The Best Super Bowl Commercials Of All Time
Super Bowl commercials are considered to be the funniest and most impactful ads that any company can make. With millions of people watching the Super Bowl, each company needs to bring something truly unique and entertaining to be remembered. That is why today I will be counting down the top best Super Bowl commercials of all time!
The Wiener Stampede – Heinz
This commercial checks all the boxes of a great Super Bowl ad. Dogs in costumes, check, people in absurd costumes, check, and a great song, check check check. This Super Bowl 50 ad won best commercial in many people’s hearts. What is better than dozens of dogs in hot dog costumes running passionately in a field?
Terry Tate, The Office Linebacker- Reebok
Sometimes a commercial doesn’t even need to promote the product for it to be memorable. A perfect example is the Terry Tate office linebacker commercial for Reebok. We see a fictitious CEO telling how he had Reebok send Terry Tate to his office to keep the office working at its best. How does Terry Tate do it? Well, he just full speed tackles you when you are not doing your best. Reebok hit a home run with this commercial because I still reference it all these years later. “Hey, Janice!” will never not be funny.
Ultrasound – Doritos
You might not remember this one right off the top of your head. But I think everyone can agree it is one of the funniest commercials. A woman is upset her husband is eating Doritos during her ultrasound, I think, is relatable for many women. Or it is at least understandable why she would be upset. But then the baby is reaching for the Doritos and the wife gets mad and throws the Dorito chip across the room. What happens next is something unexpected and not possible. But it’s funny, the baby flies out of the woman’s body going after the Dorito. Even though it is not possible, it is still funny. And it shows off how desirable Doritos are.
Horse & Puppy Friendship – Budweiser
What can I say about this commercial? Everyone loved it as soon as it aired and is still talked about to this day. A horse and dog become best friends, I mean come on! How could you not think that is a great commercial?! This commercial made everyone cry when they watched it. The setting for each scene really adds to the emotion of the commercial too. A dog covered in mud in the pouring down rain is already sad, but you add the wolf about to attack. That is terrifying to any animal lover. But then the Budweiser horses save the day and that is just too perfect. Then they return home and they are a happy family again!
The Man Your Man Could Smell Like – Old Spice
Look at your man, now back to me, now back at your man, now back to me. The official Old Spice commercial that was quoted into oblivion is one of the most successful Super Bowl commercials ever. Perfectly illustrating its point, the man your man could smell like instantly became a classic commercial that was the beginning of an ad campaign that lives on airwaves to this day.
Bird vs. Jordan – McDonald’s
I never thought I would see some of basketballs finest playing a game of pig over a $4 sandwich, more-so did I think I would enjoy seeing it. But this 1993 McDonalds ad paired basketball royalty against each other for the prize of a delicious Big Mac sandwich. Seeing NBA players during the biggest football game of the year was cool for the viewer, and has lived on as a classic Super Bowl commercial sense.
Puppy Monkey Baby – Mountain Dew
Puppy Monkey Baby is the perfect representation of what a Super Bowl commercial is. There’s nothing really I can explain, it’s a weird hybrid that is half puppy, half monkey, and half baby. I know that doesn’t make sense, but nothing does anymore. These 30 seconds of absurdity stuck with every single person who saw it, and probably made you sing the Puppy Monkey Baby jingle even days after the game.
Mean Joe Green – Coca Cola
This is the Super Bowl commercial of Super Bowl commercials. A tired, beaten up Mean Joe Green is making his way through the tunnels when a young boy compliments his football playing abilities. Mean Joe is a bit cranky, probably from all of those 1979 high-speed collisions with barely any pad protection, but I digress. The kid offers mean joe his glass bottled coke, which Mean Joe Greene initially refuses, but then accepts, too which he chugs the entire bottle. The commercial ends with the classic “Hey kid, catch” and throws the kids his game jersey. Not only has this commercial been cemented as the greatest Super Bowl commercial of all time to many people, but also cemented the classic Coca-Cola slogan “Have a Coke and a smile”.
Betty White – Snickers
The best commercial of all time in my opinion, Betty White joins a street game of football and takes a Terry Tate from Reebok style tackle. She gets up and begins going back and forth with her quarterback, before eating a Snickers. This was the first time I remember hearing “you aren’t you when you’re hungry” and spawned an ad campaign that was highly successful for Snickers. This commercial has been done so many times with so many different people, but none will ever hold a torch to the original.
The 100-Year Game – NFL
This is not just one of the greatest Super Bowl commercials, but it is also the greatest NFL commercial that has ever been crafted. We see so many football stars of today and yesterday, too many in fact to list here, in an impromptu game of smear the weird. Some of the best cameos include Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Jim Brown, Odell Beckham, and Terry Bradshaw amongst tons of other people. This commercial was for any person who has a love of football and for that, I consider it the greatest Super Bowl commercial of all time.
Super Bowl commercials always bring a fresh round of funny, absurd commercials, so the odds of this list changing as the years go is pretty high. Did I forget any obvious ones? If I did, make sure to let me know in the comments below!
