Top Five Week 2

I'm actually being thrurough. Two Monday's, two weekly top fives. I am impressed with myself, it's sad to say this IS a good start.

Sitting here at 1 in the morning listening to Authority Zero and having online discussions with my best friend, it was decided this week's top 5 would be dealing with events that occured yesterday. Super Bowl. No, not the top five plays, or dumbass moments, my favorite part of the Super Bowl is... commercials.

5. After much thought, I decided last place for me was tied between two Pepsi Commercials.

Pepsi: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=51557557

Pepsi Max: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=51559196


The Pepsi commercial is just showing two different generations of Pepsi lovers and how even though so many years seperate us, much of what we do has many similarities. Showing a lost connection many people didn't know, or didn't want to know we shared, with other generations. Great music, great concept, great overall commercial.

The second commercial I just find funny, showing stereotypes of how men are. Too awesome to be caught in a show of pain, and of course to amazing to be caught drinking a diet cola. It's a great show of physical comedy. Alright, I lied... my favorite part's when the one guy just "mistakingly" drops a bowling ball over the other guys head and goes "... my bad". It just seemed like he was curious as to what would happen if he did that. Awesome.


4. A quick replacement. Originally, I wanted the Pedigree commercial to be number four, it was close to my heart as an animal lover, and had a silly nature with a good message. Today though, I saw a commercial I missed yesterday for General Electric. Yeah, it wasn't the best commercial, was showing a good idea and how GE is trying to improve everything they do, but what caught me, was the modern day Scarecrow and the music from Wizard of Oz. I couldn't let this NOT be in my top five mostly out of bias since I am still in love with that movie to this day. If everyone hates me for this, oh well. I'll still have the Cowardly Lion.

GE: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=51568571

The last three of my commercials are all humorous, though two of the others were just beautifully done, these took the top three for just making me laugh out loud and continue laughing each time I saw them, second place at least still makes me laugh.

3. Dorito's. It was tough choosing between the two Dorito's commercials I saw, but I found this one to be sexier, which Super Bowl commercials usually lack due to not wanting any legal matters, and pretty funny. It shows a guy, everytime he eats a Dorito, something happens most men would love. Money, cops disappearing, women losing top layers of clothing. And then the end makes me laugh so hard it's pathetic. The guy's facial expressions, how he jumps for joy, and the monkey really made it for me too.

Dorito's: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=51559011

2. Taco Bell. Oh man, everytime I see this commercial the same part cracks me up each time. Women always complain about men moving too fast. Hopefully, after this no girl will say that for a while... unless there really is a guy like this out there. Tragic. However funny it may be, it's still tragic. This would've been number one hands down but the next one had a very important message I'd like everyone to see. (I'm glad this blog is posted on Monday's)

Taco Bell: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=51568814

Haha, holy hell. I just watched it again and am laughing so hard. he just... stands there a few seconds. Brilliant.

1. Here's this week's number one. It was worthy of the top five, but not really number one spot. Until... the message at the end. This blows Taco Bell's Tuesday idea two weeks ago out of the water. Even without that, it's a pretty funny commercial. Three, "wise guys" talking business and can't get any words out. Awesome.

Denny's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oq-dDxS0AU

That's it for this week's top five. However, I do have something else in store for everyone. Something I might do from now on, or I might be lame and do it seldomly. It is, the Lame of the Week.


Lame of the Week!:

This week's Lame of the Week coincides well with the Super Bowl commercials. It is peta's banned commercial. They say it was banned because it was too sexy. Women humping pumpkins and broccoli. Under normal circumstances, I would cheer them on for weeks... or until they grew tired... more likely until the vegetables became dried up and withered. The thing that bothers me though, is this is a commercial showing people they should go vegetarian. I have no problem with that, I was a proud vegetarian for years, but this commercial makes it seem like demoralizing women is a great idea compared to saving animals. Is peta really that obsessed? I mean, I love animals and watch my meat intake so it's barely anything at all, but someone who is so out there to be morally correct at every turn. No meat, no dairy, no fur coats, those are bad for the animals. What gives them the right to show women in a rather pornographic nature? Are women less important in their eyes than our animal friends? Or is it just people in general? I don't know, I just found this commercial to be morally outraging with a side of sexy... is that hypocritical? Honestly, I'm glad it was banned. (Also, I won't deny the point of the message... from what I remember, it's true!)

peta: http://www.peta.org/content/standalone/VeggieLove/Default.aspx