My friend said that the Sales Genie ads were perfect, because their target market is salesmen, who would really enjoy the stereotypical foreign accents. No, he doesn’t think highly of salesmen.
I loved the Barkley one, with the build up the last couple of months having Dwayne Wade trying to get on his Fave Five, it was a great payoff.
No, it’s not just you. I thought it was more appalling than a tittie-flop.
The Justin Timberlake one was a spot of good clean, ball crushing fun.
What the heck was the ad with the girl singing and playing her guitar? Lena/Lina Something.
Am I the only one with any love for the Audi “Godfather” spoof???
VCNJ~
Yes. Nowadays, people are quick to cry racism at the drop of a hat, and instances of real racism are buried under a tidal wave of outraged offenderati. People thinking that cartoon pandas having a Chinese accent is racist are just idiots, but their idiocy serves to give real racism a place to hide amidst the sound and fury of absolutely nothing.
She was horrible. Terrible song, bad camera work, just a real turd.
What was it for?
Or, they think it’s an awfully big coincidence that BOTH Sales Genie SB ads just happened to feature characters with stereotyped accents. I’m seeing it as a theme, and one that doesn’t strike me as positive.
That’s the sad part, Doritos sponosored a contest for songwriters and apparently she’s the only person who entered or something because nobody in their right minds would think “Yes, this will really move the nacho cheese goodness!”
Well, the pandas having Chinese accents, everything made of bamboo and them being silly enough to start eating their own bamboo-computers. I dunno. I thought it was in poor taste, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say I was offended. Again, the Indian one was fine. Yeah, he had a slight accent, but that’s cool.
No, the more offensive one was the guy with the RED laptop that’s supposed to be fighting AIDS, yet everyone in the city, man, woman, child, or goat, wants to fuck him. Yeah, that’s good for AIDS.
Seconded. Is this the kind of music people want to hear? Ew. A really pedestrian, saccharine song, and to make matters worse it felt like she spent half of it just going “thump-thump.”
Nope, not the only one…I thought it was good, and then I saw the freakin’ car, and I fell in love.
I’ll give the same analysis I did last year: ten pounds of suck in a five-pound bag.
Yes, a urinating rodent wouldn’t have been out of place this year.
That, and all the text being written in one of those fonts where all the lines are exaggerated in an attempt to mimic Asian writing.
Turns out the president of SalesGenie.com wrote the ads himself, and hoped that he would be named the worst ad of Super Bowl XLII. Mission accomplished!
I got shivers watching the Obama ad. It was crafted perfectly to hit all the right notes. I couldn’t not want to vote for Obama after seeing it.
Would you react the same if we decried Buckwheat sucking down watermelon and grape soda under the watchful eye of his fried chicken eating mammy? Is not liking that tacitly approving of lynchings?
I couldn’t help but notice that the guy’s name is Gupta. And maybe I was paying less attention, but the ad featuring “Ramesh” didn’t strike me as being tacky the way the panda one did. So… perhaps it’s just a crummy ad without any Mickey Rooney-level offensiveness.
That is a beautiful car, isn’t it? I’ve never been much of an Audi fan, but I really like the looks of this one.
Ohh! How about an add for “Nigger Baby” soap featuring pictures of lynchings while Strange Fruit played in the background, how would I feel about that? :rolleyes:
Since I didn’t see an add depicting Buckwheat sucking down watermelon and grape soda under the watchful eye of his fried chicken eating mammy, I have no idea what point you think you’re making.
The one with all the animals screaming was hysterical–to see once. While I just about busted a gut when I saw it yesterday, if they decided to use that commercial a lot, it would get tired and obnoxious really fast --like on the third or fourth repeat.
Then there was the similar one for the same product later in the game–I was half-watching it (my partner likes football; I ignored the game totally but occasionally checked out the commercials) when suddenly “HEY! IT’S ALICE!” I’ve been a huge fan of the Coop-man’s music since way back when and the sight of him crouching in the rain with his big snake and that loony gargoyle grin, brief though it was, made the whole afternoon for me.
Until the Coke commercial with the Thanksgiving parade ballloons. As soon as I noticed that Underdog was involved, the TV had my attention nailed, on account of Underdog having always been one of my favorite cartoons. And when I was a little kid, the balloons and that one in particular were always a big deal in the parade broadcast. And it was just perfect that Underdog’s antagonist would be Baby Stewie, because Baby Stewie’s an evil little genius, right? He’d be a major villain for sure if he was in the same cartoon universe as Underdog! Darned if I didn’t actually start feeling the suspense – *who *will get the giant Coke? Who? *WHO? *
And when it turned out to be Charlie Brown floating in out of nowhere to get the sought-after soda, I was both tickled and warmed, because – well, because it was Charlie Brown, and he finally got something nice for a change!
None of them, though, were as funny as the one from last year for nut snacks that had Robert Goulet climbing out of the ceiling to mess up people’s stuff.