Sorry, but the letter “B” is mine.
Fergie was great. (Was that one of the princesses?)
I liked all the cingulair commercials. And they totally convinced me to buy from them rather than their competitors - unfortunately, I have no idea what I would be buying.
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amarinth, Sarah Ferguson married and divorced Prince Andrew, the middle Windsor brother. She was much looked down on when they separated, but she’s rebuilt her credibility.
I meant the little girl in the commercial - was that one of her daughters?
Doh! Sorry, Amarinth.
Beatrice, her older daughter was born in 1988, and Eugenie was born in '90. I think that makes both of them too old: IIRC, the girl in the commercial was more like seven. But I could be wrong.
I’d seen it before, but the NFL commerical for itself, with the footage of kids and regular people mixed in with NFL players, and using a Lou Reed song as the soundtrack … well, it chokes me up. I love football.
The one with the artist … that was a great one too. As were both Wassup commercials.
I’m sad to say I didn’t like the squirrel commercial. Great concept, lousy pay off. The best thing about last year’s cat herding was that they kept showing you new, hilarious things … the cowboy winding yarn into a ball, the cowboy with the lint brush … the squirrels didn’t have quite the same impact. They were just running. (ok, they were cute, too).
I still think this one was the best. I laughed my ass off at the end of it.
http://63.210.62.156/wm/content/budweiser-blow-dryer.html
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Well, personally, Budweiser gets my vote for best ads this year. The “What are YOU doing” one is best individual, and the Alien and Blow-dryer ones were definitely good back-up.
Runner up is Pepsi, with the Bob Dole Viagra spoof being their best (I honestly didn’t see that one coming). Other ones like the chess and prison ads were, again, nice compliments.
One dark-horse competitor in this year’s ad-bowl was E*Trade with their sadly comic piece entitled “Monkey rides around ruins of dot-com commercials.” I loved that one, but I’ve got two questions:
Other honorable mentions go to Doritos for finally getting a sense of humor and knocking out the tennis lady, as well as the squirrell commercial (kitten herding was better, but this one’s alright).
As for the worst: Monster dot com’s weren’t bad, but they were nowhere as good as the “What did YOU want to be when you grow up?” one from a few years back. Also, while I wasn’t expecting anything special from Schwab, they DID get the first commercial of the night, and screwed it up with a really crappy attempt at being funny.
But the definitive losing title goes to one of the online companies, “Accenture” or something like that, whose attempts at philisophical commercials left me feeling empty, unsatisfied, and in need of the Budweiser lizards, which I consider the best Super-Bowl ad sequence of all time.
Wow. This post is a lot longer than a post about commercials should ever be. Sorry.
Jester the monkey is from one of etrade’s ads last year. Remember the one with the guys sitting in their garage, between them on a box was a dancing monkey with an etrade t-shirt on. The tag was “We just wasted $2 million, what are you doing with your money?” The monkey comes from that.
Or maybe it’s just that horse riding monkeys are really funny.