favorite 2011 superbowl ad?

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

ahhh yeah...with Black Betty playing in the back...yep!

[thetaj]

The Darth Vader VW commercial was soooo cute. But I seriously enjoyed the Groupon Tibet commercial hehehehe

[honeychile]

Overall, I thought this year's commercials mostly a fail. The only two I liked were the Tiny Dancer one and the one for all of the NFL fans, using tv characters through the ages.

[Beryana]

I actually liked how Motorola basically used a 1983/4 Apple add for their tablet. i also really thought the House commercial which was a spoof of the Mean Joe Green/Coke ad was great!

VW/Audi and Goodrich were really cute too. Overall, though I really wasn't all that impressed by the commercials. I haven't watched the Super Bowl in years (for the game or the commercials) and the commercials did nothing. . .I also thought there were WAY too many movie previews.

[ms_gwyn]

ever since the matrix trailer for the 99 Superbowl All movie studios have been doing it bigger and "better" trying to hook people.

I know movie trailers were a part of the ad for the superbowl prior...but after that matrix trailer that is when they seem to have "come into their own"

[sistasista]

I LOVED the Doritos Finger Licker!

So gross to lick someone else's fingers, but still so funny!

[Benzgirl]

Darth VW!

[XAntoftheSkyX]

The Dorito Finger Licker and the Darth VW were the only ones I really liked.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by lovespink88

I really loved the one for NFL--the one where they showed clips of TV shows with cast members all decked out in their favorites teams gear. I LOVED seeing The Sopranos cast ridiculously decked out in Jets gear. Also thought thought Cleveland from Family Guy wearing a Cleveland Browns shirt was great!

ETA: Ditto on hating the Chrysler/Eminem spot. They showed clips of what appeared to be Chicago (and I'm assuming other clips of other cities) so I didn't get it.

ETAA: Maybe not. Apparently, Detroit has a few buildings that look a hell of a lot like buildings here. And apparently, there's also a street named "Congress" too, lol

I guarantee that all of those shots were of Detroit. And yes, there is a street named Congress. We even have Michigan Avenue.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I guarantee that all of those shots were of Detroit. And yes, there is a street named Congress. We even have Michigan Avenue.

Copycats.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by agzg

Copycats.

Detroit= discovered in 1670
Chicago= discovered in 1672

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Detroit= discovered in 1670
Chicago= discovered in 1672

Wait, how can you discover something that isn't there?
Detroit:

There, in 1701, the French officer Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac, along with fifty-one additional French-Canadians, founded a settlement called Fort Ponchartrain du Détroit, naming it after the comte de Pontchartrain, Minister of Marine under Louis XIV. France offered free land to attract families to Detroit, which grew to 800 people in 1765, the largest city between Montreal and New Orleans.[17]

Chicago:

During the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, who had taken the place of the Miami and Sauk and Fox peoples. The first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, is believed to be of African and European decent.[16] In 1795, following the Northwest Indian War, an area that was to be part of Chicago was turned over by some Native Americans in the Treaty of Greenville to the United States for a military post.
In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in the War of 1812 Battle of Fort Dearborn. The Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi later ceded additional land to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were eventually forcibly removed from their land following the Treaty of Chicago in 1833. On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of around 200 at that time.[17] Within seven years it would grow to a population of over 4,000. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4, 1837—the same day that Martin van Buren was inaugurated as President (succeeding Andrew Jackson).

Detroit still wins.


/Wikiwiki

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Wait, how can you discover something that isn't there?
Detroit:

Chicago:


Detroit still wins.


/Wikiwiki

The first recorded mention of what became Detroit was in 1670, when the French Sulpician missionaries François Dollier de Casson and René Bréhant de Galinée stopped at the site on their way to the mission at Sault Ste. Marie.

1673: French-Canadian explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, on their way to Québec, pass through the area that will become Chicago.

Both from Wikipedia...

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AGDee

The first recorded mention of what became Detroit was in 1670, when the French Sulpician missionaries François Dollier de Casson and René Bréhant de Galinée stopped at the site on their way to the mission at Sault Ste. Marie.

1673: French-Canadian explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, on their way to Québec, pass through the area that will become Chicago.

Both from Wikipedia...

But that's not the founding of the place! You can't discover Detroit or Chicago when they don't exist.

Also.. you know.. tribes lived there and stuff.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by Beryana

I actually liked how Motorola basically used a 1983/4 Apple add for their tablet.

YES! Motorola used Apple's "1984" Super Bowl ad against itself! It's totally true - Mac is the new IBM/Microsoft. It was a brilliant ad, for those who were paying attention. Unfortunately I think not enough people were probably paying close enough attention.