Archive for the 'Parody' Category

Brushing With Colgate Blue Minty Gel is Madness

Published on January 25, 2011 in 1980s, Commercials, Funny, Music, Parody, Toothpaste and UK.

“Baggy Trousers” is a song by English ska/pop band Madness from their 1980 album Absolutely. Colgate used a slightly different version of the song with different lyrics to sell their Blue Minty Gel toothpaste and Colgate Pump container for a television advertisement.

Toothpaste is not intended to be swallowed.

Madness are a British pop/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976.

Colgate, an oral hygiene product line and one of the namesake brands of the Colgate-Palmolive Company, is a manufacturer of a wide range of toothpastes, toothbrushes, and mouthwashes.

Do You Want To Get Frosty With Wendy’s Frosty Posse?

Published on June 11, 2009 in 2000s, Ajay Bhatt, Commercials, Fast Food, Food, Funny, Ice Cream, Music, Parody, Sunil Narkar and Wendy's.

The Frosty is the signature frozen dairy dessert of Wendy’s fast-food restaurants.

The word posse has come to be used colloquially to refer to various teams, cliques, or gangs, often in pursuit of a crime suspect (on horseback in the Westerns), sometimes without legal authority.

A Boy band refers to a type of pop group featuring several young male singers. The members are generally expected to perform as dancers as well, often executing highly choreographed sequences to their own music

Here’s Ed McMahon and MC Hammer Selling Cash4Gold

Published on February 6, 2009 in 2000s, Celebrities, Commercials, Ed McMahon, Funny, MC Hammer, Parody, Sports, Super Bowl and USA.

Cash4Gold.com is a Pompano Beach, Florida based division of Albar Precious Metal Refining, that buys gold, primarily from jewelry, acting as an online pawn broker. It is notable for advertising during Super Bowl XLIII in 2009. Sources place the cost for the 30-second advertisement at $2.4-$3.0 million US dollars.

Edward “Ed” Leo Peter McMahon, Jr. (born March 6, 1923) is an American comedian, game show host, announcer, and television personality most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson’s announcer on Who Do You Trust? from 1957 to 1962 and on the Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992, and as the host of the talent show Star Search from 1983 to 1995.

Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage names MC Hammer and Hammer, is an American multi-platinum selling MC and dancer most popular during the late 1980s until the mid-1990s, known for his dramatic rise and fall from fame and fortune and his trademark Hammer Pants.

In a world where Don LaFontaine steams up Birdseye Steamfresh vegetables

Published on September 4, 2008 in 2000s, Commercials, Don LaFontaine, Food, Parody and USA.

In a 2007 interview, [Don] LaFontaine explained the strategy behind his signature catch phrase, “in a world where…”: “We have to very rapidly establish the world we are transporting them to. That’s very easily done by saying, `In a world where … violence rules.’ `In a world where … men are slaves and women are the conquerors.’ You very rapidly set the scene.”

Steaming is a method of cooking using steam. Overcooking or burning food is easily avoided when steaming it. Health conscious individuals may prefer steaming to other methods which require cooking oil, resulting in lower fat content.

Birds Eye is an international brand of frozen foods such as seafood, meat and vegetables.
[They are] considered to be one of the founders of the modern frozen food industry and is credited with inventing a fast freezing process that preserves the quality of food.

Unpimp Your Auto

Published on May 29, 2008 in 2000s, Cars, Commercials, Funny, Germany, Parody, USA and Volkswagen.

Adolf Hitler had a keen interest in cars even though he did not drive. In 1933, shortly after taking over as leader of Germany, he asked Ferdinand Porsche to make changes to his original 1931 design to make it more suited for the working man. Hans Ledwinka discussed his ideas with Ferdinand Porsche, who used many Tatra design features in the 1938 “KdF-Wagen”, later known as the VW Käfer – or Volkswagen Beetle.

The initial American ad campaign for the GTI featured the “fast”, which Volkswagen says is the feeling and force inside you that likes driving and encourages your driving passion, with the tagline “Make friends with your fast”. However, recently those ads were replaced with a series of ads starring Peter Stormare as a “German engineer” hired to “un-pimp ze auto” by taking tuner cars and smashing them, giving their owners a GTI instead.

Peter Stormare (born August 27, 1953) is a Swedish-American film, stage, voice and television actor as well as a theatrical director and playwright.

MC Hammer has Feelings for Pepsi

Published on March 25, 2008 in 1990s, Cola, Commercials, Drinks, Funny, MC Hammer, Music, Parody, Pepsi, Soft Drinks and USA.

Pepsi and other similar products contain large amounts of sugar. Excessive sugar intake is thought to be a contributing factor in the development of certain types of diabetes.

[MC] Hammer also began the trend of rap artists being accepted as mainstream pitchmen. Prior to Hammer, it was virtually unheard of for a hip-hop artist to be seen in a major commercial spot. Hammer appeared in major marketing campaigns for companies such as Pepsi and Taco Bell to the point that he was criticized as a “sell-out”.

“Feelings” is a song by Morris Albert, first recorded by him as the title track of his 1975 debut album. The song’s lyrics, recognizable by their “woah woah woah” chorus, concern the singer’s inability to “forget my feelings of love.” Albert’s original recording of the song was very successful, reaching the Top 10 in both the pop and Adult Contemporary charts in America and performing well internationally.