Top 5 Best Super Bowl Commercials 2015

I don’t know about you but I was disappointed by the quality of the Super Bowl XLIX commercials. As a non-football fan, I still look forward to the Super Bowl all year thanks to the scrumptious food and hilarious commercials.

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I wasn’t let down by the food, but Super Bowl commercials are supposed to be funny and many advertisements were missing that usual spot of hilarity we apparently have been taking for granted.

Insurance giant Nationwide went for the opposite end of the spectrum and created a scary, depressing commercial geared only towards putting more worries into parents’ minds about household accidents.

But let’s try to forget about the negative here and instead focus on the rare gems of humor sporadically scattered throughout the game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. And at least there wasn’t anything horribly sexist or inappropriate.

Super Bowl commercials try fixing their image

The NFL’s image has suffered since its players have been involved in domestic abuse scandals; so they felt safer featuring ads with babies and puppies rather than bikini-clad babes. Overall, they succeeded in creating a welcoming message for families, from Katy Perry’s dancing sharks and beach balls to a cute puppy being saved by mystical horses.

1. Budweiser ad

Budweiser takes the cake for the cutest puppy commercial. I’ve watched it maybe a dozen times and still can’t help an “aww” escaping me at the end when a little puppy covered in mud is running down a path leading a giant group of horses (his best friends) that seem to have arisen from a fairy tale. It was strangely reminiscent of Homeward Bound and was set to a slowed down version of the Proclaimers‘ “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” so it was certainly one that tugged at our heartstrings.

2. Esurance

Esurance seemed to be on a celebrity rampage because their two commercials included Lindsay Lohan and Walter White. Lohan’s commercial took a stab at her DUI charge, while at the same teaching children to never climb in cars with stranger. White’s commercial casted him as a substitute pharmacist. “You’re not Greg,” a suspicious customer asks. “We both have a lot of experience with drugs,” White retorts. “Excuse me, pharmaceuticals.”

3. T-Mobile

T-Mobile featured a commercial with Sarah Silverman and Chelsea Handler talking to each other on the phone and bragging about how they can call from anywhere in their mansions using Wi-Fi calling including a underground delivery room where Silverman informs a mother “sorry it’s a boy”, a hydroponic kale garden and a subterranean petting zoo.

4. BMW

The new BMW looks pretty nice and the commercial only did it justice. Former “Today” show hosts Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel let BMW play a hilarious and embarrassing footage from real Today show footage from 1994 where Couric and Gumbel talk about the mysterious Internet and try to work their heads around the @ symbol and email. “Do you write to it like mail?” Gumbel asks, while Couric suggests that @ is short for “around or about.”

5. Snickers

Snickers contributed to the lineup with yet another “you’re not yourself when you’re hungry” commercial. While one would think that idea is a bit overplayed, they managed to bring some wit into it by setting it in the world of The Brady Bunch, casting Danny Trejo as the hungry version of Marsha Brady while Steve Buscemi was the upset Jan Brady, who exclaimed the classic “Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!”

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