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Honda's Ferris Bueller Commercial Reviewed

Yes, I am really going to review a commercial since this two-and-a-half-minute Super Bowl ad is the closest we'll (hopefully) get to a Ferris Bueller sequel. If our pop-culture icons are sacred, most of us who were teens in the '80s worshiped most fervently at the alter of Ferris. Whatever it says about our generation's spoiled sense of entitlement, he was our James Dean. Not even Lloyd Dobler could touch his cool.  read more

The 10 Best Musical Moments From Super Bowl XLV

After months upon months of momentous buildup, this year's Super Bowl is finally over. The Black Eyed Peas' half-time show might have been painful to watch, and Christina Aguilera may have forgotten the words to our national anthem...  read more

The Man Your Man Could Smell Like Gets a Talent Deal With NBC

It’s that guy from the Old Spice commercial. Look again: “that guy” is Isaiah Mustafa, and now he’s got a talent deal with NBC....  read more

Nike's All-Time Best Commercials

Right, it’s a little odd for a pop-culture magazine to rank the greatest shoe commercials. But no other company has so consistently turned televised advertising into art. These 11 ads function as short films—loaded with wit, inspiration, killer music and gorgeous visuals. Why 11? Well, we had a perfectly good list of 10 and then we saw this list, which didn’t have a ton of overlap, but which did remind us of the immortal Bo Knows campaign. So we’ve tacked on one of those for good measure....  read more

Ten Great Pepsi Super Bowl Commercials From Years Past

Last night, for the first time in nearly a quarter-century, Pepsi did not run an advertisement to promote its cola during the Super Bowl. The soft drink giant instead turned its ad dollars toward boostng its Refresh Everything project, through which Pepsi will distribute grants to worthy causes in fields such as education and health....  read more

The 10 Funniest Commercials from Super Bowl XLIII

Hundred-yard interception returns and last-minute acrobatic game-winning catches aside, the best part of the Super Bowl is the commercials. We're suckers for animated potatoes, dudes getting hurt, attack ostriches and, especially, Richard Dean Anderson. When it looked like the  Steelers were going to blow out the Cardinals, these are what kept us watching until the exciting end. Here are the 10 funniest commercials during Super Bowl XLIII: 10. Pepsi Max: I'm GoodFrom The Three Stooges to the zipper scene in There's Something About Mary, we love us some slapstick comedy. Like Mike's Hard Lemonade before it, Pepsi Max tries to...  read more

Brandi Carlile speaks out about, justifies GM commerical

In recent years, it's become increasingly common for musicians to eke their way out of the indiesphere by planting their songs in, gasp, mainstream advertisements for major corporations. And while it may be disarming for music snobs to hear Sam Beam's serene voice coming not from their iPods, but from a commercial hawking M&Ms, everybody needs to make a living. ...  read more