Commericals

I was not surprised by much during the super bowl commercials. Most were well-written, clever commercials, and many had the themes I was expecting: sexy women, humor, and relationship themes. One taco bell commercial shows a man meeting a woman at a party and then progresses through the relationship "at the speed of taco bell." Another clever commercial shows a roboticized scarecrow singing "If I only had a brain," telling a musical tale of how GE is going to make their electricity more intelligent. A few commercials surprised me, though. One showed ads in 3d over normal television, something I had never seen before. The others were less pleasant surprises. An ad for a flower company showed a girl receiving boxed competitor's flowers that said extremely offensive things, like "no one wants to see you naked." The punch line is this; you never know what your boxed flowers will say. I was honestly offended by the harshness of the insults and was shocked more than amused. Another ad that would have seemed harmless last year showed a nagging potato head female doll lose her mouth when Bridgestone tires braked rapidly. It seemed funny at first glance, but definitely had misogynistic undertones that disturbed me when I pondered it further.