The Game
Yay Patriots! I really dislike the Eagles, so I was worried at many points during the game. But it ended well. Yay! Congrats to Deion! Even with my dislike of the Eagles, I do have to say that it was great football.
The Halftime Show
Fantastic! Paul McCartney was great! "Hey Jude" was lots of fun, although I do wonder about those electric blue circles that were lit up and moving all over the stage. Much much much better than last year's halftime show, wardrobe malfunction or not.
The Commercials
I took notes on the commercials throughout the game. Looking over the list, I had no idea that there are so many different commercials! Usually when the game's over, I can only recall 4 or 5 good ones. I guess those would be my list of the "best" commercials, since I liked them and they made the most impact on me. I also have my list of the ones I liked and didn't like, which I took during the game. The ones I don't care about are mostly ones that either I've seen before or I just could care less about them, but didn't particularly dislike them.
The Best Ones:
- Careerbuilder.com: 3 different ads showing the plight of a human male stuck at a company full of chimps. They were hilarious! They had chimps photocopying their butts, doing no work and even literal ass kissing! It was great series.
- Budweiser ads: I'm usually a big fan of Bud ads. This year was no different. My favorites were the one with all the animals who wanted to audition to be with the Clydesdales and the Cedric designated driver dance ad. The animal one was great, because I loved the one last year with the donkey that had joined the Clydesdales. And Budweiser is all about continuity. :) I also really liked the tribute to the troops coming home. I may strongly object to the war, but support the people who are out there, stuck in hellish conditions for no reason.
- NFL players singing Tomorrow. I think they had an ad like this last year too, but it's still really amusing and entertaining. "Tomorrow, we're all undefeated again." Absolutely.
- Prius ad about how we've been moving but not moving forward: went through multiple locations around the world showing people in motion but the scenery not changing. But the Prius is the only thing that actually moves. I thought the artistry was great.
- The FedEx/Kinko's ad near the beginning was pretty smart too. They made an ad about all the elements of a successful Superbowl commercials and labeled them. Good job.
- Mastercard priceless commercial with all the character icons from food products - Starkist Tuna, Mr. Clean, it was so cute.
- Verizon ad with a chimp talking on a banana during the pre-game
- The football players in an American Idol promo during pre-game
- Bud Light skydiving: guy is afraid to jump out of the plane, instructor tosses out Bud Light and the pilot jumps out with no parachute. Kind of dumb, but amusing.
- Olympus mrobe - I liked it for the product. It's a camera/music player in one!!
- Budweiser - Cedric's fantasies.
- Diet Pepsi "Stayin' Alive" ... Walking down the street and turning heads. Carson made that commercial even better.
- Budweiser - 2 guys go to the game and one gets pictures on his phone from the guy that gave them the tickets - "that's your apartment, that's your girlfriend"... haha
- Subway toasted subs - 2 guys in a car with fogged up windows with the cops looking in - amusing, not the greatest but good
- Pepsi iTunes giveaway - take the cap off the bottle and you hear music. Not bad.
- Degree which had a fake promo for a Mama's Boy action figure... had no clue what it was for during commercial though.
- Robots trailer - I've seen other trailers before, but this one was new and specifically made for the game, unlike those other movie trailers.
- Ameriquest cat and sauce commercial - the Ameriquest slogan was "don't judge too quickly." Cat knocks over red sauce onto the floor from the stove and the boyfriend picks up the cat. Girlfriend comes home and thinks boyfriend killed the cat.
- War of the Worlds trailer - new.
- VCast: product and cute ad. But can't remember what it is now.
- Moto Razr ad.
- Mustang convertible (and they played it twice or three times!) - man frozen in car and cop goes to check on him. Blah blah blah.
- Diet Pepsi trucks (also played more than once) - "P. Diddy drives a Pepsi truck?" Blah.
- Volvo and the rocket, just not very good, even if I like Richard Branson
- Visa Check Card - woman screams help, superheroes come, find out she has a Visa Check Card, are disillusioned. Liked the superheroes, not the commercial.
- Ameriquest robbery - dumb. They think some guy is robbing their store but he's not.
- MBNA credit cards - bleh. Don't remember it much.
- Lays - throwing things over the fence that are old fads. Yeah yeah.
- Cadillac V series, boring - what was it about?
- Budweiser - girl has a bird (cockatoo?) that talks and defends her. Not very good.
- Michelob rich and smooth ads - kind of dumb
- Dunkin Donuts raspberry mocha with arrows like Cupid for Valentine's Day. Boring.
- Tabasco sunburn. Eh.
- Napster - think I'm just sick of it from my paper, $15/mo sounds pretty good.
- Staples easy button ads - sick of it.
- Cialis - blah blah blah.... reminds me of last year's shock at hearing "erections lasting longer than 4 hours, though rare, require immediate medical help"... and it's still there
- Some Honda truck - boring
- US Cellular ad - boring
- Snow day Lexus ad - seen it a lot already, didn't like it the first time
- Emerald nuts - bleh. Characters looked cute though.
- O2Optix: they wanted to spend that much money for that?
- Constantine trailer: I've seen this enough times, I don't need to see it again.
- Bubblicious
- The Pacifier trailer: seen that one already too.
- The Longest Yard trailer: seen that one too.
- LincolnFry.com - It was amusing but not so good at the same time.
- Quiznos - seen that one for awhile
- Hitch - seen already
- Taco Bell grilled stuffed burrito - nothing special
- American Airlines dog commercial - cute but nothing great
- MSN searching - boring
- Yahoo "wonderful" "wondering what clothes to wear" : seen it too many times
- Sahara trailer - saw that one too
Yay Patriots!
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