Bring Back the Frogs!
Yesterday was superbowl Sunday. As we usually do, we went over to some friends' to watch the game and eat junk food. While I don't follow football during the season, I do watch the superbowl every year (except last year, when we went to Disneyland with the Armstrongs).
While the game is usually okay, I get a bigger kick out of watching my friends make their commentaries about the action. I also like the commercials - or at least I used to. It seems that in the last few years, the commercials have gone from world class to mediocre, to just plain boring. In fact, the advertising agencies have become so incompetent, that they have resorted to what I will call "reality advertising," where viewers make their own commercials and send them in. This year, the best commercial, in my opinion, was a viewer piece for Doritos in which a guy driving a car, while eating Doritos, sees a hot girl, also eating Doritos, crashes, and then looks out the windows as the hot girl trips off the curb. There were a few others that made me smile, but no trend setters like the Budweiser frogs, or Michael Jackson setting his hair on fire. In the past 10 years, I only remember one commercial as really standing out. Maybe you remember the Wilson commercial that was a re-enactment of David and Goliath, shot like a Hollywood epic movie, and after David lobs the fateful stone into Goliaths cranium, a close-up of the stone reveals the Wilson "W" logo. That's a commercial worth spending $2.6 million on.
The one thing that I found particularly disturbing this year was that it seemed most of the commercials during the first quarter had a certain "queer eye" overtone. One commercial had two guys accidentally kissing over a Snickers. Another had a male sales executive passing on the opportunity to give a hot girl a ride in his new car, only to offer a ride to another dude in his office. What the crap? I don't want to see this. I don't ever want to watch dudes kissing, especially during a football game. I think I'm boycotting Snickers. The people on the other side of the fence can have them.
While the game is usually okay, I get a bigger kick out of watching my friends make their commentaries about the action. I also like the commercials - or at least I used to. It seems that in the last few years, the commercials have gone from world class to mediocre, to just plain boring. In fact, the advertising agencies have become so incompetent, that they have resorted to what I will call "reality advertising," where viewers make their own commercials and send them in. This year, the best commercial, in my opinion, was a viewer piece for Doritos in which a guy driving a car, while eating Doritos, sees a hot girl, also eating Doritos, crashes, and then looks out the windows as the hot girl trips off the curb. There were a few others that made me smile, but no trend setters like the Budweiser frogs, or Michael Jackson setting his hair on fire. In the past 10 years, I only remember one commercial as really standing out. Maybe you remember the Wilson commercial that was a re-enactment of David and Goliath, shot like a Hollywood epic movie, and after David lobs the fateful stone into Goliaths cranium, a close-up of the stone reveals the Wilson "W" logo. That's a commercial worth spending $2.6 million on.
The one thing that I found particularly disturbing this year was that it seemed most of the commercials during the first quarter had a certain "queer eye" overtone. One commercial had two guys accidentally kissing over a Snickers. Another had a male sales executive passing on the opportunity to give a hot girl a ride in his new car, only to offer a ride to another dude in his office. What the crap? I don't want to see this. I don't ever want to watch dudes kissing, especially during a football game. I think I'm boycotting Snickers. The people on the other side of the fence can have them.
posted by -TP at 8:15 AM
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