What Other Roles Can Matthew Broderick Use to Sell Stuff?

By Samantha Abernethy in Arts & Entertainment on Jan 30, 2012 11:05PM

As we wrote earlier today, Matthew Broderick created a Ferris Bueller-themed ad for Honda. Instead of him cruising around Chicago in Cameron's dad's bad-ass car, he's in California in a Honda CR-V. Bueller would not be amused. A better use of Ferris Bueller's Day Off would be to make Cameron's ad for Xanax.

So what other characters can Broderick dig up to ruin their legacy?

• Broderick is Eugene Jerome from Biloxi Blues, promoting Gulf Coast tourism.


• Broderick says, "Ditch cable - and crazy cable guys - for good," while reprising his Cable Guy character for a Dish Network commercial.


• In the future Broderick will say "Go go gadget arm!" in his ad for robots.


• The Music Man endorses SOPA for the RIAA.


• Broderick should've done a campaign ad during the Democratic primaries in 2008, painting Hillary Clinton as Tracy Flick. That would've been a good ad for either Hillary Clinton or Obama.


• Chick-Fil-A brings Broderick on as Simba, encouraging people to choose chicken meat over lion meat.


• Broderick could join Nicole Kidman in a Stepford Wives-esque ad for botox.


• Since he's married to Sarah Jessica Parker, perhaps he could do a DSW ad, "Now that my wife can no longer borrow Manolos from work..."


• The Army could bring back Col. Shaw from Glory for a recruitment ad


• Of course he'd have to do an ad for "Springtime For Hitler" from The Producers, or maybe just promote some Orbitz's Lufthansa deals.


• Diddy has Broderick cover his Kashmir-sampled "Come With Me", the most popular song off the soundtrack to the 1998 remake of Godzilla - in which Broderick starred - for a Ciroc ad.


• Broderick is William Lightbody from The Road to Wellville promoting Kellogg's Corn Flakes.


• As David from WarGames, Broderick tries to hack into an Apple computer and fails.

Now someone put on his or her thinking cap and make a Ladyhawke reference. We're stumped.