# The obligatory Super Bowl commercials thread.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 5, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159 "2006-02-05T23:50:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/1 "2006-02-05T23:50:13Z")
After the first break, I was thinking, eh? But now with the prehistoric FedEx spot, things are looking up! Your impressions?
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/2 "2006-02-05T23:57:24Z")
Might want to consolidate over to this thread, which already has responses: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=357435](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=357435)
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/3 "2006-02-06T00:05:56Z")
:smack: I hastily checked the IMHO forum for a dupe thread before starting this one, w/o checking in MPSIMS.
Granted, the MPSIMS thread is more active, but I think this is the better forum for an ad thread. As always, it’ll be up to the mods to make the call.
The arthritis-medication ad with Leonard Nimoy (doing the Vulcan salute at the Trek convention) was cute. You just know that forty years from now, there won’t be any SB ads featuring actors from the later incarnations of Trek… or will there?
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### Author:  [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/4 "2006-02-06T00:12:38Z")
The Burger King spot with the hamburger made out of women was kinda disturbing. Especially the dancer wearing the charred-meat dress.
I second the pre-historic Fedex ad for best so far.
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/5 "2006-02-06T00:21:02Z")
Yeah, the BK spot reminded me of the Producers number “Springtime for Hitler,” with its Busby-Berkely-style OTT glitz.
The Budweiser Clydesdales football game, being interrupted by the newly-shorn “streaker” sheep, was really cute. The ESPN Mobile ad was one of the most intricately choreographed commercials I’ve ever seen. Kudos to the agency that put that one together. (And the superimposed “first down” CGI yellow line got me to LOL.)
And congrats to Seattle so far, for making a spirited game out of it!
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### Author:  [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/6 "2006-02-06T00:28:07Z")
Ok they are using Kermit to sell Fords. Way to go Disney!
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/7 "2006-02-06T00:28:18Z")
> [@The Scrivener](#):
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> The ESPN Mobile ad was one of the most intricately choreographed commercials I’ve ever seen. Kudos to the agency that put that one together.
Yeah, that one was pretty impressive.
Ugh, they just commercialized Kermit the frog.
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### Author:  [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/8 "2006-02-06T00:29:06Z")
I’m definitely not going to see the new “The Shaggy Dog”!
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/9 "2006-02-06T00:40:41Z")
From the break-before-last: the Michelob Lite ad was pretty true-to-life, for a beer ad. Touch football game, coed, with a PYT going for a reception and getting clocked by a guy who’s taking the game a bit too seriously. (The idiot’s buddy, though, was horrified, yelling “what are you doing?!?”.) Flash forward to a bar after the game, and the girl delivers a “late hit” that knocks the clod off his barstool. Heh!
That’s pretty realistic, though. From real life, when guys and gals play touch or flag football together, the guys usually take special care to not kill the ladies, or drive them away… 🙂
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### Author:  [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/10 "2006-02-06T01:01:08Z")
What was with the Sprint ad? ‘Crime deterrent’ = throwing the phone at someone’s head?
Is there an actual feature with this name? If so, how does it really work, and why don’t they tell us about it?
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### Author:  [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/11 "2006-02-06T01:08:14Z")
“Addicted to **Lost** ”! Hahahahaha!!!
Why, yes, I am–Thank you for noticing.
New ‘Best Of Show’.
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/12 "2006-02-06T01:36:18Z")
> [@Rich Mann](#):
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> What was with the Sprint ad? ‘Crime deterrent’ = throwing the phone at someone’s head?
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> Is there an actual feature with this name? If so, how does it really work, and why don’t they tell us about it?
No- the ad clearly says “do not attempt,” so I wouldn’t be using the “crime deterrent” feature. Funny ad, though.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/13 "2006-02-06T01:38:19Z")
I’m liking the “Don’t Judge Too Quicklys.” Didn’t they have the cat with the spaghetti sauce last year?
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/14 "2006-02-06T01:39:59Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> I’m liking the “Don’t Judge Too Quicklys.” Didn’t they have the cat with the spaghetti sauce last year?
Indeed they did. Won an Emmy for it, too. The one in the operating room was the best of the night, in my opinion. Ameriquest Insurance.
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/15 "2006-02-06T01:44:08Z")
The mobile-phone ad for the “PEBL” phone that suggested its pebble-like ergonomics sprang from an antediluvian asteroid (or was that a meteor?) impact long ago was elegant and high-concept – although you could get snarky and ask if it is meant to suggest that it’s technology is yesteryear’s as well.
Then again, if you’re looking for a mobile phone that you can throw at people’s heads as a “crime deterrent” feature, this would have to be the phone for you! 😃
Ooh, another “Clydesdale” Bud spot! [Clydes colt single-handedly pulls the wagon.] Beautiful, but not all that memorable. Maybe that storyline will be continued in a sequel ad?
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/16 "2006-02-06T01:51:07Z")
So the Hummer is the son of Godzilla and a robot?
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### Author:  [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/17 "2006-02-06T01:51:37Z")
> [@mobo85](#):
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> So the Hummer is the son of Godzilla and a robot?
Okay, that commercial was just creepy.
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### Author:  [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/18 "2006-02-06T01:51:56Z")
Oh boy, did that Hummer spot ever suck.
And I thought the Clydesdale colt _was_ memorable…
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### Author:  [@AFAIKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AFAIKnow)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/19 "2006-02-06T01:58:57Z")
damn commercial made me miss the touchdown and i didn’t even understand what taco bell was trying to say.
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-obligatory-super-bowl-commercials-thread/343159/20 "2006-02-06T02:02:23Z")
The colt was fine; it was the punchline (something like, “I won’t tell them if you don’t”) that was pretty lame.
The Hummer Iron Giant/Godzilla-substitute monster ripoff ad was subtextually spot-on – seeing as how Hummer drivers couldn’t give a shit about the environment, the safety of other drivers on the road, their imperious, space-hogging presence, etc.
I’d seen the CareerBuilder “I work with monkeys” ad before, but this one was a funny update (“I understand; I work with jackasses.”). You really can’t go too wrong with commercials featuring animals, can you?
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