Best (and worst) commercials of Superbowl 39

[strredwolf]

As you know, I don't watch the Superbowl for the game, I watch it for the commercials!  So let's see if they got their money's worth.  Here's what I think are the Best and Worst commercials of Superbowl 39:

BEST WARDROBE MALFUNCTION (Honorable):  Budwiser for not airing the "Wardrobe Malfunction Impending" commercial (where a guy breaks Janet Jackon's wardrobe by opening a beer on it).  Honorable because it didn't air.

WORST WARDROBE MALFUNCTION:  GoDaddy for their "Advertising Hearings" commercial.  At least they got a busty model to do the commercial... but I muted it.

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BEST BEER COMMERCIAL:  Anheuser-Busch for not selling beer, but prasing troups returning from Iraq and Aftgaistan.  Additonal props for "Designated Driver."

HONORABLE MENTION: Heiniken for all the Paparatzi chasing after a guy who just wants another sixpack of beer.

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BEST FOOD AND DRINK COMMERCIAL (Drink):  Pepsi and Apple for their crosspromotion.  Open up a Pepsi and the music plays.  They're doing their code promotion (1 in 3 wins music). I wonder if the soda hack works.  Get details at iTunes.com.  In addition, they also get the BEST MEDIA COMMERCIAL (Music).

HONORABLE MENTION:  Pepsi for the Diet Pepsi "Following Crowd w/a Queer Eye" commercial (A guy with a Diet Pepsi can in hand is followed by a growing crowd of women... joined by Carson of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy).

BEST FOOD AND DRINK COMMERCIAL (Food):  Lays, for batting a ball over, then a bag of Lay's origional.  What comes back is the ball, another kid's dog, a third kid's father's '72 Impala, and MC Hammer... which gets thrown back over.

HONORABLE MENTION (but barely):  Subway for finally introducting their toasted subs.

BEST FOOD AND DRINK COMMERCIAL (Condiment):  Tabasco brand hot sause not only got a hot babe, the addition of Tabasco to a dip gave her a tan under her bikini!

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WORST MEDIA COMMERCIAL (Video):  Verizon for shrinking everyone to fit onto their Vcast-style phones.  Um... bandwith problems anyone?

WORST MEDIA COMMERCIAL (Music):  Napster TWICE for their music subscription service.  Did you read the fine print?  You don't own the music, you rent it.  Sorry, I want my copy.  I'll stick with iTunes while drinking my Pepsi's.  First was live action (never live-action animation), second was the most cheeziest animation ported from web to commercial.

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BEST CAR COMMERCIAL:  Buick Cadillac's "Bang".  The smoking tunnels were a nice touch.

HONORABLE MENTION:  Ford Mustang's "Frozen Convertable in Alaska"  Prius' "Not moving forward."

WORST CAR COMMERCIAL: Any one that was trying to do the usual pitch with rebates and incentives, instead of just presenting the car!  Come on, this is the Superbowl! 

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BEST JOB SEARCH COMMERCIAL:  Carrerbuilder.com, for putting a guy in a company of apes -- literally.  Dang dirty apes.

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BEST BANKING COMMERCIAL:  Mastercard for getting every known mascot together (Gordon's Fisherman, Charlie Tuna, Count Chocula, The Morton Salt Girl, etc) for dinner, and have Mr. Clean wash the dishes.

HONORABLE MENTION: Nationwide Insurance for having a kid make a robot... with death ray eyes.

WORST BANKING COMMERCIAL:  Ameriquest TWICE by setting up a guy in a cell phone and ear peice at a convience store, and making him look like he's robbing the place.  Add pepperspray, a bat, and a tazer.  The second one had a cat spilling a pot of spagetti sauce and the guy just happened to have a knife in his hand and the cat in the other. 

HONORABLE MENTIONS (Overrated):  Visa for having multiple superheros, including Underdog... for something a call to the bank would cure with a check card.  MBNA for the English Rugby w/Gladys Knight playing the game.  Yeah.  Right.

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WORST PERSONAL HYGENE COMMERCIAL: Degree for creating a toy commercial.

HONORABLE MENTIONS (Overrated): A countertop laminate company for hiring not only several known football stars, but had Dennis Rodman bathing to boot!

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WORST TELECOM COMMERCIAL: Verizon TWICE, once in conjunction of the WORST MEDIA COMMERCIAL, the other one for their own "Can you hear me now?  Do you need medical attention?" commercial that might get exotic pets banned.

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And finally, the CANNED SPAM AWARD (for wasting money on reshowing commercials already aired normally):  Quizno's (baby spokesperson).  Taco Bell (food on the collectors cards).  Michelob (concept of Rich and Smooth). Staples (Eazy button for life). Cialis (over spammed).  Blockbuster  (Driving to the mailbox -- If they just waited!).  Miller Beer (Same deal). AT&T Cingular (Rasing the bar).  Citibank (Instant Rewards).  By the end they started running out of high-priced commercal slots.

Excluded were all FOX commercials, movie commercials, and all local area commercials.

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Comments

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

I can see that... but Verizon's using CDMA just like Sprint, and I've heard problems about Sprint's coverage here on the East Coast. Plus, it's not the international GSM/GRPS/EDGE standard.

The only thing helping Verizon in terms of bandwith is that the screen's small (up to quarter-size VGA resolution). You can pack a rather good movie in 128 megs for that small of a screen, at 90 kbps for the video.

[wynnefox.livejournal.com]

I'm going to assume a moment that you probably don't keep up on Cell tech out side of what is slightly above common knowlage by what your pointing out.

Yes, your right about the screen size, but CDMA's EV-DO data transfer is signficantly faster then GSM's EDGE tech. Its one of the reasons Vodaphone, one of the lead GSM companies in Europe as well as one of the two VZW parrent companies is working on putting a WCDMA (also known as UMTS) overlay onto their network because EV-DO is that much better then EDGE. From my understanding Cingular and T-mobile are looking into this as well. As for compairing the two speed wise you may as well compaire Dailup/ISDN to DSL.

1xRTT (current CDMA data thats nation wide with vzw) is 60-80Kbps with bursts up to 144Kbps
EDGE gets average of 60-170Kbps with theroetical burts about 420Kbps
EVDO is promissing a min of 300-500Kbps with theretical bursts of 1-2Mbps.

wow thats fast.

and I tell you what, Verizon is putting it's money where it's mouth is on this one too being that they have been expecting to have the entire VZW digital network up on EVDO by the end of this year and they are already advertising it to people to expect it to be good. Right now its become a 2 billion dollar investment for them to make sure this is up by the end of the year... Let me repeat that number. 2 billion.

oh.. and don't use Sprint's horrible excuse for coverage to base your oppion on Verizon's. Before Cingular purchased AT&T Verizon's was the largest and Verizon has been working rappidly to get that top spot again in buying up Frequencies, licenses, smaller companies, and so on.

There is only one thing close that will beat EV-DO and thats EV-DV which bosts theroetical speeds that are double that of EV-DO's. Sprint was going to go down this path but being that EV-DV is still a furture tech and Verizon is already launching EV-DO, they had to scrap thouse plans for now to also adopt the EV-DO into their network.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhh. That does explain things.

Now we must find out what's beyond EDGE on the CDMA...