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One mocked the lofty expectations for Super Sunday ads with a purposely cheesy performing monkey.
"Special Report With Bret Baier," at 10, will offer results from the Washington caucuses and look at expectations for Super Tuesday.
The E*Trade spots, part of an offbeat campaign by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, an Omnicom agency, include one mocking the expectations for Super Bowl commercials.
"It's lowest-common-denominator humor," said David Blum, senior vice president at Eisner Communications in Baltimore, which surveys consumers each year on expectations about Super Bowl advertising.
There had been expectations that super PACS would finance attack ads; historically, outside groups have run some of the harshest ads against candidates, like Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which attacked the Vietnam War record of Senator John Kerry.
Before BBDO designed the ad, executives at Monster and the agency researched whether people had different expectations of Super Bowl ads given the economy, asking about what they wanted to see, and found that people just wanted to laugh.
If he can continue beating expectations through Super Tuesday, then he'll be the biggest challenger to Trump throughout March.
