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• 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.
• Adobe – A car that is very affordable (sticker price: $179) but very unsafe, as it is made entirely of clay and "combines German engineering and Mexican know-how!"
• Adopt John Belushi for Christmas – Candice Bergen sells people on letting John Belushi stay at their place for the holidays.
• Al Sharpton's Casa De Sushi – Similar to Donald Trump's House of Wings or Derek Jeter's Taco Hole, Al Sharpton (as himself) opens a Japanese restaurant even though Sharpton himself hates the food and only admits to opening the restaurant so he can pay for his political campaign.
• Almost Pizza - Parody of the DiGiorno's pizza commercials in which the pizza itself is molecularly unstable (it shatters like glass, then regroups and crawls on the floor).
• AM Ale – An alcoholic beverage for the morning because "you can't wait till afternoon."
• Amazin Lazer – A consumer grade laser gun for cleaning up yard waste or for use in potential criminal acts.
• The Amazing Alexander - A 1986 ad promotes a Broadway theatre performance by a popular stage hypnotist (portrayed in performance still shots by Jon Lovitz). Audience members in the ad give the show unanimous praise—the same platitude, in fact, delivered in a hypnotic trance ("I loved it. It was much better than CATS. I'm going to see it again and again.").
• Amazon Mother's Day - Three guys (played by Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader, and Taran Killam) try to surprise the women in their lives on Mother's Day (played by Kristen Wiig, Vanessa Bayer, and Nasim Pedrad) with typical gifts (such as breakfast in bed, bath items, and a new washer), only to find them masturbating to the erotic best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey (Wiig's character uses a vibrating muscle massager—which the daughter mistakes for a microphone, Bayer's character uses a detachable showerhead and a yellow dishwashing glove, and Pedrad's character leans against a shaky washer with a picture of Joel McHale on top of it). The commercial then advertises the Kindle for moms who want to read 50 Shades of Grey without their husbands knowing.
• America's Turning Gay – Combines parodies of 7 Up's "America's Turning 7-Up" advertisement campaign and Dr. Pepper's "Be a Pepper" ad campaign where small-town residents celebrate the sudden realization that they're homosexual.
• America's Worst Moments – a spokesman (Chris Parnell) pitches a commemorative plate collection featuring America's most shocking and embarrassing moments in politics and pop culture.
• American Cancer Society – Season six public service commercial where a spokeswoman (Gail Matthius) promises to discuss breast cancer and perform a self-exam on herself in an honest and open manner, but the promise is broken when the spokeswoman is shown with a striker bar covering her chest and explains the details of her self-exam in euphemisms.
• American Dope Growers Union – Laraine Newman (and several SNL castmembers and writers) support American-grown marijuana and the farmers who grow it.
• American Taser – A series of people—a pitchman (Chris Parnell), a police officer (Jason Sudeikis), a second pitchman (Darrell Hammond), a sexual predator (Seth Meyers), a businesswoman (Amy Poehler), an angry wife (Rachel Dratch), the angry wife's husband (Will Forte), a black man (Kenan Thompson), a racist nightwatchman (Bill Hader), a militant black man (Finesse Mitchell), a Star Trek geek (Andy Samberg), and a third pitchman (host Jason Lee) each demonstrate the latest models of tasers by shocking each other until the last person (Lee) shocks himself.
• ...and More - Tina-Tina Chenuse (Jenny Slate) promotes her stores that stock personalized novelties. The skits have 3 elements: Tina-Tina introducing herself, "Hi-lo, I'm Tina-Tina Chenuse," the store names always end with "and More" (e.g. "Car Horns and More"), and Tina-Tina always exclaims "Oh my God" somewhere in the sketch.
• And So This Is Hanukkah – promo for celebrity-packed Hanukkah special for those who know very little about the holiday
• Angora Bouquet – tranquilizer-laced facial cleanser that "washes your brain as well as your face."
• Angry Dog – dog food that turns any dog into a mindless killing machine. A picture of Michael Vick is on the package.
• Annuale – medicine that causes women to have one period a year, making them extremely violent (Tina Fey's office worker character is shown going after co-workers Bill Hader and Andy Samberg with a pink axe, while Amy Poehler's character is shown kicking a man, played by Fred Armisen in the groin and punching him in the face), greedy (Casey Wilson's character is shown shoveling an entire birthday cake in her mouth at a child's party), and sexually frustrated (Kristen Wiig's character is shown French kissing a dog as it licks her face) due to an excessive stream of hormones.
• Ass Don't Smell – personal hygiene spray intended to keep one's buttocks smelling fresh and clean; a parody of feminine hygiene sprays.
• Autoscent – features Gilda Radner smiling as she crouches near a tailpipe.
• Autumn Fizz – "The Carbonated Douche."