Showtime

I really enjoyed this batch. Some of the ones I liked the most were:

Ozzy and the Pepsi Twist!!!!WINNER!!!! LOL
Incredible Hulk. Looks like a kickass movie.
Matrix. Can't be bad... or can it?
Daredevil. Hopefully its a good story line.
The catfight with the females Never gets old!
Barber Twins. "Your the one not going to the Superbowl." LOL
Preview for ALIAS. Hubba hubba

Later I noticed some sort of male catfight, but I left the treadmill and can't judge what I didn't see. No, really I left. Though I'd imagine feminist groups might like this version better than the original.

I would start a poll, but its a lot of work. Any I miss and any you really like?

-jel

coleslaw

The best commercial of the night was the Reebock commercial - Terry Tate: Office Linebacker.

When he tackled a guy and said, "You need to put cover sheets on your TPS reports", I just about lost it!


Anyone else see the SNL Weekend Update Special during halftime? The skit they did with Gollum (Chris Katan) and the Super Bowl ring was a riot.

__________________
A priest, a paladin and Varimathras walk into a bar...

CynJon

I agree, that was awesome. I also liked the "Old Jordan vs. Young Jordan" commercial and the Shallow Hal one about the girlfriend's mom...

Also, what did people think of the Hank Williams Jr. and Kid Rock intro...I thought is was pretty good, although I'm not a big fan of either of them...

__________________

Tommy Boomfiger

i didnt see any of the commercials, anyone know where i can see them online?

revil

i saw the hulk one somewhere, so i know it's out there. and i downloaded the new matrix teaser off the matrix website. don't know where to get the rest though. i'd like to know too.

Tommy Boomfiger

found some at iFilm

gear02

I like the Yao commercial when I saw it. I guess it's mostly because I'm surprised Yao's doing commercials as I had thought that his promotional stuff was still being negotiated.

But the more I think of it, that Yao (Yo) commercial was very lame.

I liked the Pepsi Twist one and the Reebok commercial.

What's a TPS report? That was in Office Space too...

gear02

oh I almost forgot. It's not a commercial, but the coolest bit other than the game was Jimmy Kimmel's farewell to cable. He appeared on tons of other shows. It was actually very well done. I wonder how they got those other channels to get him on.

revil

oh man, i found this on iFilm, the best comercial known to mankind.

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/f...459231,00.html

Jenny

I LOVED the commercials last night! The one with the male catfight:

The 2 guys were arguing about why The Practice being moved to Monday nights at 9:00 (cst, I think) was a good thing. One was saying New Night, the other was saying New Time. If I am correct, I believe it was a sarcastic parody of the female mud wrestling one, since everyone has heard of it. It was great, regardles..

__________________
Check out my spoilers for over 20 shows @ SpoilerFix.com

Check out my TV blog, where I post weekly & daily TV
schedules, TV news, interviews with TV stars & more!
All new TV forums as well @ TV Is My Pacifier

Butch

Another site with ads from last night . . .

http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=36975

__________________
I used to be into sadism, necrophilia and beastiality, but then I realized I was just beating a dead horse

eSDee

Here's a recap of the whole night from Espn.com:

~~~

The good, bad, empty on Super Sunday
By Eric Neel
Page 2 columnist


I turned on the set early Sunday (my coach always told me it was important to warm up before a big game) and caught Vin Scully calling the Champions Skins Game between Lee, Hale, Jack and Arnie.

Vin was running down the scoreboard and when he got to Palmer, who'd been shut out, he said, "And Arnie's got a pocketful of empty."

Best line I heard all day.

If you were hoping the Bucs and Raiders would cook up a classic game, by the end of the night, you knew exactly how Arnie felt -- pockets jammed full of empty.

If you came in with no such illusions -- if you were just in it for the extras, for big-budget entertainment, bigger-budget commercials, a cold drink and some good guac -- well, if your beer was tasty and your avocados were ripe, your pockets might not exactly be full of it this morning, but there is most definitely some empty jangling around in them.

Here's a breakdown of everything but the game (because that looked pretty broken down from the get-go): the good, the bad, and the empty.

Pregame

The Good
The Dixie Chicks singing the "Star-Spangled Banner": Strip it down to a cappella, work a little three-part harmony, sing from a simple, straight-forward place, and damned if the national anthem ain't a beautiful thing.

Beyonce giving her all on the "Yea-ahh" parts in her appearance with Carlos Santana. (Bonus points because she and her that's-the-way-to-move-it dress had my 14-month-old daughter dancing in her high chair.)

Somebody in the production truck tag-lining Arnold Schwarzenegger in a pregame interview with Robin Roberts as a "7-time Mr. Olympia." Only thing better would have been, "Former Chairman, President's Council on Physical Fitness."

Bob Griese saying "Hi, Mom" during introductions before the coin flip. Why? Because nobody saw it coming, that's why.

Can't believe I'm saying this, and can't say why, but the Kid Rock-Hank Jr. thing worked for me.

The Bad
Celine Dion singing "God Bless America." In her face, sincerity is a sickness, and the woman never met an overdone production value or elongated high-note she didn't like.

Santana -- who I'm pretty sure makes some decent green these days -- saying he was at the game as a representative of the ghetto.

The Empty
That bizarre, spastic field-goal signal thing Celine kept doing in interviews. She looked like Sargent Schulz at an Australian Rules match.

Halftime

The Good
No Doubt and Sting. Gwen Stefani doesn't have the sweetest pipes in the world, but she plays hard. She made Sting step out of his cool. They both came off ragged, but in a good, live, way. (Extra credit to Sting for playing the old-school "S.O.S")

The Bad and The Empty
Shania Twain's whole thing. Excuse me, Ms. Twain? Cher called, she wants her outfit back. Plus, 15 yards for lip-syncing, 15 more for the Hall-and-Oates over-the-shoulder keyboard thing in the band, and 15 and loss of down for the gratuitous ride up the cherry-picker -- and by the way, who brought her down? Is she still up there? Can I hope?

The Commercials

The Good
The Budweiser Zebra spot. A cowboy saying the word "zebra" is funny. That's fundamental. Add to that the dig at NFL officiating, some lovely atmospheric photography, and an edge-of-your-seats, one or two-hoofs-in sideline call and we're talking gold. Best spot of the night. (Runner-up goes to the Gatorade MJ vs. MJ bit -- which I wrote about here -- but it actually debuted late last month.)

Pepsi Twist Osbournes ad. Screw the twists (though the Florence Henderson thing is a nice touch), the key to this is Ozzy's gentle, layered performance as the man living a life of quiet desperation.

FedEx "Castaway" spoof. This is old-school, Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy kind of stuff -- nothing quite as funny as the other guy getting a swift kick in the gut. Don't ask why it's funny, don't ask yourself whether maybe you should feel pity or sorrow instead, just laugh at the poor bearded simp and feel the good, natural, in-the-tradition rightness of the laugh that is yours to experience in this moment, on the couch, and with the beer, that are also, rightly, yours.

H&R Block and Willie Nelson. The first time he says "My face is burning," I chuckled. The second time he said it, with a sad little squeak in his twang, I cracked up. My name is Eric, I'm a Willie Nelson fan, and I have a problem. There ... that feels better.

The Yo, Yao, Yogi Visa riff. The big man has range -- first he's the shy, flirtatious giant with a little Apple laptop, and now he shows us an angry Yao, fed-up with a world that can't, that won't, that refuses to, understand him. Stirring stuff. What's next? "Death of a Salesman"? "Cabaret"?

Reebok: Terry Tate rampaging in the office. Works because it's only slightly hyperbolic, and anyone who has ever worked in the corporate world knows it.

Sierra Mist's monkey launching himself into the polar bear pool. When he came up out of that water and shook his head and his hair stood up and alive, I felt his joy and got a taste of his freedom -- I think we all did.

Honorable Mention: HotJobs.com "Rainbow Connection" and Trident "Four out of Five Dentists Surveyed."

The Bad
I don't want to seem obsessive or cruel or anything, but I have to say, I have my doubts about whether Ms. Dion actually drives a Chrysler. I'll just leave it at that.

The Bud Light clown drinking out of his ass. Read that sentence. No explanation necessary.

Quiznos obsessive chef. Lots of build-up, no payoff -- not especially funny, shocking, smart or memorable. That's a little thing we like to call drawing the advertising collar.

Charles Schwab's "Join the movement" spot. Here's what I don't want to do: make my investors and employees look like lemmings. Here's another thing I don't want to do: use the word "movement" in my ad, ever. "Movement" says two things -- politics and cults -- and neither of them sell.

Bud Light Rasta-dog man. Bud light mom with hips like battle ships. Bud light seashell stuck to guy's face. Bud Light 3-arm guy. The advertising equivalent of fart jokes.

The Empty
Levi's bison thing. Two problems: 1. Made absolutely no sense. 2. (And I'm quoting my wife on this one) Those are some ugly-ass jeans.

AT&T Wireless "Gilligan's Island" bit. Felt like an Old Navy rip-off, only nostalgia making me want to buy clothes I can see; nostalgia making me want to spend my hard-earned cash on your fancy little phones? Not so much.

Cadillac, "You Could Have Seen It Coming." If I had, I would have taken another train. I'm not saying Jimmy Page and Robert Plant would never sell their music to sell cars, and I'm not saying they'd never drive a Caddy, but I am saying this: there's no way they ride the train, so enough with the song already (didn't you guys use it last year, too?).

__________________
~~~~~~~~~~~~
3 days ~ Willie Nelson

3 days I dread to see arrive
3 days I hate to be alive
3 days filled with tears and sorrow
yesterday today and tomorrow

Jenny

That was great! I sent the link to several people.

Nija

I damn near fell out of my chair at the bud light clown commercial, that was farkin' hilarious

__________________

"Nija is the dark soul of gotapex. We don't like to talk about him." - LPMiller

Freelance Superhero

i didn't really watch the game, so i didn't see most of the commercials either, but i saw a lot of them on ifilm. i have to disagree with you, gear... i really liked the yao ming visa commercial, tho it was sort of a ripoff of the whole "wazzaaaap" thing. i still thought it was hilarious, and yao reminded me of andre the giant: "can i write check?"

that one, and i liked the baboon's screaming at the end of the sierra mist commercial. oh, and yeah, the terry tate one too... i thought the other ones were kinda bleh...

__________________
"I can't believe you can eat that; it looks like abortion." - Augusta, of the Tard-Blog

mcs328

http://www.usatoday.com/money/advert...eter-chart.htm

Here's one at usatoday.com.

__________________

Showtime

figures, you'd like that one.

Nice recap EsDee, I missed some of it but should of paid closer attention.

Question. Overall was this, besides the uncompetitive game, a better production than previous years.

I felt it was much better than the last few.

-jel

eSDee

I don't know if I can give an unbiased opinion because it was in my hometown, but I thought it was pretty awesome. The commercials were definitely better than last year, and even though last year's game was a lot better, this years matchup was pretty decent. Gruden vs. his old team was a good story to run with.

By the way, I went downtown after the game and it was great. There were very few red shirts down there, which was probably a good thing. The "Raider Nation" thugs were out in full effect. One guy had a jersey with the Raiders logo, around it saying "Blood In, Blood Out" There was a lot of smack talking was going on amongst the thugs and local Chargers fans. The good thing was that there were a grip of police walking around, which for the first time in my life, I was glad to see The great thing about it was seeing all the dejected faces of the Raider fans. Priceless.

Oh I just remembered another thing that happened. Some dumbass grabbed this girls fancy hat off her head, and she got pissed! She put him in a headlock and he was on the ground on all fours before she finally let him go. It was classic

All in all, this was a great experience. The Raider fans didn't destroy San Diego like I thought(only 11 arrests last night), although unfortunately they wreaked chaos on their hometown(I heard something like 80 arrests during the mini riot). I had a great time and I would be happy if they ever decide to host it here again.

whitak24

the uncut version that ifilms has is SO much better than the original -- and the original was a classic

cheapie

sorry to bring this thread back but....

did anyone notice that in the reebok terry tate commercial the name of the company is Felcher and Sons?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=felcher

coincidence? i think not!

__________________
70% of the world is covered by water. The rest is covered by Bob Sanders

ramazank2

If there is a famous footware store around you they sell terry tate tshirts that look pretty cool for $5.