# Superbowl Commercials (as they happen)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 5, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157 "2006-02-05T23:40:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/1 "2006-02-05T23:40:08Z")
Ok,
The one for internet connectivity was ok, the Burger King one was dumb, dumb, dumb, and the one for Bud light (office one) was only dumb, dumb.
Add on to this as they happen.
Oh, and the Sierra Mist was also dumb.
Vlad/Igor
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/2 "2006-02-05T23:41:34Z")
I loved the Burger King one. I laughed so lamely.
I also just laughed at the Beer “magic fridge” one.
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### Author:  [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/3 "2006-02-05T23:48:12Z")
Can y’all be a little more descriptive? We just get the regular lame-o commercials here, not the million dollar lame-o ones. ☹
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### Author:  [@6\_6\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6_6_6)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/4 "2006-02-05T23:49:06Z")
We just get the boring British ads but the show is sponsored by Coors.
Is the game shown widescreen (16:9) in the USA? We’re just getting it in 4:3 format over here.
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### Author:  [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/5 "2006-02-05T23:51:48Z")
The Burger King one was a Rockettes-type dance routine (reminded me of the set for “Material Girl” video), with the girls dressed up as the makings of a Whopper. At the end, they piled on top of each other to build a Whopper. The King lit a cannon to shoot a tomato-clad dancer to the bottom bun. Eh.
The Fed-Ex commercial with the caveman and dinosaurs was cute, if inaccurate.
Vlad/Igor
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/6 "2006-02-05T23:52:19Z")
Oooooooook. The Burger King really want us to be cannibals. 😛
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/7 "2006-02-05T23:52:29Z")
Hahahah…oh man, that FedEx one was the best so far.
Caveman ties a message on a stick to that one dinosaur that flies (can’t remember the name). Flying Dino gets eaten by a T Rex.
CM, very sullen now, heads back to the cave to tell his employer (who looks like he’s trying to invent fire) that the package didn’t make it. Employer asks if CM used FedEx. CM says no and Employer fires him. CM whines that FedEx (we’re reading all this through subtitles since the Cavemen are using various grunts) isn’t invented yet, but Em says it’s not his problem.
On the way out
CM kicks a small dinosaur out of the way but gets wiped out by some huge animal’s foot passing by
On right now: P. Diddy and Diet Pepsi
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/8 "2006-02-05T23:54:13Z")
Some of these movie previews look pretty good. _Click_ with Adam Sandler looks really funny.
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### Author:  [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/9 "2006-02-05T23:58:45Z")
P. Diddy and Diet Pepsi was really stupid.
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### Author:  [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/10 "2006-02-06T00:02:11Z")
Leonard Nimoy and Aleve was cute, Ameriquest was cuter, and the Bud Lite commercial with the guys “fixing” their roofs was the first to make me laugh.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/11 "2006-02-06T00:03:23Z")
Okay, so how many people in your house just tried to do the Vulcan salute?
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/12 "2006-02-06T00:04:49Z")
Ugh. That one with the kid asking his bilingual father why he drives a hybrid just managed to squeeze in every single last thing I hate about advertising into one thirty second spot.
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### Author:  [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/13 "2006-02-06T00:10:46Z")
The Steelers have possesion, so I’ll take a minute out to explain:
The Bud Lite one starts with a wife asking her husband to clean the gutters. He hauls up a toolbox full of beer, and sets up a lawn chair on the roof peak. In the background is a neighbor, grilling something in a roof vent. Yet another neighbor is actually on the roof to fix a leak, and he falls through. The presentation and humor got me that time.
Leonard Nimoy asks for some Aleve before going out onstage. Finally anstage, he pauses at the podium, makes the Vulcan hand sign, and sends the attendant Trekkers into orgasmic fits of exstacy.
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/14 "2006-02-06T00:12:09Z")
The Diet Pepsi and Jackie Chan one was better.
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### Author:  [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/15 "2006-02-06T00:13:32Z")
Wow . . . Pepsi’s new angle not so appetizing: “Brown and Bubbly” sure does sound like a stomache flu symptom to me!
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/16 "2006-02-06T00:13:58Z")
> [@Vlad/Igor](#):
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> The King lit a cannon to shoot a tomato-clad dancer to the bottom bun. Eh.
The song (set to the tune of _Have It Your Way_) was very clever, and self-referential to boot. Notice they called their mascot character “the freaky king.”
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/17 "2006-02-06T00:14:56Z")
All right, that Bud Sheep streaker just got a laugh that topped the FedEx one.
Oh man. Tears.
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/18 "2006-02-06T00:19:40Z")
A bunch of farm animals get together for a game of football. Horses against horses (probably supposed to be two teams like the Colts and Broncos). There are Wolf refs and other various animals officiating…and various animales like sheep and buffalo as the fans.
One sheep comes rushing out cleanly shaven…and as two ranchers watch on…goes between the animals playing and shakes his hind parts and dances quite lewdly. One of the ranchands points out that it’s a streaker. Really funny stuff.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/19 "2006-02-06T00:22:23Z")
Am I the only one who, looking fast at the sign above the BK dancers, thought it said “Whorettes” instead of “Whopperettes”?
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-commercials-as-they-happen/343157/20 "2006-02-06T00:29:24Z")
KERMIT THE FROG SOLD OUT! :eek:
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