10 Most Bizarre Commercials Ever
7. Old Spice - The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
Old Spice adverts sometimes get a pass for being bizarre to the point that we’ve stopped noticing. The loveable Terry Crews and his over the top yelling always make them hilarious, but they’ve been completely bonkers down the years too. Remember that time they cut open a basketball, which turned out to be a watermelon, which then ended up having Old Spice shower gel inside? Yeah, this one’s weirder.
‘The Man Your Man Could Smell Like’ was shot in a single take, using some forced perspective, greenscreen trickery and excellent set ups from the prop department. Despite the difficulty involved in transitioning from one element to another, the finished product runs smooth as Don Draper.
The advert features an attractive man talking to the camera. He’s not your man. But he’s the man your man your man could smell like. He just throws out line after line, walking slowly as the background switches behind him to suit whatever he’s talking about now. At one point he has tickets, to that thing you love. Then they become diamonds.
The ending is by far the most bizarre point though, when for absolutely no reason he’s on a horse.