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.

[Thomas Kaira]

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.

This has nothing to do with the political incorrectness of the commercial, it has to do with the commercial's horrible writing making it sound like they were exploiting the troubles being faced in Tibet. I know funny politically incorrect humor, just go watch Blazing Saddles. This commercial was out if this world wrong, not politically incorrect, just flat out wrong (though unintentionally so, more on that a bit later).

Why did they cast that guy as the waiter? This whole fiasco could have been avoided by just having an American waiter serving that guy. Having a Tibetan serve him dinner after speaking about all the problems their people are facing today is all kinds of offensive. I am not partial to the current political correctness movement, but I have to draw the line at this one.

But really, I'm not saying that Groupon needs a new advertising board because what they did is offensive to the Tibetans, I am saying they need a new board because they were too thick to figure that out. Offensive or not offensive, it was unintentional, and I recognize that. Groupon's executives were simply too dumb to notice that airing that commercial was going to lose them customers.

This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: Feb 8 2011, 08:41 PM

[RagingMudcrab]

Groupon's executives were simply too dumb to notice that airing that commercial was going to lose them customers.

I actually have a good feeling that they've got a massive increase in hits to their site, increasing their revenue. It was probably the smartest thing they could have done.

I liked Conan O'Brien's take on the whole thing.

This post has been edited by RagingMudcrab: Feb 9 2011, 06:27 AM