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Web Rescues Un-Aired Super Bowl Ads
destinyland writes "A pirated version of Budweiser's un-aired Super Bowl ad appeared on YouTube — proving the Web is more democratic than NBC. The sexy PETA ad they refused to air also turned up on PETA's site; YouTube also had Saturday's skit from SNL, mocking the actual Pepsi ad that would air Sunday. But ironically, the Web site for Jack in the Box crashed right after they'd aired their cliffhanger about Jack's bus accident, prompting one critic to joke, 'Should we assume he's dead?'
Watching PETA ads doesn't make me wanna become vegan. In fact, seeing those naked women just make me want to eat some meat, if you catch my drift.
Do we really have to use this word? It's not like they're going to be upset about getting poeole to view their ad.
Thanks for these very important updates on how we should be manipulated! I was kind of feeling like I was thinking a bit too much on own, but finally I get some more ads to dull the senses and reinforce that conformity!
Not too many Americans know this, but even though we get the Superbowl in Canada, the CRTC (our version of the FCC) allows broadcasters and cable companies to substitute their own commercials during the broadcast. (Yes, we get the Spokane NBC feed on our cable, but we get substituted Canadian ads!) This has been going on for years. So when the USA sees the most AMAZING KEWL Superbowl ad, most Canadians see an add for "Joe's plumbing and lighting"
The Web is the only way for most of us to see the Superbowl ads.
See, this is what those of us in the civilised world find so bizarre about the United States. You're perfectly happy to show ads (and programmes) containing violence, but some women in perfectly decent underwear? Banned.
What is that about?
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
Was it just me or were all the Pepsi commercials atrocious? Telling everyone that regular diet drinks are too "wussy" for a guy to drink isn't exactly going to endear yourself with guys who are already drinking diet drinks, and how many guys really want to drink diet drinks but are so wrapped up in their identity as a macho guy that they're afraid to? (And how many of those are going to be convinced that it's okay to make an exception for Pepsi because of the commercial?)
I haven't actually seen the SNL skit for comparison, but the Pepsi MacGyver spoof just seemed stupid. It wasn't even the kind of "poking fun at oneself" parody that will endear itself to fans of the show.
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Let me know when there is a spoof of the PETA ad featuring bacon instead of vegetables.
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See Right, Religious. Also see Party, Republican.
The rest of us a perfectly fine with women in "perfectly decent underwear". Except the nudists.
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It was those damn Puritans that the English sent over. They screwed the country up for everyone. I for one would rather see naked women on TV than another "terrorist" getting whacked or car exploding.
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Just some overgrown boy millionaires tossing around some weird-shaped device, that, despite being decidedly un-spherical, is for some reason referred to as a 'ball'. Additionally, despite that this 'ball' can only be kicked by one guy from each of the opposing teams at specific times, the strange 'ball' has a 'foot-' prefix attached to it.
Other than that, no.
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Certainly less risque than the Peta ad, yet rejected for political content: "Imagine the Potential"
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Other than that, no.
Aussie Open Final. No "whooshes", please. Nadal-Federer five-setter in a Grand Slam final is nothing to sneeze at.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
It's simple. The human body is evil. Unless it's been shot or otherwise maimed.
Businesses aren't democracies. Anyone who has ever worked for / in one will know that within the first 5 minutes of walking into the office. They're there to make money - that's all. If you don't do what you're told to, you're out. Which is actually how it is for a visitor to any democratic country, so there are similarities after all.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
After watching PETA's ad it's no surprise that it didn't air. I doubt they even have the budget to air commercials during the Superbowl.
PETA probably commissioned a sexy ad knowing fully well it wouldn't be approved by NBC. The fact that it's "banned" gives PETA the Superbowl publicity it can't afford. (And as others have said, Superbowl watchers aren't exactly PETA's target audience.)
Why did I waste 30 seconds of my life watching that SNL skit? With the exception of Tina Fey's recent Sarah Palin skits, SNL hasn't been funny for well over a decade and that skit was a prime example of it...
It's a nation founded by Puritans and presently populated with 200+ million prudes which has a multi-billion-dollar pr0n industry.
What's so hard to understand?
"See Right, Religious. Also see Neo-Conservative."
There, I fixed that for you since you don't seem to realize that Republican and Neo-Conservative are not synonymous.
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The ads (or at least one of them) were repeated during the superbowl.
It probably has more to do with the evangelicals and mormons in this day and age. As far as I can tell, the descendants of the puritans are fairly open-minded, e.g., Massachussetts and Connecticut do support same sex marriage. So if you want to see scantily-clad women being sexually suggestive with vegetables and can't, blame the southern baptists, the LDS, some of the episcopalians, and the others like pentecostal (?), etc.
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We also ban public nudity, prosecute and berate those that choose to love more than one person, we sling hate at any chance we get.
But, video of someone beating the hell out of someone or even killing them? That's considered required viewing for children.
OMG They showed a nipple.... a NIPPLE!!!! OMG! OMG! OMG!
There is nothing in puritanical ideals that is healthy for society or humanity.
Disclaimer: I'm a Lutheran, I believe in God and My savior Christ, not all Christians are simpletons and want to preserve oppressive ways.
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Apparently you haven't heard about the Federal Communications Commission, the fact that they have a process for accepting and acting upon complaints, and that there are members of the above-mentioned movements that have nothing better to do than sit there and watch TV and call in a complaint the moment they see skin or hear an F-bomb.
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As far as I can tell, the descendants of the puritans are fairly open-minded, e.g., Massachussetts and Connecticut do support same sex marriage.
No, they don't, they've just never been allowed to vote on the issue.
If California won't allow same sex marriage when put to a popular vote, why would you think Massachusetts and Connecticut would?!
Neither state has ever allowed the people to vote on the matter. But opinion polls are clear: if the people were allowed to vote on the matter, gay marriage would be outlawed in a heartbeat.
And on the idea that Puritan descendants are "open minded" keep in mind that the church Obama went to for twenty years can trace its theology back to the Puritans. (I'm not making that up, it really can - Google it.) And what did their preacher say? Oh, right, "God damn America!" Yep, really open minded there.
If you're going to watch ads on the internet, may as well make it worth your while...
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No we don't.
Speak for yourself.
No it's not, Captain Straw Man.
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Do you guys really want to try to explain to four-year-olds what the women are doing?
"I'll tell you when you're older." worked just fine for my dad. Kids don't need everything explained to them the instant they see it.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
But, in his defense, they don't seem to realize it either.
Do you guys really want to try to explain to four-year-olds what the women are doing?
They probably wouldn't ask, especially if you don't make a big deal out of it.
If they do, say "making themselves look nice" or whatever.
I always found the TV where people died (e.g. the news) much scarier than nudity etc. What would you rather answer? "Daddy, why isn't she wearing any clothes?" or "Daddy, why are those children really thin and why are there flies on them? And why does the man have a gun?".
Like many other industries, the porn industry is so successful because of all the legal complications, very much (although not exactly) like the illegal drug industry and prostitution.
Trying to criminalize it only makes it stronger. We learned this with alcohol, I don't understand why people don't learn it with other things.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Don't get me wrong. I think our attitude towards violence is just dandy. I have no problem with enforcing the castle doctrine, i.e. the notion that if someone breaks into my house and I have an even remotely reasonable fear for my safety, I get a free pass to kill him. That's just logical and those euro-locales that would prohibit people from defending themselves and their property with guns and violence are insane to me.
But the sex thing? We're just nuts. We're so squeamish on the subject that useful sex education in this country is considered such a novelty that it's worthy of a feature article in the Boston Globe. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the sort of sex ed discussed in that article fairly common in Europe? It's crazy-rare, here in the U.S.
I swear, take some politician or law enforcement official with responsibility for enforcing laws protecting youth from the U.S., plop him down on a beach in Rio, and watch him die of apoplexy.
Tell me, when did it first dawn on you that this was a Pepsi ad?
Sorry, but it seems pretty obvious to me that this was an ad, so I don't understand why you are acting as though this is some big conspiracy.
"God damn America!" Yep, really open minded there.
Nice unintentional irony there - you're so closed minded that you assume anyone who dislikes the behaviour of the US government over the past 8 years must be closed minded.
I didn't have a problem explaining this to my children. "Those women are pretending the vegetables are body parts men have and use for making babies, hoping to spark the genetically programmed response men have to make babies in an attempt to manipulate and exploit the viewer's emotions."
What's the problem?
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