Forum Overview :: NFL2K5 :: The biggest gashes on the Internet speak to the SB ads

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]Nobody would ever go to sbnation.com, but they somehow tricked baseball writer Rob Neyer into joining them, and they smartly don't provide a way to filter the RSS feed for just his stuff. Were you offended by the Super Bowl ads? No? What the fuck is wrong with you? Rather than link to the videos in my post here, you can go to SB Nation and see them. [quote]<a href="http://www.sbnation.com/2011-super-bowl/2011/2/6/1979102/super-bowl-2011-commercials-e-trade-baby-ad">E*Trade Somewhat Racist Baby Ad!</a> by Jon Bois E*Trade, despite its claim, is not in the business of web-based stock trading. It is firmly planted in the "make television audiences uncomfortable" industry. Their Super Bowl commercial demonstrated that they're not content with resting on their "talking baby" laurels. No, no, no. It is time... for RACIST TALKING BABY! Here's video: Enzo probably does not appreciate the accent mocked at his expense. Make no mistake, y'all: mimicking a stereotypical accent is racist. Bummer, right? At least the talking baby isn't terribly creepy like it always is, right?[/quote] Make no mistake! Impressions of people are racist, and if you weren't offended, you're probably some kind of fucking racist.[/quote] [quote]<a href="http://www.sbnation.com/2011-super-bowl/2011/2/6/1979154/super-bowl-commercials-2011-test-baby-homeaway">Super Bowl Commercials 2011: Test Baby Is Still A Baby, Baby</a> by Spencer Hall If your Super Bowl 2011 commercial leaves the lingering taste of "maimed baby" in my mouth, can I gently suggest you've just swindled your client out of money and harmed their brand simultaneously? Sure, you have a point here. Who doesn't occasionally hate babies? I have one in my house, and at times it really is like living with a late-stage alcoholic. He doesn't know where he is when he wakes up. He constantly soils himself. He vomits, cries frequently, and often has violent mood swings for no reason whatsoever. An obsession with bottles dominates every moment of his day. Despite this all they can be quite charming, which is why semantically even a "TEST BABY" being smashed against a window like a fly against a windshield still kind of turns my stomach, especially when you take the slow, smearing slide the baby makes against the glass into account. Is it well-done? Certainly. Does the baby bear a certain resemblance to the equally doughy and indestructible Olympic wrestler Rulon Gardner? Why, now that you mention it, it certainly does. Does it make for a genuinely repellent image that wipes out whatever may be in the rest of the ad, including the name of the business? Hell yes it does, since now all I'm thinking when I see HomeAway.com is "this company kills fake babies in nonsensically arranged fake hotel rooms for their company." Fake or not, I'm not sure that's something I'm comfortable with as a consumer or a half-assed annual commercial critic.[/quote] Nobody gives a shit if you just had your first kid, and nobody gives a shit if being a newborn parent has made you empathic with all infantkind. I assume they lost their goddamn minds over there with the Groupon ads, but this message has run out of steam. ICJ[/quote]