Did the Pepsi Gladiator ad air? I began watching at 6 and watched everything -- never saw it.

I liked the donkey, but it made me wonder if the ad execs thought about the consequences...Budweiser -- the beer for asses everywhere.
*not a personal slam against Bud drinkers.

OT: I am totally underwhelmed by the meh halftime shows. Whatever.

Okay, I liked the crotch biting dog last night. However, I'm sure I will grow to hate it as it gets overplayed.

I don't think they ever aired that ad which is rather odd, since Pepsi made the BIGGEST deal out of it. "Hey look! We got three hot pop stars selling our drink!"

The AOL Guys? Where have I seen them? My personally faves were the Budweiser donkey, the soap in the mouth by Chevy, and NFL players singing tomorrow.

Liked: the AOL American Chopper ads. Like the show, and they made everyone in my family laugh. The Cedric the Entertainer bikini wax ad. The Bud Light ad with the dog biting the crotch. The Willie Nelson advice doll.

Disliked with the fire of a thousand burning trash cans: the Mike Ditka Levitra baseball ad. Hey, Mikey? Get in touch with your feminine side, if only so I don't have to deal with your massive loads of bullshit. I like baseball, you tool.

Don't know if anyone noticed this, but in the Ford GT ad, there
in the right hand corner, was the phrase, "Clearly a professional driver
on a racetrack." LOL

Thought the Pepsi Gladiator ad only aired in Britain. For some reason. I'm just glad my Superbowl was a Britney-free one.
DramaHubby almost gave himself a hernia laughing so hard at the Budweiser crotch-biting dog. So, they hit their target audience: silly men between 9 and 99.
I think the Tostitos commercial was my favorite, because at first you really think she's just going to rip him a new one for watching the game instead of getting married, then she says, "Oh, the game's on," and hikes up her skirt to go watch it. Totally plays against type, which I thought was hysterical. The exact opposite of the stupid wife-shrieking ref commercial.

I really liked the Budweiser donkey ad. And cocokitty, you're not the only one who got a bit teary! He looked so precious all tricked out in his fancy gear. Awwwwww.

My second favorite was the sleigh ride by candlelight. It was just so unexpected! My husband was watching at the airport and phoned me up right after that ad, and I could hear all the people around him laughing from it.

Definitely the best line & visual of the night was the Donkey saying that he got hair extensions!

Haven't seen much discussion about the gross Charmin ad: I realize they were saying that they substituted Charmin instead of the towel stuck in the player's pants, but really now.......if you saw someone with a piece of TP sticking out of their tus, would you wipe your hands on it??? Eeeeew!

I thoght the ad for the NFL, with all the players singing "Tomorrow" was very cute too. I like when they can joke and realize it's just a game...

I'm just curious. In the last page, two people have referred to the Simpsons' *Visa* ad when the ad was for Mastercard.

Doesn't that suggest the ad misfired?

Anyone else notice that the creepy Linux Ender Wiggin kid also showed up as of the soap-mouthed kids in the Chevy "Holy sh--" ad?

Except for seeing her writhe around in that damn body stocking in the Grammy Award commercials.

Loved the Budweiser Donkey (I'm a complete sucker for the Clydesdales) and the NFL "Tomorrow" commercial.

I nearly died when I heard "Erections lasting more than four hours require immediate medical attention." I scared the cat, I was laughing so hard. Honestly, the aliens monitoring our tv transmissions are going to think that everyone on this planet either has acid reflux disease or can't get it up.

Two ads that I liked which haven't been mentioned were for Bud. The one where the ref takes the abuse from the coach and the announcers are amazed how he can take it and then it shows his wife yelling at him. The other was Dale Earnhardt Jr. driving to meet up with the woman to giver her another woman's lip stick.

The charmin ad, alien FedEX, and Shards o' Glass were bad. Overall, it was a weak crop.

ITA, it was a "Meh" year for SuperBowl Ads. This year will forever be known as the Naked Super Bowl.
And Monkeys are always good. Just ask Bucky the cat from "Get Fuzzy". "MMMMMM-Monkeys!!"

Plus the best man (or whomever) says, "You're a lucky man, I think I'm going to cry."

I thought it was interesting that CBS choose to run the the Truth "Shards-o-Glass" ad, considering that their main reason for refusing to run the MoveOn.org and PETA ads is that they do NOT run advocacy ads.

Yep. We both pointed and yelled, "Hey! Linux Kid!"

The Bud commercial with the banshee wife was atrocious. Absolutely appalling. I preferred the farting horse.

Thinking about it this morning, I think the Tostitos one was my favorite. THe rest were very meh.

The review from AdAge.

reckless

Definitely the best commercial of the night. That was the only one that got an actual laugh from me. "Um, Doctor? It's not going down."

I don't really have a favorite commercial from the SB. None of them really stick out in my mind as being that great. So, that is a bit of a let down considering that I taped the SB just to be able to watch the ads.

I do think it is funny that the medical name for Cialis is Tadalafil. Twelve is a good age to revisit. heh

Political ads and strident vegetarianism are polarizing topics. Trying to get kids not to smoke isn't. That's CBS' take on it, and I have to agree.

The Simpsons Mastercard ad was terrific. I also enjoyed the Chevy kids getting their mouths washed out, the ref's screaming wife, the Staples Godfather, and the Pizza Hut ad with the Muppets.

A big meh to all the AOL ads.

What exactly is the appropriate ER treatment for this?

Not only that, but a lot of those soap-mouthed kids had previously appeared in the "one kid out of every five tries smoking before he/she is thirteen" ad. Rather surreal, actually - not only do they smoke, they have potty mouths, too!

Of course, the Zephyr's reaction to the one-in-five thing was, "That's all?" I don't think that was the reaction they were looking for, although maybe it was, since it was Phillip Morris running the ad.

We actually thought the Linux kid was supposed to be a young Eminem.

It was 'meh' night for commercials. The game was actually better.

My opinions of the ads were pretty much in line with what AdAge rated, thank for the link phxchic. The article is worth reading just for this line:

Every man's worst nightmare. A big ole shot there. Failure to treat prolonged priapism can result in permanent impotence. Lesser of two evils then, huh?

You're welcome, Jazzmyn. For the most part I agree with them too, except their selection of the harpee wife as #1. I hated that ad, and found it very sexist, not funny. But, as always, that's JMO.

At least Cialis was up front about what their product is for, while Levitra danced around it. The Simpsons ad was funnier than any of their recent shows. Typical that shortly after crying and apologizing about his fight with Martinez, Zimmer is making money off it. I would have preferred the Bud commercial if the Clydsdales had tossed the donkey out on his ass. (pun somewhat intended)

Ah, Super Bowl Sunday, when the men get their revenge for being portrayed as lazy, incompetent, clueless fathers the other 364 days...Thanks, Dayquil...We have shrieking harpy referee's wife, fat waitress, and a woman getting her face farted off by a horse.

This batch of Super Bowl commercials was a big meh, in my opinion. Only a few really stood out in my mind:

The NFL Tomorrow ad, the Simpsons Mastercard, the Chevy soap-mouth kids.

Everything else was OK - I laughed at the crotch-biting dog, involuntarily, the Donkey was cute, the Cedric bikini wax made me chuckle for a few seconds but that's about it.

I was especially disappointed in the Pizza Hut Muppets ad - that could've been a lot funnier, I think. C'mon - Muppets! Comedy gold! But I may have just been blinded by my hate of Jessica Simpleton...yuk. You're not cute, hon. You're just dumb.

Overall - blah. Seeing Janet Jackson's tit was the most exciting part of the night. And that was SO a publicity stunt, and no one will convince me otherwise.

While I agree that anti-smoking ads aren't as controversial as "Bush/Meat Sucks" ads, they are all still advocacy/issue ads. I just wish that CBS had stated the obvious in rejecting the controversial ads: we run commercials that we agree with politically and that get the fewest calls into our switchboard. Maybe if they had run the controversial ads, people wouldn't have noticed JJ's boobie? Yeah, that's the ticket.

No, Mike Ditka, I will not take the Levitra Challenge. Why? Because I have no problems getting it up. Thanks for your concern, though. You can go back to baiting Raffy Palmiero into a sword fight now.

The Cialis ad was hee-frickin'-larious, though. At first I misunderstood the whole "works for 36 hours" thing and blurted out, "A 36-hour hard-on? That would be pure hell!" Oops. Gotta love that four-hour disclaimer, though. Ahhh, priapism. Is it ever not funny? (Besides if it happens to you, of course.)

I thought that every fifth kid in the one-in-five ad should've stood up and fired up a butt. "Five. *lights up* Hey, who do I have to screw to get some fuckin' coffee around here, huh?" But that's just me.

I found the FedEx alien spot oddly funny--particularly when the guys gives the "I'm watching you" gesture at the end.

I can't imagine any ad more offensive than the ones that inspired the terrifying nightmare I had last night starring Mike Ditka and his four-hour erection. I'm pretty sure I woke up screaming, but that might have been part of the dream.

Well, I'm screaming now, so who can say?

I liked the Hendrix Pepsi ad. I was wondering why they didn't set his age at 12 so they could feature his signature guitar, the Stratocaster, which happens to be in its 50th anniversary. Apparently, the bigwigs at Fender begged and pleaded the ad agency to do this, but they said Jimi had to be 11, for some unknown reason. I'm still a Coke drinker though. Jimi could've become a helluva accordian hero.

Most of the ads were downright offensive. There was a whole block of ass humor ads on one break, then another block of fart/erectile dysfunction/pubic hair humor on another. Not to mention the most offensive, Budweiser's "harpy wife=head coach screaming" commercial. Compared to that, one microsecond of Janet's boob is nothing.

[cynical] In banning the ads from MoveOn.org, maybe CBS didn't want to upset the apple cart of lucrative Republican advertising they will be getting in the fall.[/cynical]

Definitely my favorite part of the FedEx alien ad. I just don't get why people aren't loving that ad. It's a huge, green alien, wearing a lame cardboard human mask, and only capable of saying one thing, and the other guys at his office are just figuring it out. Comedy gold!

My problem with the horse flatulence isn't the fart-joke per se. It's the way it was horribly telegraphed. The commercial starts with a pan past the horse's butt and the candle lighting right away, so I already knew the joke 5 seconds in. The rest of the commercial was just watching it play out. Bleh.

[small voice] I actually sort of liked the ref whose wife kept yelling at him. I didn't think it was saying all wives are like that, just that this guy's skill at tuning out this shrill woman made him good at being a ref. I thought it was chuckle-worthy, anyway. [/sv]

I'd like to take a moment away from the Super Bowl ads to discuss a Quizno's Sub commercial I saw this morning. This won't take long, I promise...

2 small, furry, well, THINGS appeared on my screen. They had human eyes & mouths, but looked a little like guine pigs that had been run over by a car. They had hats. One had a squeaky voice. The other played the banjo. or ukelele. Or something.

Somebody else has seen this, right?

Another type of commercial that I cannot stand is the ones about parents walking around in their underwear, (example: a Hanes underwear ad) or a commercial about going on a vacation to a tropical island, and the parents in all these ads are young, beautiful and have bodies to die for!!
Maybe some people do have or did have those type of parents with the perfect bodies, but I never did. My old man was built more like Ed Asner!!

Do they look like the thingys you can see on the site rathergood.com ? If they are, wow, those things are getting around.

etain, I took a quick look at that site. They very well might be. I'm not sure. Cool site, though! Thanks for the link!

ETA: I FOUND THEM! THIS IMAGE FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY! THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT FOR QUIZNO'S
http://pic2.picturetrail.com/VOL9/1834452/...75/44733870.jpg

I thought the Clydsdale Donkey and the "Wrong Lipstick" ads were cute, but . . . WTF do they have to do with drinking beer??

I saw a commercial for, I think, Heineken. A man and woman are seated on a couch, the man has his arm around the woman, who has fallen asleep. Because the woman is on his arm, the guy cannot bring his beer to his mouth. He says "Honey, Honey?", but she doesn't wake up. The words "To be used only in case of emergency" appear on the screen, and the man says "I love you." The woman reacts in her sleep by snuggling up to the man's chest, thus freeing his arm. It was cute, and I wanted to note that the couple is interracial, presented without any fanfare.

Watching the greatest Super Bowl commercials Saturday night really set me up to see some great commercials yesterday, but I was all kinds of disappointed.

I liked the Budweiser donkey commercial, and I'm not ashamed to admit that I was on the edge of my seat to see if he made it. He did. I was verklempt. Awww!

Another fave was the supplies godfather from Staples. Jelly is always welcome on my TV.

The only other commercial to rate any positive emotion from me was the NFL "Tomorrow" commercial because it is so true: After Sunday, all the teams are undefeated again, which gives my poor Minnesota Vikings hope once again.

Runner-up: the Tostitos sports bride commercial. I'm such a big football fan, I would have done exactly what she did. Hell, forget the wedding; just let me see the game.

The rest was just a huge pile of meh. I didn't like the IBM commercial because I spent the first few seconds trying to convince myself it wasn't some weird promotion for something Eminem's working on. The AOL guys were just boring. Maybe it would have helped if I had watched their show. Mo'nique, why you let Pepsi pimp you out that way, girl? Oh, I forgot; you star in The Parkers? Cedric the Entertainer for Budweiser? Oh, Ceddy, you just didn't bring the funny this year. So much potential; so very little return. Very disappointing.

I guess I would disagree--mainly because when someone says "issue ads", I think MoveON or other PAC-type things. I don't think Truth, or even PETA, for that matter, when someone says issue ads. Secondly, Truth has been advertising for a long time as part of the Legacy Project. PETA does not normally advertise on TV (that I am aware of) and MoveON types only show up at election time--in which case, there are equal time laws, etc to observe. Perhaps I am not cynical enough--but I think CBS made the common-sense call here.


Heh. I can think of a few right away. 2 involve hot nurses. Another involves elderly nurses.


I bet Mitsubishi hopes not, especially since they were comparing the Galant to the Camry. ;-)

Why schedule the wedding on a game day in the first place?

From the 24 Cafe earlier today:

I just now saw a commercial with Derek Jeter (and 2 other baseball players I didn't recognize) expressing nearly the same sentiment. They were commenting on the commercials (the donkey was a fave) instead of halftime though. Cool.

Okay the Clydesdale horses have long been symbols of Bud. They delivered the beer or something a long time ago. And EVERYBODY loves the Clydesdales, if they ever tried to get rid of those horses it would make New Coke look like a good idea. Those are some BIG horses if you ever see them in person.
And the guy giving the lipstick to the wrong girl is Dale Earnhardt, Jr. who drives the #8 Bud car in NASCAR.

I also cried at the little donkey who could.

I just saw this about an hour ago! Totally skeeved me out. WTF are they? Ewww. No. Just, no.

Might be too local, but I am ready to scream. "Billy Fucillo has officially cancelled winter!" Bite my hoo-hoo, Billy. Take your stupid cars and spokesman, and shove them. It hasn't been about 30 degrees for over a month.

I have no idea what this means, but it made me laugh.
My favorite car commercial is still the guys in the truck with the one singing Shania Twain.
The donkey is my favorite beer commercial.

Last week when I had to shovel four feet of snow out of our driveway at 6:30 in the morning because the snow was too deep for our crappy snowblower to get through I blamed Billy Fucillo. You know why he cancelled winter? Because he is in Florida or someplace warm and doesnt have to deal with it.

Is that a Fucillo Ford ad? I've seen some of their ads, but not that one.

Isn't it ironic that the networks don't want kids to use weed, but they have no problem airing alcohol ads? Last time I checked alcohol is a drug. I love the Guiness add that treats St. Patrick's Day like Christmas. It is too funny.

Just a quick notice to anyone that hates the RIAA, there is a shirt on tshirthell.com that states :sharing is caring....Fuck the RIAA.
Okay back on topic, there is a new PSA about friendship being an anti-drug. It shows a girl standing on a dock while she just stands there and watches her friend struggle to stay afloat, the punch line being, if your friend was in trouble would you help?? Everytime I see that damn psa I start singing Our Lady Peace's "clumsy".."I'll be waving my hand watching you drown, watching you scream quiet or loud" It fits in so well.