According to the folks at the CSM, the finger-licking Doritos commercial was the second most creepy ad last night:
It actually kind of reminded me of something SNL would do. Anyone else remember Will Ferrell in flag underwear?
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Violet
That commercial was seriously creepy. Not funny at all.
I really liked the Audi one with the rich people in prison and Kenny G. “Release the hounds!” LOL. I think on subsequent viewings there would be a lot of clever details hidden in it.
I also liked the Coke ad with the border guards. I haven’t seen it get a lot of buzz, but I liked it.
Darth Vader and Eminem/Detroit ad were great of course, but they got all the buzz.
South of I-10
I’ve been watching the “Best Of” SNL on Netflix while riding the stationary bike in the morning. I watched the Best of Will Farrell last week and it had the flag underwear. I am watching Best of Chris Farley this week, the sketch with him and Patrick Swayze trying out for Chippendale’s is hysterical.
Gravenstone
Second? I literally cringed when I saw that damned atrocity.
J.W. Hamner
Weirdly, I just had a wine and cheese dinner. Not powdered cheese though.
JenJen
@South of I-10: To this day, and it doesn’t matter that I’ve seen it like a hundred times, that Chippendale’s skit slays me.
And yeah, Will Ferrell in the flag underwear, wasn’t that shortly after 9/11 and was kind of a dig on how hyper-patriotic people were getting? Loved it.
Ash Can
That Doritos commercial blew dead goats. And the Groupon commercial was worse.
gogol's wife
@South of I-10:
Chris Farley is brilliant in that sketch (and Swayze gives him phenomenal support). After seeing this ad and the one for some horrible Pepsi potion that ABL posted earlier, I’m so glad I don’t go anywhere near the Super Bowl. Who do they think is the target audience for this? I guess I shouldn’t be so naive as to ask.
bago
You and Jake Tapper. Serious snl related blittertwog traffic.
Suffern ACE
Egad, I missed that one. I suppose it is a way to turn a product negative into a premium (Wow. It stains your fingers! How fun is that! Pretzels don’t do it. Potato chips sure don’t. Whee). Don’t think it works. “Oh yeah – the snack that stains pants if you’re not careful and eat too much of them and you’ll go insane.”
tkogrumpy
Sorry I don’t talk to people who watch ads.
Xecky Gilchrist
Urgh, that ad’s right up there with the Quizno’s ad from some years ago that had a natty business-suited woman eating a Quizno’s sandwich remnant out of a garbage can. I’ve never even walked on the same side of the goddam street as a Quizno’s ever since.
Dead Ernest
The Groupon failure bothered me as an adult, my brain recognized disappointment with another (near) sentient creature’s stupidity.
The dotrito’s …thing, caused a visceral repugnance. Like watching an organism fated to it’s own demise as it happily played in its own waste as its gene line faded into oblivion. Even a petri dish of bacteria would have turned away in disgust.
JWL
The 2nd most? Jee-zuz.
I’m a lifelong NFL fan. I’ve watched (at least) 38 of the past 45 Super Bowls, including yesterdays. The ones I’ve missed were due to my work schedule.
But that commercial is the most skin crawling, out-in-out fucking idiotic advertisement I’ve ever seen on television, bar none. And I’ve been insulted by Madison Ave. again and again, throughout my lifetime.
To think: with millions of dollars on the line, the Dorito’s shot-callers decided, “Yup, that’s it. That’s what we’re all about”.
It’s those people whose better instincts Obama appealed to in his speech today.
What a fucking joke this country has become.
PurpleGirl
That wasn’t just creepy, it was disgusting.
Patricia Blaine
@tkogrumpy:
tkogrumpy. I didn’t see any of the ads, will you talk to me?
balconesfault
I just don’t see how the Android ad was creepier. It clearly was aimed at the gamers set, and they like that dark vision modern meets grubby theme.
But who the hell was the Doritos ad supposed to appeal to? It would be funny in a “lets make fun of Doritos ads” kind of way, but I don’t think that funhouse mirror thing works. It’s like having doing product placement by Hannibal Lechter serving up Doritos as an appetizer.
dlw32
I don’t get the upside to the Doritos commercial.
Not only does it not make me want to buy Doritos (which I wouldn’t anyway… they give you dog-breath); it makes me want to get a restraining order preventing anyone who eats Doritos from coming within lunging distance of me.
Ian
I must be the only one who laughed at that ad, but no doubt it was the ick factor that made it funny. I agree it’s an odd choice from the perspective of promoting the product. These were fan submissions, were they also selected by fan vote?
If you’re going to compare it to an SNL skit, it would have to be the one with Chris Kattan and Chris Parnell as boys with no salivary glands. Julianna Margulies was in it and I can’t remember who played the father (maybe Will Farrel). Definitely laughed more at the shock value than anything else.
Gromit
@Ian:
Oh, god, the image of Juliana Margulies spitting chewed food straight into Kattan’s mouth is forever seared onto my brain. That sketch can’t be un-watched.
Shelly C.
Yep. I still cannot floss the remains from my brain of that SNL skit w/ Julianna Margulies. It’s taken yrs. for me to finally watch her w/out immediately re-playing that gag inducing SNL bit. That’s a good thing too, since I’m now a convert and a fan of “The Good Wife”.