Those Super Bowl commercials

were particular dreadful this year. Usually the beet of the best commercials appear.

Not this year.

Ok, the Breaking Bad one was pretty cute. :slight_smile:

Still waiting for Ozzy. Or did I miss it?

I didn’t know that Gronkowski kick was live and for real.

Ozzy has made an appearance. Underwhelming.

A couple have been cute. Most have been awful to incomprehensible.

The worst had to be the Remy Martin ad. When it finally got to the long-delayed ending and turned out only to tout a cognac, my wife and I laughed out loud simultaneously.

The game is more interesting than the commercials. I feel cheated.

The trailer for The Flash was ok.
The M&M/Maya spot was, well… weak. Too much set-up to get to this.
Overall, nothing memorable.

As this is about the arts (commercials) I’ve moved it to cafe society.

Was on in the 4th quarter.

I loved the John Travolta T-Mobile one.

Premature Electrification was funny.

Do they still run Super Bowl ads for the post game show? Or are they regular ads now?

Eh, never mind. But weird that Fox Sports is now playing the next show, a sort of cooking gameshow.

Breaking Bad and John Travolta…so awesome. Whatever they were advertising.

No, wait. It was Doritos, right? I hate them, but I guess their commercial succeeded.

Oh! Also liked the people dancing to the hold music. That’s my favorite hold music; I would totally buy it. What they were actually selling, I don’t know.

So did they order a companion puppy from Amazon, or just the crate. I hope it’s the latter.

It’s been a tradition, for a couple of decades, that the network which showed the Super Bowl then runs a regular program after the post-game show, specifically to draw eyeballs to it. Sometimes it’s a special episode of a regular series (NBC did that once or twice with Friends), but usually, it’s a program that the network hopes will benefit from people seeing it at the special time, then will seek it out at its normal time.

The sole purpose of advertising is to get you to remember the name of the product. Didn’t work on me. You?

I work in advertising, and I would disagree that it’s the sole purpose, but I would agree that an ad which doesn’t do a good job in conveying the name of the brand/advertiser is likely not an effective ad.