Favorite Superbowl Commercials?

[CBright7831]

I'm not sure where to put this, but I put it in here.

 

What are some of your favorite Superbowl commercials?

 

+ Bob Dole/Pepsi

+ WWF AttitudeZ: Get it?

+ Cat herders

+ Barry Bonds retirement

+ Terry Tate

+ Zebra/jackass

 

I'll add on later.

[sfaJack]

Terry Tate was a good one. I wish we'd hire that guy to take care of some of the dead weight around my office.

 

I also really liked the one where the zebra was reviewing a replay while the horses all stood around waiting to run the next play. I think it was a Budweiser commercial, but I don't remember that part of it.

[CBright7831]

How could I forget the Zebra?

[smh810]

Budweiser Lizards vs. Frogs (w/ Ferret)- 1998

[Ravenbomb]

that investment commercial with the monkey dancing in the garage

"We've just wasted *insert large amount of money here*, how will you spend YOUR money?"

[CBright7831]

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/bannedsuperbowl.html

 

I wish this one would air.

[KingPK]

Banning that one is complete bullshit. What the hell is so controversial about it? It's just poking fun at the whole "Nipplegate" buisiness last year.

 

I loved the Bud "What are you doing?" commercials with all the preppies impersonating the "Whassup?" guys.

 

Terry Tate was incredibly funny. Most of the Bud ones are well done every year.

[The Czech Republic]

That Coke (or Pepsi?) one with the vending machine that rejects the dollar. That was old though, must've been way back, like Niners-Chargers or something

[Mik]

My favorite Super Bowl commercial was the "Running of the Squirrels" commercial from the same company that did the cat herder - which I also loved. I wish they would make more commercials - are they even still around?

[Fökai]

For me, it's the only Superbowl commercial I ever looked forward to - "WWF: Get It?". Going back to that game, though we had about 15 wrestling fans around the television, we had no idea when the commercial was to air, so we'd take piss breaks during the game itself.

[CBright7831]

Another good site: http://sports.channel.aol.com/nfl/historical

 

Apple (1984)

Budweiser Donkey (2004)

[Art Sandusky]

I missed the frogs getting fried. I took a piss break from all the Coke I'd drank during the pregame show, and I hear this loud noise from the living room through the wall while my father bursts into near-manical laughter. Never saw it again.

[Jobber of the Week]

I'm partial to the "Bud Bowl" series (don't know why, but the concept was always silly enough to amuse me)

 

Here's another one you may not be familiar with. Lemmings (click to watch) was Apple's "1984" for 1985. Introducing a combination suite for office tools and the original LaserWriter printer, this ad was fueled on the success of 1984 and a big marketing campaign (every seat in the stadium had an Apple logo, full page ads were taken out in major newspapers announcing what quarter to find the spot.)

 

Bad news: It bombed. The creepy music and people falling to their death didn't inspire anyone like 1984 did and the ad was panned by critics and viewers alike.

 

Worse news: Fragile executive egos didn't like being compared to animals jumping off a cliff, making Apples a non-entity in the corporate world. Effects of this commercial are still being felt today as even in today's upswing, Apple's business presence is only visible in graphics and server markets, with the number crunching organizations passing them over.

 

So, the next time you walk through an office building full of nothing but Windows machines, or the next time a PC user tells you that Mac people are pricks who think they're better than everyone else, look to this ad to see where it started. Still, it took a lot of balls to try that. However, it cost the ad agency credibility in the short-term as Apple fired them and then took out another full-page newspaper ad wishing them good luck in the future in a rather condescending tone.

 

Apple did eventually hire back that agency back, though, to sell a little something called iPod. Maybe you've heard about it.

[Jericholic82]

I'm partial to the "Bud Bowl" series (don't know why, but the concept was always silly enough to amuse me)

 

Here's another one you may not be familiar with. Lemmings (click to watch) was Apple's "1984" for 1985. Introducing a combination suite for office tools and the original LaserWriter printer, this ad was fueled on the success of 1984 and a big marketing campaign (every seat in the stadium had an Apple logo, full page ads were taken out in major newspapers announcing what quarter to find the spot.)

 

Bad news: It bombed. The creepy music and people falling to their death didn't inspire anyone like 1984 did and the ad was panned by critics and viewers alike.

 

Worse news: Fragile executive egos didn't like being compared to animals jumping off a cliff, making Apples a non-entity in the corporate world. Effects of this commercial are still being felt today as even in today's upswing, Apple's business presence is only visible in graphics and server markets, with the number crunching organizations passing them over.

 

So, the next time you walk through an office building full of nothing but Windows machines, or the next time a PC user tells you that Mac people are pricks who think they're better than everyone else, look to this ad to see where it started. Still, it took a lot of balls to try that. However, it cost the ad agency credibility in the short-term as Apple fired them and then took out another full-page newspaper ad wishing them good luck in the future in a rather condescending tone.

 

Apple did eventually hire back that agency back, though, to sell a little something called iPod. Maybe you've heard about it.

the 1984 one is always mentioned near the top of the list of every show that does a look at classic commercials

 

 

 

 

wwf attitude was great for its time

 

or the lesser remembered ones from the next year 2000

 

(one of them was banned, it had an old folks home and all of a sudden they watched wwf and started acting like the wrestlers, old guy thinking he was val venis saying hello laidies and one guy dressed liek the godfather and he neede to use an oxygen tank)

 

 

they had one with a little baby and also one with a beauty pageant

[CBright7831]

They should honestly put a Wrestlemania commercial on the superbowl.

[2GOLD]

I like "They usually go for two" very much.

And I despise the Britney Spears commercials.

[LoRisk]

Can't remember what it was for, but there was the one with Christopher Reeve a few years back. I was like "HOLY CRAP!" when I saw him walking, I swore it was real.

[Guest Phenom]

The Budweiser commercial with the robots was always good.