Super Bowl ads feature funny, screaming chickens

The Super Bowl was played last night, Sunday, February 7, in what has now become a major tradition in the United States, with a large portion of the country watching the championship football game. This is always a night in which restaurants, particularly sports bars and pizza places, get huge business.

Part of that tradition is not just the football game itself, which was quite good this year, but also watching the Super Bowl commercials. If the Super Bowl crowns the best team in football (New Orleans this year, in case you hadn't heard) it also showcases the best, brightest and wittiest commercials of the year. This year, chickens had a prominent place in those ads.

Early, unofficial statistics indicate that this was the most watched Super Bowl game in history, getting more than 100 million viewers. Because of the huge viewership, a Super Bowl commercial cost just over $3 million dollars for a 30 second spot this year.

Denny's Restaurants ran three commercials about their free Grand Slam Breakfast on Tuesday Feb 9, from 6 AM to 2 PM. One of the commercials was about getting a free breakfast on your birthday. The Grand Slam breakfast has 2 eggs, sausage, and pancakes.

The very funny ads featured chickens, laying hens, learning about the fact that Denny's was going to be giving away a free breakfast this week. The chickens are doing normal human activities across the US, and once they hear the news, the chickens start panicking, screaming loudly and feathers are flying everywhere. Quite humorous.

In one of the ads, for example, the narrator, who is warning the chickens about Denny's free breakfast, says things like, "That's a lot of eggs. It will be a rough week for egg layers, " and, "It's a great day to be an American, a bad day to be a chicken."

My favorite of the three commercials "Chickens across America" ends by showing the President of the US, a chicken, in the Oval Office, being informed of the free breakfast - he panicks and screams just like the rest of the chickens.

How Denny's will actually benefit by giving away free breakfasts (or how many it will be giving away) is unknown to me, but I'd say they got their point across quite successfully in their ads. It's nice to see chickens portrayed in a positive and humorous light.

Watch the ads on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDPt4e46XH0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LSZbwj1EWI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQkxYUP1i5A