The Tiger Woods Nike ad — you know, the one with Tiger’s dad talking to him — has almost certainly been one of the most talked about ads of the year. It certainly seems as if it’s about to set a record for most parodied.
From movies to metal, it’s as if hundreds of different tracks have been appended to this easily-made-fun-of bit of advertising. And let’s face it, if you have 30 seconds of dialogue, you can edit out the track of Tiger’s dad, insert your own funny, ironic stuff, and upload. If you have less, edit down the ad. Simple!
Here are some of the very best parodies we’ve seen — keeping in mind that there are a lot of funny ones we won’t play here because of the profanity, etc. (We’ll link to those with the good ol’ NSFW warning, though.)
OK, here’s the original (and a link to our From the Bunker blog, which discussed it on Wednesday:
And now, a twist courtesy of Disney’s The Lion King:
Hugh Jackman is no stranger to dancing across a Broadway stage. And now the sexy actor is showing off his moves for Lipton Iced Tea in a 60-second commercial that will never air stateside.
Judging by the video (watch after the jump), Jackman’s ad is meant to be seen by an Asian audience. But, thanks to YouTube, anyone with a computer can watch the Wolverine star strut his stuff. Read the full story
The White Stripes say the Air Force Reserve made unauthorized use of their song “Fell in Love With a Girl” during an ad that ran in certain markets during Sunday’s American football championship Super Bowl telecast.
The White Stripes and their label, Third Man Records, said on the band’s Web site that the song was re-recorded and usedwithout permission.
The two-person rock band originally from Detroit says it takes “strong insult” to the ad and says it implies the White Stripes “encourage recruitment during a war that we do not support.”
The Air Force Reserve said in a statement that the music in the ad was original, and it never intended to use any existing music or “to sound like any music by the band White Stripes.”
To see and rate more commercials, check out http://www.youtube.com/adblitz and feel the incredibly expensive promotional love!
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So this isn’t a commercial, but the Jay-Z intro is pretty impressive, because drum beats = drama, and have that lovely orchestral backing that scream “Important sports documentary moment.” And it doesn’t involve Diddy, which everything seemed to about five years ago, so all the better.
You know what’s not a Super Bowl commercial but that I love anyway? Those surreally cheesy Bedding Barn ads with the weird dude in the cape and the women in the costumes playing drums and the big red barn they’ve been using since 1987. It’s the most consistent “What that higgity was that?” moment in advertising, and it’s so awful you gotta love it. Read the full story
Pop-up promos, like this one for TNT's 'White Collar' have become more and more insidious. (AP)
Somewhere in the universe of TV viewers, there’s got to be a person who actually likes those pop-up, on-screen promotions.
Someone who thinks, “Thank you, network people, for those useful, informative announcements that block what I’m watching to tell me what I’m watching, or tell me what I could be watching next, which will then be blocked by reminders of what I could be watching after that.”
This is a happy viewer all right, and maybe he or she exists in some den or family room absorbing those intrusive promos that, for everybody else, undermine what TV networks are ideally in business to do: entertain, not tick off. Read the full story
ADT, the home security company based in Boca Raton, has won the Silver Scoop award in PETA’s Glitterbox Awards for a television advertisement for its fire monitoring product.
People I would totally beat up if I was trapped in a television commercial with them:
1) Anyone who poured gravy on my carpet just so they could clean it up with Wondro X-47 or whatever.
2) Ditto those who pour mud on your shirt. Do it and you’re wearing it, man.
3) Women who assault you in the feminine products aisle and ask you whether you ever feel not so fresh. Tacky!
4) That bratty family on the “KFc” commercial who whines when their mom puts the variety bucket in front of them until she rotates it to the fatty fried chicken product they really want. She didn’t have to buy you anything, losers! She oughta take her bucket and go find a better family, leaving you alone in you ungrateful chickenless vortex. And P.S., KFC- We know you’re Kentucky Fried Chicken, no matter what abbreviations you use and no matter how many times you play “Sweet Home Alabama” in your commercials. The gig is up, people. We’re on to you.
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Hugh Jackman is no stranger to dancing across a Broadway stage. And now the sexy actor is showing off his moves for Lipton Iced Tea in a 60-second commercial that will never air stateside. 
