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Super Bowl Commercial Skewer-a-thon

Posted by michael on from the because-pets-can't-drive dept.

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.

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  1. Ad report cards at Slate by migstradamus · · Score: 3, Informative

    Slate magazine's Moneybox runs a regular series of "Ad report cards" that are fairly savvy. This one linked to above previews some Super Bowl ads.

    Mig

  2. the NEW site by Com2Kid · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a link to the part of the site that actualy has some CONTENT on it (GASP!)

    Here

    Not the posters fault though, only a Google.com search turns up the real site, the one linked off of their intro page is even either old or just has not been updated with the latest content yet. :(

    Oh yah, ASF files with required plugins ahoy. :(

    (the site is also dying fast to, hehe.)

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  3. Re:more ads i'll never get to see... sigh. by AnimeFreak · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just be glad that the CRTC made it possible for Cable and DSL (and broadband in general) not to be fucked over like what happened in the United States.

  4. The St. Paul Star Tribune? by Macoolio · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually... (in case anyone cares) It's the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

  5. Super Bowl Commercials of the past by geo-geo · · Score: 2, Informative

    CBS is showing on Friday evening @ 8:00pm "Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials 2" which should give those who enjoy them a look at some of the good ones from the past. As they say "check your local listings as date/times may vary in different regions!"