Superbowl Turds: #1

Holy Christ. I've been ridiculously unprolific. My apologies. Things have been nutz.

So over the next couple of days I thought I'd recap some of the worst spots from the big game. The fact that some advertisers spent 2.6 million for 30 seconds of crap is just amazing to me. Some of that shit was just plain stanky! The usual, I guess.

I'm going to start with a major turd from The Kaplan Thaler Group. I was watching with a good-sized group of peeps and no spot quieted the crowd like the shit sandwich they served up for Outback.

And while I'm at it, I just want to say that I'm sick of Linda Kaplan Thaler whoring herself around the media. I saw her quoted in US Weekly the other day. Ugh. You created the Aflac duck. Way to fuckin' go, Linda, you fuckin' hack.

Anyway, their new work for Outback featured a dooshbag with an overblown Aussie accent. You can watch it here, if you dare. But beware, you might throw up in your mouth.

I'd try to summarize the spots for you, but there's nothing to summarize. The guy says some dumb shit and then tries to rip a boomerang off the wall. Not even funny. Not even close to funny. Good stuff, Linda. Sorry, but I don't see Cannes calling about this one.

Grade: F-

Comments

[stinkeye]

this spot is an american advertising abomination. maybe the world hates us because of how we use the lowest common denominator stereotype in ads, but how can you say this spot was worse than brown & bubbly? diddy is a man-whor who really thinks whatever he produces america will buy. i hope to god he gets the cosmic smack down for trying to dance and produce an album with a can of soda. asshole.

[Sarah]

Its not an overblown aussie accent, he's from New Zealand and he's from a comedy group called flight of the concords. Why do they have a person from New Zealand doing Outback commercials? I dont know.

[jessica]

wow... who cares it is a stupid commercial that isnt meant to be read into, if u dont like it then don't eat there. the end

[glenn imperatore]

What was your opinion on the old Ridley Scott
"1984" commercial put out by apple and replayed a few years back. I am still waiting for my teliscreen, although for a while it looked like Guinness TelliPhone was going to be the distributor. Apple and Google share Al Gore. Google's search is an instant runoff voting algorithm. Any chance we'll see Google applying their algorithm to elections?