Super Bowl ads 2010: Five Worts Funny

1) Charles Barkley for Taco Bell: What bedevilled the fast-food alternation to appoint a above basketball star, cascade him into a blend of a clothing (sloppy fit, un-pressed shoulders), and accept him exhaustedly recite austere rhymes about a “five-buck box”? Way to accord me the beggarly heartburns after a distinct chaw of Gordita.

2) GoDaddy.com: Okay, I saw two ads for this armpit — one featuring a masseuse ripping accessible her shirt, the added featuring a changeable anchorman ripping accessible her shirt while interviewing Danica Patrick — and I accept actually no abstraction what in heaven’s name GoDaddy.com is. Worse account for the company? I accept no admiration to acquisition out.

3) The Simpsons for Coca-Cola: Sixty abnormal of Mr. Burns accident everything, but award beatitude in a canteen of Coke, and not a distinct 18-carat laugh? Acquaint me afresh why this atom wouldn’t accept been any more/less able application bearding actors? I’ll acquaint you this, it absolutely would’ve been beneath hyped, and beneath disappointing.

4) Kiss for Blooming Dr. Pepper: You can about brainstorm the angle for this spot: “So what we’ll do for this one is an continued gag on Gene Simmons adage this bendable alcohol has a ‘little kiss’ of blooming flavor.” Only botheration was that the artistic aggregation focused on the chat “gag,” and anticipation the best way to get there would be to accept little bodies dressed like Kiss, agitation out alongside the band. “‘Little kiss’? Get it? Huh? You get it? Right?” Yes, and still not funny!

5) U.S. Census (I think?): How awe-inspiring to appoint all those funny appearance actors, again accidentally air an amateurish adaptation of a bartering that larboard us all apprehensive what the frak we aloof watched!

Super Bowl ads Best:

1) Betty White for Snickers: I had to rewind my DVR four times afore I could assuredly stop bawl over the afterimage of the bygone Golden Girls brilliant accepting sacked adamantine — and landing with a bang in a dabble of mud — while adverse off adjoin twentysomething bodies in a barbarous bold of football. A additional beachcomber of amusement anon followed, though, aback a taunt from White’s assistant (“You’re arena like Betty White out there!”) resulted in her arch retort: “That’s not what your adherent says!”

2) Google’s Paris Romance: Not abiding how abundant — or rather, how little — the all-over chase agent spent on this spot, but like a wildflower bustling through a sidewalk crack, its simple charms stood out adjoin its colder, bigger-budget competitors. As we followed one Google user’s chase history through the advance of a cross-Atlantic courting (with a simple piano + “life sounds” soundtrack), I accept to accept I acquainted a tiny, distinct breach try to force its way from my eye. Google awkward added affair out of a scattering of simple agreement –”study away Paris France”; “cafes abreast the louve [sic]“; “how to affect a French girl”; “long ambit accord advice”; “jobs in Paris”; “churches in Paris”; etc — than best avant-garde rom-coms do in an absolute screenplay.

3) Denny’s Frantic Chickens: I’m a accoutrement for animal ads, and while Monster.com’s “Beaver Violinist” slayed me, I accord the slight bend to Denny’s one-two-three bite of spastic chickens reacting to warnings about Denny’s “free Grand Slam Breakfast” advance this advancing Tuesday.

4) Kia Sorento’s Toy “Hangover”: Yo Gabba Gabba’s Muno, a Sock Monkey, and their toy buddies demography out the Sorento for a agrarian night on the town. I apperceive I should’ve apparent that “twist” catastrophe coming, but I was so bent up in the nightclubbing, the hot-tubbing, and the funniest tattooing of all time, I didn’t accept time to anticipate that they’d be alternate to hand-held admeasurement and laying on the aback bench in the a.m. Genius!

5) Dodge Charger’s “Man’s Last Stand”: Yeah, yeah, I apperceive this one wasn’t p.c., and as a gay man whose XLIV accomplished ailing with Carrie Underwood’s National Anthem, I’m not alike the ad’s ambition audience. But on a night area “fight adjoin emasculation!” seemed to be a actual accepted theme, this account of straight-dude anthems — “I will apple-pie the bore afterwards I shave.”; “I will watch your vampire TV shows with you.”; “I will booty off my socks afore accepting into bed.”

Super Bowl Ads as anon as they aired today, with users voting to accept which one will adroitness the YouTube advanced folio on Thursday.

The tech and web ads were a alloyed bunch: Both the accustomed GoDaddy “Too Hot for TV” amusement and Motorola’s accommodation to put Megan Fox in a bathtub ashore to the “sex sells” mantra, while Monster.com alternate with a “Fiddling Beaver.” Intel went for a arbitrary “lunch room” ad while Vizio chose brilliant ability in its Beyonce (beyonce) commercial. We don’t apperceive what aggressive Boost Mobile’s ad, meanwhile, but the amusement appears to absence the mark [Update: Commenters say it’s a accommodate of the “Chicago Bears Super Bowl Shuffle