Sunday, February 21, 2010

Super Bowl Ad Review: Losers

At long last! I have caught up on the Super Bowl Ads. And, after going over them, there are a few that stood out, either they worked for me, they failed for me, or they left me going… “what?!” And of course, being a Business Major, I LOVE commercials, I LOVE Super Bowl Sunday, oh sure… there’s a big game on, but!!! There are also commercials! (Prof. Bryant, aren’t you proud)

These are a list of the ones I feel failed, in some cases, failed epically:

In some ways it pains me to say this but… United States, you get the first fail on the list. Not the entire US, only the Department of Commerce – Census Bureau.

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Really? Seriously? That’s the best you guys could come up with? This completely did not scream, “BE COUNTED! IT’S IMPORTANT!”

To me it said more like, “what? Wtf is a census? OH! That’s this year… huh… ya know… I think I might have maybe gotten something in the mail about that, but it wasn’t my tax return so I threw it out”

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Oh accents hahaha. What fun to make fun of not being able to understand people. You know what, if I was that woman, I’d be happy to no longer be with an asshole who cares more about his tires then the woman he promised to have and to hold till death do them part. Besides being a stupid commercial, it also shows how little we care about marriage these days.

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Please God! Don’t let him ever try sing/rap/rhyming again. Horrible, just… just horrible. I mean, come on Taco Bell… are you really the same geniuses who where behind the Chihuahua?! You can’t be, you just can’t be, because, they where creative and knew how to exploit a sterotype! This, this is just sad and makes me not want to watch basketball for awhile. Maybe in the rest of the time I have in Australia, I might re-gain my hunger for a double decker or a Mexican pizza, but this certainly put a damper on it.

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ASTROID WILL KILL US ALL!!!

And so you reach for… Bud LIGHT? Come on people, number 1, you all fail epically as astronomers, I mean, I may suck at math, but I at least know that you can TRY to do some calculations. Number 2, if your that sure the world will end, why are you going out with Bud LIGHT, you are going to die… now is the time for Tequila, Rum, OR Absinth!

Have fun explaining that and cleaning up the dome the next day with that… oh wait… no, you won’t even have a hangover, so nevermind, no pity.

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Ummm… What?

If this had a point, I would put it in the “What?” category. Unfortunatly, I don’t really think it did… and so… I must say, fail. If I can at least identify one the goal in mind was… maybe… but I couldn’t… and I tried. Oh well…

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OH, so that’s all I need, just some Sketchers, ok, but when I walk into the Navy Recruiters office and he tells me, “Nice try fat ass” I’m SOOOO suing you for false advertising! Can we… oh I don’t know, maybe see some medical proof to back this ricockulous statement? Naw… of course not, that would take away the magic.

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Ok, I am marking this as a fail, but not because of a lack of creativity, story line, or plot. I am counting this as a loser because of the poor product placement. You see, while all other Beavers are doing their Beaver thing… ONE chooses to stand out and be different, one chooses to make something unique about himself. Then it cuts to a shot of him on Monster.com, and then, the very next scene, he is out in the streets, then he catches a lucky break, and makes it big, and life is amazingly great for the lil guy. But… Where did Monster.com come into play in all of this? To me, it seems like it failed the poor Beaver, cause, he logged on, and searched, and next thing you know, he was homeless and on the streets. If Monster had tied in the fact that all that success was a result of him going to their website, well, by golly, then that would be a success, but it didn’t.

What this commercial told me was, “Come to Monster.com, fail miserably, become homeless, get a lucky break, make it big, and we didn’t have anything to do with it, because it was all just your own skill and luck that got you to where you are, we only got you out on your ass in the street”

And so, as touching a tale as this might be… it must be placed onto my fail list for not making a connection between attaining success, and going to Monster.com. I might be bias though, because if I had just used Montster.com, I might end up homeless. (Sorry Prof. Bryant, not the resume, it’s the website’s case I’m on, love the resume)

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I think I want to throw up. The SOBE lizard thing was weird enough last year, and at least that somewhat resembled cool because it was 3-d, and involved dancing lizards.
This?!?!?!

MIKE! What are you doing?! You can’t really be hurting for money can you? Oh… sad day… sad day… I don’t even remember the product, I just remember running away screaming “HEAR NO EVIL SEE NO EVIL”


2010 Super Bowl, this is the down side of things… but, next we’ll take a look at what would normally have just been the middle of the pack had it not intrigued me so much.

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