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But What About the Commercials?
So the Big Game is over: I actually watched the whole thing this year. Had a cool time with a bunch of the guys (If you're reading: Thanks, Jon! Great shindig). But of course the real story each year isn't who won and who lost, but the ridiculously expensive lavish commercials. At $2M a spot, its gotta be crazy... huge numbers of
the ads were for dotcoms and soda. What were your favorites? The E*Trade Monkey ad was my favorite, followed by the Mountain Dew leopard ad and the 7up ad where the truck hit the machine.
I love being unnecessarily cynical about everything that people do! When on Slashdot, I love to flaunt my obvious superiority by putting down the actions of mindless cretins who dare to have a little fun! I enjoy pointing out that because large corporations do some bad things, everything they do must be inherently evil by association and nothing they create can thus be of any value whatsoever! I really relish insisting that everything everyone does must be global, that no one is allowed to talk about things that are going on in their own country! In fact, I should yell at myself because I'm talking about me, and I only exist in the country I live in. But it doesn't matter, because I'm superior to all of you! Long live unmitigated cynicism! Down with fun!
Ok, for those of you who missed it, heres the most awesome commercial on this years Commercial Bowl.
A chimp is standing on a box, wearing an etrade tshirt. There are 2 clearly senile old men sitting next to him. Some annoying song starts playing, and the men start clapping along while the monkey flails about and screams a bunch. This goes on for 25 seconds.
At this point, all of america is saying "This is the dumbest commercial I've ever seen."
Then it cuts to a text screen.
"We just wasted 2 million dollars. What are you doing with your money? E*Trade.com"
An interesting side note: There was a football game worth watching interspersed in all the commercials. I was confused.
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"What is that sound its making?"
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"What is that sound its making?"
"It thinks it has a virus, but its actually just linux."
I love commercials! Clever and entertaining ways for large, rich corporations to overtly and/or subliminally influence my thought patterns are a great reason to turn on a television that I try to avoid as much as possible. When discussing commercials, I really enjoy pretending that everyone in the world watches in the same country and sees the same commercials and assuming that everyone knows what "the Big Game" is or even what sport I'm referring to. Long live powerful corporations with authoritarian internal structures that make a farce of democratic representation!
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I dont know which was my favorite, but did anyone else notice how many lame .com commercials there were? Personally I'm getting sick of the corporate internet. However, if you want to relive all the great commercials, check out www.adcritic.com, where you can view commercials in Quicktime and rate them. Not just for the superbowl but always.
they have quicktimes of all the commercials up.