Saturday Night Live commercial
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The Saturday Night Live commercial is usually a spoof of a real commercial found on television at that time, and is commonly shown after the host's opening monologue. The gag generally replaces the product for sale with something fantastical, or alters the characters involved to provide comedy.
List of popular commercials:
- Action Cats - a parody of action figure toys featuring plastic armor/weapons for live cats
- Adobe - very unsafe car, with a sticker price of $179 a month; made entirely of clay, it combines German engineering and Mexican know-how
- Angora Bouquet - face cleaner that "washes your brain as well as your face"
- Bathroom Monkey - (performed by Janene Garofalo), a simian slave that keeps your bathroom clean
- Bennifer Airways - parody of the long-defunct airline Braniff International
- Canis - Cologne for Dogs (parody of a Calvin Klein fragrance ad)
- Chia Head - parody of Chia Pet/Minoxidil
- Cluckin' Chicken - (Phil Hartman and Adam Sandler)
- Colon Blow - parody of high fiber cereals (notably Total), a man is told he'd need 30,000 bowls of his usual cereal to get the fiber of a single bowl of Colon Blow. Also available is Super Colon Blow, fiber content equal to that of 2.5 million bowls of the man's regular cereal.
- Compulsion - a "Calvin Kleen" disinfectant, mocking "Obsession"
- Cookie Dough Sport - parody of Gatorade
- Corn Chip Nail Tips - (Tracy Morgan and Maya Rudolph)
- Crystal Gravy - parody of the clear cola craze
- Dr. Porkenheimer's Boner Juice - parody of erectile dysfunction treatments. Incidentally, the commercial seems to be re-edited each time it is rerun; the originally aired version was more graphic, ending on a shot of Rob Riggle with an enormous erection.
- First Citiwide Change Bank - bank which specializes in making change
- Grayson Moorhead Securities - lampoons brokerage companies projecting a competent, trustworthy, ethical image, although the company representative being interviewed is anything but.
- Happy Fun Ball - a lethal toy
- Home Security Decoy - mannequins posing as criminals already breaking into a house to trick real thieves into thinking its already being robbed.
- Huggies Thong - useless diapers, parodying parents who are concerned with the fashions their toddlers wear.
- Jewess Jeans - brand of jeans Gilda Radner models; no one has to be Jewish to wear them
- KFC Shredders - Lampoons fast food industry's marketing to kids, in this case with cole slaw.
- Lemon Glow
- The Lung Brush - used every night by heavy smoker Chris Farley to remove quarts of tar from his lungs before going to bed with wife Victoria Jackson. "Did you forget to brush?"
- Little Chocolate Donuts ("Donuts of Champions") - parody of Wheaties that decathlon champion John Belushi endorses
- The Love Toilet - (Victoria Jackson & Kevin Nealon)
- McIntosh Post-It Notes (sic) - parody of the Apple Newton MessagePad
- Mercury Mistress - A car so sexy, you'll just want to have sex with it.
- Michael Jordan Feminine Hygiene Products, Michael Jordan X-Rated Video Library
- Mohawk Master
- Nerf Crotchbats - parody of Nerf seemingly running out of ideas for new products
- Nikey Turkey - featuring Chris Rock, this parody offers a good Thanksgiving solution to a small turkey for a large party: pump it up
- Old Glory Insurance - parody of shameless insurance companies and easily-duped old people, Old Glory offers elderly clients full coverage against robot attacks. (narrated by Sam Waterson).
- Oops I Crapped My Pants - a brand of adult diaper, a parody of Depends, and a play on the use of statements as product names (e.g. "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter")
- Penzoil - endorsed by poet Maya Angelou (impersonated by David Allen Grier)
- Petchow Rat Poison - parody of misleading labels, Hank Petchow's brand of rat poison looks like dog food, is packaged in a 25 lb. bag with "PETCHOW" in large print, has a large photo of Petchow's dog, and the words "rat poison" in very fine print.
- Pussy Whip - the first dessert topping for cats
- Quarry - breakfast cereal made from rocks)
- Rubik's Grenade (1982) - rubik's cube parody; "Maybe the last puzzle you'll never solve."
- Schmitt's Gay - (Chris Farley & Adam Sandler) Spoofs beer companies targeting specific demographics. Two gay guys are housesitting and are discouraged at the dirty condition of the house's pool. Suddenly, its magically transformed into a clean pool filled with attractive, and apparently gay, men. Schmitt's Gay Video (http://stuff.shadyvinny.com/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Video_Clips&image=SNL_-_Schmidts_Gay.mov&img=&tt=mov) Missing image
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- Shimmer - It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping! No, it's both!
- Super Bass-O-Matic '76 and Super Bat-O-Matic '77 - parody of Ronco ads
- Swill - (Bill Murray) putrid mineral water "dredged from Lake Erie"
- "That's Not Yogurt" - (Victoria Jackson) and Kevin Nealon) Spoof of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter". After eating, couple becomes very concerned about what the mysterious product actually IS, but coy announcer won't tell them. From the makers of "Those Aren't Olives"
- Triple Track razor - the closing line, delivered long before any such product actually existed, was "because you'll believe anything"
- Uncle Jemima's Pure Mash Liquor - (Tracy Morgan & Tim Meadows) A subtle barb at products that perpetuate racial stereotypes, specifically Aunt Jemima
- Wilson Trap Doors
- Yard-a-Pult - A product to launch unwanted trash/deceased pets/etc over your fence rather than disposing of them.