# Super Bowl Commercials 2012

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 5, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895 "2012-02-05T21:52:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 6

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**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/101 "2012-02-06T01:43:28Z")

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Reinvented rain - it makes you skinny.

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**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/102 "2012-02-06T01:44:16Z")

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i really enjoy the polar bears.

the yogurt was funny. i bet yaya taught her that move.

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**Author:** ![Pitchmeister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pitchmeister/32/3459_2.png) [@Pitchmeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitchmeister)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/103 "2012-02-06T01:44:31Z")

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Can I get some sympathy for watching this in Germany and getting the same three stupid commercials over and over? I wish I had the NBC internet feed…

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**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/104 "2012-02-06T01:45:27Z")

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> [@simster](#):
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> So - Chevy Trucks - for guys who like Twinkies\*
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> \*not that there’s anything wrong with that - but not one of them saved a female to rebuild the race with, but the one did save the dog, I guess that’s something.

So, are you saying he’s into bestiality?

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**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/105 "2012-02-06T01:45:29Z")

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> [@joebuck20](#):
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> Reinvented rain - it makes you skinny.

i’m melting!!

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**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, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/106 "2012-02-06T01:46:09Z")

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(Angrily) Leno!!

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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/107 "2012-02-06T01:46:09Z")

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Loved the Accura NSX ad.  
Leno!

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/108 "2012-02-06T01:46:32Z")

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Toyota Camry: going for the Old Spice vibe, apparently.

The young lady in that Fiat Abarth ad melted the ice cream in my freezer. No lie.

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**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/109 "2012-02-06T01:46:36Z")

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talking head ads make me head to kitchen for snack

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**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/110 "2012-02-06T01:47:54Z")

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No Acura for you!

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**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/111 "2012-02-06T01:48:06Z")

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twinkie?

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/112 "2012-02-06T01:49:04Z")

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Are we going to get the GE “stories” ad that explains their tax returns?

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**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/113 "2012-02-06T01:50:55Z")

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Geez, what an easy payday for Tim Duncan. Nice work, if you can get it.

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**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/114 "2012-02-06T01:51:05Z")

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quiet basketball?

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**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, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/115 "2012-02-06T01:51:54Z")

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And at least Bud did not make us sit thru a whole ad for each of the next 7 decades…

> [@asterion](#):
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> Are we going to get the GE “stories” ad that explains their tax returns?

A team-up with H&R Block?

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**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/116 "2012-02-06T01:52:36Z")

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> [@rocking\_chair](#):
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> twinkie?

There was a Chevy truck ad in which one of the characters had a box of Twinkies and offered one to the guy with the dog.

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**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/117 "2012-02-06T01:53:37Z")

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I’m a bit behind you guys, but the add for Time Warner that also had Mary-Louise Parker in it, was she actually holding a marijuana plant, a la Weeds?

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**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/118 "2012-02-06T01:54:11Z")

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> [@joebuck20](#):
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> So, are you saying he’s into bestiality?

Hey, that dog is his beyotch.

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**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/119 "2012-02-06T01:54:25Z")

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i thought perhaps when you went for a tasty snack it was a twinkie.

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**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials-2012/611895/120 "2012-02-06T01:56:57Z")

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> [@Toucanna](#):
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> There was a Chevy truck ad in which one of the characters had a box of Twinkies and offered one to the guy with the dog.

You sure it wasn’t ‘for’ the dog? Food gonna be scarce pretty quick.

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