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The vote at our house? Awful.

Perhaps I'm getting cynical in my old age (31), but it seems they get worse and worse every year. The group at my house couldn't come up with a single one that was 'great'. The best we could do was 'unoffensive'. I think the fetching Clydesdale got a 'cute' vote. At least the Budweiser ones weren't blatantly offensive. We liked the previews for 'Aliens vs. Monsters' and 'Up', but those were more because the movies themselves looked cute, rather than for any sort of amazing commercial value.

But absolutely nothing stands out as a 'good' commercial, or at least something memorable. The opinion at our house was that the commercials were a spectacular waste of 250+ million dollars (and that's just for the time, nevermind the production costs). I know that times are tough, but we just can't figure out why the companies that did buy time even bothered.

Did you have any favorites? Did I somehow miss a good one?

The Dorito's commercials got a lot of laughs with my friends. I agree with you, I was expecting better.

We liked the Coke Zero commercia. Pepsi's were so much better than the Coke ones.

Paul

I never expect much from the superbowl commericals especially in this state of the economy where companies in tough times cut back and invest less time and resources into advertising. A lot of companies dropped out all together in superbowl advertisment.

[quote=PeterChenoweth]... Perhaps I'm getting cynical in my old age (31), but it seems they get worse and worse every year. quote]

It didn't look any better to this 43 year old. I thought to myself, is this the best that our ad agencies can do? Also, why would Danica Patrick get affiliated with GoDaddy.com? The Pepsi MacGruber thing was also really horrible.

Maybe we need an opinion from someone really old.



















































Jack? Ya' doin' anythin'?

Danica Patrick would be affiliated with Godaddy.com because they're her primary sponsor. Minor details.

I love me some Danica Patrick.

So does your Ferrari.....

We'll see if she's gotten any more mature this season, but as of last season, I'm not exactly a fan. Maybe it wasn't someone else's fault that you screwed up, Danica! Naah... it's always the other driver, or her pit crew (never insult your pit crew, moron), or the rules, or the track, or....