Honda - Matthew's Day Off

The big game has been played, a champion has been crowned, and now there's nothing left to do but analyze the commercials!

The first one I'll take a look at is Matthew's Day Off by Honda.

I'm still peeved about these companies pre-releasing their Super Bowl ads on the internet. 

I want to see these ads for the first time while watching the game.  When everyone has already seen the best commercials ahead of time, it feels like much of the magic is gone.

But as for the ad itself...

Matthew Broderick's career clearly peaked with Ferris Bueller.  The role was simply too iconic.

That's probably why he hasn't really been successful as an adult actor.  Because no matter what the movie was, we couldn't help but see Ferris Bueller on the screen.  As a result, we were disappointed by him.

Ferris wouldn't have allowed himself to be stalked by a cable guy.  Ferris would have done more to stop Godzilla!

That's probably also a big reason why those movies fared poorly at the box office.  Well, the fact that they sucked also might have had something to do with it. 

When it comes down to it, nobody wants to see Ferris as an adult.  We want to think of Ferris Bueller as an eternal teenager.  We want to think that he always remained the coolest kid around, living life to its fullest and defying authority.

We certainly don't want to see him as a dumpy middle-aged man driving a CR-V, trying in vain to recapture past glory.

And here's the scariest thing about it.  Ferris didn't go on to marry his high school sweetheart Sloan.  No, this is what Ferris went on to marry:

Well, there goes my appetite.

Thank you for reminding us of that, Honda!
Rating: 1 TV - We should all just pretend that this never happened.  Don't watch the commercial.  Just go put Ferris Bueller's Day Off into the DVD player and watch that instead.