Dale Roe writes about television for the Austin American-Statesman.
He's worked at the American-Statesman for 10 years and has written family movie and video game reviews as well as watched lots of TV. Dale directs, writes and performs with Austin's Gag Reflex comedy ensemble, is a freelance illustrator and has contributed stories and reviews to Macworld magazine. He lives in Round Rock with his wife, two children and a dog named Apollo who barks whenever he hears another dog bark on television.
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First, I didn't watch the Super Bowl. From what I'm hearing about any of the reasons I'd watch it, it's good that I didn't because between bad singing (National Anthem AND halftime), stupid commercials and poor commentating, it sounds like it wasn't worth time away from my family.
I don't quite know what was offensive about the Home Away commercial. Maybe the narrator's bad British accent? If people say the baby hitting the wall, um, it was a doll, not a real baby.
The Groupon one - wow, that's a whole lot of tacky. There are some SERIOUS issues going on in Tibet and I don't know that making light of it is appropriate at all. Desperate measures for a company that isn't doing so terribly (maybe until now?)
~C
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By Cathy B
February 7, 2011 1:30 PM | Link to this
First, I didn't watch the Super Bowl. From what I'm hearing about any of the reasons I'd watch it, it's good that I didn't because between bad singing (National Anthem AND halftime), stupid commercials and poor commentating, it sounds like it wasn't worth time away from my family.
I don't quite know what was offensive about the Home Away commercial. Maybe the narrator's bad British accent? If people say the baby hitting the wall, um, it was a doll, not a real baby.
The Groupon one - wow, that's a whole lot of tacky. There are some SERIOUS issues going on in Tibet and I don't know that making light of it is appropriate at all. Desperate measures for a company that isn't doing so terribly (maybe until now?)
~C