Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Superbowl Commercial Review

Funniest: Budweiser Streaker

Definitely received the most laughs at the party. Between the intensity of the massive horses facing off against each other and a number of different mountain animals glued to the action on the field, the shaved streaking sheep was a pink blur of hilarity. Also adding to the laughs were a classic butt shake and hip rotation. Certainly cute, hilarious, and appaling all at the same time. All of us were holding our guts.

Most Creative: Stunt City; Degree Deoderant

The funniest part mave have been right at the beginning when the guy, instead of opening his bathroom cupboard, punches a hole right through it to get at his deoderant. And so he enters the world of stunt city where people can only go about their lives dangerously. With cars driving downside up and people arriving at work through their ceiling, the actually (gasp!) advertised their product and did it creatively (unlike Bud Light commercials which make no beer-sense and just try to be funny).

Weirded Out: Hummer Lil' Monster

Ok, what the trash was this. I think the makers of hummer went a little to far here, insinuating that a larger than life robot could get it on with an apparently attractive female godzilla creature to create...the H3, Lil' Monster. Very creative, but way too weird. Also, what kind of message are they sending? I'll interpret it for you: buy an H3 and you'll have a monster that will destroy the earth by using all the available gas on one tank. 1 Highway mile, 0 City

Best Continuation From Last Year: Career Builder: Monkies and Donkies

As my buddy Mikey says, "Monkies are advertising gold". This commercial in the same vain as last year's spoof on employment by Career Builder does wonders by showing another office where the lady works with a bunch of jackasses instead of monkies. The best part is that the donkey's are wearing shirts and pants. Also hilarious was the boss monkey lighting a cigar using lit dollar bills. Anyone who has ever hated their job resonates with these adds.

Least laughs: Diet Pepsi w/ Diddy and Jay Mohr

I swear to you in a room of 15 people this commercial got 0 laughs.....that's a big phat ZERO. This commercial was so stupid you even felt bad that they subjected the emotionless Diet Pepsi can to it! Just further proof why Jay Mohr is not famous and why Diddy has had to change his name 17,658 times.

Most Predictable: Bud Light Roof Grillin'

Basically this ad says only moron boyfriends/husbands who pretend to be productive are the ones who drink Bud Light. Only the kind of guys who don't mind perpetuating the persona that males are lazy, selfish, unhelpful, and jerks are good enough to drink Bud Light. That is why I am drinking a Sam Adams right now I guess. This commercial was completely predictable and had almost as few laughs as Diet Pepsi

Dumbest: Cadillac: Runway

An Escalade rising from the liquid waters of the model's runway......and....that's it. I think this is saying that Cadillac Escalades, just like the clothes and the look that models model on the runway, are completely useless and stupid to the normal person. Only the snotiest and haughty person would be interested in those clothes, the same goes for the Escalade.

Most Entertaining: Bud Light: Magic Fridge

A combination of funny and creative. I know I just ripped other Bud Light commercials above, but this one everybody enjoys. It still speaks to how stupid the owner of the Magic Fridge is as he evidently hadn't noticed before that his fridge was missing beer when he brought it back to his apartment, but seeing 4 college-age dudes bow down to the fridge was pretty funny. This actually will also win the award for being the most annoying after tons of post-SuperBowl repetitive play.

To check out the rest of the adds, go to this link:
http://sports.aol.com/nfl/superbowlads

NEXT POST: The black-hole of sports

1 comment:

Caleb M. Saarela said...

I didn't see to many commercials but I am still amazed by some of the commercials that get on there. Like who's brillent idea was it to waste 20 million dollars on the same commercial that airs during Moesha at 11:30 on the WB. I need to work in advertising... I could sell ice to an eskimo... Word!