Favorite Super Bowl commercial?
Chrysler
I say Eminem is this year’s Super Bowl MVP.
Most valuable pitchman.
Both the ads he appeared in, for Brisk and Chrysler, were super. The Chrysler ad made me want to buy a Chrysler and drive it to Detroit.
VW
The VW “Darth Vader” ad is getting lots of buzz. In fact it started getting attention before the game, as VW posted it on social media networks in advance. So it felt familiar by the time it aired. It was understated and sweet.
Best Buy
Justin Bieber showed some self-effacing humor in the ad for Best Buy he filmed with Ozzy Osbourne. Tag line: “What’s a Bieber?”
“All I’m gonna say is if you can laugh at yourself life is more fun,” the teen superstar tweeted.
I thought the Android ad, with the thumbs sticking out of the robot, was sort of creepy. Did you like the Dorito’s ads? Pepsi Max? Bud? Coca-Cola? What was your favorite?
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Down year
February 7th, 2011
9:20 am
Down year for commercials; however the Darth Vader ad was my favorite. Nothing Eminem does short of falling off a cliff would make me excited to see him on television. The Doritos ad with grandpa coming back to life was good; the one with the sucking of the co-workers finger was more creepy than the Android commercial. Budweiser, usually the king of Super Bowl commercials, wins the “Most Disappointing Year” award.
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February 7th, 2011
9:21 am
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Mr. Personality and Willie Sewell, Jennifer Brett. Jennifer Brett said: The Eminem Chrysler ad made me want to buy a Chrysler and drive it to Detroit. Your fave? http://bit.ly/fCBxSr [...]
Budweiser ad
February 7th, 2011
9:47 am
Those Clydesdales should go on strike after that commercial. Of course, this is the crap we get when a foreign company buys out an American icon. Hope the Busch family choked on their beers last night.
Jennifer Brett
February 7th, 2011
9:58 am
Down year,
I agree with you. The Dorito’s ad about the office weirdo was just creepy.
Jennifer
Mr. Ed
February 7th, 2011
10:05 am
Chrysler nailed it last night. Would I buy one of their products? More than likely not, but stirred my emotion and some allegiance to American made products without waving the flag in my face. I think they sold Detroit instead of the vehicle.
Mr. Ed
February 7th, 2011
10:06 am
my bad.. it stirred my emotion
pirate
February 7th, 2011
10:10 am
The Chrysler ad was really good. The Pepsi Max ads were weak. Doritos were pretty weird, and not in a good way. Overall, lame year.
Call it like it is
February 7th, 2011
10:15 am
The Dark Side wins hands down. Not even close.
MP
February 7th, 2011
10:27 am
the vader ad was THE best! something that everyone can relate to and pretty friggin’ cute.
jdl2
February 7th, 2011
10:30 am
the Pepsi Max ad with the wife hitting the girl in the head with the can. Only laugh all night except the look on Rothlisberger’s face when he got whipped (priceless).
Rennsport
February 7th, 2011
10:33 am
Shouldn’t the Darth Vader VW ad have been for a Jetta rather than a Passat?
Fire Frank Wren
February 7th, 2011
10:38 am
A lot of misses this year, but the hits were definitely:
1. The VW Darth Vader commercial
2. The Doritos commercial with the office guy
3. The Pepsi Max/Date ad
4. The CareerBuilder/monkey ad
Personally, I liked the Eminem ad for Chrysler and agree that it sold Detroit or even all American cars more than the Chrysler per se. Nonetheless, it was a great ad, and I’m glad Chrysler and Eminem did it.
Sports Fan
February 7th, 2011
10:46 am
This year the game was far, far better than the commmercials. It’s a shame that the great Budweiser commercials of the past will never be seen again. I’m a Miller Lite guy but I love those Bud Clydesdale horses.
kennyp
February 7th, 2011
10:52 am
My favorite was the Bridgestone ad when the guy thougth he hit reply all on an email – for the most part, not great ads though…
BradD
February 7th, 2011
10:56 am
The Doritos ones were the best. I laughed so hard at those, the Eminem ones weren’t good at all in my opinion, also House was extremely funny. Other wise everything sucked… this was the worst Super Bowl I’ve seen since I started watching them back in 98
Jennifer Brett
February 7th, 2011
11:08 am
Rennsport:
TD!!!
Jennifer
chrysler is coming back
February 7th, 2011
11:09 am
wait and see. it will become the jack daniels of automobile brands. independent. brash.
NANA
February 7th, 2011
11:14 am
The best was by far VW and Darth Vader. I also really liked the E-trade baby and his Italian designer. That kid always cracks me up.
daddy
February 7th, 2011
11:24 am
darth vader blows all ads..eminem blows
cheesehead
February 7th, 2011
11:28 am
Enter your comments here
cheesehead
February 7th, 2011
11:29 am
Oops……
1. Darth Vader
2. Snickers w Rosanne Barr getting creamed by a log
3. ProFlowers? w the guy writing from his heart…”I love your rack”
VoiceOfReason
February 7th, 2011
11:32 am
I also thought the VW Darth Vader ad was best but am I the only one that really like the Audi commercial with the rich people in prison?
SP
February 7th, 2011
12:44 pm
The Imported from Detroit Chrysler spot was by far my favorite. You couldn’t help but get inspired to go out and buy an American car to help some down home hard working people. Loved the little Darth Vadar kid but couldn’t for the life of me remember what car it was for after it aired. Also loved the teaser ad for the upcoming VW bug cruising through bug world. Overall the car ads kicked ass, everything else sucked like Pittsburgh!
rao
February 7th, 2011
12:52 pm
I thought the funniest commercial was the Kenny G/Audi collaboration. The unforturnate thing is that Audi decided to put such a smart commercial on during the biggest meathead night of the year, and nobody got it….
VSB
February 7th, 2011
1:07 pm
Great piece, and I love the shout-out to Detroit. But so you know, you spelled it incorrectly in your fourth sentence (Detoit).
Jennifer Brett
February 7th, 2011
1:12 pm
VSB uh oh you’re right. I fixed it. Sorry about that!
Jennifer
VoiceOfReason
February 7th, 2011
1:44 pm
VBS… so what? Did you not understand the word?
I hate the knuckleheads that feel like they have to come here to correct spelling.
Kar
February 7th, 2011
1:45 pm
I liked the Detroit ad too even though I’m not an Enimem fan. Also like the Darth Vader but the number of Bud Light ads were overkill. Miss the classic Clydesdales, A-B can do better than this, still love their “thank you” ad with the applause in the airport terminal the best.
The unexpected ending for the Pepsi commercial made me laugh the loudest, just didn’t expect her to nail that jogger in the head.
And enough with the monkeys and babies already!
WAR EAGLE
February 7th, 2011
2:32 pm
Best commercial? OZZY!
sad
February 7th, 2011
2:43 pm
Favorites: The Woodchuck, Reply all, and Darth Vader.
sad
February 7th, 2011
2:45 pm
oh and torpedo cooler too!
Keeping It Real
February 7th, 2011
3:08 pm
I like Doritos when I watch football.
As of 3pm on Monday afternoon, President Obama still hasn’t called to congratulate the Green Bay Packers on their Super Bowl victory over Coach Mike Tomlin and the Steelers.
However, this same President tripped over himself to congratulate Coach Tomlin when the Steelers won the Super Bowl the year before last.
Can you guess why?
mamaj
February 7th, 2011
3:14 pm
“Keeping It Real”; The President doesn’t march to your own personal schedule. Is it at all possible that he has called to congratulate them, and he just didn’t give you a call to let YOU know he did ?
mamaj
February 7th, 2011
3:18 pm
The funniest commercial during the Superbowl last evening by far, was the Pepsi Max commercial where the wife threw the can meant for her husband, at the blond girl. There was hardly any commercial that came close. Do you want to know why,”Keeping It Real”?
Brazen Unicorn
February 7th, 2011
3:29 pm
A few of my favorites:
1. Audi
2. Darth Vader
3. Bridgestone (”Reply all” and woodchuck)
4. Careerbuilder (chimps)
Keeping It Real
February 7th, 2011
3:34 pm
mamaj -
Just as Obama is THE WORST President in History, you are likely THE WORST blogger in history.
White House Press Secretary Gibbs on 02-07-2011:
“President Obama Has Not Called Packers Yet To Congratulate Them.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/02/07/gibbs_obama_has_not_called_packers_yet_to_congratulate_them.html
Enjoy life in Clayton County, mamaj!
sad
February 7th, 2011
3:56 pm
Is this really news worthy about the telephone call? Why the inference to Clayton County? Goodness people are a mess.
mamaj
February 7th, 2011
4:43 pm
Why would you want “The worst President in history, calling anyone about anything? Just something else to complain about–that’s all.
mamaj
February 7th, 2011
4:45 pm
Oh, by the way, “Keeping it Real”, I live nowhere near Clayton Co., but what’s that got to do with anything? Also,what makes me the worst blogger–because I don’t agree with you about your assessment of the President?
Johnny G
February 7th, 2011
4:56 pm
Hey KIR, you’re a douche, obviously you were in a coma for the 8 years W was in office. Is that Keeping It Real enough for ya KIR?
The funny commericals were :
Snickers and the Richard Lewis and Rosanne being whiners, nice take on last years Betty White ad.
The Doritos ad when the guy forget to feed the fish and found out Doritos had magic powers….
The VW ad w/ the kid was really good too.
Braves #17 Fan
February 7th, 2011
11:31 pm
My mom thought GoDaddy was a pornographic company. I hate their ads myself. Doritos was just plain awkward. I think I’ll opt for the Kroger brand.
1. Camaro and red head
2. NFL’s famous fans
3. Darth Vader
@VoiceofReason – Lighten up. I think VBS meant to correct as a favor and didn’t mean it condescendingly. It’s sort of like a buddy letting you know your fly is open.
computerblue
February 9th, 2011
8:48 am
the best one was the VW/Darth Vader commercial — @Rennsport: too funny; never thought of that, but your comment rocked.
i liked the audi one, but agree that it might’ve been too cerebral for the super bowl. i like the dorito one up until they resurrected grandpa — that was creepy.
i just don’t understand how a company can pay that much for a spot and then just have such a lousy commercial. next year almost no one will remember these commercials (it’s only been 3 days and i’ve forgotten most of them). whatever happened to the truly amazing commercials that we used to see — so amazing that people would watch for the commercials as much as they did for the games.
why can’t we have commercials that are truly memorable? mean joe greene and the coke (i did love the house spoof of that this year though), the original macintosh commercial, ibm herding cats, bud weis er, larry vs michael for mcdonalds, etc. no one will remember anything from this year — unless how creepy the finger suck commercial was….
computerblue
February 9th, 2011
8:54 am
oops, that should have EDS not IBM… sorry guys.