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[sal_amanda]

I hate to admit it now that there's all this hubub about it, but I actually thought that Snickers Super Bowl commercial was funny.  A little odd that ripping off your shirt and pulling out your chest hair was considered a manly thing to do, but that's why it made me laugh, because it was stupid.

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[datashade.livejournal.com]

It's not so much the original commercial, as the now-deleted extra endings that were up on the website, that sent people up in flames. People were supposed to vote on them and the new commercial would be played at the Daytona 500 - which is a cool idea, except the new endings or whatever involved them smashing each other in the face with wrenches or drinking anti-freeze to erase the stain of the "homo moment."


It was all just a little too "Matthew Shepard" to be funny.


And then Mars issued a non-apology saying "well, we'll take it all down, but it tested well so I don't know what you're talking about," like that means anything. I could probably put together a focus group that thinks a 30-second spot of any number of heinous or insensitive acts are funny, missing the point that racist/sexist/homophobic acts aren't "edgy," they're just over-the-edge.

[sal_amanda]

The Daily Show, I think, did run one of the endings with the wrench and whatnot and that was definitely off the mark. And I totally get where people are coming from on this one. At the time, though, I did giggle because it was just so frigging stupid.

[i-am-solid.livejournal.com]

It didn't do much for me. One of those "eh" commercials. They were trying too hard for the frat boy humor which really isn't funny.

Not exactly a commercial, but I liked Dave & Oprah. They were a cute couple.

[sal_amanda]

Perhaps since pretty much all the commercials this year were on the lame side, this one seemed slightly funny in comparison because of how very weird it was. I'm one of those dorks that loves watching the Super Bowl commercials and this was an extremely disappointing year. Even Bud Light let me down, though I suppose it's time their advertising caught up with their crappy beer.