Probably the worst year ever. The good ones were not as good as the good ones in the past. The bad ones were worse than any other year.
The bad? The gay Snickers bar (what, today's version of The Lady and The Tramp?), the robot committing suicide, the long and overly violent heart commercial (directing you to their web site to see what they're selling), the unfunny and Three-Stooges-violent "we don't do the fist thing, we slap each others faces", and the guys-out-of-control stripping for a car. What self-respecting business would use "Go Daddy" after seeing that adolescent and misogynistic excuse for a commercial?
The bad was bad. The bad was insulting. The bad was degrading.
The good was OK, but not memorable. Coke really made an effort. Budweiser continues to be the best. Teaching pronunciation to the immigrants was good, "But he has an ax" was good, the monkey in the zoo smiling for the picture instead of stealing the beer, the "spotted" dog.
But nothing to talk about over the water cooler. We need more horses, more monkeys, more frogs and lizards, exploding mosquitoes -- clever, funny, feel-good stuff. Anybody can make "shock". And that's all we got this year.
Man, we don't even HAVE a water cooler here. Maybe it's time I call career builder.
We need more CATS....
Actually, as I've already stated, I'm glad it's not the circus it usually is. Last year wasn't so "hot", either. In many ways I'm glad. I get tired of all the pathetic wanna-bes at Super Bowl time. Now that it's toned down (notice all the completely dull ho-hum everyday commercials obviously not meant for "zany" SB time?), we don't have to deal with all the pathetic try-so-hard losers as most years from some 15-20 years back have been.