Yeah, yeah, I heard you the first time - stupid voice over guy.

Here's a conversation that happened today between me and my roommate Wendy:

Wendy: Wait, are you fast forwarding through the game and just watching the commercials.
Me: Yeah, mostly.
Wendy: That's awesome.

This actually worked out to be a great strategy. The first half of the Superbowl was pretty slow, but the commercials are always better in the first half. So I watched all the commercials and not much of the game until it picked up in the end of the second quarter. But then the commercials always suck in the second half (or at least aren't up to Superbowl standards) so I skipped most of the commercials in the second half and watched most of the game. I love Tivo.

In the end Budweiser had lots of great commercials that were very entertaining. My favorite may have been the Chlydsdale tryouts, but there were many other good ones too. Pepsi had one or two fun ones, and even IBM/Linux had a good one with Ali (I thought they were going to do something with Eminem for a while, but they didn't.) The AOL commercials were cute, but as a computer nerd things like "TopSpeed" technology annoy me - there really aren't a lot of good technical solutions for artificially speeding up your internet connection. Unless you're actually pushing more bits to the client you just have to fake it, which only gives artificial speed gains in select cases. (OK, my nerd rant is over.) But my favorite commercial far and away was the MasterCard commercial with Homer Simpson. Of course, it's not too hard to get me to like something with The Simpsons in it.

Lastly, the halftime show was ridiculous as always. But what was with Justin Timberlake pulling Janet Jackson's breast cup off at the end. I know it comes just after the line: "cause I gotta have you naked by the end of this song" but isn't this family entertainment. And it was like the camera's knew it was coming and only slightly approved. They cut away immediately - so what's the point. I don't think it adds to the performance, it's just cheap shock value stuff...

Update: It turns out that the baring of the breast was unintentional - or at least that's what all parties involved are saying. Janet certainly looked suprised, but that could have been part of the act. I figured it was planned because her nipple was covered with some small metal disk. But they say now that's a piercing guard for Janet. In my favorite quote Justin Timberlake appologizes and calls it a "wardrobe malfunction."

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