Super Bowl 51 Commercials thread

[Dewey_Finn]

@I_Love_Me_Vol.I

Television ads are not your friends and Super Bowl ads are the most inimical of the lot of them. They exist only to separate you from your money.

Wait, really? Advertising is designed to sell us stuff? I had no idea. What other insights do you have for us?

[ZipperJJ]

@I_Love_Me_Vol.I

Television ads are not your friends and Super Bowl ads are the most inimical of the lot of them. They exist only to separate you from your money. Sadly, I can see the Unwashed Masses swallowing the line that Super Bowl commercials are oh so creative, funny, and entertaining, but I would expect better from the Teeming Masses.

I might feel differently if the bulk of the ads actually had any artistic or entertainment merit but instead you all are merely suckling greedily at the teat of the Invisible Hand (if I may mix metaphors) juuuuuussst like the advertisers want you to. Good little consumers.

Yes, some TV ads are better than others and some are more humorous than others. But you don’t have to happily eat their shit just because all the other lemmings believe there is something fulfilling in blindly praising corporate huckster-ism.

Watch the game instead (it was a classic). Or don’t watch it, turn off the tube, and spend some time with your loved ones. You don’t have to pray at the cesspool of humanity’s basest instincts just because the morons at the water cooler and on your Facebook feed are telling you that you should. It’s beneath you.

Is this a pastiche?

[kayaker]

@ZipperJJ

Is this a pastiche?

Dontcha just hate the ones that you can’t open?

[Idle_Thoughts]

@I_Love_Me_Vol.I

Television ads are not your friends and Super Bowl ads are the most inimical of the lot of them. They exist only to separate you from your money. Sadly, I can see the Unwashed Masses swallowing the line that Super Bowl commercials are oh so creative, funny, and entertaining, but I would expect better from the Teeming Masses.

I might feel differently if the bulk of the ads actually had any artistic or entertainment merit but instead you all are merely suckling greedily at the teat of the Invisible Hand (if I may mix metaphors) juuuuuussst like the advertisers want you to. Good little consumers.

Yes, some TV ads are better than others and some are more humorous than others. But you don’t have to happily eat their shit just because all the other lemmings believe there is something fulfilling in blindly praising corporate huckster-ism.

Watch the game instead (it was a classic). Or don’t watch it, turn off the tube, and spend some time with your loved ones. You don’t have to pray at the cesspool of humanity’s basest instincts just because the morons at the water cooler and on your Facebook feed are telling you that you should. It’s beneath you.

This is for the commercial enjoying, though…so doing what you’re doing here is threadshitting. If a thread doesn’t interest you, you don’t have to post in it. Posting in it just to give your anti-thoughts to the idea doesn’t count either. Please don’t do this.

[xizor]

@chizzuk

I liked the Sprint one where the guy fakes his own death by pushing a car with a dummy in it over a cliff in front of his kids in order to get out of his Verizon contract. But I have a morbid sense of humor.

I chuckled at the exchange with his kid
KID: Isn’t that illegal?
Dad: Who are you, the cops?

[Chronos]

The only one I specifically remembered as being good was the Ford ad that when you’re stuck, you just have to keep moving forward. But now that others have reminded me of them, I also enjoyed the Melissa McCarthy eco-warrior and the sexy Mr. Clean. And I appreciated the 84 Lumber commercial about the Real American (seriously, did people miss what she was doing with the scraps she was finding?).

Due to a mistake with the replay/fast forward feature on the remote, we missed a chunk of commercials. Was there an avocado one this year? Those are usually good.

[JKellyMap]

@kayaker

We turned on the TV at the appropriate time just to see this ad. It was done by the agency my gf used to work for.

Fifteen minutes after the ad, my gf’s phone began making noise. Turns out 84Lumber’s web page crashed, and people were freaking the fuck out.

Cool! Yeah, I couldn’t access the site until 6 AM this morning.

[Drunky_Smurf]

The only one that really stood out for me was the Melissa McCarthy one, but I also pretty much love her in everything she does.

[DSYoungEsq]

Another poor year for Super Bowl ads. I’ve almost gotten to the point I don’t bother to watch them any more. Kinda like how it was in the '80s, before everything got all super-heated in attempts to keep up with the McDonald’s of the world. Who remembers the XEROX monk?

[Quimby]

The Snickers live commercial was a giant waste of money. It seemed rushed and I didn’t even realize it was happening until the tag saying it was a live commercial came up. They had been hyping it for weeks now.

[BigT]

Anyone who missed them, here’s a Reddit post that tries to get all of them. Note that they sometimes link longer versions than actually shown.

[kayaker]

There was at least one advertiser who tried to buy a spot and was told their ad was too political.

[DSYoungEsq]

@kayaker

There was at least one advertiser who tried to buy a spot and was told their ad was too political.

I don’t think that’s quite right. The 84 Lumber spot in full was considered by Fox to be “too political.” The result was the cut-down version shown, which ended before the controversial part (showing a wall, with a door in it). Viewers were referred to the 84 Lumber website to see the end of the story.

[kayaker]

@DSYoungEsq

I don’t think that’s quite right. The 84 Lumber spot in full was considered by Fox to be “too political.” The result was the cut-down version shown, which ended before the controversial part (showing a wall, with a door in it). Viewers were referred to the 84 Lumber website to see the end of the story.

There was another company that had the $$ for a spot, but was told no. Cite: personal communication. I’ll see if I’m allowed to give details…