Posted on 02/05/2007 9:34:36 AM PST by ChiefJayStrongbow
Edited on 02/05/2007 10:23:25 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Last evening, as I watched the Superbowl with my nine year old son, I became extremely annoyed at the MARS Corporation and their advertisement for Snickers which showed two guys locking lips. I can't even fathom why somebody thought that this would be a good advertisement for that particular product and why they chose to air it during this event, especially when they knew children would be watching. If their aim was to draw controversy in the hopes of increasing sales, then I sincerely hope they missed their mark. I hope that, instead, they lose sales because of their idiocy.
I called in and registered my strong disapproval this morning at 1-908-852-1000. (If you call, when you get the phone tree, just press "0")
Our family will not be buying MARS products ... Products that MARS makes/distributes: M&M'S, SNICKERS, MARS bars, Milky Way, Skittles, and TWIX.
The problems at Chevrolet have little to do with their advertising. It has to do with making vehicles that Americans wish to purchase. Commercials make me laugh and I tend not to get so worked-up over them. Life is too short to experience tension over something on television.
The snickers ad simply put will lower the bar for male homosexual depictions on prime time tv. By next season you will be seeing gay men kissing on network prime time TV shows. I recall the night that Howard Stern had 2 women kiss on Leno's show and soon after that it became very common for women to kiss even in prime time and daytime TV. Leno acted kind of upset by that and went to commercial quickly. He probably was fully aware though what Stern had in mind.
I always associate gays with Hershey, not Mars.
Correct. That started when he was at Michigan State. The crowd would yell, 'Muuuuuuuu (moo)' and in Mushin Muhammed.
Prince just rocked. His voice hsa certainly changed over the years...
My favorite line of the live thread last night was when someone suggested that they could have had Billy Joel (national anthem) and Prince (halftime) eat a snickers bar together under the hood of a car.
Seriously, I thought Prince did a great job, it was much more entertaining than last years old-folks performance, or the previous year's multi-untalented performer presentation.
50 inch!?!
bragger.
All this complaining about the snickers "kiss". Not one complaint that the two auto mechanics were not wearing safety glasses!
And he also wore a nice suit and tie rather than a leather jacket, torn jeans and a Bears jersey like many anthem singers tend to do.
As an unrepentant NASCAR fan, I see my fair share of antherm singers. Most are OK, few are great, some are beyond reprehensible. Billy Joel fell at the low end of great. Better than the abomination last year of Aretha Franklin, Dr. John and Aaron Neville. A friend who was at the game told me it was even worse live.
A local Detroit radio station, WMGC 105.1 plays a different listener every morning reciting the Pledge of Allegiance followed by a patriotic song. Today was Billy Joel.
I liked the coke commercial, and was compelled to watch the commercial of the assembly-line robot committing suicide (turned out it was just in his imagination).
I've only had my wedding enlarged once. If I have to get it enlarged again, then maybe the Snicker's bars, ice cream, brownies, cookies (unless they are homemade), cake and anything else that makes eating fun.
Prince was neither raunchy nor is he an awful performer. I think he was great, and it was wonderful that his dancers were modestly dressed.
We ran from the room! Sick.
he put on a good show. even in the rain. i was wondering if he was going to run off the stage right after he finished singing but he didn't (least not on my 27" circa 1994 zenith) he just stood there soaking in the applause, in all his wet purple glory.
I swear, some of the "conservatives" on this site look for any excuse to be as offended as their liberal counterparts.
It was "portrayed" as accidental but it wasn't accidental for either of the actors who engaged in that kiss.
"Maybe we need to plug it in!"
The look on the poor mouse was priceless.
Local radio guy wondered why Chevy didn't use Prince's song about a Corvette in their "songs of Chevy" commercial.
Using Katie COuric to advertise the evening news program is proof that comedy in commercials is not a good selling tool.
Too busy laughing AT couric and the product being sold is lost.
Quick! Do something manly.
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