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EvenBob
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February 4th, 2013 at 12:12:06 AM permalink
The most outstanding for me? The Paul Harvery
Dodge ad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sillEgUHGC4

The second best? The Jeep ad about the military,
with Oprah. Only because we had a son come
home from 8 months in Afghanistan last April,
to see his first born child for the first time. Priceless..

http://www.youtube.com/jeep?sid=1037056&KWNM=jeep+ad&KWID=3774190576&channel=paidsearch&spid=SB_2013
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February 4th, 2013 at 12:15:48 AM permalink
Farmers don't need an advertisement to know they need a truck. And the only farming shown in that dodge commercial is the kind that is destroying our soil. Sorry if you enjoyed the commercial, but real farmers don't sell themselves to dodge
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February 4th, 2013 at 12:20:12 AM permalink
Quote: winmonkeyspit3

Farmers don't need an advertisement to know they need a truck. And the only farming shown in that dodge commercial is the kind that is destroying our soil. Sorry if you enjoyed the commercial, but real farmers don't sell themselves to dodge



My god, you miss the entire point. Astounding.
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February 4th, 2013 at 12:21:59 AM permalink
I am sorry to disagree, but both of those ads were jingoistic drivel targeted for the lowest common denominator of the American viewing public.
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February 4th, 2013 at 12:23:23 AM permalink
Also, I think the best ad was the Amy Poehler Best Buy spot.
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February 4th, 2013 at 12:30:04 AM permalink
There was some commercial involving a car genie granting wishes.
As with a lot of the commercials, you forget who the ad was for.

GoDaddy really failed this time though.
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February 4th, 2013 at 12:31:44 AM permalink
Quote: sodawater

I am sorry to disagree, but both of those ads were jingoistic drivel targeted for the lowest common denominator of the American viewing public.



So thats me, then? Have you ever had a son in the
military serving in harms way? In a war situation?
There's not an hour of the day that goes by that you
don't think of him. Will he make it home? Will he see
his new daughter?

If that makes me the lowest common denominator
of society, so be it. Its makes you what I scrape off
my shoe when I step in something.
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February 4th, 2013 at 1:01:05 AM permalink
Your son's service has nothing to do with my assessment of the two commercials as jingoistic.

In fact, it's my respect for the servicemen and women, who are largely drawn from the working classes, that leads me to object to the use of their images and stories to sell trucks for multinational corporations.

The very fact that it's natural for a service-member's family to emotionally connect its personal experience of the war with a TV spot selling trucks is exactly why I find the ads so repulsive.

I say the TV spots are targeted toward the lowest common denominator of the American viewing public because they are -- that is the most cost-effective way to use advertising time on a flagpole event like a Super Bowl that reaches broad swaths of American society.
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February 4th, 2013 at 1:03:05 AM permalink
The superbowl commercials were quite terrible this year, so the Oprah/Jeep/military ad was above average. Fifteen years ago, it wouldn't have been.
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February 4th, 2013 at 4:55:19 AM permalink
Actually, the best ad of the night was PSY selling pistachio nuts "Gangnam Style"!
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February 4th, 2013 at 7:16:36 AM permalink
Quote: EvenBob

The most outstanding for me? The Paul Harvery Dodge ad.


Yeah, that was kinda moving. But I wondered if those Mid-western bible-thumpers got uncomfortable when they showed Willem Dafoe's Mercedes Satan commercial so quickly after it.

The Best-Buy Amy Poehler spot was funny, and Bar Refaeli's awkward GoDaddy spot had me laughing for 20 seconds after it was over at the absurd waste of money. The only other commercial I laughed out load was the Hyundai Sonata turbo passing the camperful of slobbering hounds drooling on its windshield. Had to rewind that one. Why does the Beck's Sapphire beer bottle have a ruby on the label? The Coke chase that the viewer was supposed to vote on was boring. Another one I scratched my head over was the Duluth Trading underwear spot and their slogan was "No pinch, no stink, no sweat".
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February 4th, 2013 at 7:26:29 AM permalink
And.....can we finally be done with the E*Trade talking baby?

It's gotten really old.

It's not even funny anymore.
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February 4th, 2013 at 8:28:04 AM permalink
Quote: sodawater

I am sorry to disagree, but both of those ads were jingoistic drivel targeted for the lowest common denominator of the American viewing public.



Hey, that is the target audience !
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February 4th, 2013 at 8:29:59 AM permalink
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February 4th, 2013 at 9:15:07 AM permalink
Quote: Buzzard

Hey, that is the target audience !



I thought the calvin klein commercials were super uncomfortable. Who were their target audience? The wives?
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February 4th, 2013 at 9:21:46 AM permalink
Quote: debitncredit

I thought the calvin klein commercials were super uncomfortable. Who were their target audience? The wives?




The lowest common denominator of the American viewing public. But evidently Madison Avenue types forgot that women usually but their man's underwear. Most polls say women hated the ads.
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February 4th, 2013 at 9:45:23 AM permalink
Quote: Buzzard

The lowest common denominator of the American viewing public. But evidently Madison Avenue types forgot that women usually but their man's underwear. Most polls say women hated the ads.



I find it most interesting that the Dodge/Farm and the Jeep/Military ad were from the same company. And from a company sold by this country to an Italian firm...

Lots of women watched the underwear ads. I was in mixed company, some ladies said "cool" and some said "boo"

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February 4th, 2013 at 10:03:25 AM permalink
Living in Canada, I got to see *no* superbowl commercials. I put the superbowl on DVR with about a 1 hour delay and watched the whole game pretty much without commercials, until just after half-time.
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February 4th, 2013 at 10:18:55 AM permalink
Quote: boymimbo

Living in Canada, I got to see *no* superbowl commercials. I put the superbowl on DVR with about a 1 hour delay and watched the whole game pretty much without commercials, until just after half-time.



Screw CTV and screw their stupid rules. Very annoying. There was one or two ads in their that were comedy gold, to be fair, but most sucked bottoms.
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February 4th, 2013 at 10:55:03 AM permalink
Quote: zippyboy

The only other commercial I laughed out load was the Hyundai Sonata turbo passing the camperful of slobbering hounds drooling on its windshield. Had to rewind that one. Why does the Beck's Sapphire beer bottle have a ruby on the label? The Coke chase that the viewer was supposed to vote on was boring. Another one I scratched my head over was the Duluth Trading underwear spot and their slogan was "No pinch, no stink, no sweat".



Laughed out loud at that Hyundai ad but think the marketing chicks at Beck's really goofed since - while they do come in various colors - sapphires immediately conjure up the color blue.
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February 4th, 2013 at 10:56:14 AM permalink
But did you get to enjoy the blackout delay along with the rest of us?
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February 4th, 2013 at 11:19:08 AM permalink
Quote: boymimbo

Living in Canada, I got to see *no* superbowl commercials. I put the superbowl on DVR with about a 1 hour delay and watched the whole game pretty much without commercials, until just after half-time.



You have to get satellite Mimbo. On HD got the full CBS feed including commercials in BC
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February 4th, 2013 at 11:27:34 AM permalink
Quote: chickenman

Laughed out loud at that Hyundai ad but think the marketing chicks at Beck's really goofed since - while they do come in various colors - sapphires immediately conjure up the color blue.



I don't think the color of the gem is going to be widely noticed. The new black labels on the AB InBev brands seems to be a trend spreading across many beer/spirits brands.
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February 4th, 2013 at 12:31:35 PM permalink
I thought the doritos ad, where the little girl will share the doritos if the guys will play dress up with her, was funny the first time. I'll probably not think so after I see it 5000 times though. As a whole, I thought the ads were really sub-par this year.
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February 4th, 2013 at 12:52:07 PM permalink
Quote: EvenBob

The most outstanding for me? The Paul Harvery
Dodge ad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sillEgUHGC4

The second best? The Jeep ad about the military,
with Oprah. Only because we had a son come
home from 8 months in Afghanistan last April,
to see his first born child for the first time. Priceless..

http://www.youtube.com/jeep?sid=1037056&KWNM=jeep+ad&KWID=3774190576&channel=paidsearch&spid=SB_2013



I agree with EvenBob those were the two best ads for me too. Way to go Baltimore!!!
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February 4th, 2013 at 1:14:43 PM permalink
The best commercial for me? Two words: Leon Sandcastle.

I thought the Joe Montana miracle stain was pretty funny too. Almost prophetic.
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February 4th, 2013 at 2:16:15 PM permalink
Quote: kenerman

You have to get satellite



Yeah, I have CANADIAN satellite. Thank you Bell. About four years ago, I could watch the Seattle feed and still get the US commercials, which was good.

For you Americans, what the Canadian networks do is carry the game and then override with Canadian commercials. And even though my satellite "picks up" the CBS affiliates (in Boston and Seattle) the cable and satellite broadcasters are required to override their coverage as well with their own network coverage. This prevents us from viewing the US commercials and ensures that you watch the very limited offering of Canadian commercials (which is why I DVR the game and catch up to the action).

I considered getting DirectTV but there is a great deal of Canadian broadcasting that I like, for example, Hockey Night in Canada and every single Jays game. And I'm not going to put some stupid antannae on my roof so I can get a shitty CBC signal from the CN tower 100km away in Toronto. Not gonna do it, not for some stupid commercials I can watch online the next day.

I know I'm paying about $20 / month for my my satellite here than there, and I know that alot of people who live close to the border steal their satellite by subscribing to a service that gives you a new card whenever the satellite provider decides to rescramble their signal. Ain't worth it to me. I figure if I can gamble with $1,000 a month I can afford $20 for satellite.
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February 4th, 2013 at 5:10:32 PM permalink
Bill O'Reilly just said his favorite commercial last night
was the Paul Harvey Dodge ad. I feel exonerated. Paul
Harvey, to many of us, represents an era when America
stood for something. When the slogan was 'ask not what
America can do for you'. Instead of what it is now, everybody
with their fat little hands out, waiting for the next gov't
entitlement.
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February 4th, 2013 at 5:44:55 PM permalink
Quote: EvenBob

Bill O'Reilly just said his favorite commercial last night
was the Paul Harvey Dodge ad. I feel exonerated. Paul
Harvey, to many of us, represents an era when America
stood for something. When the slogan was 'ask not what
America can do for you'.



Are you really quoting JFK in the same paragraph where you say you feel "exonerated" by something Bill O'Reilly said?
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February 4th, 2013 at 6:11:56 PM permalink
Quote: boymimbo

Yeah, I have CANADIAN satellite. Thank you Bell. About four years ago, I could watch the Seattle feed and still get the US commercials, which was good.

For you Americans, what the Canadian networks do is carry the game and then override with Canadian commercials. And even though my satellite "picks up" the CBS affiliates (in Boston and Seattle) the cable and satellite broadcasters are required to override their coverage as well with their own network coverage. This prevents us from viewing the US commercials and ensures that you watch the very limited offering of Canadian commercials (which is why I DVR the game and catch up to the action).

I considered getting DirectTV but there is a great deal of Canadian broadcasting that I like, for example, Hockey Night in Canada and every single Jays game. And I'm not going to put some stupid antannae on my roof so I can get a shitty CBC signal from the CN tower 100km away in Toronto. Not gonna do it, not for some stupid commercials I can watch online the next day.

I know I'm paying about $20 / month for my my satellite here than there, and I know that alot of people who live close to the border steal their satellite by subscribing to a service that gives you a new card whenever the satellite provider decides to rescramble their signal. Ain't worth it to me. I figure if I can gamble with $1,000 a month I can afford $20 for satellite.



You have to go to the HD feed to dump the subbed commercials. I have Shaw Direct and the HD feed doesn't get touched. Used to have the problem before HD was available. It will probably change in the future but I have been getting the unadulterated feed for 3 years now.
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February 4th, 2013 at 6:21:25 PM permalink
Did that. Bell's got me all Canadian, all the time! It sucks.
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February 4th, 2013 at 6:23:30 PM permalink
Quote: kenarman

You have to go to the HD feed to dump the subbed commercials. I have Shaw Direct and the HD feed doesn't get touched. Used to have the problem before HD was available. It will probably change in the future but I have been getting the unadulterated feed for 3 years now.



Which shaw channel did you use? We couldn't find one, even on HD, that was the US feed and ads.
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February 4th, 2013 at 6:25:13 PM permalink
Quote: boymimbo

Did that. Bell's got me all Canadian, all the time! It sucks.



Strange not sure why Shaw and Bell would be different. Shaw does sub the commercials on the regular city feeds.
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February 4th, 2013 at 10:27:23 PM permalink
Paul Harvey/RAM pickup tops here.
E*Trade baby.... gimme more, shankypottamus.
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1/2time show... gimme live action, or give me radio. None of this TV truck manipulation.
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February 4th, 2013 at 10:42:01 PM permalink
None were particularly good this year.
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February 4th, 2013 at 10:55:58 PM permalink
I kept hopping in and out during the commercials, but there's really only three companies that stick in my mind-- the GoDaddy ones, for being awful (I wonder if they're intentionally awful, to be memorable...), the Budweiser clydesdale reunion and the Bud Light 'It's only weird if it doesn't work' series. The rest... weren't really memorable for me. I admit, I'm predisposed to the Bud Light ones though.
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February 4th, 2013 at 11:40:32 PM permalink
Quote: EvenBob

Bill O'Reilly just said his favorite commercial last night
was the Paul Harvey Dodge ad. I feel exonerated. Paul
Harvey, to many of us, represents an era when America
stood for something. When the slogan was 'ask not what
America can do for you'. Instead of what it is now, everybody
with their fat little hands out, waiting for the next gov't
entitlement.


If you didn't know it, you can download audio files of Paul's "The Rest of the Story" radio programs.

http://www.paulharveyarchives.com/trots/

I have fond memories of listening to Paul when I was growing up as a kid. I took a moment and downloaded all of these. There are 694 different audio files on this page, in 26 different compressed files. They are very enjoyable to listen to.
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February 4th, 2013 at 11:47:57 PM permalink
I missed that everyone was whispering in the Oreo commericial. So, I think it was funnier the second time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufu5sqJh24Q
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February 4th, 2013 at 11:53:30 PM permalink
Quote: EdCollins

They are very enjoyable to listen to.



I worked for Amway in the early 70's and every day at
noon drove to their park to eat my lunch in the shade.
Paul Harvey news was on from 12:15 to 12:30. The
only one I remember, 40 years later, is the time he
talked about Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi and sitting on
the tank for a photo op. Harvey didn't harp on what
a traitorous move this was, instead he chastised her
for embarrassing her father.

Henry Fonda had distinguished himself by joining the
Navy in 1942 and was awarded the Bronze Star at the
war's end. And here's his daughter, less than 30 years
later, choosing the enemies side over that of her own
country. It was unbelievable and to this day I can't
even stand the sight of her, she makes me sick. What
an ignorant bitch..
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February 5th, 2013 at 4:56:01 AM permalink
Sorry for OT but I think the Superbowlfinal this year was a fraud.

Switching off the floodlights is a very common method for scammers to win time to place bets to win millions
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