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While she was doing that i was playing Dragon Quest Monsters on my DS, and we had the Superbowl on in the background so we could look up for the commercial bits. I want to say that the quality of the commercials was seriously lacking this year, but to be fair we did miss the first half of the commercials at halftime, so perhaps there were some truly excellent ones that would have brought the average up. As it was i saw a couple interesting ones (mainly for movies, in particular i didn't know they were doing a new movie of Escape to Witch Mountain) and a couple kinda amusing ones, and a couple really annoying ones.
I really can't figure out what Pepsi was thinking in particular. What percentage of people are so concerned with being macho that they actually think drinking diet drinks is wussy? And what percentage of that group actually does want to drink diet drinks but is prevented from doing so by their, er, machocentricness? And what percentage of that group is actually going to be convinced that Pepsi's new diet drink is okay despite the tone of the commercial? They then followed it up by another commercial doing a really bad parody of MacGyver. I'm quite happy to laugh at a well done and well intentioned parody of something i like. This was neither. Another total failure was the anti-drug "don't be an asterisk" ad. I'm sorry, don't be a what??
In any case, there was nothing like, say, the FedEx pigeon commercial. (I have a fairly strong dislike for FedEx after the way the deliveries for the past few packages i've gotten from them were handled, but i have to admit that their commercials are usually pretty good, and i don't think i saw any of them this year.)
And as long as i'm catching up on weekends and such,