Awesome Commercials

This Italian ad for Mentos NOWmints starts out normally enough, with a couple exchanging sweet thoughts at the end of a romantic night, but then it escalates rather quickly in the last 15 seconds. We definitely didn’t see that coming.

You know how you can skip some YouTube ads after 5 seconds? Geico goes around that by getting straight to the point in its new commercials. And yet all of them are longer than 5 seconds. Hmmm…

This commercial for Seiha English Academy, an English conversation school in Japan, claims that the school makes children so good at English you’ll need to call an exorcist. English speaking level: Japanese.

After frying shrimp at lightning speed, NTT DoCoMo once again resorts to a food-based analogy to promote its 4G network. This time they made ground beef dumpling in under three seconds. The music is the secret ingredient here.

Honda promotes the Civic Type-R, the NSX and its other new vehicles by helping you speed read. Seriously. Just keep your eyes on the middle of the video and press play. Ready for level 2? Go! Oh we’re not done yet! Goooo!

In 1999, Will Radford and his friends pooled their money and bought a used 1957 Series 1 Land Rover. They had a lot of good times with it but were unable to maintain their beloved car, so they sold it last year. Guess who bought it.

Google Japan used 300 Android mobile devices and the Androidify app to create a digital beatbox a capella rendition of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. The virtual choir will also perform live in Tokyo. Not to be outdone, Apple China set up a… oh wait.

Corridor Digital was asked to make a short film to promote the upcoming third-person shooter The Order: 1886. As usual, they came through with a funny and exciting video. Just not one that fits the game. Maybe the sequel?

A customer is creeped out when her pharmacist Greg is replaced by…sorta Greg in Esurance’s Super Bowl commercial. While we don’t want Breaking Bad to be a mere punchline, it’s great seeing an old friend. What’s up Mr. White?

This year’s Super Bowl commercials featured the typical big budgets and emotional manipulation we’re used to seeing. But one little commercial – for glue of all things – won the night as far as we’re concerned. Directed by Tim & Eric, natch.

To sell us on their powerful new RC coupe, Lexus has decided to entertain us with some daft RC drifting. But in this case, we mean R/C, as in a 1/10th scale remote-controlled car, driven with precision by R/C drift expert Drift44.

For its Super Bowl XLIX commercial spot, Snickers adds a couple of familiar, yet completely unexpected faces to a classic scene from The Brady Bunch. We’d love to see an entire episode where the kids are replaced with bad dudes.

Bud goes for the feels with this Super Bowl commercial featuring a trope that always gets the waterworks going – a lost dog who must find its way back to its master. Sleeping at Last’s remake of I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) is great too.

Super Bowl commercials are often grand and outrageous – two adjectives that suit action star Pierce Brosnan. But as his agent reveals, Kia has chosen a different approach for the Sorento ad that he’ll be starring in.

Skittles secured an press conference with Marshawn Lynch to discuss key issues leading up to the big game. He discusses Beast Mode, officiating, and his plans for the future. Plus, stick around as Marshawn plugs The Awesomer. Sorta.

The Insanity Wolf of commercials returns as Old Spice promotes its electric shavers. We’d really love to see how Terry Crews reacts when he first reads the scripts for these ads – if they have scripts.