Feb 02 2009
Conspicuous Commercials…
Here we are in the middle of a very serious economic crisis, but you wouldn’t know it from the front lines of business activity-the Super Bowl commercials. The common theme and tone throughout the ads was absurdity and outrageousness-in that sense very much in step with the trillion-ka-jillion economic stimulus (or is it crisis) plan? Still, Madison Avenue can expect an admonishment from the White House, because conspicuous commercials beget conspicuous consumption (we’re only as thrifty as our Super Bowl ads tell us to be!). Only the one-second Miller Beer ad got it right, affording the company pitchman to just yell out “High Life”…
Listen to the Ghost of Johnny Most discuss the Celt's 2008 Season
the whole thing turned my stomach………a lot of aggression / near violence…slapsticking type stuff………….with some themes there weren’t easy to follow………why????