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Super Bowl Commercials

cracker with cheese — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:52:54 +0000

Trying to come up with a title for this post was hard, seeing that every internet media blog has taken some variation of “Monday Morning Fill-in-a-term” even though they have no idea what sport reference this is making. ANYWAYS, as a whole I was upset with how unfunny the commercials happened to be this year. And if I see one more Denny’s commercial I will kill someone. You can find all the commercials on YouTube, but to save you time, this is all you need to know:

Best unintentional-intentional comedy that has no business trying to be funny:

Best showing of why Americans think Pittsburgh sucks:

Only commercial that got me to LOL, thanks Lamar:

Commercial that would have been funny if it wasn’t leaked before it aired [FYI - all the Doritos commercials sucked, and when someone at work reminded me that they were submitted to the company by ordinary people it makes me wonder why a they would waste $2.5 million on a spot]:

Most original idea that came from last year’s #1 summer comedy movie:

Best use of taking a popular TV show concept from a non-CBS station:

Worst use of tax money:

Bud Light was the, per usual, best brander this year, they also had the best rap artist joke from 2008:

Finally, the commercial you should watch about 100 times comes from Audi. It gets my M. Night Shyamalan award. To start, I thought it was a take on what America would be about if Al Gore was Prez. Also, for the first 40 seconds it will have you thinking it is a joke on white-collar crime, not to be confused with White-Collar Crime. During this time you may also think it is a joke about white people actually being capable of committing crime. Finally you will see it is about being a hippie:

… I also like this commercial because I play a small part in the financing of it

Even The G20 Protesters Understand Pittsburgh

forever 21 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:24:14 +0000

So for years now I have seen lame protesters just shouting and lying down in traffic and stuff, but I knew that the protesters that would come to the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh would have to do something different if they wanted media coverage. Some of them decided to cater to the only thing that people in this city care about, football. Even though they look pretty queer in their technique, (I’m guessing they were of the emo mold in high school) it was still a pretty good idea.

New Season of Commercials

cracker with cheese — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:32:11 +0000

With the NFL season starting last Thursday, we are on the verge of new sports related commercials. Watching pregame coverage today there are already some instant classics.

Call it the Head & Shoulders Curse, Troy Polamalu is hilarious and out for at least the next few weeks:

And joining Peyton Manning and Justin Timberlake in this Sony spot is the Erin Andrews and her camera man “Tom.” I wonder when this was filmed, and what Sony was thinking, to run with having Andrews siting at a table with a guy holding a video camera after everything that happened this summer with the “Peeping Tom“:

Bud Light is also showing that Billy Mays is dead but his style can always be copied. Check out the team colored cans in the background:

Nike just knows how to make sweet ass shit:

Big Fan

cracker with cheese — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:44:29 +0000

Corporate Thuggin’ writer ‘Forever 21′ has always talked about how a movie about tailgating would be the greatest thing ever. It seems that Big Fan is that movie, and is something I can easily see happening to ‘Forever 21′ involving a Steelers player in about 10 years.

Pittsburgh: Everyone Loves It

forever 21 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:13:25 +0000

Not only is steel town home to two current world champions, but it is currently the host city for the 2009 Anthrocon Convention. This convention is devoted to humans who like to dress up as animals, but continue to demonstrate certain human characteristics. The convention attendence tallied over 3,300 last year with 20 countries represented. Currently, this group has overtaken much of the New York Mets hotel hopefully giving the Pirates somewhat of an advantage in their series at PNC Park. The best part about this story is that not only does Pittsburgh play host to people in animal costumes, but it will also be the meeting place of the G-20 in late September. Yes, the same G-20 group that includes finance ministers and central bank governors from 19 of the world’s largest economies as well as the European Union. This combo of meetings just gives me one more reason to love the city of Pittsburgh.