Subscribe Now!The Oddest Commercials Ever?
January 17th, 2007 by Anita Bath
Over the past week I’ve been on an advertising kick. After publishing my choices for the Top 10 Billboard Advertisements, I had decided not to post any more funny or cool ads for a while. However, just as I was finishing a different post, a friend sent me what I could only describe as the strangest video I have ever seen:
(if you can’t see the video, click here)
By the third time watching it, I couldn’t stop laughing. Apparently this was a big hit in England, and was inspired by a commercial for Quiznos (also by the same producer):
(if you can’t see the video, click here)
I’m now told this is a relatively old commercial, but since I had never seen it (and am still laughing from these “spongmonkeys”), I thought maybe some of you hadn’t either.
What do you think … funny, annoying, or just dumb?
Cat one was funny. Rat one annoying.
“funny, annoying, or just dumb?”
D. All of the above
Like so many other things, since I’m older than dirt, I knew OF those dopey Quiznos ads before I ever saw one. They’re not THAT old (3-4 years, maybe?) but I saw references to them well before I ever saw one. It’s kind of like that song “Bette Davis Eyes” from back in the 80s, I heard several different parodies of it before I ever heard the original song.
Did I mention I’m old?
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I know someone who was so freaked out by the Quizno’s “squashed rat” that she didn’t eat there for years.
Personally, I thought they were fantastically bizarre. They didn’t really make me want a honey bourbon swiss sammich, but they certainly were memorable.
The Quiznos commercial is a version of the original We Like The Moon. Warning, bizarre video starts at link.
The moonsong is what started these guys out:
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/
I think it’s hysterical, but nobody I know seems to get why I think its so funny.
what fond memories! thanks for sharing the singing hairball Quizno’s commercial; I loved it then, I love it now. Before I found out they were actually hamsters, I thought the singing furballs were really hairballs a cat coughed up! Seriously, don’t they look like hairballs?!