Superbowl Commercials
Superbowl is known as being the best time to air and watch commercials. Companies pay profuse amounts in order to fill a 30-second commercial spot during one of the most watched televised events of the year. Lately however, the commercials have been lacking in the comedy and entertainment they were once known for. Sure, some still tickle funny bones, and yet, the majority is not quite what the commercials of years past used to be.
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best commercials played during the Superbowl were surprisingly few. The only
one that actually made me laugh was an Ameriquest commercial entitled “Robbed.”
In it, a man is inside a convenience store purchasing some items while on the
phone. He is using his headset, so the phone is not in sight. While talking to
the person on the phone, he says that the price for the deck is too expensive.
As he walks to the counter to pay, he reaches in his jacket for his wallet and
tells the person on the phone “I hate to tell you this, but you’re getting
robbed.” Static must have interrupted because he says to his headset, “Did you
hear me? I said you’re getting robbed.” The cashier, with his back to the
gentleman, looks at the security camera and sees the man with his hand in his
jacket and suddenly turns around and sprays mace on the man. He grabs a
baseball bat and starts hitting him. His wife then runs out with a stun gun and
shocks him until he falls to the ground. The message in the end is not to judge
too quickly because Ameriquest won’t. Another commercial that was pretty decent
was the Diet Pepsi commercial with Diddy because it parodies real life. In it,
Diddy’s car breaks down and he hitches a ride with a man in a Diet Pepsi truck.
When he pulls up to the awards show in the truck, it causes a stir with all the
celebrities. Suddenly, everyone is driving in large souped-up Diet Pepsi trucks
because they think that it is the new thing to drive in
The
worst Superbowl commercials aired were pretty much the rest of them. I found
the Career Builder commercials with the chimps to be unoriginal, and quite
frankly, annoying. There were just so many of them. Also, the Bubblicious
commercial with LeBron James was just plain boring. It was just him popping a
piece of gum and running around the court. New ideas really need to be come up
with when basketball players are used for commercials. The Ciba Vision commercial
was also very uninteresting, not to mention seeming completely out of place to
be played during the Superbowl. It seems like that sort of commercial should be
shown in the morning between the Price is Right and the Ellen DeGeneres show.
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