Hartman was catapulted skyward on the aforementioned bowls, giving us the visual fright of colon-blasting fiber. As for Super Colon Blow? A whopping 2.5 million in fiber exchange rate. Super Colon Blow did a fine job of mocking cereals like Total, with the voice-over imploring Phil Hartman to guesstimate just how many bowls of his regular cereal he'd need to equal the fiber content of Colon Blow. With a rise in health-consciousness, many commercials played to our sense of nutritional superiority. It was certainly a novel idea, I'll give you that. The Love Toilet was a side-by-side toilet, made for couples to share this, um, special time. The voice-over asked sexily, "Why not share the most intimate moment of them all?" Again, ew. I imagine the Love Toilet fell into this category. Some of these ads weren't necessarily based on real-life products, but were just ridiculous tangential ideas likely thought up by their writers at three in the morning. It did effectively showcase the stupidity of Crystal Pepsi's premise. Using the same "Right Now" background music as the original, SNL gave us Crystal Gravy. Never mind that the new product had pretty much the exact same makeup as the original, save for the dark syrupy color. Sold.ĭuring the ongoing cola wars, Pepsi released Crystal Pepsi, a ridiculous attempt to fool people into thinking that clear beverages were purer and less tainted. After all, isn't that what we want from our roach-killers? A thought-provoking experience for our victims. It admits that it won't kill the roach, but it will "give him plenty to think about". All through a clear viewing window to boot! Now that's a show. As an alternative to the paralyzing poison used by its real-life competitors, Bug-Off tears off the roaches legs, scorches its reproductive organs, beats it to unconsciousness with its own limbs, stuffs cotton in every opening, and torments it with out-of-reach morsels of food. In a time when some pest control agencies were focusing on humane treatment, Bug-Off would definitely have stood out in its approach. Wait, is that fifty? You shouldn't count on my skills, I couldn't even get through 8th grade Number Munchers the other day. Every aspect from the camera angles to the lighting to the booming voice-over was so similar to the real thing, you'd almost wish they would give you twenty singles, two tens, one five, eight quarters, forty nickels, and a hundred pennies. Come talk to us." And so it went, with helpful examples endless recombinations of change. We can give you forty-nine singles and ten dimes. If you have a fifty-dollar bill, we can give you fifty singles. With our experience, we're gonna have ideas for change combinations that probably haven't occurred to you. The proud and suave bank manager (Jim Downey) asserts, "We have been in this business a long time. That one thing, however, was making change. The voice-over confidently proclaims, "When you only do one thing, you do it better." It seems almost like a legitimate tagline for a bank. I was practically at my phone frantically dialing Old Glory for robot protection, and I was only ten. Without his pitch-perfect delivery, this could have been a dud, but Waterston definitely brought it. Waterston, completely straight-faced, announced that killer robots were among the leading causes of death among the elderly. I was almost certain this was a real ad, until they brought on the robots. This Old Glory bit definitely did the trick, spotlighting the dead-on deadpan intonation of Law & Order's Sam Waterston. In a time when many celebrities (Alex Trebek, Wilford Brimley) were out there hawking insurance, it was tough not to poke fun at the incredibly somber and humorless tone of their paid spokesperson delivery. Here are just a few of the satirical gems that entertained us between sketches: If nothing else, this trip down SNL memory line is enough to make you miss Phil Hartman's unique skill at incredibly effective deadpan. There were countless fake commercials throughout the years, but the 90s gave us many of our most memorable. I highly doubt "Oops I Crapped My Pants" would sell well on real store shelves, but SNL does an impressive job of making it seem almost plausible. So many of these fake commercials were so spot-on that they became indistinguishable from actual commercials. True to SNL tradition, the era featured an abundance of parody commercials, spoofs featuring the cast actors that closely resembled and not-so-subtly mocked real television ad spots. The 90s may not have been the golden age of Saturday Night Live but it was certainly a consistently funny time for the show, featuring a versatile and talented cast willing to do almost anything for a laugh.
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