List of Saturday Night Live commercial parodies

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• 10 Beatles Classics You Kind of Know the Words To — This 1989 ad shills a Beatles compilation album sung by the "Kind of Know the Words To Singers", who mostly know the most recognizable parts of their songs.
• 16 and Pregnant Spinoffs — A November 2010 ad finds MTV cashing in with spinoffs inspired by 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom. The parody promotes My Super Sweet 16 and Pregnant; America's Best Pregnant Dance Crew; Wild 'n Out with a special guest ; an all-baby-cribs edition of MTV Cribs; and I'm Snooki and Pregnant.
• 1-800-Flowers — Kristen Wiig promotes the floral retailer as a way to show love for her mother "even when Mom is at her most annoying".
• 5-hour Empathy — "For when you just don't get it," the manufacturers of 5-hour Energy invent a liquid supplement that provides, according to Kenan Thompson's voiceover, "5 full hours of complete, intimate understanding of years of systemic oppression and ever-present racism." Although having an initial desire to do so, ad subject Beck Bennett is hesitant to try it, pantomiming chugging it down ; insisting that he is not racist ; and offering it to wife Heidi Gardner, who also declines.
• 24-Hour Energy for Dating Actresses — This parody postulates that having an actress for a girlfriend, and dealing with their quirks, can leave a man exhausted and debilitated. However, this once-daily supplement gives men the energy they need to handle their paramours' constant rehearsing, mastering of foreign accents, emotional swings over callbacks, etc. Also promoted is a female formula, "24-Hour Energy for Dating Comedians."
• 2020 Part 2: 2024 — Democratic-leaning voters are terrified over Joe Biden possibly running for re-election as U.S. President in 2024, and who would run for the party's nomination if he declined, in this October 2022 horror movie trailer "from the producers of Smile and the twisted minds of Morning Joe.”

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• ABBA Christmas — This infomercial spoof promotes a never-released album of holiday songs from "The Fleetwood Mac of cold weather", all set to the tunes of their well-known classics.
• Abilify for Candidates — "Because not everyone can be President," this version of the atypical antipsychotic is specially formulated for candidates in the 2016 presidential election, among them Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee.
• Academy of Better Careers — Spokesman Wendell Craig pitches a program for people to find jobs as stand-by operators.
• Action Cats — A parody of action-figure toys featuring plastic armor and weapons for live cats.
• Ad Council — In this 1985 ad, a pitchman appears in different ad environments and tries to describe what product he's advertising, a goal he can't achieve since the environment changes before he can mention the product. He eventually leaves without mentioning any products. The closing tagline: "Wasting your time in various ways... for no good reason."
• Adobe – A car that's cheap but also unsafe yet "combines German engineering and Mexican know-how!"
• Adopt Belushi for Christmas — On the last episode before Christmas 1976, host Candice Bergen encourages families to write in and invite John Belushi into their home for the holidays.
• Aerotoilet — An Aerobed-like inflatable toilet that can be used anywhere and is perfect for guests at large parties. A cut-for-time ad from Season 47.
• Airbnb — Natalie enjoys offering her home to guests through the lodging service… although she laments sharing it with European guest Oolie, whose one-night stay has been extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine, resulting in Natalie being subjected to Oolie's discourteous manners.
• Alaska Airlines — After a door plug on one of its Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes broke and caused decompression post-takeoff, the airline states that they're taking precautions and reassuring passengers that they'll have a great story to tell after the plane lands.
• The Al Pacino Accused Murderer Biopic Series — Fresh off playing Phil Spector in a biopic for the network, and three years after he played Dr. Jack Kevorkian in another film, HBO calls again on Al Pacino to play several other famous figures accused of murder, including Ted Kaczynski, Amanda Knox, the Menendez brothers, the captain of the Costa Concordia, Oscar Pistorius, and Conrad Murray.
• Al Sharpton's Casa De Sushi — Sharpton opens a Japanese restaurant in Secaucus… even though Sharpton hates the food and only runs the restaurant because, "Well, presidential campaigns don't finance themselves, people."
• Almost Pizza — Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig and Nasim Pedrad appear in this spoof of DiGiorno pizza. It may look and smell like pizza, but it's not quite pizza, as proven by its molecular instability.
• AM Ale — An alcoholic beverage for the morning because "you can't wait 'til afternoon".
• Amazin' Lazer — A consumer grade laser gun used for cleaning up yard waste or dangerous and potentially criminal acts.
• The Amazing Alexander – This 1986 ad promotes a Broadway theatre performance by a popular stage hypnotist. Audience members interviewed in the ad give the show unanimous praise—the same praise, in fact, delivered in a hypnotic trance.
• Amazon — Husbands and kids can buy typical Mother's Day gifts on the website… but moms use it to buy vibrating massagers or the best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
• Amazon Echo Silver — Designed in partnership with AARP, this smart speaker device for elderly users speaks very loudly, responds to anything remotely resembling "Alexa," and mutters "Uh-huh" during long, rambling stories.
• Amazon Go — "No lines. No Checkout. " That's the tagline for the convenience store chain where, with just a scan of their Amazon app, customers can grab what they want and leave… though, despite the reassurance, Black customers are clearly skittish to do so.
• AMC Theatres — The movie theater chain's celebration of the moviegoing experience has been parodied in two ads:
• * An ad that closed out Season 46 spoofs AMC's teaming with Vin Diesel to promote his upcoming F9; this parody finds Diesel celebrating the little minutiae that makes going to "the mooo-vies" so great.
• * Season 48's premiere parodied Nicole Kidman's AMC Theaters ad. This parody begins as a nearly shot-for-shot remake of Kidman's original ad until Kidman becomes a mystical, almost demonic entity as the patrons seated around her stand, cult-like, to salute the power of the theater.
• American Cancer Society – This PSA from Season 6 has spokeswoman Gail Matthius promising to honestly and openly discuss breast cancer and perform a self-exam, a promise broken when she discusses the exam in euphemisms and her chest is covered by a censor bar.
• American Dope Growers Union – Laraine Newman and a chorus of marijuana growers who "support ourselves by growing marijuana in American soil" encourage people to "look for the union label" wherever they buy dope. A 1977 parody of the ILGWU's famous ad jingle.
• American Express — This 2015 parody of the credit card's celebrity-driven ad campaign features episode host Chris Hemsworth recalling how people said he was too tall, too blonde, and too muscular to make it in show business. But, he concludes, "if a jacked Australian with a perfect face can make it, anyone can."
• American Girls — This Season 48 film trailer gives the American Girl dolls adventures that are as cheery as those the Barbie line experience in their own upcoming motion picture, but are still rooted in historically-accurate backstories.
• American Girl XL — A new line of life-size dolls for women who wish their American Girl figures could mature out of childhood with them… and for men who desire another type of doll.
• American Taser – A series of people demonstrate the latest models of tasers by shocking each other. It begins with a pitchman, followed by a police officer, a second pitchman, a sexual predator, a feminist businesswoman, an angry wife, the angry wife's husband, a black man, a racist nightwatchman, a militant black man, a Star Trek geek, and ends with the manufacturer's president who shocks himself.
• America's Turning Gay – A parody of uplifting ad campaigns for 7 Up and Dr. Pepper where small-town residents celebrate their sudden realization of their homosexuality.
• America's Worst Moments – Spokesman Chris Parnell pitches a commemorative plate collection featuring America's most shocking and embarrassing moments in politics and pop culture.
• Amy Fisher — One month after Fisher was sentenced to prison for shooting the wife of her paramour, Joey Buttafuoco, and just days after ABC, CBS, and NBC offered their own TV movie dramatizations on Fisher's life and crime, SNL made the saga of "the Long Island Lolita" a recurring theme in its first episode of 1993, including the following ad parodies:
• * Aaron Spelling's Amy Fisher 10516 — Fox goes the 90210 route and casts Tori Spelling in the role of Amy opposite episode host Danny DeVito as Joey
• * Amy Fisher: One Messed-Up Bitch — A gritty all-Black telling of the tale, airing on BET and starring Jackée Harry in the role of Amy
• * Unbelievable New Breakthroughs: The Amy Fisher Story — An infomercial spoof that sees Amy's victim, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, offer her side of the story while receiving hair replacement treatment from Ron Popiel
• …and More — Tina-Tina Chenuse promotes her stores that stock personalized novelties. The skits share 3 elements: Tina-Tina introducing herself, "Hi-lo, I'm Tina-Tina Chenuse"; the store names ending with "and More" ; and Tina-Tina exclaiming "Oh, my God" somewhere in the sketch.
• And So This Is Hanukkah – A promo for a celebrity-packed Hanukkah special featuring entertainers who know very little about the holiday.
• Angora Bouquet — A sedative-laced facial cleanser that "washes your brain as well as your face".
• Angry Dog — Dog food with "synthetic testosterone and seven psychoactive drugs" that turns any dog ferocious.
• Annuale — Medicine that keeps women on a constant stream of hormones, allowing them only one period per year. When each period happens, the user can become violent, aggressive, hungry, and sexually frustrated.
• The Apocalypse — "The people who brought you Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve" apply the same themes of those films to the world's end. This trailer's tagline: "It's love… at last sight."
• Aron's List — an online service that's similar to Angie's List but charges a lower fee, thanks to its roster of plumbers, carpenters, etc. who are on the "American Registry of Non-Violent Sex-Offenders".
• Asian American Doll — A Barbie parody promotes "the doll that's Asian American" and, as noted in Cecily Strong's voiceover, has been designed to be as bland as possible so that it's as inoffensive as possible. This includes not assigning her a name up front ; a play house that's barren; and accessories including a dog and a chef's hat… until one girl realizes that those are plays on the stereotype of dog meat consumption in South Korea.
• Asociacion Mexicana del Riñon — In this Spanish-language ad Phil Hartman explains that the Mexican Kidney Association will give you money for your kidneys.
• Ass Angel Perfume Jeans — Women can both look and smell great in these jeans that mask "secret little lady scents" with aromas of lavender, rose, and industrial chemicals. Set in a 1980s music video style, this Season 46 ad features episode host Adele, returning SNL alum Maya Rudolph, and feather-haired rocker Beck Bennett.
• Ass Don't Smell — Personal hygiene spray intended to keep one's buttocks smelling fresh and clean; a parody of feminine hygiene deodorant sprays.
• Autoscent — Just as air fresheners deodorize the home, this product does the same for an automobile's internal combustion system; just spray it into the carburetor every 800 miles, and your car's exhaust will smell like lilacs or pine forests.
• Autumn Fizz — "The Carbonated Douche" that "brings out the natural fragrance of femininity, with the effervescence of uncola."
• Autumn's Eve Pumpkin Spice Douche — from the makers of Summer's Eve comes a feminine hygiene product that has the bold, spicy scent of fall.
• Aw Nuts! Mom's a Ghost! — A promo for a new Disney Channel show centered on a family with a peculiar mother : After taking a lover on a business trip to South Korea, only to have him drown her to keep their affair a secret, she returns as a "Korean water ghost" to raise her two kids and terrorize the neighborhood, K-horror style.