# This year's crop of Super Bowl commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734 "2005-02-07T01:28:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/21 "2005-02-07T05:10:25Z")
So, anybody got a site yet to view this year’s collection? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/22 "2005-02-07T05:25:39Z")
Didn’t MC Hammer show up later in somebody else’s ad? I reeeeeeeeally liked the P. Diddy-in-a-Pepsi-truck ad, because I’ve seen _Pimp My Ride_ a couple of times. (OK, so I was starved for entertainment a couple of nights…) :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/23 "2005-02-07T05:32:19Z")
There were a couple that were funny. My favorite was “Tomorrow.” ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/24 "2005-02-07T06:11:00Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > As she pointed out in the commercial, the advertisement was for [GoDaddy.com](http://GoDaddy.com), a website that lets you register website addresses. That’s right. The problem with commercials like that is the images stick in your mind, but not the names. [Outpost.com](http://Outpost.com) had a few years ago had two commercials like that (one featuring an inaccurate hamster gun and another in which a marching band is attacked by wolves) which were memorable for the laughs, but not for the names. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/25 "2005-02-07T06:35:01Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > The hot chick testifying in before Congress, what was that advertising? She was testifying before a network, not Congress. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/26 "2005-02-07T06:35:31Z")
> [@Oslo Ostragoth](#): > > So, anybody got a site yet to view this year’s collection? [www.ifilm.com](http://www.ifilm.com) has 'em. They list an add for “Wynn Las Vegas” that the powers that be apparently wouldn’t run. I watched it three times and can’t for the life of me figure out why. They also have another [godaddy.com](http://godaddy.com) ad that apparently got cut after the first one ran. The godaddy people explain the situation \ **Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/27 "2005-02-07T06:38:13Z") I shouldn’t post this late. The link is [www.bobparsons.com](http://www.bobparsons.com). Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![ussentinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ce7236/32.png) [@ussentinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ussentinel)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/28 "2005-02-07T06:40:14Z")
Nice thread. I guess I didn’t like the Fed-Ex commercial as much as the others. I thought it was good, not great. If you tell me it’s gonna be the best commercial beforehand, I think I inherently get soured at the boast. Just me. I liked the Diet Pepsi ad where the guy was walking down the street with “Stayin’ Alive” in the background. Girls drooling over him including Cindy Crawford … and then Carson Kressley from “Queer Eye” looks over him. That one got the biggest laugh at the place I was at. ---
**Author:** ![merrily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@merrily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrily)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/29 "2005-02-07T13:16:14Z")
The frozen guy in the car was just eerie. And they had to show it 3 times! Remember that ad from a couple years ago in which it becomes clear the girl was conceived in the car? The frozen guy was kind of like that: it sticks in your mind, but doesn’t really make you want to sit in the car. ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/30 "2005-02-07T13:26:14Z")
> [@](#): > > You know what I didn’t see? During the NFC/AFC title games there were these very brief spots featuring people in cold locations with horrified looks on their faces. At the end of the spots a black screen would come up with the words “They’re coming.” on it. My friends and I thought it would be a lead-in to a Superbowl commerical, but we saw nothing. I tried Googling to no avail. They ran that in the pre-game show as well. The best I can figure is it may have been teasing the “ **War Of The Worlds** ” trailer. “They’re coming” kind of eludes to alien invaders, but the connection wasn’t clear (probably because the teaser was \*\*so \*\*short). ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/31 "2005-02-07T13:44:13Z")
I missed the original, but the Today show just re-ran an Anheuser-Busch ad that made me get all weepy. I’m turning into a wuss in my old age, I think, but that one’s my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/32 "2005-02-07T13:48:58Z")
Did anyone else think that the commercials felt like a trip to the ZOO? The monkeys were on every other commercial break. There was the one with the unicorn and easter bunny. The “Clydesdale” tryouts had a pig, a girafe, a donkey and other stuff. The Slaughtered Cat (the best commercial). The dancing bear. I’m sure I’m missing something. Overall, pretty lame. No one being risque at all. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/33 "2005-02-07T13:52:58Z")
I really liked the Tabasco ad. It uses sex to sell, but in a clever way. I can’t believe they’re remaking The Longest Yard… that’ll suck, and hard. My vote for worst ad, it’s gotta be the “scary” Ford trucks. GoDaddy was stupid, but Ford had my eyes rolling. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/34 "2005-02-07T14:05:22Z")
The cat one made me laugh out loud. A few others made me chuckle, but this may be the worst year for commercials. Maybe the second worse year. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/35 "2005-02-07T15:13:57Z")
My favorite part of the “slaughtered” cat ad was that the cat lets out this grumpy little meow at the very end. It’s probably the only time I have ever heard an authentic animal sound in a commercial. Or on TV as a whole. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/36 "2005-02-07T16:29:48Z")
Best ad: Federal Express wins by a mile. Oddly my first reaction was “Hey, that looks like Burt Reynolds, but younger”. Runners up: Slaughtered cat, various animals wishing to be Budweiser Clydesdales (references the best ad from last year’s Super Bowl), car that drives while other cars stay in place with their wheels rotating Worst ad: First bud light ad where a guy dives out of an airplane to catch a pack of Bud Light. How many times has that been done before? ---
**Author:** ![rowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@rowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowe)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/37 "2005-02-07T16:36:59Z")
When I first saw that McDonald’s Abraham Lincoln fry ad (it’s part II according to [iFilm.com](http://iFilm.com)), I thought the guy at the end said “I don’t have to tell you what this looks like” as he holds up a chicken finger that looked like a penis. Then his wife takes it and eats the whole thing. Guess I heard it wrong, he says “WHO this looks like” then says something about Benjamin Franklin that I must have missed. Not as controversial as I first thought! ---
**Author:** ![brix11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@brix11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brix11)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/38 "2005-02-07T17:08:07Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Didn’t MC Hammer show up later in somebody else’s ad? He was also in a Nationwide Insurance ad going from fame and fortune to being thrown out on the street. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/39 "2005-02-07T17:17:27Z")
The bud light with Cedric and his fantasy was my favorite. Laughed my ass off on that one. I was kinda suprised not to see any Miller Light commercials. With the whole referee thing I figured something would be there… ---
**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, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734/40 "2005-02-07T19:42:32Z")
> [@](#): > > I did like the ad with the Marvel Super Heroes (and Underdog) for Visa Check Card. That was my favorite, too, and there were a number of chuckles. But overall, this was a weak year for commercials. We also had: [ul][li]The same Dell ad that’s been running for months[/li][li]Some beer commercial consisting of a picture of the glass of beer and a voiceover telling us it’s a revolutionary new innovation in beer, it’s LOW CARB![/li][li]The stupid GoDaddy commercial, which had **nothing** going for it besides a big chest and a tight shirt… Congressional hearings are boring, people.[/li][li]The utterly boring Honda pickup truck (a half-ton truck is not impressive, and I’m not sure it’s even a truck)[/li][li]And did any other markets show the incessant adds for “Everyone loves Zantrax, America’s favorite diet pill!”? Gah. If I were in the market for a diet pill, I know what I sure wouldn’t take.[/ul][/li] One that I didn’t see anyone else mention was the car commercial at the end, with the daughter eloping. It was funny, but it didn’t really make sense… The father was driving Mom’s car, right? And didn’t he manage to get there first? I want that car. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-years-crop-of-super-bowl-commercials/288734.md?page=3)