So long Ed. Here's hoping you and Carson are doing a show up there tonight.
AC 61 The Super Bowl 43 Listen In Edition
Tug and John sit down with their families to take in the spectacle of Super Bowl 43. Listen in to real time reactions, loads of baby cooing and sharp-tongued post-beer analysis.
Chapter 1: Preamble
Chapter 2: Faith & John (5:37)
Chapter 3: First Half Listen-in (6:50)
Chapter 4: First Half Analysis (14:12)
Chapter 5: Second Half Listen-in (18:22)
Chapter 6: Second Half Analysis (25:54)
Chapter 7: Post Script (31:19)
Although our opinion on the Super Bowl is really the final word (I mean, come on), we do truly welcome your thoughts on this year's Super Bowl spots. Tug and I will be recording the podcast during the game. You can play along two ways. If you Twitter you can get a message to us with an @americopywriter reply or direct message. Or you can use the handy/dandy Mobasoft audio comment system. This year, we're considering more than just simple liked it/didn't like it. We're going to also consider "is it Super Bowl worthy?" A spot may be good, but fail to shine brightly enough for advertising's biggest stage. Our motto is, go big or go home. Our guess? Coke or Bud will win the day. But, like they say, this is why we play the game. Both Tug and I have strived to remain spoiler-free refraining from viewing pre-released spots in order to give you our virgin opinions. So, hunker down, get your snack on and enjoy advertising's biggest day. Cheers.
Talk about timely, funny and well-played - the Miller High Life guy is back and this time he's trying to deliver common sense to Super Bowl advertisers. Well done, Miller. Well done indeed.
The Super Bowl '08 Wrap
John and Tug get up too early and draw far too many hasty conclusions about what worked and what didn't. Listen and tell us where we got it right and wrong.
Happy Super Monday.
A click leads you here to play a surprisingly engaging and difficult advergame. And yeah, I added Alka-Seltzer to today's shopping list. Well played, Speedy. Well played.
Watch this and remember why you get paid to do what you get paid to do. The opening to the 2007 Hatch Show from Arnold.
Spotted at Ernie's blog.
I missed it on air, but Sethy G. pointed out that The edited version of the GM Robot spot ran last night on the Oscars. Found it, watched it and, it's just one guy's opinion, but this is a better cut. The additional jokes and the new, more conceptual ending make the spot more charming than before.
Bill G. doesn't claim that this would have been the best spot of Super Bowl XLI only that someone would spend a lavish production budget and $2.6 million to air something worse. He was right.
Science proves that this years spots were a bit lackluster.
And some think the work was a response to the war in Iraq. Boy oh boy.
AC Reader/Listener Amarena found this clip a little reminiscent of GM's Super Robot taking a dive off a bridge. A possible homage?
Record a comment from your computer right now. Be pithy.
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