{"id":13112,"date":"2015-02-04T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13112"},"modified":"2015-02-02T04:23:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T04:23:41","slug":"carys-2015-super-bowl-commercial-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/04\/carys-2015-super-bowl-commercial-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Cary’s 2015 Super Bowl Commercial Round Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SUPERBOWL\"<\/a>It\u2019s kind of a tradition for me every year to write a blog roundup of my favorite Super Bowl commercials.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s interesting how us folks here in the US treat the Super Bowl like a national holiday or something.\u00a0 Nothing wrong with that, I just think it\u2019s interesting.\u00a0 I have to say, though, that while most years the commercials are disappointing, this year they were especially disappointing.\u00a0 A lot of the commercials were all serious and depressing.\u00a0 Where\u2019s the funny?\u00a0 Normally as I watch the game, I take notes on the commercials that stood out to me.\u00a0 This year I didn\u2019t even fill up one page!\u00a0 But I\u2019m still going to write a blog about it anyway.<\/p>\n

But first I have to talk about the Puppy Bowl!\u00a0 I watch it every year on Animal Planet.\u00a0 I love how it started out as a defeatist attitude by Animal Planet to just stick a bunch of puppies in a TV studio and let them play; knowing nobody would watch Animal Planet on Super Bowl Sunday.\u00a0 And now it\u2019s an annual event, too.\u00a0 This year, they even had a Puppy Bowl fantasy league!\u00a0 The cheerleaders where those pygmie goats, and the kitty half-time show made fun of Katy Perry (Purry) and cats took over and showed internet cat videos!\u00a0 Speaking of cats, this year the Hallmark Channel was a copycat and made a Kitten Bowl (apparently they did one last year, too). It\u2019s not like the Puppy Bowl ignored cats or anything.\u00a0 Oh well, no sense in complaining about it.\u00a0 Both shows are good for kids and they promote adopting animals at rescue centers and such, so it\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n

OK, on to the commercials.\u00a0 A lot of them I wasn\u2019t interested in.\u00a0 Since I\u2019m blind in my left eye and can\u2019t drive a car, all those car ads were lost on me.\u00a0 Same with the cell phone and insurance ads.\u00a0 And a lot of the ads had mixed messages that didn\u2019t make me want to buy their products.\u00a0 In the Mountain Dew Kickstarter commercial, when the guys starting drinking that stuff, they started convulsing like they were having a seizure.\u00a0 And in the Coke ad where the soda spills and messes up the Internet to make everything nice, it just made it look like Coke broke the Internet.\u00a0 And what is up with McDonald\u2019s new form of payment?\u00a0 I think that is going to backfire on them.\u00a0 People are going to demand they get a Big Mac for a hug.\u00a0 And TurboTax\u2019s commercial about the Boston Tea Party was all off.\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t a US tax company know a little bit of our history?\u00a0 I dunno, maybe not.\u00a0 What do I know?\u00a0 And why would a toenail fungus cream company spend millions of dollars to advertise their product on the Super Bowl?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I did notice all the food commercials, as I do like food fairly well.\u00a0 Can\u2019t live without it!\u00a0 Sonic was advertising their \u201cLittle Doggies\u201d as a lunch item, but they\u2019re so small you can eat them in like, two bites.\u00a0 That\u2019s not a lunch!\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised Sonic hasn\u2019t done a promotion with Sonic the Hedgehog.\u00a0 I mean, they already serve chili dogs!\u00a0 \u00a0Subway showed their healthy sandwiches with a Dodgeball Triathlon.\u00a0 I never liked The Brady Bunch, so I didn\u2019t like the Snickers ad with them.\u00a0 I liked the Godzilla Snickers ad better.\u00a0 The Doritos ads were pretty funny, like the guy on the plane letting the girl and the hidden baby sit next to him on the plane, and the flying pig (poor pig).\u00a0 I did like the Skittles ad where everyone in the town arm wrestled over Skittles, and everyone had a big muscular left arm, even the baby and the dog!<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t really watch much of the halftime show, but since they showed the stadium flying around like a UFO at the beginning, does that mean that Katy Perry\u2019s an alien?\u00a0 Sorry Katy, I\u2019m sure you\u2019re a nice lady and all, but I never got into your songs so I just did laundry instead.\u00a0 Although I did like the dancing sharks and happy palm trees and singing beach balls.\u00a0 That was crazy!\u00a0 Silly Katy Perry!\u00a0 I did like the NFL ad that had clips of people singing, and they showed My Little Pony.\u00a0 Although didn\u2019t they have that ad last year?\u00a0 And of all the movie trailers they showed, is it wrong that the one I\u2019m most excited for is the Minion movie?\u00a0 There must be something wrong with me.<\/p>\n

Of course, Budweiser had to have the cute and heartwarming Clydesdale horse ad like they always do.\u00a0 Sadly, my favorite commercial was a beer ad, too.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure you can all guess what that one was.\u00a0 Yup, the Pac-Man one.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to run around a maze like that, but I think I\u2019d rather be one of the ghosts.\u00a0 And I wish it was a commercial for something other than a yucky beer.\u00a0 Like maybe Reebok (you do run around the maze, so you\u2019d need good shoes).\u00a0 The Reebok commercial was one of the only \u2018serious\u2019 ads I liked.<\/p>\n

So who won this Super Bowl Sunday?\u00a0 Was it the football teams?\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 Was it the commercials?\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 I won Super Bowl Sunday.\u00a0 You know why I won?\u00a0 Because that morning, I woke up early and my friend and I went to Target and I got the exclusive Rosalina Amiibo!\u00a0 And that made my day!\u00a0 I\u2019m glad my friend helped me get there and get it!\u00a0 That was the best part of Super Bowl Sunday.\u00a0 Getting the Lucario and Meta Knight Amiibo figures will be much more challenging.\u00a0 If anyone wants to help me get those, too, I\u2019d really appreciate it!\u00a0 Anyway, in the comments section, tell me YOUR favorite Super Bowl commercials, too!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s kind of a tradition for me every year to write a blog roundup of my favorite Super Bowl commercials.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s interesting how us folks here in the US treat the Super Bowl like a national holiday or something.\u00a0 Nothing wrong with that, I just think it\u2019s interesting.\u00a0 I have to say, though, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13115,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112\/revisions\/13115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}