# Best Super Bowl Commercial, now or ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-super-bowl-commercial-now-or-ever/484083 "2009-02-02T04:36:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-super-bowl-commercial-now-or-ever/484083/21 "2009-02-03T02:04:42Z")
For me, it’s a tie between the cat herders and the Castaway FedEx guy. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-super-bowl-commercial-now-or-ever/484083/22 "2009-02-03T04:45:39Z")
I would personally vote for Terry Tate. HERE COMES THE PAIN TRAIN! WOOOO WOOOO! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-super-bowl-commercial-now-or-ever/484083/23 "2009-02-03T04:58:43Z")
I can’t remember what it was for, but it was a few years ago. It was a chimp on a horse walking past fake internet companies that went under after the bubble burst. During part of it, he sees the sock puppet from the now-defunct [pets.com](http://pets.com), which IIRC had a lot of pricey superbowl ads a few years before. Here it is: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZFkqzuMjI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZFkqzuMjI) Another E-Trade one. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-super-bowl-commercial-now-or-ever/484083/24 "2009-02-03T05:27:07Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > Isn’t there some kind of pop culture rule that dictates that you HAVE to say the Apple MacIntosh 1984 commercial is the best there was or ever will be? And [here it is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8). ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-super-bowl-commercial-now-or-ever/484083/25 "2009-02-03T12:36:21Z")
I have a strong fondness for the Mean Joe Greene commercial. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Lc0izCGKxP8/hqdefault.jpg "Mean Joe Green Superbowl Ad- 1980") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc0izCGKxP8) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-super-bowl-commercial-now-or-ever/484083/26 "2009-02-03T12:57:50Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > And [here it is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8). I was going to name that and also the computer commercial in the 2000 Super Bowl in which the HAL 9000 explains that the Y2K disaster that he had planned didn’t occur because of this computer company. Was it Apple, Microsoft, IBM? I was helping with the church youth group Super Bowl party, so I was sitting in a room of teenagers when this aired. I was the only one who got it. If the Youth Pastor even paid attention to it, I doubt he got it either. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-super-bowl-commercial-now-or-ever/484083/27 "2009-02-03T13:25:37Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I was going to name that and also the computer commercial in the 2000 Super Bowl in which the HAL 9000 explains that the Y2K disaster that he had planned didn’t occur because of this computer company. Was it Apple, Microsoft, IBM? Apple. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-super-bowl-commercial-now-or-ever/484083/28 "2009-02-03T14:12:28Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > I have a strong fondness for the Mean Joe Greene commercial. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc0izCGKxP8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc0izCGKxP8) One of the best of all time, but I don’t think it first aired during the Superbowl. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-super-bowl-commercial-now-or-ever/484083/29 "2009-02-03T14:43:51Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > One of the best of all time, but I don’t think it first aired during the Superbowl. You may be right. I dunno. There was a show on Saturday night where viewers got to vote for the best Superbowl adverts of all time. The Mean Joe Greene one was in the top three for the last 5 years or something like that. They said that they would retire it so that other adverts could get a chance. But that show might have gotten in wrong. [This](http://www.postgazette.com/pg/08326/929615-66.stm) article seems to think it was a Superbowl commercial as well. > [@](#): > > Twenty-nine years after Joe Greene became a star in a Coca-Cola commercial, Troy Polamalu will be cast in the remake. > > Polamalu, a four-time Pro Bowl strong safety, will revise the role that Greene played in the 1980 Super Bowl ad. It too will be shown during the Super Bowl. > > In the original commercial, Greene limps through a tunnel beneath the stands in obvious discomfort. A young boy offers him his Coke, and Greene finally accepts. He drinks it down and, as the kid slowly walks away, Greene breaks into a smile and says, “Hey, kid; catch!” and throws him his No. 75 game jersey. > > **That ad not only won a Clio, an award presented to those ads judged to be the best on television that season, but it has been judged the best Super Bowl commercial in history by many in the business.** ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-super-bowl-commercial-now-or-ever/484083/30 "2009-02-03T18:43:10Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > By far the 2004 Sierra Mist commercial where the bagpipers are marching in the parade and the commander says, “Where’s Wallace?” And then it cuts to a guy standing over a subway grate Marilyn Monroe style and steam billowing up into his kilt. The kicker is when the little kid looks at him and says, “That’s just wrong daddy” and the dad covers the kid’s eyes. Wicked hilarious. > > [TV Shows | Watch Shows Online | Paramount Network - Browse Browse All A-Z](http://www.spike.com/video/sierra-mist-wheres/2532944) Never seen that one before. Pretty sure “Wallace” is Patton Oswalt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-super-bowl-commercial-now-or-ever/484083.md?page=1)