{"id":14656,"date":"2016-02-09T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14656"},"modified":"2016-02-08T05:16:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T05:16:27","slug":"super-bowl-50-ads-carys-best-that-ever-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/09\/super-bowl-50-ads-carys-best-that-ever-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl 50 Ads: Cary’s Best That Ever Was"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"POKE20\"<\/a>Well, Super Bowl 50 has come and gone, and like most years, I didn\u2019t really care about either team. But I\u2019ve always liked Super Bowl commercials, and I just like commercials in general.\u00a0 Sometimes they\u2019re even better than the show they\u2019re advertising.\u00a0 I know, I\u2019m weird like that.\u00a0 And it\u2019s always been a tradition of mine to write a blog about my favorites, so here is this year\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Not every Super Bowl ad enticed me, and every year it seems like the Super Bowl ads get less and less interesting. This year was no exception.\u00a0 Part of the problem is I\u2019m probably not their target audience.\u00a0 Since I\u2019ve been blind in my left eye since birth, I can\u2019t drive and have no need for a car, so all the car ads were lost on me.\u00a0 I\u2019m also not a big drinker, so ditto goes for the beer commercials.\u00a0 I also don\u2019t get into the latest and greatest in technology, so any cell phone, HDTV, or online services don\u2019t grab me.<\/p>\n

Actually one of my favorite commercials wasn\u2019t even on the Super Bowl. Every year for a long time, Animal Planet does something called the Puppy Bowl.\u00a0 What started out as a defeatist attitude by Animal Planet thinking nobody would watch their channel while the Super Bowl was on, they just threw some puppies in a football stadium styled arena and filmed them playing and being cute.\u00a0 Well it turned into a big hit and now they have a kitten halftime show, chicken cheerleaders, hamster camera crew, a tweeting parakeet, and new this year: a referee skunk.\u00a0 It\u2019s also become more commercialized than the Super Bowl if that\u2019s even possible.\u00a0 But they promote adopting dogs and cats at animal shelters and rescue places, so I guess it\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n

Anyway, one of my favorite commercials was on the Puppy Bowl! I guess Disney was one of the sponsors, and they advertised their cartoon show Gravity Falls (on Disney XD), by replaying the intro to that cartoon, but with dogs!\u00a0 It was really funny.\u00a0 Gravity Falls is one of my favorite modern cartoons, so I really liked this one.\u00a0 If you want to watch it, just do a search on YouTube for \u201cGravity Paws.\u201d\u00a0 I bet it was done by the same people who did intros of DuckTales and Rescue Rangers, but with real ducks and chipmunks.\u00a0 You can watch those on one of Disney\u2019s YouTube channels, too!<\/p>\n

Now on to the Super Bowl. I\u2019m not a big Lady Gaga fan, but I do like her name.\u00a0 I have to say that her red eyeshadow that she had one while singing The Star Spangled Banner was a little weird.\u00a0 Every time she closed her eyes, she looked kind of like Gozer from Ghostbusters.\u00a0 I guess she was going with a red, white, and blue theme.\u00a0 But she did a good job singing the National Anthem, so good on her.<\/p>\n

McDonald\u2019s had a commercial about them serving breakfast all the time now, and they showed people who stay up all night for various reasons while parodying the Goodnight Moon book. Although I\u2019m not sure I liked how they portrayed gamers.\u00a0 I\u2019m a gamer and I don\u2019t stay up all night playing games while people are kissing in the same room.\u00a0 But oh well, it was just a commercial.\u00a0 I thought that McDonald\u2019s had been serving breakfast all day for a while now.\u00a0 I know when I went in there a few months ago they were.\u00a0 But I do like some of their breakfast items kind of, so that\u2019s pretty good.<\/p>\n

And speaking of gamers, one of the big commercials on the Super Bowl was for Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s 20th<\/sup> Anniversary.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure most of us had already seen this ad before the Super Bowl, as they advertised it heavily and I even got a press release about it! \u00a0And the commercial really didn\u2019t promote any new games or anything, it was just there to tell us that Pok\u00e9mon is 20 years old and it\u2019s still a thing.\u00a0 But it was still kind of a neat ad, I guess.\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe that Pok\u00e9mon is already 20 years old, and it\u2019s even more unbelievable that they had millions of dollars to spend on a Super Bowl ad!<\/p>\n

Speaking of companies that I\u2019m surprised had enough money for a Super Bowl ad; the avocado ad with the people in B-Movie alien suits was interesting. And then the Skittles commercial with the Aerosmith guy.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think Skittles was popular enough to warrant a Super Bowl ad.\u00a0 Just goes to show you how much I know about candy, I guess.\u00a0 Speaking of Skittles and \u2018tasting the rainbow,\u2019 boy that halftime show sure was colorful, huh?\u00a0 Like a rainbow exploded in the stadium.\u00a0 I miss the dancing sharks from last year\u2019s halftime show, though.<\/p>\n

I do have to give a shout-out to the Doritos commercials, as I do have close family members who work at Frito-Lay. The one with the dad who was enticing the baby in the ultrasound with Doritos was pretty funny, and also creepy when it popped out to get the Doritos.\u00a0 And the other one with the dogs was also cute.\u00a0 Can\u2019t go wrong with cute animals and babies.<\/p>\n

Well, you CAN go wrong if you use CG to make monstrosities, like Mountain Dew did with their PuppyMonkeyBaby. That thing was just creepy.\u00a0 That didn\u2019t make me want to drink that new Mountain Dew\/energy drink\/juice combo.\u00a0 But then, I don\u2019t like Mountain Dew, energy drinks, and I\u2019m pretty selective on juice, too.\u00a0 Another creepy CG animal was the one for Marmot outdoor wear.\u00a0 Or I guess that\u2019s what it was advertising, I wasn\u2019t really sure.\u00a0 I thought that thing was supposed to be a beaver, but I guess it really is an animal called a marmot.\u00a0 Guess I\u2019m going to be looking up facts and pictures on marmots soon.\u00a0 See, Super Bowl ads can be educational.\u00a0 Sort of.<\/p>\n

The other ads with animals were pretty cute. I think my favorite was the one with people dressed as Heinz ketchup and mustard while dachshunds dressed as hot dogs were running toward them.\u00a0 The only car ad that got my attention was a truck commercial featuring singing sheep, and the Butterfinger ad with the guy skydiving on a bull was cute, too.\u00a0 I was disappointed there was no cute Budweiser Clydesdale horse ad, though.\u00a0 I mean, I did see a Bud ad with the horses in it, but they were only on for a few seconds and it wasn\u2019t a cute commercial either.\u00a0 Did I miss one?<\/p>\n

There were also a lot of movie previews. Some interesting, some not, but I won\u2019t talk about them here.\u00a0 I did like the Coca-Cola ad with Ant-Man and The Hulk fighting over the can of soda, though.\u00a0 Looked like it had high production values anyway.\u00a0 Lots of dual ads, too, like two commercials in one.\u00a0 There was the coffee commercial where the guy was drinking tiny little Vikings in a boat.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d drink a coffee that had tiny Vikings in it, much less one named Death Wish coffee.\u00a0 It was the ad was powered by Quickbooks, so I\u2019m not even sure that\u2019s a real coffee.\u00a0 Another weird dual ad was for Wix.com with Kung-Fu Panda.\u00a0 It just looked weird seeing animals in an ancient Chinese setting using a laptop!<\/p>\n

Cary\u2019s inner child liked the razor commercial where they turned into robots like Transformers.\u00a0 It was a lot better than the other ad that had a talking dirty old razor.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame that I can\u2019t talk about the local commercials since a lot of you might not have seen them, because the one for Jack in the Box was funny. I like a lot of Jack in the Box\u2019s ads, but I can\u2019t stand most of the food on the menu.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s really all the Super Bowl commercials that caught my attention. In the comments section, tell me your favorite Super Bowl 50 ads.\u00a0 I know most of you will say that you can just watch them on YouTube, but for me, it\u2019s just not the same.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019m just old fashioned.\u00a0 Now if you\u2019ll excuse me, I\u2019m going to go re-watch the \u201cGravity Paws\u201d intro on YouTube!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, Super Bowl 50 has come and gone, and like most years, I didn\u2019t really care about either team. But I\u2019ve always liked Super Bowl commercials, and I just like commercials in general.\u00a0 Sometimes they\u2019re even better than the show they\u2019re advertising.\u00a0 I know, I\u2019m weird like that.\u00a0 And it\u2019s always been a tradition of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14656","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\/14656","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=14656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14658,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14656\/revisions\/14658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}