Super Bowl XL Commercials

February 5, 2006 8:46 PM

Super Bowl XL Commercials
posted by jne1813 (76 comments total)

i thought the budwieser commercial about the young Clydesdale horse was the best.
posted by obeygiant at 8:54 PM on February 5, 2006

Actually one of the more interesting things Google Video has done yet.
posted by smackfu at 8:56 PM on February 5, 2006

I've never understood people who say they watch the Superbowl just for the commercials. It's the only time I can think of where people go out of their way and WANT to see commercials.
posted by ColdChef at 9:00 PM on February 5, 2006

Super Bowl XL Commercials
posted on Feb-5-06 at 10:46 PM CST

Dave Chappelle Comes Clean On 'Oprah' "Chappelle said he left the show, months after signing a $50 million deal for its third and fourth seasons, because he felt manipulated by the people around him."
posted on Feb-3-06 at 10:41 PM CST

"Those Who Trespass", a Pornographic Work by Bill O'Reilly -- An Audio Excerpt This is an audio excerpt from Bill O'Reilly's fictional novel. I found it quite hilarious. Move over Dickens, Bill O'Reilly is in town.
posted on Feb-2-06 at 8:44 PM CST

Poll Results: What the World Thinks of America BBC Report that polls various countries. More or less, the title describes itself adequately.
posted on Jan-30-06 at 9:09 PM CST



That's quite the posting history, there.
posted by interrobang at 9:02 PM on February 5, 2006

That 'Stunt City' ad for degree deoderant? It was posted almost a year ago - but, back then, it was for a different brand.
posted by kickingtheground at 9:06 PM on February 5, 2006

Would you Farkers please go back to posting there?

Relax. Just because we're smart dosen't mean we have to discuss astrophysics and existentialsm all the time. And we can riff on trivial topics as well as we can on weightier ones. and do it better than most.
posted by jonmc at 9:12 PM on February 5, 2006

posted by The Jesse Helms at 9:12 PM on February 5, 2006

Hip Hop Pepsi Can is just trying to cash in on the popularity of the Geddup Noise Indie-Tronic Remix.
posted by CrunchyFrog at 9:18 PM on February 5, 2006

Where's Nimoy's commercial?
posted by 6:1 at 9:24 PM on February 5, 2006

Since when are lightsabers standard equipment for Ghostbusters?
posted by keswick at 9:24 PM on February 5, 2006

That Clydesdale ad was the best?! Well, the pony was excellent, but the storyline? Voluntarily donning slave drag? Feigning ignorance of the two brutes pushing from behind? And don't get me started on those laughably obvious hair extensions? Sheesh!
posted by rob511 at 9:25 PM on February 5, 2006

Hooray! Let us all celebrate the most inventive ways to sell us crap that we don't need!
posted by Effigy2000 at 9:31 PM on February 5, 2006

Hooray! Let us all celebrate the most inventive ways to sell us crap that we don't need!

Nono, it's all about celebrating the most inventive ways to try to sell us crap that we don't need. If they succeed, there's nothing to celebrate: the commercials are functional devices; tools. If they fail, then the commercials aren't tools, they're purely aesthetic devices; art.
posted by Bugbread at 9:38 PM on February 5, 2006

I like the iFilm collection better. Can someone remind me how to get Google's huge default video screen down to something more manageable?

And jne1813, maybe next time wait a bit and find something a little interesting to add to more obvious posts like this?
posted by mediareport at 9:41 PM on February 5, 2006

Hmm. I missed most of these since I was outside working and forgot the game was on. So thanks for posting the link. I liked the sheep streaking commercial and the Macgyver commercial even though it was not on the Google link, I actually caught that one on teevee earlier.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs at 9:41 PM on February 5, 2006

Say what you will about marketing, and fark, and blah, blah, blah, but that United ad was one of the most attractive & well done pieces of animation I've seen in quite some time.
posted by jonson at 9:41 PM on February 5, 2006

They finally managed to fit that fifth blade on a razor. What a time to be alive!
posted by obvious at 9:51 PM on February 5, 2006

the iFilm collection is much better. And, they have Nimoy!
posted by 6:1 at 9:52 PM on February 5, 2006

That 'Stunt City' ad for degree deoderant? It was posted almost a year ago - but, back then, it was for a different brand.

I just knew I had seen that on the internets before.
posted by smackfu at 9:53 PM on February 5, 2006

Personally I liked AOL's collection of the commercials. They're organized by quarter. Plus, they didn't crash my computer like the IFilm did.

Superbowl Advertisements

My faves: Stunt City, Man's Kitchen, H3 Lil' Monster, ESPN's Sports Heaven

And if you want some more intellectually stimulating stuff and a look into the marketing/business sense behind it AdAge has gone absolutely nuts with their coverage. From that list, this quick and clean chart of the commercials is a nice summary if you don't have time to watch each commercial or want to know the minds behind them.
posted by tozturk at 10:07 PM on February 5, 2006

Oh, and AdAge requires free registration but bugmenot works for them.
posted by tozturk at 10:08 PM on February 5, 2006

Wow, this is the first time I've been able to see superbowl ads without a buch of irritating popups, crappy iterfaces and BS. Congrats to google.

Anyway, these commercials are all so obvious and tiresome. Yawn.
posted by delmoi at 10:10 PM on February 5, 2006

If you want google videos to be smaller, you can shrink your browser window.
posted by delmoi at 10:12 PM on February 5, 2006

They finally managed to fit that fifth blade on a razor. What a time to be alive!

Sixth -- five up front and one in the back.
posted by camcgee at 10:13 PM on February 5, 2006

Did Pepsi really blow a whole bunch of ad money to proclaim their product is "brown and bubbly"? And am I the only one who found that to be kind of... gross?
posted by stefanie at 10:15 PM on February 5, 2006

I also thought the united commercial was lame. They couldn't even show the dragon being slain.
posted by delmoi at 10:16 PM on February 5, 2006

If you want google videos to be smaller, you can shrink your browser window.

If you want google videos to be smaller, clicking the control box to the right of the slider just past the volume setting allows you to choose between Original size, Double, or the default, "fit to window". I'm surprised stavros hasn't popped into this thread to complain that Google video doesn't work in Korea yet. And that advertising on Metafilter makes his balls ache.
posted by jonson at 10:19 PM on February 5, 2006

It was nice to see kermit again in the ford ad.
posted by mathowie at 10:28 PM on February 5, 2006

Why weren't the GoDaddy ads shown on TV? I could watch them and try to figure it out, I guess. But I'd rather someone just tell me.

I didn't watch the Superbowl, I watched Puppy Bowl II on Animal Planet, complete with the kitty half-time show.
posted by cilantro at 10:36 PM on February 5, 2006

About the kermit thing - even with him being voiced by one of Jim Henson's sons, it just wasn't the same. I found most of the commercials to be abysmal while the game (the second half, anyway) was actually pretty fun to watch. Go Stillers!
posted by ooga_booga at 10:38 PM on February 5, 2006

Diet Poopsi.
posted by gunthersghost at 10:39 PM on February 5, 2006

I enjoyed the FedEx, and Bud Light humorous ads the most...

I found it quite sad that GM and Ford would spend SO much on commercials (millions?) while having such HUGE layoffs and shutdowns...

I am glad I am not one of the men or women who lost their jobs, who may have been watching those ads.
posted by Mip at 10:43 PM on February 5, 2006

But the question remains...is Jermone Bettis going to DisneylWorld?

_{...and the Seahawks didn't even cover the spread...}
posted by BitterOldPunk at 10:59 PM on February 5, 2006

s/bubbly/frothy/
posted by arialblack at 11:21 PM on February 5, 2006

Magic Fridge was awesome. Although Google calls it "secret fridge" for some reason.
posted by Gary at 11:31 PM on February 5, 2006

I couldn't enjoy one second of the FedEx caveman bit. I just couldn't get beyond the fact that dinosaurs and sapiens never co-existed.
posted by Mach3avelli at 1:00 AM on February 6, 2006

That Whopperettes commercial is seriously disturbing. No, I mean, really, people are going to watch that in 30 years and think, "What on Earth were they eating in the early 21st century?"
posted by attaboy at 1:02 AM on February 6, 2006

Also interesting to see the battle unfolding in the car industry... as consumers, we now apparently have a choice between "Save the Earth" (Lexus, Toyota, GM or Ford hybrid) and "Don't Give a Flying..." (Honda's "Ridgeline", the Land Rover or the Hummer 3).

And how does a Land Rover make driving in underground Tokyo parking lots any more enjoyable?
posted by attaboy at 1:09 AM on February 6, 2006

I will always love Stunt City.
posted by fandango_matt at 1:53 AM on February 6, 2006

That reminds me--was Stunt City originally made for a European audience? All the cars are right-hand drive and the license plates are European.
posted by fandango_matt at 1:55 AM on February 6, 2006

Oh wait, I just answered my own question. Wild, how they retouched it for Degree.
posted by fandango_matt at 2:35 AM on February 6, 2006

OH my god, how can you even talk about comercials, It's amazing reading you talking about them as some sacristic stuff.

REALLY AMAZING american people are lost to corporates

:(
posted by zouhair at 2:52 AM on February 6, 2006

I thought the Animal Planer Puppy Bowl II was way more enjoyable than the actual Super Bowl...that said, I found the Pepsi "Brown & Bubbly" campaign to be amazingly horrible...and I laughed at the Bud Light commercials.

But then again, I am lost to corporates.
posted by tpl1212 at 3:31 AM on February 6, 2006

I don't think finding a commercial amusing, which is all that is happening in this thread, constitutes "sacristic" devotion. But then maybe I am AMAZING lost to corporates.
posted by Falconetti at 3:39 AM on February 6, 2006

Hooray! Let us all celebrate the most inventive ways to sell us crap that we don't need!

"Brown & Bubbly®": The crap you don't need.
posted by hal9k at 4:10 AM on February 6, 2006

BULLSHIT ! That limy co*ksu*ker Superbawl does not deserve to smell my sh*t ! ! Now LingerieBawl [NFSW] is 100% less fruity and 150% more sexy.
posted by elpapacito at 5:43 AM on February 6, 2006

America's best and brightest don't work in education, or science, or the arts. They work in advertising. It pays the most.
posted by fungible at 6:07 AM on February 6, 2006

sacristic

You made that word up, didn't you?
posted by smackfu at 6:15 AM on February 6, 2006

BULLSHIT ! That limy co*ksu*ker Superbawl does not deserve to smell my sh*t !

Su-per-bawl...it's all make-up...and grunting....grrrrrrr.
posted by stifford at 6:26 AM on February 6, 2006

Anyone get a load of the Hummer commercial? They actually compare themselves to giant monsters and robots, destroying everything in their path. I guess it's all part of their "we're dicks, get used to it" pose.
posted by fungible at 6:34 AM on February 6, 2006

Slate summarizes it all pretty well in their round-up:

I'm not sure this new batch offered a single watercooler-worthy moment. What's up with you, Madison Avenue? Do you want us to pay attention to the game?

posted by attaboy at 6:35 AM on February 6, 2006

FedEx one was my fave.

Pepsi had to go with "Brown & Bubbly" because santorum.com was taken.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 7:29 AM on February 6, 2006

I liked the MacGyver Mastercard ad and the ESPN Sports Heaven ad.
posted by kirkaracha at 7:34 AM on February 6, 2006

America's best and brightest don't work in education, or science, or the arts. They work in advertising. It pays the most.

Yeah. "Best and brightest," whatever.

Sure, an awful lot of smart and creative folks find themselves in advertising, primarily out of laziness. It's just easy to do, falling into marketing work. Anyway, I'm pretty sure various forms of chemical and mechanical engineering still pay better, so at least those folks "bright" enough to handle science have other high-paying options than whoring for beer and car companies.

clicking the control box to the right of the slider just past the volume setting allows you to choose between Original size, Double, or the default

Thanks, jonson. I knew it was something like that, but gave up after the box just to the left just toggled between two different versions of fullscreen.
posted by mediareport at 8:30 AM on February 6, 2006

My favorite one was the Gillette commercial, but only because I love the fact that the Onion got the scoop on it a year ago.

How long till Schick does a five-blader with two (count 'em!) blades on the back?
posted by Ickster at 9:35 AM on February 6, 2006

Awfully slim pickings. Bud does their usual lowbrow jokes for a few good chuckles and FedEx nails the one really great ad his year. Skip everything else.
posted by Ryvar at 9:39 AM on February 6, 2006

Huh. Turns out my cousin worked on both the MasterCard and Cadillac commercials. I should paid more attention to them last night!
posted by robocop is bleeding at 9:52 AM on February 6, 2006

Mediareport, you have no idea what you are talking about. No idea at all.
posted by theinsectsarewaiting at 9:57 AM on February 6, 2006

cilantro: the Godaddy ads did air. Twice. Along with blockbuster's stupid commercials.

The Diet Pepsi ads just plain sucked. I hope someone gets fired for those. At least the Bud Light ads were somewhat entertaining. heh.

Rumor has it that the ads were kept 'clean' this year to avoid more PTC complaints. Those people have too much of an effect on what we watch.
posted by drstein at 10:02 AM on February 6, 2006

The Godaddy ads were embarrassing and pretty much changed our minds about moving our 9 domains over to them this month. The dove ad was good, the magic refridgerator was cute, but the rest were underwhelming to say the least. On Canadian stations airing the stupor bowl Bell introduced their new spokesbeavers, one of them voiced by Norm Mcdonald, and they pretty much sucked too.
posted by zarah at 10:08 AM on February 6, 2006

posted by mediareport an awful lot of smart and creative folks find themselves in advertising, primarily out of laziness. It's just easy to do, falling into marketing work. Anyway, I'm pretty sure various forms of chemical and mechanical engineering still pay better, so at least those folks "bright" enough to handle science have other high-paying options than whoring for beer and car companies.

Fuck you, too.
posted by fandango_matt at 10:29 AM on February 6, 2006

My Hummer Ad
NSFW Robo-Monster sex, language
posted by lobstah at 10:36 AM on February 6, 2006

Rumor has it that the ads were kept 'clean' this year to avoid more PTC complaints.

it wasn't the ads last yr that offended people. it was a breast on the halftime show rememeber?
posted by Miles Long at 10:51 AM on February 6, 2006

also re: FedEx:
cavemen and dinosaurs? tired. What is this, a syndicated newspaper comic strip?

it looked like a million-dollar special effects budget applied to a script by 14-year-old boys.

"and then a giant dinosaur squishes him. "
"yeah"
posted by Miles Long at 11:01 AM on February 6, 2006

The Nipple may have set off the reaction but last year's commercials were far more tame, and this year's were too. Wonder how long it'll take to get back to 'normal?'
posted by phearlez at 11:17 AM on February 6, 2006

I was a fan of the "Don't judge too quickly" themed ads, especially the hospital-fly-killing one.


I appreciate good super bowl commercials, but then I get annoyed with regular ads like the KFC promos come on and wreck the good-commercial vibe.
posted by craven_morhead at 11:24 AM on February 6, 2006

What no props to the Sprint phone with 'crime prevention'? Hurting people is funny!
posted by graventy at 11:34 AM on February 6, 2006

That hummer ad seriously looks like something an environmental group would put together as an over-the-top parody. Hummers: dangerous, city-destroying monsters! Yeah, get me one of those!

Then again I guess that's their target market.
posted by ook at 12:02 PM on February 6, 2006

Cheesy, but I loved the one with all the football players practicing how they were going to say, "I'm going to Disney World!" We saw a mix of Steelers and Seahawks, but someone at the party had a Mom in Steelers territory, who said their version of that ad was only Steelers.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 12:52 PM on February 6, 2006 [1 favorite]

Fuck you, too.

Sorry, fandango_matt, but that "advertising gets the best and brightest!" garbage honestly cracks me up. It's one of the persistent myths of toothpaste-selling, and it's really, really transparent.
posted by mediareport at 1:29 PM on February 6, 2006

Sorry, fandango_matt, but that "advertising gets the best and brightest!" garbage honestly cracks me up. It's one of the persistent myths of toothpaste-selling, and it's really, really transparent.

so refute it then.

90 million people saw those 30-second spots. Everyone's talking about them today.
people that made them, they're not dumb at all.
posted by Miles Long at 1:59 PM on February 6, 2006

posted by mediareport Sorry, fandango_matt, but that "advertising gets the best and brightest!" garbage honestly cracks me up. It's one of the persistent myths of toothpaste-selling, and it's really, really transparent.

Enlighten us, please.
posted by fandango_matt at 2:06 PM on February 6, 2006

What, you mean disprove the general self-congratulatory belief among people who make TV commercials that they consist of the best and brightest America has to offer?

Yeah, I'll get right on that.
posted by mediareport at 2:40 PM on February 6, 2006

Metafilter:Yeah, I'll get right on that.

(Sorry, I had to do it once;get it out of the system)

Are some people really aggrieved by the presence of homonids and dinosaurs in a commercial? What next? Outrage over the fact that actual, historical pirates looked nothing like Johnny Depp?

Cue "oh the humanity", etc.
posted by erskelyne at 3:25 PM on February 6, 2006

I see your Fed-Ex Commercial and raise you a SuperShake
posted by doogyrev at 9:22 PM on February 6, 2006

google video and iFilm: ah, the joy of propietary video formats. it would be nice to be able to download Google Videos in a normal format, such as divx or even .wmv. i suppose i could grab the ipod or the psp file from Google, i guess but i don't have either of those two devices and conversion to other formats is tedious and time-consuming. well, at least i was able to use NetTransport to snag the few from AdAge.
posted by TrinityB5 at 12:40 AM on February 7, 2006