{"id":7254,"date":"2012-02-06T05:15:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2012-02-06T05:15:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:15:01","slug":"carys-super-bowl-commercial-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/carys-super-bowl-commercial-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Cary’s Super Bowl Commercial Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well it\u2019s time once again to give my play by play of the Super Bowl\u2026commercials. I love commercials! And not just ones on the Super Bowl, they fascinate me on regular TV, too. Always have. When I was a kid, the Christmas commercials they played during the Macy\u2019s Parade always put me in the spirit. And the only reason why I watched that dumb American Gladiators show back in the 90\u2019s was because it was sponsored by Nintendo, and I wanted to see the newest SNES ads. So let\u2019s see what commercials I liked at this year\u2019s game!<\/p>\n

Now, I know that I could\u2019ve just skipped the Super Bowl and just watched the ads on the Internet. But where\u2019s the fun in that? Even though I\u2019m not the biggest football fan in the world, and didn\u2019t care much for the two teams this year, it\u2019s still a good and exciting game to watch usually. I didn\u2019t really know who to root for this year. Maybe the Patriots since my dad went to high school with someone who played for the Patriots once. But they lost so oh well. I just rooted for puppies.<\/p>\n

Puppies? Yeah, that\u2019s right. Another Super Bowl tradition of mine is watching the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet. That cable channel had a brilliant idea with this. They take a defeatist attitude and decide that nobody is going to watch their channel on Super Bowl Sunday, and so they just let a bunch of puppies loose on a mock football field to play and romp around. It\u2019s so cute and I watch it every year. Well, bits and pieces of it anyway. I love how they keep adding to it every year. We have the kitten half time show, hamster blimp, dog tailgaters, pig cheerleaders, and this year\u2019s new thing was a bird who commented on the game via Twitter! I think it\u2019s all hilarious and I\u2019m probably the only one who likes it.<\/p>\n

I also just love how we treat Super Bowl Sunday like it\u2019s a national holiday. Oh yeah, I didn\u2019t watch crazy Madonna at half time, I just went to the potty and folded some clothes. But at least it\u2019s fun and gives me a chance to eat some yummy snacks, like sausage and cheese, burgers, pizza sticks, and strawberries for dessert! Yum! All this and some funny commercials! So let\u2019s take a look:<\/p>\n

There were LOTS of NFL ads, car commercials, and ads about cell phones, Hulu, and other technology things. As well as movie previews and beer commercials. But I\u2019ll only list the ones that caught my eye.<\/p>\n

Cars<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think I saw more car commercials at this Super Bowl than any other product. Normally I don\u2019t pay attention to car commercials since I\u2019ve been blind in my left eye since birth and can\u2019t drive a car. So I\u2019m not in the market for one. But there were some funny car commercials here. Why can\u2019t they all be like these?<\/p>\n

Since I don\u2019t like vampires, one of my favorites was the one with the vampire party, and one of them drives up and accidentally kills them all with his bright headlights on his car! That\u2019s the car the Belmonts would drive I bet. Another funny one was the Cheetah car race, except the cheetah went after the guy who opened his cage!<\/p>\n

Another one had cars that survived the apocalypse. And while it wasn\u2019t exactly about a car, Bridgestone had some commercials about putting tire material on footballs and basketballs, with funny results! And let\u2019s not forget the one where the graduate thinks he\u2019s getting a car as a present instead of a mini-fridge (we got a mini-fridge in our dorm for free when I was in college). And then the cars that could do crazy stunts, and they had the gall to put \u201cdo not attempt\u201d on the ad. Like anyone would think those cars could do those things! I\u2019m surprised they didn\u2019t pull that \u201cdo not attempt\u201d stunt with a later car ad where a guy saves his dying boss\u2019 life in the passenger seat by stopping and starting the car over and over.<\/p>\n

One funny car ad started out with an overweight dog working out so he could fit through the doggy door so he could ride in the car. But then it changed to the Star Wars guys at the cantina and they said they liked that better than the kid Darth Vader car ad from last year. And one of them gets choked by the Force, and you see the kid Vader leave the bar! Cars.com had a creepy puppet coming out of a guy\u2019s back telling him to buy a car.<\/p>\n

One car commercial that got my attention for some reason was this guy who saw a pretty girl bending down, and then she walked over to him and starting whispering in his ear in another language, tugging on his tie, sticking her finger in his latte, and basically being like Ulala at E3. And then she turned into one of those dinky cars that I could probably jump over. Somebody must\u2019ve put something weird in that guy\u2019s coffee.<\/p>\n

Speaking of weird, another strange car ad was talking about reinventing things, like a baby that doesn\u2019t poop and can time travel, or rain that makes you lose weight. I bet a lot of people liked the Seinfeld car commercial, but not me because I didn\u2019t like his show. Another one had the sandman trip and dump the whole bag of sand on some guy who had a REALLY good dream about a car, and a bunch of other stuff. One of my favorites was a car ad that made tons of references to the Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off movie. And that\u2019s all the car ads I can remember!<\/p>\n

Internet, Cell Phones, and Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were a bunch of commercials about things on the internet, cell phones, and other tech stuff. But I don\u2019t remember most of it since I\u2019m surprisingly low tech. But here are a few standouts.<\/p>\n

Geico must spend a lot on ads, as they have quite a few memorable characters and commercials, even without the Super Bowl. Here they had a guy trying to save money on diets by just hiring middle school teen girls to say \u201cEw, gross\u201d every time he would get food. GoDaddy.com always has a few ads. I\u2019m afraid to go to the GoDaddy site because I might see something I shouldn\u2019t! Not sure what that site does anyway.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tax season, so there was a tax ad about a kid having to go pee and finally went in the swimming pool water. Xbox actually had a Kinect ad, to try and promote anti-obesity in kids and encourage them to get up and play. And of course, the E-trade baby was back with another ad, this time he was at the hospital looking at newborns. Kind of weird. There was also a black and white commercial about a kid with a super powerful football kick, and his dad paid for all the damages with his smartphone. And last, the CareerBuilder.com monkeys were back. That was always fun.<\/p>\n

One of my favorites was the MetLife insurance ad that started out with the Peanuts characters walking out on a meadow field, then He-Man came out and other cartoon characters. I saw everyone from Looney Tunes, Jetsons, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Voltron, and more! I bet it was hard to get the rights to use all those cartoons at once! I\u2019d like to see that commercial again to spot more cartoons!<\/p>\n

Beer, Drink, and Food<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not a lot of interesting beer commercials this time, so we\u2019ll combine them with other food and drink ads I saw. There was a rapper busting rhymes about Pizza Hut near the beginning of the game. Two things: I bet he got a headache being in that red room, and isn\u2019t it a little late to be promoting pizza DURING the Super Bowl?<\/p>\n

I have a close relative who works at Frito-Lay, who is owned by Pepsico, so I always pay attention to their ads since that\u2019s her paycheck. They had a weird one with a king (is that Elton John?) being entertained by jesters and sending them through a trap door without any Pepsi. Later was another Pepsi commercial with the Coke delivery guy buying a Pepsi Max. On the Frito-Lay chip side were a couple of Doritos commercials. One with a dog bribing a guy with Doritos, so he doesn\u2019t tell about what happened to a missing cat. Then another had a boy teasing his baby brother about not having any Doritos, so the grandma pulls the baby back in his jumper so he can reach the bag of chips like a slingshot.<\/p>\n

Another favorite of mine was the M&M\u2019s commercial with the new brown one and everyone thought she was naked. And then the red M&M showed up and decided to take his shell off and be naked, too, and they played that weird song where they sing \u201cwiggle wiggle wiggle.\u201d I like the M&M commercials and characters. Did you know the same advertising agency that brought us those new M&M guys also did the California Raisins and The Noid commercials? Yup, the company has a different name, but it\u2019s still the same ad agency!<\/p>\n

Coca Cola took the easy way out and used ads with their Polar Bears, but that\u2019s OK because I like those. Supposedly you could go online and watch the bears react to what was going on in the Super Bowl. So you\u2019d be watching someone watching the Super Bowl, while you were watching it, too. That\u2019s too much multitasking for me!<\/p>\n

Like I said, Budweiser didn\u2019t have a lot of good ads this time, but a couple stood out. They had one about the end of Prohibition and a follow up about the decades since. At least the first one had the horses in it. Then they combined a commercial about GE turbines and beer. But my favorite was the adopted dog who could fetch beer for everyone.<\/p>\n

I was surprised to see a yogurt ad during the Super Bowl. In this one, a guy was teasing his wife and not letting her take a bite of the yogurt. It must be really nutritious stuff because she got really strong and headbutted him across the room and roared at him when he got up! I never developed a taste for yogurt, myself.<\/p>\n

Finally, I always try to not talk about the local ads, but one for fast food restaurant Jack in the Box made me laugh (but then, they usually do). In this one, they promoted their new line of bacon sandwiches by having a guy marrying bacon! I hear they\u2019re also doing bacon milkshakes. I hate their food, but I love the Jack in the Box commercials and characters.<\/p>\n

Movie Previews<\/strong><\/p>\n

They showed a lot of movie previews. I won\u2019t go over the ones that didn\u2019t interest me. Of course they had an Avengers preview. I was surprised to see another G.I. Joe movie. Since I\u2019ve been blind in my left eye since birth, and can\u2019t see 3-D effects, I won\u2019t be going to see the Star Wars 3-D remakes. Finally was another preview for the upcoming Battleship movie. I want them to make movies about Hungry Hungry Hippos and Connect 4, those were my favorite board games as a kid.<\/p>\n

Misc. Ads<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll conclude with some leftover ads that I couldn\u2019t put in any other category. They had some guy with lots of tattoos modeling underwear for a store I never heard of. I just get my underwear at Wal-Mart, I\u2019m that classy. There was also a little dog who won a dog race because he was wearing Sketchers shoes. Finally was a lady putting on sexy clothes and saying that Valentine\u2019s Day isn\u2019t that complicated and guys should just give ladies flowers. Not a very original gift, but she\u2019s right. Valentine\u2019s Day isn\u2019t that complicated, it\u2019s all the other stuff that is! Ha ha!<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all the Super Bowl commercials I could think of. Not a lot of them impressed me, and I noticed there were less of them. Usually they\u2019ll do a football play, show an ad, and then repeat the process. But this time they had more of the game. Guess a lot of people complained about that. Oh well. In the comments section, tell me your favorite Super Bowl ads!<\/p>\n

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