Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Second rate reporter says what?

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

No one could have predicted…

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

The willow is too close to the house.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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  1. 1.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    It would have been funny had it had polar bears at the castle and penguins leading the dragon.

  6. 6.

    trollhattan

    I hated that ad. All that overproduction and no payoff–yuck. Boarder guards ad was better, but still second tier to the best ads of the day. Coke for the loss (Pepsi was no better).

    Also, too, the annual handegg championship competition was quite zesty throughout, lessening our reliance on ads to keep interested.

  7. 7.

    Somerville

    #trollhattan

    I hated that ad. All that overproduction and no payoff—yuck.

    Well, what did you expect? You’re a troll, your side lost. I on the other hand thought it was the best of the day. The furry people won.

    and another thing – what did you think of the Black Eyed Peas performance at half time?

  13. 13.

    GMF

    @Ash Can:

    Sorry, but I think that was the problem with it. Where’s JC on this one? Being a WoW player, I’ve got to imagine it was a big eye-roller for him.

    Coke’s ad agency is stuck back in days of their polar bear ads – time for someone who operates in the 21st century.

  14. 14.

    Studly Pantload

    @Redshirt:

    When as was at my local salad bar (alas! not Applebee’s) for lunch, today, I heard a woman gushing to her companion about the Jetta Li’l Vader ad. I gotta admit, that’s probably one for the books, even though I’m not how many Jettas it will actually sell.

    But when you think about it, commercials (or at least their tag lines) work their way into popular culture fairly regularly. Witnesseth:

    “Where’s the beef?”
    “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”
    “See the USA in your Chevrolet” (reprised last night, even, for “Glee”)
    “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.”
    “Inquiring minds want to know!”
    “Take it off – take it all off.”
    “Two all-beef patties, special sauce, etc., etc.”
    “He likes it! Hey, Mikey!”
    “Mama mia, that’s a spicy meatball!”
    “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.”

    Google will even complete these sentences for you as you type them into Search.

  15. 15.

    Warren Terra

    @J.:
    You believe the Ozzie/Bieber ad was one of the three best? If that’s not an inditement of all the other ads …

    @Just Some Fuckhead:
    Pretty funny idea – though it has obvious problems (how many people have a male-to-female USB extension cord?). Also, it’s not like there’s a lack of conversation spaces on the web, of every sort, nor of places to distribute files of questionable legality or whatever. Actually, I can’t really think of any use for the idea, and yet it somehow appeals to me. Weird.

  16. 16.

    Sentient Puddle

    @GMF: I think you’re right. If the context of that ad is supposed to be fantasy gaming, being cute works against it. Not to say that it’s impossible to pull off (hell, WoW itself is “cute” relative to the rest of the field), but I just don’t think this one managed it.

    That said, I’m generally not a fan of Coke’s ads, so there’s that too.

  17. 17.

    Warren Terra

    @Mark S.:

    May I suggest our next book for our discussion group?

    I find this report a little hard to believe. Sarah Palin is as dumb as a bag full of hammers, and half as well educated, but someone savvy has been doing a good job with her brand management and maximizing her revenue. This seems more likely to damage Palin’s money machine than to work – although, maybe it’s just that Bristol doesn’t trust Mommy to share the loot.

  18. 18.

    Hob

    Not about the Super Bowl, and not entirely new but I haven’t seen it mentioned here: Alan Fucking Dershowitz debated Mona Eltahawy on CNN about Egyptian democracy. Dershowitz actually used the “Hitler was elected too” argument with a straight face; then he went on about how it would be bad for Egypt to elect a government that would make women wear burqas (while carefully avoiding any discussion of whether or not the Muslim Brotherhood would be likely to do so). Eltahawy: “You’re talking nonsense.” Dershowitz: “You’re just wrong.”

  19. 19.

    Redshift

    I thought the Coke ones weren’t bad, but they didn’t really excite me. The border-guard one was better.

    The little Vader one didn’t do much for me; I don’t see why it’s getting so much buzz. It’s cute, but there’s not much more there, and the stuff they’re going to cut out to make it 30 seconds is so obviously filler, it drags it down.

    My favorites were actually the Doritos ads, especially the pug one.

    (I actually watched them on YouTube, so I have no idea if the ones I saw actually aired.)

  20. 20.

    catclub

    @Mark S.: NO.

    I won last time by preferring to discuss something worthwhile. I hope to win again on that score.

    I won so well I have already forgotten what piece of dreck I was opposed to wasting time on.

    But maybe I need to read something to help my sense of humor, and being trolled radar.

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack

    __

    [. . .] how come no love for this particular Superbowl ad?

    Consensus at my Super Bowl gathering was that it was a pointless CGI-fest with no content. You know, a Michael Bay film. Or, come to think of it, sort of like Coca-Cola, if you substitute sugar for CGI. Well, then, mission accomplished!

  24. 24.

    Suffern ACE

    The border add was better as it reinforced Coke’s long-standing positioning of the universal drink that brings people together. I think there’s a song about that.

    I’m confused as to what this dragon ad is saying as I can’t tell what the dragon’s reaction is. Is he now happily on the side of the snow creatures or is he just mad that he has lost his powers and is throwing a tantrum? Only good people drink Coke? Coke makes people mad? Coke makes you a hero? Coke isn’t a clever drink and I don’t think of it as a drink that causes a party to break out in my mouth. The ad is a lot of bluster.

    Also, thanks to asiangirlMN, I’m bored with the color-balancing.

  26. 26.

    Studly Pantload

    @Suffern ACE: @piratedan:

    Oh, so *that’s* the commercial that’s being referenced, here (my employer blocks the YouTube). I’d so forgotten it, I needed your recap to remind me of it. Agreed, a muddled mess.

    Funny thing about the border guard ad – their outfits, to me, totally screamed “Western imperialits!” It was cute and all, but I did think it odd they’d want to harken back to 19th century colonialism.
    =0 )

  29. 29.

    Studly Pantload

    @Mako:

    I am (although the older ones are what I remember from my childhood).

    And don’t you mean, “Who wears short shorts”?

  32. 32.

    Mako

    @Mako:
    And, I would argue that your remembrance of fast food jingles more closely tracks the growth of childhood obesity than some study suggesting solid food before 6 months.

  33. 33.

    Anne Laurie

    @Mako: That’d be “Who wears short shorts“:

    … which was a ‘not so golden oldie’ even in my paleodileuvian childhood, but a “real” song, not an ad jingle.

  35. 35.

    Warren Terra

    @Anne Laurie:

    paleodileuvian

    I get what you’re trying to do here, but it doesn’t really work. “paleolithic” would be fine, or “antediluvian”; indeed, either would be evocative and an enjoyable word choice. But the combination doesn’t actually make sense.

    PS the whole embedding a Youtube clip in a comment thing – is that something anyone can do now, or just a front pager?

  40. 40.

    PanurgeATL

    So is “Mars, The Bringer of War” still under copyright? Why (else) would they use the real “1812 Overture” music (though transposed down a bit for some reason) and then use original music that sounds like it was modeled on “Mars” instead of the real thing?

  41. 41.

    wes

    Second, since I know many of us are geeks and some of us are gamers, how come no love for this particular Superbowl ad?

    cuz it wasn’t really a game..?

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