Well, Super Bowl Sunday came and went, so what do you figure everyone’s talking about around the old cooler today?
Is it the timely end of the Patriots run at perfection?
The play-of-a-lifetime catch made by David Tyree?
The fact that a wine-sipping Giselle in the luxury boxes somehow found a way to make New England seem even MORE evil?
Or, is it this:
I mean, far be it from me to be a PC thug, but how fucking stupid do you have to be to think that running this ad is a good idea?
In related news, this was the worst batch of Super Bowl ads in recent memory. If you work in advertising, please contact me so I can understand why you make so much more money than I do, and then give it to me. The money, that is.
February 5, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Agreed, a truly horrible batch of commercials. At almost 3 mill a half minute, why did I have to watch lizards dancing with Naomi Campbell? The Tide stain was horrible.
Justin Timberlake commercial, okay, but not as great as people are saying.
The winner: Stewie fights Underdog for Coca-Cola, Charlie Brown wins. By far the only entertaining commercial during the whole damn game.
February 5, 2008 at 8:17 pm
ugh. this commercial was truly awful. there were a number of other routes they could have taken to make this a much more successful ad: instead of a car, they should have been using a bamboo rickshaw, found that weird panda psychic in a fortune cookie, and sell fire crackers instead of furniture.
the commercials this year sucked. I wound up watching a good chunk of the Puppy Bowl.
February 5, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I liked the Tide stain, actually. That and the Coke parade float thing were the only good ones. But really, why Stewie Griffin and not Garfield? I’m more than a little uncomfortable with putting Family Guy in a league with Underdog and Peanuts.
Also, Youppi, you’re lying, cause I was there and no one would let us watch the Puppy Bowl.
February 6, 2008 at 8:03 am
we watched, AND we watched before the game too.
the Tide Stain was the best one.
February 6, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Oho! The plot thickens!
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/story/B0185219191FFB95862573E3001177CD?OpenDocument
So it turns out that SalesGenie head honcho Vin Gupta WANTED his ads to suck, so as to get people talking about them. Well, great, I’ve played right into his hands. Youppi, please tell me you didn’t buy those sales leads!!!!
And of course, he’s not the only asshat rejoicing in the idiocy of the masses:
http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/james-hibberd/2008/01/foxs_darnell_relieved_critics.php
This is why I can’t bring myself to watch trainwreck television – you’re just encouraging them to make it worse!
February 7, 2008 at 6:17 pm
But those leads were such a good deal…
February 8, 2008 at 10:29 pm
tide stain was horrible. my opinion stands as truer than everyones.