Super Bowl Commercials

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Bad Bunny Delivers a Love Letter to Puerto Rico at Super Bowl Halftime
His performance featured a sugar cane field, a wedding seemingly officiated onstage and a New York-style street scene, along with appearances by Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/arts/music/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-puerto-rico.html

In the end, Bad Bunny managed to hit all those notes at his halftime performance, walking out in an off-white football jersey labeled “OCASIO” (after his full name, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) and the number 64, and leading a show that featured a joyful celebration of Latin heritage, before he spiked a football in triumph.

His performance included Lady Gaga doing a salsa-style version of her streaming smash with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile” (in English), and later Ricky Martin — who arguably began the crossover process for modern Latin pop that led to Bad Bunny — performing Bad Bunny’s track “Lo Que le Pasó a Hawaii.” (Both stars had been cited by online bettors in the run-up to the show, with decent odds.)

Featuring a sugar cane field, a wedding seemingly officiated onstage, a New York-style street scene complete with a bodega and a pan-American parade, the show spanned country and city, family and hemisphere, work and play and dancing everywhere. It placed Bad Bunny’s beloved Puerto Rico at the center of a communal celebration, where vintage salsa and traditional bomba and plena easily segued out of reggaeton and dembow. The sounds were mostly organic, not electronic: a brassy salsa band, a white-clad band of plena percussionists. Bad Bunny was summoning a Latin heritage across generations, one that recognized hard work — cane-cutting, electric-grid repairs — alongside the good times workers sweated to earn.

He drew on his latest album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” as well as hits from his previous ones, and he put Latin rhythms up front. Cultural and political messages were tucked in. “Lo Que le Pasó a Hawaii” worries that, as in Hawaii, Puerto Rico’s culture could be overwhelmed by outsiders. “El Apagón” (“The Blackout”), which mentions Puerto Rico’s too-frequent power failures, accompanied a sequence of workers on utility poles.

He also nodded to his historic win, just last week, of the Grammy for album of the year, handing the award as an inspiration to a young Latino boy.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved the Budweiser horse and the Eagle.

I normally like those Dunkin commercials but this one seemed like it was written in a MDMA fever dream. Although I really liked Sam Malone popping out and telling him he can't milk the Boston crap forever. I really couldn't tell -- was Ben Afleek supposed to be someone from Friends? It was very confusing.

Did we pay for that MAHA ad out of our tax dollars? I looked it up and at least the ICE one was paid for by some "non profit" and not tax dollars.

In general, I didn't think they were that great and I was wondering if they just use AI to write commercials now.

My favorite current commerical is actually the Starbucks one for the Olympics because the scenery is so gorgeous I can watch it over and over! (They are doing a coffee run down the mountain into the town).

No, the intro said before they made Good Will Hunting the movie, they made a TV show starring a better actor (or something like that) so Ben Affleck was in the Matt Damon role (Will Hunting) and then the others were all TV stars from the 80s and 90s (except Tom Brady). It was supposed to be like a TV sitcom.

+1 I just watched again and it's so good. They've got cheers, seinfeld, fresh prince, friends, saved by the bell, and of course damon/affleck. Did I miss anyone? After not understanding what's the beef with 50-cent and a comb, it's pretty fun to get all the inside jokes of the 80s/90s. I would watch 2 hours of these cameos and one-liners.

I missed the Saved by the Bell part. Steve Urkel (Jaleel White) from Family Matters was there too.

Nope you're right. I was referring to Urkel and got his show wrong. I skew to the Cheers age and not the Family Matters age!

I don't understand why Tom Brady was in it. Totally unrelated to the rest of it??

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Anonymous wrote:What was up with all the poop and butts in the ads this year? I thought the one about prostate cancer screenings featuring Bruce Arians (who is a prostate cancer survivor) and a bunch of NFL tight ends was great, the rest were kind of gross.

The Raisin Bran commercial with "Will Shat" and all the poop jokes made me not want to eat Raisin Bran. Like, yes, I do like foods with fiber for obvious reasons. But associating food with poop that directly is not great.

Also the Liquid IV commercial with the singing toilets and telling you to look at your pee, and the Levis ad with all the butts (which would have been fine but in combination with all the other butt stuff was too much).

Maybe we are regressing in intelligence and have to go back to middle school boy humor

And peeing! Look at your pee and then hydrate! I don't want toilet ads and to be told to look at my pee. And peeing for the female kidney check ad with sofia vegara.

Don't forget shaving your balls.

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I missed it last night but I liked the Melissa McCarthy ELF commercial that was like a telenovela.

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Anonymous wrote:That Alexa ad was a serious miscalculation. There was nothing in the ad to explain why Hemsworth realized AI wasn't dangerous. It offered to book him a massage? All that ad did was make me think Amazon and Bezos have no idea what bothers most people about either AI or these in home devices that listen to all your conversations.

Completely clueless.

Similar was the Ring cameras being used to find lost dogs. *wink*

Yes - this concept is currently being crushed online. Who can access all this footage, etc.