# Super Bowl Commercials! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079 "2010-02-07T23:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/161 "2010-02-08T12:55:38Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I can’t believe Letterman and Jay did an ad together…for Dave’s show. I was surprised as well and that one made me smile. I must now be officially old because I’m about to say that it seems like the commercials get more lame every year and back in \*my \*day… ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/162 "2010-02-08T13:35:51Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > The silently screaming spacewalking chicken drew the single biggest laugh of the evening at my house. I wasn’t a big fan of the Dennys commercials, but the space chicken was probably my 2nd favorite moment of the evening. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/163 "2010-02-08T14:02:50Z")
I thought the worst ad of the night was the Vizio ad- supposedly the new TVs will make “the best of the internet” available, but the stuff that was being dropped in was more like the schlockiest of the internet. The Zuma Zuma guy? The Chocolate Rain guy? The hamster-with-a-funny-expression? Please. That stuff is years old, and only makes me not want to buy a product that uses them in their ads. I liked the Snickers ad (“ooh, that hurt!”), the beaver violonist, and a couple others, but overall I thought it was a pretty weak night for Super Bowl ads. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/164 "2010-02-08T14:08:29Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > As usual, those of us in Canada missed all the commercials. I understand the need for the networks to divide ad revenue across international lines, but honestly–we’re so tied economically and culturally with the US that I’d say that it wouldn’t damage our culture if, for three hours out of one day a year, we can watch what Americans are watching, commercials and all. > > … I posted this link a few posts above yours. It is a link to show all the commercials. I figured, instead of having thirty people all make random links to the same commercials, I’d post one link to them all. I missed a few myself and I know there are others who may have missed them due to international viewing or bursting bladders. > [@Serenata67](#): > > So I’m trying to [show the commercials](http://www.cbssports.com/video/player/superbowlcommercials) … ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/165 "2010-02-08T14:11:29Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I was just horrified at how some of the ads (one was that walk-around TV thing with the woman making her man carry her bra and the other one was for Dodge Charger) told me that women hate football and men are weenies if they do what women want. What year is this again? Those annoyed the hell out of me. It was especially stupid to show these kinds of ads during the Super Bowl, which has a lot of female viewers. Personally, I was downstairs watching the game alone while my husband was upstairs watching shows on DVR. Also, I will _not_ watch his vampire show with him! I thought the ads were pretty poorly done overall. The Vacation hotel ad with Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo was disappointing … I wanted more. Doritos and Bud Light were especially lame. My favorites of the night were the Favre ad, Punxatawney Polamalu, and of course Jay/Oprah/Dave. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/166 "2010-02-08T14:43:56Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Stupid Audi commercial. Makes you feel bad for being eco-smart. Exactly. What was the point of that? Being green will turn you into an authoritarian asshole? Yep, this’ll play right into the hands of the Fox News cap-and-trade opposing crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/167 "2010-02-08T14:52:42Z")
> [@yellowval](#): > > The Vacation hotel ad with Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo was disappointing … I wanted more. Agreed. And I dislike the whole “go to our website to see more” trend. You know what? No. I’m not going to your website to watch the rest of your commercial. So there. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/168 "2010-02-08T15:45:38Z")
Michael Feldman interviewed a guy who built his own “Family Truckster” on What’d Ya Know Saturday, which is the car featured in the ad. This got me excited for this ad, but we barely got to see the car. Oh well…and no, I’m not going to your website to see the rest of the commercial. Don’t forget the voiceover in those Charger ads is Michael C. “Dexter” Hall…I’m not sure if “serial killer” is the vibe they wanted to give off (even if Dexter has a code). So for me: 1. Betty and Abe 2. Google (I’m curious to see if this goes viral and we get a whole bunch of variations of this ad) 3. Space chicken 4. Nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/169 "2010-02-08T15:46:04Z")
I liked the McDonald’s ad just before the game - Lebron/Dwight Howard dunking in homage to the Bird/Magic H-O-R-S-E game, ending with a cameo by Bird, with neither of the whippersnappers knowing who he was. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/170 "2010-02-08T15:56:16Z")
Hmmm, did no one like the Doritos ad with the dog and the bark collar? I thought it was pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/171 "2010-02-08T16:06:59Z")
As much as I love the Simpsons, I find it quite interesting that in the first year that Pepsi chooses not to buy advertising at the Super Bowl, they show up in a traditional ad for Coke with the standard “Coke is a unifier” message, even though the trademark Simpsons style of snark and sarcasm is more in line with the alternative, “choice of a new generation”-style that is Pepsi’s forte. It really shows how after 20 years, these bizarre, sarcastic characters created by an underground cartoonist that debuted on an upstart fourth network have become American cultural and commercial icons alongside Mickey Mouse, the McDonald’s arches and Coca-Cola itself. I don’t know whether to say “woo-hoo” or “d’oh.” Here are additional licensed links to see the spots from the game: [YouTube Ad Blitz](http://www.youtube.com/adblitz) [Hulu AdZone](http://www.hulu.com/adzone) [USA Today Ad Meter](http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/admeter/2010admeter.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/172 "2010-02-08T16:23:28Z")
As a fan of “old-timey” music, I got a kick out of the tune played by the fiddling beaver’s tune choice. Think it was the first tune I learned to play on mando. Soldier’s Joy Also the title of an excellent book by Madison Smartt Bell… ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/173 "2010-02-08T16:24:12Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Yeah, I didn’t quite get it. Eating Snickers is supposed to make play harder against old people? It didn’t do much for me. Dude, you totally missed the point. How many times have you told your friends that they’re playing like girls (no offense to the XX Dopers out there; it’s a Y thing)? Or that your grandma could play better? I almost dropped my plate of wings and meatballs when she got stuck. Betty White is so lovable. Then when she ate the Snickers bar and turned into a man again, I got the joke and laughed so hard I never heard what Abe Vigoda said… ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/174 "2010-02-08T16:25:18Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > Hmmm, did no one like the Doritos ad with the dog and the bark collar? I thought it was pretty funny. I liked it! ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/175 "2010-02-08T16:29:01Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Has anyone ever actually watched any of those online GoDaddy videos? Are they worth it? Do they really show anything? Nothing you cant see in Maxim or FHM…or so I’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/176 "2010-02-08T16:37:44Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > Nothing you cant see in Maxim or FHM…or so I’ve heard. Or so you’ve heard…right. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/177 "2010-02-08T16:38:23Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > How many times have you told your friends that they’re playing like girls (no offense to the XX Dopers out there; it’s a Y thing)? Or that your grandma could play better? This is exactly it, as shown by the line “Dude, you’re playin’ like Betty White out there.” ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/178 "2010-02-08T16:38:52Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > Dude, you totally missed the point. > > How many times have you told your friends that they’re playing like girls (no offense to the XX Dopers out there; it’s a Y thing)? Or that your grandma could play better? > > I almost dropped my plate of wings and meatballs when she got stuck. Betty White is so lovable. Then when she ate the Snickers bar and turned into a man again, I got the joke and laughed so hard I never heard what Abe Vigoda said… I was eating a sub when it came on, so I guess I looked away right when she turned into a man. Still doesn’t do much for me. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/179 "2010-02-08T16:59:27Z")
1. Google and that’s about it. Although I did enjoy thhe Vizio ad, because they had David after Dentist in there. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079/180 "2010-02-08T17:12:01Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I was just horrified at how some of the ads (one was that walk-around TV thing with the woman making her man carry her bra and the other one was for Dodge Charger) told me that women hate football and men are weenies if they do what women want. What year is this again? My daughter saw a few of the commercials and commented that they don’t seem to have a very high opinion of women. I replied that they don’t seem to have a very high opinion of men either. The Audi ad freaked us out. I honestly thought it was going to be an anti-Obama or Sarah Palin for President ad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-commercials/528079.md?page=10)