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...

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• Adverts for sporting events. Reaches crazy 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.
  • If NBC is to be believed, curling rocks!.
  • Curling is METAL.
• The 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.
• 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 must 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:
• Nutri-Grain will make you feel GREAT.
• Segata Sanshiro.
• 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!!
• This ad for Office 2010 is awesome.
• Even an Argentinean railway gets in on the madcap.
• 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.
  • YOU'LL GET CAUGHT UP IN THE! CROSS-FIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
• This ad for Levi's blue jeans. It tries to get the image across that you are in control, you are cool, you are collected, you have it together. Because you're wearing... pants!?
• 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.
• Would you believe subscribing to a magazine will not only make Your Head A-Splode, but also make Your Entire World A-splode?
• 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 & 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.
• 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.
• 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 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! Never has eating vegetables looked so extreme.
• 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.
• Arnold Palmer makes his signature drink. It fills the Sports Center guys with awe.
• One of the One A Day® Men's VitaCraves™ Gummies TV advertisements implies that usage of their product will give one the strength to do manly things, like "wrestle bears and take out the garbage."
• A Danish bus company made a commercial about how awesome it is to take the bus. It's become very popular, just because of how overdone it is.
• Vat19's music video for the Edible 26-Pound Gummy Party Bear. Taken even further with the Das Beer Boot Music Video, which is lampshaded at the end.
• Could switching to GEICO really save you 15% or more on car insurance? Can futbol announcer Andres Cantor make any sport exciting?
• Today, with James Earl Jones and Malcolm McDowell, Sprint honors Jenna's Facebook activity.
  • Totes magotes!
• The Thai brand Cheers Beer immortalizes truly life-altering events such as Friday, finding a free parking slot, and finding extra food in your order.
• Arby's has the meats. So much so that they have Ving Rhames (some ads replace him with Keith David) deliver intense, emotional monologues about roast beef and bacon. At one point Ving sounds so invested that he seems to be on the verge of tears. "What are those?! SANDWICHES?!"
• How do you make waiting for a burrito awesome? Geico shows us how, with the help of Europe.
• An advertisement for iPhone S6 shooting video in 4K definition makes cutting onions epic to the point that the girl wins an Oscar.
• America may have Terry Crews and Old Spice for body wash, but what about Japan? Enter Bodywash of the North Star! You are already clean.
• Tim Shaw's McDonald's commercials have him using his But Wait, There's More! style of advertising to present the restaurant giving away free straws, napkins and carry bags as a truly amazing offer.
• A UK ad for NatWest bank, and their programme for teaching kids to be good with money, shows a young girl realising her dad left the pound deposit in his shopping trolley, and striding triumphantly across the car park with it, while other shoppers stare in amazement and lampposts blow up out of sheer epicness.
• Pepsiman uses his superhuman speed to... bring thirsty people soda. Accompanied by his epic, jazzy theme song.
• In one of Friskies' Dear Kitten ads from 2014, the narrator calls their humans' vacuum cleaner "Vack Oom", like it's a monster you'd find in a Conan story or the like.
• AMC Theaters' We Make Movies Better ad. Sixty seconds of Nicole Kidman delivering the most epic speech possible about how awesome and life-affirming it is to go to the movies.

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