# Super Bowl 51 Commercials thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094 "2017-02-05T20:11:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/1 "2017-02-05T20:11:59Z")
Started a thread for the actual game [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19978567), but the commercials usually generate just as much discussion, so I’m starting two threads. SB 51 starts at 6:30 eastern today. ---
**Author:** ![Monocracy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monocracy/32/4493_2.png) [@Monocracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monocracy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/2 "2017-02-05T20:20:03Z")
Not a commercial, but the “I Can Make Your Hands Clap” guys just did a horrible lip sync performance. They didn’t even attempt to record a live version and lip sync over that, they just did the studio version. My favorite part was when he pointed the mic towards the crowd to get them to sing and his voice still came over loud and clear. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/3 "2017-02-05T20:35:33Z")
I want an onion cutting machine like in that really long pizza commercial. (Pregame show) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/4 "2017-02-05T22:26:21Z")
And even before it appears there is already a controversy with a Budweiser ad: > **[People Want to Boycott Budweiser Over Its Super Bowl Immigration Ad](https://fortune.com/2017/02/05/budweiser-super-bowl-commercial-immigration-boycott/)** > > The ad shows Busch's struggle as an immigrant to the U.S. > [@](#): > > Although Budweiser said the ad had been in the works and was meant to “highlight the ambition of our founder, Adolphus Busch, and his unrelenting pursuit of the American dream,” several Trump supporters questioned the timing, and perceived it as being against the President’s immigration stance. What it is even more dumb: The ones wanting to boycott are not even wrong, it is not likely to refer to Muslims as they would not drink the stuff anyway. Now, as a Hispanic that does not drink the stuff for having good taste :), I would consider even drinking a lime one :eek: if there is a boycott by some misguided people. Have to counter all bigoted moves. ---
**Author:** ![Reyemile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@Reyemile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reyemile)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/5 "2017-02-05T23:37:49Z")
Kid stuck in his tricycle is adorable. Already forgotten which car company was doing the advertising though. ---
**Author:** ![Reyemile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@Reyemile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reyemile)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/6 "2017-02-06T00:19:07Z")
Walken/Timberlake ad was the first one to make me LOL. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/7 "2017-02-06T00:35:14Z")
> [@Reyemile](#): > > Walken/Timberlake ad was the first one to make me LOL. My wife is 26, and is the right age to have been a squealing girl during that song’s heyday- she freaked out and started dancing! ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/8 "2017-02-06T00:51:51Z")
So far, for me the ads…_yawn_… well, at least Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 looks FREAKING GREAT!!!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/9 "2017-02-06T00:53:17Z")
Can’t believe there’s going to be another Pirates movie. I did not understand the Buick commercial with the tall quarterback drilling the tiny wide receiver. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/10 "2017-02-06T00:57:25Z")
So, Wendy’s pays all that money for a Super Bowl ad and brings up the old frozen patty bit and slaps on an old Foreigner song. Underwhelmed. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/11 "2017-02-06T00:59:10Z")
The dad said “if that’s a Buick my kid is a pro football player (or something like that)” and poof the kid was a pro, because that snazzy car WAS a Buick after all ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/12 "2017-02-06T01:38:42Z")
> [@Reyemile](#): > > Walken/Timberlake ad was the first one to make me LOL. Good, in a perfectly understated way. I learned a lot about oil in that one ad. It’s not so bad after all!! ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/13 "2017-02-06T01:57:14Z")
I liked the Melissa McCarthy one, that was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/14 "2017-02-06T01:57:16Z")
“For the next four years, we’re in for bad hair.” Heh. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/15 "2017-02-06T02:03:07Z")
So far nothing that’s really big IMO, I liked Walken/Timberlake, the Stewart/Snoop was OK had a few mild gags, and I enjoyed the Alfa Romeo but really no Big One. Adolphus Busch’s journey had already been previewed so much it did not really hit me. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/16 "2017-02-06T02:07:24Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I liked the Melissa McCarthy one, that was funny. Too bad the writers couldn’t have worked in a bit at the end with he Sean Spicer character. But yeah, that was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/17 "2017-02-06T02:34:05Z")
[quote=“GIGObuster, post:4, topic:779094”] And even before it appears there is already a controversy with a Budweiser ad: > **[People Want to Boycott Budweiser Over Its Super Bowl Immigration Ad](https://fortune.com/2017/02/05/budweiser-super-bowl-commercial-immigration-boycott/)** > > The ad shows Busch's struggle as an immigrant to the U.S. The lead-in commercial by Coca Cola beat that by a mile. Of course they were going to be upset. Any further comment belongs elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/18 "2017-02-06T02:34:35Z")
That Spuds McKenzie Charles Dickens ripoff was pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/19 "2017-02-06T02:40:07Z")
Those T Mobile ads S&M ads would have been funnier if it featured Kristen Schaal as Louise Belcher ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094/20 "2017-02-06T03:49:58Z")
[quote=“Backwater\_Under\_Duck, post:17, topic:779094”] > [@GIGObuster](#): > > And even before it appears there is already a controversy with a Budweiser ad: > > [http://fortune.com/2017/02/05/budweiser-super-bowl-commercial-immigration-boycott/](http://fortune.com/2017/02/05/budweiser-super-bowl-commercial-immigration-boycott/) > > The lead-in commercial by Coca Cola beat that by a mile. Of course they were going to be upset. Any further comment belongs elsewhere. The Coca-cola commercial was a re-run from 2014. Not sure why it still riles peeps up. :dubious: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-51-commercials-thread/779094.md?page=2)