Queen Latifah introduces Excedrin for Racial Tension Headaches for those subtly and not so subtly racist interactions in the workplace, from being confused with the one other black woman in the office to having to answer questions from her interns with responses like "Yes, black people use shampoo, "No, I don't know any good reggae clubs around here," and "No, I can't tell you where to buy weed." The tagline is the real star: "Excedrin for Racial Tension Headaches: taking me from 'Oh no you didn't' to 'I wish a motherf**ker would.'" Taco Town - 2005 Excedrin for Racial Tension Headaches - 2009 "Get her something that says, 'I'm not a woman anymore, I'm a Mom!'" Great outfits, and more importantly a great reminder that the media desexualizes women as soon as they pop babies out. "Now that i have kids, I feel a lot better having a gun in the house." Mom Jeans - 2003įirst of all, this spoof's got the dream team of female castmembers: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch and Maya Rudolph star as four energetic moms that love their new, comfortable Mom Jeans. Bad Idea Jeans - 1990Ĭhevy Chase and his buddies are shooting some b-ball at a public park, all wearing rugged denim Bad Idea jeans while talking over their latest horrible ideas. It's an ad that makes fun of fiber breakfast cereals AND it's one long poop joke.
Set in the surreal, melodramatic world of a cologne commercial spoof of Calvin Klein's "Obsession," Calvin KLEEN's "Compulsion" is for a distressed, OCD woman (the late, great Jan Hooks) who can never enjoy her own party because she's too busy scrubbing wine stains and vacuuming crumbs off the ground. It plays perfectly on the tropes of horrible birth control and feminine hygiene product commercials - Remember "Talk to your doctor about Yaz?." Apparently having your period turns you into a raging she-devil, so you better get a pill that only brings your crimson curse once a year. "Once a year, period," the tagline boasts. It was always a treat to see head writer Tina Fey pop up in a sketch or a fake ad, and this 2008 sketch for a birth control pill called "Annuale" is sheer gold. SNL ads are no joke: Adam Tucker from Ogilvy & Mather Advertising New York said "Secretly, we all covet the opportunity to create work that SNL will spoof." Here are 13 of the best faux-mercials from SNL's 40 seasons, in no particular order.
It's no telling whether or not the star-studded, comedy dream event that has a three-hour time slot will showcase some new spoof ads, but I'd bet that the enormous guest list has a few tricks up their sleeve to peddle new products or bring back old ones. So imagine my surprise when I looked up the ad and found it aired in 2003. I grew up in an SNL household, and I still remember the Mom Jeans commercial with Tina Fey like it was yesterday.
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Weekend Update and the Digital Shorts are gems of the show, but nothing has stood the test of time like SNL's wealth of infomercial, clothing, household cleaners and feminine hygiene product spoofs. As the show gears up for their outrageous and sure to be incredible SNL 40 event, we have to pay homage to one of the best parts of the show: the fake advertisements that are often too real and make us think about all the crap we buy. There's Don Draper and his Mad Men, and then there are the Saturday Night Live writers that create the infamous SNL spoof ads.
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