Episode 188: No Drop Trou for Bizarro

Matthew Wrather, Peter Fenzel, David Shechner and Jordan Stokes overthink Super Bowl ads, the transformation in contemporary marketing, the year of the dog, hashtag, & worker, and pooping on the field.

0:00–6:59 Question of the Week.
7:00–20:00 Marketing strategy; dogs, robot factories, and The Avengers.
24:00–27:59 Puppy Bowl’s Socratic purity.
28:00–34:00 Half time show.
34:01–41:59 Epic poetry of Ahmad Bradshaw.
42:00–56:59 David Beckham’s underwear and thresholds of potential rejection.
57:00–1:09:00 Old Navy ad deconstruction.

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Further Reading

Micro Bio-Spin^® Columns with Bio-Gel^® P-30

Polar Soda’s Conflict with Coke

Watch 2012 Super Bowl Commercials

Puppy Bowl VIII

“Anxiety relievable by purchase,” from David Foster Wallace, and other quotes about advertising on GoodReads

Bizarro, on the Superman Wiki

“Bizarro,” from Sealab 2021