yeah - i'm "old" - but i'm a pretty funny guy...
First TikTok video when I went to the page just now (BTW, I went there looking to see if I could find a POV video example, so I could use it as an example): "POV You work at a restaurant, so you don't celebrate Christmas".
19 seconds of a woman you can barely hear because the acoustics in the restaurant aren't great, talking to the person filming her, who she's pretending is a stranger yet she clearly knows and staged this with ahead of time (since this is her TikTok profile), berating the person taking the video for asking if they're open on Christmas. 145k likes.
I've encountered so many of these POVs lately (not even trying to, I only go to TikTok if someone links me to a video, but they even pop up while scrolling on my Facebook feed now).
The punchline of almost every single Super Bowl ad was the actors themselves. Not some witty line or scenario, but the actors themselves. Like "oh look it's that Friends actress playing herself pretending not to know that Friends actor, haha that's so funny and cute". So many commercials relied on the viewer knowing the actor, their personal life, and past work, as they'd attempt to highlight the irony of the actor being in some self-referential situation.
It was so horrifyingly cringe, and I can't even remember a single product any of them were shilling. All I remember is some of the faces and a lot of the cringe.
I'd much rather see sitcom characters rehashed in silly commercials like that than reunion style shows - those always tend to miss the mark. A 30s spot with some witty lines is enough for me to reminisce.
Tomorrow I'm most likely to remember that there is a new Reese's peanut butter cup.
And, as another poster pointed out, that's from the company that had arguably the best Super Bowl commercial of all time, for the original Mac.
Should be:
Whatever happened to GOOD entertainment?
Ask the Budweiser Frogs.