Danny Trejo as Marsha Brady was the winning commercial!
Some really humorous comments popping up about the “Nationwide....Your Kid Just Died” Ad. http://www.tumblr.com/search/nationwide+super+bowl+commercial
Probably the worst, darkest, most depressing ad ever shown on Super Bowl Sunday.
If Nationwide didn’t sell accidental death insurance and life insurance, they probably get a bit of sympathy.
Even with that, it’s still like coming to a party and being the downer of the party. Not well received. Like setting up an infidelity counseling table at a wedding reception.
I liked the ad “Sorry, it is a boy”
And the “Throw like a girl ad”
Open season on boys out there...
The Budweiser commercial and The Cat’s in the Cradle commercial I also both made me bawl like a baby.
Don’t invite me to your funeral. Everyone trying to hold it together, I’ll be the first to break the seal and start sobbing.
There is no Nationwide.
There is only the lost puppy commercial.
Imagine if a pro-life group had run a similar ad.
The menstruating girls was pretty creepy too.
Didn’t see many commercials, at the party I went to, all the chicks gathered around the TV during commercials, all the guys ran off to the head, or get another beer, or some food.
For all you folks who like to bag on California, we enjoyed the game outside, next to the pool ;)
FREEgards, to all !
As a parent who has lost a child, I found the ad horrifing.
I guess my question is that if the family had only had Nationwide then the child would not have died?
Also did you all notice the commercials (Nissan for one and Fiat the other) that had product placements - probably to help pay for the ad time.
Nissan had a box of Cherrios on the table, and Fiat (though not mentioned by name) had Viagra.
Don’t screw with Angryneeson52.
But the insurer was slammed on social media, with viewers calling the campaign “depressing.” Almost two-thirds (64%) of the mentions about Nationwide were negative in sentiment, Amobee found. Just 12% were positive and 24% were neutral.
The truth is usually depressing.Especially when it comes to the death of children.
My immediate thought after the “punchline” was that it had been produced by the CDC.
Then the Nationwide logo appeared, and I thought “of COURSE it was not produced by the CDC because the TYPE of accident was not identified. The CDC would have had the kid dying of an accidental gunshot wound.
Most pointed out that Harry Chapin died in a car accident in Brooklyn.
(Granted, he was probably dead of a heart attack before the car actually crashed, but Nissan should've been aware of this. Wonder what kind of car he was driving -- there weren't any Nissans back then. Datsun, maybe?)
There sure are a lot of commercials for insurance on radio and TV these days. I’d much rather they use that money to lower their premiums and rely on good customer reviews and referrals to expand their business.
Awful ad
Whoever the stupid hipster was who made the ad should be taken to Madison and 57th and hanged from a lamppost
Worst ad ever