Letters to the Editor
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opprobrium yeah!
Calling the Chevy ad homophobic seems not a great deal different to me than calling an average American sidewalk anti-gay for not having enough hot, tanned men on it. I mean, come on, where's the eye candy? It's misogynistic, to boot. And where were the Latinos, let alone Native Americans? Hot people weren't the only under-represented group here!
Several slaps in the face to gays, hah. You know who really got it, were insecure bald people. First the Sierra Mist commercial with the beard combover, then the guy in the moon office losing his toupee. Peace be with any bald gays on this most traumatic morning. You're hated by the world at large, and used by it for sport, o horrible! Or am I reaching too?
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The Snickers ad made me sick to my stomach
Not because of any homophobia, which is a separate subject. It was sufficiently sickening because it showed two ugly, hairy men who appeared to be -- turn away if you're faint hearted -- chewing on a turd. It was just a sickening sight. It wasn't funny, either. It just sucked. First Caddyshack ruined Baby Ruths for me, and now Snickers has ruined Snickers. I'll never eat one again.
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MVP
Colts Offensive Coordinator Tom Moores said that Peyton called all of the plays last night. If you combine Mannings soild performance passing plus his displine in calling boring, clock killing, defense exhausting, runs and short passes, the MVP award went to the right guy.
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a son
Hey guys, lay off "a son". Don't you know the correct response to comments like his are a distracted "that's nice, honey"? Geez, guess none of you are mothers, or haven't been moms to superior-acting junior high, high school, or college freshman type kids. "That's nice, honey" covers a ton of stuff you really don't care about.
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Coke civil rights ad
Actually, dmmacfarlane, I took away from the Coke civil rights ad that apparently nothing's changed since 1963 to advance Civil Rights or mofiy the Coke bottle design.
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Coke ad?
King, I have to totally disagree with you on the Coke ad (inside the vending machine). I don't even like Coca-Cola, and I thought that ad hit all the right notes. Very evocative, and a very nice positive feel to it, without a single word in the ad (other than the Coca-Cola on the bottle).
And how can you write an entire piece about the Budweiser ads, and not mention the craven, insipid, lowest-common-denominator "humor" of the Mencia ad? "I want a Bud light, Holmes" is funny, haha. That's how people in East LA talk, haha. Immigrants who talk funny are funny, haha.
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Super Bowl Blahs
I have to say, the game would have been a lot more interesting to watch if the announcers had any hint of a pulse. Everyone's unloading on Simms but Nantz was just mind numbingly annoying. The only thing I can say for them is that they didn't drive the "black coaches" angle into the ground. Can you imagine the fun better announcers would have had talking about mistakes and miscues and the weather?
My only thing on the ads - both King and the NYT liked the GM ad with the robot arm. Me and my friends found that very disturbing on several levels though (and we liked the Garmin one, so weird wasn't the problem). My first thought was that it was kind of a slap at all the human line works who've lost their jobs to robots over the years and second, what's the deal with committing suicide over it? Imagine if you'd replaced it with a human worker...
I'd rather see a beard comb over anyday than that...even though the bile comes up from the thought.
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GM Ad
I missed the first few seconds of the ad and thought that the machine had been downsized after GM shuttered its plant. The ad makes sense in that respect as well.
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Wasted Jim Irsay Thanks God
Was anyone else bothered by Irsay's drunk rant about why the team won--"we know why we won, it was God's will, God taking care of us, God kept us together, God, God, God." I was particularly bothered by the statement that "we KNOW why we won", it was God. I'm sure there are some super Christians on the Bears team too. Was God mad at them? What would the reaction be if someone said "we won because of Allah"? It would not be pretty. If I was a player I would say "I just want to thank Satan!"
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Hey NT:
Quoting you: "Hey mike.... bigotry is not a right."
It is an American's right to think how they want to about sexuality.
If someone doesn't think that homosexuality is right - that doesn't make them a bigot - it makes them someone who can make up their own mind about what they think is right or wrong.
Do you think it should be illegal for people to think that homosexuality is wrong?? How are you going to enforce that? Evolution = Survival of the fittest. Many rational people believe that homosexuality is not right. I'm not going to stop it - or ever make any attempt to stop it in any manner - I just believe it isn't right and I'm allowed to think it.
We're allowed to drive 70mph in many states, some people think that is an unsafe speed. Are they bigots?
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"It's time for Big Boy Crabs..."
Can I help it if people excitedly watching and then deconstructing television ads reminds me of scenes in Tony Richardson's magisterial version of Evelyn Waugh's THE LOVED ONE -- wherein the mind-numbingly obese Mrs. Joyboy lounges in bed and gnaws on entire pigs while watching her favorite food commercials? If memory serves, she calls the ads "my programs" and damn near has orgasms whenever they flicker across her television screen.
Leave it to a Brit to capture America in a nutshell.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DaGtDJo5R5o
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Ads
A couple ad addenda:
- I agree with the overall "yawn" comment. I kept thinking "$2.5M for that?"
- Not sure I'm seeing the same homophobia angle. It's a bit of a stretch
- I liked the Coke ads, although none of them were "new." I had seen all 3 before, although I believe only in movie theaters. The black history / bottle ad might've been updated to reflect on the game, but the other 2 (Happiness Factory and Video Game) appeared to be the same as before
- I assume you caught the fact that it was actually Ricardo Montalban doing voice over in the Taco Bell ad. That pushed it up a notch.
- The most tivo'd ads were bud Light's Mencia Language Lessons and Rock Paper Scissors.