50 greatest commercial parodies of all time

The funnyhunters at Nerve have compiled a list of the 50 greatest commercial parody videos of all time. Above, the ecstasy egg. I could not agree more with their number one choice.

Previously: Fifty greatest comedy sketches of all time

[#1 posted by MCM , May 5, 2008 12:55 PM]

Holy crap, I animated this back when I used to do a bunch of work for Mad TV, what a pleasant surprise to see it here =)

[#2 posted by arkizzle , May 5, 2008 12:56 PM]

I could not agree more with their number one choice.

CLIP #01: "We're sorry, but the clip you selected isn't available from your location. Please select another clip."

Dammit!

[#3 posted by ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive , May 5, 2008 1:33 PM]

What?! No Log?! All kids love log!

[#4 posted by Pipenta , May 5, 2008 2:05 PM]

# 3 beat me to the punch!

Where is Log? Log had it all, snappy graphics, a jingle that embedded itself permanently into your brain and a dead on send up of the baby boomer TV ads.

Log pwns the Bass-O-matic!

I thought you guys were SpumCo fans!

[#5 posted by dacker , May 5, 2008 2:39 PM]

"It's a floor cleaner!"

"No it's a dessert topping!"

"It's both a floor cleaner AND a dessert topping!!!"

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Also, don't forget, "Pre-chewed Charlies" (restaurant)

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[#6 posted by sirkowski , May 5, 2008 3:34 PM]

More than half don't work outside the USA. :-/

[#7 posted by diddums , May 5, 2008 3:39 PM]

Count me as another "We're sorry, but the clip you selected isn't available from your location. Please select another clip."

HULU SUCKS.

[#8 posted by theHumanMan , May 5, 2008 3:47 PM]

Cockrings, Cockrings, Cockrings.

[#9 posted by shocking , May 5, 2008 3:53 PM]

The 50 greatest commercial parodies of ALL TIME and every one made by Americans! What a magnificent achievement. Now that's funny.

[#10 posted by pimmy , May 5, 2008 4:02 PM]

Since it doesn't include the Roseanne/Kevin Nealon "Metrocard" commercial from SNL 1991, then it isn't the 50 greatest.

[#11 posted by pimmy , May 5, 2008 4:04 PM]

Oops, not Nealon, Hartmann:

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90mmetrocard.phtml

[#12 posted by Gareth Stack , May 5, 2008 4:05 PM]

Looks like I was born in the wrong region again. Honestly what do these companies stand to gain from region locking clips? Dimwits.

[#13 posted by EvilTerran , May 5, 2008 5:43 PM]

Another bitten by region locking, here. Grr.

[#14 posted by nem0fazer , May 5, 2008 7:14 PM]

I joined boingboing so I could say - not in the USA .

Folks at boingboing. I love what you do and have discovered a hundred cool sites and podcasts because of you but please dont' put stuff up which 90% of the world can't see.

Thanks boingboing

[#15 posted by Anonyman , May 5, 2008 8:35 PM]

@nem0fazer, Those of us living in the U.S. have no way of telling that any of these clips are region locked, it's not BB's fault that the stupid video hosting companies did that, go complain there.

[#16 posted by ironix , May 5, 2008 10:17 PM]

@nem0fazer, I have to agree with #15 despite the fact that I live in Canada and also cannot see most of the videos. =(

[#17 posted by grayman23 , May 6, 2008 3:00 AM]

I actually have most of the SNL ones, unfortunately they are on Motion Pixels Movie CDs. Must hook drive to Windows laptop so I can soak in nostalgia.

[#18 posted by cephalopod , May 6, 2008 7:49 AM]

What, no Homocil? The tag line at the end gets me every time:
http://www.broadcaster.com/clip/9263

A Bass-O-Matic follow-up I remember from the Dan Aykroyd era: the Rovco Chinch Ranch, which lets you breed chinchillas for coats and meat ("Mmmm, that's great chinch!").

[#19 posted by protogenes , May 6, 2008 9:21 AM]

I can not heap enough contempt on a media player designed not to play in my country...

[#20 posted by Monster , May 6, 2008 10:34 AM]

How could they leave off KFC Shredders from SNL? That single parody made fun of just about every "extreme" commercial gimmick there is.