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ThatGuyGreg		2012-01-27 08:52:40 AM

Mr. Tate would like a word...

www.pittsburghsportsreport.com

Loud_Mouth_Soup		2012-01-27 09:42:26 AM

Wait-there's a football game on Super Bowl Sunday?

AverageAmericanGuy		2012-01-27 09:43:20 AM

Subby, Apple's SuperBowl commercial was amazing and standard-setting. Objectively, no one has ever gotten close to that level of poignancy in a commercial since.

So it would be a mistake to say there were no commercials that weren't dumb because there was at least one that was outstanding.

velvet_fog		2012-01-27 09:44:49 AM

I'm Spartacus! (new window)

Greatest Super Bowl ad of all-time. Of all-time!

animal900		2012-01-27 09:44:49 AM

Star Wars VW kid last year was great.

Harry Freakstorm		2012-01-27 09:47:42 AM

What about the monkey from the dot com years? He made two appearances. If I recall correctly, the first one, he was dancing in a garage. The second year, he was riding a horse through an empty western town. I don't even remember what he was trying to sell

Dumb monkeys. Never even learned to evolve. Got thumbs, uses rudimentary tools but can't use fire. Big stumbling block. Keeps you in the trees and cold. Can't migrate or forge tools and weapons to defeat predators and aliens.

AgentBang		2012-01-27 09:48:03 AM

Best Superbowl Ad hands down. I never heard so many people in a public place laugh at once at a commercial.

E*Trade

Surprised it doesn't get talked about more often.

AntonChigger		2012-01-27 09:49:04 AM

ThatGuyGreg: Mr. Tate would like a word...

[www.pittsburghsportsreport.com image 350x262]

YOU KILL THE JO, YOU MAKE SOME MO! YOU KNOW THAT BABY!!

Mike_LowELL		2012-01-27 09:49:04 AM

AHM ICE CUEB, AND AIN'T NUTHIN COLDA, THEN AN ICE CUEB

LesserEvil		2012-01-27 09:50:58 AM

Motorola needs to recreate "Lemmings" with hipsters falling off the cliff and an Apple store in the distance, to promote their Droid phones.

Harry Freakstorm		2012-01-27 09:51:22 AM

Anya Major (born 1966, in UK) is an athlete and actress who starred in Apple Computer's famous "1984" commercial, and who appeared as Nikita in the video to Elton John's song of the same name.

In 1983, the Chiat/Day advertising agency held a casting call in London, on behalf of their client, Apple Computer, for what would prove to be a landmark television commercial. The vision of the agency and director Ridley Scott stipulated an actress capable of running up to a large video screen, swinging a sledgehammer in a wide spin, and releasing it at the video screen. Unfortunately, most of the models and actresses tested could not wield the clumsy hammer, much less throw it; in fact, one errant throw nearly struck a passerby at the Hyde Park casting call.[1] The petite Major, an experienced discus thrower who had been discovered at a local health club, won the role with her ability to handle the hammer convincingly.[2]

The commercial aired only twice on American television, most famously just after half-time of Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984.[1] Even with this limited appearance, the ad created such a media frenzy that it gained many subsequent free TV airings and print mentions as it was discussed in the media.

Major later portrayed "Nikita" in the Elton John 1985 music video of the same name.[3] As a spin-off, she released a single named Moscow Nights using the name Anya.[4]

She could throw a mean hammer, icy communist glance.

realmolo		2012-01-27 09:52:46 AM

Hmm...let's see:

Super Bowl = stupid
Commercials = stupid
People that like Super Bowl commercials = double-stupid

busy chillin'		2012-01-27 09:53:02 AM

what subby may look like:

akadros		2012-01-27 09:54:04 AM

I have never understood why people watch the Super Bowl just for the commercials. People spend the rest of the year avoiding commercials like a plague, but somehow think that the commercials during the Super Bowl are magically going to be better. I have news for you...it's the same damn commercials! Maybe they are brand new for the Super Bowl, but then you see them over and over and over. And really if I have to see another stupid Gecko, Caveman or "Priceless" commercial, I'm going to strangle somebody.

kwirlkarphys		2012-01-27 09:55:51 AM

superbowl commercials are awesome.

Msol		2012-01-27 09:55:55 AM

Wow, those were horrible.

rvesco		2012-01-27 09:56:59 AM

I've clicked through the slideshow so you don't have to, but I'm not sure I got them all:

1. SalesGenie.com "Panda Cartoon" (2008)
2. Just For Feet, "Kenya Mission" (1999)
3. Groupon, "Save the Money" (2011)
4. Apple, "Lemmings" (1985, follow-up to its legendary "1984" commercial)
5. Burger King, "Herb" (1986)
6. SalesGenie.com, "Office Worker Cartoon" (2007)
7. Nuveen Investments, "Christopher Reeve Walks" (2000) (#1 in my book)
8. LifeMinders.com, "The Worst Commercial" (2000)
9. Holiday Inn, "Bob Johnson," (features a cross dresser and stars the Kenny Bania guy from Seinfeld) (1997)

Seems like the most forgettable Super Bowl commercials to me.

JRaynor		2012-01-27 09:59:24 AM

busy chillin': what subby may look like:

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That's kinda what I was thinking. The Troll-Fu is strong with this one.

you have pee hands		2012-01-27 09:59:25 AM

The Fed Ex (or was it UPS?) ad with the giant carrier pigeons was one of my favorites.

juddcc		2012-01-27 10:00:00 AM

The Herb commercials were cool. People actually wanted to meet Herb.. and the Bleacher Report used "to" instead of "too" on that page. I can't understand why a money making website can't get that right.
Actually sorta in a bad mood now. My wife most secretly hate me.

ltdanman44		2012-01-27 10:01:20 AM

Nuveen Investments, 2000 was cool. Nothing like being drunk thinking they fixed supermans legs

sigdiamond2000		2012-01-27 10:04:01 AM

If you get excited by the prospect of watching commercials, you really need to evaluate where you are in life and what got you there.

PvtHike		2012-01-27 10:06:05 AM

ThatGuyGreg: Mr. Tate would like a word...

[www.pittsburghsportsreport.com image 350x262]

Damn. I'm too late.

AppleOptionEsc		2012-01-27 10:09:06 AM

rvesco:
3. Groupon, "Save the Money" (2011)

Seems like the most forgettable Super Bowl commercials to me.

I will always remember Groupon for the shiatstorm that followed. But not the commercial.

Rattrap007		2012-01-27 10:12:57 AM

Am I the only one who laughed at and enjoyed the Bob Johnson commercial?

funk_soul_bubby		2012-01-27 10:13:20 AM

Herb was awesome, I don't care what they say.

g4lt		2012-01-27 10:14:25 AM

No, it doesn't. Saying something is the dumbest makes no implication there's anything in the class that's smart, kind of like subtard's logic class. Example: "shortest pygmy", says nothing about the existence of tall pygmies, just that all other pygmies, while remaining short, are taller than them.

FlashHarry		2012-01-27 10:17:42 AM

came for the appallingly racist sales genie ads, left satisfied.

Lost Thought 00		2012-01-27 10:21:34 AM

It's surprisingly difficult for companies to not make racism the central focus of their ad campaigns.

litespeed74		2012-01-27 10:26:11 AM

I can't wait to see the snobby Audi commercials bragging about their lite brite's on the hood of their cars.

DigitalCoffee		2012-01-27 10:29:13 AM

Boy does that site suck ass! Not only do they do a slide show of videos, but when you click for the last one, you get the first slide of a different article instead.

/magic fridge (^)

TofuTheAlmighty		2012-01-27 10:35:13 AM

Wait, this article implies that there have been Super Bowl commercials that weren't dumb

Farkin' superlatives, how do they work?

Chupacabra Sandwich		2012-01-27 10:36:24 AM

List is fail without Tebow tackling his mom

UNC_Samurai		2012-01-27 10:36:45 AM

The commercials were great when it was the one time of year when a company could go all-out and make a crazy ad that people would talk about for days. But this is the age of YouTube. We expect more from ads that are supposed to be clever or grandoise enough for this sort of stage - and they're falling flat because the things we watch online they just can't get away with on TV. Let's be honest; without the pesky FCC and the uptight assholes not letting the rest of us have fun, the collection of Super Bowl commercials would look like an episode of Tosh.0.

Tiiba		2012-01-27 10:41:43 AM

This is not how comparatives work. When I say that something is the dumbest dumb thing, I'm not implying that there are dumb things that aren't dumb. That would be DUMB.

mama2tnt		2012-01-27 10:42:50 AM

FlashHarry: came for the appallingly racist sales genie ads, left satisfied.

What I noticed was that when he turned to his computer, "Genie" looked suspiciously like the regular "Google" logo.

Persnickety		2012-01-27 10:54:31 AM

Anyone remember the embarassingly bad Ed McMahon and MC Hammer Superbowl ad for cash 4 gold?

Link (new window)

Looks like they spent about $125 making it.

fish500		2012-01-27 11:01:21 AM

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! !

buckeyebrain		2012-01-27 11:28:46 AM

Harry Freakstorm: What about the monkey from the dot com years? He made two appearances. If I recall correctly, the first one, he was dancing in a garage. The second year, he was riding a horse through an empty western town. I don't even remember what he was trying to sell

Are you kidding me? That second one was one of the funniest. It was after the dot-com bust, and he's riding through the shuttered buildings of failed dot-coms (pimentoloaf.com, for example). One place has the pets.com sock puppet flying through the air, courtesy of a wrecking ball. The sock puppet lands at his feet and he picks it up, then parodies the Crying Indian.

/Kids these days don't know from funny

Ross E. Krushan		2012-01-27 11:38:40 AM

I thought number 9 was gold!

DontMakeMeComeBackThere		2012-01-27 11:42:08 AM

sigdiamond2000: If you get excited by the prospect of watching commercials, you really need to evaluate where you are in life and what got you there.

I guess not everybody can be as astoundingly hip as you are.

oroku_saki		2012-01-27 11:45:16 AM

Loud_Mouth_Soup: Wait-there's a football game on Super Bowl Sunday?

My thoughts exactly. This year, I hear that we will probably get a commercial for shiatty beer, followed up with Tebow whining about mutilated fetuses.

Sea Monkey		2012-01-27 11:46:54 AM

Someone should do an article about the most sexist Super Bowl commercials. Those would probably get my vote for being the dumbest as well.

oroku_saki		2012-01-27 11:47:10 AM

LesserEvil: Motorola needs to recreate "Lemmings" with hipsters falling off the cliff and an Apple store in the distance, to promote their Droid phones.

That by itself will convince me to splurge money on a new phone.

leonel		2012-01-27 12:38:21 PM

I thought that Coors Light ad with the twins featured prominently was pretty dumb because it's certainly not my sexual fantasy to involve incest, least I have to move to Utah.

tumy4me		2012-01-27 01:05:08 PM

Ross E. Krushan: I thought number 9 was gold!

The jar is round, the glass is round, it should be called round-tine!

Harry Freakstorm		2012-01-27 01:18:50 PM

buckeyebrain

Quote 2012-01-27 11:28:46 AM Ignore User
Harry Freakstorm: What about the monkey from the dot com years? He made two appearances. If I recall correctly, the first one, he was dancing in a garage. The second year, he was riding a horse through an empty western town. I don't even remember what he was trying to sell

Are you kidding me? That second one was one of the funniest. It was after the dot-com bust, and he's riding through the shuttered buildings of failed dot-coms (pimentoloaf.com, for example). One place has the pets.com sock puppet flying through the air, courtesy of a wrecking ball. The sock puppet lands at his feet and he picks it up, then parodies the Crying Indian.

Your description rattled the brain pan and freed up some additional memories. It was pretty funny. I stand corrected, sir.