Comments on: Super Bowl XLI: ads evaluated

By: Rich Berger

Rich Berger — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:41:56 +0000

Alas, I only wish I had a pickup truck. Then Joe's world would be complete. I had forgotten about the immigrant ad – that was a scream. Thanks, Joe.

By: Joe Grossberg

Joe Grossberg — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:04:14 +0000

Hmm ... maybe the joke was lost on me (or functioned on two levels).

Rich's comment is interesting -- this, and the one with the immigrants learning English, looked like something that would appeal to the pickup-truck crowd.

By: John Thacker

John Thacker — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:40:19 +0000

I haven't seen such cut-and-dry homophobia in a while.

It makes you less manly if you kiss another man?

Really? I had more the opposite reaction, that people are supposed to laugh at the guys for being homophobic. Of course, I suppose that it can go either way:

1) Laugh at the guys for accidentally kissing each other;
2) Laugh at the guys for their ridiculous reaction.

1) would be homophobic, 2) rather the reverse. It goes both ways.

By: Rich Berger

Rich Berger — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:53:55 +0000

I didn't watch all (or even most) of the commercials, but my first reaction was that they seemed refreshingly non-PC.

By: Joe Grossberg

Joe Grossberg — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:30:46 +0000

I'm glad you gave the Snickers ad one star.

I haven't seen such cut-and-dry homophobia in a while.

It makes you less manly if you kiss another man?

Give me a break.