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Super Bowl Commercial Skewer-a-thon
tunabomber writes: "Those planning on tuning in to America's Patriotic Sports TV Event of the Year to catch the new commercials will no longer have to sit through all that football filler. PBS, of all networks, is airing a postgame show in which the subject of discussion is not the game, but the commercials.
Super Commercials: A Mental Engineering Special is a beefed-up episode of the cultish Mental Engineering series where a panel of experts, including former Daily Show host Lizz Winstead and a Silicon Valley computer scientist, critique (read: eviscerate) Super Bowl commercials.
There are also blurbs about this at The Kansas City Star and The St. Paul Star Tribune." One thing you'll be able to look forward to: fewer sock puppet commercials, more anti-terror commercials.
Cool - while ESPN, CNN/SI and Fox are breaking down the game, PBS will be breaking down who spent their 2.5 Million per 30 seconds the best. If the game is not at all interesting, this could be the best thing to tune to after the game.
Besides, sometimes things like herding cats just has to be panned.
RonB
It is human nature to take shortcuts in thinking.
Since Ad Critic shut down, I have nowhere to view commercials anymore. Kudos to PBS.
Try your TV.
You missed one.
/sheep/ but you keep them both for the sake of personal pleasure.
:) :) )
Damn newbies, fucking shit. You FORGOT THE FRIGGIN PUNCH LINE.
Damnit.
Ah, mods excuse this, but I just cannot allow this otherwise great joke to go unfinished.
RatCity-ism (replace with the name of an old Stoner's BBS in your area, that was my local one): You have two
Ok ok, a lot funnier when done in ANSI.
On topic though, these basic concepts (you have many of something, big bad evil government takes part of that many away from you) was something that was being seen more and more often in the last past few years. I predict that an opposite trend is likely to show itself this year. (not exactly rocket science that prediction.
Ah, Post 9-11 Capitalism. You have two cows that fulfill all of your milk needs but the advertisers insist that you buy two more so as to fulfill your patriotic duty. . . .
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..."Too bad it's tax money being spent"...
;)
Advertisers know that this is one television event that not only will have a large audience, but will have viewers looking forward to viewing commercials. The government knows this too.
and
..."I can hear the commercials end so I know when to come back from the kitchen/bathroom."...
This is a multi-use room? I thought that the dining/living room or den/playroom was as far as that went!
2000...
Lots of hype about people spending billions upon billions of dollars on Superbowl ads...
So there's this one where a monkey in an E-trade t-shirt walks up to a stereo, presses play and gets up on a table in front of someone's garage, and there's these two guys sitting on either side clapping. The monkey proceeds to dance to the polka music for about 20 seconds.
then they cut to the text that says:
"We just wasted 8 billion dollars. What're you doing with your money?"
"E-trade.com"
I was laughing till the next commercial break.
Karma: Non-Heinous
I was really amused to watch a NFL playoff game while skiing in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. they superimposed canadian company logos all over the American stadiums. I didn't know that Canadian Tire advertises so extensively at Soldiers Field.
You mean hours of ads, with the occasional snippet of football, don't you?
...laura, not absolutely certain of the very significance of the Super Bowl