Much Aboob About Nothing
I missed the Superbowl on Sunday (slaving at work) but we taped it because I wanted to see the commercials. I finally had a chance to fast forward through the game and check them out. How boring and uninspired they’ve gotten over the years. Considering that they cost millions of dollars to air, you'd thing they'd put more effort into it. I really miss the days of the DotCom boom when all the startups, flush with venture millions, wasted all the money on great, entertaining commercials.
There were a couple good ones, though. The MasterCard "Priceless" commercial with The Simpsons was rather cute (looks like they can sell out to others beside Butterfinger) -- I especially liked Homer's disappointment when the two flying donuts fused to form the MasterCard logo. The Chevy Soap commercial was kinda of funny, but mostly because one of the kids appeared a couple of adds earlier in an IBM Linux commercial. That's kind of like two women wearing the same dress at the same cocktail party, isn't it?
I also finally got to see the Jannet/Justing "costume malfunction" on TV. I can't believe all the hub-hub that's been made of it. If was simply a crass ending to an otherwise tasteless halftime show. Nothing more, nothing less. And, at least on our TV, you couldn't really see anything and they cut away real fast (Jfer thinks this would be a good reason to buy a big HDTV, but she might as well go over here for gratuitous Janet boobie shots). I originally thought the excuse of "costume malfunction" completely ridiculous, but I can now actually see them planning to take off the leather cup and keeping the red lacy thing on. I'm sure more embarrassing things have happened on stage (although probably not in from of millions of TV viewers). The really obscene thing about the half show is how much is being made out of it. I am really not interested in FCC chairman's Michael "Media Consolidation" Powell's "investigation".
The funniest thing about the Superbows was the streak of Mark Roberts. The footage on TV and the subsequent commentary was simply hilarious.
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Dale is of the same opinion as you (so am I). He can't believe people are getting so riled up over a breast, for heaven's sakes, when their kids can turn the TV on at about any time of the day and see someone getting beaten up or their head blown off. Of course, when he said as much to a group of people from work yesterday, their response was something along the lines of "oh, you British". I didn't see it myself, although I did see a great picture that was on the front page of the Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. I told him it just highlights how America has never gotten very far away from the Puritans.
Mark Roberts as "Superbowel" was great. Where have I been - your link was the first I had heard about it.