You can watch all the national ones here:
All things considered, this was probably the worst batch of commercials during a Super Bowl I’ve ever seen.
The second one with Richard Simmons was even better.
I liked the careerbuilder heart ad. I thought it was great. It was interesting it said what needs to be said about soul sucking jobs working for the man.
At first I thought it was the woman’s tit exploding.
You’re probably right, because I was thinking the same thing. I was also eating a bag of Doritos while watching that commercial.
And was that Alice Cooper a few seconds earlier in the same commercial?
I liked the screaming animals, and the Underdog/Stewie/Charlie Brown Coke ad, and the clydesdale/dalmation ad the best.
What I noticed: two commercials with sexual “sandwich” jokes 
How’d they get away with that? Assuming that most people wouldn’t know what it meant, and that those who did wouldn’t be offended?
I can see there was at least one ad that completely failed to do its job, simply because it’s been mentioned here several times only by saying it had Chris Kattan in it instead of the product/company name. Who the hell is Chris Kattan, and which ad are you all talking about?
Chris Kattan is a former Saturday Night Live cast member who played, among other characters, one of two obnoxious clubgoers who, while looking for chicks to pick up (they were always rejected, of course), would do a bizarre head-bobbing move to the song What is Love? Pepsi Max featured an ad with people falling asleep- you know that little head-twitch thing you do when you’re sitting down and you go to sleep but then you wake up again?- to the tune of the song (mimicking the dance move), including an appearance by Kattan himself.
The CareerBuilder heart ad was good, but the cricket one was better, since it reiterates one of my core beliefs- you can’t wish upon a star and make everything better. You’ve got to do it yourself.
I love how the driver stomped on the gas, and then swerved at the last moment. He was seriously considering running Richard Simmons over 
I thought the first Bud Light ad (with the guy breathing fire) was hilarious. I liked the wine & cheese party one, too.
The Ford truck ad with Mike Rowe and the huge centrifuge was impressive. Or maybe it’s just because I’m a fan of Mike Rowe.
That sales website’s ads were terrible, even aside from the racial aspects.
I liked the Coke ads. The one where Charlie Brown ended up with the Coke was cool, and the one where the Democrat and Republican bonded while drinking Cokes was funny.
The ad where the guy jump-started the car with his nipples was just wrong :eek:
Thanks. I suppose if I’d known this ahead of time I would have liked that commercial better. As it was, it didn’t do anything for me.
I didn’t watch the game. I’m not interested in football and I don’t see the point of sitting around for five hours when I can catch up with the funny ads in fifteen minutes afterwards. 
I’m not watching them all, just the few that have been called out in this thread as being worthwhile.
Bridgestone screaming animals: funny. Tiny scream from insect = hilarious. Also, very cool that they got Ron Perlman to do the tagline voiceover. That guy works hard for a living and deserves a few more easy paychecks.
Fedex giant pigeons: funny. Nicely structured, goes from small scale to large scale in a hurry.
Careerbuilder zombie heart: good idea, poorly executed. Looks like renegade boobflesh at first. Suppose it’s memorable, though.
Doritos giant mouse: uh, what the hell?
Sobe thrillicious: dancing lizards = teh cuteness.
Salesgenie pandas: oh my fucking god. The racist characterizations were bad enough, but they spent the money on a Superbowl spot and filled it with Flash animation? Somebody’s getting fired tomorrow, if it hasn’t happened already.
Careerbuilder’s “Jiminy Cricket on the windowsill” gag: funny, but what does it have to do with the service being sold?
Wall-E and the robot blowjob: all o’ y’all are letting your imaginations get away from ya.
e-Trade talking baby: there’s just not enough commercials featuring spit-up, so, points for that, I guess. Otherwise, meh.
Charlie Brown and the Coca Cola balloon: best part was the quick cutaway to the girl in the blue dress holding the football.
Victoria’s Secret: not sure if this is a good ad or not; will need to watch it thirty or forty more times to be sure.
Any others worth looking at?
Absolutely. We didn’t hear much about this batch, and I can see why.
Maybe it’s time to stop hyping the SB ads. And let’s unplug all of the computers and the CGI crap, please. It’s a tiresome commentary that damn near every commercial has it now.
No, last year was with the find-a-job-you-know-the-economy’s-bad commercials.
Alright, I know racism is bad and all, and we all have a duty to be vigilant little watchdogs ever eager to expose big bad racist corporations that seek to exploit our baser natures, yadda, yadda, yadda. I get it.
But can someone please explain how having pandas (an animal that comes from China) voiced by actors using Chinese accented English is racist? Good God, talk about looking hard for something to be offended about…Maybe y’all ought to buy a dictionary.
Now, how does that commercial in any way fit that definition?
Just finally watching now. Yay TiVo. Among the others mentioned above, I liked the Charles Barkley/some guy I don’t recognize Verizon ad with “do you like popsicles?”
but nothing great this year.
I liked the one where Charles Barkley wouldn’t stop calling the other guy. I thought it was great.
Screaming animals was funny, but if they’d left a little puddle under the squirrel at the end (when it finally moved), it would’ve been classic.
Wall-E.
Damn, but those Disneytroids know just how to manipulate emotions.
If I understand the background of the movie, Wall-E is a robot searching over the blasted post-human landscape for companionship etc. I think that the cockroach is the only living thing he encounters.
It is NOT FUNNY that his one companion is ALMOST KILLED by a vacuum cleaner. Not Funny. Wall-E is in a absolute panic. Not Funny. The poor thing…
(Damn, I do become a maudlin drunk and overthink entertainment.)
The Justin Timberlake Pepsi ad didn’t get enough love. I still dig the fact that he can laugh at himself (and I am no fan of his music at all), and then the cameo by Andy Samberg, with whom Justin starred in the famous ‘Dick in a Box’ digital short.
I was also surprised and greatly amused by the Doritos ad. The payoff was not expected and I giggled for a couple of minutes.
Lastly, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who caught the NFL robot getting trounced at some random moment by a Terminator. Clever tie-in.
… come to think of it, all insects were badly treated on the commercials, except for the tiny screaming katydid…
Oh good… semantics. I was thinking this board could use some more of that. Seriously, people could be misreading the ad, but is it really that hard to understand why people would wonder if an ad using stereotypical accents is a little racist?
Anyway, the Budweiser ‘Rocky’ ad won the USA Today Ad Meter.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/admeter/2008admeter.htm?loc=interstitialskip
I thought the panda commercial was pretty insensitive at best. The previous Sales Genie commercial would have been as bad if the Indian man were…say…an elephant or a stylized Indian deity.
I don’t think it was racist, but was definitely out of taste. Then again, maybe it’s just me.