Superbowl XLI: Break 6
"Pour Some Titties On Me!" | GoDaddy.com
Summary: This guy is walking down a long hallway. He says that GoDaddy is a great place to work. Then he opens the door to marketing department and it looks like the most fun — whoa, titties! Titties, titties titties!
High Point: Wondering what exciting commercial GoDaddy was going to have this time.
Low Point: Seeing this commercial.
Will this ad finally allow young Iraqis to open their hearts to freedom, American-style? It will be a wash. For every young Islamic militant we bring over to our side by exposing our lovely, firm, champagne-soaked breasts, another will be provoked to violence. And even if this commercial is supposed to be an ironic statement, it's nowhere near weird enough to convince me, let alone Moktada al-Sadr, that we're actually making a subtle argument in favor of smarter marketing choices. So in this case I agree with a radical Shi'ite cleric. Thanks, GoDaddy.
"Grand Theft Auto: Nice City" | Coca-Cola
Summary: In what looks like a scene from a video game, our aviator glasses-clad hero begins his violent crime rampage through his city. After he gets his bottle of Coke, his crime spree turns into a love spree.
High Point: Behind-the-back money bag return straight into a purse interception quickly returned to cute old video game lady.
Low Point: The Busby Berkeley ending, complete with human pyramids.
Will this ad finally allow young Iraqis to open their hearts to freedom, American-style? Strangely, this ad does represent all that is good about what Coca-Cola says America is. In a world without want, altruism is possible. America's wealth is, in the best case, a way to shield its citizens from the kind of man-on-man struggle and hardship that plagues poor nations. So citizens of war-torn Iraq, put down your decommissioned Soviet firearms and raise your blood sugar with an ice-cold Coke. Then, once the success of you and your relatives is secure, go do something nice for someone else.
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— Aemilia Scott (aemilia at flakmag dot com)
— graphic by Derek Evernden (derek@ocellus.net)
