commercial on the radio about some town in New Zealand called Hokywakitookykaukau something. It's hysterical!!
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• United States
19 Jul 07
The Home depot one is good, she gets the daughter to do her work for her. I have not heard the the diet Mountain dew one. I will be looking forward to hearing it. I like the budwiser commercials onthe radio that solute the workers. The everyday workers. I can't think of of but they are cute songs.
@skydancer (2101)
• United States
19 Jul 07
I very rarely watch TV, and my favorite commercials and cloudy memory of them may very well reflect that because they're both long gone. The first was broadcast in the late 90's and it was for GE. I remember some aviation footage shown, and the theme was "What are we doing here?" I mostly thought the song was cool. I am in favor of GE commericals in general, but that one was my favorite. The other one was from 2002 and for Office Depot. It opened I think in a classroom full of elementary school age kids and the teacher asks one of them to name the first American woman in space. After mulling over the question, Sally Ride, who happens to be sitting beside him cheats and gives him the answer. I think the most memorable line fron that was when Sally is asked if she wants a ride, and she replies, "No thanks, I'll take the shuttle!" Again, these memories are very vague, so don't expect them to be 100% accurate.
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• United States
19 Jul 07
Good job for someone who does not watch TV do you listen to the radio. I am assuming you like some type of noice around you. I have been listen to country music on the computer while I am here on mylot. I downloaded Itunes. I love the free radio.
@wiccania (3360)
• United States
18 Jul 07
One of the best commercials ever was an M&M's commercial. Red, Yellow and Blue are sitting on some steps eating M&M's, Red eating plain, Yellow eating peanut and Blue eating crispy. The guy who'd been in several commercials with them comes up and says "What are you doing? You can't eat M&M's!" Red says "Why not, you do." The guys says "You don't eat your own kind." So they swap bags. Then the guy takes the bags away from them and walks off shaking his head. The first time I saw that commercial I was laughing so hard I couldn't move. I ended up being half an hour late for work. When I explained why to the manager he laughed and said to go ahead and mark down that I came in ontime on my time card.
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• United States
19 Jul 07
You have an understanding boss. I do not think it will work a second time. Nothing like canaballistic M&M's.
@ibuemma (2953)
• United States
18 Jul 07
I think back 4 or 5 years ago, Taco Bell has this commercial on TV with the talking Chihuahua. That's very funny I love to see that! And I think after that commercial showed up, have Chihuahua as a pet became a trend.
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• United States
19 Jul 07
The taco bell chihuahua was cute I liked him. I do not know what happened to him.
• United States
18 Jul 07
I know the commercial you are referring to, it is funny, but I have to say I like the M&M commercials and the ones about Geico insurance with the little geico. I think he's cute and cool.