a few of them were OK, but man did the car ads suck. Especially the Nissan, Toyota, and Hyundai ones. they were so sappy and cloying that I wanted to go take a shot of insulin.
Maybe they still believe the urban legend about domestic violence on Super Bowl weekend.
Still trying to get over the cutsie Budweiser commercial with puppies and horses defending him against wolves, and then the dead kid Nationwide commercial. Maybe they should get the horses to defend against drunks.
I must be getting old - none of the commercials leaped out at me in a good way. Even the one where the daughter went off to join the military, and I am usually a sucker for those kind. And they will never top the Anheuser-Busch commercial about soldiers being applauded in the airport coming home.
Regards,
Shodan
My favorite: first draft, and the polar bear with the sombrero.
I saw commentary from NPR today that stated exactly what was going through my head: a brainstorming session at Budweiser, where they throw out everything that will tug at your heartstrings: “Puppies! Horses! Lost puppies … threatened by a wolf! Saved by horses!!!”
The Best Thing on the Internet that I saw today, combined both elements of the Super Bowl. Little kid’s face saying “I would’ve handed off to Lynch…but I died.”
Sounds like a stupid idea dreamed up by some putz who never stood behind a register. My daughter works at McDonalds…I can’t wait to hear how this is supposed to work!
I thought the Dodge 100 years ad was quite good
I liked the commercial where the dad with artificial legs drives his children to school. That was a commercial wasn’t it?
it’s also almost a year old, that ad was released last April.
It’s better than that one where the dad kills his son with artificial legs.
Yep. Puppy was great. Mindy- meh, I hate her anyway.
Loctite was likely the best small budget ad. Hilarious.
Budweiser was solid. Brosnan was funny. Avocado ad was nice. Fiat was cute.
Now that is funny.
I blame my DVR. I saw it for the first time during the big game.
I guess Arlo needs the money. sigh Sometimes I think I’m living in a National Lampoon Radio Hour parody from the '70s. They had Dylan hawking “Golden Protest” - I bet no one would ever believe the real Dylan would be hawing Victoria’s Secret.
…with a Dodge
I got it was Kennedy, but the context is what got me. They aren’t talking about going back to the sea in general. They’re talking about going back to the sea on Carnival in particular, with the unspoken promise that this time they won’t strand you in the middle of the ocean with no power.
So we had God in two ads. The first was the good draft ad. The second was about all the disasters happening when God had no battery left on his cellphone. The ad review in the Murky News this morning thought God caused the disasters because he was mad about getting no signal, but I interpreted it as God not being able to fix the disasters because he had no signal.
Besides them being unclear on the concept of omniscience, what do you think?
Budweiser taking a swipe at craft beer was lame.
If that Nationwide commercial made you feel uncomfortable, then it did its job. If it results in fewer dead kids, then it’s worth a little discomfort.
If my father had seen the Nationwide commercial back in the sixties and secured his pistol where his kids couldn’t get at it, maybe my big sister would still be alive today.
Considering some of the stuff going on with NFL figures over the past year, they sort of had to.
Or get you REALLY back to the sea by hitting a rock and almost turtling the big sucker.
And gee, thanks, Carnival, you got my mother to get all choked up when she realized it was Jack doing the voiceover…
Out of curiosity, how easily could someone be killed by a falling TV these days? Modern flatscreens tend to be pretty lightweight.
I mean I could see a baby getting killed if a TV tipped over and fell on it’s head. But I can’t really see a kid the age of the one in the Nationwide commercial suffering too severely if a flatscreen TV were to fall on him.
The TVs we had when I was growing up ('80s, early 90s), on the other hand, could do real damage if they were to tip over.