View source for Mundane Made Awesome/Advertising

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Let's be honest. Advertising in general is at least 50% [[Mundane Made Awesome|this]]. Let's look at the guys who took it to 80% and beyond...

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* Adverts for sporting events. Reaches [[Egregious]] proportions when promoting the less, shall we say, eventful sports. Granted, sports like football (either of them), basketball, or hockey are fairly action packed, but ''curling?!''
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM Brilliantly parodied] in ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]''.
*** It would truly be a crime for this page to go on without [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK-gUXl7usc this parody] from ''[[The Simpsons]]''. The video cuts over the reaction shots, but this had to be here.
** If NBC is to be believed, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idSdnubrlds curling is pretty epic].
* The new line of Burger King adverts. A man eating a burger while describing it in a voice more appropriate for action movie trailers. "''And this time''... there is '''bacon'''." Made even funnier because all his mates look at him [[Genre Savvy|like he's lost his mind]].
* Sony's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IouhLjSrYNk advertisement] for [[Play Station Move]] by [[Memetic Badass|Kevin Butler, VP of Epic Gaming]].
* Introducing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_70xGUxznYY Miracle Whip], the "[[The Man Is Sticking It to the Man|rebellious]]" mayonnaise.
* An ad for the fruit juice Fresh Up features a man knocking back a can of the juice dramatically, while rock music plays and the wind blows up around him. The first time he does it on a ski field. Then he does it at work. Then he does it at the bus stop. Then while mowing the lawn. Then- well, [[Overly Long Gag|you get it]]
* Commercials for Rickard's beer. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpA3LkdLeKc They have to be seen] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV-hNQlBqDA to be believed].
* There's a UK Coors Light advert which does the same action movie voiceover gag as the BK one. It ends with the tagline 'Damn, that's a light-tasting beer!' spoken by a pretty girl, in the same voice.
* [[Michael Bay]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXRCf9LbLM0 demands things to be awesome!]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmNEG8IFd_Y&feature=related Awesome and sexy!]
** A suggestion for Michael Bay's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXGWZxI9lAs take on breakfast]
* A Fedex commercial parodied this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmZRDUO1wGQ here:]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc_szUYJAYE "Yeah... babies EVERYWHERE!"]
* '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lnev_Ken6o Segata Sanshiro].'''
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF2-wy9ZE_M Coffee needs refueling].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVdS1NJLlIw This Japanese ad]. (It's advertising satellite TV, by the way.)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL4hyATkQ74 This old Windows ad featuring Steve Ballmer]
* Many, many IBM commercials do this. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F63tYLhiqZ8 this one] for example.]
** And on the other side of the personal computer war, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 Apple's pastiche of the book] [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pir1Hug-CEc But nobody out-awesomes the] [[Semper Fi|United States Marine Corps!!]]
* The latest ad for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxLS2I Office 2010] is awesome.
* Even an [http://www.trenpatagonico-sa.com.ar/ Argentinean railway] gets in on the madcap.
** So does a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NS1NbX_hcU British rail ticket company].
* Danish movie audiences are frequently, just before the movie starts, treated with a small snippet where a mixed choir sings a song to the tune of "''[[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]''". The lyrics translates to: "Turn off your mobile/it is time to watch movies/and it is such a bummer/if it rings during the movie"
* The infamous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50& ''Crossfire'' commercial] turned an ordinary board game into an epic event which with the game being a life-and-death situation, complete with over-the-top dramatic special effects, voiceover, and music.
** [[Memetic Mutation|YOU'LL GET CAUGHT UP IN THE! CROSS-FIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRaA3lhXb8Q Yoplait Go-Gurt.] Remember, for a second, that this is yogurt. YOGURT. IN A TUBE. Apparently, eating from a tube is the hippest way to eat food. Who do you think of when you think "cool?" That's right--people in hospitals.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNanKfY5T9A&NR=1 Imagine for a moment this chicken is your hard drive,] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIL8OX1o2s and the 80s metal band] [[Dokken]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIL8OX1o2sis a virus.]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L70I0vTwYxg&feature=channel Dolph Lundgren wants to take your unicorn and do bad things to it.]
* Would you believe [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GbaFAF7iME subscribing to a magazine] will not only make [[Your Head Asplode]], but also make Your Entire ''World'' A-splode?
* '''[[Memetic Mutation|EXTREME]]''' [http://extremeadvertisements.com/ advertising] (NSFW).
* Terry Crews and Old Spice. Their combination makes body wash ''impossibly'' awesome. These commercials are "'''TOO EPIC TO END'''".
** Chalk that up to the ads being directed by [[Tim and Eric]].
* [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like]] commercials from Old Spice. While they may not be as loud and over the top as some commercials, the commercials [[Memetic Mutation|Are Now Diamonds!]]
* Recent ads for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxZvdaBaTb8 Premium saltines] feature exploding bowls of soup and the song "Rock You Like a Hurricane".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3GH7Pn_eA Drinking Carlton Draft beer is epic.]
* Warburton's make bread. They deliver it, and it is apparently [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSxZCrTGhpc momentous].
* Apparently when an intern forgets to bring donuts, the proper response is to shift into sport mode, play "[[Ride of the Valkyries]]", crash through a plate glass window, and haul donuts to the office at a dead sprint. Ladies, Gentlemen, and Tropers, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1IrMViryA Nissan Juke].
* '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FnXlcpG0LQ Now you're playing with power, SUPER POWER!!!]'''
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIiMA1-W70 This] Honda Odyssey commercial combines the power of pyrotechnics and [[Judas Priest|JUDAS. FUCKING. PRIEST.]] This Troper actually wanted the vehicle after seeing it.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DucgYOMq0 Lowes's March 2011's commercial, full stop]. Most people are well aware that home improvement is dull. Try telling that to the producers of ''this'' gem, which portrays a Karate Kid-style training session, followed by synchronized roll painting, the wife sliding across the floor to tighten a screw from a leaky faucet, and the husband running from sprinkler fire as if he's avoiding a machine gun nest from WWII.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl7TBjRI9LE&feature=player_embedded This promo for the 2011 ''National Day Of Prayer''.] It combines this trope with full-on [[Scary Amoral Religion]] and looks like [[X Meets Y|Roland Emmerich and Michael Bay collaborated on the work]]. [[Unfortunate Implications|The message]] seems to be that [[Kneel Before Zod|if you don't drop to your knees]] and pray on the date in question, [[Bolt of Divine Retribution|God will make you pay.]]
* Dairy Queen's latest batch, riding Old Spice's coattails. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VtH5xdbMtU Behold.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN9OKXtzHtE Call J. G. Wentworth!] '''''[[Crowning Music of Awesome|EIGHT SEVEN SEVEN CASH NOW!!!!]]'''''
* Played with in a station-i.d. clip for TNT, in which shots of a woman ''making coffee'' are presented like scenes from a suspense movie. Justified, as the slogan of the clip is the network's usual "We Know Drama".
* Parodied in a recent commercial for Strongbow cider, which showed three men delivering a new sofa to an old lady in a block of flats with a broken lift in the manner of a SWAT team or commandos storming a building to rescue a hostage.
* Horror movie director [[Rob Zombie]] makes [http://bcove.me/1du5m8a6 a laundry commercial] in the style of torture porn. "Save them..."
* 5 Gum commercials try to make the simple experience of chewing gum look [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLp9gSpUQFM ridiculously epic.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bhq_NL6jL0 BABY!] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8n4HNAhsa4&feature=related CARROTS!] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbZHasnugts&feature=related Eat them like junkfood.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLIIKrJ6nnI FULLY LOADED CAAAAAAAAAAAN]
* Sprint's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKy7fvkpI10 Epic]" series of commercials make everything look awesome. They range from ''Epic [[Cowboy Cop|Renegade Cop]]'' to ''Epic Scream'' and ''Epic Hot Dog''.
* This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NKkHuB2_Pk Grande Punto advert]. [[Everything Dances|This is your wake up call indeed]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=929oI-xzCd8 This DIY market commercial.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLxKSvkpE1Y Arnold Palmer makes his signature drink.] It fills the Sportscenter guys with awe.

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