Re: For something different: Commercials you actually like!
I've always liked the Nike football ads, whether it was the Brazil national team playing football in the airport, the "battle" Brazil had with Portugal even before official kick-off in the tunnel and the rest of the stadium, or the "cage match" ad and sequel. All available on YouTube, if you're interested.
Recently, there have been ads on the sports channels for Tiger beer that take the piss out of Arsenal and Manchester United, and one that riffs on Barcelona, but I can't find them on YouTube (yet...) I think they're local, or at most regional (South-East Asia, Tiger being a Singaporean beer).
Assuming anyone's interested, for Arsenal it starts in the dressing room pre-match, a Frenchman in a suit (obviously an Arsene Wenger parody) is speaking to his players, and most are, oddly, seated next to another man in a suit. "Wenger" gives his team talk in French-accented English, the players look on blankly, then when he finishes, each besuited man turns to the player next to him and starts translating, in a total babel of foreign languages whilst the players now look on animatedly (this takes the piss out of Arsenal's almost totally non-English squad). The follow up appears to be half-time in the dressing room, and has a man in a track suit talking excitedly (in English) in a strong regional accent (our guess is that it parodies Pat Rice, the assistant manager, who is Irish). None of the players understands him. "Wenger" then simply exhorts "Let's go", and the players stream out all geed up.
For ManU, it appears to be post-match and the manager is screaming at his players. When he yells in their faces, their hair goes flying up (this is a reference to Ferguson's "hairdryer treatment"). One player actually sits down, having showered and in a towel, and his long hair is getting blown-dry in the process. In another ad, it's a similar scenario, but one player actually gets out a tube of hair gel and starts applying it when getting "blasted".
For Barcelona, it simply shows a janitor mopping in the corridors. He then puts on a pair of sunglasses, then opens what must be the trophy room, and when the door opens bright dazzling light streams out at him, and he strides in (presumably to polish trophies).
