Super Bowl XXXIX Commercials

[uc pseudonym]

This was done last year, but I believe a new thread would better serve the purpose. According to some sources, roughly 25% of the audiance viewing the Super Bowl does so primarily for the sake of the commercials. I am among this number. Therefore, I thought it apt that we should create a thread to generally commemorate the humorous commercials as well as vote for one commercial we thought the best.

The style in which this is done is as follows: I will create a list of every commercial I believe could be considered funny. You may add your own, as humor tastes vary and it is not practical for me to watch every single set of commercials. In your posts, state which commercials you felt were the very best. These will be given an asterisk and tomorrow all of these will be placed in a poll.

EDIT: 2nd Half Commericals Added

The List:
Ford: Tough Motorcycle Guys
Abraham Lincoln French Fry
Cows to California
Monkey Phone Service
Muppits: Pizza Dipping
Frozen Convertible
*Bud Light: Skydiving
*Diet Pepsi: P Diddy
Olympus: Dancing
*Fed Ex Commercial
Visa: Superhero Montage
*"You're getting robbed!"
Rugby/Singer
Budweiser: Animals
*Lays: Baseball and MC Hammer
Musical Pepsi Bottles
*Monkey Coworkers
*Bud Light: Talking Bird
Easy Button for Life
*Tomato Sauce Cat
Verizon: Miniaturization
Emerald Nuts: Childhood Myths
Designated Driver with Cedric

[Ashley]

My favorites this year were the Talking Bird, Tomato Sauce Cat, Emerald Nuts myths and Designated Driver.

I told myself I wasn't gonna watch the superbowl this year, but the commercials got me. And even though it wasn't a beer commercial (my standard favorites), I did like the Heroes of America salute...I thought it was very tasteful.

[Felix]

Hoo man! I really liked the Buddweiser skydiving one! And "You're getting robbed" and the Diet Pepsi: P. Diddy was pretty awesome too! Yay for superbowl commercials!!

[CDLviking]

I liked the FedEx commercial for being a parody of all other Super Bowl commercials. Overall, I was disappointed by this years offering.

[Ashley]

Oh man, I can't believe I forgot this:

The NFL "tomorrow" commercial! Oh that was so great. But yeah, overall CDL, I think last year was better. Farting horse and all.

[Doubleshadow]

My fav. was the MCHammmer one. I was impressed by the originality and how the commercial repeatedly outdid itself.

[indyrocker]

The MONKYS come on the one kissing the boss monkey's but hahahahahahahahaha!

[Stephen]

The your being robbed one made me laugh pretty good. The skydiving one and MC Hammer ones were good too.

[Saint Kevin]

This year's commercials just plain sucked (wait...according to my high school chemistry teacher..."nothing sucks, everything blows"...ask for an explanation if you don't get that one). That being established, this years commercials...well...blew.

Although, I did like the skydiving, and the Cedric one ("A beautiful woman, a lifetime supply of Bud Light, and another beautiful woman" *catfight ensues*).

Personally, I got much greater laughs out of the commercials they did this season. Especially when nfl personalities were involved.

My faves:

Brett Favre (Monday morning quarterbacks) "I'd have double-bagged it"

Peyton Manning (Fans): "Cut that meat! Cut that meat!"

NFL Predictions (15 weeks earlier):
"Ricky Williams only has one thing on his mind, and that's winning football games."
"Who's that guy that Pittsburgh drafted? Rothl-something. Nice pick Cowher."

The "Leon" Commercials:
Leon: "Hey Joe...I know you like that side, but do you mind standing over here...I gotta work my signature dimple"
Joe Buck: "But my left side is my good side too."
(They compromise...sort of.)

Also, as a strange side note, I miss the 7-up commercials with the "original" Seven Up guy. They were cool. And the Bud Ice Penguins. Ugh...I miss hockey.

[Saint Kevin]

Double posts are good. BTW...where did all the doublemint commercials go...? Did they realize they couldn't compete with the Coors twins or something?

[uc pseudonym]

Asterisks have been added. I'll give a day or so for more people to give their input before adding a poll. I have a pretty good story to tell about commercials, but it requires a long explanation so I can't post it now.

Overall, I was disappointed by this years offering.

I wasn't, actually. There were fewer that really stood out, but in general all of them were of higher quality (if we ignore local, car and movie commercials).

[Gypsy]

It's too bad there wasn't a site that offered streaming movies of the commercials. I could care less if football dropped off the face of the planet, but if I hadn't been at church I probably would have watched the commercials at least.

[CDLviking]

My fav. was the MCHammmer one. I was impressed by the originality and how the commercial repeatedly outdid itself.

I was impressed with Hammer's ability to poke fun at himself.

[Ashley]

It's funny you should mention that...

http://www.ifilm.com/superbowl [takes forever and a day to load]

Behold! I found this site last year when as editor in chief for the school paper I wanted to do a huge spread on the superbowl coming to Houston.

If it wasn't expensive, I'd invest in the "greatest superbowl commercials" dvd set....did I mention I really love watching commercials? And Kev, your picks cracked me up. I always laugh at them too. Especially Payton Manning. "Cut that meat! Cut that meat!" "Let's go accounting let's go!"

[uc pseudonym]

Similarly, I enjoyed that one, partially for the reason CDLviking posted and partially because there is a great deal of inherent humor in MCHammer flying over a fence and then begin singing "Can't Touch This." In the same way, I thought the Fed Ex commercial was one of the best due to the fact that it blatantly made fun of itself.

[Saint Kevin]

"Let's go Insurance Adjusters! Lets Go!" - How's that for memorable, I even remember they were insurance adjusters rather than accountants...

All hail the subliminal power of commercials!

Now if we could only harness that in the classroom...

What a waste of millions of dollars a minute. Spend them on Tsunami victims and improve your public image or something. I'm talking to YOU companies that think advertising with farting horses is advertising genius.

Ah advertising...the true measure of how advanced (or depraved) a culture has become.

[Hitokiri]

I personally like the salute to the soliders as well as the designated drive. Perhaps last year woke them up a bit to something called morals...

[Fsiphskilm]

[quote="Saint Kevin"]What a wa

[Ashley]

Before anyone flogs anyone else...take it easy guys. No fighting, ok? There shall be no tar and feathering over the amount of tsunami relief funds. It's fine to say the commercials were a waste of money (in your opinion, of course--I feel that way about other things personally) but let's not bash one another about differings views, ok? Whether you think the tsunami needs more money or not, that's not what this thread is for.

- This precautionary warning brought to you by your local Texan administrator

Now about those commercials, ne?

[Fsiphskilm]

I can't find the Farting

[uc pseudonym]

One more day and I'll make this a poll, so if one of your favorite commercials has yet to receive an asterisk mention it now.

[Anna Mae]

I voted for the FedEx commercial. That was awesome!

[uc pseudonym]

The story I promised earlier, which I hope some of you will find amusing:

On the Sunday of the superbowl, my pastor gave another sermon in his series on marriage. This one was regarding healthy sexuality and God's intent for sex. He opened his sermon by describing "Turkey Land" which is a theoretical location in which everyone is obsessed with turkeys. Three out of four magazines at a supermarket feature turkeys, there are millions of sites about featuring turkeys upon the internet, hundreds of articals describing in detail how to cook turkeys, etc. We all knew what he was talking about, but it was amusing none the less.

Now cut to the church superbowl party, which my pastor attended. If you watched the event, you likely remember the Tabasco commercial featuring a woman wearing a bikini (or was it a commercial for the woman featuring Tabasco? Something like that). Regardless, the commercial was going on to general eyerolls from the audiance, when my pastor yelled "Turkey!"

We got some strange looks from people who entered and looked at the screen and all of us laughing.

[Nate]

I just had to share this story because I found it so utterly amusing.

Miller Lite had made a Superbowl commercial, which kind of made fun of Bud Lite a little bit. Fox, when they were checking out the Superbowl commercials, realized that Budweiser was a sponsor of the Superbowl, and as such they thought it probably wouldn't be a good idea to run a commercial making fun of the sponsor. So, Fox took out the ad.

Miller responded by purchasing air time on 34 local Fox stations across the country so that it could be shown during the halftime show commercials. This isn't where it gets funny, though.

The next day (and a few days after), news channels across the country, including big name channels like CNN and such, ran a story about the advertisement that got pulled, and showed the commercial in their news report. So, by banning this commercial, which would have been shown ONCE on ONE channel and never aired again, Fox made it so that the commercial was shown multiple times across a large number of channels, thus defeating their intent.

Well...I thought it was funny.

[Kisa]

I liked the PDiddy pepsi, "tomorrow" football players, and the military returning in the airport commercials ^^

[Inferno]

I absolutly loved the tomato sauce cat one. My entire family laughed their heads off at that one. I also liked the Pdiddy Pepsi truck one.

[uc pseudonym]

I just had to share this story because I found it so utterly amusing.

Miller Lite had made a Superbowl commercial, which kind of made fun of Bud Lite a little bit. Fox, when they were checking out the Superbowl commercials, realized that Budweiser was a sponsor of the Superbowl, and as such they thought it probably wouldn't be a good idea to run a commercial making fun of the sponsor. So, Fox took out the ad.

Miller responded by purchasing air time on 34 local Fox stations across the country so that it could be shown during the halftime show commercials. This isn't where it gets funny, though.

The next day (and a few days after), news channels across the country, including big name channels like CNN and such, ran a story about the advertisement that got pulled, and showed the commercial in their news report. So, by banning this commercial, which would have been shown ONCE on ONE channel and never aired again, Fox made it so that the commercial was shown multiple times across a large number of channels, thus defeating their intent.

Well...I thought it was funny.

I found it so, though more in the sense of heavy irony than raw hilarity.

[mitsuki lover]

My favorite wasn't on the list.I liked the Direct tv ad at the very beginning.I loved the way they easily segued from one decade to the other showing how the kid
grew up with tv until both were old.Also interesting way of showing how tv has changed over the years.

[Heart of Sword]

Some of those commercials...especially the ones with females...were SO RIDICULOUS.

But I did see the cat one. PETA didn't like it...(I visit that website a lot :3) Why? How can tomato sauce hurt a cat????

[uc pseudonym]

Perhaps they decided the wages paid the cat for the role were so inadequate as to be unethical.

My favorite wasn't on the list.I liked the Direct tv ad at the very beginning.I loved the way they easily segued from one decade to the other showing how the kid
grew up with tv until both were old.Also interesting way of showing how tv has changed over the years.

Hm; I did not see that commercial. Sorry it wasn't available in the poll.