Collection of 2006 superbowl ads and news related to the 2006 Super Bowl.
While we love us some Jay Mohr and Jackie Chan, this commercial seems to be sending a mixed message. By swapping in Diet Coke as a stunt double, isn’t that kinda saying that Coke is more awesome than Pepsi? Jackie Chan doesn’t need a stunt double, and Jackie Chan kicks ass; Diet Pepsi does need stunt double, so Diet Pepsi must be a punk.
Frankly we can’t stand Diet Pepsi, Diet Coke, or diet anything for that matter. The strong cancer aftertaste kind of turns us off.
Okay now, come on! Who would not want to work here? We think the real reason CareerBuilder dropped the chimps has nothing to do with PETA, and everything to do with the fact that people watching their ads were secretly hoping their own workplace would turn into a wild monkey party, and nobody was actually going to CareerBuilder because of that.
Kermit lectures everyone on how he’s better than us because he’s green, then stumbles upon an abandoned Ford Escape Hybrid at the top of a mountain and realizes that he’s not so great after all.
Does anyone else get creeped out by seeing Kermit’s feet? It’s one thing to enjoy the little guy in the context of him being a puppet, or muppet, or whatever. But then he walks around, rides in canoes, climbs mountains… it just feels somehow wrong.
This is a great commercial for a great product, which when you think about it is pretty rare during the Super Bowl. You have lots of great commercials, an equal number of terrible products, and the rest of it just plain stinks.
So here’s a question: why aren’t all of Sharpie’s products these clicker thingies? Is there any value at all in having a cap?
Okay, so we suppose it’s possible that they could have been ironically associating Pepsi with diarrhea; setting aside for a moment the fact that drinking too much could conceivably give you diarrhea, we’ll allow that as a possibility. So go all the way with it, own it, really let us have it! Don’t dance around the issue, show us some serious diarrhetic symbolism: chocolate soft-serve or something, we don’t know.
Right, so what started out as hands-down the worst commercial we’ve ever seen wound up somehow redeeming itself at the end. This whole thing reminds us of that old game Burgertime, anyone else remember that? Didn’t you want to toss pepper into the eyes of the strange burger-women and trample them to death?
What about the King back there, taking time out of his creepy peeping-Tom schedule to lead a 30′s musical full of women dressed as burger ingredients.
So this World Baseball Classic thing, has anyone else not heard of this?
Anyway, it sounds like this… baseball world thing is kind of exactly what the World Series is supposed to be, right? Doesn’t it? At least football doesn’t claim to have any sort of world domination championship: it’s just the Super Bowl. It’s a bowl, and it’s super.
Baseball? Yeah, we got the WORLD SERIES! We have the best teams in the WORLD play a championship game… and then we have something called a World Baseball Classic, too.
Anheiser-Busch has apparently given Michelob the commercial B-team. This spot has all of the hallmarks of almost being good, without actually being any good.
I mean did you see the look in the psycho’s eyes before he tackled that blonde? It looked like he broke her back! How many doofuses do you think went out and played a half-time game of touch football on the front lawn and wound up breaking a few bones?
Bud Light really needs to dial it a back a notch: they’re apparently sucking all of the creativity out of everyone else’s commercials, not to mention their own ads throughout the rest of the year.
Wait, does Budweiser even have any commercials that don’t air during the Super Bowl?
The truly insidious thing about their marketing team is that they are using their powers for pure evil. Would anyone drink this swill if it weren’t for their brilliant ads?
Okay, we were about to pass judgment on this as being stupid, long, loud, and pointless. Plus it’s for an energy drink, which kind of matches that description too.
But there’s something about this ridiculous ad that just grows on you, like a super-long hair growing out of that mole on your shoulder that you can’t bring yourself to pluck. You just want to see how far it can go!
So yeah, this commercial should have been about fourteen minutes longer and ended up with the complete destruction of the Earth.
Richard Dean Anderson reprises his star-marking role, but not his mullet, in this hilarious Mastercard ad from 2006.
This was probably almost the last year they could have done this and still count on having an audience that mostly knew who the hell he was.
Does anyone now know what this commercial is referring too anymore? Anyone?
