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NBC's Voice promo during the Super Bowl: easily one of the best ads of the night

The ads that aired during the Super Bowl tonight were mostly misses, I think, from the Teleflora ad that insisted giving flowers results in receiving oral sex to the Fiat ad with faux semen, aired on the network that wouldn’t air a reality show with real semen. But I digress. Some of the ads were good, but NBC’s promo department really hit a home run—er, got a touchdown—with this spot for The Voice . It’s perfection from start to finish. View the original article here

Survivor's alliance sticks with loyalty, integrity, and a crazy person they can easily beat

Survivor South Pacific took another step toward its apparently inevitable conclusion tonight, detouring so several contestants could make an ad for Sprint with their family members before Edna’s inevitable elimination. Not even the previews could convince us that the dominant alliance would keep a smart person over a crazy person. First, Cochran took his final bow as he lost at Redemption Island to Ozzy, though the duel was significantly less of a blow-out than most of us expected. While Ozzy breezed through the first part so fast that Probst nearly crapped his pants (“Keep fightin’, Cochran. Let’s go”), Cochran caught up using a crazy strategy with the ball maze, just flinging it around. It worked, though, and he caught up and was about to beat Ozzy when instead of slowing down for a nanosecond, his methodology backfired and sent the ball out of the winner’s circle into a hole. It was a metaphor for his strategy in the game, really: wild and crazy moves that usually worked but ultima...