Best 2011 Super Bowl commercial???

[fraga]

From all that have been leaked out...this is by far the best so far IMHO...

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[Girasuck]

ehhh...it's ok.

[TE]

Pretty sure there will be better ones.

[Sisk]

Star Wars is gay.

:nope

[CubanMustGo]

So far I haven't seen one commercial that rates more than a 3 out of 10. This year's crop sucks.

[lefty]

They ALL suck

But if I had to pick one, it would be Chevy with Bumblebee

[Viva Las Espuelas]

The Chimps save the day.

[ashbeeigh]

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[TwAnKiEs]

The doritos commercial w\the guy sucking the other guys finger and stealing another guys pants had me rolling :lmao

[mrsmaalox]

LOL "What's a Beeebuh?"

[Viva Las Espuelas]

LOL "What's a Beeebuh?"

Gasp. You're watching the StupidBowl?

[mrsmaalox]

Gasp. You're watching the StupidBowl?

Nah, my kid is. I'm just eating the pizza :D

[MannyIsGod]

I don't know about best but the Groupon ad was easily one of the most tasteless and irresponsible ads I've ever seen.

[mrsmaalox]

I don't know about best but the Groupon ad was easily one of the most tasteless and irresponsible ads I've ever seen.

Well I'm glad it wasn't just me. I saw "Timothy Hutton" and "Tibet" and stopped what i was doing....then felt sucker-punched :huh

[Viva Las Espuelas]

My personal favorite is the one where the black couple knocked the white girl over and just ran away. Tell ol' "Rev" Al and Jesse to sit tight :tu

oh, and Tibet is so 90's

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Nah, my kid is. I'm just eating the pizza :D
ah. you have a theme, too.

[MannyIsGod]

Well I'm glad it wasn't just me. I saw "Timothy Hutton" and "Tibet" and stopped what i was doing....then felt sucker-punched :huh



No, both Jekka and I looked at each other in semishock. I mean whats next an ad making light of Darfur or Rawanda? Its sad because I think this is a huge stage and instead of raising more awareness of whats happening in Tibet they simply mocked it and made light of it.

There's a place for comedy but I just think that ad was extremely tasteless and irresponsible.

[Blake]

I don't know about best but the Groupon ad was easily one of the most tasteless and irresponsible ads I've ever seen.

Was thinking the exact same thing.

Wtf was that

[ashbeeigh]

No, both Jekka and I looked at each other in semishock. I mean whats next an ad making light of Darfur or Rawanda? Its sad because I think this is a huge stage and instead of raising more awareness of whats happening in Tibet they simply mocked it and made light of it.

There's a place for comedy but I just think that ad was extremely tasteless and irresponsible.

I agree the commercials were tasteless. Check their website, though. They have links to donate to each cause they are speaking of in their ads.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Oh, and the GM worker thing cracked me up. The GM worker does this. The GM worker does that. :lol They just failed to show them drinking and smoking pot during their breaks. :lol

[MannyIsGod]

Ash, the damage that an ad like that aired during a Superbowl does is going to far outweight any donations they get now.

[Blake]

The jack ingram heb commercial was great though.

[mrsmaalox]

The jack ingram heb commercial was great though.

Loved it :tu

Speaking of Jack, he did the National Anthem for the Spurs 2007 ring ceremony----as many games as I've been to and as many ways as I've heard it done, never have I heard it sung as beautifully as he did. Ms Aguilera would just cease and curl up, I think.

[ashbeeigh]

Ash, the damage that an ad like that aired during a Superbowl does is going to far outweight any donations they get now.

I agree.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Must've been a local ad.

[fraga]

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[The Reckoning]

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[ashbeeigh]

Groupon Super Bowl Ads

After a two-year holdout, we finally decided to run real television ads. In the past, we’ve depended mostly on word-of-mouth and limited our advertising to online search for a couple of reasons. For one, we don’t know if television ads are worth the money. More importantly, television ads are such a huge creative statement, and so hard to do well, that we were worried it’d be near impossible to find an ad agency that could make ads we’d be confident in airing.

This year, we realized that in spite of how much we’d grown, a ton of people still hadn’t heard of Groupon, so we decided to give in to our Napoleon complex and invade the rest of the world with a proper Super Bowl commercial.

Cuba Gooding Jr Groupon Superbowl Ad

The trouble was figuring out what to do and with whom to work. We had tried working with creative agencies before and had never been that impressed. Our peculiar taste in humor made it really hard for outside agencies to come up with concepts we liked. This time around, we had better luck with the ad firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky. We really admired some of the work that CP+B had done in the past, so we gave them a shot at pitching us concepts, and they came up with an idea we couldn’t resist blowing millions of dollars on.

The gist of the concept is this: When groups of people act together to do something, it’s usually to help a cause. With Groupon, people act together to help themselves by getting great deals. So what if we did a parody of a celebrity-narrated, PSA-style commercial that you think is about some noble cause (such as “Save the Whales”), but then it’s revealed to actually be a passionate call to action to help yourself (as in “Save the Money”)?



Since we grew out of a collective action and philanthropy site (ThePoint.com) and ended up selling coupons, we loved the idea of poking fun at ourselves by talking about discounts as a noble cause. So we bought the spots, hired mockumentary expert Christopher Guest to direct them, enlisted some celebrity faux-philanthropists, and plopped down three Groupon ads before, during, and after the biggest American football game in the world.

You can view the already aired commercials, as well as new ones as we release them, at SaveTheMoney.org . And if you’ve saved enough money for yourself and feel like saving something else, you can donate to mission-driven organizations that are doing great work for the causes featured in our PSA parodies. If you guys pony up, Groupon will contribute matching donations of up to $100,000 for three featured charities – Rainforest Action Network, buildOn, and the Tibet Fund — and Groupon credit of up to $100,000 for contributions made to Greenpeace.

http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/groupon-super-bowl-ads/

[Viva Las Espuelas]

:lmao
That's great.

"Since we grew out of a collective action and philanthropy site"
Well, that let's them off the hook :lol

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Monkeys still have the lead for me.

[easjer]

Yeah, the GroupOn ad made me angry. I tweeted Jekka that it took two things I like (Tim Hutton and Groupon) and made me hate them both. Irresponsible is a great word.

From the article, I can see the concept they were going for, but it would have been much funnier if it had been a fake cause, rather than, say, freeing a country where mass genocide has occurred. Talk about misreading the situation.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Ok, the e-trade baby didn't have to be remade.

Overall, 3 thumbs down with careerbuilder for the win!

[baseline bum]

The Sketchers ad was by far the best.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

The Sketchers ad was by far the best.

And she was crying about some new magazine cover where she's nude but they told her she would be covered up when it came out :lol

What a stupid whore. :lmao

[baseline bum]

And she was crying about some new magazine cover where she's nude but they told her she would be covered up when it came out :lol

What a stupid whore. :lmao

Nothing wrong with stupid whores. Especially with asses and DSLs like that.

[silverblk mystix]

...have you ever crammed it in the boot? :lol

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[SpursWoman]

"You have an amazing rack..."


:tu :tu

[Viva Las Espuelas]

"You have an amazing rack..."


:tu :tu

Yes. That was very moving :cry

[BRHornet45]

sons the Kim K commercial was pretty realistic because she was turning a white guy down. Now had he have been a brotha then the commercial would have ended a lot differently.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Only you :lol

[Frenzy]

Didn't see much of the game or the commercials. But one that dropped my jaw was some car bragging about how you can listen to your Facebook status in your car as you drive. The commercial did not talk about anything else other than how you can use this feature.

Obsessed much?

[Udokafan05]

The monkeys driving the cars was one of the best ever. The new beetle was also cool.

[CuckingFunt]

I liked both of the VW ads, the Mini ad, and the... whichever kind of truck was acting like Lassie. All the commercials pretty much sucked this year, though. I felt like I was waiting the whole time for the big ads to start and the next thing I knew the game was over.

Dishonorable mention for the Groupon ad. Completely tasteless.

[Fpoonsie]

Dishonorable mention for the Groupon ad. Completely tasteless.

I'm all for tasteless humor, and thought the commercial rather funny.

However, I find it somewhat ironic that someone w/ your sig would be so easily put off by a commercial like that...

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I'm all for tasteless humor, and thought the commercial rather funny.

However, I find it somewhat ironic that someone w/ your sig would be so easily put off by a commercial like that...

:tu for both points
Downloaded the Groupon app this morning :tu
May have to check out Spinal Tap today as well :lol

[Summers]

I liked the VW commercial. Very cute. I didn't see the Groupon ad, but now that I have, I give it a thumbs-down.

[Trainwreck2100]

Funny how only the skirts are offended by the groupon commercial

[easjer]

Funny how only the skirts are offended by the groupon commercial

Plenty of men find that tasteless.

I get what they were going for, but it missed the mark. Nothing funny about what is happening/has happened in Tibet.

[fraga]

To me...this was the most disturbing commercial...

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[Fpoonsie]

To me...this was the most disturbing commercial...

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:rollin

Wow. That was pretty great.

[Cry Havoc]

Doritos definitely takes it this year. That was hilarious and memorable.

The chimps were good too, and the Sketchers was good. Not as funny, but KK looked pretty smokin' there.

Is it odd that I'm more offended by how lousy the Groupon commercial was rather than the content? I mean, that was a great opening, and if they would have gone the serious route it could have been a fantastic commercial, not to mention one that could have opened up the website to a lot of potential donations.

[JudynTX]

To me...this was the most disturbing commercial...

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:td Worst commercial

[mrsmaalox]

Funny how only the skirts are offended by the groupon commercial

Kind of like how only the men like the monkey commercial? :rolleyes

[Cry Havoc]

Oh, I forgot about this one:

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[mrsmaalox]

I'm not hearing much about it, but I loved Rosanne getting mowed down by the log. "Now my front hurts!!" :lol

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[MannyIsGod]

Funny how only the skirts are offended by the groupon commercial

Son, I'm more of a man than you'll ever be and I was offended by the Groupon ad.

[xtremesteven33]

To me...this was the most disturbing commercial...

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Gay agenda being pushed way too hard.. :td

[monosylab1k]

People still pay attention to the commercials during the Super Bowl? :lmao I stopped doing that 10 years ago when they were shit.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I'm not hearing much about it, but I loved Rosanne getting mowed down by the log. "Now my front hurts!!" :lol

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The log was a weeeeeee bit too low for my satisfaction.

[marini martini]

Oh, I forgot about this one:

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HaHa!!! I loved this one!!!:lmao

I loved the monkeys, too!:tu

Didn't see the Groupon, but did notice that not only the "skirts" in here, along with some highly "sensitive" dudes disliked it. Guess I'll have to go watch it now, to see for myself!:downspin:

[monosylab1k]

Gay agenda being pushed way too hard.. :td

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[Viva Las Espuelas]

Son, I'm more of a man than you'll ever be and I was offended by the Groupon ad.

:rollin

[xtremesteven33]

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:lol

so does it make it not true?

[HeadBanger]

I missed most of them as I was talking and partying during the commercials.

[monosylab1k]

:lol

so does it make it not true?

so are you admitting that doritos commercial turned you on a little bit? otherwise the gay agenda failed.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I missed most of them as I was talking and partying during the commercials.

You still romancing HEB women?

[Cry Havoc]

HaHa!!! I loved this one!!!:lmao

I loved the monkeys, too!:tu

Didn't see the Groupon, but did notice that not only the "skirts" in here, along with some highly "sensitive" dudes disliked it. Guess I'll have to go watch it now, to see for myself!:downspin:

It's really not that offensive. Just poorly done. They should have at LEAST made it funny, or kept it serious. They went in-between and got diddly.

[monosylab1k]

Also, I love how godaddy.com has just quit trying altogether. If those two roots are the hottest girls you can find to endorse your product, it's best you just post 30 seconds of banal nonsense and leave the actual commercial online where nobody will watch it.

[marini martini]

It's really not that offensive. Just poorly done. They should have at LEAST made it funny, or kept it serious. They went in-between and got diddly.


Yeah, the pics of Tibet were beautiful, and now I'm craving fish curry..........and yeah they should have gone funnier, and given us the name of the restaurant.:toast

[mrsmaalox]

Yeah, the pics of Tibet were beautiful, and now I'm craving fish curry..........and yeah they should have gone funnier, and given us the name of the restaurant.:toast

"Himalayan Restaurant in Chicago" :lol

[Viva Las Espuelas]

With three to serve the Chicago area :toast

[marini martini]

"Himalayan Restaurant in Chicago" :lol


With three to serve the Chicago area :toast

TY!:toast

[Viva Las Espuelas]

That restaurant owner is so full of crap.

[Spurminator]

I like Chrysler's Detroit ad, but I found the rest pretty damned depressing.

[CuckingFunt]

However, I find it somewhat ironic that someone w/ your sig would be so easily put off by a commercial like that...

Point taken. Though I don't see the commercial and my signature as being comparable. Nor have I ever claimed to hate all tasteless humor as a rule.


Plenty of men find that tasteless.

The guy I was watching the game with was bothered, as well. Perhaps even more than I was.


I get what they were going for, but it missed the mark. Nothing funny about what is happening/has happened in Tibet.

Agreed. The concept could have worked, but the execution is where it went wrong. An ad that followed the exact same structure but started with a made up cause would have been quite witty.

[BlairForceDejuan]

The GroupOn ad was hilarious in a "wow, that's in really poor taste" sort of way. Only losers get offended by commercials though :rollin If you were that moved, write a check and send it to the monks.

All of the commercials were lame.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I like Chrysler's Detroit ad, but I found the rest pretty damned depressing.

Is that the one that said "the GM worker does this" "the GM worker does that"?

[marini martini]

Ha ha! :lol

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[mrsmaalox]

Yep "Tiny Dancer" was a good one :tu

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Karl Hungus!

[MannyIsGod]

Is that the one that said "the GM worker does this" "the GM worker does that"?

Yeah I think it was the Chrysler ad that talked up GM.

[Darrin]

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Awesome!

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Made me proud to be a member of Southeastern Detroit

[Bukefal]

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Made me proud to be a member of Southeastern Detroit

This was indeed a nice commercial. :tu

I also liked the volkswagen ones

[DarkReign]

Made me proud to be a member of Southeastern Detroit

As resident of SE Michigan, the son of a UAW skilled tradesmen and being an automotive supplier that just left Chrysler Technical Center less than an hour ago, yeah, I'll admit, made me proud.

[DieMrBond]

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Is it just me, or was this a terrible advert and would make me avoid HEB?

Well, thats not exactly hard i'll admit - as i'm not even in america, let alone texas.

[ploto]

Is it just me, or was this a terrible advert and would make me avoid HEB?

The appeal was lost on me, as well. I thought the song was pretty bad.

[fraga]

It was one of those Texas pride type commercials...like Whataburger...Dairy Queen...Ford Truck types...

[marini martini]

Is it just me, or was this a terrible advert and would make me avoid HEB?

Well, thats not exactly hard i'll admit - as i'm not even in america, let alone texas.


It was one of those Texas pride type commercials...like Whataburger...Dairy Queen...Ford Truck types...

I kept thinking to my self, "are those people in the dance halls really dancing to a song about HEB?"

WTF???:wtf

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I don't even remember that commercial being played.

[fraga]

I kept thinking to my self, "are those people in the dance halls really dancing to a song about HEB?"

WTF???:wtf

Come on...you mean to tell me you don't jam out to a song about your local food store on a daily basis...

[mrsmaalox]

I kept thinking to my self, "are those people in the dance halls really dancing to a song about HEB?"

WTF???:wtf

I don't know what's so hard to believe about that; I mean we know cowboys in the Old West saloons sang rousing renditions of Elton John songs, right? Makes perfect sense ;)

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Uh oh, Marini. You hit a sore spot :D

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

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Just in case anyone was curious about the other two. FWIW it looks like the Hutton one was the one mostly likely to ruffle the most feathers. I actually chuckled a little at the other ones. Maybe it's just from years of getting hit with celebrity enviro-PSAs the idea of celebs just shrugging it off and cashing in seems like a funny enough idea. Human suffering in Tibet? Just a little too far over the line for me to laugh at that. I'll give this much to the folks at Groupon that ad with Tim Hutton is still running so props to them for having the guts to own their tastelessness in all its glory. Whether or not all that notoriety actually helps them or hurts them remains to be seen but it's almost refreshing to see a company not immediately yank an ad the second that there's an outcry.

[marini martini]

Come on...you mean to tell me you don't jam out to a song about your local food store on a daily basis...


I don't know what's so hard to believe about that; I mean we know cowboys in the Old West saloons sang rousing renditions of Elton John songs, right? Makes perfect sense ;)


Uh oh, Marini. You hit a sore spot :D

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Believe it or not, I'm pretty selective about the tunes I jam out too. And I like Jack Ingram and all that, but I'd have to be three sheets to the wind to be two-stepping to a HEB commercial at Gruene Hall, TBH.

[The Gemini Method]

The years and drugs have not been kind to Marshall Mathers...I liked the GM one and the beetle one was pretty decent.