BestSuperbowl Commercial, Make Your Bid: Options

[mALX]

Best Superbowl Ads - Make Your Bid:




My vote so far is: Chevrolet Silverado - Timmy in the Well


2nd place: Pepsi-Max

[Captain Hammer]

The Cuba Gooding Jr. ad for Groupon wasn't much better. 'Why save the whales when we can go whale watching on the cheap?' It's either the worst ad campaign in history, or the best. Time will tell.

[mALX]

The Cuba Gooding Jr. ad for Groupon wasn't much better. 'Why save the whales when we can go whale watching on the cheap?' It's either the worst ad campaign in history, or the best. Time will tell.

I can't see how any company signed off on that advertising campaign in this day and age of political correctness.

[RagingMudcrab]

The Cuba Gooding Jr. ad for Groupon wasn't much better. 'Why save the whales when we can go whale watching on the cheap?' It's either the worst ad campaign in history, or the best. Time will tell.

I can't see how any company signed off on that advertising campaign in this day and age of political correctness.

Kind of a breath of fresh air.

[TheOtherRick]

Kind of a breath of fresh air.

I don't know if I would go so far as a breath of freash air, but I do have to side with Mudcrab on this. Political correctness has reached a point that trying to poke fun at anything or anybody is like walking on eggshells. How did we get to where we have to watch our tongue so closely, lest we offend? And, how did the offended become so thin-skinned that they can't take a joke anymore? Another symptom of the overly litigious society that we live in today, IMHO.

[mALX]

Kind of a breath of fresh air.

I don't know if I would go so far as a breath of freash air, but I do have to side with Mudcrab on this. Political correctness has reached a point that trying to poke fun at anything or anybody is like walking on eggshells. How did we get to where we have to watch our tongue so closely, lest we offend? And, how did the offended become so thin-skinned that they can't take a joke anymore? Another symptom of the overly litigious society that we live in today, IMHO.

I half agree. We have taken things way too far with the political correctness till our tongues couldn't cut through butter - and I think you are exactly right that people have become thin-skinned in response, feeling offense where none was meant - and we are definately way too litigious a society.

That said, however - they mocked another country. We do not have a "liked" status outside our own borders as it is, even after years of some of the worst [censored] kissing I've ever seen ... and we are involved with military force outside our borders that could be at risk from another country's idea of "revenge" - can we all say Daniel Pearl?

If they want to poke the overinflated balloon of political correctness, they could have gotten Dave Chappelle as a spokesperson, or Carlos Mencia

Somehow mocking the poor and hungry for their state of life - may be taking things a little too far in the other direction. Their whole point of paying the exhorbitant cost of having a commercial aired during the Superbowl is to get clients/make money. Over half the people that see that Tibet ad will be offended and refuse to use "Groupon" for their companies - especially if they are international. I think they just shot themselves in the foot.

This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 8 2011, 04:11 PM