So, how 'bout those commercials? USA Today has a ranking of all the Super Bowl ads, which places the Snickers commercial featuring Betty White in the #1 slot. A bit further down, that car commercial that's narrated by Michael C. Hall, has Noah Kalina staring into a camera again and lets women across America know their husbands f*cking HATE THEM and just want to drive their Dodges, baby... placed #23; the Simpsons shilling for Coca-Cola comes in at #30; and the Christian group's (actually not all that controversial) anti-abortion commercial placed #54. You can watch all 63 commercials there, or at CBS.
Boing Boing has a montage of all the violence shown in the commercials (except for the one where Oprah and Letterman stab Coco in the back by inviting Leno in)—but who has a mash-up of all the times some dude is annoyed with his girlfriend/wife/women in general? Hopefully there was some retribution for the gender bias when the Google ad aired and every ad man on Madison Avenue simultaneously grew ovaries. Because, c'mon:
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The Letterman-Oprah-Leno ad was the best. Unexpected, and well-executed. Letterman's caricature is dead-on.
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Did anyone else notice that the commercials seemed to always be paired on the same commercial break with another commercial of a similar theme...old people getting knocked over (Betty White and Tebow's mom)...small people (mini-KISS guys and mini Troy Polamalu). I think the animal themed commercials also came in pairs but I stopped paying close attention.
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