Another Amazing Superbowl Commercial; This One Not Cute But WOW!!

This morning, I posted about the new Budweiser/Clydesdale/puppy Superbowl ad that was all lovey dovey and cute and adorable and fun.  

A still from one of the most effective ads I've seen.  

This evening, I found another ad scheduled to run during the Superbowl. This one is NOT all lovey dove and cute and adorable and fun.

It's incredibly powerful, even though it consists of only two people talking. And you don't even see them during the entire one-minute ad.

The ad doesn't sell a product. But it possibly the most effective ad on the subject I've seen.  I've decided not to give you a spoiler as to what it's about.

But you'll want to watch it. It's important.

Budweiser's New Superbowl Commercial Awesomely Brings Back The Puppy

In the 2015 Budweiser Superbowl ad, we find our
puppy has gotten himself in a lot of trouble.
But you know it ends well.  

Budweiser this morning released their 2015 Superbowl Clydesdale horse commercial and brought the puppy back, like the one we fell in love with in the 2014 commercial.   

This one is the same kind of heart-tugging cuteness, lovey-dovey story about the loyalty among the puppy, the horses and the good looking guy who takes care of them all.

Watch the ad at the bottom of this post.

I love this new ad.

In this one, the curious puppy, looking for adventure, gets more than he bargained for.  A bit scary for very little kids, but it's OK, it all works out in the end, as you would predict.

Much better than GoDaddy's horrible attempt at a doggie commercial.

Like the brand new 2015 Budweiser puppy/Clydesdale ad, the dog accidentally finds itself far from home, but finds his way back. Unlike the new Budweiser/puppy/Clydesdale ad, it ends cruelly, not in a warm, satisfying way.

The public outcry led GoDaddy to pull the ad. 

The GoDaddy ad was even worse than their usual women-objectifying trash, which public pressure finally ended.

The ad agency for Budweiser must be loving this GoDaddy mess, since it brings even more positive attention to the Budweiser Superbowl ad

Anyway, I'm not a real fan of Budweiser beer, as I live in the Land Of Many Awesome Microbrews, better known as Vermont.

I also shouldn't like these Budweiser Superbowl commercials, they're so cliched, really. But my heart melts each time. I'm too much of an animal lover, I guess.

I really think you and a zillion other people will like this new Budweiser ad, too. Watch and judge for yourself:

The Wildest Superbowl Commercial You Didn't See: Jamie Casino, Attorney

People today continue to pick apart the Superbowl ads from last night more than they're picking apart the actual game.

A moment from Attorney Jamie Casino's Superbowl
ad in the Savannah, Georgia market.  

The famous Budweiser puppy/Clydesdale ad won the popularity contest, and a bunch of idiots are screaming mad at Coca Cola because they had the audacity to have people sing "America the Beautiful" in languages other than English.

The horror!! (More on that on an upcoming post, soon)

During the Superbowl, there were a couple blocks of time that were allocated to local advertisers.

Deadspin captured what is surely the wildest (but not necessarily the best) Superbowl ad, a local one from personal injury attorney Jamie Casino in Savannah, Georgia.

It has EVERYTHING! A dramatic story line! Heavy metal music! Jamie Casino walking dramatically in slow motion wearing sunglasses! A flaming sledgehammer! Crushed roses in a graveyard! (Huh?)

I think it's a national rule that personal injury attorneys must make way, way over the top television ads. If there's a competition for the wildest of these wild ads, Jamie Casino wins hands down!

Read this string of blog posts from loweringthebar.net for samples of some of the best ones.

Watch to see if you agree whether Jamie Casino wins the Crazy Attorney Ad Award for 2014.

Cute "Puppy Love" Budweiser Commercial Is Sign Of The End Times, Says Wacko

A lot of you I'm sure have seen that "Awww, Ain't That Cute!" Budweiser Superbowl commercial I wrote about the other day, the one about the persistent puppy's friendship with the Clydesdale horse.

This guy informs us that cute puppy/Clydesdale
Budweiser ad is a commercial promoting
the Antichrist end times.  

Well, guess what?  What we thought was an adorable ad is the Antichrist heralding the end times.

Seriously! William Tapley says so! I has to be true!

Who the hell is William Tapley, you ask? Glad you did! He's this guy who calls himself the Third Eagle of the Apocalpyse who finds all these signs of the devil and all that taking over the world.

I want to believe he's just being a parody performance artist, but I think he takes himself serious.

He's got a TON of YouTube videos that are hilarious. (He doesn't think they're funny. They're SERIOUS, damn it! But never mind)

Anyway, the Budweiser commercial: See, the little puppy keeps escaping from its pen.  He's a rule breaker. That's a sure sign of the apocalypse. The puppy befriends a horse, one of the four horse of the apocalypse, you see.

WATCH OUT: Cute puppy in this ad is
really the Antichrist!  

The puppy is eventually adopted by somebody, but as the new owner drives away,  the horse and his horse buddies (Horses of the Apocalypse!!) intervene and stop this.

The commercial ends with the puppy, which is the Antichrist, triumphantly leading the apocalypse horses back to the farm, where the hapless humans embrace them all and live happily ever after.

IN HELL!!!!

Which proves THE END TIMES ARE HERE!!!

This Tapley video about the Budweiser puppy commercial is awesome, but it doesn't beat the ones he did  few years ago, that "proved" the new Denver Airport was one big phallic symbol, another sign of the end times.

Those videos were the subject of a hilarious CNN/Anderson Cooper Ridiculist segment a couple years back. 

But today's End Times subject is this dangerous puppy Budweiser commercial (Which has 25 million hits already, Yikes! We're all being taken in by the Antichrist!)

So here's Tapley's hilarious YouTube take on the puppy commercial (Hat tip to Joe Jervis' JoeMyGod blog for noticing this)

No Blackout on Superbowl Blackout Jokes

As everybody on the planet knows, the big news out of the Superbowl was not that the Baltimore Ravens won, but that the power partly went out in the Superdome.

The best thing about the blackout was the the jokes that came fast and furiously as soon as the power failure hits.

The Superdome was partly blacked out, which
led to a blindingly bright batch of blackout jokes

Buzzfeed posted some of the best Tweets about the blackout at 9:11 p.m EST. That can't be much more than an hour after the blackout.

Some of my favorites from the Buzzfeed list:

"In hindsight, maybe installing the Clapper was a bad idea."  (Look up the bad infomercial to see what I'm talking about)

Referencing Beyonce's incredibly athletic halftime show just before the blackout, someone wrote, "Just plug a generator into Beyonce's hips. Problem solved."

And somebody had to bring in Newark, N.J. mayor Corey Booker, who seems to have this big habit of always saving the day: "@corybooker U gonna fix this or what?"

Nabisco was on the ball. After having aired its great Superbowl ad about a riot in a library over Oreos, the company Tweeted a picture of an Oreo in half darkness, within minutes of the blackout,  with the sentence, "You can still dunk in the dark."

Walgreens got into the act with this Tweet: "We do carry candles," someone in their marketing department wrote.

Somebody else remembered back to the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, circa 2005, and the lame response from FEMA's director back then, and the infamous tone deaf George Bush quote that will live in infamy.  The inevitable Tweet when the blackout hit: "You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie.

Finally, some practical advice for people who use the Superdome: "Do not use a toaster and a hair dryer at the same time."

And, taking a cue from a famous football show: "In Friday Night Lights, they lined up cars along the edge of the field and turned on the headlights.

Maybe Toyota, Dodge, Hyundai and other Superbowl sponsors could have brought their products in to help out.

In other Superbowl disasters, now that we have finally, allegedly gotten over the Great Superbowl Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction of 2004. (Yes it was that long ago and the litigation just ended last year) we have a new crisis.

The Parents Television Coun il is after CBS because it aired Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco dropping the F-bomb in celebration. Look for nine years of lawsuits over that little incident.

My Superbowl Ad Choices

Everybody and their brother has weighed in on their favorite Superbowl ads. So I will, too.

In the comedy division, First Place goes to the Oreos fight  in the library ad. I've always wanted to create chaos in the library and here was my chance to do it vicariously.





In the not-comedy division, here's the one I shouldn't like. I'm not a fan of Budweiser and the ad is emotionally manipulative and certainly doesn't make me want to drink Budweiser.  But it is so sweet. (I'm a sucker for animals) and the Stevie Nicks track makes it very nice.




Another one that is at least as good, but I initially overlooked, is one for Dodge trucks, called "God Made a Farmer."  (Hat tip to my sister Lynn for calling attention to my oversight)

What's especially good about this one is, it makes you like Dodge trucks precisely because the vehicles didn't star in the video. Instead, it's a tribute to the people who use the trucks. In the background, famed commentator Paul Harvey is heard reading his essay "God Made a Farmer," while some beautiful still photography of farms and farmers roll past. This isn't a commercial. It's art.




So which on ads were your favorites?