LMAO when I realized what he had done with the shadow show.

Explain for those of us not watching.

Well you've heard of Janet Jackson?

At the end of XVI halftime prince arranged for a big curtain to be blasted up in front of the stage with a spotlight back lighting him. The prank was that his guitar was unusually shaped such that it provided a large shadow stretching up and out.

Nuff said?

Edit: I'm predicting that the NEWS, the NFL, and the FCC will let it go unnoticed.
Edit: I'm also going to have to watch Leno tomorrow, I don't see how he can let it go without some comment.

Visual aid:

"Yes we know. It's nothing new...."

Seriously, though,
In rock-n-roll for the past 50 years, hasn't the guitar ALWAYS been primarily a Phallic Symbol?

I found it amusing, but I don't think people will get too upset.

We Americans seem to mostly only get bent out of shape about actual
nudity or strong language on the airwaves.

But near misses are OK.

We mostly don't seem to get upset about Baywatch as long as that last square inch of fabric is there, or saying "shiznit", or Seinfeld episodes featuring off-screen masturbation, or giant guitar penises a la Prince, or rhyming lyrics with one word bleeped, where the rhyme scheme only allows one possibility for the profane bleeped word, etc.

Just don't EVER show us a nipple or we'll totally freak out and fine everyone in sight!

Whereas everyone loves to hate on the GoDaddy commercials, I had no problem with it. Just a spontaneous party scene with hot chicks dancing around in slow-motion spraying water or champagne -- you know, like at the end of EVERY 80's teen movie, or EVERY 80's metal video you ever saw.

Not very offensive, not very original, not very good usage of their guest stars: Danica, the Teutels, and that Biker Chick, but just good eye candice (um, I mean, "eye candy") that fits their brand and their image.

[Digression: remember that Simpsons where a party randomly breaks out at the end while an invisible band plays Journey's "Any Way You Want It."
<chrisfarley>That was awesome!</chrisfarley>
and made me realize how often that seemed to happen in 80's movies (just like the training montages with background squealing guitars)]

On the other hand, I found the commercial from that sales lead company very crass, offensive, stereotypical, and dated.
"Use our product and you will get this Ferrari, this hot babe, this big house, get invited to dinner with the boss, not have to do any real work, and be able to give a condescending lecture to a subordinate about why he's a fool for working hard."

I guess if they would have made it cheesier and campier, I might have liked it, though.

On the good pile:
I loved the Coke video game commercial where the guy strolls around putting out garbage can fires, returning bags of money, hooking the homeless guy up with the convertible full of babes, and recovering the purse snatched from the old woman.

I saw this rather neat preview on b3ta:

http://www.b3ta.com/board/6819776

Commercials were lame this year. Don't they cost like $1 million per second?! Why would anyone waste that advertising dollar on "salesleads.com", replaying existing ads, and showing us the entire CBS line up for the next three seasons? I don't even remember the good commercials because there were so few of them (in the second half, at least, which is all that I watched).

Maybe the Big Game commercials used to cost $1 million per second back on Fox. Clearly CBS couldn't price them low enough to attract anyone but "stereotypesalesleads.com", and had to fill the unused slots with explosions from every CSI city in the nation.

Seriously, the sales leads commercial is quality found only on 3am informercials on cable channels in the high hundreds. That's the equivalent of spam on page one of the Wall Street Journal.

2.6 million for 30 seconds.

Um, who is Robert Goulet? And who is Ricardo Montavon? I guess lions are smarter than me.

Drakino, thanks for the #'s.

That emerald nuts ad is hilarious. I need to get some and hand them out to customers when they break thinks but no one will admit it and see if anyone gets it

Those SNL bits remind me of this Pat Boone record link

Well I like both Bluegrass and Metal, but I think the 'novelty' of this would wear off pretty quickly!

If you hadn't heard the originals, you would find them good bluegrass tunes, although the lyrics would raise an eyebrow

I did love the Product Description here though!

Bluegrass + rock made me think of Enter The Haggis, but definilty not the same thing as what you were talking about

Made me think of Iron Horse, who did Bluegrass covers of Metallica, and Modest Mouse. The latter of which is one of my favorite albums.... who knew Modest Mouse would translate to Bluegrass so amazingly well?

And, of course, there's a great album called "Pickin' on Zeppelin" which is bluegrass versions of a whole bunch of old Led Zeppelin tunes. Great listening. One of the guitarists on that album is the guy who did the Deadwood soundtrack.

There's also "Strummin' With The Devil", the Van Halen bluegrass album that even has David Lee Roth on vocals on a couple of tracks

And I have a pink floyd bluegrass album, as well as the classic Beatallica album on the empeg. Sorry no links - am in a hotel with poor connectivity:-(

Fairly certain I have a Linkin Park bluegrass thing too. I'm sure a google will find 'em all. Worth listening to if you liked the pickin on led zep one.

I did see one article in the San Jose Merc. I think it was in the entertainment section and the gist of it was, "He's Prince, you expected different?"