I missed that. There was some background noise, and I wasn’t paying too much attention.
The Bud Lite with the streaking sheep was funny, and the Escalade commercial with the car rising out of a pool of water on a modeling runway was visually neat. It elicited a comment of “who’d buy a car that was under water?”
Before the game started, Harrison Ford et al. were inserted into the artwork of Dr. Seuss’ book “Oh the places you’ll go.” The text was modified to refer to the Superbowl players, and was cute as well.
He’s been shilling for Pizza Hut the last two Super Bowls. He and Jessica Simpson have just split paths this time around.
Best ad so far: Ameriquest Insurance. They won a lot of praise- and an Emmy- for an ad last year involving a man making dinner and a cat. This year, more of the same, this time involving an operating room and a fly. Funny.
Now that I think about it, before that, he’s done ads for MasterCard and the U.S. Mint. Honey, Kermit sold out long ago. After all, it’s not easy making…no, that’s too obvious.
I’ll vote for that one, too. It was funny. The next GoDaddy with the babe losing a spaghetti strap of her top was kinda lame. It could have been more risque, IMHO. I thought the Gilette Fusion ad was lame. A big high-tech buildup with cheesy images for what? A razor? Eh. I prefer the type of humor in the first GoDaddy.com ad.
Since we’re explaining the ads, I’ll explain this one, which was pretty good:
Diet Pepsi’s agent is speaking with Jackie Chan regarding DP being Jackie’s new sidekick for his next movie. The agent mentions that DP requests having his own stunt double. Jackie agrees. We then see a scene from Jackie’s new movie…a bunch of thugs have surrounded Jackie Chan and Diet Pespi! Jackie Chan does what he does best, but Diet Pepsi isn’t so lucky. He’s about to meet his end…Cut! Call out the stunt double…Diet Coke
and he is crushed! The agent talks to DP, “Aren’t you glad you didn’t do your own stunts?”
But my face won’t cooperate and know the difference between two and six blades. I would think 6 blades would tire my arm out from holding up all of that weight.
The Sprint commercial got a laugh. Two guys in a locker room are one-upping each other with their phones, unti lone says “Mine has an anti theft feature.”
“Huh?”
“Go on, try to take my wallet.”
The other guy reaches for the other’s wallet, and gets a phone thrown at him.
Ok, I guess you had to see it.
Magic Fridge and the Desperate Housewives bits are my favorites so far. I especially like the DH one where Hugh Hefner says “there’s something about Edie that I really like” and then they show the blondes next to him.
The “Lost” series commercial was a little bizarre, what with Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” video cutting in and out of various “Lost” scenes. I’m not a Stones fan, but I am so sick of “Start me up” (their opening song). That was a required song at any uni party, along with Rick James’ “Superfreak.” I was sick of it in 1981, and I’m still sick of it. But wow. I hope I can move that good when I’m 60+.
Is it just me, or was Mick Jagger speaking Elmer Fuddese while he was singing (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction? It sounded like he was singing “And I twy and I twy.”
Yah, the Bud with the colt aspiring to be part of the team was good. Pull at my heartstrings, huh? The Nationwide commercial starting with Fabio hawking cologne, only to cut to some old geezer in a Venetian gondola got a laugh out of me. I was thinking “Huh? Fabio? Didn’t he fall off the face of the earth?” The Hummer commercial with the robot and the godzilla-like creature was silly, and kinda ookie too. The Careerbuilder with the woman who says she works in an office of jackasses (cut to a scene of donkeys) got a laugh out of me.
Is it me, or does it seem lie there are fewer commercials this year than previous years? I’m seeing a lot more local/regional commercials.
What happened in the other Bud one with the colt, man and his dog? I only caught the tail end of it where he says to his dog “I won’t tell if you won’t.”
The colt tried to pull the wagon all by himself. He succeeded, but didn’t notice that he was getting some help from one of the other horses, who was pushing.
