Best Superbowl Ads - Make Your Bid:




My vote so far is: Chevrolet Silverado - Timmy in the Well


2nd place: Pepsi-Max

My vote for funniest so far are the Doritos commercials, especially the one where the guy sucks the cheese dust off the other dude's finger...ROFL!

That has to be the worst half-time show I've ever seen. Slash playing his guitar was the only high point so far, but unfortunately I couldn't hear his guitar over the caterwauling wail of that blonde. PFFFT! And I thought Maxical couldn't sing!


The bald men in body suits dancing under that red light looked like giant dancing [censored]'s - or maybe a pack of escaping Oscar Meyer weiners.

I'd rather see Janet Jackson's NANA again than this !!!

GAAAAAAH !!! OZZIE !!! And SHARON !!!! WOOOOOT !!!!


Cool Bridgestone Beavers ad !!!


Mercedes with Diddy

House beats kid with cane


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LOL @ Beiber Fever meets The Prince of Darkness...

House ad was funny...

Inevitable E-Trade baby...

I'm still going with Doritos for the funniest.

GAAAAAH! I must have missed that one !! I'm going to the website and watch it!

Pepsi Max telepathy was well done...

Captain America: The First Avenger was the one I appreciated most...

Bridgestone with the helpful Beaver was excellent...

Doritos cheese-licker was probably my favorite overall though.

EDIT: Timothy Hutton for cheap Tibetan food through Groupon was wrong. And yet so right, and so funny...

And yes, Malx, probably the worst half-time show in memory. Though I couldn't help but see the light suits and have images of TRON: Legacy in my mind. Damn programs loyal to Clu, fighting the Users...

Super 8 for the win.

I didn't miss that, lol. It's the Ozzie/Sharon one !!!

GAAAAH! I had missed the Doritos licking one, so went and watched it ... [mALX puking on keyboard] GAAAAAAK !!! ROFL !!!


Both Paramount ones (Super 8 and Captain America) were Awesome ads.


Still ... The Silverado - Timmy in the Well remains my fave.


Silverado - Timmy In The Well


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Well, I'd have to say the most embarrassing moment of the entire debacle was Christina Aguilera forgetting the lyrics to the National Anthem. Way to demonstrate how far our education has come, girl!

Could someone please send her to Siberia? I don't think I can stand the shame of living in the same country as her any more.

That was obnoxious, wasn't it? And her excuse ... that she was "so into the singing" - didn't wash for me.

I'll take Arethra Franklin's rendition of "Da bombs dey was a boistin' in air...'" over what Aguilera did to slaughter the anthem anytime.

At least it wasn't Roseanne Barr...or Roseanne Arnold...or the artist formerly known as Roseanne...or whatever she calls herself these days....

Oh, that was some debacle! I don't know how many TV screens were broken by people throwing things at them or from Rosanne trying to hit the high notes.

How about that Tibet Groupon ad, then? Can anyone forsee them remaining in business over the next month?

Wow, that was such a cheap and low blow it's oddly funny (and I know it shouldn't be). That advertising department seriously needs to be shot.

This will be a super bowl for the record books, no doubt about it...

I see a lawsuit in their future.

The Cuba Gooding Jr. ad for Groupon wasn't much better. 'Why save the whales when we can go whale watching on the cheap?' It's either the worst ad campaign in history, or the best. Time will tell.

I can't see how any company signed off on that advertising campaign in this day and age of political correctness.

Kind of a breath of fresh air.

I don't know if I would go so far as a breath of freash air, but I do have to side with Mudcrab on this. Political correctness has reached a point that trying to poke fun at anything or anybody is like walking on eggshells. How did we get to where we have to watch our tongue so closely, lest we offend? And, how did the offended become so thin-skinned that they can't take a joke anymore? Another symptom of the overly litigious society that we live in today, IMHO.

I half agree. We have taken things way too far with the political correctness till our tongues couldn't cut through butter - and I think you are exactly right that people have become thin-skinned in response, feeling offense where none was meant - and we are definately way too litigious a society.

That said, however - they mocked another country. We do not have a "liked" status outside our own borders as it is, even after years of some of the worst [censored] kissing I've ever seen ... and we are involved with military force outside our borders that could be at risk from another country's idea of "revenge" - can we all say Daniel Pearl?

If they want to poke the overinflated balloon of political correctness, they could have gotten Dave Chappelle as a spokesperson, or Carlos Mencia

Somehow mocking the poor and hungry for their state of life - may be taking things a little too far in the other direction. Their whole point of paying the exhorbitant cost of having a commercial aired during the Superbowl is to get clients/make money. Over half the people that see that Tibet ad will be offended and refuse to use "Groupon" for their companies - especially if they are international. I think they just shot themselves in the foot.

This has nothing to do with the political incorrectness of the commercial, it has to do with the commercial's horrible writing making it sound like they were exploiting the troubles being faced in Tibet. I know funny politically incorrect humor, just go watch Blazing Saddles. This commercial was out if this world wrong, not politically incorrect, just flat out wrong (though unintentionally so, more on that a bit later).

Why did they cast that guy as the waiter? This whole fiasco could have been avoided by just having an American waiter serving that guy. Having a Tibetan serve him dinner after speaking about all the problems their people are facing today is all kinds of offensive. I am not partial to the current political correctness movement, but I have to draw the line at this one.

But really, I'm not saying that Groupon needs a new advertising board because what they did is offensive to the Tibetans, I am saying they need a new board because they were too thick to figure that out. Offensive or not offensive, it was unintentional, and I recognize that. Groupon's executives were simply too dumb to notice that airing that commercial was going to lose them customers.

"Is it twoo what they say about you people being ... gifted?" [ZIP] "It's twooo! It's twooo!"

"They said you was hung!" (response) "And they was right!"

"Excuse me while I whip this out..."


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BWAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Classic!!

And lets not forget this one!

"How 'bout some more beans, Mr. Taggart?" (response) "I'd say you've had enough!"

"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"

ROFLMAO!!! The minute the scene loaded I started laughing cuz I knew what was coming!

Can't quote the movie without this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-pmpgrYQgs...feature=related

I actually have a good feeling that they've got a massive increase in hits to their site, increasing their revenue. It was probably the smartest thing they could have done.

I liked Conan O'Brien's take on the whole thing.

Hits to their site does not equal increased revenue in contracts, which is how they would make their money - it may have been people wanting their address to send them hatemail, lol.

The vid is a better ad than they did, lol.

Ah yes...Lily Von Shtupp. Madeline Kahn was a comic genius!

QFT

I'm familiar with many internet/chat acronyms....but what is "QFT"?

Ooh! Ooh! Pick me, I know! Heh. I'm not familiar with much net speak, but I do actually know this one:

QFT = quoted for truth.

Lily von Schtupp is my all time favorite Madeline Kahn role.

She was both beautiful, funny and priceless in Young Frankenstein, too.

But that bordello scene is just plain funny on so many levels. I catch myself singing "coming and going and going and coming -- I'm so tired!" after a long day at work!

Acadian already answered correctly, lol. It is "Quoted For Truth" - something our beloved Treydog taught me.

anyone else see the darth vader kid volkswagen commercial? that was my favorite.

Doritos, by far... Especially the one where the guy's grandpa comes back to life... Although, they were thinking of fritos...

I liked that one too.

I missed that one, I'll have to go to the site and look for it!!

They have ads and businesses pay for their coupons to be on the site. They'll make money. Besides, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

I just remembered, I lol'd at the Mini Vader one. And the Adrien Brody commercial was awesome. Brody's the bomb.