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SNL Commercials

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SNL Commercials

Post by sfpcc » Wed Jan 13, 2021 9:56 pm

About two months ago I discovered that Xfinity On Demand has the first five seasons of SNL. I binged watched all 106 of them. This leads me to a couple of questions.

Does anyone have a favorite Commercial Parody from that period? I guess mine would be Super Bassomatic.

The next one might be a little strange. Has anyone ever seen an SNL Commercial Parody and thought it was real?
When I was eight or nine I saw one featuring The Haitian Voodoo Medical Kit. I thought it was real and couldn't stop laughing. At that age I had no sense of context.



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Re: SNL Commercials

Post by MotorCityRadioFreak » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:11 am

I hate the original SNLs myself. The show didn't get good until about 89. I enjoyed the Colon Blow commercial as well as many others from that era.


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Re: SNL Commercials

Post by organman95 » Thu Jan 14, 2021 6:58 am

MotorCityRadioFreak wrote:
Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:11 am
I hate the original SNLs myself. The show didn't get good until about 89. I enjoyed the Colon Blow commercial as well as many others from that era.
Colon Blow is one of the best!

Also liked the "Mr. Bill" Safety commercials LOL



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Re: SNL Commercials

Post by sfpcc » Thu Jan 14, 2021 7:26 pm

Also liked the "Mr. Bill" Safety commercials LOL

Didn't Mr Bill do some comercials for Burger King?



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Re: SNL Commercials

Post by Turkeytop » Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:11 pm

There was one and I don't remember what they named the product, but its purpose was to remove an extra thumb, for anyone afflicted with that deformity.

At the end of the ad the announcer said "And now also available Toe-riffic."

Another I remember was the Eternarest Casket Mattress.


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Re: SNL Commercials

Post by matt1 » Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:03 am

That one "SNL" commercial swimming pool males scene with Van Halen's "Beautiful Girls" playing!!



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Re: SNL Commercials

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Re: SNL Commercials

Post by matt1 » Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:07 am

They took the Van Halen song because of music rights. No crap.



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Re: SNL Commercials

Post by sfpcc » Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:19 pm

Also liked the "Mr. Bill" Safety commercials LOL

Didn't Mr Bill do some comercials for Burger King?

I looked it up. Mr Bill did ads for Ramada Inn and Pizza Hut. Lowe and Home Depot commercials would have been funny but problematic.



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Re: SNL Commercials

Post by paul8539 » Thu Jan 28, 2021 9:30 pm

I liked 'Daddy's magic car whistle'.



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