I didn’t watch the Superbowl, and also missed the Puppybowl (though I would have liked to have seen the Kitten Halftime), but there were apparently some cat-related commercials. One of them, involving a cat killed by a dog, with the dog offering his owner Doritos to keep the murder quiet, was vile and disgusting. But here’s another Superbowl Doritos commercial that’s mildly amusing, albeit still a bit violent. Someone at Doritos doesn’t like cats.
Superbowl commercial avec chat
February 6, 2012 • 9:53 am
And, by missing Puppy Bowl, you missed the Piggy Pep Squad, Meep, the bird, “tweeting” and hamster blimp pilots. I don’t know whether Kitty Half Time was part of the gig this year.
It was. And it was, IMO, one of the best parts- due largely to the lack of narration.
Or their target demographic doesn’t. The spousal unit and I were offended by the cat murder commercial. How does anyone find that funny? Didn’t see this one, as we were channel surfing, but I agree it’s not much nicer.
Gross
Somehow I missed the cat murder commercial. But I did see a Doritos commercial from last year where a guy sets out a mouse trap and sits and waits for the mouse to get killed, meanwhile eating Doritos like he’s watching a show.
After a bit of time, the mouse (a man dressed in a mouse suit) jumps through the wall and on top of the guy, apparently to steal the Doritos. But after the Doritos logo, they cut back to the scene and show the mouse beating the guy. I couldn’t believe that part. The commercial was stupid, but fine, before that, but that was way too much and I don’t know who would enjoy just watching a guy getting beaten.
The moral of the story: Doritos has some nasty commercials.
They are honest in showing what you look like if you eat a lot of doritos though
Doritos is not why I am fat. Thanks for caring though.
Oh, come on. Vile and disgusting? Is <Arsenic and Old Lace vile and disgusting? No cat was shown being killed, and there was no suggestion that it would be amusing to teach your dog to kill cats. Personally, I thought it was clever.
All who laughed, confess your sin now.
Forgive me Father, for I have giggled.
I hear the next ad features a dog being fed ground up glass! You ought to laugh at that too, huh?
I thought the Doritos and Audi commercials were the only memorable – and funny as hell – commercials of the day. And did people really refer to the implied cat deaths as murder? Really?
Wow! I assume you only watch “G” rated movies too? Animals eat animals is this the evolution site? I can assure you no cat was harmed in the making of that video. But cats are very good at killing plenty of wildlife.
No matter how I count it, I still come up with four strawmen.
I also BELIEVE that no cats was harmed in the making of that video. But you have no actual insider knowledge do you? I mean, you weren’t on the set during the filming were you?
it is like evolution, i don’t base it on beliefs, but on evidence, there was no cat being buried by a dog, it was only alluded too. I also kind of doubt the dog “wrote the note on the Doritos bag”. But I will base my belief on Carl Sagan’s axiom that “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.”
Srsly. No one believes that a cat was killed and buried by a dog, then bribed his owner with Doritos. The issue is one of tasteless humor that begins to cross a line into acceptance of animal torture. They can’t find something funny without hurting something or someone?
Srsly ^2.
I was also not amused by the (Ford?) ad that made a joke about the end of the world…except for those with the right SUVs…
All in all, I agree with ESPN’s Jeff MacGregor’s Superbowl ad analysis:
(Except for the gratuitous senior-dissing, of course!)
–Diane, AARP eligible…
(and, subscribing…)
Too late. We’re done here, unless someone wants to club a woman and drag her back to his cave.
lulz!
Didn’t see it, but if you think about it as a metaphor for religion, it contains an element of ironic humor. 😉
😀
And just to show how effective it was–it was actually a Chevy (Silverado?) commercial, not Ford. And there was a funny part to it–when all the cronies are re-assembling post-apocalypse, someone asks about “Dave.” Dave didn’t make it; “he drove a Ford…”
(Just now occurs to me…could that be a cryptic reference to Cheeh & Chong? “Dave’s not here!.”)
The vast majority of the superbowl commercials are stupid and fail to be funny. They just try too hard, I think. The only time I laughed was the commercial with the “couch” made of hot chicks; the voice-over says something like, “Also available in male” and the guy looking at the “couch” shrugs as if to say, “Well Ok, why not..”.
Ah, here it is..
I’m sure you’ll hate this one also:
From Ford-Europe…
For the record… I find it disturbing and vile also.
That’s horrible. Even the pigeon one. Who sees this and says “Oooh! I want to buy a Sportka!”? Or Doritos for that matter?
Wow, did I really just see that?
The pigeon I could cope with, but the cat was going too far!
The cat commercial… The first one (pigeon) got broadcast, the second never made it to air. It got all the way through production, post-production, CGI, the lot. This involves a lot of folks saying “yes,” to concepts, scripts, storyboards, etc as quite a chunk of money is spent to get a spot this far. It was ready to go but a very senior manager at Ford Europe pulled it.
Then it leaked to the Internet. Ford collectively went absolutely mental, ad agency almost lost Ford as a client, weeks of unpleasantness ensued.
I worked for the agency at the time and had to deal with some of the fall-out. There was a certain feeling at the time that some asshat, probably client side, working on the principle that no publicity is bad publicity, pushed it out privately. It was all rather fishy, so to speak, as Ford got deniability out of it.
Yep, it’s in fairly bad taste, but there you go…
Have any of the assembled humanitarians ever eaten an animal? Just curious.
Here’s our 5th strawman. Now we can start a basketball team.
that would still be less than the number of “hello kitties you own”… meow
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I only have real kitties, but I do say hello to them. 😉
And i have one stray that I felt bad for…
Then we have much, much in common. So why the hostility toward those who are not in favor of the implication of cat killing? And why the total fail in logic? We know it’s a joke, but it’s a cruel and inappropriate joke. Why defend it?
My take: It wouldn’t have been so bad if we didn’t get the wife at the end wondering where her kitty went.
The *husband* was an utter jackass. Dude, there’s 5000 bags of Doritos down at the WalMart.
There’s a secondary point about the dog was anthropomorphized. IOW, made to seem intelligent, so it wasn’t just an animal killing an animal.
After that commercial, I turned to my wife in disbelief. We thought it was in very poor taste and we will never buy that product again.