I agree, the Super Bowl commercials were a sore disappointment. Although seeing Justin Timberlake get hit by a big tv was kind of fun.

I thought Tide, "muttering stain" spot was effective. At least, it's the only commercial I remember.

I'd say most disappointing commercials of the night were the racist salesgenie ads.

I believe they did a study once that showed those anti-drug ads only increased drug use in teens...
Anyway, I liked the ads as a whole.

What about eTrade's Baby Stocktrader? The doritos commercial and the eTrade commercial were tops for me.

The FedEx pigeons' commercial was funny until they showed the giant pigeons and I thought of my car being parked under the wrong tree.

I thought the baby throwing up while trading stocks was very apropos.

Talk about market volatility!

Honestly the best commercial was the NFL's "Oboe" ad.

It was funny and meaningful at the same time.

Worst ad of the night goes to Under Armour, for whatever crap that was. AWFUL.

I thought the Pepsi commercial with justin Timberlake was pretty good. All the beer commercials were lame. The best commercial may have been the NFL one about the Houston Texan, the worst...I'll tie between GoDaddy.com and that creepy baby stock trader.

To all the advertisers: you really should have saved your money.

I HATED the creepy talking baby ad.

I enjoyed the Justin Timberlake ad and of course the beer commercials always bring the LOLZ. Other than that, I was mostly disappointed.

They were all pretty lame this year. I only laughed (slightly) at the bud light commercial with Will Ferrel. I also thought the girl singing in the Doritos commercial was good.

I was freaked out by the ads. They shoved both Carville and Richard Simmons in your face. I had nightmares. In them, Carville spoke in Richard Simmons voice, and Simmons spouted Southern gibberish in Carville's voice.

@honus: The UA ad wasn't great, but they paired it with an email that got send right after the spot aired. It featured their new theme (or whatever that was) and some new products...

I think that was a very good idea

I did enjoy watching Timberlake get hit in the nuts by a mailbox pole though...that cracked me up...

For some reason the etrade one where the baby throws up *really* worked for me. Everyone else was sitting around the tv not really laughing, and I was cracking up.

I loved the Gaterade "Man's Best Friend" one.

To my wife and I, it was Gaterade calling Michael Vick to say: "We just spend $2.6 million dollars to show a dog drinking out of a water dish and said 'Man's Best Friend'. How is prison food? ... Bitch."

@Cowboys_fan: I have the Meth Song as my ringtone, they're so funny. It's more addictive than the meth itself.

Bring back the sock dog...

I started getting tired, in the first ten minutes, of the constant Terminator promos that were CONSTANTLY running.

At least I was getting tired of them, then a Terminator showed up just before a commercial brek and beat up that f---ing football robot.

One of the worst commercials was the one for NASCAR on Fox. Once was bad enough, but they showed it 5 or 6 times...

The only ads that I recall are the racist Salesgenie ad (what are these people thinking?) and the creepy baby stock trader one, which I liked, but it seemed to provide an explaination as to why the banking system and economy are dive bombing.

Oh, I also remember the Coke ad with the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade floats that got away - I kind of liked it, but it made me think of the poor people who got killed last time that happened and then I was sad.

The Audi/Godfather one was supreme. When I realized what was happening, I felt genuine suspense while wondering, "What's under the sheet? What's under the sheet?"

I guffawed at the peanut ad that played, I guess during the pre-game stuff. The fugly woman who dabbed a peanut along her cleavage. Hilariously awful.

@Landru: Yeah, those were hella-stereotypical. I guess it just shows that the only people who will call you are Indians and Asian pandas?

What about the Amp commercial where the fat guy hooked the car battery up to his nipples and danced the car to a jumpstart? Thats the best one I remember except for Will Ferrel playing the same character he has in his last 100 movies....

I liked the Ontario tourist board ad just after they read the Declaration or Independence.

Fox will take money from anyone!

I was amazed to discover that UmderArmor is apparently manufactured in the same gay steel mill that Homer took Bart to visit.

@Islandkiwi:
Agreed. The NFL commercials were definitely the best. I also liked the Doritos ad. I missed the throwing up baby but I saw the second one. Meh.

The Salesgenie ads really were terrible; they felt totally cheap and half-assed. (Then again, they probably got their point across pretty well.)

What a brilliant anti-drug commercial. "Why bother buying from some sleazy dealer, when you can get high for free from the comfort of your own home!" Because we all know how much kids hate getting high for free.

I liked the Coke ad with the floats too, but there's something strange about perennial-loser Charlie Brown winding up with the bottle.

My favorite ad was the Obama spot. Sure it was filled with platitudes, but did you hear that indie rock in the background?

@downtownkid: Minus the C&C Music Factory soundtrack.

Cept for the Iron Man commercial, the Justin Timberlake commercial, and those strange strange SalesGenie commercials, I was too focused on watching one of the best Super Bowls I've ever seen. Oh man, it was so SO sweet to watch the Pats lose, and see Tom Brady sacked that many times. TAKE THAT, PRETTY BOY!

Oh, and my favorite ad was the Coke one with the Thanksgiving cartoon character balloons. Fun AND impressive.

my co-workers liked the "godfather" audi ad. personally, that was one of my least favorite...are that many americans buying $125,000 cars these days that they can afford to run a $3 million ad spot?

The Doritos Mouse ad was great, as was the Audi. At my house the second baby ad just gave everyone a chance to go grab a new beer, so we liked that.

SalesGenie.com wow...that was just painful to watch. I was growing more and more uncomfortable as that ad went on.

Best one of the night IMHO (and #2 isn't even close): Clydesdale, Dalmatian, and "Rocky" training music.

Worst: GoDaddy's usual vile sexism, self-promotion by the spammers at SalesGenie (where do you THINK they get all those "leads"?), the Amp commercial with jumper cable nipple clamps, and the E-trade baby.

Wait, one more for the winners list. The Iron Man ad was wicked cool. Really looking forward to that movie.

@HYDRAULICMONSTER: that part was awesome! i freakin hate that robot & was actually commenting at the time that i'd like to kick its ass...then BOOM! terminator does it for me! rock on!

@Propaniac: Yeah, I liked that one too. The Budweiser ad where the dalmation is training the clydesdale was really good.

The Audi/Godfather one was terrible, as was the one where the guy sat in the car and there was a nursing badger in the front seat.

Ad Guy #1: We need something gross and completely unrelated to the product we are selling.
Ad Guy #2: How about a nursing badger?
Ad Guy #1: You've done it again!

I actually enjoyed the first Bud Light commercial with the guy who could breathe fire.

And it was really nice to see Charlie Brown win out :)

Holy crap were those SalesGenie commercials racists and unnecessary.

i liked the v.s. ad. thought it portrayed its message quite well.

I thought the Tide commercial was hilarious. It was the only one I could not stop giggling at.

The best ad to me was the AMP one towards the end where the guys uses his nipples to start the ladies car.

As a Steelers fan, I'll confess fondness for Ben Roethlisberger's American Idol attempt. If I never hear him sing again, it will be too soon, but I love how he can laugh at himself. The NFL's "Oboe" was absolutely my favorite spot. "And now we're in the Super Bowl! ...kinda!"

And ugh, salesgenie.com. As a sales person myself, I was pretty embarrassed at 1) the blatant stereotypes and 2) the idea that real sales people have to resort to "leads" like that to make sales. And there had to be TWO of them!

@Propaniac:
The Coke balloon ad was easily the most entertaining and most over-looked spot of the night. I've been glancing over "10 Best SB Spot" articles all morning, and it's gotten no love (though conversely, it's not been on any 10 worst lists either).

It was funny, inventive, and well executed. But since it lacked any gross factor, bare skin, racial slurs and no ones nuts were assaulted, it flew right under the radar.

Stewie/Underdog/Charlie Brown as Macy's Balloons had the best response at my party. And the terminator doing the pee-pee dance was pretty annoying.

The Doritos mouse commercial was actually from last year...

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it was from the user-generated contest, and finished second behind the commercial with the obnoxious supermarket chick

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So the last laugh is on you, annoying check-out lady! Giant ass-kicking mice win!

@Cowboys_fan: I doesn't increase use, it just has no appreciable effect on kids not using. I can't remember who did the study either, but it basically said that the ONDCP is a big giant joke and is wasting millions of dollars on these ads.

What is love? Baby, Don't hurt me, Don't hurt me, No more....

Chris Kattan at the end sold it for me :-)

Last night's commercial's were incredible. Notice even the people that say they were dissapointing are still mentioning their favorite ads... quit being a bunch of Bill Belachek's (aka. The new word for sore losers)and give credit where credit is due.