A commercial that has been burned into your memory

Sayon said:
An old Cartoon Network bumper (I'm talking from the Cartoon Cartoons era) that was a What-If.

In it, the narrator was talking about what would happen if a mailman wasn't there to do his job. Fred Flintstone wouldn't get a letter talking about a recall on equipment at his job so he apparently smashes up The Smurf's village. Papa Smurf gets abducted by a flyer and dropped on George Jetson's saucer, the two crash into Space Ghost's ship (which I think killed them both). Space Ghost's ship crashes, more disasters and death, until a bunch of CN characters are all charred in a hole where a vehicle crashed. Then someone hits rewind so that the mailman does do his job and none of it happened.

I did see that commericial again on YouTube this year. Problem was it was among a collection of bumpers and I don't remember which one it was on. Anybody have a link?
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I once saw an animated PSA showing an ashtray-shaped starfighter swooping down on and destroying a larger starship in the shape of a cigarette. I'm not entirely sure that I didn't dream up the whole thing, though, since I've never been able to find any reference to it on the web.
 
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And on and on and on and Ariston for the past thirty years inside my head.


For a while in 90s Britain, certain television adverts had incredible amounts of memetic popularity, to the point where some of them would have adverts in the press to literally advertise an advert. Tango’s Ad Agency on the other hand, created absolute shitposts for UK national television, popular to the point where they could make adverts for sprouts and still have viewers recognise it as Tango.

Another favourite of British Ad Agencies was making commercials with ongoing storylines. Nescafé Gold Blend managed to spin out two music cd compilations, a VHS tape and a novelisation(?!) over the course of six years of will-they-won’t-they sexual tension between Antony Head and Sharon Maughan. People could not get enough.

Especially not for Renault’s seven year ad campaign for the Clio, featuring aspirationally rich frenchies driving middling hatchbacks. A final advert to end the storyline set the press rumour mills alight over a potential appearance from a famous face. Hugh Grant? Eric Cantona?

Bob?!

Twenty-three million people watched this in 1998. Twenty-three million people taken for one hell of a ruse, myself included. This will never be topped, just for the sheer audacity and wtf-ness of the reveal.
 
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There's this one commercial in movie theaters where a little girl is playing with a kite (?) And then she rejoins her family as they picnic in the desert, everything is sepia-ish with uplifting music. They're all happy and smiling, but the camera is always pulling back.

The camera keeps pulling back and the desert around this family is being filled with all manner of activity and people, a helmeted biker refueling his motorcycle, cars, an elephant together with a circus troupe... My memory of the ad is fuzzy but I think a plane lands in the background. The zooming out of the whole image is still in sepia, but there's a brilliant blue sky against the color pallette of golden brown.

So by now the desert's filled with activity around the family and everyone's doing their own thing. The music reaches it's peak and then it cuts to white. Then the words separated by the gulf of white appears in what to this day, my 7 year-old self thought was fucking great advertising even then.

"When there's sky above

And ground below...

All you need

Is VISA." (The blue and gold bars of VISA appeared when that happened)

HOLY SHIT, until now I am still blown away by it. I've been trying to find it for years ever since YouTube came up back in the day, but have been unsuccessful.
 
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I remember that, as a night owl Cartoon Network late at night was always a fascinating experience to me, both as a kid for CN itself and later as a teen with Adult Swim.

In fact, how different would my entire life be if it had not been for late night Cartoon Network? lol, it's a little scary to think how major of an impact it had on me.
 
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Metz - "Judderman"

Metz tv advert, directed by Enda McCallion. Beware the Judderman my dear, when the moon is fat.
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This apparently scared a lot of kids back then but even as a child I thought this was delightfully spooky
 
Dom Cruise said:
I remember that, as a night owl Cartoon Network late at night was always a fascinating experience to me, both as a kid for CN itself and later as a teen with Adult Swim.

In fact, how different would my entire life be if it had not been for late night Cartoon Network? lol, it's a little scary to think how major of an impact it had on me.
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Certainly a lot different from my childhood in the 80's when the only cartoon on at night was Rocky & Bullwinkle on a UHF station Saturday nights at 11 (followed by G.L.O.W., look it up!)
 
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