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The word from the advertising world is that this will be a banner Super Bowl for funny, clever commercials -- if you're into that sort of thing, and I am.

There's already a huge buzz about a steamy new GoDaddy spot featuring race car vixen Danica Patrick. The Budweiser Clydesdales will be back and Doritos will unveil a spot called "Keep Your Hands Off My Momma!" that features a little kid schooling his mom's randy new boyfriend about  dating etiquette and, um, snack chip etiquette, too.

 But the commercial everyone seems to be talking about is CareerBuilder's hysterical "Casual Friday" spot, which you can preview here. It revolves around an office full of full of employees wearing only their underwear -- this is not a pretty sight -- a damning indictment of what could happen when Casual Fridays attire becomes a little too casual.

 Me, I'm a huge fan of the E-trade baby commercials. And a new one will apparently be unveiled Sunday night as well, featuring a different talking baby who's apparently younger -- what, just out of the womb? -- and hipper and even more knowledgable about how you can build up your portfolio.

You might have to wait for the game to run to the kitchen and get another beer.

Comments

The Green Police: funny but painfully true---The shape of things to come!

The dumb white guy style of commercial is all played out for me. I saw little to like with the Doritos commercials, CareerBuilders (I didn't even know that was what was being advertised), the Betty White commercial (too bad, I like that Golden Girl), the array of Budweisers (despite a quick cameo by a Dalmatian in one), GoDaddy was ho-hummy, and the anti-abortion with abortion not mentioned was a big to-do over nothing.

Big Brother is right-on with the Green Police (Audi) commercial. The Dave Letterman spot with Oprah and Jay Leno was number two for me. The e-Trade commercials with the new baby assortments continues to be fresh and a solid number three.

There were a few honorable mentions but the one worth actual mentioning is the PunchDub (Volkswagen) commercial. It was cute at first, and just as it was ready to be declared enough already, Stevie Wonder punches in. The real commercial was actually 1:04, and the extra four seconds not scene was pretty funny, too.

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