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By BJWilliams
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Actually a good crop of commercials this year. I especially liked the Bud Light commercial with the dog, the Doritos commercials and the commercial with the cheetah
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By Purple Haize
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Fiat
M and M
Wego the RescueDog
Clint Eastwood
Sketchers
VW dog training.
Ferris Bueller
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By jbock13
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They all sucked. It's sad, your kids can't even watch the super bowl anymore without being bombarded with all this sexual crap.
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By Purple Haize
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jbock13 wrote:They all sucked. It's sad, your kids can't even watch the super bowl anymore without being bombarded with all this sexual crap.
Good thing I don't have kids!
There were several kid friendly commercials
VW Dog in shape
All Coke Polar Bears
Chevy Truck
Acura NSX commercial
Coke Zero/Pepsi Max
Ferris Beuller
Movie Trailers

I didn't see any Viagra commercials so that was nice!
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By BJWilliams
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jbock13 wrote:They all sucked. It's sad, your kids can't even watch the super bowl anymore without being bombarded with all this sexual crap.
Im glad I didnt watch the game with you then...the commercials were actually pretty good this year which is actually something that couldnt be said for the last few years
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By jcmanson
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jbock13 wrote:They all sucked. It's sad, your kids can't even watch the super bowl anymore without being bombarded with all this sexual crap.
Thought the same thing jbock. Sitting there with my 2 yr old daughter and thought she doesn't need to be seeing these commercials. It's sad.
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By Purple Haize
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JK37 wrote:Doritos baby swing
Doritos and 'the missing cat'
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By jbock13
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BJWilliams wrote:
jbock13 wrote:They all sucked. It's sad, your kids can't even watch the super bowl anymore without being bombarded with all this sexual crap.
Im glad I didnt watch the game with you then...the commercials were actually pretty good this year which is actually something that couldnt be said for the last few years
It's cool. I was just personally disgusted by it all.
By ALUmnus
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It did seem like sex was used in the commercials a little more than usual, but that may have been to compensate for the huge turn-off called the Halftime Show.

I liked the Acura/Seinfeld commercial.

Wasn't there like a 5 commercial for some website? I wasn't paying all that much attention, but I vaguely remember some foreign Arab-looking dude with some obnoxious yellow background with a website pasted all over it.
By ALUmnus
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Was it really? Hah! That makes it funny. Like I said, I wasn't paying attention all that well.
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By RubberMallet
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the honda/acura commercials were the only ones i really enjoyed.
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By jbock13
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Oh good lord. I am so sick of these poverty pimps. These so called black leaders are the ones who are keeping blacks down.

Do you ever notice racists use "code language"? Cause when you call Obama a bad president, you must be using subliminal messages to the klan.

Okay, I totally thread jacked this thing. Carry on... (end rant)
By ATrain
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jbock13 wrote:Oh good lord. I am so sick of these poverty pimps. These so called black leaders are the ones who are keeping blacks down.

Do you ever notice racists use "code language"? Cause when you call Obama a bad president, you must be using subliminal messages to the klan.

Okay, I totally thread jacked this thing. Carry on... (end rant)
It had nothing to do with blacks, moreso the cultural insensitivity displayed towards Asians. I agree with the fact that government overspending benefits China, but the way he highlighted using stereotypes was not a good political move.
By ALUmnus
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What stereotypes? That a Chinese woman in China speaks broken English? Seriously? Is that a stereotype? Five questions in one post?
By LUconn
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I was sick all Sunday night so I was playing a mental game of not throwing up during the commercials. Throwing up is all mental. All I remember is thinking it was strange that Franco Harris was on TV for 8 seconds and I think at one point I saw Uncle Jesse.
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By BJWilliams
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I was watching and when I saw Uncle Jesse in a commercial, I had the Full House theme stuck in my head the rest of the night
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By jbock13
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ATrain wrote:
jbock13 wrote:Oh good lord. I am so sick of these poverty pimps. These so called black leaders are the ones who are keeping blacks down.

Do you ever notice racists use "code language"? Cause when you call Obama a bad president, you must be using subliminal messages to the klan.

Okay, I totally thread jacked this thing. Carry on... (end rant)
It had nothing to do with blacks, moreso the cultural insensitivity displayed towards Asians. I agree with the fact that government overspending benefits China, but the way he highlighted using stereotypes was not a good political move.
At what point can we just stop caring who's offended by things? To their credit the asians don't really care.

Also, I knew the ad had nothing to do with blacks, but it's the best known for so-called leaders who would be out of a job if there wasn't racism. Which of course, isnt fair to individual blacks who don't need some goofy leader to speak for them.

Stereotypes are funny because they're true. Demographics show if you add twang instruments to a commercial, whites are more likely to buy your product. In the same way, add a rhythm, and blacks will more likely buy your product. Does pointing out about Asian drivers make it any less true? Or how about that God made each distinct race with characteristics that we can all enjoy a little humor over. Including honky crackers.
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