Saturday Night Live opening commercial

The Saturday Night Live opening commercial is usually a spoof of a real commercial found on television at that time, and is commonly shown after the host's opening monologue. The gag generally replaces the product for sale with something fantastical, or alters the characters involved to provide comedy.

List of popular commercials:

• Action Cats (a parody of action figure toys using live cats)
• Adobe – very unsafe car, with a sticker price of $179 a month; made entirely of clay, it combines German engineering and Mexican know-how
• Angora Bouquet – face cleaner that "washes your brain as well as your face"
• Bathroom Monkey (performed by Janene Garofalo), a simian slave that keeps your bathroom clean
• Bennifer Airways – parody of the long-defunct airline Braniff International
• Canis: Cologne for Dogs (parody of a Calvin Klein fragrance ad)
• Chia Head – parody of Chia Pet/Minoxidil
• Cluckin' Chicken (Phil Hartman and Adam Sandler)
• Colon Blow – parody of high fiber cereals (notably Total), in which a man is told he'd need 30,000 bowls of his usual cereal to get the fiber in a single bowl of Colon Blow. Also available is Super Colon Blow, in which one bowl's fiber content is equal to that of 2.5 million bowls of the man's regular cereal.
• Compulsion (a "Calvin Kleen" disinfectant, mocking "Obsession")
• Cookie Dough Sport – parody of Gatorade
• Corn Chip Nail Tips (Tracy Morgan and Maya Rudolph)
• Crystal Gravy – parody of the clear cola craze
• Dr. Porkenheimer's Boner Juice – parody of erectile dysfunction treatments
• First Citiwide Change Bank – bank which specializes in making change
• Grayson Moorhead Securities
• Happy Fun Ball, a lethal toy
• Home Security Decoy – mannequins dressed as criminals breaking into a house to discourage actual thieves, who would think the house is already being robbed. The humor is in the irony of creepy mannequins comforting homeowners.
• Huggies Thong – useless diapers, parodying parents who are concerned with the fashions their tottlers wear.
• Jewess Jeans – brand of jeans Gilda Radner models; no one has to be Jewish to wear them
• KFC Shredders – Lampoons fast food industry targeting their menus at kids, this time with cole slaw.
• Lemon Glow
• Little Chocolate Donuts ("Donuts of Champions") – parody of Wheaties that decathlon champion John Belushi endorses
• The Love Toilet (Victoria Jackson & Kevin Nealon)
• McIntosh Post-It Notes (sic) – parody of the Apple Newton MessagePad
• Mercury Mistress – A car so sexy... You'll just want to have sex with it.
• Michael Jordan Feminine Hygiene Products, Michael Jordan X-Rated Video Library
• Mohawk Master
• Nerf Crotchbats – parody of Nerf seemingly running out of ideas for new products
• Nikey Turkey – featuring Chris Rock, this parody offers a good Thanksgiving solution to a small turkey for a large party: pump it up
• Old Glory Insurance – parody of immoral insurance companies preying on old people, Old Glory offers elderly clients full cover against death by robot attack (narrated by Sam Waterson).
• Oops I Crapped My Pants – a brand of adult diaper, a parody of Depends, and a play on the use of statements as product names (e.g. "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter")
• Penzoil, endorsed by poet "Maya Angelou" (impersonated by David Allen Grier)
• Petchow Rat Poison – Hank Petchow's brand of rat poison. Looks like dog food, and is packaged in a 25 lb. bag with "PETCHOW" in large print, a large photo of Petchow's dog, and the words "rat poison" in fine print.
• Pussy Whip – the first dessert topping for cats
• Quarry (a breakfast cereal made from rocks)
• Rubik's Grenade (1982) — rubik's cube parody; "Maybe the last puzzle you'll never solve."
• Schmitt's Gay (Chris Farley & Adam Sandler) – Spoofs beer companies targeting specific demographics. Two gay guys are housesitting and are discouraged at the dirty condition of the house's pool. Suddenly, its magically transformed into a clean pool full of attractive, and apparently gay, men. Schmitt's Gay Video
• Shimmer – It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping! No, it's both!
• Super Bass-O-Matic '76 and Super Bat-O-Matic '77 – parody of Ronco ads
• Swill (a disgusting impure bottled water)
• Triple Track razor – the closing line, delivered long before any such product actually existed, was "because you'll believe anything"
• Uncle Jemima's Pure Mash Liquor (Tracy Morgan & Tim Meadows)
• Wilson Trap Doors
• Yard-a-Pult, catapulting unwanted trash over your fence