So Cute! So Cuddly! So Racist!
February 4, 2008 – 10:50 am
Is it strange that the day after the most racist ad to air on a network other than BET is broadcast to a national audience, Facebook offers a Panda as a gift?
So, what was your favorite Super Bowl ad? People are saying that this year’s crop was weak. I say there were plenty of diamonds in the rough - like the Doritos mouse ad, the Coke balloons ad, the E*Trade ad with the clown, and - of course - the ad with Donkey Lips.
13 Responses
I know!!! I have no clue how anyone thought this commercial could possibly be more “appropriate” than say, someone wearing blackface and eating fried chicken as a KFC commercial.
By eric the beehivehairdresser on Feb 4, 2008
and yes, the “unnecessary” use of quotation marks was for you, Chris.
By eric the beehivehairdresser on Feb 4, 2008
haha, I totally forgot about that ad.
I guess it was the 5 beers, 2 glasses of wine, and 3 Mikes Hard Lemonades that would have done it…
By I Like Cheese on Feb 4, 2008
Etrade ad was douchey and so was the voiceover guy who was an ASSHOLE. And also incidentally- Steve from Blues Clues. Everytime the Etrade commercial came on, he stood up and bowed.
By Alice on Feb 4, 2008
That was donkey lips?!? i thought it was. and the fed ex ad with the pigeons was good too
By Rob on Feb 4, 2008
The trailer for Iron Man gave me a nerd boner.
By Clinton on Feb 4, 2008
hmm doritos wasn’t new…so that was a let down. In fact, a lot of the commercials were new. Coke balloons were great and so was the NFL ad with Chester Pitts
By Val on Feb 4, 2008
weren’t new. dammit. a lot weren’t new
By Val on Feb 4, 2008
all i know is the next time i get a woman’s breast in my hand, i’m going to be waiting for her heart to tear through it.
so you know, that will never happen for me.
By lozo on Feb 4, 2008
I watched that ad in a room full of Korean people. It was a tad uncomfortable.
By Todd on Feb 4, 2008
There were some very fine, aspirational ads, like the Coke and Budweiser ads.
I heard the panda ad while I was washing up in the kitchen. I watched it, open mouthed, and just shook my head. Morons.
By Viviane on Feb 5, 2008
i loved the etrade baby ads! Didn’t know that was Steve from Blue’s Clues, but all the better!
By Annette on Feb 5, 2008
Pepsi needs a new ad agency badly. It’s like they think any celeb paired with comedy on par with Dane Cook’s level is somehow advertisement gold. I mean, come on now, using a decade old SNL skit that was already played out by the late 90s? In 2008? It’s the equivalent of a white, suburban dad trying the latest dance moves at his daughter’s prom…I was embarassed for them. They need to give up on ever trying to do hip, or just get a new agency that gets how to be hip.
By T. on Feb 6, 2008