Greetings, update readers.
Today, as I do each year, I survey all the Super Bowl ads, see the consensus Web picks for the “best” and remember why the Web don’t know squat. Mediocre ones are vastly overrated and brilliant ones are often panned. That happened this year too.
Here are the five best ads and a mediocre one. Two of the best were widely dismissed as mediocre. And the mediocre one has been widely overrated. See if you can find which are which, in the poll below.
(Note, we are looking for effectively used humor /cleverness. I am not including the adorable Budweiser pony ad, because it wasn’t trying for funny, nor Paul Harvey on farmers, which was pure poetry.)
Oh, and one final observation: Anyone offended by the VW Jamaican “be happy” commercial is one of those people looking for life to offend them.
After you are done with the polls, scroll down and I will give you the right answers.