The Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials
The TV networks and advertising agencies of the US have successfully brainwashed us enough to believe that the most important part of the Super Bowl isn’t the game itself, but the commercials. Most of the trending topics on Twitter last night were about the commercials and most of the media dicussion in the weeks before the Super Bowl centered around the Tim Tebow commercial. (More on that later.)
Since I have a DVR I usually don’t watch commercials. But since the Super Bowl is a live event that just wouldn’t be the same if you had to watch it on DVR, I sucked it up and only left the room for some of the commercials. Out of all the commercials I saw here are my choices for the best and the worst and most talked about that turned out to be nothing, a.k.a the Tim Tebow ad.
The Best Commercial: The Audi ‘Green Police’
I liked this commercial because while it was promoting a ’green’ product, it made people who promote ’green’ products (and the whole ‘green movement’ in general) look like what they are: douchebags.
While I don’t envision a world where ‘green police’ actually exist, the actions taken by Congress the EPA recently should make us all worry. Did you know incandescent light bulbs will be illegal in 2012?
The Worst Commercial: The 2010 Census
That’s right, our tax dollars were used to make that piece of crap. If the commercial has actually been funny I wouldn’t have minded so much. I like that team of D-List actors when they’re in Christopher Guest movies, but not so much when they’re in government ads.
That commercial cost the tax payers at least two million dollars. Yes, that’s a drop in bucket compared to the rest of federal budget, but it just doesn’t look good. The census bureau says that if just 1% of the people who saw the ad mail back their census forms then it will save taxpayers $25 million. Color me skeptical.
Last, but not least, the commercial that the media, Planned Parenthood, and feminists all over the country made the biggest stink about but turned out to be nothing: The Tim Tebow ad:
That’s what everyone made a big deal about for two weeks? I don’t care what your views on abortion are, if that commercial pissed you off then you have problems. That commercial was nothing, but it didn’t stop the feminazis from coming out of the wood-works. Austin Blogger Amanda Marcotte tweeted on her twitter page: “Tebow: Hey Mom! Tried to kill you from the womb and failed. How about a blind side tackle? Violence against Moms FTW!” After this tweet she bitched and moaned about other mysigonistic crap the rest of the night.
The game itself was actually the best part of the Super Bowl. The Saints started out the second half with an onside kick. That, sorry… Dat could have been bad, but it turned out to be brilliant. It kept Manning off the field for a long time and screwed up his rhythm. Manning and the Colts still played a heck of a game but I think the Saints wanted it more. I cold be completely wrong though, I know nothing about sports.
