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A half-decent Super Bowl. I didn't win any office pool money, but one of my good friends is a happy Stillers fan who is probably helping overturn cars and burning down Pittsburgh as I type. But like the man who reads Playboy for the pictures of young, airbrushed ladies with big hooters, I watched for the commercials.
And I was disappointed. The only clear winner in my book was a continuing theme from last year: the "Don't judge too quickly" Ameriquest commercials. Both the doctors and the defibrillator, and the woman cowgirling the guy on the plane after turbulence were definitely chuckleworthy.
The commercial with the Hummer as the lovechild of the Japan-destroying giant monster and robot? Amusing, but that was just because it was tremendously weird.
But there wasn't much else: it was either weak, lame, nausea-inducing, or simply appealing to my prurient interest.
The last category was easy, as in, who didn't want to see the GoDaddy girl's strap break again? And who can not like a company named GoDaddy? And Burger King's girl sandwich? Somebody's hungry for a Whopper.
But that was it. Madison Avenue fell asleep at the wheel. Nobody deserves a Clio. Nobody deserves a bonus this year.
Do we really want to see Jessica Simpson shove a reprised Nancy Sinatra song down our throats along with some pizza? Do we really want to see P. Whatever-the-hell-he's-calling-himself-today and Jackie Chan pimp diet soft drinks with smirkmeister Jay Mohr (rhymes with...)? Do we really want to imagine Jim Henson spinning in his grave when Kermit shills for Ford? Do we really want to see Kurt Russell as the new Gene Hackman in a remake of the Poseidon Adventure? Do we really want to see Tom Cruise victorious over Philip Seymour Hoffman in a new Mission Impossible?
All the beer commercials categorically sucked (even though that girl in the red #7 jersey in the Michelob commercial was worth tackling, and we learned that one should not staff their office with rabid alcoholics.)
Although, a five-blade razor with a trimming blade on the back? While a lame commercial, I can't help myself. I'm so there.
And I was disappointed. The only clear winner in my book was a continuing theme from last year: the "Don't judge too quickly" Ameriquest commercials. Both the doctors and the defibrillator, and the woman cowgirling the guy on the plane after turbulence were definitely chuckleworthy.
The commercial with the Hummer as the lovechild of the Japan-destroying giant monster and robot? Amusing, but that was just because it was tremendously weird.
But there wasn't much else: it was either weak, lame, nausea-inducing, or simply appealing to my prurient interest.
The last category was easy, as in, who didn't want to see the GoDaddy girl's strap break again? And who can not like a company named GoDaddy? And Burger King's girl sandwich? Somebody's hungry for a Whopper.
But that was it. Madison Avenue fell asleep at the wheel. Nobody deserves a Clio. Nobody deserves a bonus this year.
Do we really want to see Jessica Simpson shove a reprised Nancy Sinatra song down our throats along with some pizza? Do we really want to see P. Whatever-the-hell-he's-calling-himself-today and Jackie Chan pimp diet soft drinks with smirkmeister Jay Mohr (rhymes with...)? Do we really want to imagine Jim Henson spinning in his grave when Kermit shills for Ford? Do we really want to see Kurt Russell as the new Gene Hackman in a remake of the Poseidon Adventure? Do we really want to see Tom Cruise victorious over Philip Seymour Hoffman in a new Mission Impossible?
All the beer commercials categorically sucked (even though that girl in the red #7 jersey in the Michelob commercial was worth tackling, and we learned that one should not staff their office with rabid alcoholics.)
Although, a five-blade razor with a trimming blade on the back? While a lame commercial, I can't help myself. I'm so there.
posted by Doc Paradox at 10:06 PM
3 Comments:
Who's gonna be the swimmer played by Shelley Winters in the original? Who's gonna replace Red Buttons? (Wasn't he in the original too?)
As for your post, huzzahs all around. Well said, admiral!
Hey remember Leslie Nielsen was the captain in the original? Wow.
Yep, Leslie Nielson was the Cap'n. And Red Buttons was in the original. I double checked IMDb and I was right (this is why the "Poseidon" movie preview confused me) but there was a TV Movie remake (with Rutger Hauer?) called "The Poseidon Adventure" just this past year. I guess seeing a ship capsize twice in as many years is easier than trying to sneak through a remake of "The Towering Inferno" in this day and age.
then there was the 1979 'Beyond the Poseidon Adventure' with Telly Savalas among others.
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