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The 2010 Super Bowl Ads
Congrats to the New Orleans Saints for winning the Super Bowl. You have proven that you are the best at the sport alternatively known as North American Hand Egg.
Evidently, calling the sport of ‘football’ something more literal like ‘hand egg’ makes everyone else around the world happier.
It was an exciting game, filled with drama, excitement, singing fossils at half-time and commercials. Lots and lots of commercials.
(Sorry to our non-U.S. friends who can’t view Hulu)
There you have them. The 2010 Super Bowl ads. There are a few things that pop out at me:
- With all this talk about Tim Tebow pimping for Focus on the Family why aren’t women’s groups in an uproar for him laying the smack down on his mom?
- Seriously, Tebow is a quarterback and I’ve seen him play. That must be the first decent tackle that he’s ever laid on someone. And it happens to be in a commercial. To a girl. Who happens to be his mom.
- This must have been the year of the meme rehash, much like the reanimation of the lifeless band, The Who and forcing their undead souls to perform.
- Speaking of the meme rehash, it seems like about 25% of the commercials used the ‘dramatic prairie dog’ concept. That is soooo 2006. Way to go advertising people. Way to keep up with the times.
- The GoDaddy commercials suck and they aren’t funny or controversial any more. On the contrary, they’re dragging down Danica Patrick.
- I miss the days when advertisers would just air a monkey dancing and then boast that they blew their $2M wad on 30 seconds of a dancing monkey
All in all, this was one of the few Super Bowls where I was more entertained by the game rather than the commercials. And that, in it’s own weird way, makes me a little sad. No beer commercials that made me take notice, nothing that made me sappy (ok, maybe the Google commercial) and there were no real interactive tie-ins. Here’s hoping next year’s Super Bowl has more innovative and creative thinking.
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un-Arrested Development?
So the rumor’s appear to be true. The Arrested Development movie, looks to be back! In a pre-Oscar interview on Sunday night, Ron Howard said "It’s on!"
More detail can be found here: http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/02/alright_so_were_really_doing_a.php
BTW – what a worthy reason to dust off this site and put it back online!
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2007 Fall TV
I know virtually nothing about any new shows this season. Dex reminded me that KVille was the Antwon Mitchell cop show (Anthony Andersen). That’s about all I can tell you.
Somewhen on somewhere is New Amerstdam. That looks good. Sadly I don’t know when it is turning up on the schedules. Mid-season. Is that good news or bad news for the show?
PDF if you want to simply view
Excel format if you want to mark up your own.
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Last Comic Standing
I actually have never seen a single episode of this, and I don’t really intend to. Lately some notoriously bad acts have been showing up on the web, but this one is worthy of mention, if you ask me!
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Lost > Sopranos ? WTF?
Elusion: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070614/tv_nm/lost_dc;_ylt=AggviySuDJZxGan_9SyswehY24cA
Elusion: they’ll just make the shows preceeding it just as murky
s m a s h: haha
s m a s h: yah no shit man
s m a s h: nice that cuse is taking time to pot shot the competition to deflect the criticism
Elusion: what an ass hat comment
Elusion: yeah!
It does really irk me to see Cuse saying that. Lost needs to spend some quality effort telling story and not just writing suspense. Their insistence on spoon feeding out story line makes the entire drama frustrating, and worse, implausible. How many times will they confront people that have information and just not bother to ask questions? Or when questions are asked, not care that no answers were given?
And I’m completely lost as to what to think about their Season 1 assurance that "everything on the island will have a mundane explanation". Really?
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Sopranos is whacked!
Despite the final music, I can’t believe the ending of Sopranos Sunday night. The initial reaction was a big "WTFD?!??!?!" But as I think more and more on it, you can’t help but wonder how else David Chase might have ended his penultimate work of genius. The intrawebs are ablaze with commentary about this, so I won’t say too much on it. I was disappointed, but not necessarily because I thought it was weak…I just didn’t enjoy the intentional ‘intrepret it yourself’ aspect to the ending.
What a run. Of course my all time favorite episode is going to be Season 3’s "Pine Barrens" followed closely by Season 3’s Doctor Melfi’s rape which was juxtapositioned against Tracey the stripper beaten to death by demented Ralphie Cifaretto. But you can’t neglect other key moments: T
ony’s father-daughter tender moments of college hunting with Meadow mashed together with his stalking a mob rat. He’s a family man; and he’s a family man.
Another key moment often neglected, the whole complex dynamic between Father Phil Intintola and Carmela Soprano. I really enjoyed that.
Lots of things didn’t go anywhere, and often things didn’t add up for me too well. Furio? The Russian from the Pine Barrens? Tony contemplating whacking Paulie out of…annoyance? But the more subtle moments were brilliant in their underplayed simplicity; those usually revolved around his family.
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