Which Were the Best Super Bowl Ads?

From cars to Clydesdales, babies to oldsters, with voodoo and dancing pistachios and a desert mirage thrown in, this year's commercials ran the gamut. But were they good?

  There was the prom guy in the Audi, the goat with a Doritos habit, the Clydesdale who found his childhood friend and a model who wasn't about to let a geek kick her Kia's tires. That barely scratches the surface of this year's Super Bowl ads, which ran the gamut between retro and of-the-moment, human and many varieties of animal and fantasy to absurdity. Especially the one where the geek got to kiss the model, which, frankly, had a high ewww factor. Many of the ads would have appealed more to viewers a generation or two ago, said the New York Times, citing a mother-in-law joke in a Century 21 ad and dancing pistachios that echoed a 1952 commercial of dancing packs of Old Gold cigarettes.  The New York Daily News really didn't like the …

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