# Superbowl 53 Commercials Thread (2019) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 3, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896 "2019-02-03T18:53:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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 4, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/41 "2019-02-04T16:15:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Who was the “Come and get it” lady at the end of the football banquet? I assumed (pending someone posting that she is someone famous) that it was a generic little girl (she seemed young to me) and a tie-in to the other girl-empowerment ads. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/42 "2019-02-04T17:54:31Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What really dud-ed the Bud Knight commercials for me was that they list the ingredients for both beers… and they’re almost identical, except for the corn syrup. The message I take from that commercial isn’t “Bud Lite is better than other beers”; it’s “all beers are the same, but Bud Light drinkers are boring people who prattle off lists of ingredients”. > > Who was the “Come and get it” lady at the end of the football banquet? [REAL BEER](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot) would never be made with corn syrup. But people who drink REAL BEER would never come within a mile of a Bud Light, so they’re selling to the wrong crowd. Annnnnnd, [it pissed off corn growers](https://thecomeback.com/pop-culture/national-corn-growers-association-bud-light-corn-ads.html). ---
**Author:** ![senoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@senoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/senoy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/43 "2019-02-04T18:49:35Z")
The Google Translate ad was the worst one for me. Do they just think we’re stupid? It was supposed to be all touchy-feely, but its take home line was “Most of what is translated is ‘Thanks’, or ‘I love you.’” The takeaway that I get from that is that they are actively recording and data mining every single thing you put into their product. That doesn’t make me feel happy. It makes me feel like my privacy is invaded. I guess that’s the truth of the matter, but I don’t like the fact that they are actively recording any conversation I have with their product. Just creepy. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/44 "2019-02-04T19:06:16Z")
> [@senoy](#): > > The Google Translate ad was the worst one for me. Do they just think we’re stupid? It was supposed to be all touchy-feely, but its take home line was “Most of what is translated is ‘Thanks’, or ‘I love you.’” The takeaway that I get from that is that they are actively recording and data mining every single thing you put into their product. That doesn’t make me feel happy. It makes me feel like my privacy is invaded. I guess that’s the truth of the matter, but I don’t like the fact that they are actively recording any conversation I have with their product. Just creepy. Do you not know how Google Translate works? I didn’t get the we’re recording everything you are saying vibe from it (though they may actually be doing so). The NFL100 was the best. So many great players and moments referenced. And it was really funny to boot. I also like the Stella Artois commercial with Carrie Bradshaw, the Dude, and the Most Interesting Man in the World trying something new. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/45 "2019-02-04T19:17:28Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > I also like the Stella Artois commercial with Carrie Bradshaw, the Dude, and the Most Interesting Man in the World trying something new. Needed Daniel Craig. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/46 "2019-02-04T19:19:09Z")
I’d kind of expecting that anyone traveling anywhere where another language is spoken, if they care about being understood at all, would go to the trouble of learning the local word for “thank you” themself. And if you know someone well enough to tell them “I love you”, then you darned well better have some degree of common language by that point. ---
**Author:** ![senoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@senoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/senoy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/47 "2019-02-04T19:29:20Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Do you not know how Google Translate works? I didn’t get the we’re recording everything you are saying vibe from it (though they may actually be doing so). > > The NFL100 was the best. So many great players and moments referenced. And it was really funny to boot. I also like the Stella Artois commercial with Carrie Bradshaw, the Dude, and the Most Interesting Man in the World trying something new. I certainly know how it works and I have always assumed that they are recording it, but I don’t want an ad that draws attention to that fact. Again, I just found it creepy because it was done in the context of conversations. When I use a search engine, I know that they are using that information to sell ads and learn more about me. When they display it as part of conversation, it takes on a more ominous undertone. And when they just blatantly admit that they are tracking those conversations, it makes it seem like they just don’t care if you know. They know where you are and they know that you said ‘I love you’ to someone at a particular time. I personally find that creepy. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/48 "2019-02-04T19:34:12Z")
I guess I just don’t see the issue. I mean you are going through their servers when you are asking Google to translate something for you. Of course they can track those things. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/49 "2019-02-04T19:34:51Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Needed Daniel Craig. I thought that myself, or any other 007, but yeah, it was a cute ad. The Dude abides! ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/50 "2019-02-04T20:10:22Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Needed Daniel Craig. [Well, now he’s a Heineken drinker.](https://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/watch-heineken-s-james-bond-ad/300450/) ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/51 "2019-02-04T21:07:10Z")
> [@Corry\_El](#): > > On ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ I doubt that’s really going to piss off many real people as opposed to talking heads/internet trolls, if them. Interesting to think of whether the idea now is to attract customers from one side of the divide by making them _think_ the other side is going to be offended by their ads. Which would be more effective though than actually offending half the audience. Anyway that one seemed to me completely non-memorable, though so were almost all the other ones. I was certainly offended at the commercial, but that’s because they attempted to make “The Handmaids Tale” look good when it’s arguably the worst “prestige TV” show ever made ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/52 "2019-02-04T21:15:35Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I was certainly offended at the commercial, but that’s because they attempted to make “The Handmaids Tale” look good when it’s arguably the worst “prestige TV” show ever made I concur. And by no means is it “where America is going”. But hey, no accounting for taste. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/53 "2019-02-04T21:59:29Z")
Charlie Sheen’s line of, “And people think I’m nuts” in the Planter’s Nutmobile commercial drew a lot of laughs. The “100 years of Football” ad went by much too quickly. By the time I remembered one player, three other actions had taken place. That whole ad was an excellent football trivia contest. And the appearance of “the Dude” was memorable. I don’t remember which crappy beer he was hawking, but seeing him was another trip down memory lane. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/54 "2019-02-04T22:24:01Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > I guess I was supposed to recognize more of those guys - I wonder if there is an annotated version? Try this: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/02/04/can-you-name-all-stars-nfl-commercial/?utm\_term=.918c7e1a098f](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/02/04/can-you-name-all-stars-nfl-commercial/?utm_term=.918c7e1a098f) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/55 "2019-02-04T23:56:02Z")
Mrs. SMV and I went downtown Saturday night, just for the buzz, and noticed Pepsi ads in the MARTA stations: “Look who’s in Atlanta for the Super Bowl!” Nice bit of trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/56 "2019-02-05T00:30:14Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > I’m sorry but I can’t get emotional about Kias built in Georgia. Good thing your town has a good factory, guys, but you’re no Detroit (be glad you’re not, but outsiders won’t get excited about it). I thought this ad was terrible. It didn’t present the people of Georgia as proud or prospering or making a better life and community for themselves: they were tired-looking, covered in dirt and seemed poor. “We sure are better off being exploited by Kia than not being exploited at all” doesn’t make for compelling advertising IMO. > [@Rilchiam](#): > > Mr. Rilch and I **freaked** at the Burger King ad. We’ve seen that film clip on YouTube **and** at the Warhol Museum. I wonder how many people watching did **not** recognize Warhol and are now going to Google/Wiki him? I still won’t eat a Whopper, but today I salute Burger King! > [@Leaffan](#): > > I certainly recognized Warhol, but figured it was an actor. You mean it was really him? > [@Rilchiam](#): > > [Sure was](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynhdgc9ziw8)! Some indie filmmaker wanted to get footage of various Americans eating hamburgers; Warhol was the one he most wanted to film, and finally did. I did not like this ad. I find it distasteful when a deceased person is used to promote a company or product that they did not promote during their lifetime. Yes, even when that person is Andy Warhol; the _meta_-ness doesn’t persuade me. > [@SenorBeef](#): > > I thought the Budweiser-GOT commercial was weird. **It feels like it cheapens the GoT brand to be in a beer commercial** , it just felt weird and desperate and off to me. And it wasn’t even a cute little story or anything, just sort of random characters thrown together for references. I found it kind of cringey. Ditto, especially on the part I bolded. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/57 "2019-02-05T01:20:36Z")
I was wondering if the Budweiser corn commercial was aimed at the stigma of corn syrup or people with corn allergies. I actually drink the beer because of allergies but I doubt many people are aware of it or give a damn. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/58 "2019-02-05T01:47:11Z")
People with corn allergies are an awfully small demographic to be advertising to, and I imagine that most such folks already know which products are safe for them. I think they’re just going for “Corn is bad. It’s obviously bad, because we don’t use it, and if it were good, we would. So all of those other beers that use it are bad. Because they’re not us.”. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/59 "2019-02-05T01:52:20Z")
[Corn syrup in beer: It’s for fermenting, not as a sweetener](https://apnews.com/96ae41effb5f4f30ac3d36babc28d9ec). > [@](#): > > Sweeteners and starches can be used in the fermenting process to make beers, even if little remains in the end product. In fact, 12-ounce cans of Bud Light and Miller Lite list zero grams of sugar, while Coors Light lists 1 gram. Each has around 100 calories, with carbs ranging from about 3 to 7 grams. > > Bud Light uses rice instead of corn syrup in its fermenting process, but does it matter what type of starch or sweetener is used? > > Harry Schuhmacher, editor of Beer Business Daily, said the fermenting aids used to make lighter beers might result in slight differences in taste, but they generally serve the same purpose. > > “You could use doughnuts if you wanted,” he said. ---
**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, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896/60 "2019-02-05T02:16:47Z")
I’m not sure if it’s contradictory exactly, but given that the whole bud light advertising campaign has been “for the many, not the few” and making fun of people who make fun of bud and drink microbrews, it does seem really shitty of them to go on the attack of another mass produced crap beer for something as minor as different (equally good) ingredients for fermentation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-53-commercials-thread-2019/828896.md?page=4)