Cat herders was cute, but what company were they for? Along those lines, I coulnd’t remember who did the chimp commercial until people pointed it out here.
I won’t talk about how I think ads are evil, but I’ll mention that the thread in lots of them on the Superbowl is the “completely unrelated to anything we’re talking about and then we spring who we are at the end.” If EVERYONE does that, who is supposed to remeber who the company is? Ads aren’t art; they’re there to sell a product. If I can’t remember what the product is, the ad sucked.
See the Lexus disaster of a few years ago for more info.
(Or it could just be me entering my dotage decades ahead of schedule)
I liked the Oldsmobile one and the WWF ones were great. I guess you’d have to be a wrestling fan to find it amusing though? I agree that the Muhammad Ali commercial was a little sad.
Too many were confusing or just lame though.
There’s my two cents
“Aw c’mon Ren, I want to be a MAN, like the nice lady.”
The Ali and Christopher Reeves ads were too confusing.
The 7 up ad with the “show us your can” was stupid.
I did not like the Fedex one with the Wizard of Oz.
The UPS one was okay, eventhough it was not new.
The E-trade ones were funny.
I did not really care for the cat herding.
I liked the commercial of coaxing the dog to cry.
The WWF was funny. I figured it out before they showed WWF.
Most of the Dot.coms were confusing. If everybody is relying on you to log on to find out more about them, then you will not likely remember their address and will not log on.
I think all of the dot com commercials were a waste of their money. If you liked thier commericals you enjoyed the content (the cat commercial, or Muhammad Ali), but you couldn’t remember the company (I dunno for either of them). I liked the dog crying and the cat herdiing, as well as the pepsi one ad, and the Oldsmobile Gap ad (when the kids were on screen I said “doesn’t the Gap know those ads are tired”,. I laughed when I realized it was a car ad.
I think they would have been much better off if they had nuked the half time show and replaced it with commericialos (Now there would be a half time show I’d like to see “Today we will drop a thermonuclear device on Atlanta, come and watch Enrique Iglesias and Christina Auguellaria get vaporized”)
Anywhay , for once we got a good game, but the commercials sucked. I could live with that.
I stopped watching around the time that Faith Hill was singing the national anthem, but I did the Charles Schwab commercial with all of the retired sports players in that nursing home and I liked that one the best. My hubby watched most of the game and kept on talking about one of the beer commercials, where some guy is running towards the elevator and gets his arm stuck inside the elevator, and everybody inside the elevator is stealing the beer. He also mentioned the car ad with the car almost running down the Gap dancers.
Shadowfox
“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
-Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, “In a Manner that Must Shame God Himself” (Kurt Vonnegut)
My freakin husband kept changing the channel during the superbowl commercials.
i tried to explain that the only reason i was watching it with him was to see what the advertisers come up with.
[sarcasam]but NOOOOOO![/sarcasim] he wants to see what else is on.
i got mad, stomped out and read a book. i didn’t see any of the commercials(except the walking Christopher Reeves with an emormous head)
Damn I really wish I had been able to catch that cat commercial. Are ads like that ever run again, or are they such a big deal because you only get to see them once?
They usually (but not always) run them regularly after their debut on the game. I haven’t seen it repeated yet, though; then again, I generally don’t pay a lot of attention to the TV anyway.
You can download the cat herder commercial from EDS website http://www.eds.com
It’s a big (almost 4 MB) download and you need WinZip or similar to unzip it, but it is so funny!
Gabriel, “The Road Less Traveled” one wasn’t for an investment firm. Monster.com is a job search site. Not saying it’s any less stupid, especially the levitating part - I didn’t get that either. Just clearing that up.
When are you going to realize being normal isn’t necessarily a good thing?