We’re no experts, but the Super Bowl ads this year were the lamest of all time. A baby spitting up and talking about trading stocks; Micheal Jackson’s “Thriller” performed by lizards; Dwayne Wade enduring an endless conversation with Charles Barkley that almost made us chuck our $6 pint towards the projector screen. Okay. That commercial was mildly funny because listening to Charles try to annunciate anything is comical. But the mutterings of drunken persons at bars solidifed the notion that we aren’t alone. However, there were a few, very few, commercials that did tickle our fancy.

Shaquille O’Neil’s career may be on the fritz, but the guy photographs as good as any model in an Esquire spread. We found ourselves cackling, wondering why we were cackling, and then giving into the cackling when we saw this ad. A ginormous Shaq on horseback as a jockey: brilliant.

What’s funnier than a giant man in a rat costume barging out of a wall and pummeling his solicitor of death? Nothing, really. We had beer coming out of our nostrils during this one. Yeah we were piss drunk by the time this aired, but this commercial resonated brilliance. Aside, the rat in the commercial was inspired by the directors encounters with the vermin in New York City. That is probably not true, but it’s plausible considering rats in this city are 4 feet in length and 80 pounds heavy. It’s true.

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