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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. Wow by DJ+rCn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I didn't think PBS would ever step into the realm of something like this. Television commercials and commercial sporting events have never really been the focus of PBS programming. But this could signal a change of direction maybe for PBS programming, especcially seeing its a post game show. As in right after the game. Not a program that will be aired in 3 months which is the usual PBS stuff, it's all researched and taped, it's never really live. This is an interestingf concept.

  2. Odd juxtaposition by Nathdot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In reference to the 'Anti-Terrorism Ads':

    Does anybody else think that the ad juxtaposition will bea little off kilter?:

    *A dancing/singing CG cow will say something like: "This Bud's for you!"

    *Anti-Terrorism ad

    *A dancing/singing britney spears will say something like "Mmmm, pepsi... It's how to be cool!"

    :)

  3. Re:Comercial Post game by bryan1945 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, this year's winner is the Britney Spears/Pepsi add, which is running at (a record) $9 for 90 seconds, or a good 500K more per 30 seconds.

    Wait, $100,000 per second!! There is something just so inherently wrong with that...

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  4. more ads i'll never get to see... sigh. by limber · · Score: 3, Interesting

    alas, here in Canada (at least in this chunk of SW Ontario), we never get to see the superbowl ads in the first place, 'cause they're typically substituted for cheesy local advertising by the Canadian broadcasters showing the event.

    here's the CRTC's lousy explanation. (the CRTC is i guess a loathesome canuck version of the FCC, except considerably more pretentious and out of touch with reality.)

    apple's big brother? sock puppets? anti-terrorism? nope, more like just another "Leon's No Money Down Miracle Event!". (and no, my building doesn't allow satellite dishes)

    The other severely annoying bit that they mess around with is virtual ads. Basically, the broadcaster superimposes logos and other teeny corporate markers over top of crowds, the first down line, and billboard shots. It's usually quite glaring.

    i just wish they would broadcast an unadulterated signal!!!