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So Cute! So Cuddly! So Racist!

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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.

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13 Responses to “So Cute! So Cuddly! So Racist!”

  1. February 4th, 2008 at 11:17 am

    eric the beehivehairdresser says:

    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.

  2. February 4th, 2008 at 11:18 am

    eric the beehivehairdresser says:

    and yes, the “unnecessary” use of quotation marks was for you, Chris.

  3. February 4th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    I Like Cheese says:

    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…

  4. February 4th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    Alice says:

    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.

  5. February 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    Rob says:

    That was donkey lips?!? i thought it was. and the fed ex ad with the pigeons was good too

  6. February 4th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Clinton says:

    The trailer for Iron Man gave me a nerd boner.

  7. February 4th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Val says:

    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

  8. February 4th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Val says:

    weren’t new. dammit. a lot weren’t new

  9. February 4th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    lozo says:

    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.

  10. February 4th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

    Todd says:

    I watched that ad in a room full of Korean people. It was a tad uncomfortable.

  11. February 5th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    Viviane says:

    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.

  12. February 5th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    Annette says:

    i loved the etrade baby ads! Didn’t know that was Steve from Blue’s Clues, but all the better!

  13. February 6th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    T. says:

    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.

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