Super Bowl XLVII: The Commercials

[DannyRWW]

I liked the M & Ms commercial and the oreo one in the library was pretty good...but it seems to me they pay a lot for the commercials and no money goes into the ads themselves anymore.......

 

[The Count]

Agreed, this year's commercials were ... What's the word I'm looking for? Oh yeah. Boooooriiiing!

Worst Commercials:
3 Samsung. That entire self-indulgent diatripe idea session was a piece of garbahge.
2 Dodge Ram. Oh, that's what you were selling with "God Made a Farmer"? My problem with it wasn't the commercial persay, just you didn't know what they were selling you. And we had to sit through a two-and-a-half minute shpiel for that?
Also, Paul Harvey... Where's your signature "Page 2"?
1 Go Daddy, the one with the midget and the model. *Scrubs brain to remove the concept, thankful for being blind for once.

Best Commercials.
3 Oreo Library. Missed this one or didn't notice it, my friend and I got to the viewing party for Super Bowl XLVII after the Ravens had scored their first touchdown. But from reading what people have posted here, it seems like the only Muppety one with a potential reference to the Blue Danube sketch at the library from TMS Season 1, starring Momenschantz.
2 Taco Bell, Viva Old People. Not sure if this is the right title, but it's the one where they had the song sung in Spanish. To me it was "meh" but my friend liked it.
1 Tide, Montana Stain. This was the funniest thing of all, and given the game's outcome, it has my full approval.

Things I Missed.
M&M's? Which one is that, the one where Red's singing I'LL Do Anything For Love?
Oreo... Two things: 1, during the blackout, another person read an FB update about how companies were capitalizing on the sudden distraction like this
"Power outage? No problem, you can still dunk in the dark."; and 2, where's the DSRL commercial? C'mon, with the hype over Harbowl II, they should have had a Double Stuffed Racing League bit pitting this year's challengers, the Harbough Brothers versus reigning champs, the Williams Sisters.

Oh, and it felt great to get the one commercial I've been waiting a dozen years for, the Ravens/Joe Flaco Disneyworld commercial.

 

[Drtooth]

This really irks me.

Women are absolutely fawning over the Calvin Kline commercial, which by no means is wrong itself. But if a bunch of guys fawning over one of the Go Daddy models, it's male chauvinistic blah blah blah. Hey, men and women, you're BOTH huge perverts. Let's remember that.

 

[The Count]

Eh, I think it's more the presentation of the commercial we have a problem with and how far they pushed it making it look so sloppy. You know, I think they would have done better with one of those Danica Patrick cut-away styled storyline commercials, air the first part during the first quarter/half and the other part during the fourth quarter/second half of the game.

 

[Drtooth]

I'm just generically talking about the old guys only think about one thing and women are more evolved, and it's perfectly alright to be as hypocritically perverted because they're not men thing.

But I hate Go Daddy too. I don't even know what the heck it sells that isn't T&A. I'm not a prude by any stretch, and I understand that sex sells... but usually when they use that to sell something they also tell you what they're selling.

Sigh... we need another Super Bowl commercial with The Muppets. Or at least some other fictional characters selling something.

 

[charlietheowl]

I would agree with the dislike of the Dodge Ram commercial. If you have a two minute commercial, I would think that you would want to establish your product quickly so you don't risk tuning out your audience quickly. People have changed the channel during shorter ads.

 

[The Count]

Yeah, we sorely need another commercial character besides M&M's for Super Bowl ads. Too bad we can't round up a company of Keebler elves like in The Hobbit and demand they make us some cookies before threatening to unleash to devour the lot of them.

Then again, given that Super Bowl XLVIII will be held in NYC/NJ at the new Met Life Stadium in early February, a month and change away from March 21 2014, it'd be great to get either or both an ad for The Muppets... Again and Met Life Insurance with the Peanuts characters.

 

[jvcarroll]

I skipped the Super Bowl in favor of watching nine hours of House of Cards on Netflix. Secretly, I hoped my team would lose so fans wouldn't loot and riot. Apparently that only happens when we win. Go figure. Well, I enjoyed a very quiet night.

I did see some of the commercials later on.

I liked Dell's Alternate Universe tablet ad, the Dorito's Goat was funny too and if anyone can save Best Buy from bankruptcy, it's Amy Poehler.

The big winner of the night was actually GoDaddy because everyone is talking about their brand. FYI, it's a good service too. Many people were upset by the commercial, but why? I admit that there was some post production sound tweaking to key-up the lip smacking, but beautiful women date and marry conventionally unattractive successful men all the time. I mean, look at your local congressman! Odds are I'm right about that. I understand the absurdity of selling the image, but I don't understand the controversy.

Some people objected to the Calvin Klein ad and I don't understand that. It featured an attractive fella wearing a product. He wasn't wearing wings or shamelessly flirting with the audience like the women in Victoria's Secret commercials. He just wore simple black skivvies and demonstrated how stretchy they were. That was actually the point of the product. You'll see more objectionable outfits on joggers in the park. I think it exposed the hypocrisy of some viewers. Maybe it was guilt over eating too many cheezy poofs.

Ultimately, it was kind of an underwhelming year for ads.

 

[Drtooth]

The big winner of the night was actually GoDaddy because everyone is talking about their brand. FYI, it's a good service too. Many people were upset by the commercial, but why? I admit that there was some post production sound tweaking to key-up the lip smacking, but beautiful women date and marry conventionally unattractive successful men all the time. I mean, look at your local congressman! Odds are I'm right about that. I understand the absurdity of selling the image, but I don't understand the controversy.

Personally, I find the fact there's a controversy more offensive than any actual controversy. There's this whole notion that ugly doughy nerds should be forever unhappy because they're not jocks who tend to disintegrate into big fat Fred Flintstone clones anyway. Why can't doughy guys get the same fantasy perfection fat old guys deserve? Still, I demand a Kermit the Frog approach. Do a commercial that says what the product does.

Some people objected to the Calvin Klein ad and I don't understand that. It featured an attractive fella wearing a product. He wasn't wearing wings or shamelessly flirting with the audience like the women in Victoria's Secret commercials. He just wore simple black skivvies and demonstrated how stretchy they were. That was actually the point of the product. You'll see more objectionable outfits on joggers in the park. I think it exposed the hypocrisy of some viewers. Maybe it was guilt over eating too many cheezy poofs.

Like I said, it's not the commercial that bugs me so much as the fact that all these women are fawning over it, and they're the same kind of women that would wag their fingers over guys fawning over the ads that have supermodels in them. We just need to be honest and say "we like attractive people and we like to fawn over them" and agree without shame.

Of course... you do NOT want to see the kind of commercial I fawn over. Other than ones with classic cartoon/TV characters that is. I fawn the HECK out of those. We always need more of them.