Ben Affleck was one of the few celebs I recognized. They started off saying “wait to see who is the parrot.” Then at halftime, a bunch of what I presume were celebs were chasing some flag football woman, and the parrot was some Black guy I didn’t recognize. As my wife and I walked the dog to the grocery store this morning to pick up a box of macaroni (Barilla) we discussed that this just confirmed that whatever they were advertising, WE obviously weren’t the target audience!
I never drank any “brown” liquor other than occasional rum, but it never occurred to me that Crown Royal was Canadian. Other than Canadian Club, the idea of Canadian whiskey as a thing never registered with me.
I forget who the guy was who was dancing on hold - tho I recognized him. Was the woman also famous?
The Jesus ads were - um - odd. And I personally disfavored the armed forces ones. In a similar vein, who paid for the pre-game patriotism bit w/ Johnny Cash? to really expressing an opinion other than curiosity over who footed the bill for what had to be pretty pricey airtime.
Worse than the NFT ad that was nothing but a QR code and a couple of generic CG characters? I’m pretty sure that one was paid for by someone in a Brewster’s Millions type situation.
There was an ad where there was a Latin woman who was introduced as a flag football player. Then a bunch of people began chasing her, trying to get her flags. I recognized a couple of the chasers, but only a couple. In this ad, the parrot removed his head. Ended up in the woman’s kitchen with her mom chasing her. No idea what it was supposedly advertising. After, it said something like “The NFL appreciates where women are taking the game.”
You don’t recall the ad concerning women’s flag football? Or were there a bunch of other flag football ads I missed?
As for the celebrities in all the ads: I liked them. It’s not that I am looking to their endorsement. It’s just that cameos and pastiches are fun–or, at least, they can be. In this type of commercial, it can be sorta a game of “spot the celeb.”
Anything to actually get people to want to watch them.
How many of them do you recognize? In the ad above, I recognized Billie Jean King - likely because she is close to my vintage. But the rest? I just kept thinking, “I assume that is someone famous!”
I had that ad on mute so may have missed a nuance. But it seemed like the point of the ad (aside from getting you to buy stuff on Amazon) was that dogs are destructive because they’re lonely, and the way to get them to behave is to get them a puppy companion.
It’s much more likely to result in the older dog training the pup in how to commit mayhem, resulting in twice the destruction.
That was fun, and explains a couple of weird short ads I’d been seeing recently with no product (the ‘housekeepers’ and the sauce guy). Billie Jean King with a door assist, Jim Kelly appreciating the table drop, who was the guy in the parrot suit? I assume some NFL defensive back?
I’m surprised, unless I missed it, nobody has mentioned the most “WT Holy F is going on?” ad of the evening. Hordes of giant, scary-looking rabbits are are violently abducting people by grabbing, dragging and hauling them off to giant holes they throw or kick the people into. It’s like a scary fever dream nightmare. If you haven’t seen, it, watch here are see if you can figure out WTF is being advertised before the end of the ad. If you just want to know without watching, click here: It turns out to be an ad for free streaming service Tubi: “fall into rabbit holes you didn’t know you were looking for!” the giant, terrifying kidnap rabbits were doing them a favor, see?
I liked seeing Sarah McLachlan not take herself too seriously in the Busch commercial.
But IMO, the premature electrification commercial (for “RAM” trucks, ironically) was the best of the bunch. I think they took the meme about as far as they could.
