Best Super Bowl Commercials

[pbarry]

In order, these have caught my attention:

Radio Shack
Chevy (cancer awareness tie-in)
Go-Daddy

[chuckroast]

Overall, they seem pretty meh to me but I did like the Radio Shack one. I mean seriously, a Maserati commercial was in the first break?

It used to be (according to my memory) that you wouldn't see TV and Movie promos until the second half.

Oh well, if they sold the spots, so be it.

[oldguy00]

Not sure if it is being shown, but the bud light commercial with Arnold S. was great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKKVQLDYYcw

[teleguy57]

The Radio Shack cameos (not sure if it's really a cameo if you're playing yourself) were fun, but the ad itself was just ok. Colbert was ok. Mostly hmmmmm.

[pbarry]

Prince cameo, WINS!!!

[texbike]

The Genesis commercial was funny - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGrR92sulx0 .

Texbike

[1centaur]

I thought Radio Shack was a winner because it was funny AND effective at delivering its message. You don't always get that.

I'm partial to Audi's Doberhuahua commercial because I like Dobermans and Audis, but as my wife said about the mutt at the end, "Isn't THAT a compromise?" (the point of the ad being no compromises by buying the A3). So that one was watchable, but not effective.

[crownjewelwl]

Scientology commercial wins

[pbarry]

Bob Dylan/Super Bowl??!! Prince in second place now.

[chuckroast]

Bob effin' Dylan selling Chrysler's....man, things have changed

[Tony T]

Why would they flash a Highway 66 sign!

[pbarry]

Bob effin' Dylan selling Chrysler's....man, things have changed

Have no idea who BD's law firm is, BUT, if you favorite any one of his videos on youtube, it will be blocked within hours/days/short months. I don't begrudge this action. Just saying his contemporary behavior belies the past.

[SlackMan]

In order, these have caught my attention:

Radio Shack
Chevy (cancer awareness tie-in)
Go-Daddy

I totally agree with your one and two. Don't have a third yet.

[Climb01742]

Radio Shack was, as 1centaur said, funny and effective.

Bob Dylan Chrysler spot was nicely done, with Dylan surprisingly good as voiceover and he delivered his last line on camera really well for a non-actor. That said, how effective at selling cars?

Lastly, call me a sap but the Cheerio spot early on was sweet.

[bikinchris]

Soda stream made it in? I thought they were locked out!

[Louis]

Soda stream made it in? I thought they were locked out!

Was it a ScarJo ad?

[OtayBW]

Mostly 'meh', but I did like the little girl in the Cheerios commercial who bargained for a new puppy.

[Doug Fattic]

My favorite so far is the Cheerios ad. Great negotiation by their little girl to get a puppy.

[pbarry]

Clint for Chrysler in 2012 remains. Sorry, Bob and Prince..

[Louis]

Bud puppy ad. But how many people were watching?

[MattTuck]

I actually really liked the TurboTax Commercial (http://www.justjared.com/2014/02/02/turbo-tax-super-bowl-commercial-2014-video-prom-sean/)

[Steve in SLO]

TurboTax was good, although the one that gave me a chuckle was the Volkswagen engineer commercial.

[velotrack]

Oiko's yogurt commercial? Hilarious stuff.

[wooly]

Did they show the Doritos Commerical with the finger washer? I may have missed it since the game was such a dog. Anyway, my son showed me it on YouTube and it was so frickin funny. If you didn't see it you gotta search it out.

Found it: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ugo7Y2lRsxc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dugo7Y2lRsxc

Enjoy

[velotrack]

They have great commercials year round.

[rustychisel]

Discussing advertising in a football game.

Congratulations, you have successfully encapsulated the American Condition. (or jumped the shark).

:fight:

[Tandem Rider]

Discussing advertising in a football game.

Congratulations, you have successfully encapsulated the American Condition. (or jumped the shark).

:fight:

I thought advertising was the reason all pro level sports exist at that level.

The fact that people are discussing the advertising rather than the game can be interpreted many different ways, by just as many people, to mean whatever they want.

[DreaminJohn]

Surprised no one mentioned the Tebow ads. I thought the second one was pretty cool. Top 3 on my list, although I bailed as soon as Harvin returned the opening kickoff of the 2nd half for a TD.

[MattTuck]

I thought advertising was the reason all pro level sports exist at that level.

The fact that people are discussing the advertising rather than the game can be interpreted many different ways, by just as many people, to mean whatever they want.

Salici. Made from sport.
Aspire Academy.
Turkish airlines.
'nuf said.

If you watch European pro cycling, even these lame superbowl commercials are about 10000 times better than the Eurosport commercial brakes.

[Birddog]

Oiko's yogurt commercial? Hilarious stuff.
I find myself desiring yogurt.

[John Price]

BUT I did like the Puppy Bud commercial. But mostly, considering the hype that goes into the commercials for the Super Bowl I thought they were, for the most part, "meh".

John

[sg8357]

Tivo is announcing special superbowl mode for next year,
All commercial will be recorded, game play will be recorded at 3x speed.

Watched the game sound off, commercials sound on.
I was wishing Dandy Don Meredith was there to sing turn off the lights the partys over after the 2nd half kick return td.

My votes are Cherrios, Colbert/Nuts, Radio Shack.

The Dylan/Chrysler was too derivative of Eastwood/Chrysler.

[veloduffer]

Besides the Radio Shack and Cheerios, I liked the Ellen/Beats commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPbi6EhMjyo

[MadRocketSci]

yay, Cosmos is coming back!

[torquer]

No love for the early Chevy truck ad where he's haulin' the bull to a rendevoux with the girls? Soundtrack was Hot Chocolate's "believe in miracles, you sexy thing" which the wife identified from The Full Monty.

Thanks to that ad, I forgive Chevy that other (pre SB) ad mocking kale, tofu etc. in favor of BBQ. (FYI, there's room for all that in my truck, GM!)

It was hard to believe the Maser commercial in the early ad break. And did Tebow sign up Bob Uecker's media strategist?

[Bruce K]

Did folks miss or just not like the T-Mobile ad

All text. No celebrities. Outrageous / funny way to deliver the message

BK

[avalonracing]

Why were you guys watching the Super Bowl? Turner Classic Movies was showing 12 Angry Men followed by The Lost Weekend. There is more substantial content in 30 seconds of either one of those films than in every Super Bowl rolled together.

[bikingshearer]

As a whole, the SB ads were a pretty sorry lot. Most of them were trying way too hard to be artsy or funny, mosttly without success to my jaundiced eye, with the sponsor's name and logo tacked on at the end as an afterthought. If it were my company's money on the linem I'd be very unhappy with the vast amjority of them.

You want artsy? Apple's "1984" still sets the standard for that, and it is still remembered thirty years later.

You want funny? The classic Alka-Seltzer ads from the 70s were clever, funny as hell, put the brand front and center, and, again, are still remembered decades later. (Yes, I know these were not SB commercials, but I'm on a rant and making a point here.)

Nothing in this year's crop was evenin the same time zone as these classics. Which I suppose is appropriate, considering how close the game was . . . .

[Bruce K]

I think Louie the Lizard's term is almost up and he should be getting out of the slammer soon.

I guess that's my way if saying those Budweiser ads were pretty cool. Kind of a shame he "offed" the frogs.

It would be a fun ad series to resurrect.

BK

[Kirk007]

Did folks miss or just not like the T-Mobile ad

All text. No celebrities. Outrageous / funny way to deliver the message

BK

I liked this one. Just read on Google news that there's a controversy over the Coke ad - America the beautiful sung in different languages - really??

[Scooper]

I liked this one. Just read on Google news that there's a controversy over the Coke ad - America the beautiful sung in different languages - really??

This isn't a political comment, but some folks believe diversity is somehow un-American. How sad.

[veloduffer]

I liked this one. Just read on Google news that there's a controversy over the Coke ad - America the beautiful sung in different languages - really??

I guess the conservatives think they all came from the Mayflower? :bike:

[Columbus SLX]

Jamie Casino. (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/02/03/jamie_casino_super_bowl_ad_local_savannah_attorney _runs_epic_2_minute_commercial.html) Done.

[Tandem Rider]

I guess the conservatives think they all came from the Mayflower? :bike:

What about those of us who's ancestors met the Mayflower? Shall we help them pack since "they" think "they should all go back where they came from"?

[1centaur]

There is no point in debating it, but it's not about diversity, it's about language. There is a difference. It would be incorrect to view those who want English to be the official language as against having people of different ethnicities in the country.

[Kirk007]

So its that what ignited the Fox news commentators and others objections - an English as the official language thing? I haven't read the commentary just saw that there was some dust up.

My liberal mind never would have made that connection having watched the commercial; I thought it was quite well done and all about the diversity of America the Beautiful.