Followers hoping for a Determined Housewives revival may need to content material themselves with Marcia Cross’ 15-second reprise as Bree Van de Kamp in a brand new French commercial for a tv competition.
Many different TV stars have slipped into acquainted roles for ads — together with actors from Saturday Night time Stay, The O.C., and Fashionable Household previously 12 months alone. See these examples and plenty of extra beneath.
Marcia Cross for SeriesMania
Greater than a decade after the tip of Determined Housewives, Cross as soon as once more donned Bree Van de Kamp’s apron in a 2025 promotion for the Sequence Mania TV competition. Within the spoof, Cross’ Bree provides recommendation to her French counterpart, performed by competition director Laurence Herszberg in drag.
Ana Gasteyer & Molly Shannon for Capital One
Margaret Jo McCullin (Ana Gasteyer) and Terry Rialto (Molly Shannon), hosts of SNL’s fictional NPR present The Scrumptious Dish, have been again in motion for a Capital One industrial in 2024. And sure, they served up intentional puns and unintentional double entendres, alongside common Capital One pitchman Samuel L. Jackson.
Kristen Wiig for Goal
When Goal wished a spokesperson to advertise its Goal Circle Week promotion in a 2024 collection of TV commercials, the retailer enlisted its most enthusiastic fictional worker: Kristen Wiig’s Goal Girl character from SNL. (“It’s Tur-get Cur-cle Week!” she exclaims on this industrial. “You guess your backside dur-lar!”)
Rachel Bilson for 21Seeds
In character as Summer time Roberts from The O.C., Rachel Bilson riffed on tropes and plot factors from the 2000s-era teen drama — the “bitch”-ing, the arrival of a mysterious unhealthy boy, the lounger-throwing — in commercials for 21Seeds tequila in 2024.
Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, Eric Stonestreet & Jesse Tyler Ferguson for WhatsApp
Why was Mitch Pritchett (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) excluded from the group chat with husband Cam Tucker (Eric Stonestreet) and Phil and Claire Dunphy (Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen)? He was on a unique type of cellphone, and the group hadn’t found WhatsApp, as this 2024 industrial touts.
Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul & Raymond Cruz for PopCorners
Three Breaking Unhealthy alums reprised their components from the hit present in a 2023 Tremendous Bowl spot for PopCorners. The vanity of the spot is that Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) have been cooking up corn chips — not meth — for pleased clients like Tuco Salamanca (Raymond Cruz).
Sarah Jessica Parker for Stella Artois
The Intercourse and the Metropolis reboot And Simply Like That… was nonetheless years away in when Stella Artois received Sarah Jessica Parker to reprise the a part of Carrie Bradshaw in a 2019 advert. Carrie surprises restaurant staff by ordering the Belgian beer as an alternative of her common. Then Jeff Bridges does the identical as he brings again his Large Lebowski character.
Alan Alda, Patrick Dempsey, Donald Faison, Noah Wyle, Lisa Edelstein, Kate Walsh & Neil Patrick Harris for Cigna
From 2016 to 2018, medical insurance coverage firm Cigna recruited TV medical doctors from M*A*S*H (Alan Alda), Gray’s Anatomy (Patrick Dempsey and Kate Walsh), ER (Noah Wyle), Home (Lisa Edelstein), and even Doogie Howser, M.D. (Neil Patrick Harris) to remind viewers to get common check-ups.
Bryan Cranston for Esurance
In a 2015 Tremendous Bowl advert for Esurance, Cranston once more reprised Walter White, who this time was working as a sorta-pharmacist. Promoting its customized insurance coverage choices, Esurance was attempting to drive house the purpose that “sorta you isn’t you.”
Bob Saget, Dave Coulier & John Stamos for Oikos
John Stamos had been shilling for Dannon’s Oikos greek yogurt for years by the point he reunited with Full Home buddies Bob Saget and Dave Coulier for 2014 commercials for the model. In a single spot, Saget and Coulier use Stamo’s intercourse enchantment to attain free yogurt.
Kelsey Grammer & Bebe Neuwirth for Dr. Pepper
Kelsey Grammer suited as much as play Frasier Crane of fame once more in a 2008 advert for Dr. Pepper, with the Frasier character citing scientific research that purportedly confirmed that the soda tasted higher when savored slowly. Then Frasier’s ex Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth) calls into his radio present, questioning why he by no means savored her slowly.