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Hey hey, sports fans (and non-sports-fans)! The Super Bowl is just two days away, which means just one thing: commercials! Well, two things: commercials and football! (And Jennifer Lopez!) Anyway. Surely some of you are excited to see the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs head to Miami to battle it out in Super Bowl LIV, but if you’re reading this website we’re guessing just as many of you are also stoked to see all of the multimillion-dollar Big Game ads that will air during it.
This year, those commercials are getting a few newcomers. For one, Facebook will be offering up its first Super Bowl ad. For another, presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg and President Trump are both buying airtime during the game—some $10 million worth of it. Each. Ryan Reynolds, meanwhile, is opting to not drop big bucks on an ad and instead give people access to Mint Mobile, the wireless carrier he invested in last year, for free. “I love ads. Except when they cost $5 million for 30 seconds,” Reynolds said in a statement. “So instead of creating a pricey ad trying to convince people to try Mint, we’re going to let them try it for free.” Sound logic. As for the ads that will air Sunday, the best of the best are below.
Consultation Amazon, ‘What Did We Do Before Alexa?’
In one of the more self-conscious spots in this year’s lineup, Amazon has made a commercial featuring celebrity power couple Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi that dares to ask the question, “What did we do before Alexa?” The answer, of course, is that before smart speakers we just adjusted our own thermostats, sent our own messages, played our own songs, and told our own jokes. This commercial takes viewers through history and shows them how hard life really was before digital assistants. It was rough out there for court jesters, y’all!
Consultation Facebook, ‘Facebook Groups: Chris Rock Is Ready for Lift Off!’
OK, so theoretically, Facebook’s first Super Bowl ad is supposed to promote Facebook Groups. TBH, we can’t help but wonder if this is all some sort of dig at Elon Musk. :shruggie:
Consultation The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, ‘Big Game Spot’
Also here to joke about how expensive Super Bowl commercials are? SpongeBob. This clip, which teases cameos by Snoop Dogg and Keanu Reeves, is pretty much just a trailer in fast-forward, but if you love SquarePants, it’s for you.
Consultation Audi, ‘Audi Presents: Let It Go’
Have you always wanted to see Arya Stark sing the Frozen banger “Let It Go” in the name of environmentalism? Audi is here for you.
Consultation Dashlane, ‘Password Paradise’
Dashlane—a service that helps you fill out all kinds of online forms and stuff—knows what it’s like to be stuck in the Hell of Forgotten Passwords. If you think it feels like communicating with Death on the River Styx, then you’re smelling what Dashlane is stepping in. Whatever, this is cute.
Consultation Pringles, ‘Rick and Morty Commercial’
Remember when Rick and Morty made a joke about a McDonald’s dipping sauce that had been discontinued in the 1990s and people got so worked up about it the fast food chain actually brought it back? Then, remember how McDonald’s caught heat on social media because it didn’t bring it back long enough? Yeah, well, anyway Pringles probably hopes using Rick and Morty in this commercial will lead
