Superbowl-Favorite Commercials

[jbmagic]

what is your all time favorite commercial during the superbowl?

and favorite Superbowl commerical that happen today Feb 6, 2005.

[Suicane75]

Ya know, I can't remember too many. I did like the "road less traveled" spots that first aired a few years back. I also like the truck in the tree, those are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Oh, and the Cindy Crawford Pepsi on was nice too.

[Logan]

Security camera catching Pepsi delivery guy snagging a Coke, and then all the cans tumbling over to draw attention to it.

[Maple Leafs]

Not sure if it's on my own list of favorites, but I have never seen a reaction like a year or two ago when they ran the Budweiser commercial with the little donkey auditioning to be a Clydesdale. I think most guys saw it as a pretty clever spot, but the women in the room when it aired lost it. They thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever seen, and they were cheering when they show that he made it at the end.

I swear, if we'd had a case of Bud in the room the women would have been shot-gunning it, even the pregnant ones.

[Bearcat729]

I still like the Cat herding commerical from a few years ago. I think it was for ETrade or Ameritrade.

[gottimd]

I still like the Cat herding commerical from a few years ago. I think it was for ETrade or Ameritrade.

Etrade has some good ones a few years ago. I liked the one where the 2 guys were in the garage, and there was a monkey dancing on the table between them, and it was something like "We just wasted a million dollars".

I wonder if Terry Tate Office Linebacker is going to have some commercial time this superbowl.

[gottimd]

To preview some of this years ads for the superbowl go here (http://www.superbowl-ads.com/2005/index.html).

[JonInMiddleGA]

"Herding Cats" is easily the best creative work I've seen in a SB spot.

I make that distinction, "best creative", because I can't recall exactly who the spot was for or what it was supposed to sell me (something about computer networks IIRC) so from that standpoint it deserves some downgrading.

[ISiddiqui]

I loved the one a few years back for Monster.com where you had all these kids saying that they were striving to be a brownnoser and middle managment! LOL!

And I miss the Bud Bowl... :(

[Joe]

mean joe greene

[korme]

Agreed, everyone remembers the cat herding commercial..........does anyone remember what is was for? Still a great spot.

I'm a fan of that one Doritios commercial with the chick who eats them as they fly out of the dryer...that was a great commercial.

I also like the 2 horses playing football and a zebra is staring into a replay box.

Guy 1: This referee is a jackass.
Guy 2: Nope, I believe it's a zebra.

[Ragone]

Some of the original bud bowl commercials were great..

And i've already seen most for this years game.. the one with a washed up rapper was the best that i saw.. I believe it was a pepsi commercial

[BigJohn&TheLions]

mean joe greene

Hey kid...

[Surtt]

Ozzy wakes up married to Florence Henderson.

[flere-imsaho]

Cat Herding: EDS. Of course, if you don't have a need for enterprise software (and crappy enterprise software at that), you won't remember them. ;)

My all-time favorite remains Apple's 1984.

[VPI97]

Bud Bowl was the best

[CamEdwards]

Cat Herding: EDS. Of course, if you don't have a need for enterprise software (and crappy enterprise software at that), you won't remember them. ;)

My all-time favorite remains Apple's 1984.

Loved the cat-herding spot. A couple of years after it aired my wife ended up working for EDS.

She was a programmer. I've informed her of your opinion. Expect an angry pregnant woman on your doorstep in a few weeks. :)

[Radii]

Agreed, everyone remembers the cat herding commercial..........does anyone remember what is was for? Still a great spot.



I am pretty sure it was for EDS. I only remember that b/c one of my company's large customers at the time had their data center managed by EDS consultants.



The we just wasted a million dollars e-trade is one of my favorites, terry tate, cat herding are all up there too for me.

[kingfc22]

So what's the over/under on "24" commercials??

[Flasch186]

release the hownds!!

[JonInMiddleGA]

Given how we make our living, it's no surprise that this was an easy topic for conversation around my house this afternoon. My wife immediately name "Cat Herders"
(actually the correct name of the EDS spot AFAIK) as her all-time favorite. The spot is apparently available at www.fallon.com (check their "our work" section, or something like that), as is the follow-up spot "The Running of the Squirrels". Unfortunately, I never could get the spot to actually d'load & run on either Mozilla or IE, maybe you'll have better luck.

[Barkeep49]

I liked the Cat Herding one, the Bud Bowl is a classic, but Terry Tate would have to be my favorite Super Bowl commericial that I can remember.

[flere-imsaho]

:)

Actually, to be honest, my beef isn't with EDS' software, per se, but with their consulting services, which are the typical "over-promise, under-deliver, screw you once you've spent so much that you can't back out" type of thing. Much like Oracle.

[gottimd]

There is a commercial for FOF featuring a guy in patriotic undies

[SnowMan]

So what's the over/under on "24" commercials??
Heh, they're already mocking themselves with the 24 commercials...that's great. :)

[Chubby]

Terry Tate, Office Linebacker

[Axxon]

Another vote for Mean Joe.

[SirFozzie]

Rugby commercial. Gotta love it.. even if it did have Gladys Knight

[BigJohn&TheLions]

... even if it did have Gladys Knight

Gladys could make a man weak...

until about 1993.

[Tasan]

Parachuting Budweiser so far for me, and just like last year, NFL channel has a funny "Tomorrow" one that is up there. I honestly don't remember many from year to year though.

[Flasch186]

i thought the gladys one was the wasted $ of the commercials so far.

[SunDancer]

i thought the gladys one was the wasted $ of the commercials so far.

I think Pepsi wastes alot of money. They really don't innovative in the commericals expect try to be cool. The Diet Pepsi truck commerical I though was kinda dumb, and I can't imagine all the money the spent on the "star" power alone in that.

[JeeberD]

So far this year Bud Light has by far had the best commercials,,,

[Ragone]

hey! you can't touch this

[Cringer]

So far this year Bud Light has by far had the best commercials,,,

I liked the Fed-Ex commercial because it has made a joke out of every commercial since it was aired. Every song I hear, kid I see, or animal that talks I think how they just finished saying that is supposed to be what makes a good SB commercial.

[Julio Riddols]

The pilot jumping out of the plane without a chute for the 6 pack of bud light was impressive.

[Julio Riddols]

And now I NEED to see War Of The Worlds.

[kingfc22]

There wasn't a single commercial that jumped out at me this year. Pretty much all crap.

[gstelmack]

"The Running of the Squirrels"

This year, the ad where the guy ends up holding a knife and a cat covered in tomato sauce with the sauce all over the ground when his girlfriend/wife walks in was the only one that had me roaring out loud.

Second place to the Bud Light pilot jumping out of the airplane.

[cuervo72]

There wasn't a single commercial that jumped out at me this year. Pretty much all crap.

The Tobasco commercial caught my eye.

At least as much as it could without drawing too much attention from the wife...

[JeeberD]

This year, the ad where the guy ends up holding a knife and a cat covered in tomato sauce with the sauce all over the ground when his girlfriend/wife walks in was the only one that had me roaring out loud.

Second place to the Bud Light pilot jumping out of the airplane.

Yup, those were two of my favorites this year...

[TLK]

The Tabasco Sauce and the NFL Network were the winners tonight....

[CamEdwards]

the cat in tomato sauce (although I've already forgotten who it was for) was the real winner.

Wonder how much it cost to put Brad Pitt in a Heinieken commercial. That was the oddest one.

[vex]

Bud Light Skydivers
Diet Pepsi Crusin' Trucks(P Diddy)
Cat in Tomato Sauce

[Maple Leafs]

Cat/sauce was the undisputed winner at our gathering.

[cthomer5000]

I thought the best commercial aired in the last hour of pre-game coverage. It was a henieken commercial where a bar/liquor store employee drops a case of Heineken. You see it breaking in slow motion, then they cut to various scenes of guys becoming suddenly sad in the midst of otherwise happy moments.

[clintl]

There wasn't a single commercial I saw that would have been considered even above average a few years ago. For the last few years, I've thought they were starting to try too hard. This year, it seemed like they didn't even bother trying at all. 2005 may be remembered as the year Super Bowl commercials stopped being a big deal.

[MacroGuru]

I liked the GoDaddy commercial for eye appeal.....

but the Bud Light one this year was by far my favorite, followed by the Cat in Tomato Sauce.

[EagleFan]

I loved the cat/sauce one. I also liked the sky diving one by Bud Light.

The Tobasco Sauce one caught my eye, though wasn;t much more than a hot chick so I can't say the overall commercial was what did it.

[Fonzie]

Cat/sauce was the undisputed winner at our gathering.

Ditto.

[samifan24]

I liked the Nationwide ad with the robot.

[FBPro]

Godaddy and Cat/sauce.

[ISiddiqui]

Cat/Sauce was good, but also the Bud commerical with the talking bird smacking people hitting on the girl at the bar was funny :D.

[Glengoyne]

Cat/sauce was the undisputed winner at our gathering.
Same here.

Second Place would be a toss up between the Clydesdale commercial with all the animals or the skydiving pilot. Certainly honorable mention should go to the Tobasco commercial.

[korme]

Cat/sauce was freaking awesome.

The skydiving was my favorite.

Tobasco girl, sexiest SB ad of all time. Did you see those panties??!! Who is this chick?!

[Cringer]

I liked the GoDaddy commercial for eye appeal.....

but the Bud Light one this year was by far my favorite, followed by the Cat in Tomato Sauce.

GoDaddy made me laugh because that is who I went through to register the Imperial League site, and my wife made the comment, "That is what our money is going to?"

I thought the Bud/Sky Jumper one was kind of funny at first, but then figured it was not much of a comment on their beer. I mean the guy seemed perfectly willing to go down with the plane rather then jump out after the Bud.
;)

[Vinatieri for Prez]

I just drank a whole bottle of Tabasco sauce. The commercial clinched it for me.

[ISiddiqui]

Don't get it about the Tabasco commerical. You can look at hot girls from your computer... why do you need a Superbowl commerical for that? :p

[FBPro]

GoDaddy made me laugh because that is who I went through to register the Imperial League site, and my wife made the comment, "That is what our money is going to?"

Looks like a good investment to me :eek:

[Grid Iron]

I thought the NFL Network "The Sun Will Come Out. . ." was the best due solely to Gruden's bit when he's singing and then barks at his kids to "knock it off!!!"

Laughed my ass off when I heard him say that.

[ISiddiqui]

I thought the NFL Network "The Sun Will Come Out. . ." was the best due solely to Gruden's bit when he's singing and then barks at his kids to "knock it off!!!"

Laughed my ass off when I heard him say that.
That was great... also liked the beginning with a bummed Roethlisburger and Montana comes out and starts the song!

[sabotai]

I thought the cat/sauce one was funny as well as the guy jumping after the bud light.

I also thought the CareerBuilder.com commercials with the monkeys were really funny too. The one with the woopie cushion had me laughing pretty good, especially when the monkey imitated the guy sitting on the woopie cushion. Good stuff.

[Julio Riddols]

wasnt there another one by the same pople who did the cat/sauce commercial with a guy in a convenient store on a hands free phone? He's at the counter and he's talking to his friend or whoever and he says, I'm sorry, but youre being robbed.. (and reaches inside his jacket for his wallet at the same time) Then he gets tasered and other unfortunate things..

I thought that one was funnier than the cat commercial.. it was toward the beginning, if not right before the game started.

[Raiders Army]

Like others said, Godaddy, tobasco, and bud light sky jumpers were good.

I also liked the Chimps and the guy working...especially the whoopie cusion one.

I didn't like the Ford Mustang one with the guy frozen. That one took forever the first time I saw it, and by the third time I saw it I was yawning.

[Thomkal]

My favorite was the Lays Potato Chips one with M.C. Hammer being thrown back over the fence. If only because we had a neighbor just like that growing up who would keep our balls and stuff if it landed in their yard.

Surprised no one's mentioned (apologies if I missed it) the one with the soldiers getting applauded.

[gottimd]

Surprised no one's mentioned (apologies if I missed it) the one with the soldiers getting applauded.

I was gonna say the same thing, that was a good one, one of my favorites for the superbowl this year.

[Ragone]

I liked the Career Builder one(monkeys)
The lays one(mc hammer)
and the f150 one..

the rest were rather blahsay at best.. with the worst being either

The Rugby one(i love rugby.. but that was just plain dumb)

or

The honda truck ones.. not only is the commercials bad.. the trucks are ugly

[gottimd]

If anyone is wondering what ads some people are talking about in this thread because maybe you got up to piss, grab a beer, place another bet with the bookie, etc, Ifilm has all of them on their site here (http://dyn.ifilm.com/superbowlads/) .

[Flasch186]

godaddy and NFL

[Ksyrup]

That was great... also liked the beginning with a bummed Roethlisburger and Montana comes out and starts the song!
Are these guys contractually obligated to do those commercials? If I was R-burger or Curtis Martin, I could not willingly do one of those commercials just a couple of weeks after losing. Martin was particularly torn up about the loss to the Steelers, and Big Ben had an awful game. To turn around and be part of a joke during the big game you were trying to get to...I wouldn't have been able to do it. During the pro bowl, maybe. During THE game - no!

Now Gruden...that was funny. And his team wasn't anywhere near the playoffs, so he can only look forward to next year.

[Ksyrup]

Wonder how much it cost to put Brad Pitt in a Heinieken commercial. That was the oddest one.
Funny thing about that commercial (which I didn't see, BTW) was that Pitt forced them to change from a Rolling Stones song to Renegade by Styx. Styx happened to play before the SB, as well. However, it appears that Pitt may not be as much a Styx fan as he is a publicity whore, since he plays Achilles in his new movie Troy. Achilles, you might remember, was dipped into the river Styx by his mother.

[gottimd]

If you go to the godaddy website, there is a "Full" version of that ad which is pretty funny.

[Axxon]

Funny thing about that commercial (which I didn't see, BTW) was that Pitt forced them to change from a Rolling Stones song to Renegade by Styx. Styx happened to play before the SB, as well. However, it appears that Pitt may not be as much a Styx fan as he is a publicity whore, since he plays Achilles in his new movie Troy. Achilles, you might remember, was dipped into the river Styx by his mother.

Maybe but that would be an incredibly stupid idea for a publicity whore. Who's gonna get it, football fans or mythology reading geeks? The classics and football don't really mix that well.

[Maple Leafs]

Judging just by reaction at our place:

Winners:
As I said, cat/sauce was the hands-down winner.
The NFL "tomorrow" ad also went over big, but I was out of the room so I mised it.
The monkeys were popular.
The clydesdale one went over well, but not as well as the donkey one from last year.
Most of the bud light ones got a good laugh.
Puff Daddy in the Pepsi truck was good too.

Losers:
The Brad Pitt ad wasn't bad, but it wasn't memorable. You think they could come up with something better if they're going to get him to do it.
The rugby one was awful. Funny concept I guess, but it was just guys playing rugby and then Gladys Knight shows up. Very disconnected.

The GoDaddy one was pretty clever. But as someone at our place mentioned - "Wait, if they're in the business of registering domains and the very best one they could find was 'GoDaddy', what's going to be left for me?"

[ISiddiqui]

The rugby one was awful. Funny concept I guess, but it was just guys playing rugby and then Gladys Knight shows up. Very disconnected.
::Shrug:: I thought it was really funny. Especially when Knight dives for the score!

[digamma]

We need more monkeys.

I also liked the Verizon commercial in the pregame show with the monkey running around with the banana pretending to ask "Can you hear me now?"

[Radii]

NFL Network tomorrow one and the cat/sauce, like most everyone else... for some reason the one with the monkey literally kissing ass had me cracking up. As Oliegirl and I discussed after that one... "I'm a guy, honey, and that commercial had monkeys, and it had a butt joke. How can I not crack up?"

[DanGarion]

I still like the Cat herding commerical from a few years ago. I think it was for ETrade or Ameritrade.
Cat herding was EDS.

http://www.poweredbydan.net/images/comdex2.jpg

Me with the Cat Herders!

[Franklinnoble]

Bring back the Energizer Bunny.

Oh, and I liked the MC Hammer (15 minutes later) one....

[Franklinnoble]

dola... how the HELL did MC Hammer get spots for two different products during the Super Bowl this year?

He must have just hired the best damned agent in the world to pull that one off...

[korme]

Atleast MC has a sense of humor, both spots were him getting made fun of. I liked them both.

[samifan24]

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm trying to find and download the Anheuser-Busch "thank the troops" ad. Thanks.

[jbmagic]

anybody like the godaddy advertisement with the Girl with the Boobs? :)

[vex]

Did someone not read their own thread?

[Nwobhm]

To my dismay i haven't found the name of the model in that godaddy.com ad, and thus no nudie pics either. She's hot as hell.

[TazFTW]

Candice Michelle

[Nwobhm]

http://www.candicemichelle.com/home.htm

Isn't the internet the greatest invention ever??

[Vinatieri for Prez]

Ok. Job well done. I was unsuccesful when I tried. But now the tough one. How about the Tabasco model?

[stevew]

The banned Budweiser "Wardrobe Malfunction" ad was pretty funny. Too bad they couldnt air it.

http://www.ifilm.com/player/?ifilmId=2663645

[Ksyrup]

From SI's column rating the commercials, I had forgotten about this one, thankfully. I was only half-watching it and hoping that I misunderstood the ad to be showing mom and son having magnet sex. Apparently not.


Most Disturbing Image: Frozen guy was followed by the ad for Degree antiperspirant in which the Mama's Boy doll is magnetized to meet at the pelvis with the "Mom" doll. Didn't need to see that. Didn't need to think about it. Don't want to know who did.

[Bearcat729]

anybody like the godaddy advertisement with the Girl with the Boobs? :)


Apparently the ad was supposed to run twice, but the NFL pulled the second one off the air.

The FCC got 8 complaints about the ad.

They got 2 for the Halftime show.

[Julio Riddols]

I want to know who the hell complains about these things? Weak.

I think I am going to move to Amsterdam.

[Klinglerware]

Apparently the ad was supposed to run twice, but the NFL pulled the second one off the air.

The FCC got 8 complaints about the ad.

They got 2 for the Halftime show.

I was especially entertained by the viewer who wanted Joe Buck "removed"…

hxxp://tv.yahoo.com/news/eo/20050207/110782500000.html


Super "Bored" with Halftime
Monday February 7 5:10 PM ET
By Joal Ryan
If Janet Jackson's Super Bowl transgression was titillating the audience, then Paul McCartney's was boring the audience, according to viewers who lodged email complaints with the Federal Communications Commission in the wake of Sunday's big game.
A year after the FCC logged more than 500,000 complaints over Jackson's exposed breast at the Super Bowl halftime show, the governmental watchdog had received exactly two complaints by Monday afternoon over McCartney's fully clothed set.
In both cases, viewers complained of being "bored" by McCartney's 12-minute, four-song showcase of Beatles and Wings classics, including "Hey, Jude," FCC spokeswoman Rosemary Kimball said Monday.

Boring or not (and some TV writers did not disagree with that assessment), McCartney's performance was heavily TiVo'd, registering 5 percent more viewers than last year's Jackson fiasco, according to the replay-device company, and heavily watched.
The Super Bowl (halftime show included) had its usual hold on the TV nation, with 86.1 million watching the New England Patriots-Philadelphia Eagles football contest on Fox. That's down 4 percent from last year.
As an entertainment event, critics found the Patriots' 24-21 win over the Eagles as methodical and plodding as the musical acts and commercials.
Daily Variety likened McCartney's efforts to "damage control for last year's Janet Jackson incident." Still, wrote Brian Lowry, "Sir Paul delivered."
The New York Times' Jon Pareles noted that McCartney did manage to perform an unexpurgated version of "Get Back," complete with its references to "California grass" and crossdressing, with the NFL's blessing. "What was once mildly risqué is now merely droll," he wrote.
In USA Today, Michael Hiestand observed that the halftime show "returned to its traditional role--something that sits well with chips and dip."
The ads, which took almost as much heat last year as Jackson, also went down easier. Participants in USA Today's annual ranking of Super Bowl commercials sounded grateful for the lack of spots about four-hour erections and horses passing gas.
A Bud Light commercial featuring a pilot jumping out of skydiving plane in pursuit of a six-pack of the beer was the survey's top-rated commercial; Napster's lone Super Bowl entry, a spot comparing its service to iTunes, was the lowest-rated.
Commercials teasing would-be blockbuster movies received middling responses, per USA Today's data. Will Smith's Hitch was the highest-rated among the film spots; Warner Bros.' Batman Begins teaser the lowest-rated.
CareerBuilder.com, the job-search site, scored big with three spots featuring chimps--the commercials ranked fourth, fifth and six in the newspaper's survey.
Web builder GoDaddy.com's spoof on the Jackson wardrobe malfunction hung in the middle of the pack in the USA Today rankings. At the FCC, it was the undisputed number one.
No commercial or broadcast moment prompted more complaints--eight--than GoDaddy.com's, according to Kimball. (All told, the FCC recorded just 33.)
Also-rans in the complaint department included: Cialis (five viewers had a beef with the game's lone erectile-dysfunction sponsor); Fox announcer Joe Buck (one viewer wanted him "removed" from the booth); and last year's halftime show (three viewers apparently were still reeling from Jackson's breast).
Kimball said the FCC received two thank yous from viewers who appreciated the toned-down proceedings.
Apparently, sometimes boring can be a good thing.

[rkmsuf]

Speaking of the Cialis commercial...it says that if your erection lasts more than for hours seek a doctor.

Just what is that doctor going to do exactly?

[ISiddiqui]

Call everyone else in? "Hey guys, look at this! Superboner! Let's take a picture!"

[Eaglesfan27]

Speaking of the Cialis commercial...it says that if your erection lasts more than for hours seek a doctor.

Just what is that doctor going to do exactly?
Inject pseudoephredine into the penis. It is one way to treat priapism (a prolonged erection.)

[Franklinnoble]

Inject pseudoephredine into the penis. It is one way to treat priapism (a prolonged erection.)

Isn't that the active ingredient for Sudafed?

[Klinglerware]

Isn't that the active ingredient for Sudafed?

And can't we use it to make meth?

[Eaglesfan27]

Isn't that the active ingredient for Sudafed?
Yes. There are several alternative treatments (such as injecting Botulin toxin), but that is the one that I've actually seen done before (and it worked.)

[Franklinnoble]

Yes. There are several alternative treatments (such as injecting Botulin toxin), but that is the one that I've actually seen done before (and it worked.)

So, basically, I don't wanna take any cold medicine if I'm going to try to have sex in the next 6 hours or so?