GoDaddy and the Super Bowl Beaver
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If you’re like me, you slept through the Super Bowl because you were hung over all day from drinking the night before. This is an ad you didn’t see even if you stayed conscious during the game, supposedly because it was banned by Fox from the air. Come on, Fox hasn’t cared about airing complete and utter garbage since the first episode of Herman’s Head. There, I said it.
Whether or not it was a viral market stunt, the ad is disappointing to say the least. The spoof the ol’ gettin’ out of your limo with your naughty bits hanging out gag is, let’s be honest, a really old joke by the time Mad TV finds out about it. Sorry Fox, we’re still friends, you know I’m joking. wink wink no I’m not wink wink
The ad might have been funnier if they didn’t have a voice over guy repeating the word ‘beaver’ over and over during the spot. Though I guess if you’re the kind of person who explodes with laughter the first time you hear the word beaver, it’s going to keep being funny. Forever.
Beaver.
We’ll cover more ads later in the week. Or not, as my drinking schedule dictates.
Comment // February 13th, 2008 // 2:19 am
It’s actually quite stupid & could they not have gotten an attractive actress who could “act” or at least speak as though she was not utterly shell-shocked by the cameras….?
Comment // February 15th, 2008 // 12:01 pm
It took me a while to realize that the ending implied..apparently she was supposed to be flashing her breasts to the camera (something they did not make visually clear, they could have had a reverse shot of her opening her suit) and of course they were unimpressed due to lack of “beaver”. I wonder if they had to edit out a shot and had no “safe” coverage from another angle? Still that wouldn’t have made the commercial funnier, but it wouldn’t have had that huh??? factor