America’s Super Bowl is the country’s biggest football game. But to many of the 110 million people who watch it on TV, it’s really a 90 minute commercial break interrupted by men in tight pants and helmets running around on AstroTurf.
Search Google for “2012 super bowl” and you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s some sort of program that catalogues the world’s kookiest television commercials. You won’t find much on football – it’s all television commercials.
And when a 30-second advertising slot costs you $3.5 million, you’re not going to film something on your phone. So the advertisers spend big bucks on their commercials, revealing some of the strangest and coolest ads around.
We’ve watched them all and ranked them from 10 to one. Enjoy.
10 KIA: Optima dream car
If you’re dreaming about driving a Kia Optima – when there are things like Zondas and Aventadors free to star in your nocturnal hallucinations – you probably should check what’s in those vitamins you’ve been taking. But cool ad, nonetheless.
9 SUZUKI: Kizashi eskimos
It’s got cute dogs. Who doesn’t like dogs?
8 TOYOTA: Camry reinvented
We care little for baby time machines but IKEA, take note of the couch. We’ll take a female version. Thanks.
7 VOLKSWAGEN: Dog Strikes Back
Expect this dog to now write a best-selling weight loss book.
6 AUDI: Audi vampires
If you lined up Paris Hilton in the headlights, will that make her go away, too?
5 CHEVROLET: Silverado end of world
Ford is actually suing GM over this television commercial. Really.
4 ACURA: Jerry Seinfeld and the Acura NSX
If this commercial starred Cosmo Kramer, it would be about 74 times better. Still cool.
3 CHEVROLET: Happy graduate
If he doesn’t want the fridge, we could use one in the TopGear office…
2 CHEVROLET: Creating music in a Chevy Volt
One way to dispose of a thousand guitars and 100 pianos. Quite cool, although it’s got nothing on James May’s automotive musical masterpiece.
1 CHRYSLER: Clint Eastwood’s Half Time America
This one’s so good, it makes you want to shoot a machine gun into the air and wrap yourself in an American flag.
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