# Superbowl Commercials, 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449 "2011-02-06T23:15:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/141 "2011-02-07T03:51:39Z")
I liked the Chevy one where the car kept getting stolen in increasingly impossible ways. Did anyone else feel there were a lot more movie ads than usual? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/142 "2011-02-07T04:08:19Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > \*\*Not that it was likely to happen anyway, \*\*but I’m definitely never drinking another Budweiser again if it’s going to make me spontaneously start singing Elton John tunes… Yeah, I love how these commercials treat Bud Light like it’s some sort of holy nectar, when in actuality most serious beer drinkers treat it as the horse piss that it is. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/143 "2011-02-07T04:20:34Z")
Fox Sports has [58 commercials online](http://msn.foxsports.com/video/shows/super-bowl-commercials-2011). I was with a screaming toddler through the first half of the game, so I’m going to have to check them out tomorrow. Thanks to whoever wrote out the punchline for the flowers commercial joke. Stupid kid screamed right through it (not my kid or my charge, btw). ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/144 "2011-02-07T04:23:31Z")
Here’s another link for the commercials: > **[YouTube AdBlitz](https://www.youtube.com/user/adblitz?feature=ticker)** > > Watch your favorite 2022 Big Game ads ---
**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 7, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/145 "2011-02-07T04:29:25Z")
My favorites were the Coke international border and the Bridgestone beaver. But the Volkswagen Little Darth was cute, too. This was a pretty good year for sweet/touching commercials. After that, I’d have to go with whichever car commercial it was that had the helicopter and Poseidon and aliens and Aztecs, though. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/146 "2011-02-07T04:58:36Z")
Worst batch of commercials ever, IMO. I chuckled at a couple, and couldn’t believe that they got away with “Cram It In the Boot” - a much less funny take on the Bud Lite Lime “[I Got It In the Can](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBcZjxd-bk)” ad that never got aired in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/147 "2011-02-07T05:14:10Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I’m supposed to buy a Chevy Cruze because it can give me real time Facebook updates? > > :dubious: > > I think we’ve officially gone 'round the bend… They lost me on that one too. I was disappointed with the commercials overall. The Doritos guy was creepy. The snickers bar was a rehash of last year. The Safe Auto was painfully stupid. All the movie trailers were aimed at 12 year olds. At least GB won. barely. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/148 "2011-02-07T05:37:38Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Another Eminem commercial? Who told the ad execs that he was still relevant? Well, him and Rihanna did have one of the most popular songs of 2010, so… Overall not a great batch…too many car commercials that were sub-par, IMO. My favorite might have been the first Pepsi Max one, where the wife beaned that blond jogger in the head. Oh, and Thor and Captain America kicked ass, and the SUper 8 trailer seemed odd…the teaser trailer I saw last year made it seem like some kind of giant monster movie (the thing breaking out of the Air Force train car,) but the music and the editing in this trailer made it seem like some sort of “little kid discovers the joy of wonder, and the wonder of joy, and teaches it to the world” kind of movie… . . . . . . …with a giant monster. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/149 "2011-02-07T10:52:24Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > the SUper 8 trailer seemed odd…the teaser trailer I saw last year made it seem like some kind of giant monster movie (the thing breaking out of the Air Force train car,) but the music and the editing in this trailer made it seem like some sort of “little kid discovers the joy of wonder, and the wonder of joy, and teaches it to the world” kind of movie… > . > . > . > . > . > . > …with a giant monster. Mr. Rilch was on the crew of **Super-8** , and he says that while there are some softer moments in the film, for the most part it’s “a balls-to-the-wall action movie.” And stuff does get blowed up real good. [You can’t always judge by trailers.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfout_rgPSA) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/150 "2011-02-07T14:56:48Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What do you get? I’ve never been and can’t picture myself looking at their site anytime soon. Still, I’m lazily curious. 😃 What you get is the same commercial at greater length, including one or two tangential scenes that were cut from the broadcast version. What, you thought “see more” meant naughty bits? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/151 "2011-02-07T15:31:42Z")
> [@Vita\_Beata](#): > > The Doritos commercial with the wierd guy licking the crumbs off the pants and the other guy’s finger: Blech! That one grossed me out bigtime. I almost threw up in my mouth a little. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/152 "2011-02-07T16:13:09Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > Wow that Seely commercial was racist! I’m seconding the request for why you think that was racist. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/153 "2011-02-07T17:19:29Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > I strongly suspect L’il Darth was a girl. [Nope](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41455377/ns/business-business_of_super_bowl_xlv/), a boy named Max Page. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/154 "2011-02-07T18:42:11Z")
Pretty average crop this year. The best: The Coke Dragon ad Carmax " I feel like a…" One that I only half saw. It was a car ad that had a mix of old and new technology. Looked neat. Careerbuilder’s chimp ad. Worst: The web site that will apparently turn people into cross dressers. Godaddy. The ad was stupid and .co is just Columbia’s domain. Who cares? The finger sucker and dog Dorito ads. Saw this morning both were submitted by the public. Next time stick with a pro. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/155 "2011-02-07T18:59:08Z")
I liked the Coke one with the Barry Lyndon music but no one I was watching it with had seen the movie so they didn’t understand my excitement ---
**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 7, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/156 "2011-02-07T19:04:51Z")
I have to say I thought the Groupon ad was in poor taste, then I read that they actually have a link on their website for donating to TIbet annd other causes which then made me think, “WTF? Why didn’t they mention any of that in the commercial.” Test baby for the win for me. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/157 "2011-02-07T21:08:17Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > [Nope](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41455377/ns/business-business_of_super_bowl_xlv/), a boy named Max Page. Ah, I see. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449/158 "2011-02-07T23:53:29Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > The best: > The Coke Dragon ad See, I didn’t get that one. Some kind of weird anthropomorphic bear-thingies in a castle…an army of orcs and goblins and a dragon…dragon drinks a Coke and for some reason his fire is now fireworks? 😕 And why would the army of tens of thousands suddenly decide to flee? Yeah, a dragon with real fire would be great, but I’m guessing if he breathed his fireworks breath at the castle like he would have done with the fire, and the army actually did their job, they’d kill all of those smug as shit bear things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-2011/570449.md?page=7)