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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you have a favorite SNL commercial?
Mine has little video, just words running up the screen:
Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Ball.
Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
Happy Fun Ball Contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete.
Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs:
Itching
Vertigo
Dizziness
Tingling in extremities
Loss of balance or coordination
Slurred speech
Temporary blindness
Profuse sweating
Heart palpitations
If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration...
Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Ball, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Happy Fun Ball has been shipped to our troops in Afghanistan and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Happy Fun Ball comes with a lifetime guarantee.
Happy Fun Ball
ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Thanks!
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)hibbing
(10,109 posts)Hi,
That's my favorite off the top of my head, funny stuff. Oh, and of course the mini donuts or whatever it was with John Belushi as an athlete, big gut and smoking.
Peace
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Go Vols
(5,902 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)In his best skit of the night, Manning makes fun of big brother Peyton in a fake ad for the "Little Brothers" program (a dig at the "United Way" skit Petyon did when he hosted SNL). In the skit, Eli helps some boys "straighten out" their older siblings...
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)RedSpartan
(1,693 posts)The best there was, the best there is, the best there ever will be:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/679770/
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)The original music (Van Halen's Beautiful Girls) was changed to something generic musak-sounding for syndication/video.
Chris Farley - RIP
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)...and Doggie Downers.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)To this day I remember watching that, and I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at anything, ever.
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)It's a floor wax? No. It's a dessert topping!
***WAIT!!!***
It's a dessert topping AND a floor wax.
surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)"I'll spray some on your mop, and some on your butterscotch pudding."
beac
(9,992 posts)4 guineas
2 crowns
4 shillings
and tenpence!
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)BrendaBrick
(1,296 posts)Denninmi
(6,581 posts)There have been some brilliant ones over the years. Many great ones are already posted.
One of my favorites from the past decade is 'Tressant Supreme', the hair coloring that contains "just a little bit of crack cocaine."
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ms5s_saturday-night-live-tressant-suprem_fun
AmyDeLune
(1,846 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)We always tell our cats they need that when they get their rear ends a little too close to our faces for polite company. LOL
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ETA: I found the transcript & a couple still shots:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/92/92eass.phtml
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Commercial about a pain reliever with a REALLY hard to open child-proof cap. Can't find a link but found out it aired on SNL 10/11/75.
BrendaBrick
(1,296 posts)pronounced "try openin'"
Triopenin
Written by: Tom Schiller
Announcer ...
Hands ... Chevy Chase
Close-up of spotlit hands on a black background.
Announcer V/O: Arthritis in the adult is painful, lonely, and sometimes difficult to manage.
The sore, aching hands massage one another's joints.
Arthritis is particularly annoying when coupled with neuralgia and severe muscular tension. Abrupt weather changes can add discomfort.
Flashing red lights indicate soreness and pain in the hands.
Inflamed tissues can cause local swelling, calling for special relief.
A medicine bottle magically appears between the hands.
Triopenin, [pronounced: TRY OPENIN'] a compound of powerful anti-arthritic spantials and antihistamines, speeds soothing relief where needed.
The hands try unsuccessfully to unscrew the bottle's top.
Triopenin is gentle, non-habit-forming, aids in soothing muscles and liberating stiff, painful joints.
The hands pound on the bottle top and then try to pry it off, to no avail.
Soon, you're handling life again, feeling better, and getting a firm grasp on the situation.
Dissolve to a graphic that reads TRIOPENIN with a photo of two bottles -- one of them shattered, the pink pills spilled across a blue background.
Triopenin -- get your hands working again. Now with the new childproof safety cap.
fade
Source: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75atriopenin.phtml
I think that one was from the very first episode. Funny!!!
Also, here's a link from wiki listing all the SNL commercial parodies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Saturday_Night_Live_commercial_parodies
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Didn't know it was the very first episode. I was 13 years old and watching TV with my grandparents, who were visiting at the time. When we saw those spoof commercials, we at first thought they were the real things. We were laughing like goons.
BrendaBrick
(1,296 posts)Yeah, I was in high school when I saw the first episode. I was with a bunch of friends and we cracked up the whole time!
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)But can't seem to find the video. OOOH, I found it. Bad quality, though.
benld74
(9,909 posts)MountainMama
(237 posts)but I think the absolute best one they did was the "Compulsion" ad in the '80s.
Ah, Phil.....we still miss you.
"Between cleaniness and godliness lies compulsion..."
It was a takeoff of the Obsession ads. It was pitch perfect.