Awesome Commercials

Volkswagen’s Trailer Assist is an optional parking assistance technology that automatically handles the steering when you’re parking in reverse with a trailer hitched to your vehicle. It’s a clever tool, though VW may have exaggerated a bit in its commercial.

Axe dug itself a hole with its sleazy hyperbolic commercials, but it seems it made it a New Year’s resolution to ditch that bro phase. It’s off to a great start with this new campaign, which acknowledges that we all have something we can bank on. Now work on it.

“Is there a limit to how much living I can make with my life?” Old Spice’s eccentric commercial for its Dirt Destroyer body wash tells the tale of a man who broke the world limit to coolness. And his bank account.

This ad for Western Sydney University tells the story of Deng Thiak Adut. Born in Sudan, Deng lost his home to war when he was only 4 years old. At age seven, he was forced to become a soldier. Fortunately, his story did not end there. The song is Do You Remember.

YouTuber rosswho shares what is supposedly the teaser for next year’s Australia’s Got Talent. It shows a fish entering a sushi restaurant’s kitchen. Nah. It’s Beaker checking out Dr. Honeydew’s latest experiment. Nah. It’s our reaction as we’re watching the teaser.

A group of kids travel the world to hang out with Kevin Durant, Paul George, Elena Delle Donne, Kyrie Irving, Anthony Davis, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. The lesson: We should all pack our bags and live with KD.

A samurai army escorts their lord, but their expedition’s is threatened from within because everyone’s distracted by their cellphones. NTT DoCoMo reminds us not to text while walking with this grand PSA.

Frijoles & Frescas tacos are so good it turns people into criminals. So goes this funny PSA and commercial combo that the restaurant made using security footage of a recent break-in. We like how the thugs have gloves but not masks. One step at a time, we guess.

A schizophrenic comes up with a clever way to contain and eventually shut out her hallucination. But the painfully mundane cycle of adult life loosens her screws. But that’s not all. Nah, we’re just trying to laugh our tears off *closes fridge*.

“This Christmas, give the gift that says ‘I hate walking, but I loooove fires!'” Saturday Night Live pokes fun at these trendy, misnamed conveyances that have recently started to vanish from shelves thanks to their tendency to burst into spontaneous flames.

From Halloween to Christmas, people love to dress their cats up in stupid costumes. Temptations Cat Treats (with the help of Sir Elton John) issued an apology to all felines subjected to this humiliation with their latest ad spot. Still, aren’t they just so precious?!?!

This amusing series of promo spots for Vietnamese TV channel Bí Kíp Sống Ảo shows us that the reality of the pictures that people post online are sometimes not what they seem. Why travel all the way to the beach when you can go to a construction site around the corner?

This student film by Dorian & Daniel is an unofficial commercial for Johnnie Walker about the bond between brothers. While it doesn’t do much to sell scotch whisky, it will give you the feels something awful.

(PG-13) This funny promo video for Japanese fashion retailer BUYMA takes a page from a classic Austin Powers sequence, but uses a swarm of drones instead of fruit to cover up the naughty bits of two butt naked ballet dancers. Fully SFW version here.

A time traveler uses his ability to try and prevent a bottle of soft drink from destroying the world. We’re not sure if this old clip is an actual 7-Up commercial or not, but either way it’s a funny short film.

An old man has many children, but year after year they dodge his invitations to spend Christmas together. What will it take for them to make time for him? A depressingly bizarre commercial from German supermarket chain Edeka.

Verizon worked with Minecraft artisans BlockWorks and ad agency Wieden+Kennedy to make a gigantic virtual smartphone in the sandbox game. The phone has a functioning web browser, front-facing camera and video calling.

“You know how to spell Horse?” “I ain’t never made it past H.” Kyrie Irving’s youngblood-slaying alter ego returns. While visiting Miami, Uncle Drew hears that one of his rivals is in town – the sweet-shooting Skinny Walt. Baron Davis’ character needs his own TV show.

A hilarious and explosive Australian commercial by 8Com director Josh Frizzell for the Toyota Camry highlighting the everyday battles and insanity of raising a family. Seriously, they don’t need to spend any money on a Super Bowl commercial in February, and just run this.

UK retailer John Lewis once again has bestowed us with a touching holiday ad, going for the feels with a story about a little girl who spots a man living on the Moon, and who could really use some Christmas cheer. The track is Half the World Away, an Oasis cover by Aurora.

“I’m pushing dirt.” OKAY! “I’m spreading sand.” YEAH! “I’m grading roads.” UHUH! “I’m clearing land.” Shut all advertising agencies down. Caterpillar’s crew just locked the game up with their ill commercial for the D6N.

A pair of siblings team up to defeat the First Order. Duracell jumps on the Star Wars: The Force Awakens hype train in this action-packed holiday commercial. Oh yeah, it’s proof that Rey is a Jedi. We all know battery commercials are canon.

“Put your Hemnes in the air, Kaustby got all day.” Ikea promotes the upcoming opening of its outlet in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with this so-bad-it’s-good jingle filled with puns based on the shop’s product names.