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This year had a pretty shabby showing, but considering this has become a pseudo-tradition I figured I would make a thread. What were your favorite commercials? You can find them online if you want to have a link for those who didn't see them (and this year it would have been easy to miss the few good ones). I'll post some of my favorites later on when I have time.

I have two candidates for best commercial.

I think my favorite was the Sprint commercial featuring its "Theft Deterrent" system. It was fairly clever but had great physical humor.

My second choice is the MacGyver Master Card commercial. Some of our younger members no doubt didn't get it, but it was priceless.

Honorable mention goes to the other Sprint commercial featuring the Benny Hill theme.

here are some of them

http://video.google.com/superbowl.html

I liked the Fed Ex commercial and the Pepsi with the coke stunt double (even tho I like Coke better ^^)
There were others.. can't think, lol....

I liked (in this order):

Stick (FedEx)
MacGyver - Priceless (Mastercard)
Theft Deterent - aka Lockerroom (Sprint)

I liked 3. I liked the Theft Deterent one, the one with the "magic fridge" And the guys looting all the beer out of it. And I liked the one where the girl was like, "I am wide open!" Then got nailed playing football. Those were my favs.

i liked the deordant stunt city one...and some others

My mom cracks up every time she sees "Stick". It's pretty random.

I, personally, prefer "Theft Deterrant". The timing was perfect.

I was kind of skeptical about "Cars", but the commercial was pretty good, and Pixar has given us great films before, so I'll probably see it.

"Kung Fu Can" wasn't laugh-out-loud hilarious, but it gets style points because it has Jackie Chan in it.

The Cadillac Escalade "Runway" commercial was cool mostly for its special effects, but that's about it.

I got the MacGyver commercial by reputation alone - I've never seen the show. XD

Two of my all-time favorites are Office Linebacker and "Doomed!"

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Did anyone else see the FedEx caveman one, or is that the "Stick" one you're talking about? Because I thought it was pretty funny.

The Dove Soap commercial was weird. I guess it was a chick thing, but it was promoting some sort of "self-esteem fund" for young girls. Apparently, money can not only buy happiness, it can make plain people pretty, too. It's like it was trying to come across as some bleeding-heart social consciousness thing, but it instead made itself into a paradox by being so completely shallow. And come to think of it, that really is pretty deep. But it doesn't make me want to buy Dove Soap.

I liked McGuyver for overall effect and humor, United's Dragon for creativity and beauty, The bud Wave commercial for fun and applicability to the event and the Bud American dream/Clydesdales spot for heartwarming factor.

The Caveman Fedex and the Emeralds Nut.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Emerald Nuts one. That was funny!

The FedEx one is my probable favorite. I also liked the magic fridge commercial, and the Budwiser commercial with the two "friends" and the bear. For most bizarre commercial, I nominate the Burger King commercial. For most dull commercial, I nominate the one for the Escalade.

The Burger King commercial was a classic throw-back and as chillingly bizarre as the rest of that commercial series, so I should add it to my "honorable mention list."

I had forgotten about the Emerald Nuts commercial until I saw it again today. I was the only one who thought it was funny at the party I was at.

I believe you meant "horrible mention" didn't you? That was one of the most disturbing things I've seen ina GREAT while.

I LOVED the Crime Deterrant cell phone. That was GREAT.
I also loved the "Addicted to Lost" commercial, Lost fangirl that I am. XD
The turnaround wall/refrigerator commercial was really funny.
Most of the Budwiser commercials were great, really. They always are. XD

The commercials weren't that great this year. I believe the half-time show got more laughs from me. That was just...rediculous. XD!

Radical Dreamer wrote:
The commercials weren't that great this year. I believe the half-time show got more laughs from me. That was just...rediculous. XD!

It wasn't just me. I think that the FedEx one, the magic fridge one, and the emerald nuts one were the only ones that made me laugh.

Crime Deterrent was good.

Several funny beer ones. The horses playing football are always classic. In the one with the girl playing football ("I'm wide open") was funny, more so because of a certain kid (actually he's like 20) from our church with a personality like the guy who committed the hit.

Cavemen are usually a hit, and FedEx used it to their advantage.

The first Diet Pepsi one (with P. Diddy) wasn't great, but they redeemed themselves somewhat with the Jackie Chan/stunt double spot.

I don't think anyone's mentioned this yet, but the Careerbuilder.com monkeys turned in a funny performance again this year (with an assist by the donkeys). Not as good as the monkey sitting on the copy machine from last year (butt-copying is a tough act to top), but still humorous.

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about the magic fridge commercial. That was awesome.

Heh, I also now remember the Hummer commercial with the giant robot and Godzilla-like monster. XD Anyone remember that one?

Mithrandir wrote:I believe you meant "horrible mention" didn't you? That was one of the most disturbing things I've seen ina GREAT while.

That was indeed quite disturbing. I liked the MacGyver one and the magic fridge. Also, am I the only one who liked the ESPN Mobile commercials? Especially the one that ended with the World's Strongest Man competitor pulling a bus across the screen.

My favourite was the Emerald Nuts comericial, and the Benny Hill one was excelent too.

Overall I liked different commericals for different things. In terms of being consistently funny, the FedEx Cavemen get my vote. For getting a laugh by being surprising, probably the bear/beer commercial. The randomness award definitely goes to Emerald Nuts. I'll admit the Crime Deterrent Phone was well timed, but it didn't strike me for some reason. And while I liked seeing MacGyver, they could have done so much more with it.

I also want to mention the "Fabio" commerical. The parody was so perfect I almost stopped watching, but I'm glad I waited another second, because I laughed pretty hard.

My worst thought regarding superbowl commercials: there was one that began by showing people and saying things like "hates her freckles" "thinks she's fat" "wishes he was taller" etc. A few seconds in, I had to comment, "Wouldn't it be terrible if this was a commercial for plastic surgery?"

termyt wrote:The Burger King commercial was a classic throw-back and as chillingly bizarre as the rest of that commercial series, so I should add it to my "honorable mention list."

Hm, I'm not remembering this one. More details, anyone? I presume it had the burger king man appear in some situation, but all of those run together for me.

uc pseudonym wrote:Hm, I'm not remembering this one. More details, anyone? I presume it had the burger king man appear in some situation, but all of those run together for me.

It started like a dance routine from a showboat or a 40's movie. Except all the costumes alluded to some ingredient of a burger. *cringes* And then the King appeared and directed as dancers were lowered down from the ceiling to actually create a living sandwich. *cringes even more*

uc pseudonym wrote:My worst thought regarding superbowl commercials: there was one that began by showing people and saying things like "hates her freckles" "thinks she's fat" "wishes he was taller" etc. A few seconds in, I had to comment, "Wouldn't it be terrible if this was a commercial for plastic surgery?"

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meboeck wrote:It started like a dance routine from a showboat or a 40's movie. Except all the costumes alluded to some ingredient of a burger. *cringes* And then the King appeared and directed as dancers were lowered down from the ceiling to actually create a living sandwich. *cringes even more*

Ah, that one did make an impression, I just didn't recall it. Yes, rather disturbing (and not at all effective) though the moment when all the dancers flopped onto the bun was slightly amusing.

Does no one remember the Ameriquest "That killed him" commercial. The entire seminary was laughing so hard that we didn't even catch the commercial that followed it.

I forgot about that. It was pretty funny (but not memorable enough it would seem)

It's the only one I paricularly remembered.

CDLviking wrote:Does no one remember the Ameriquest "That killed him" commercial. The entire seminary was laughing so hard that we didn't even catch the commercial that followed it.

Oi! I forgot that one. I laughed for at least two solid minutes at that one.