Enjoy this Super Bowl folks, it may in fact be our last. At least according to the Mayan calendar and this Chevy ad, which manages to somehow slip marketing speak into a character’s mouth and have it come out funny. Make sure you have the right truck when the end of the world hits.
Chevy manages to be both funny and informative, in this spot where intergalactic aliens apparently can’t make sense of a hybrid vehicle. It’s okay, we can’t make much sense of them either. Would you let aliens look at your wife like that? We wouldn’t either.
Darth Vader better slow down with that “best of the game” prize… this Camaro commercial came out of nowhere and has won our hearts with its snappy banter, great voice acting, and fantastic driving footage. This doesn’t really have the material to be a viral hit, it’s a little to complicated and has too much… we don’t know, talking? But it’s definitely a great spot. If there’s one award it should get though, it’s “why the hell is there no HD version on your YouTube channel, Chevrolet?” award.
Glee is kind of the show that everyone either loves, hates, or pretends to hate but really loves. There may be people out there who pretend to love it but really hate it, but that would be kind of sick and twisted and we’re not sure we want to live in the world like that. We suppose that Glee is nothing but good clean fun, but it really just seems like bad song covers with some poor writing scribbled between the musical numbers. That’s about it, right?
You know exactly what’s coming in this Super Bowl XLV ad from Chevrolet, but you can’t wait to see it anyway. Then when it comes you’re like “Damn, why did he throw that dude? It was a rubber sledgehammer.” This spot doubles as a commercial for the upcoming Transformers movie, which promises to have more of what you love in a Michael Bay film, which is less of everything that love in the films from directors that actually tell good stories.
Yet another car company is trading in our childhood memories to try and sell some products. Since the Transformers were originally conceived of as a cartoon designed to sell more toys, we guess we can forgive this one. What’s fun about this spot is how unnecessarily violent Bumblebee’s reaction is to the mascot with the rubber sledgehammer, especially given that the Autobots are the “good guys”. Maybe it’s a clue to the plot of the new Transformers movie coming out this year?
The reveal on the joke is great, so we won’t spoil it for anyone. Instead we’ll wonder aloud whether people still put soap in their children’s mouths? We’ve watched A Christmas Story, we know it used to go on back before things like cell phones, the Internet, and good parenting. But what about today, are people really still resorting to what amounts to torture of their children?
Couldn’t soap in their mouth be dangerous in some way? Maybe it would be safer to just duct tape their mouths closed so they can’t speak at all. This way they get the discipline that children these days clearly crave, without the risk of a visit from Children’s Social Services. Maybe tie the little potty mouth to the naughty chair so he doesn’t get any funny ideas.
Mary J. Blige and a cavalcade of people who can’t sing extol the virtues of the Chevrolet.
We’re not sure what the point was having Mary J. Blige sell herself out to Chevy, then following up with a bunch of mostly “ordinary people”. Seems like it would have made more sense as a 100% “average American” commercial.
Hey Mary, by US a Chevrolet.
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.
