Apple's famous commercial for the release of the Macintosh, shown during the 1984 Superbowl, is probably one of the most famous, and most effective, TV ads in histroy. This page not only has a Quicktime version of the ad, but also has an interesting scholarly analysis of what it means, and where it sits in a wider context.
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