1. The Whopperettes - Burger King. Once again, the new dynamic duo of freaky Burger King and Brooke Burke star in another commercial. This one gets my vote for the funniest commercial of the night. The costumes were a scream - whoever designed the onion costumes and the beef patty costume deserves an award. Only one more thing would have made this commercial funnier: if they'd had a Whopperette in a cheese slice costume.
2. Careerbuilder.com - Chimps Celebrate. Careerbuilder.com does it again - yet another hilarious commercial with the chimps dressed in clothes. The chimps are celebrating with champagne and are listening to Twisted Sister on their boom box, and the boss chimp literally has money to burn. Then the guy informs them that their chart is upside down - they've lost money instead of gaining. Well the chimps want no part of that. So they turn the graph upside down again and they crank up "Come, Feel The Noise." I've said it before and it bears repeating - any commercial with chimpanzees in it is funny.
3. Careerbuilder.com - Jackasses. Those crazy chimps are at it again. In this commercial, I can't decide which of the chimps is the funniest - either the one that's playing Windows solitare on his computer or the one that's frustrated and waving around a handfull of computer cords. Like I said, chimps by themselves are hilarious, especially if they're wearing clothes. Add in donkeys also wearing clothes and it's a recipe for one damn funny commercial.
4. Budweiser - Junior Clydesale. It just dawned on me that we had an animal-themed series of Super Bowl commercials. Anyhoo, you can always count on the Clydesdale horses for a good commercial. And who isn't a sucker for baby animal. How could we resist the Clydesdale colt, thinking he was big and bad pulling the wagon?
5. GoDaddy.com - the GoDaddy girl. For the record, let me say that my Dad liked this commercial (for obvious reasons). In this commercial, the GoDaddy girl has a wardrobe malfunction.
6. Honda Ridgeline - Mud Flaps. This was another of my favorites. Who would have thought a Japanese auto manufacturer would use mudflap icons the naked woman silouhette and Yosemite Sam? Who knew?
7. Ameriquest - Medical Misunderstandings. Talk about bad timing. A mother and daughter visit their husband/father in the hospital, and walk in just as an intern is holding a set of di-fib paddles after he zapped a fly. "That killed him" was probably said thousands of times in offices across America today.
8. Budweiser - The Streaker. Once again, another great commercial with funny animals. This time, the Clydesdales are playing football against rams, and during the game, a sheared ram runs onto the field, in a funny display of animal streaking. I ask you - how in the world did they get that goat to dance on his hind legs like that?
9. Bud Light - Magic Frig. Even though they didn't have any commercials with Cedric the Entertainer, Bud Light still did pretty good this year. A guy shows his buddy how he turned his refrigerator full of Bud Light into a revolving wall. Only when he turns the wall around to supposedly save his beer from being drunk by his friends, the boys on the other side of the wall think they've hit the mother lode and the magic frig suddenly appears again. The commercial ends with the boys on their knees, worshipping the magic frig. I'm sure that was another buzz phrase heard today, too.
10. Sprint - Crime Deterrant. I wish I'd been the writers that thought up this one. Pure genius. Two guys are in the locker room after a round of golf, and one guy starts bragging about his new cell phone and all it can do. The other guy puts him in his place when he says his phone is a crime deterrant. He asks the other guy to test it out and try to steal his wallet. The guy hits him in the head with his phone. Sheer advertising genius.
Worst commercials of the evening: Pizza Hut - Cheesey Bites. They snuck this commercial in at the beginning, while we were all waiting for the kickoff. They had to, or else I think people would have left the room and not watched it any way. Yes, it's not secret I'm not a big Jessica Simpson fan, especially not after she butchered Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walking." Did the owners of the copyrights of the song not learn anything back in the 90's when Billy Ray Cyrus recorded a version of it? I think the director of the commercial had to throw a bucket of water on the teenage boy when Jessica finished singing in front of him.
Diet Pepsi - Brown And Bubbly. An interesting pattern here - two companies owned by Yum! have my least favorite commercials in the Super Bowl. Diet Pepsi should have left well enough alone with P.Diddy in their commercial during last year's Super Bowl.
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