Understand: I know nothing about football. Nothing. Okay, one thing: Kathleen likes to watch the Superbowl.
So I read during the football and watch the commercials. What I’ll be doing is assessing the commercials as we go.
DIRECT TV: My God–I just watched my entire life flash before my eyes in sixty seconds. Am I that old? Did it really fly by that quickly? Lord, I’m depressed.
TOSTIDOS: That was cute. The whole bride thing.
BLOCKBUSTER: Boy, netflicks must be cutting into their business.
FORD: What a contest. Who’s more obnoxious: Bikers or owners of Ford trucks.
McDONALDS: Eh.
CHEESE: Can’at go wrong with cows.
HOUSE: I haven’t been consistent with watching it, but when I do, this is a terrific series, with an unrecognizable Hugh Laurie.
PSA: Sure. Join the team. Just don’t use steroids when you do.
6:36
FORD: Liked it better than the one for trucks. I bet there really are people insane enough to drive a convert in the snow.
6:42
BUD WEISER: trust the beer commercials. That was funny. Second favorfite to the muppets.
LENSWEAR: Don’t care.
CONSTANTINE: I hate to admit it, but I’m interested in it. Face it, we all know they should have cast Sting, but now that it’s done, I’m curious to see whether it works as a film in and of itself.
Enforced break. Got involved with feeding Caroline, followed by playtime, then jammies and then settling her down for bed. But I should be back for the rest of the commercials now.
Paul is playing the halftime show. Amazing. He still looks boyish. More “ish” than “boy,” but more boyish than I look and he’s got a few years on me.
8:33
American Airlines. Okay, not memorable.
Nissan Maxima. Okay, not great.
Chase. zzzzzzzzzzz
Cadillac. Eh. You know what I’d love to see? A Cadillac commercial in which they’re brainstorming and an ad guy says, “How about: Cadillac–the Cadillac of cars!” And they just stare at him. And the tagline is “Cadillac: No one ever says ‘The Toyota of’ anything…”
8:39
Getting real sick of the Ford convertible commercial.
8:58
Okay, the Ameriquest commercials are officially the funniest things so far. This one with the cat was even better.
Career Builder: Funny series that I’ll bet has a lot of folks thinking, “Wow, that’s just like MY work place.”
9:02
WOTW: You know, if even Spielberg thinks that aliens are coming to kill us, we can prety much pack in the last bastion of optimism.
Cialis: Up to 36 HOURS?! Who is this FOR? Men married to an entire cheerleader squad?
9:11
Honda: “It’s not just another truck.” Bad news: It’s another truck.
Verizon: Okay, I liked that a lot. The whole miniaturization thing. That was funny.
The Shield: I’d gotten out of watching it, but with Glenn Close joining the cast, I may very well take another whack at going with this series.
9:21
Miller: eh. Not the best.
Ford: Eh.
Toyota: This guy and his dog are starting to grow on me.
9:25
Toyota: Well, that’s certainly the best ad for a Hybrid I’ve ever seen.
9:31
Budweiser…zzzz
Mastercard: Okay, that was great. All the trademark guys getting together for dinner. Good thing they weren’t eating fish; wonder how Charlie would have reacted.
9:38
Budweiser: A good message and entertainingly told.
9:41
The collected superbowl: Ariel says if it has the commercials, I should buy it.
10:00
Sahara: Don’t know anything about it.
Diet Pepsi: What frightens me is that if P Diddy really DID show up in a Pepsi truck, exactly what’s depicted in the commercial would likely happen.
10:03
WOW! Okay, this isn’t about a commercial, but hëll, wow, what a touchdown.
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“Could anyone seriously suggest that explaining why a cat might have its balls cut off is less of a problem than explaining that girls have nipples?”
Okay, it may have been that I wasn’t watching closely enough, but it looked to me like–when the woman stumbled upon the scene–the impression she was supposed to get was that the guy had just killed the cat and was about to cook it up in the pot. I didn’t any “he was about to neuter the thing” from the image.
Not that killing and eating the cat is all that much better, but still…
PAD
Regarding the BATMAN BEGINS trailer, I liked the line at the end it where, after test driving the future Batmobile, Christian Bale asks “Does it come in black?”
Also, to my knowledge, no one has said the obvious to the news that Liam Neeson is going to be one of Bruce Wayne’s teachers in the film: Batman is going to be taught by Darkman!
Jason Allen,
“The commercial that hit me the hardest was the one showing the soldiers walking through the airport and people applauding. As I was watching that ad, my dad quietly said, ‘Nobody did anything like that when I came back from Vietnam.'”
You know, there was a similar moment for me. I was watching the game at my dad’s. When the commercial came on, everyone was quiet and he just quietly said, “Just like when I came home.”
He never, eber mentions Vietnam. So that was powerful. He then said the commercial was “cool” and that he was glad today’s combatants are being recognized in such a manner.
“Remember the soldiers who came before.”
Amen.
Alan Coil,
“Jerome Maida – thanks for the personal attack.”
It was not intended as such. But if you are determined to be thin-skinned, after making a bombastic, abrasive comment like ‘Stop with the ***** propaganda already’, then…you’re welcome!
“I already knew how to spell already.”
Good for you.
“I simply typed it wrong.”
I thought that might be the case, but having it separated into two words led me to believe otherwise.
“When you become perfect, then you can attack others.”
But if I were to become perfect, THEN my attacking others would REALLY be unfair.
It wasn’t an attack. It’s called being sarcastic. Please do grow up.
“Until then, try to act like a decent human being.”
Do you normally overreact this way?
“Support our troops – bring them home.”
Because, of course, supporting them WHILE THEY ARE THERE is apparently too much to ask.
Because, of course, supporting them WHILE THEY ARE THERE is apparently too much to ask.
Oh, apparently.
But it’s not too much to ask for them to die for a pointless/worthless cause, to die not defending their homes, etc.
Apparently it’s also too much to ask for Bushies to stop assuming that one means the other when it comes to supporting our troops and not supporting the (baseless) war in Iraq.
I’m horribly offended that they showed that convertable commercial three times, forcing innocent children to witness the horror or a man being frozen to death over and over again. My eight year old wasn’t watching, but she *could* have, that’s enough for me to write a letter. When is that kind of disgusting filth going to be off the airwaves?
Frankly the MAstercard ad with Charley Tuna serving tuna casserole horrified me!!!
The Batman Begins ad seems mainly to show “Hey look! We have major stars in this movie!” (though the one bit with Lucious showing Bruce the military car that becomes the Batmobile, makes me like the new batmobile much more..justifiying it in story, rather than just cuz it looks cool!).
What, no love for the Napster commercial? 😉
–R.J.
Not that killing and eating the cat is all that much better, but still…
You are right. That makes much more sense in context. Don’t know what was going through my head. Even so my point is still valid, as you indicate.
Okay, we’re all comics fans and pop culture fans, so of course we’re going to discuss how Marvel is being dissed (no worse than Jerry Seinfeld walking down the street with a cartoon Superman, really), or the inappropriateness of Charley the Tuna eating casserole — but what kind of science fiction fans are you people?!?
*T*H*I*S* is the Ad Of The Year, hands down:
http://www.boldlygo.com/superbowl/video_rocket.asp
It’s HAVE SPACE SUIT, WILL TRAVEL by way of STAR TREK, and you don’t even have to collect soap wrappers or write a slogan.
P. A. D., are you going to space on the ENTERPRISE?
I will be.
PAD wrote – “CONSTANTINE: I hate to admit it, but I’m interested in it. Face it, we all know they should have cast Sting, but now that it’s done, I’m curious to see whether it works as a film in and of itself.”
I feel almost the same, except I probably would have cast James Marsters. He would have just had to have done his Spike performance without the vampirisim.