Super Bowl Ads Revisited

Next to the awful officiating, the biggest story of this year's Super Bowl was, as usual, the commercials. So here's my list of the best and the worst of last night's ads.

  • Best Hyped Ad: The Burger King musical extravaganza. The piling on at the end to make the Whopper, and the reference to the "freaky King" make this an easy call.
  • Worst Hyped Ad: Diet Pepsi. The song sucks, and somebody obviously decided that having celebrities was more important than having a clever, well-written script.
  • Best Beer Ad: "The magic refrigerator is back!" I think I lived next to those guys in college.
  • Best Use of 80s Music: Lost. "Might as well face it…"
  • Dumbest Sequel: Go-Daddy. I guess they were trying to make fun of something, but I couldn't figure out what that was.
  • Most Gratuitous Use of Special Effects: Fusion. Come on, folks, it's a razor, it's only a razor.
  • Most Gratuitous Use of Testosterone: Full Throttle. Real men drink coffee, by the way.
  • Best Use of NFL Players: "I'm Going to Disney World." Well-made, and surprisingly well-acted.