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The Pizza Head Show
If you're old enough to remember, or if
you're a die-hard SNL fan, these commercials were created by the same
guy that did the Mr. Bill show, Walter Williams, from the early days
of Saturday Night Live. If you remember those as well, they followed
a similar formula. Some genius marketing director obviously loved the
theme enough, that he decided to get two of his favorite things,
laughter and food, together and make hilarious short commercials
based around one of America's favorite foods: Pizza.
I use to
enjoy these commercials growing up as a kid, watching Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles, and having these commercials play sometimes,
helped to form a recipe for my love of Pizza.
I like how Pizza Cutter
Steve always has a disguise that Pizza Head would instantly see
through, and the narrator would brush it off. It is sad how
commercials today don't have as much variety. There are more than a
dozen commercials, all featuring Pizza Head and Pizza Cutter Steve in
a large variety of situations. The formula for the commercials are
pretty simple. Pizza Head introduces a Pizza Hut product, then the
narrator introduces Pizza Cutter Steve as a character, such as a
coach, scarecrow, super hero, alien, and more. Then Pizza Head goes,
"Wait, he isn't (insert current character here)!" Then the
narrator, almost every time, goes "Sure he is!". Then,
hilarity ensues, Pizza Head is abused, kicked around, smashed, thrown
into the fake Pizza Hut building, etc. and at the end of the
commercials, the mini set-piece is destroyed somehow.
Sadly,
like all good things, it came to an end. Around the late 90's, pizza
hut started doing different commercials, and Pizza Head got less and
less airtime, until the only way he lived on, was in our hearts.
UNTIL, YouTube came along, and now you can find them online. I
honestly think that it is time for Pizza Hut to bring Pizza Head and
Pizza Cutter Steve back. Instead, they're trying to fancify their
pizza, and go after adults. They need to get their target audience
back: The kids!!! So that way those kids, like you and I, can grow up
recalling their favorite Pizza Hut commercials. No kid is going to
grow up singing the "cheesy bite" commercial song. The BEST
advertising is word of mouth. Someone who is a fan of you as a kid
will be a fan of you as an adult. If you don't make a fan as a kid,
the kid will go elsewhere later in life, get smart Pizza Hut, get
your target audience back, so you have business for years to come.
Your delicious pizza won't be the only thing keeping people coming
back.
Now, the Pizza Head commercials were obviously geared
towards kids, but watching them as an adult, I get still get enjoyment out of
them. Probably because the type of humor is great for all ages,
but also, like everyone here, I'm still a kid at heart, and these
commercials helped instill a love of pizza in me, so almost anything
pizza related, I love.
Hope you enjoy this trip to the past.
Now, go get a pizza, tell them Pizza Head is the reason why you're
ordering tonight, and enjoy!
Hoju Koolander Posted on Sep 01, 2015 at 12:36 AM
Oh, Pizza Head, where have you gone? I had just gotten the best of Mr. Bill VHS tape when these commercials started airing, so I was totally tuned in to Pizza Hut during this period. One of my friends loved the commercials so much that when we were picking code names for our secret club he called himself P.G. Steve, inspired by the Narrator in the Pizza Head house party commercial saying, "Hey, it's Party Guy Steve!" Thanks for taking me back, Pizza head was right up there with Stick Stickly on Nickelodeon for simplistic, yet endearing corporate Spokes-creatures.
Vaporman87 Posted on Aug 31, 2015 at 06:40 PM
I remember this, though not nearly as well as Domino's "Noid" campaign. Even so, it was very clever and a nice alternative to Domino's anti-pitchman.
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