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1 TV Tonight: "Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials 2007"
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2 What Did You Think About This Year's Super Bowl Ads?
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5 GM Robot Commercial Less Suicide-y for the Oscars
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6 Did This Year's Super Bowl Commercials Live Up to the Hype?
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7 2008 Super Bowl Commercials: My Five Favorites
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8 2008 Super Bowl Commercials: Five of the Worst
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9 Buzz In: What Were Your Favorite Super Bowl Ads?
Being scholars of the empirical battle known as Star Wars, naturally our favorite commercial during last year's Super Bowl game was Volkswagen's now-classic Darth Vader commercial. The TV ad showed, through a geeky lens, that not just extreme sports or models are needed to sleekly highlight a product. Beyond the mini-Darth spot, last year's game had its share of geek-approved commercials. Were Read more
Get enough action during the Super Bowl yesterday? If you were busy high-fiving your fellow fans between plays and missed the fun, funny, and sometimes "awwww"-worthy ads, then here's your chance to catch up. Now through Feb. 10, you can watch all of the Super Bowl XLV ads on Facebook's official sports page, and vote for your favorites by "liking" them. The one who goes home with the most votes Read more
The force can be with your family . . . if you buy a $20,000 Volkswagen. That's the message that the German automaker's 2012 Passat commercial (that has gone viral) delivers. In it, a child dressed in a Darth Vader costume flashes the vehicle's lights with a flick of the wrists (via his onlooking father's automatic key fob). Making a car "family cool" is a tactic Volkswagen used in 2008 when a Read more
Admittedly, I laughed when I saw this commercial on Super Bowl Sunday. The visual of a dog getting revenge on a taunting human hit home, but then I began to analyze the moral. Is it all in good fun or does it show that these collars are too cruel for a human (by his dramatic shocking) . . . but not too horrible to still use on pets? What's Your Take: Doritos' Anti-Bark Read more
Chances are, you've seen some of these commercials, even after their Super Bowl debuts back in the day. Check out my six picks for ads featuring animals from seasons' past in this slideshow — each includes a link to rewatch your favorites, so get started now! Read more
Over the past 43 years, the Super Bowl has evolved to become as much about food and funny commercials as it is about pro football. To get you excited for the game, I thought I'd test your IQ on famous food spots of Super Bowls past. Here's the drill: I'll give you a brief synopsis of a past commercial, and you guess which brand or food product it's about. Ready to charge through my questions? Read more
Since my favorite commercial during last year's Super Bowl was Hank and his helper – I'm tearing up just remembering the sweetness – I was expecting big things from Budweiser again this year. Of the three spots featuring the famed horses, there was the Clydesdale immigrant from Scotland, the starcrossed lovers' horses with Daisy circus-bound and this cute clip of a fetching Read more
The fun of the Super Bowl may be behind us (go Steelers!), but the ads will remain, at least for a little while. Not all of last night's ads had me laughing out loud, but there were a few I particularly liked — and I'm curious to know which ones caught your eye (besides the movie trailers — we're talking about those over here). My top tier includes Hulu's "evil plot to destroy the world" Read more
C'mon. . . who realllly watches the Super Bowl for the football? OK, maybe there's a good portion of you, but usually I'm too busy drooling over the delicious dishes and whipping up fancy cocktails to pay attention to what's happening on the field. Although there is always one thing that piques my interest — the commercials! I can't wait to watch the big Monsters vs. Aliens 3D Trailer, but Read more
Dogs and horses, I'm sold! Of all the Super Bowl hits and misses, I've gotta say that the Budweiser commercial of a horse with a dream topped my list. Off the bat, I love checking out these horses and their doggie pals — did you know that the Dalmatian was introduced to the traditional Budweiser Clydesdale procession on Mar. 30, 1950 to celebrate the opening of the Newark brewery?! These Read more
