Superbowl-Favorite Commercials
 

what is your all time favorite commercial during the superbowl?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

To preview some of this years ads for the superbowl go here.

"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.

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... :(

mean joe greene

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.

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

Hey kid...

Ozzy wakes up married to Florence Henderson.

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.

Bud Bowl was the best

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. :)

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.

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

release the hownds!!

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.

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.

:)

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.

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

Heh, they're already mocking themselves with the 24 commercials...that's great. :)

Terry Tate, Office Linebacker

Another vote for Mean Joe.

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

Gladys could make a man weak...

until about 1993.

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.

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.

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

hey! you can't touch this

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.

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

And now I NEED to see War Of The Worlds.

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

"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.

The Tobasco commercial caught my eye.

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

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

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

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.

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

Cat/sauce was the undisputed winner at our gathering.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ditto.