Who watches the Super Bowl for the game? It’s really all about the commercials. This year’s commercials were pretty amusing, but last year’s ads take the cake. But from the E-Trade babies to the Bud Light commercials, there was still plenty of hilarity to be found.
The best commercial of the night was the Career Builder ad. It points out events that indicate when it’s time to find a new job. The narrator of the commercial gets repetitive but it’s a big factor as to why this commercial is so hysterical.
You see a woman pull her car into a parking lot with a frustrated and depressed look on her face. “It can be hard to know when you need a new job,” the narrator begins. “As a rule if you hate going to work it may be time.” The woman grabs her steering wheel and starts to scream.
The next scene is of a man sitting in his cubical at work with a frown on his face when the narrator says, “If you hate going to work and your co-workers don’t respect you, it may be time.” An older co-worker of the man sitting in his cubicle walks by and says, “Hey dummy,” as the man hangs his head and looks even more depressed than before.
The narrator starts from the beginning again at the scene with the woman in her car, to the man in his office, to a woman riding on the back of a dolphin laughing with joy as he says, “If you hate going to work, your co-workers don’t respect you and you always wish you were somewhere else, it may be time.”
The ad begins again and the next thing you see is a man in a business suit standing on a side walk with his shoulders slumped and his head hanging down crying as the narrator adds, “? and you cry constantly, it may be time.”
As expected, the commercial starts at the beginning again. The next view is of a koala with big glasses on holding a coffee cup saying, “Oh dear!” as a fist bursts into the frame, punching him in the face. The narrator says, “? and you day dream of punching small animals, it may be time.” You guessed it? the commercial starts over and adds a man wearing nothing but a Speedo, clipping his toe nails, and laughing on his phone while sitting in his cubicle as the narrator says, “? and you sit next to this guy? it may be time.”
This time the commercial doesn’t start at the beginning. Instead it goes into a different scene that shows a man sitting in a big leather chair wearing a fancy robe. You can tell he’s a wealthy man because of the gold bars that are on a cart behind him. The man is sipping on a drink and he laughs, “It’s gold!” The narrator says, “If you make loads of money, it may not be time.”
The commercial begins again as the narrator starts to say, “But if you make loads of money, you hate going to work, no one respects you, you wish you were somewhere else, you cry constantly, you day dream of punching small animals, and you sit next to this guy? it’s probably time.” I will definitely think of Career Builder in the future if I have any of these work problems.
One of the better commercials during the night was the Bud Light Meeting commercial. The commercial opens up and you are able to see a meeting going on in an office with about 10 employees sitting around a big table. There are a lot of papers in front of everyone and in the center of the table is an ice bucket full of Bud Light.
One employee is leaning back in his chair and another is talking about how her Bud has “drinkability” when they should be discussing how to meet their budget. One person suggests they cut back on marketing, another person says they could eliminate bonuses and then the last employee says, “How about we stop buying Bud Light for every meeting?”
All the employees look at him with an “Are you serious?” stare, and the next frame is the man being thrown out of the four-story window of the office. “It was a joke!” he yells back at them. If you were unable to see these commercials during the Super Bowl or any of the other ones, don’t worry. All of the ads are on YouTube and the ones from last year are as well.
Enjoy! I know I did.
