Hulu’s Super Bowl Ad Comes With An Ad

Hulu’s Super Bowl Ad Comes With An Ad
by Erick Schonfeld on February 1, 2009 [from TechCrunch]


The Super Bowl is perhaps the one television event where people actually look forward to the ads because so much effort is put into each one. And every year, there are a handful of standouts. You can watch the ads plenty of places online, including on Hulu. You can even watch Hulu’s own Super Bowl ad on Hulu, which oddly enough is preceded by a regular Web video ad. That just seems wrong to me on so many levels, especially since Hulu itself (which is partly owned by NBC) probably didn’t have to pay for the spot

I guess you could argue that some of these commercials are now entertainment in their own right, and thus deserve their own mini-commercials. The Hulu spot with Alec Baldwin (above) is certainly one of the better ones. He delivers the line:

They say TV will rot your brain. That’s absurd. TV only softens the brain, like a ripe banana. To take it all the way, we’ve created Hulu.

There were also lots of ads that poked fun at the economic downturn, including an ETrade ad with talking babies and a Cash4Gold.com ad starring Ed McMahon and and MC Hammer. To get people to come into its restaurants, Denny’s decided to offer free breakfast to everyone in America on Tuesday. But my favorite is this one from Monster.com which asks, Need Another Job?

CareerBuilder hit the same theme, but wasn’t quite as funny. In fact, CareerBuilder’s ad which repeatedly shows a woman miserable with her job screaming in her car, is downright depressing.

Then, of course, the trailer to the new Star Trek movie debuted as well, which I will embed below just because I know you will watch it (the trailer for Transformers 2 will also be popular).

Which was your favorite Super Bowl ad, and why?

Another Big SNL Show

SNL has really come on strong this season. After a few recent years where it seemed SNL (except for a few very funny SNL Digital Short clips) had lost its popularity and relevance, it is back and just as funny as ever. The Tina Fey impersonations of Sarah Palin continued again this week but this time Sarah Palin actually made an appearance herself. This week's show was hosted by "W." star Josh Brolin. Here's the videos below but go over to Oldest Living and check out his take on the Palin SNL appearance.



A couple other funny skits from the show:
(including Mark Wahlberg confronting Andy Samberg about his impersonation of him)

The Office Season 5 Premiere

Ok I know I'm a week late on this but better late than never. Tune into The Office Season 5 Episode 2 this Thursday at 9 on NBC. For the first time, we see what happens over eight weeks of the summer, as a Dunder Mifflin weight loss initiative causes the branch to diet and become obsessed with their weight.

Iceman: The Later Years

A clip from a 2000 episode of SNL. 15 years after Top Gun, lets see what Iceman, Tom Kazanski is up to.

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