I missed the first half (after giving up on our Costco trip yesterday, being unable to find a parking space and having forgotten that everyone would be stocking up for the game today, we went about game time. Lightest traffic ever…), but my favorite ad in the second half was Audi’s. Selling us green cars by showing us our ecofascist future…
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I agree:
I can’t wait for the video showing Hitler’s reaction to Peyton Manning’s fourth-quarter interception.
I think that it says something about the culture that, sixty-five years later, Adolf Hitler has become a pop-culture joke. Unfortunately, I think that the ideology of radical Islam and Allah will be much more resistant. Partly because when we make fun of Hitler, there aren’t riots in the streets, with threats of decapitation.
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Did the Colts get the kiss of death?
He also thought the Olympics were a shoe-in for Chicago because of his involvement (epic fail), that Corzyn would win in New Jersey, Deeds in Virginia, Coakley in Massachusetts, and that he would by himself succeed in Copenhagen. That’s 0-5 there tough guy! From NFL.com: President Obama predicts Colts victory in Super Bowl XLIV.
I’m guessing that there are a lot of donkeys who will be begging The One to stay the hell away from their campaigns this fall.
I spent most of that ad trying to figure out just what the point of it was going to be. I thought it was either going to be an in-your-face male-oriented ad (much like the “Man’s Last Stand” car commercial in the first half) or something political. Bless Audi for putting it on — I don’t think it’ll sell many ‘green’ cars, but it may cause a lot of viewers to re-think feel-good greenism. ..bruce..
I actually cringed at that one, because at the very end, I was suddenly uncertain whether they truly meant it as satire…
Possibly my favorite was actually after the game–Verizon ripped off the old shadows-giving-female-shadows-jewelry commercials.
That advertisement was amazing and I think that very few people want that future and it did nothing to help the green cause.
I was guessing until the end that it was actually a political ad, and wondering who was sponsoring it.
I didn’t see it on TV, but this seems to be the ad you are talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml54UuAoLSo
Perhaps some of us see it as satire, but I’m not so sure that was the intent.
Recall that in CA, if you have a prius and a special permit, you can use the carpool lanes. Seems that Audi is saying you can pay your green penance by buying the Audi. Maybe they throw in some “offsets”.
shudder.
Yup, that’s it.
Come on. Anteater sniffing for styrofoam == satire.
Ironically, Audi is HQ’ed in Ingolstadt, Germany, whose city seal glorifies global warming (at least the draconian variety).
Perhaps dragon extinction led to the Little Ice Age?
C’mon where are the conspiracy buff? Ingolstadt? Birthplace of the Bavarian Illuminati? Connect the dots. folks…
As I recall, dolphins figured prominently in The Illuminatus Trilogy – dolphins, also the name of a football team in whose stadium tonight’s Super Bowl was played…
That’s 0-5 there tough guy! From NFL.com: President Obama predicts Colts victory in Super Bowl XLIV.
It’s actually 0-6 as he picked Texas over Alabama in the BCS.
Re: the Hitler as pop-culture joke thing, I wonder if there’s a video clip of Mohammed or ObL that could be satirized in a similar manner. Maybe we could get an “edgy”, “transgressive”, “artist” to produce something suitable…
Hmmm, the President doesn’t seem to respond well to mockery either….
No doubt the Audi commercial producers were trying to say that by getting an Audi one would be able to thwart the Green Police’s efforts to control you by outsmarting them at their own game — or something.
Those must be the “green jobs” that Dear Reader keeps talking about.
Hitler was a pop culture joke during the war too, at least in the UK.
I’ve read that many western ranchers have a policy of “shoot’em, shovel’em and shut up” when they catch wolves killing their livestock.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the same thing would happen to the Green Police if that ever comes to exist.
Jason Bontrager:
Mission Accomplished. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVkUvmDQ3HY#t=4m06s
Hitler — he only had one ball
Goering had two but very small
Himmler
Was somewhat sim’lar,
But Goebbels had noebbels at all.
Hitler was a pop culture joke during the war too, at least in the UK.
Anyone who has watched Bugs Bunny knows what happened when Hitler made the mistake of tangling with the bunny!
Nyuk, nyuk!
Curly makes a good Mussolini.
Actually, I’d like to see someone produce Baghdad Bob parodies. His Joe Isuzu-style denial of American victories in Iraq lends easily to a sports setting. “There are no Saints inside the Colts 30 yard line. Never!”