I can’t believe Letterman and Jay did an ad together…for Dave’s show.
No.
Actually, the answer to the first question is certainly “yes,” in that I’m sure somebody has watched some of them.
OK, I have. And DSYoungEsq’s answer is otherwise entirely accurate.
I haven’t watched any of this year’s, though! Maybe they’re different! :smack: OK, I’m fine now.
The most interesting this year: the Lost Parody ad for Bud Light; the CareerBuilder no pants ad; and the Letterman/Leno ad, just for the sheer novelty.
Overall kind of a weak year though. Certainly nothing to compete with the Sierra Mist “Where’s Wallace,” CareerBuilder “Do More Than Survive the Work Week” and Bud Light dog biting guy in the crotch ads of years past.
Audi’s ad made me not want to buy an Audi.
Not that I was in the market for a car, but still.
Thing is: It wasn’t until late in the ad that it actually ‘grabbed’ internet memes I could identify. Most of what it was grabbing was other stuff so it took too long to build up.
Um, these are not exactly the top Super Bowl Ads of years prior, you know. 
Now, the game of Horse, THAT was a classic. So was the kid sucking himself into the bottle. And, of course, the iconic Apple Macintosh ad started it all. 
What’s up with all the commercials saying that guys have to man up and be responsible? And why did all of them seem to star the same twenty-something guy with a scruffy almost beard?
Am I wrong but was every beer commercial for light beer except for the last one for Bud?
Hey, guys. Your generation is worthless! And fat! Have a good game!
Speaking of games, remember the old tv game show Concentration? There was a board with 25 squares that got flipped over one at a time to show a prize and then flipped back. To win the prize you had to remember which pair matched.
This whole slate of commercials felt like that. Scruffy beard paired with scruffy beard. Pantless guys matched with pantless guys. We give the whole internet paired with we give the whole internet. Ask a question to translate a phrase paired with go to Google and translate a phrase. Old football player paired with old football player. Every commercial looked like the same creative team worked on it.
And they need to fire all of them. Weakest bunch I can ever remember. Not a single standout.
There were two Budweiser ads, and one for Michelob Ultra (which is only kinda “lite”). The first Bud ad was the truck across the river on the human bridge ad; the second was the horse and cow. Michelob Ultra was the beer of superstar biker Lance Armstrong, though you will notice they don’t once say his name in the commercial.
Definitely no creativity in any of the ads. I’m guessing no one could afford Chiat Day.
I guess I was too appalled at driving a truck over people - saying ow, yet - that it didn’t register. Who thought that was a good idea? Next time a drunk driver in a truck runs over somebody, will the excuse be that they thought it was a bridge?
Michelob Ultra has fewer calories than Michelob Light, BTW.
I’m thinking Super Bowl Ads have jumped the shark. So many of the spots just scream “Hey, it’s a Super Bowl Ad, we spent tons of money, you should like this. Please?”
The Bud ad with the cow was semi-ok. Human bridge was tolerable. The rest were meh and worse. Green Police may be the worst ad I’ve ever seen. Sell cars by alluding to a totalitarian state? WTF?
Not only that, but selling GREEN cars by alluding to the idea that making you be “green” is totalitarian. Pretty weird. 
I’m not sure what GoDaddy does. I don’t really care. Either show porn or don’t show porn, but do one or the other.
Doritos in a casket - Dude, you’re skipping work on Sunday? Really?
All ads sucked, with exception of the eTrade baby and Timmy jerking off (not in the same ad, but hell, that could be funny too).
Disagree with the Who comments so far - Daltry’s voice is still damn good.
Agree this was overall a terrible year. Best for me were the two Coke ads (Simpsons and the African savannah) and the Google one. But neither of those were Superbowl ads in the way I think of them: the best Superbowl ads are supposed to be big, and genuinely funny, and surprising, and catchy. I don’t think there was a single ad like that this year.
I should have said recent past. But you’re right, those that you mentioned are classics.
When I saw that ad, I almost expected it would turn out to be for some right-wing interest group trying to solicit support against cap and trade or some other type of environmental legislation. It reminded me of the type of sketch that would’ve run on Fox News’ failed conservative alternative to “The Daily Show” (except even that would’ve too clever for them).
Those ads with no pants are disturbingly similar to this Super Bowl commercial seen on the Simpsons:
Unfortunately, I can’t find an English version. The gist of it is that Homer wanted to buy more blue pants, but a disastrous Super Bowl ad campaign nearly bankrupted the company. Blue pants became scarce as a result.
Google ad was my favorite of the night. I’m a sap, though. Liked the casual Fridays ad, and the human bridge and simpsons coke too. Not too many good ones this year.
I was thinking along similar lines.
So I’m trying to show the commercials to my husband (who just got home from work and missed most of them) and none of the third quarter ones are showing up… and only two of the fourth quarter ones are. I’m really steamed. Am I the only one having issues with this? I tried to give feedback to CBS, but geez. This stinks.