Mundane Made Awesome/Advertising
Let's be honest. Advertising in general is at least 50% this. Let's look at the guys who took it to 80% and beyond...
- 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?!
- Brilliantly parodied in That Mitchell and Webb Look.
- It would truly be a crime for this page to go on without this parody from The Simpsons. The video cuts over the reaction shots, but this had to be here.
- If NBC is to be believed, curling is pretty epic.
- Brilliantly parodied in That Mitchell and Webb Look.
- 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 like he's lost his mind.
- Sony's advertisement for Play Station Move by Kevin Butler, VP of Epic Gaming.
- Introducing Miracle Whip, the "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, you get it
- Commercials for Rickard's beer. They have to be seen 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 demands things to be awesome!
- Awesome and sexy!
- A suggestion for Michael Bay's take on breakfast
- A Fedex commercial parodied this here:
- "Yeah... babies EVERYWHERE!"
- Segata Sanshiro.
- Coffee needs refueling.
- This Japanese ad. (It's advertising satellite TV, by the way.)
- This old Windows ad featuring Steve Ballmer
- Many, many IBM commercials do this. See this one for example.]
- And on the other side of the personal computer war, Apple's pastiche of the book 1984
- But nobody out-awesomes the United States Marine Corps!!
- The latest ad for Office 2010 is awesome.
- Even an Argentinean railway gets in on the madcap.
- So does a 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 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.
- 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.
- Imagine for a moment this chicken is your hard drive, and the 80s metal band Dokken a virus.
- Would you believe subscribing to a magazine will not only make Your Head Asplode, but also make Your Entire World A-splode?
- EXTREME 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 Are Now Diamonds!
- Recent ads for Premium saltines feature exploding bowls of soup and the song "Rock You Like a Hurricane".
- Drinking Carlton Draft beer is epic.
- Warburton's make bread. They deliver it, and it is apparently 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 Nissan Juke.
- Now you're playing with power, SUPER POWER!!!
- This Honda Odyssey commercial combines the power of pyrotechnics and JUDAS. FUCKING. PRIEST. This Troper actually wanted the vehicle after seeing it.
- 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.
- This promo for the 2011 National Day Of Prayer. It combines this trope with full-on Scary Amoral Religion and looks like Roland Emmerich and Michael Bay collaborated on the work. The message seems to be that if you don't drop to your knees and pray on the date in question, God will make you pay.
- Dairy Queen's latest batch, riding Old Spice's coattails. Behold.
- Call J. G. Wentworth! 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 a laundry commercial in the style of torture porn. "Save them..."
- 5 Gum commercials try to make the simple experience of chewing gum look ridiculously epic.
- BABY! CARROTS! Eat them like junkfood.
- FULLY LOADED CAAAAAAAAAAAN
- Sprint's "Epic" series of commercials make everything look awesome. They range from Epic Renegade Cop to Epic Scream and Epic Hot Dog.
- This Grande Punto advert. This is your wake up call indeed.
- This DIY market commercial.
- Arnold Palmer makes his signature drink. It fills the Sportscenter guys with awe.