February 10, 2025 • 9 mins
Dr. Bob Thompson looks at yesterday's big game, and ranks the commercials as well
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
No.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Three Pete for Patrick Mahomes and as an overall package,
I don't know, always left with a little bit to
be desired from the broadcasts as a whole. I think
we turned it on probably around five thirty six o'clock
last night, and nothing really caught my eye. The game,
the commercials, the halftime show, it was just kind of.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
A There were a couple commercials. I think you'll like that,
and I bet I hope, doctor Bob says so that
the the cul de Sac party, the end of the
neighborhood with Peyton manning a couple guys was hysterical.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
There were some okay commercials. Nothing really was a clear
cut winner. So let's get into some of the other
things besides the game. Our professor of pop culture at
Syracuse University, doctor Bob Thompson, whose job, at least a
part of his job is to watch TV, to analyze TV,
to criticize TV programming, and Doctor Bob, you before we
(00:57):
kind of drilled down on some specifics your overall thought
from the total super Bowl package from last night.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, super Bowl is always three programs, and it was
last night as it always is, and I would rank
the halftime show as the best swan of last night.
The as is a distant second, and oh yeah there
was also that game.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Was a.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Third simply because it was so clear from well we
got almost to the end of the third quarter where
Kansas City hadn't even scored yet.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, and that's when I think you'll see, according to
when the ratings come out, that a lot of people
probably turned off the TV, people that needed to be
up and go to work for a living. Anyway, last
night around nine thirties, when I wrapped it up at
the end of the third quarter, when we realized this
game was a dud. But so we know about the
game you mentioned. You know, I think it's a low
(01:52):
bar when it comes to the halftime performance. You know,
Kendrick Lamar is not somebody who is you know, on
my playlist. I preciate rap, I appreciate R and B.
The last I think four or five Super Bowl halftime
shows have been rap or R and B artists. My
seventeen year old son was way into it. He was
all about it. In fact, he came down from his room.
(02:13):
He didn't care about the game, but he wanted to
watch Kendrick Lamar. But a lot of people were left
with a little a little bit to be desired for
that show as well.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well. I think part of it is that in this
fragmented I mean music has been fragmented at least since
rock and roll general generationally, and I think it's hard
to get something. What I think back remember the year
after the famous wardrobe malfunctions, so this would have been
the two thousand and five Super Bowl. They just had
(02:44):
Paul McCartney get out there, sit at a piano and
playing a bunch of salts that I suppose you can
kind of go across the board. But Kendrick Lamar, of course,
is coming off quite a week, a bunch of Grammy
Awards last week, and I don't know, I thought the
whole the subtext and not even subtext, it was supertext
(03:05):
of the Drake business. And then that that uh call
at the end to turn off the TV. I was thinking,
you know, Kendrick, I'd love to, but I have to
watch this whole thing. It's right.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I was actually relieved to see Samuel L. Jackson and
Serena Williams because at least his people are something that
I recognized.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, Samuel L. Jackson in that Uncle sat a little
Uncle Samuel was a little creepy, which brings us to
let's talk creepy. There were some ads that were some
that fleshy cowboy head on to b which we got
to see not once but twice. I didn't have bad
(03:45):
dreams about that when I was concerned that I might,
and Seals had on an actual seal singing kiss from
a rose. That was a little a little too weird
for me too.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The other weird one was the tongues the uh I
think it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Was, oh oh, I totally forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yes, the coffee made or the coffee made creamer or
something like that, and there was a bunch of tongue
in your mouth.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And the tongue actually gets out of the jumps out
of the head at one point. One thing I thought
was interesting was, of course Tom Brady doing the Super
Bowl this time, and I think, by the way, given
all that's been said about him and his broadcasting problem,
he did a competent job of it. But I'm not
sure if i'd have been Tom Brady, I would have
(04:29):
agreed to be in that Dura cell commercial where he
runs out of batteries. I mean, they have to he
dies on air doing his job that he's actually doing
in the Super Bowl. That might have been a little
too close for comfort.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, considering all the all the criticism she received, Doctor
Bob Thompson from Syracuse University, professor of pop Culture, there
was a heavy dose of nostalgia. There was a heavy
dose of you know, just kind of easy, low hanging
fruit type humor. But I mean, you had the Clydesdales
came back for Budweiser, You had the muppets in the
(05:06):
booking dot com, you know, and it's funny we talked
on Friday about old advertising slogans and jingles. You had
that instacart ad that had mister Klean and the Jolly
Green Giant and the Pillsbury some of these iconic ad That.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Was my favorite ad of the night, by the way, Yeah,
I don't for that very reason.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, then I love nostalgia because it brings people back
to what they believe is a better time.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah. And and the fact that it became almost like
a quiz whether you could recognize all of these people,
and for someone my age, it was satisfied that I
did recognize all of them, as opposed to and what
talk about Star studded. I mean, there were celebrities in
so many of these commercials in putting crowds of them,
but depending on how all of you were, depending on
(05:55):
whether you knew who they were or not.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
That's exactly right, and that would I guess throw you know,
people that are our age a little bone. After the
Kendrick Lamar halftimes.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We know who the Jolly Green Giants was. We're not
so sure about Shaboozi right exactly by the way. I
did like his uh that nerds ad that he's sang,
what a wonderful world in was the prettiest of all
the ads. I've never seen candy look so colorful.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That was a decent one. I was disappointed in the
dunk Kings two ad ye yea The duncan the duncan Ad. Now,
that was good last year. I thought it was too clever.
It was unique. They created their own boy band. That
was kind of cheesy. But I don't think Matt Damon
was involved in this one. Tom Brady obviously wasn't involved.
It was just ban Affleck and his brother Casey.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't get that one. I don't
think it was the worst though, that that lecture Harrison
Ford gave us on Jeep That was probably sixty seconds.
I'm not sure. It seemed like it went on for
half an hour. It was like a halftime.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Show, and there was a there was some weird I
thought they were. I thought it was the same commercial
at one point because you had like eyebrows and mustaches
both flying, Like there was the Pringles ad with the
with the mustache flying off the can, and then Eugene
Levy his eyebrows flew off in a different commercial. Yeah, yeah,
the puffs or whatever bites that was kind of weird too.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, I think that was a coincidence when you had
airborne facial hair by two different things. Although some of
those we had previewed and we talked about last week,
we've seen half these commercials are more already, But yeah,
it I would have been upset if I'd have been
either Pringles or Little Caesar, because it kind of confuses, like,
(07:38):
are these advertising together? Is there something we don't know
about flying face hair and all of that kind of thing,
And it was basically the same joke. Wouldn't it be
hysterical if your eyebrows or your mustache went off your face?
And flew around and upset children. And the answer to
that last night was maybe not hysterical, reasonably amusing.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But imagine being the you know, in the the big
conference room on Madison Avenue with the ad agency going okay,
picture this, the mustache flies off the can, and then
the same meeting is happening with the other with the
little seizers. Imagine this the eyebrows. It's just the same concept.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah. No, it's so tempting to make fun of people
who go to work every day and do that kind
of stuff. But then all we have to do is
look in the mirror, right, better shut up?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So where do you think this one ranks as far
as commercials is on your top five, you know list
of Super Bowl commercials? Do you think that this year's
crop adds up or is it kind of a lackluster?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I think unmemorable. I think what we probably will talk
about with this. You know, we've had the dot com commercials,
and we had the Crypto Super Bowl and all that
those specific years. I think what we'll talk about we're
commercials that are really unmemorable. But the attempts to sell
AI as a warm and fuzzy, embracing force that's going
(09:03):
to make our lives better. A lot of ads in
the Super Bowl tried desperately to do that. I don't
think they were very good ads. I don't think they
convinced anybody of that. But when we start showing clips
of Super Bowls from this year, I think that's what
we're going to concentrate, not on the wonderful commercial that
we're going to be talking about forever
No.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Three Pete for Patrick Mahomes and as an overall package,
I don't know, always left with a little bit to
be desired from the broadcasts as a whole. I think
we turned it on probably around five thirty six o'clock
last night, and nothing really caught my eye. The game,
the commercials, the halftime show, it was just kind of.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
A There were a couple commercials. I think you'll like that,
and I bet I hope, doctor Bob says so that
the the cul de Sac party, the end of the
neighborhood with Peyton manning a couple guys was hysterical.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
There were some okay commercials. Nothing really was a clear
cut winner. So let's get into some of the other
things besides the game. Our professor of pop culture at
Syracuse University, doctor Bob Thompson, whose job, at least a
part of his job is to watch TV, to analyze TV,
to criticize TV programming, and Doctor Bob, you before we
(00:57):
kind of drilled down on some specifics your overall thought
from the total super Bowl package from last night.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, super Bowl is always three programs, and it was
last night as it always is, and I would rank
the halftime show as the best swan of last night.
The as is a distant second, and oh yeah there
was also that game.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Was a.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Third simply because it was so clear from well we
got almost to the end of the third quarter where
Kansas City hadn't even scored yet.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, and that's when I think you'll see, according to
when the ratings come out, that a lot of people
probably turned off the TV, people that needed to be
up and go to work for a living. Anyway, last
night around nine thirties, when I wrapped it up at
the end of the third quarter, when we realized this
game was a dud. But so we know about the
game you mentioned. You know, I think it's a low
(01:52):
bar when it comes to the halftime performance. You know,
Kendrick Lamar is not somebody who is you know, on
my playlist. I preciate rap, I appreciate R and B.
The last I think four or five Super Bowl halftime
shows have been rap or R and B artists. My
seventeen year old son was way into it. He was
all about it. In fact, he came down from his room.
(02:13):
He didn't care about the game, but he wanted to
watch Kendrick Lamar. But a lot of people were left
with a little a little bit to be desired for
that show as well.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well. I think part of it is that in this
fragmented I mean music has been fragmented at least since
rock and roll general generationally, and I think it's hard
to get something. What I think back remember the year
after the famous wardrobe malfunctions, so this would have been
the two thousand and five Super Bowl. They just had
(02:44):
Paul McCartney get out there, sit at a piano and
playing a bunch of salts that I suppose you can
kind of go across the board. But Kendrick Lamar, of course,
is coming off quite a week, a bunch of Grammy
Awards last week, and I don't know, I thought the
whole the subtext and not even subtext, it was supertext
(03:05):
of the Drake business. And then that that uh call
at the end to turn off the TV. I was thinking,
you know, Kendrick, I'd love to, but I have to
watch this whole thing. It's right.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I was actually relieved to see Samuel L. Jackson and
Serena Williams because at least his people are something that
I recognized.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, Samuel L. Jackson in that Uncle sat a little
Uncle Samuel was a little creepy, which brings us to
let's talk creepy. There were some ads that were some
that fleshy cowboy head on to b which we got
to see not once but twice. I didn't have bad
(03:45):
dreams about that when I was concerned that I might,
and Seals had on an actual seal singing kiss from
a rose. That was a little a little too weird
for me too.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The other weird one was the tongues the uh I
think it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Was, oh oh, I totally forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yes, the coffee made or the coffee made creamer or
something like that, and there was a bunch of tongue
in your mouth.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And the tongue actually gets out of the jumps out
of the head at one point. One thing I thought
was interesting was, of course Tom Brady doing the Super
Bowl this time, and I think, by the way, given
all that's been said about him and his broadcasting problem,
he did a competent job of it. But I'm not
sure if i'd have been Tom Brady, I would have
(04:29):
agreed to be in that Dura cell commercial where he
runs out of batteries. I mean, they have to he
dies on air doing his job that he's actually doing
in the Super Bowl. That might have been a little
too close for comfort.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, considering all the all the criticism she received, Doctor
Bob Thompson from Syracuse University, professor of pop Culture, there
was a heavy dose of nostalgia. There was a heavy
dose of you know, just kind of easy, low hanging
fruit type humor. But I mean, you had the Clydesdales
came back for Budweiser, You had the muppets in the
(05:06):
booking dot com, you know, and it's funny we talked
on Friday about old advertising slogans and jingles. You had
that instacart ad that had mister Klean and the Jolly
Green Giant and the Pillsbury some of these iconic ad That.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Was my favorite ad of the night, by the way, Yeah,
I don't for that very reason.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, then I love nostalgia because it brings people back
to what they believe is a better time.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah. And and the fact that it became almost like
a quiz whether you could recognize all of these people,
and for someone my age, it was satisfied that I
did recognize all of them, as opposed to and what
talk about Star studded. I mean, there were celebrities in
so many of these commercials in putting crowds of them,
but depending on how all of you were, depending on
(05:55):
whether you knew who they were or not.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
That's exactly right, and that would I guess throw you know,
people that are our age a little bone. After the
Kendrick Lamar halftimes.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We know who the Jolly Green Giants was. We're not
so sure about Shaboozi right exactly by the way. I
did like his uh that nerds ad that he's sang,
what a wonderful world in was the prettiest of all
the ads. I've never seen candy look so colorful.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That was a decent one. I was disappointed in the
dunk Kings two ad ye yea The duncan the duncan Ad. Now,
that was good last year. I thought it was too clever.
It was unique. They created their own boy band. That
was kind of cheesy. But I don't think Matt Damon
was involved in this one. Tom Brady obviously wasn't involved.
It was just ban Affleck and his brother Casey.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't get that one. I don't
think it was the worst though, that that lecture Harrison
Ford gave us on Jeep That was probably sixty seconds.
I'm not sure. It seemed like it went on for
half an hour. It was like a halftime.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Show, and there was a there was some weird I
thought they were. I thought it was the same commercial
at one point because you had like eyebrows and mustaches
both flying, Like there was the Pringles ad with the
with the mustache flying off the can, and then Eugene
Levy his eyebrows flew off in a different commercial. Yeah, yeah,
the puffs or whatever bites that was kind of weird too.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, I think that was a coincidence when you had
airborne facial hair by two different things. Although some of
those we had previewed and we talked about last week,
we've seen half these commercials are more already, But yeah,
it I would have been upset if I'd have been
either Pringles or Little Caesar, because it kind of confuses, like,
(07:38):
are these advertising together? Is there something we don't know
about flying face hair and all of that kind of thing,
And it was basically the same joke. Wouldn't it be
hysterical if your eyebrows or your mustache went off your face?
And flew around and upset children. And the answer to
that last night was maybe not hysterical, reasonably amusing.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But imagine being the you know, in the the big
conference room on Madison Avenue with the ad agency going okay,
picture this, the mustache flies off the can, and then
the same meeting is happening with the other with the
little seizers. Imagine this the eyebrows. It's just the same concept.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah. No, it's so tempting to make fun of people
who go to work every day and do that kind
of stuff. But then all we have to do is
look in the mirror, right, better shut up?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So where do you think this one ranks as far
as commercials is on your top five, you know list
of Super Bowl commercials? Do you think that this year's
crop adds up or is it kind of a lackluster?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I think unmemorable. I think what we probably will talk
about with this. You know, we've had the dot com commercials,
and we had the Crypto Super Bowl and all that
those specific years. I think what we'll talk about we're
commercials that are really unmemorable. But the attempts to sell
AI as a warm and fuzzy, embracing force that's going
(09:03):
to make our lives better. A lot of ads in
the Super Bowl tried desperately to do that. I don't
think they were very good ads. I don't think they
convinced anybody of that. But when we start showing clips
of Super Bowls from this year, I think that's what
we're going to concentrate, not on the wonderful commercial that
we're going to be talking about forever
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