[TV orNotTV] SB XLIV
PGage
Initially I have two points to make:
1. An enjoyable game (though I was rooting for the loser) in part because of very few replays (I think only the one?) and penalties. Note to NFL - try to minimize replay, at least until the last 5 minutes of the game or so.
2. I am not usually a fan of the commercial watch, but I liked several of these (Dave #1 of course, but also the Snickers and the McDonalds ad). I am saddened by this, because my ultimate goal is to reduce the interest in SB commercials and go back to just watching the game.
Bob in Jersey
PGage:
I was clearly in the Saints' number, thanks to ex-NY Giant Jeremy
Shockey. His clinching score was great redemption for him.
Did I miss any shots of E!'s Kim soon-to-be-Bush or Kendra Baskett?
The latter's hubby is getting a new one reamed on sports-radio back in
Indy...
The kids in Indy's receiving corps don't need to worry...they'll be
around a long time...
As for Pete Townshend, cripes, it'd be strange if he =didn't= flub a
line...
My favorite ads: Monster, and KISS/Dr Pepper. (The latter's being
linked in the lone Google ad on the GG compose page as I type this...)
Best Anheuser-Busch-InBev ad: the human bridge (that's gotta hurt).
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BOB
David Bruggeman
Abe Vigoda will turn 89 in 17 days, and Betty White just turned 88. They make it look easy.
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Joe Coughlin
No love for the Simpsons Coke ad?
Abe Vigoda will turn 89 in 17 days, and Betty White just turned 88. They make it look easy.
I thought the Simpsons ad was well-animated, sure, but wasn't it odd that only Moe LaMarche and Pamela Hayden had speaking roles? I guess Coke doesn't have enough dough to pay Dan Castalanetta or Harry Shearer.
Betty is a super trooper. Hope the Facebook campaign works and she gets to host SNL.
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Joe Coughlin
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Kevin M.
> Betty is a super trooper. Hope the Facebook campaign works and she gets to
> host SNL.
At this point, hosting SNL has to be one of Dante's circles of hell. I
wouldn't wish that on Betty White. I'd much rather she host The
Tonight Show.
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Kevin M. (RPCV)
David Bruggeman
Ben Combee
cards, and almost every term got checked off by someone. The Snickers
ad let us get both "old man" and "old lady"... I was most surprised by
the CSI: Miami ad which let us get "outer space".
Bob in Jersey
Joe Coughlin, to David Bruggeman:
> Betty is a super trooper. Hope the Facebook campaign works and she gets to
> host SNL.
I'd have to go back to the tape for Snickers... was Vigoda another
player in the game?
VW: As kids we'd all play 'Matchbox' with original Beetles... I don't
understand the punching part.
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BOB
Bob in Jersey
On Feb 8, 9:35 am, Ben Combee <ben.com...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At my Super Bowl party, I made a bunch of advertising cliche bingo
> cards, and almost every term got checked off by someone. The Snickers
> ad let us get both "old man" and "old lady"... I was most surprised by
> the CSI: Miami ad which let us get "outer space".
Host-network-show ads aren't supposed to count... nor local ones (most
of which were Mike Rowe at the Fahrd dealership)...
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BOB
PGage
2. I am not usually a fan of the commercial watch, but I liked several of these (Dave #1 of course, but also the Snickers and the McDonalds ad). I am saddened by this, because my ultimate goal is to reduce the interest in SB commercials and go back to just watching the game.
I appreciated the light tone with that as well - though I suspect anyone who clicked through to Dobson's site got a little bit of a harder sell. It was never likely we were going to see images of dead babies being sucked up into garbage bags; - it is easy for the general public to lump all of the fundamentalist Christian organizations into the same boat, but say what you want about Dobson and his people, they are no dummies, and pretty good at communication and staying on their message. When it comes to hot button issues, they tend to take a relatively restrained line on anything that has their official imprint, and let their more whacky fellow travelers say all the bat shit crazy stuff, which they then kind of give an approving smile and nod to, without getting their hands dirty.
My objection to this ad (aside from the general principle that I am sick to my stomach of anything Tebow-related by now) was not that they allowed an anti-abortion ad, but that they have consistently not allowed other kinds of issue ads (didn't they nix an anti-war ad a couple of year ago?). I guess if they had an ad with Cindy Sheehan getting playfully tackled by her son they would have let that on too ..... Oh, right, I guess she could not have made that ad.
PGage
PGage
jeffrey marousek
There is also a slugging game that involves farts...As the eldest in my family, I was good at this one!
Jeff
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Melissa Neal
On Feb 8, 2010, at 12:29 PM, PGage wrote:
> I am not sure if this is reigional or not, but when we were kids we used to play "slug bug" on trips - you would punch the kid next to you if you saw a VW Beetle (maybe V Dub's were not as popular back east, but there were enough out here in California to ensure hours of slugging your buddy or sibling fun). I got a kick out of them referencing that game in the commercial
VW club members got an email in late January about PunchDub, which VW claims was invented 50 years ago by a man named Sluggy Patterson. There are videos where Sluggy explains how he invented PunchDub and other vital historical facts at http://www.vw.com/punchdub/sluggy/ or you can find it on the YouTubes.
Melissa N.
Bob in Jersey
PGage, to moi, in part:
> Abe was the old guy who got tackled at the end of the Snicker's ad
The renewed "Betty" went deep for a pass, but the QB turned into Abe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3rsaneyeXY
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BOB
Bob in Jersey
Betty was tops in USAT's survey:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/admeter/2010-02-07-results-chart_N.htm
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BOB
Mark J.
On Feb 8, 3:12 pm, Bob in Jersey <bob.in.jer...@juno.com> wrote:
> Betty was tops in USAT's survey:http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/admeter/2010-02-07-results-...
And since the Skechers ad at the bottom was a re-air, the lowest-rated
ad was yet another Danica Patrick ad for GoDaddy. It isn't shocking
anymore, guys, if it ever was. Give it up.
Dave Sikula
> Betty is a super trooper. Hope the Facebook campaign works and she gets to
> host SNL.
I love Betty, but have to wonder if she'd have the stamina to do a
week of rehearsals and 90 live minutes. Although lately it seems the
job consists of doing a lame monologue and reading cue cards.
--Dave Sikula