Some people watch the Super Bowl for the game, some people watch it because they know there will be Buffalo wings at the gathering, and some people watch it for the ads. You can thank Ridley Scott, Chiat/Day and Apple for making Super Bowl Commercial Analysis as big as Monday Morning Quarterbacking. There are many places where you can watch last night's ads - Google Video, USA Today, AdAge, the NY Times - but Gothamist......

Even though Stuart Elliott's Business > Media & Advertising > Advertising: Twenty Little Questions" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/business/media/29adco.html?ex=1259470800&en=e0d1fb3a30b78143&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland">"Twenty Little Questions" in the NY Times Media & Advertising column strikes us as having only about five good questions (like wondering if Matthew McConaughey's films would go straight to video) and fifteen fillers, Gothamist was impressed that Elliott noted this:Did anyone notice that as hundreds of posters for the Akademiks clothing company carrying the headline "Read books. Get brain" were......

While Gothamist is a bit iffy about the new Mr. Peanut (as the Times' Stuart Elliott puts it, moving from a "dignified dandy, meant to be timeless in his appeal" to showing "off his moves on the basketball court and the dance floor," posing as a centerfold, and remembering when he was a "baby legume"), we do like the March Madness commercial where Mr. Peanut is playing various school mascots. Mr. Peanut is ridiculously skilled,......

For non sports fans, the Super Bowl is watchable usually because of the commercials. The Pepsi ad with the little music downloading criminals was great, and The Simpsons commercial for Mastercard was amusing, though maybe a little predictable. It was much better than many others, like the Sierra Mist ad with the guy and dog jumping into a pitcher and a glass of water. Our favorite might have to be the anti-smoking ad from......