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Groupon has reportedly snagged a commercial slot for Sunday's Super Bowl. Hopefully they'll just air the spot below—which was the coupon's company first-ever commercial, from 2009, and was actually made in response to the Super Bowl ads of that year. The company just reposted the spot to its YouTube page, and offers a little history:
"While watching the 2009 Super Bowl after we'd just launched Groupon, a few of us noticed how dumb most the ads were—seemingly all of them had some sort of slapstick violence … one after another, they began to appear increasingly absurd, especially because none of the people affected by the slapstick violence were hit with the actual painful consequences of real violence.
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