Actually, we were irritated by the Tibet commercial because it came off as so racist. My in-laws are Asian so the whole family was hanging out together. It did not go down well at all - and my in-laws are neither hypersensitive nor lacking in humor.

The goal of Groupon's advertisement was to not be an advertisement, but a stated fact.

Sez you.

I hesitate to say it was an anti-commercial because it is still actually promoting its product, but it is definitely flipping off every other superbowl commercial for taking itself so damn seriously.

Riiiight. Because superbowl commercials are famous for being humorless public service announcements. As for Groupon matching donations (up to $100k each, I believe), big whoop. They spent $3m on their ad slots. This PR mess will cost them a lot more before it's done.