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This is classic.

Deadman — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:02:09 +0000

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This is classic.

i really enjoyed this

Deadman — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:26:08 +0000

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i really enjoyed this liveblog, G-money. i'm pretty much in agreement with you - i thought both the dorito commerical and bridgestone one were way funnier on first viewing. I wasn't nearly as big of a fan of the careerbuilder one, but i'd say they got their $6 million worth. I vote for the Hulu one as my favorite - dude, I think I'm in love with Alec Baldwin.

BTW, on a side, barely relevant note. I think E-trade had another baby ad yesterday, but these outtakes (which I first saw during commercials before I saw Frost/Nixon) are soooo much better.

Superbowl Ads: The Winners. I

Michael Wolraich — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:05:00 +0000

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Superbowl Ads: The Winners.

I have reviewed the top candidates and given careful consideration to style, humor, memorability, and tastiness. Here are the results...

Honorable Mention: Dorito's Snow Globe Toss. Viewed in the sober light of morning, this commercial lost its luster. The joke is funny because of the surprise factor, but it's not particularly clever. Nor does it leave me hungering for doritios. Still, the unexpected snow globe smash left me LOLing the first time I watched it.

Third Place: Bridgestone's Potato Head Marital Strife. What can I say, I love potato heads. In high school, I decided that it would be funny to give each of my friends a potato head on his or her birthday. And it was funny...until my birthday came around. Guess what I got? In any case, the sight of Mrs. Potato's bouncing lips cracked me up, and it's subtle enough to still be amusing on the re-watch. Not much connection to Bridgestone though.

Second Place: Hulu's Evil Alien Alec Baldwin. Funny, smart, and very re-watchable. Baldwin is brilliant. Hulu's product plays prominently.

First Place: CareerBuilder's It May Be Time. This brilliant, pithy ad aptly captures workplace trauma in a sequence of one-second tragedies. It made me want to leave my job, and I work for myself. It's clever, memorable, rewatchable, and the content ties directly to the product. Juxtaposed against Monster.com's weird, unfunny moose-butt ad, CareerBuilder blows away the competition.

Worst of Breed: In a spectacular feat, Toyota wins both silver and gold. Silver for the Are You a Venza? ad which suggests that rich, aestheticly-inclined black people with African art in their living rooms dream of being weany Japanese sedans. Gold for the Tundra Tunnel of Fire ad, in which a rough-hewn gravelly-voice narrates without a hint of self-consciousness as a truck drags an unimaginably heavy load up a spiral track through a ring of fire in the middle of a desert as a helicopter circles above it. The only thing that I can say for this ad is that if I need a truck that drives through fire, I will certainly consider the Tundra.

I was a cootie bug kid, no

Bluesplashy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:34:02 +0000

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I was a cootie bug kid, no potatoe heads in my house.

Frito lay makes Doritos and

Bluesplashy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:32:44 +0000

In reply to Snow globes, yes. Hutu, yes.

Frito lay makes Doritos and Cheetos both and the brother thought all three ads were good.

Potatoes heads didn't do it for me at all. Beer at meeting - stupid, but the office chair out the window was GREAT. As was all those men getting slammed - I'm good! I was falling off the couch while my brother was trying to tell me it wasn't THAT funny. Must have been the perspective (woman thing). I did think the screaming german was good.

Hulu - I have a thing for Alex Baldwin - he could talk to me about ANYTHING and I'd love it. I know - weak, but hey look those STUUPID go daddy ads.

This am in my mind I see Horse fetching limb and the I'm good ad (the bowling ball one haahahhahahahaha). And Dylan and Will I Am on the same screen, well my heart says yes yes yes but my mind still says sell out.

Hutu? Jeez. Not gonna ask

quinn esq — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:27:01 +0000

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Hutu? Jeez. Not gonna ask what their ads are for.

Snow globes, yes. Hutu, yes.

Michael Wolraich — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:39:44 +0000

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Snow globes, yes. Hutu, yes. Pepsi? Seriously? Which ad are you referring to? I must have missed the frito lay ad, though I'm not sure how that's possible, since I was friggin bloggin all the ads.

Potato heads is a definite contender as well, and I personally liked the screaming German. That may be a genetic thing, since my ancesters were often screamed at by Germans.

I will follow your advice and decide tomorrow. Woudn't want to judge rashly.

LBP! About f-in time you paid

Michael Wolraich — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:38:37 +0000

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LBP! About f-in time you paid us a visit, you coy bastard. We need your wit. Maybe you can teach Orlando a thing or two.

Three people in the room - 1.

Bluesplashy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:01:37 +0000

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Three people in the room -

1. snow globes

2. diet pepsi

3. Hulu

I made the last one up because I liked it. We also like the horse fetching. Second pepsi ad was good but lost points for selling out. Insulting flowers bad. Brother says frito lay won the nightover all but Dennys was real good.

See what we think (remember) tomorrow.

This has been a great public

littleblackpropaganda — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:58:02 +0000

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This has been a great public service, Genghis! The closest I've been to the game in years.