OT: So How About Those Superbowl Commercials?
Man, they were terrible. Way too serious... The SJW commercials are fine and dandy every once in awhile, but it felt like every other commercial was about some depressing cause that totally killed the mood. I know it's the Superbowl, more viewers and awareness yada yada, but Nationwide even had a dead kid commercial in there...seriously?
The Liam Neeson and Fiat ones were probably the best ones.
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:17 AM ^
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February 2nd, 2015 at 12:19 AM ^
I hate Bud Light...but that commercial made me want a Bud Light, right then and there. So hey...job well done, guys.
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February 2nd, 2015 at 1:49 AM ^
Heisenberg gets my uncertain vote.
Toe fungus treatment is a distant second. Joking!
February 2nd, 2015 at 7:46 AM ^
I think you nailed it.
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:23 AM ^
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:27 AM ^
Morons. Both of them... arguing over a "@" sign. Fuck the internet -- wasn't that on their typewriters in journalism school?!
I didn't think there's a brain cell combined between those two... nor enough room in the car for their egos or inflated sense of entitlement.
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:36 AM ^
Wow, what did Bryant Gumbel ever do to you? Yeesh.
February 2nd, 2015 at 7:19 AM ^
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:48 AM ^
I loved how they were totally dumbfounded by the internet - their confused conversation was real footage from an actual Today broadcast - in 1994.
Not 1984, but 1994. The internet and email was pretty mainstream by 1994. Guess not for them though, they probably had assistants and interns who had to deal with that kind of stuff.
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:54 AM ^
Meh, I don't know. My school didn't have email until ~1995, we didn't have the internet at home until maybe 1996, and we were pretty early as far as my friends were concerned. You couldn't really do much with it then, either. The clip is funny, but not altogether unreasonable. The fact that both presidential campaigns had a website in 1996 was kind of a big deal.
February 2nd, 2015 at 8:26 AM ^
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February 2nd, 2015 at 11:28 AM ^
Yeah, I remember the internet still being the focus of TV news stories in the 1993-95 period - "It's the information superhighway!" We didn't have it at my house until 1997 or so.
At U-M orientation, in 1998, we were taught how to email. I sent my first one ever that day.
February 2nd, 2015 at 1:14 AM ^
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February 2nd, 2015 at 2:09 AM ^
I would guess that 99% of people who did anything "Online" in 1994 still did so through Compuserve or Prodigy which were NOT the Internet.
Netscape Navigator wasn't even released until October of 1994 and Microsoft didn't release their first version of Internet Explorer until 1995.
February 2nd, 2015 at 6:19 AM ^
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:25 AM ^
PETA bitches about a puppy in traffic but Kim Kardashian's and Nationwide's spots don't matter?! WTF!
February 2nd, 2015 at 8:21 AM ^
PETA doesn't care about people, just animals
--Mr. Garrison
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February 2nd, 2015 at 12:24 AM ^
I know many of you enjoy craft brews around here, but I enjoyed the Budweiser commercial mocking that.
February 2nd, 2015 at 1:03 AM ^
I dunno man. The big breweries are absolutely hemorrhaging market share to the craft/microbreweries right now. Bud's response is to take shots at them and the people that enjoy them? Feels kinda like Dave Brandon hiring a skywriter to write "Go Blue" over Spartan Stadium when they've beat us six years in a row.
February 2nd, 2015 at 3:12 AM ^
You are correct in them losing market share to microbrews, but honestly they typically purchase the ones that can be profitable; this can be In-Bev, SAB, or Molson. What in my opinion has killed these companies are the wine/spirit market. Also the margin of price increase during the past 15 years has made beer almost unaffordable to most common people. It was a lot easier to justify buying a 12 pack of Budweiser or Coors for $7.00 at that time. Why do that when you can buy a cheap bourbon or wine two times a weeks for an extra couple of bucks.
I'm going to avoid touching on the Michigan part of this, just b/c I don't want to consider it as a brand. I get the analogy though.
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February 2nd, 2015 at 11:49 AM ^
I disagree. To me, that commercial was more along the lines of "Yeah, well your microbrews may taste interesting and be fun, but our boring beer is just beer so you just drink it!"
Beer has done a number in adding the pounds to my frame.. I may as well enjoy what I'm drinking.
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:27 AM ^
Nationwide released a statement saying "The sole purpose of this message was to start a conversation, not sell insurance." I mean fuck you. You honestly think we're dumb enough to believe that you spent 9 million dollars on an advertisement to "start a conversation"? Morans.
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:29 AM ^
Damage control... glad to see the interwebs are blowing up this company.
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:29 AM ^
The Super Bowl is when Budweiser starts a conversation about beer with talking frogs, GoDaddy about domain names with pornstars and a racecar driver in a tight suit, and Coca Cola about sugar water with some polar bears sliding down a hill.
Obviously the moment to start a conversation about kids drowning in a bathtub. Obviously.
I don't know why I'm so steamed about this, but it was just so... crass.
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:37 AM ^
Crass, shameless, self-indulgent, manipulative, patronizing, artificial, insincere. I hated it, and I will never buy anything from Nationwide.
February 2nd, 2015 at 2:12 AM ^
because for families that have lost young children the commercial was horrifying and ruined a night where they were trying to just enjoy a football game and maybe forget for a few hours the horror of losing their child. Having a FUCKING INSURANCE COMPANY slam them in the face with that ad in an effort to sell their product, oh I mean to "start a conversation" was just sickening.
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February 2nd, 2015 at 1:55 AM ^
Like there's a faction that's in favor of fatal accidents involving children?
GTFO, Nationwide, and take your humming, pizza-selling Heisman runnner-up with you.
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:28 AM ^
gets my vote
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:31 AM ^
and the sloth has off the field issues.
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:43 AM ^
My favorite commercial was actually the trailer for Ted 2. Absolutely hilarious spot!
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February 2nd, 2015 at 12:51 AM ^
That one was pretty stellar if only what he was selling wasn't an annoying app.
February 2nd, 2015 at 12:54 AM ^
Jeff Bridge's album is hoot - link. If you buy, proceeds go to charity, No Kid Hungry.
February 2nd, 2015 at 1:05 AM ^