Typically, commercials are meant for snack runs. When it comes to the Super Bowl, commercials are meant to be watched.
Now, I love me some football, but I do look forward to the commercials during the Super Bowl. The past few years, I've felt they went downhill in the humor category and turned more sentimental, but I stayed hopeful for some good laughs this year.
While there were a couple good ones that made me laugh, I was mostly disappointed to be watching movie and television show previews.
The Best of Super Bowl 50:
Mountain Dew Kickstart's "Puppy Monkey Baby" -- This commercial was more of the ridiculous factor I'm used to seeing in the Super Bowl. It made me laugh and had that memorable animal-ish thing in it, and now we all have PuppyMonkeyBaby stuck in our heads.
Bud Light Party -- Bud Light gets political, which I typically wouldn't go for, but instead, they're creating their own party that's based on fun and that's a party I can proudly be a part of. You can't argue with America's love for beer.
Doritos Ultrasound -- My friends and I all agreed that if anyone can produce the commercials we wait all year for, it's Doritos. For the last few Super Bowls, at least one Doritos commercial is in the top picks and this year was no different. It was funny in an oddly different way but made me laugh, which is all I wanted.
Heinz Wiener Dogs -- This commercial was more cute than anything. Nothing is cuter and makes me giggle quite like a wiener dog in a hot dog costume. I may just be a sucker for dogs, but you can't deny that the pun on the dogs' nickname and the pairing of the wieners with condiments doesn't make a good match.
The "Not So Great" of Super Bowl 50:
Budweiser -- Usually I can count on Budweiser to combine puppies and horses or some powerful message that pulls on my heart strings and typically makes me cry. Not this year, though, and I have to say I was actually disappointed in their commercial. It had a good message, but the commercial about a dog depending on you to come home after a night of drinking worked a lot better than Helen Mirren.
Kevin Hart Hyundai -- It was funny and gave me a good laugh when I first saw it, but that was when it was released a couple days before the big game. However, it's not one I could watch again and feel that same laughter; I know I didn't during the game.
Movie Previews and TV Show Previews -- I think there were more commercials promoting movies and television shows this year than I see on regular broadcasting nights. I don't know if it's just a slow year for advertising, but all these previews made me get up to grab food more than usual.
Honda Ridgeline -- The singing sheep are fun and all, but what exactly does it have to do with a truck? And typically I'm all for human-like animals but the talking dog was a bit weird to me.
Now there were others that weren't necessarily great but weren't horrible. Most of the commercials this year (not including the TV and movie previews) were just meh. They weren't really all that impressive, and I can only hope that next year they'll be better.
However, in a world that seems to be more focused on pushing agendas and being politically correct, it seems the days of extremely hilarious Super Bowl ads may be in the past. Just look at ads like MINI trying to push the subject of ditching the stereotypes and Colgate telling us to spare our water usage. There were tons of powerful messages, but something tells me many of those that watched the Super Bowl paid no attention or weren't in the right mindset to exactly digest the messages.
The Super Bowl is meant to be fun, not serious and saddening. Can we get back to the laughing so hard I'm crying and forming abs commercials? Super Bowl 51, I'm counting on you.
