Jeep Liberty

I'm not sure I'd call this a successful commercial, because although I like it, I wouldn't identify it with Jeep if the blurb wasn't there at the end. When you see a Clydesdale, you think of Budweiser. I associate brown with UPS - and I'm not sure that's a good thing, but as an advertising hook it worked. This commercial doesn't say Jeep any more than it says Range Rover.

I like it anyway. The squirrel is especially good. I do have one question, though. What the hell kind of birds are those?

Verizon FIOS

This kid is the next rock star of TV commercials, the next "Mikey" or "Anthony". I read somewhere that he is very bright, very outgoing and loves to talk, which makes him perfect for advertisers. The problem is, he's so recognizable with these Verizon FIOS commercials, he might not get any other work for a while. C'est la vie, I suppose. Let's see if he makes the transition from advertising to acting.

Flying hair

NuTone has a cute commercial running now. A couple is looking at a house, and as the wife walks around talking about paint colors, the husband is doing the more practical thing and checking the electricity. The bathroom lights work just fine, but the switch that is supposed to run the fan doesn't seem, to him, to be operational. He is unaware that his combover is standing on end. His wife gently tells him that the fan is working, and we get the punchline - the NuTone bathroom fan is so quiet, you don't even know it's running. Cute, and not insulting, unless you think the husband should still have enough nerve endings on his scalp to know when his hair moves.

Foreign TV commercials

Eat like a snake? OMG, can you imagine how that would play here? But it's too bad we don't have funnier commercials.