Super Bowl: Food Commercials Wrapup
The Super Bowl is about so much more than football. It's also about commercialism! After the jump watch six examples of food-related commercials from yesterday's Super Bowl that range from "funny and witty" to, "That was kind of horrible, why did I sit through that?" Check out more Super Bowl ads at myspace.com.
Will Ferrell Bud Light Super Bowl Commercial
The word "loins" just doesn't sound right outside of the context of food. Less so when spoken by Will Ferrell.
Doritos Super Bowl Commercial: Giant Mouse Trap
Creepiest mouse infestation ever.
Budweiser Clydesdales Superbowl Ad: Hank the Clydesdale
You can do it, Hank! You can do it!!! But for some reason only with the help of a dalmation.
Coca Cola Super Bowl Commercial: Parade Balloon
Coca Cola is so good that even inanimate objects will fight over it.
Planters Nuts Super Bowl Commercial: Woman Attracts Men w/ Nuts
Ladies, no matter how freaky you look, get men to lust after you with just one whiff by rubbing your skin with Planters Cashews. You'll receive more (un)wanted attention than ever before.
Sobe Life Water Super Bowl Commercial: Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell and poorly rendered lizards selling enhanced water. My eyes, they bleed.
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9 Comments:
You can do it, Hank! You can do it!!! But for some reason only with the help of a dalmation.
That's what made this commercial pretty bad, it was referencing an earlier ad by Miller, where a dalmation jumps off of an old-school wagon pulled by Clydesdales and into a Miller truck. If you haven't seen the previous ad, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and even if you had it seems kinda lame to just be responding to them.
Sobe Life Water Super Bowl Commercial: Naomi Campbell
This was a really terrible ad, the lizards don't really make sense (until I looked it up online and realized the water was made by Sobe, and even then it seemed like a stretch.
Now the Doritos mouse trap ad...that was pure genius. :)
pcrackenhead at 3:16PM on 02/04/08
I kind of believe that the Naomi Campbell-lizard commercial was intentionally a train-wreck -- poorly executed just so people would talk about it.
Raphael at 3:32PM on 02/04/08
Wow, is Naomi a bad dancer!
aharste at 3:44PM on 02/04/08
actually, i kinda like the naomi/thriller ad. it's amusing in its preposterousness. and it makes sense since she was in a michael jackson video back in the day.
otherwise i thought all of the commercials except the planters one were pretty terrible. as if stewie wouldn't kick charlie brown's butt. :)
lexophile at 4:13PM on 02/04/08
the doritos one was great. i think the will farrell one requires you to have him do the commercial. but the doritos concept was genius. granted, slightly less funny with each viewing, but so awesome the first time.
foodinmouth at 4:16PM on 02/04/08
The coke one was cute, if only because Charlie Brown won in the end. (RIP, Charles.)
DaveFaris at 5:52PM on 02/04/08
I could't help being amused by the cashew commercial since I actually think that would work on my husband- he has a serious cashew addiction! I also liked the dancing lizards.
play-with-food at 9:26PM on 02/04/08
zomg, Charlie Brown ftw?! Woot!
OneWallKitchen at 10:02PM on 02/04/08
sorry I may have really bad taste but I liked Hank and the dalmation. But then instead of watching the superbowl I watched the puppy bowl. I also liked that Charlie Brown finally won one!!
huney_bumper at 7:52AM on 02/05/08