Reebok – 2003 – Office Linebacker

Before you all go wishing that your office had its own linebacker, ask yourself this question: how often would you be on the receiving end of Terry Tate’s brand of cubicle justice?

Sounds kind of worth it though to watch that jerk Steve get dropped for coming in late, when the rest of us have to show up on time.

Pepsico – 2008 – Bob’s House

This brilliant spot turns on an old joke that originated in the deaf community.

While we love the ad, does anyone else find it strange that they’re about to watch the Super Bowl kickoff… yet everyone in the entire neighborhood is apparently sound asleep? Yeah, we didn’t either.

Sierra Mist – 2007 – Karate

 

This spot doesn’t have the magic of the Beard Comb-Over, despite adding Tracy Morgan to the mix. It still has some charm, but we just kept waiting and waiting for the “funny thing” to happen and it never quite did.

We have to admit, that cold Sierra Mist really did look delicious and refreshing, so they got that going for them.

Sierra Mist – 2007 – Combover

If you’re not following Michael Ian Black and Jim Gaffigan on Twitter… well, then you’ve avoided being terribly offended several times a day and have not wasted a whole lot of time on Twitter, so good on you.

These two are great together in this Sierra Mist spots, though we think any one of us would kill somebody to be able to pull off a beard comb-over. It’s sort of awe-inspiring in its own disgusting way.

American Heart Association – 2007 – Beat Your Risk

A crazy old man is kidnapped and brutally assaulted in broad daylight, and nobody lifts a finger to help him. Seems like the American Heart Association wanted to get out the word about heart attack risk without being a Debbie Downer, but wound up making a short film about the dangers of living in an urban society.

We guess anything works as long as it gets you to stop and think before shoving that thirteenth jalapeno popper in your mouth, right?

Fedex – 2007 – Moon Office

Fedex has historically done great Super Bowl commercials, but this isn’t one of them. The spot is well done, it just isn’t particularly funny to begin with. We think they could and should have done a lot more with the “office on the Moon” gag than just having a guy float away. Something maybe having to do with the fact that what the hell is a Fedex office doing on the Moon in the first place? Maybe? We don’t know, we’re just spit-balling here.

GoDaddy – 2007 – Marketing Department


Wow, we feel dumber just for watching this garbage.

If they can afford to give away domains for $1.99 and still put terrible commercials in the Super Bowl every year, can they just spare us the ads and give domains away for free? GoDaddy, what is that even supposed to mean anyway?

The wizards at GoDaddy’s marketing department need to watch a Victoria’s Secret spot, then they’ll see how to really get a man’s attention.

Chevrolet – 2007 – Guys Can’t Keep Their Hands Off

We’re not exactly sure what they were going for here, but it comes off as some sort of bizarre automobile gang-rape. We think this was a winning college entry that wound up on the air, but that doesn’t make it any less terrible. This makes us want to crash a Chevy into whoever made this awful commercial.

Garmin – 2007 – Super Hero

We were going to make fun of this for implying that even in 2007 people still used folding maps, but the song won us over. Listen closely to the lyrics, that’s the kind of attention to detail that makes a good commercial brilliant. Makes us want to hit eBay and see if there are any Ultraman DVDs kicking around out there.

Was Maposaurus seriously just defeated with a crotch ray?

Coca Cola – 2007 – Videogame

Coke takes their hippie peace-and-love image from the sixties and updates it by flipping a game of Grand Theft Auto on its head. This should totally be a GTA mod, or maybe even the next in the series. Rock Star, are you listening? You could call it “GTA: Boulder, Colorado”.

Incidentally, Boulder is the happiest city in America according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index 2010.

Nationwide – 2007 – Rollin’ VIP

Major respect to K-Fed for making fun of himself in this hilarious piece. Life comes at you fast indeed. Not much more that can be said about that.

Did anyone else actually kind of enjoy the song and want to hear more? No… really?

Fedex Ground – 2007 – Not What It Seems

The theme here is to not judge something just by its name, but the spot seems to be reinforcing the opposite message?

While the jokes actually work against the theme, the whole ad is just too hilarious for us to care. If you don’t think “Well said, Mr. Turkeyneck” is funny, then frankly there’s just no hope for you.