Hey! Have You Heard? Time For Some Ads To Talk About, So Please Enjoy!
AT&T released a commercial in 1998 – starring a 14-year-old Kate Mara – about a middle-school girl who reveals her secret crush to her friends, only for those friends to share that secret to the whole world. By the time the girl gets home, even her mother is talking about "Bobby Templeton," much to the girl's shocked surprise, Only for the girl to walk into the living room to see Bobby waiting there to invite her to the dance.
- GoDaddy.com has made a name for itself making blatantly suggestive ads. In fact, they get so caught up in trying to be too cool that the product tends to be overlooked - they're in the extremely low end of the domain-name registrar business.
- In 2008 they pulled the stunt of posting a TV ad online and hyping that with the actual TV spots. But it's worth noting that most of the time was actually broadcast; the web version is just longer.
- Tell me how these commercials relate to Go Daddy.
- The year after the infamous Wardrobe Malfunction, they actually referenced the incident in their ad.
One Doritos commercial consisted of a guy using a Dorito chip as bait in a mousetrap, and sitting in front of it. He eats a handful of Doritos from a bag and a giant mouse blasts through the wall and tackles the guy sitting, and proceeds to punch him in the face.
- In 2008, FedEx ran an ad in which someone at a business firm proposed using carrier pigeons for shipping. For large items, they already had giant carrier pigeons. Mayhem ensued.
- In 2005, FedEx tried to make the best Super Bowl ad by combining elements of other successful ads
- In 2000, eTrade showed two guys and a monkey in a garage, with a boom box playing music, That's pretty much it. The tag line: "Well, we just wasted two million bucks. What are you doing with your money?"
- In 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble, advertising for Super Bowl XXXIV was almost totally consumed by random websites selling useless services, many of which folded shortly afterward (likely because they blew a year's budget on a Super Bowl ad and people still didn't know what they sold). The most famous of these, by far, was the Pets.com sock puppet, which has been spoofed ruthlessly in years since.
- In a weird move, that exact puppet has been selling Bar None insurance for more than half a decade, arguably longer than it actually existed as the spokespuppet for Pets.com.
- Referenced in this E*Trade commercial from 2001 (excuse the quality), where the monkey from the previous year rides on horseback through Desolation Shots of failed fictional dot-com bubble businesses, concluding with a sockpuppet (resembling the aforementioned Pets.com puppet) from a demolishing-in-progress "eSocks.com" building thrown at the monkey's feet. Cue sad monkey
- Tide released an ad during Super Bowl LII that started out as various other types of Super Bowl commercials before David Harbour revealed they were all really Tide ads, because of how clean everyone's clothes were. Even after the first ad aired, it continued the campaign during the game, even hijacking an Old Spice ad as well as a Mr. Clean ad from the previous year.
- a DoorDash commercial featuring Daveed Diggs and the cast of Sesame Street, directed by Michel Gondry and set to a reworking of "The People In Your Neighborhood". That week, DoorDash donated a dollar from every order to Sesame Workshop.
- In this commercial for Cookie Crisp, Cookie Crook disguises his dog, Chip, as a baby and himself as his mother to trick Cookie Cop into looking after Chip to distract him so he can steal Cookie Crisp. This plan fails because Chip howls "Coo-oo-ookie Crisp!" upon seeing the titular cereal, allowing Cookie Cop to see through his and Cookie Crook's disguises.
And That’s All For Some Random Ads That Are Great!
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