E! Online - While some Super Bowl commercials are destined to become classics for all the right reasons, just as many go viral because they've managed to offend massive swaths of the population (or, a few people who tweet really fast). So far, the dishonors in 2011 are going to PepsiCo, Homeaway.com and Groupon, though there's probably some Star Wars fanatic out there who thinks George Lucas sold out big-time...
That's a pretty good summary and vid's of the three most complained about commercials from this past week.
Who are these people sitting around their TV's waiting to get offended by commercials? You have nothing better to do than find things to be offended by?
Take the smushed baby above? Who exactly was offended by this? Its a frigen doll people. It's not real. If you're offended by this you should just as easily be offended by the on-going plight of crash test dummies. Its the same thing. There is something seriously wrong with the people who felt the need to be all self-righteous over this instead of sitting back and laughing as intended.
And for the people saying the pepsi commercial is racist? Grow up! There is absolutely nothing suggesting the black woman throwing the soda can accidentally at the white womans head is racially motivated. Have we seriously come to the point where we can't have a mix of racial characters in a commercial without having some jackasses run around afterwards shouting racism? Shit is pathetic.
And don't even get me started about Groupon. 90% of American's can't even find Tibet on a map, spare me the pretend indignation about using the tiny oppressed nation as comic fodder in a 30 second commercial. That commercial was more air time and got more American's attention to the on-going situation in Tibet than all news stories have in the past 10 years combined. If anyone should have been offended it should have been the Chinese government. Now instead of just having hippy American liberals, and empty American political support, every uneducated American too dumb to watch the evening news or read a magazine article once in a while is at least semi-aware of what is going on between China and Tibet.
