Super Bowl Aftermath: What Was The Best Commercial?

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There were so many celebs filling up the valued time between touchdowns at last night's Super Bowl that it almost made the long, laborious evening worthwhile for me. (I said almost.)

Jazzing up all the high-powered commercials were starry names like Joan Rivers, Eminem, Adrien Brody, Timothy Hutton, and Kenny G, for Chrissake.

But probably the most memorable one--not the best, mind you, just the one that seared into the memory most efficiently--was the Best Buy ad featuring the unlikely pairing of the Osbournes and Justin Bieber.

Ozzy Osbourne is seen doing a commercial for technology that keeps improving--so quickly that soon enough, Ozzy is kicked out of the ad in favor of the mopheaded Canadian singing imp.

"What's a Bieber?" asks Ozzy as Sharon Osbourne looks quizzical and a little person chimes in, "I don't know. Kind of looks like a girl."

If they were going to go with this borderline touchy angle, I wish they'd gone all the way and said, "Kind of looks like a lesbian."

Still, it was a memorable 30 seconds. And far more tasteful than Christina singing about "reaming."

Best Buy: Ozzy Osbourne and Justin Bieber [Fanhouse]

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Guest
Guest

Sharon Osbourne is God. This was the best I"ve seen, but I didn't watch the game. The Eminem commercial looked great and was pretty effective.

CMG
CMG

The Eminem Brisk/Lipton claymation one was embarrassing so it was a shock to my system that the Chrysler one was so damn good, even if he was merely playing a supporting character to the whole narrative of, 'So you wanted Detroit dead? Suck it! We're alive and taking names!'

Throb
Throb

Didn't he sniff the pants too? Weird.

But the creepiest was the white girl getting hit by the Pepsi can and falling off the bench.

likembaked
likembaked

How in the names of whatever could Sharon Osbourne make kids with that guy? Super-ick (I guess in the dark).

Creepiest Super Bowl commercial (and there were several): the office nerd licking/sucking the fingers of a coworker who'd been eating Cheetos -- I nearly lost mine.

Rayette
Rayette

The Adrien Brody commercial was embarrassing!!

CMG
CMG

It reminded me of Tina Fey's interview with Howard Stern when she said he was so pompous and full of himself when Howard asked who were the toughest celebrities to work with on SNL, since Adrien wanted to control all of the skits he was in with his own ideas. This sounds like it was one of his ideas.

Francois
Francois

Xtina was flat out drunk, but she still came off better than ancient, scary Ozzy still trying to be funny.

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