Super Bowl XXXIX - Advertisers as Lame as the Rest of the Broadcast - 
by J-Unit
UPDATE: It was quite the lackluster Super Bowl for commercials. Some of our thoughts and three videos after the jump.
On the whole, originality was sorely lacking this year. Most companies were very wary of pushing the envelope, so it made for some safe and predictable additions to existing franchises.
-Godaddy.com tried to be provocative with their big-boobed girl with only one strap holding her together in front of a Senate panel, but the wardrobe malfunction aspect of the joke was really old. Didn't anybody learn from all those ads in 2000 when .com companies advertised on the Super Bowl and then managed to go out of business within a year?
-Bud Light. There are usually some good ones from Bud Light. The best this year was the skydiving ad with the pilot jumping from the plane. Not so great was that cockatoo at the bar.
-Cedric the Entertainer had two uninteresting commercials. I literally forgot what the point of each was five minutes later. I would say put a fork in it, but I have to save that for some other themes.
-FedEx had a decent commercial. I can't speak negatively about anything that had a talking bear kicking Burt Reynolds in the nuts.
-Can somebody take a shotgun to the stupid Budweiser donkey? It's nice to trot out the clydesdales every now and then, but you are just killing the franchise with this type of shit.
-Brad Pitt tried to pull off his too hip/cool for everybody else in a Heineken commercial. I would say it sucked, but I am going to give them another chance when Steven Soderbergh directs and George Clooney cameos.
-So MC Hammer is not that great anymore. If he landed in my backyard, I wouldn't throw him back. Admit it, you know you loved the parachute pants.
-What was the deal with that Mustang commercial? Stop trying to be Fargo, especially when you don't have Frances McDormand.
Grand Prize Winner: P Diddy's New Ride. While this commercial was funny for everybody, it really makes us people in Los Angeles laugh or asses off. Some of you might think that it would be improbable for anybody to want to drive a such a monstrosity, but you would be wrong. The sad thing is that this ad might inspire celebrities to actually buy a freezer truck to pick up their lunch at Urth Cafe or for spending the night out at Prey. The hipsters who can't afford their own will be waiting for the ironic t-shirt at Urban Outfitters.
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