Super Bowl Commercial

[swede]

I concur with the general opinion that the commercials generally blew. They had the feel of too many old white guys trying to follow a formula.

My least favorite were...

The Snickers man-kiss. I also have eaten my last Snicker. Which audience were they after? Gay mechanics that like sweets?

Jay-Zee or whoever that dude was beating Shula in football. Get over yourself, thug. Your culture produces misery. Lovie Smith, Tony Dungy and Don Shula stand for hard work and integrity. You only beat them in your dreams.

Oprah and Letterman. WTF?

Katie Couric spots. Did you ever notice how people that are so awful that you go out of your way to avoid them manage to show up uninvited anyway. Thanks, CBS, for rubbing my nose in that puddle.

The high numbers of awful spots dragged the good spots down to mere mediocrity. The highest category for Super Bowl commercials 2007 can only be titled "These Didn't Suck As Badly". The spots I didn't hate:

Careerbuilders.com (whatever) The "don't just survive the workweek" spots almost worked. They lacked any surprise or irony that might have moved them to a higher level of creativity.

The Doritos commercial was funny. You knew the guy was going to back-end somebody. The stop actions and changes of focus between the chick and the dude showed good comic timing.

The "It's hard to say goodbye" commercial with Favre was agreeable and timely.

We hope that 2008 will be better. Madison Avenue needs to let some people go. Hopefully old white guys.

At least no one tried to hang lit-up images of SB XLI under bridges all over Miami.

[Cheesehead Craig]

I loved the Taco Bell ad with the lions.

"Sexy like Ricardo Maltabon... Carrrrrne Asada"

"Carne - Ricardo Maltabon?"

Damn that's classic.

Overall they weren't very good. Several of them were about 2-3 years old.

[Zool]

I loved the Taco Bell ad with the lions.

"Sexy like Ricardo Maltabon... Carrrrrne Asada"

"Carne - Ricardo Maltabon?"

Damn that's classic.

Overall they weren't very good. Several of them were about 2-3 years old.

I was laughing at the Ricardo reference too. Damned funny.

[SudsMcBucky]

Actually, I kinda liked the Careerbuilders.com adds, especially the one where the workers were herded off the cliff.

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I concur with the general opinion that the commercials generally blew. They had the feel of too many old white guys trying to follow a formula.

My least favorite were...

The Snickers man-kiss. I also have eaten my last Snicker. Which audience were they after? Gay mechanics that like sweets?

Jay-Zee or whoever that dude was beating Shula in football. Get over yourself, thug. Your culture produces misery. Lovie Smith, Tony Dungy and Don Shula stand for hard work and integrity. You only beat them in your dreams.

Oprah and Letterman. WTF?

Katie Couric spots. Did you ever notice how people that are so awful that you go out of your way to avoid them manage to show up uninvited anyway. Thanks, CBS, for rubbing my nose in that puddle.

The high numbers of awful spots dragged the good spots down to mere mediocrity. The highest category for Super Bowl commercials 2007 can only be titled "These Didn't Suck As Badly". The spots I didn't hate:

Careerbuilders.com (whatever) The "don't just survive the workweek" spots almost worked. They lacked any surprise or irony that might have moved them to a higher level of creativity.

The Doritos commercial was funny. You knew the guy was going to back-end somebody. The stop actions and changes of focus between the chick and the dude showed good comic timing.

The "It's hard to say goodbye" commercial with Favre was agreeable and timely.

We hope that 2008 will be better. Madison Avenue needs to let some people go. Hopefully old white guys.

At least no one tried to hang lit-up images of SB XLI under bridges all over Miami.

I would disagree about Jay-Z. They man works hard because he built his own empire. Sure, he got his start in music, but he is a big time entreprenuer. For what its worth, I loathe rap music.

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Actually, I kinda liked the Careerbuilders.com adds, especially the one where the workers were herded off the cliff.

Those were my some of my favorites too. And the beard combover, just because that was truly ridiculous.

[ND72]

I donno if anyone else said this, but the Doritos one I think was the best one. Guy saw the girl, he got in an accident...girl comes to see him, she falls and goes head first into the car. great stuff.

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I donno if anyone else said this, but the Doritos one I think was the best one. Guy saw the girl, he got in an accident...girl comes to see him, she falls and goes head first into the car. great stuff.

Yep, that was one of my favorites too. That was actually made by a guy who won a fan-voted contest. Good stuff!

[Merlin]

I don't know what the add was for but the one where they were pushing the mouse and in the end they said it wasn't plugged in. I thought that was pretty good.

Other then that, I was blown away at how the adds went out of their way to promote black history. I then noticed that most of the adds were "politically" correct in that there were always a minority in them. Someday the world will wake up and realize that if they didn't try to compensate for things like that, if they would quit trying to point that stuff out (e.g. Dungy vs Smith) that there would be no racism and people will just look at each other as people.

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I don't know what the add was for but the one where they were pushing the mouse and in the end they said it wasn't plugged in. I thought that was pretty good.

Other then that, I was blown away at how the adds went out of their way to promote black history. I then noticed that most of the adds were "politically" correct in that there were always a minority in them. Someday the world will wake up and realize that if they didn't try to compensate for things like that, if they would quit trying to point that stuff out (e.g. Dungy vs Smith) that there would be no racism and people will just look at each other as people.

Yes, I noticed this as well and thought it was over the top.

[PackerPro42]

The Bud Light immigrant comercial was the best one.

[PackerPro42]

The Bud Light immigrant comercial was the best one.

[PackerPro42]

The Bud Light immigrant commercial was pretty funny. I think that it was the best one.

[PackerPro42]

Sorry about all the posts, my computer was being a butthole.

[oregonpackfan]

How could you forget the commericial where the auchioneer was hired as the minister conducting the wedding ceremony?!

It was a Bud Lite commercial. When the auchioneer/minister conducted the nuptials in record time, everyone began the partying. I loved that commercial.

Had we had that minister at my wedding, it would have saved a lot of tears. My wife blubbered through most of the ceremony. I still don't know if she had tears of joy or was feeling "What the hell am I doing marrying this guy?"

That was 25 years and 8 months ago.