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So, Did You Like Any Super Bowl Ads This Year?
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Garth Johnston
Published Feb 6, 2012
Modified Feb 6, 2012
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Scantily clad ladies, Clydesdales, over-paid celebrities. Yup, last nights' Super Bowl brought with it a barrage of big budget ads that were, sadly, far less thrilling than the game itself. There were a few diamonds in the rough, sure, but for at least one of them you had to live in Nebraska.
Yup, Will Ferrell did another Old Milwaukee ad, but it only aired in Nebraska. Possibly only in North Platte, Nebraska. Luckily, the internet has saved it for posterity:
Other than that, there was a lot more of the same (c.f. GoDaddy's Cloud ad). Even the commercials that might once have been a surprise (Bueller? Bueller?) already felt like old news. But maybe that's just us? At least the dogs were cute:
And we never get tired of the Peanuts and other animated characters:
Also, what deal with the devil did John Stamos make that he hasn't aged in twenty years? It can't be the yogurt:
But enough of what we thought, what did you think of the ads this year? If you must, you can catch up on most of them over on Hulu.
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