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Best and Worst Superbowl Commercials

  

WeepWeep

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Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 7:34 PM

best - Fed Ex caveman kicking the rodentsaur

worst - Dove Soap campaign for self esteem. huh?


WeepWeep

  

adams_babymomma

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Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 7:35 PM

Best- cadillac on the runway

worst- jessica simpson pizza hut

adams_babymomma

  

Unrep

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Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 8:12 PM

Worst - whatever the hell that godaddy.com commercial was. I found no plot or coherence to it.

If you're gonna drop funds that big on advertizing placement, maybe run your commercial past a test screen audience first.

Unrep

  

Hashmeer Shashmeer

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Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 8:16 PM

I like the commercial where that chick got blasted while playing touch football. But it was gay when she tackled him in the bar.

Hashmeer Shashmeer

  

greymatters

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Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 8:39 PM

I thought they all sucked. Monkeys should be banned from Super Bowl commercials, it's not funny anymore, they killed it.

greymatters

  

ItHadToBeJew

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Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 8:43 PM

Best ad was the revolving fridge.

Worst was the Dove one. How many self-conscious 13-year old girls are watching the Super Bowl? Come on!

ItHadToBeJew

  

rhino369

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Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 9:22 PM

Best: Lost music video commerical
Worst: Dove Commercial for self esteem. Great teach girls that their self esteem should be based on looks, but even though shes fat and ugly shes beautiful. Good job retards, how about teaching them that looks SHOULDN'T be how they judge themselves, because I'm pretty sure they'll figure out they are ugly anyway.

rhino369

  

Stryker311

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Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 11:25 PM

Best - The bud Light and the bear

Worst - Dove. Those chicks were ugly. I get enough of that shit at school. Made me lose my appetite.

Stryker311

  

sillygilly25

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 1:36 AM

Best - MacGyver (tube socks rule!)

Worst - GoDaddy.com

sillygilly25

  

andrewwagner777

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 4:33 AM

Best: the Bud Light and the Bear one, the Airplane one where there's some turbulance and the lady ends up straddling the guy who has the sleep mask in his mouth like an S&M person would like it.
And then there was one other one the "We won't judge too quickly" they had some great ones last year, and they kept it up this year.

Worst- Jessica Simpson, the Dove "Self Esteem fund" which is just a fund that will go to fund sweat shops in Africa more than likely. What good would come from a self esteem fund...Honestly?

andrewwagner777

  

Small-Dorked Fish

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 8:02 AM
Edited Monday, February 6, 2006 at 8:04 AM

Worst: Diet Pepsi one from early on with Diddy. The tagline is "brown and bubbly"?!?! That's worse than "what can brown do for you". Now I connect Diet Pepsi with brewing diarrhea.

Second-worst: The "Addicted to Love/Lost" video. The guy's been dead a few months. The people running his estate should be ashamed of themselves.

Third-worst: The overly-pretentious Caddy Escalade runway spot.

Small-Dorked Fish

  

sillygilly25

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 8:58 AM

Palmer died in 2003.

sillygilly25

  

babyivan

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 9:34 AM
Edited Monday, February 6, 2006 at 9:48 AM

http://video.google.com/superbowl.html

I just wasted twenty minutes of my life that I can NEVER get back!!!!

Are "we" not done with jesssica Simpson yet??....I hate the bitch!

And the Brown and Bubbly thing does remind me of a piping hot bowl of diarrhea!

My vote goes to Diet Pepsi, Pizza Hut & Godaddy for the worst ....... and Nationwide "Fabio on the Gondala", Unted Airlines "Dragon" & Bud Light "magic fridge" for the best....but nothing was really that good this year.

Also.....the movie trailer for V for Vendetta looks pretty good, I can hardly wait to download it ;)

babyivan

  

bguirk

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 10:55 AM

Am I the only one here who didn't watch the Superbowl (OK barely watched)? It was the first sunny day in Portland of 2006 and the last thing I wanted to do was watch TV. I got my bets in and pulled off my storm windows. I went to a party when it got dark, but still. Back when I watched football the best games were the last two rounds of the playoffs anyway.

bguirk

  

babyivan

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 11:05 AM
Edited Monday, February 6, 2006 at 11:09 AM

Am I the only one here who didn't watch the Superbowl (OK barely watched)? It was the first sunny day in Portland of 2006 and the last thing I wanted to do was watch TV. I got my bets in and pulled off my storm windows. I went to a party when it got dark, but still. Back when I watched football the best games were the last two rounds of the playoffs anyway.

—bguirk


I didnt watch it either, I saw the commercials this morning via the link that I provided in my previous post.
I decided to go out to work last night thinkin the city would be busy and I would make some coin.....Boy was I right, I cleaned up last night!
I guess if my team was in it, I wouldve stayed home and watched it.

babyivan

  

Grand Fromage

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 12:41 PM

I enjoyed the FedEx one and the Spock one, just because it's Spock dammit.

Grand Fromage

  

Sassafras Roots

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 1:51 PM

The Emerald Nuts commercial was hilarious.
The same goes for the one with the chick on the airplane. The tagline was "don't judge too quickly".

Sassafras Roots

  

Sassafras Roots

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 2:09 PM

The Sierra Mist commercial with Michael Ian Black was the shit too.

Sassafras Roots

  

Gemma

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 2:27 PM

I didn't watch the Superbowl but my gay Algebra teacher told us about the most hilarious thing he's ever seen was the commercial with the horses and the "streaking" sheep. I think I'll take his word on it.

Gemma

  

MajandraFan

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 5:05 PM

Yay for ads!
Buy stuff!

MajandraFan

  

Beat It!

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 7:56 PM
Edited Monday, February 6, 2006 at 7:57 PM

...the most hilarious thing he's ever seen was the commercial with the horses and the "streaking" sheep. I think I'll take his word on it.

—Gemma

Don't.

For the most part they didn't seem to have imagination or lasting impact that is usually attributed to "Super Bowl Commercials." Not that hasn't been the case over the last decade. Even fact, I'd bet that even in the best years from the glorified past (it seems like the early to late nineties was the heyday of Super Bowl Ads, though I know the famous Macintosh "1984" ad pretty much started it all since it only ran nationally that one time) there were maybe ten or so great ads and the rest are a let down.

Coincidentally (or maybe not) once it became a 'thing' to watch the Super Bowl as much for the ads as for the game was about the time the ads started to suffer.

In fact, much like vintage episodes of Saturday Night Live that are remembered as consistently great, you watch them now and see that, while better than what's on the air today, they still had more than their share of misses.

Beat It!

  

WeepWeep

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Monday, February 6, 2006 at 8:52 PM

here's what usatoday wrote up on the dove ad plus the top 10. i bet the guy who dreamed up pepsi's brown and bubbly just got his last paycheck.


An important Super Bowl first: A purely female-targeted ad for Dove skin products scored unusually high. The result could lead to more marketers targeting female viewers in future Super Bowls. The Dove commercial promoted self-esteem for young girls who might think they should be thinner, prettier, even blond. The ad scored just outside the Top 10. (Video: Dove ad) The Dove ad was out of character, in a positive way, for a Super Bowl ad, says Cheryl Levine, 24, a paralegal from Olney, Md. "I think we need more encouragement. Too many people have self-image problems. Why is there so much emphasis on a false notion of what beautiful is?" Within 10 minutes of the ad airing, 7,000 people logged onto the related website, www.campaignforrealbeauty.com, said Dove marketing head Philippe Harousseau.


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USA TODAY 10 most popular
Description
Score

Bud Light
A secret fridge stocks Bud Light.
8.39

Budweiser
Young Clydesdale dreams big.
8.18

FedEx
Cave man uses prehistoric overnight delivery.
7.95

Sierra Mist
Sierra Mist can't clear airport security.
7.86

Bud Light
Men pretend to work on rooftops, but relax instead.
7.82

Budweiser
Sheep streaks at big game.
7.81

Ameriquest
Patient's family walks in on medical misunderstanding.
7.80

Bud Light
Office manager motivates employees with hidden bottles.
7.69

Ameriquest
Plane turbulence creates awkward situation.
7.67

Budweiser
Stadium crowd turns a wave into a Bud promotion.
7.65

WeepWeep

  

Gemma

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Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 1:10 PM

I was just kidding about the sheep thing.

Gemma

  

pookie

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 at 9:17 AM

I liked Leonard Nimoy for Aleve.

I thought the hidden bottles of Bud in the office schtick was funnier than the magic fridge, mainly the part where the guy thrust his hands through the wall and pulled out two bottles of Bud.

I think that the Dove "Self Esteem" commercial was not aimed at little girls since so few of them would be watching. It seems more likely that it was aimed at creating an awareness amongst adults that even girls of such a young age bracket struggle with a negative self-image. Perhaps it was to aimed at adults who might be contributing to such negative feelings in their daughters.

pookie

  

babyivan

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 at 9:36 AM

I think that the Dove "Self Esteem" commercial was not aimed at little girls since so few of them would be watching. It seems more likely that it was aimed at creating an awareness amongst adults that even girls of such a young age bracket struggle with a negative self-image. Perhaps it was to aimed at adults who might be contributing to such negative feelings in their daughters.

—pookie

How insiteful......
The commercial was still "gay", especially for playing it during an NFL game.
Although, ever since Insinc did the halftime show a few years back, the Superbowl has
steadily become more and more "gay"!

babyivan

  

shortwave5205

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 at 3:29 PM

I enjoyed the Sprint ad. Their phones have built-in Crime Deterrent...Cool!

shortwave5205

  

ProfessorCarbuncle

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 at 8:17 PM

worst: the one where the two Godzilla-type monsters fall in love and the lady monster gives birth to a ... Hummer.

1.5 years ago I interned at the ad agency responsible for all Hummer spots and let me tell you the people at that agency are vicous, arrogant bastards, with not a single brain cell among them. Get mentioned in Adweek a couple times and you think your shit doesn't stink. Every negative stereotype you can think of for advertisers/marketers held true x10 at that place. I quit my internship 4 weeks in. Now gladly working out of advertising.

ProfessorCarbuncle

  

MajandraFan

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 at 9:03 PM

I liked the Pink one, where she had a push up bra and was all soapy. That let me ejaculate.
She's such a butch cunt!

MajandraFan

  

NJC

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 5:47 PM
Edited Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 5:48 PM

You guys see this one? It never actually made it to TV:



NJC

  

MajandraFan

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 5:48 PM
Edited Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 5:50 PM

It doesn't seem to be making it to the internet either.

Tha's better

MajandraFan

  

HocusPocus

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 6:12 PM

And whatever happended to Terry Tate?

HocusPocus

  

greymatters

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 6:28 PM

Terry Tate is in jail.

greymatters

  

MajandraFan

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 6:43 PM

Dick Laurent is dead.

MajandraFan

  

my dad lives In Israel?

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Friday, February 10, 2006 at 2:55 AM
Edited Friday, February 10, 2006 at 3:35 AM

the sheep thing was pretty funny.

worst: mcdonalds with the hamster thing and the tag line "i'm lovin it"... what the hell?? didn't get it, and do you really want a rodent associated with your food chain?

"brown and bubbly" - think about all the bigwigs that greenlighted that. not ONE had the presence of mind to say what the f are you thinking. the ones that thought so but didn't speak up - just as guilty as the creator

this wasn't technically a commercial but harrison ford and some sports celebs were doing a dr seuss NFL thing ... went on way too long.

my dad lives In Israel?

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