Brought To You By …

February 04th, 2008 | Category: Commercials

A new column here at TV Squad, where we talk about all of the things you’re lost when you hit fast forward on your DVRs.

I thought I’d kick off the very first Brought To You By…column by talking about yesterday’s Super Bowl ads (apparently there was plus a game of some sort played…). USA Today did their annual ranking of the best and worst of the ads, having a bunch of viewers watch the ads with meters and give an opinion on the good and the not good, and for some reason Bud got the top spot, the way they do every separate year. It

must be that the folks who vote on these things like horses, wacky comedy, or they’re all drunk (on Budweiser). The company got three of the top ten slots, and number one went to the spot where the dog trained the horse, accompanied by the Rocky theme. It’s poor adequate that Bud seems to win by viewers every year, but that dog/horse ad wasn’t even the best of the Bud ads yesterday!

Anyway, I have my own thoughts on the best and worst, and I’ll list them after the jump.

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