Super Bowl 53 Commercials Running Thread

Stories about the Bud/corn feud were on the radio and TV here. I heard the words “Bud Light” at least 15 times.

 

I realize AB was the only beer advertiser - but it would be nice if another brewer stepped in (Sam Adams maybe) and flamed all of them. Would have been great if they caught wind of the ads ahead of time and busted a "Settle down children, you both suck" ad during the post-game show.


Also - the USA Today AdMeter was interesting - most of the ads for movies crashed and burned. Now granted the audience for the SB is older than the moviegoing audience and probably less likely to be interested in a super hero cartoon type movie.

 

Bud Light sucks, but damn if I won't sit at the bar during a college basketball Saturday and drink the hell out of it. $6 for a pitcher makes it an easy decision.

 

So I learned last night that there was no CGI, it really was Andy Warhol in that Burger King ad. It was film taken from a 1980s movie by some avant-garde Danish filmmaker/whack job. This is fascinating, but it still fails to explain how Burger King thought its ad had any relationship to planet Earth.

 

It got people talking about Burger King. Therefore, it worked.

 

IMO the commercial works only if it gets people to EAT at Burger King. Talk doesn't pay their bills.

 

Did you see the Whopper? It was plain and dry and had zero toppings. There has never been a less appetizing Burger featured in a commercial.

 

It was a 1982 Whiopper. The Beta version.

 

It truly was. The burger looked so bad I assumed it was a Heinz commercial.

 

If they used CGI they would have made the burger - and Andy Warhol - look better.