SuperBowl commercials discussion

I loved the VW commerical with the Rasta white guy. Everything's gonna be alllright mon.

How come nobody has an opinion on the GoDaddy commercial? That thing was one of the worst ideas ever. Whoever thought of that commerical should be fired or something along those lines.

Screaming goat Doritos commercial. "Dad I want a screaming goat".

I want a baby clydesdale. 

And they also had one of the better tweets during the blackout:

Re: the Paul Harvey God-made-a-farmer commercial, I thought they were setting it up as an Archer Daniels Midland political ad to continue farm subsidies or something.  In which case, the script should have gone something like:

"So God made a farmer.  And God got angry at the farmer's highly paid lobbyist... and lo, he did strike down the Iowa Running Backs with a vengeance.  And that's the rest of the story."

The doritios goat was the best - the rest were flat.

About 60 seconds into Beyonce I asked my teen daughters if they recognized a coherent song yet or whas she just going to grind hips to a beat for the whole halftime?

Jamaican accents always win

of a commercial opportunity just after halftime ...

The CK commercial. Had to turn my eyes away from that one.

Nothing beats an astronaut.  Fact. 

The commercials were super disappointing this year. The only ones that I remember I liked were:

The Rock "got milk" commercial,VW commercial, Budweiser baby Clydesdale,Bud Light Stevie Wonder Voodoo and the Big Bang Theory Promo

The rest were trying to hard to be funny (godaddy) or trying to pull on heart strings.

Anyone seen the jello pudding commercial they started showing after the game?  Not sure exactly when it started but I saw it the first time this morning.  Free Jello pudding cups in San Francisco for finishing second.  Pretty good commercial and a good idea.  Cuz there's always room for Jello.

Hooves down.

There was no Kate Upton at all. Superbowl commercials -100.

I loved it because it was so random. My bud who went to spacecamp thought it was the best thing ever. He is my only friend that went to Spacecamp I promise.

The jeep one with Oprah narrating, showing troops coming home to their families in jeeps. Thought it was really tasteless and shamelessly took advantage of people's respect for veterans. It was like the dodge truck commercial, except troops coming home has literally zero connection with jeeps.

The M&Ms commercial with Red singing the Meatloaf song was the best.  Best line "that hurts, but I kind of like it" when one of the women bit him.

It seemed like there were an awful lot of promos for CBS TV. None of the promos make me want to watch any of their shows. I would have rather seen ads.

While the jeep ad may have been a shameless tie in to the armed services, it did pluck my heart strings. Probably because my daughter starts boot camp at Great Lakes in two days, so I'm emotional about everything.

I also liked the Dodge Ram farmer commercial. I guess it would fall flat for youngsters and hipsters who are clueless about Paul Harvey.

And Bud can't go wrong with Clydesdale commercials. However, the two spots about some new kind of hip beer fell flat for me. I don't get why anyone thinks that drinking some particular kind of beer makes you cool or hip or anything else.

The M&M's commercial brought a smile to my face. So did the VW commercial, and the Mercedes Benz one with Daniel Defoe. And I agree that the Samsung meta commercial about commercials / ad campaigns was pretty good.

I liked the Joe Montana miracle stain jersey commercial.  Haven't seen anyone mention on here but I thought it was well done and the ending made me remember that it's for Tide.

 I think the Budweiser and Doritos ads were probably the best ones this year. The Budweiser ad actually was a great variant on the theme that they've typically gone with in the past, and the Doritos ad actually had me watching it again on YouTube later. I liked the NFL's contribution too - Deion Sanders trying to get back in the league as Leon Sandcastle.

The two worst, I thought, were the Psy pistachio ad and probably Century 21's ad, which seemed like it was trying a little too hard to be funny.

My favorites from this year were the USO-Jeep commercial with Oprah

I got a bunch of work to do around the house, anybody know where I can hire me a farmer?

Thumbs Up (in no special order, and OK to read with a Jamaican accent): Budweiser’s "Brotherhood" Clydesdale ad (typically great); Mercedes' "Coolest Man In The World" (Kate Upton, Usher, The Rolling Stones’ "Sympathy for the Devil" and Willem Dafoe as The Devil; I can handle that); Best Buy’s "Asking Amy" (liked Amy Poehler on SNL Weekend Updates, haven’t seen much of her Parks and Recreation show, but loved this ad); Oreos’ "Library Fight" was like "Animal House" meets "Breakfast Club" meets "Backdraft" and "The Naked Gun" (never have stopped loving Oreos, and got flashbacks to the epic Miller Lite "Tastes Great - Less Filling" campaign); Volkswagen’s "Come On Get Happy" ad with Jimmy Cliff and the angry people (fondly recall Coke’s famous, bring-the-world-together-on-a-hilltop-with-song campaign that this ad parodied); Jeep’s "USO/Whole Again" salute to the troops; Samsung’s "New Best Thing" ad (biased in favor of Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen and Bob Odenkirk; liked both the ad that ran in the days before the game and the ad during the game); Tide’s "Miracle Stain" ad; NFL’s "Leon Sandcastle" (fond memories of Jackmerius Tacktheritrix.)

Thumbs Down: Dodge Ram’s Farmville ad (not a Paul Harvey fan; neither a farmer nor a truck driver, though I respect them all, and will always love that plowed-over cornfield in Dyersville, Iowa; this was an interminable ad that won’t encourage me to buy a truck OR a farm); Go Daddy’s "Perfect Date" (understood the idea, not thrilled with the execution; Bar Rafaeli is fine, but Walter? - more inclined to prefer Will Ferrell’s Old Milwaukee ad that I’ve seen only online); Tostitos ads (liked the three they didn’t use better than the two they used); Toyota’s "Wish Granted" (would love to lose a spare tire, but haven’t watched "The Big Bang Theory," so didn’t know Kaley Cuoco and have no desire to own a RAV4 or have infinite witches or Christine O'Donnell circling my home.) 

They were all horrible, esp. the f'ing farmer one.

There's nothing more disengenuous than when a commercial tries to be all sanctimonious and idealistic.  You're trying to sell me something, get off your fucking high horse.

The only one I thought was remotely decent was the Samsung one, but it was so immensely self-referential and meta that I couldn't decide if it was clever or not.

The rest sucked.  Everything in our culture sucks, western civilization is past its prime.