Alright, alright...I'm back.

Alright, alright...I'm back. After unanimous badgering by the only other person to ever see this flog, I have decided to add more to this thing. I cannot promise it will be as stellar as the stuff that was here already. I cannot promise it won't be.

So, hmmm....what's on my commercial mind?

The Super Bowl happened recently. And, for the second time in two years consecutively in a row, one of my teams won the danged thing (Steelers and Colts). Which is nice considering it is on the heels of back-to-back World Series victories by my two teams (Red Sox and White Sox).

Now, we all know the Super Bowl is well-known for two things: Over-production and its commercials. To be honest, I didn't pay much attention to the commercials this year. I guess I generally don't go out of my way to watch them. If something catches my eye, I'll see what happens. I generally don't even know what a commercial is advertizing. On with this...

Snickers: (A lot of people would make the word 'Snickers' a link to a website or homepage for 'Snickers' and link all of this companies to their websites. Not me. It's called 'being lazy'.)

Snickers had the two guys eating the same candy bar until it ended in a kiss. I hated it. Thank God it was so short. I didn't hate it because of homofobia. I hated it because of execution. Pulling chest hair was the most 'manly' thing they could come up with??

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I don't remember what the product was, perhaps an online 'job placement' company (?). There were two commercials that feature comedian Jim Gaffigan, who is rapidly becoming a hot item for 'tongue-in-cheek' commercialry. In one of these commercials, Jim sports a comb-over...that originates at his goatee. Nice. The other has him wearing cut-off-too-much cut-off jeans...Again, nice.

There was another commercial series, possibly by the same company, that involved people working in an office 'jungle' and various goings-on thay happen in a typical office (I guess). There was a lot of potential there...but, there was just too damned much going on. Too many people doing and saying too many things. It was too much like watching an hour and a half long movie in 45 seconds.

Robert Goulet's Nuts:

I don't remember what the brand of nuts he was advertizing was....'Eagle'?...I don't know. I think if I'd watched the ad from the start, I would have liked this commercial...if nothing else, because I liked watching him slink....yes, 'slink'...across the ceiling. I guess I didn't like it enuff to pay attention to who paid him to do it, and to subsequently buy their product.

K-Fed (McDonalds??)

It was alright. I like when folks make fun of themselves and that's what he seemed to be doing. The fact that I know absolutely nothing about 'K-Fed', and don't want to, made this commercial less interesting than if someone hadn't had to tell me "That's K-Fed". I thought they meant he eats SpecialK.

That's all I remember off-hand from the Super Bowl...(well, other than hating Phil Simms...). Here are some other commercials that I've wanted to comment on.

GEICO

I absolutely LOVE the 'caveman' campaign. ALL of the cavemen commercials have been funny. My favorite being the recently release one with the three Cro-mags at a party. "Am I less of a caveman because I buy insurance from GEICO?" "Tina's here. We're getting back together!" Funnier than anything Bob Saget has ever said.

I'll admit that I also like most of the GEICO Gecko commercials, too. Not all, but most. I love when he says "I mean, there's fish....and, chips".

This is all for now. How do you like the 'enlarged' and 'emboldened' way I type in the companies' names now. Clever, huh?