Okay, so St. Louis won. By one yard. On and incredible play with no time left on the clock.

Big deal.

I watched for the commercials...What was with those?! Did anyone see any that they liked? I kind of thought that the oxygen.com one was cute, but other than that, it was a commercial wasteland!

Anyone?

-Meghan

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

Answers

The only one that really caught my eye was the commercial ... I can't even remember who it was for but the cat herder one was too cute. I also noticed that alot of those commercials were for internet/web stuff.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

I watched every minute of the game, and every commercial, too. I thought there were several that were entertaining---although they didn't really compel me to buy, or even bother to pick up my handy pencil and pad and write down the endless dot-com addresses. HOWEVER!!! I felt incredibly emotionally betrayed (abused, blackmailed....) by the Christopher Reeve ad. All that emotion, ready to reach for my checkbook and donate all my disposable income to anything he was asking....for some stupid investment company? An investment company that has nothing to do with spinal cord research? An investment company that didn't even make a giant donation to research in exchange for Christopher Reeve's self-prostitution??!!!

Man, that still pisses me off.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

How sad is this? We recorded the Super Bowl and then fast-forwarded through the game and watched just the ads.

My favorite was the e-trade "We just wasted $2 million" ad with the monkey. Everything's funnier with monkeys.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

I had forgotten the monkey one. I liked that one too.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

That Christopher Reeve one bothered me, too. It was creepy, and when it was over, my husband and I looked at each ohter and said "What did THAT have to do with investing??" Yuck.

I loved the cat-herder one, and I always like the Pets.com ones.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

Jenn, I have to say that taping the Superbowl and fast-forwarding through it for the ads isn't pathe at all. Certainly not! Because we did it too. Which just proves it.

Sun-burnt, ski-burnt, traffic-burnt, Rich and I sat in a daze and practiced the reverse of our usual television habit--watched the commercials and fast-forwarded through the whatever it was. While doing email (Rich) and reading Edward Eager (me).

All the e-trade ads were good, particularly the monkey one (ditto about monkeys being funnier). My favorite was not a dot com ad but a (cringe) car one with Gary Neuman's "Cars" song that spoofed the Gap ads. The hotjobs.com one with the stupid hand-mouse-icon-clickeroony thing was ridiculous. The American Heart Association one I kept expecting to be a spoof, like the Lawrence Welk-style ads that Amazon ran in December. But it wasn't. It was just bad and pathe and that old dude of a talking head is no hand-model.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

The cats one was good, though I have no idea what it was for. I forgot about that last night. However, anything with singing muppets just scares me. I'm sorry. Just doesn't work.

Christopher Reeve...Didn't like the commercial, but then, I don't like him, either. That sounds so mean. Look at a picture of him sometime. Look at ANY picture of him ever taken. He looks like a mannequin. It freaks me out. With his paralisis, that's just too much for me. It's just freaky.

-Meghan

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

We had almost hte same reaction to the Reeve ad - wow, that's really edgy - wait, it's for an INVESTMENT company? Sheesh! Every other ad seems to be for an investment company. I think most people invest to make money, not to improve life in the way this ad is talking about. My husband's mother is a huge fan of Reeve and was very offended by the ads, couldn't believe his image was being used with his permission. Which we thought was idiotic, but also interesting to see her reaction. I'd have thought she'd love it.

We only saw the last half, having driven down from our visit with his parents. exhausted from family-fu. Anwyay, the cat herders were my favorite. The guy with the lint brush killed me.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

I'm glad I'm not alone in my opinion of the Christopher Reeve commercial. I just didn't get it. Ditto the WebMD ad with Ali. What was that about?

I laughed a few times: the e-trade monkey, the Mountain Dew Bohemian Rhadsody, the Bud "crying dog," and FedEX in Oz. I missed the EDS cat herders, damnitall.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

The cat herders and the Clydesdale foal for Budweiser....

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

You can see the Cat Herders ad at www.eds.com. Just skip the last 5 seconds of actual corporate sponsorship (great visuals, nothing to do with the "thing" they were selling....but I love the cats crosing the river!)

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

For a Superbowl it couldnt have been more exciting. People who were with me at the house were hoarse from shouting just in our living room. My wife (card carrying member of football haters annon) said it was so loud in the other room they had to cover theier ears.

Thought Ali's commercial was just sad. Her is a man that can barely talk and to have him shadowbox for the camera in sad taste. He has been through enough already. General consensus was the catherders and chasing down the leopard (go Ed) were the top two.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

The Christopher Reeve ad was just disturbing.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

I dont know what disturbed me more...the investment company for exploiting Christopher Reeves, or Christopher Reeves for participating.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 2000

Yep...that Christopher Reeve thing gave me a bit of a shiver. And I really missed the lizards, dang it.

Time Waits for No One

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2000

Oh, definitely, the herding cats one. Funny - our library just received a new book today titled: Herding Cats : Multiparty Mediation in a Complex world.

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2000

What? No mention of the "Fauxhemian Rhapsody" ad from Mountain Dew? That one was my favorite. 2nd place to Pets.com and 3rd to e*trade with the guy with the money "out the wazoo."

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2000

For those of you (like me) who didn't watch the SB, a number of the commercials are viewable through the web at http://www.yahoo.co m/promotions/superspots/

So far, the cat herding is my favorite. I also like pets.com, the "Wall Street" e*trader, and the computers.com spots.

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2000

I was neutral about the Mountain Dew ad, but then I never liked the original music vid anyway.

The Ali ad disturbed me too - felt like a sell out, after all these years he hasn't done ads. I think it depends on how you feel about him too, and he isn't someone I particularly admire.

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2000

C'mon, the best commercial gotta be the Visa commercial where they sung "I enjoy being a girl" in the background!

I liked the Gary Numan commerical also.

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2000

Before you get disgusted with Christopher Reeve for doing the commercial, keep in mind that he hit the $1 million cap on his health unsurance almost immediately, and no doubt needs the money he made doing that commercial.

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2000

That would be "health insurance", not "health unsurance," actually. Sorry for the typo!

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2000

Which one was the Gary Numan ad? I want to look at it on the Yahoo site.

I don't begrudge Reeve doing an ad, but that particular one bothered me.

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2000