According to an article in the New York Times written by Stuart Elliott, two Flash-animated Super Bowl commercials drew heavy viewer complaints. The Salesgenie.com spots were posted here earlier this week, and the spot titled Panda features what some consider offensive accents.

According to the article, An Ad With Talking Pandas, Maybe, but Not With Chinese Accents, the CEO of InfoUSA (the Salesgenie.com parent company), Vinod Gupta, is now in hot water.

Watch the spots here.

What’s your take - offensive? Funny? Both?

Thanks to Ryan Simmons for the tip.

Terry Thoren, the onetime CEO of Klasky Csupo, and his Malaysia-based animation studio Rocket Fish have produced a series of Super Bowl TV commercials for the sales leads provider Salesgenie.com.

Creative:Mint, a boutique branding & advertising agency, tapped Rocket Fish and animation director Mike Milo, who, according to Animation Magazine, aimed to give the commercials “an early UPA and Hanna-Barbera look.” Below you can watch two of the 5 spots Milo directed for Rocket Fish.