Category: Super Bowl

Like a Good Neighbaaa

USA Today’s Ad Meter selected State Farm‘s entry “Like a Good Neighbaaa” as the top ad in Super Bowl LVIII. The spot features Arnold Schwarzenegger struggling with the word “neighbor” in the company’s tagline until he gets assistance from his Twins co-star Danny DeVito as well as Jake from State Farm.

Super Bowl LVIII was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2023 season. CBS charged $6.5 million to $7 million for a 30-second commercial, remaining steady with the previous year’s game.

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, filmmaker, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder known for his roles in high-profile action movies.

Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor and filmmaker. He gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the television series Taxi (1978–1983), which won him a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award.

Twins (rendered in its title sequence logo as TWiiNS) is a 1988 American buddy comedy film produced and directed by Ivan Reitman. The film is about unlikely fraternal twin brothers (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito) who were separated at birth.

Junior is a 1994 American comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito and Emma Thompson. The film follows Alex Hesse, an Austrian-American scientist who agrees to undergo a male pregnancy from a newly developed drug Expectane.

Property insurance provides protection against most risks to property, such as fire, theft and some weather damage.

Pluto TV Couch Potato Farms

Pluto TV is a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service owned and operated by the Paramount Streaming division of Paramount Global. The service’s revenue is generated from video advertisements seen during programming within commercial breaks structured similarly to those found on conventional television.

CBS charged $6.5 million to $7 million for a 30-second commercial [during Super Bowl LVIII], remaining steady with the previous year’s game.

A couch potato is a person who leads a sedentary lifestyle. The phrase was popularized by Robert Armstrong (cartoonist).

The potato was first domesticated in the region of modern-day southern Peru and northwestern Bolivia by pre-Columbian farmers, around Lake Titicaca. It has since spread around the world and become a staple crop in many countries.

No, We Don’t Eat Our Own Supply of PopCorners

Fox charged between $6 and 7 million for a 30-second Super Bowl [LVII] commercial.

PopCorners is an American snack brand owned by PepsiCo. They are noted for an advertisement during Super Bowl LVII, which was a spoof of Breaking Bad.

Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns, or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated; the same names also refer to the foodstuff produced by the expansion.

Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan for AMC. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an underpaid, dispirited high-school chemistry teacher struggling with a recent diagnosis of stage-three lung cancer. White turns to a life of crime and partners with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to produce and distribute methamphetamine to secure his family’s financial future before he dies, while navigating the dangers of the criminal underworld.

Don’t Be Like Larry, Don’t Miss Out On FTX Fraud

FTX’s ad [on Super Bowl LVI (2022)] featured comedian and actor Larry David (in his first appearance in a commercial) in period costume dismissing various technological and societal achievements in history, including the wheel, American independence, Edison’s incandescent light bulb, the Walkman, and finally, cryptocurrency. The ad was directed by Jeff Schaffer, whom David had worked with in the past on Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Ironically, the company would go bankrupt later that year.

FTX Trading Ltd., commonly known as FTX (short for “Futures Exchange”), is a bankrupt company that formerly operated a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto hedge fund. The exchange was founded in 2019 and, at its peak in July 2021, had over one million users and was the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume.

A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. On 11 November 2022, FTX Trading Ltd., a cryptocurrency exchange, which also operated a crypto hedge fund, and had been valued at $18 billion, filed for bankruptcy.

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

Welcome to Irish Spring

Irish Spring is an American brand of deodorant soap that is marketed by the Colgate-Palmolive company since 1970. Television advertisements for the product have usually been set in an Irish village or a forest. Irish Spring isn’t sold in Ireland and most Irish people have never heard of it.

Perspiration, also known as sweating, is the production of fluids secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. The apocrine sweat glands are restricted to the armpits and a few other areas of the body and produce an odorless, oily, opaque secretion which then gains its characteristic odor from bacterial decomposition.

The Aran jumper (Irish: Geansaí Árann) is a style of jumper that takes its name from the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. A traditional Aran Jumper usually is off-white in colour, with cable patterns on the body and sleeves. Use of the word jumper (or other options such as “pullover” and “jersey”) is largely determined by the regional version of English used. In the case of Ireland, Britain and Australia, “jumper” is the standard word, “jersey” is used in South Africa whereas “sweater” is mainly found in tourist shops and in North America.

William Colgate, a devout Baptist English immigrant soap and candle maker established in 1806 a starch, soap, and candle factory on Dutch Street in New York City under the name William Colgate & Company.

Pringles Flavor Stacking Space Return

As of 2015, there are 5 Pringles factories worldwide: in Jackson, Tennessee; Mechelen, Belgium; Johor, Malaysia; Kutno, Poland; and Fujian, China.

Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft by parachute in a body of water. The splashdown method of landing was used for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo (including Skylab, which used Apollo capsules).

Super Bowl LV was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2020 NFL season. The National Football Conference (NFC) champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Kansas City Chiefs, 31–9. The game took place on February 7, 2021, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.