Dumbest Super Bowl Commercials Ever (VIDEO)

Every year, companies spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl commercials. Some ads become instantly iconic.. Other commercials, however...well, let's just say they miss the mark.

Watch our mashup of some of the dumbest Super Bowl commercials ever. They include a spot from Super Bowl advertising veteran Budweiser and another company that is a repeat offender. Some elements of the dumbest ads: homophobia, horse flatulence and racist pandas.

Also on HuffPost:

Some of the ads from Super Bowl 2012.

• The Dog Strikes Back (Volkswagen)

• Lexus Presents the 15-Second Teaser for the "Big Game"

• The Bark Side: 2012 Volkswagen Game Day Commercial Teaser

• Samsung "Next Big Thing" Super Bowl Ad Preview - Turn By Turn Directions

• 2011 Oikos commercial with John Stamos

• Doritos 2012 finalist: Man's Best Friend

• Jerry Seinfeld For Acura

• Ferris Bueller Returns

• Downy Unstopables

• Audi: Vampire Party

Comments

[Robson]

05:47 PM on 02/06/2012

Commercials are consumerist propaganda intentionally scripted to change your behavior for the benefit of corporations that exorbitantly pay the mass media to develop, prepare and run it in front of eyeballs. Corporations and society would be better off, and with enormous benefits if not for the many hundreds of billions they waste brainwashing the public to consume, or go into debt mostly to purchase processed food or drink or imported low quality stuff from China that they do not need, and would be healthier without.

[dee544]

11:20 PM on 02/05/2012

Other than the Clint Eastwood commercial, this years batch was the worst ever! Whoever the Ad firms were, they were really overpaid. My students in middle school make better examples of Ads during our persuasive writing unit!!!

[mrparlor]

10:46 PM on 02/05/2012

worst commercials and the movie prom's stunk this year

[ElliotNC]

10:38 PM on 02/05/2012

Chrysler's ad was the best "feel-good" political advertising since Obama's campaign in 2008. I'm as juiced as Clint is for his second term... you can't keep America down.

[Spike5]

10:43 PM on 02/05/2012

Me too. F&F.

[ElliotNC]

10:50 PM on 02/05/2012

If you want to go forward, you've got to put the car in "D" -- not "R"

[RealistBC]

10:14 PM on 02/05/2012

I liked Betty White's commercial. The others have me wondering just how stupid Madison Avenue thinks we all are.

[itsjules]

10:13 PM on 02/05/2012

I loved the Beetle one, that dog was adorable. I HATED the Doritos one; I never ever find dead animals funny in any context.

CRV was so cute, you can tell that Matthew Broderick had a ball doing that one.

Mean Joe was cute, too, I missed that one during the game.

That's about all that stood out for me. Well, the one where the people in line for phones were finally released, that was kinda cute too.

Nothing too terribly stellar or surprising, however. Just my opinion :)

[prudencehall]

10:06 PM on 02/05/2012

I loved the Clint Eastwood commercial!

[VinAZ]

10:24 PM on 02/05/2012

Yes, it was good but nearly as powerful for Detroit as Eminem did last year.

[prudencehall]

10:56 PM on 02/05/2012

I agree - that Eminem spot was fantastic!

[VinAZ]

11:23 PM on 02/05/2012

oops, sorry, "but NOT nearly as powerful as..............

[ElliotNC]

10:35 PM on 02/05/2012

It really made me ready for the start of the second term.

[13simba]

10:02 PM on 02/05/2012

Just saying......I like the commercial with "Clint Eastwood" found it to be really nice....not stupid.

[MikeInFla]

09:41 PM on 02/05/2012

I liked the dorito commercial. And I have 3 cats.

[teedofftaxpayer]

07:10 PM on 02/05/2012

Also think of the commercials as a break from the Political stuff. No candidate spends the money to run ads durning the Super Bowl.

[Spike5]

10:41 PM on 02/05/2012

Thank god the Florida primary was over. Otherwise the non-network ads would all have been political ranting. Nice to be reminded that politics are not what America is all about, at least, not all the time.

[teedofftaxpayer]

07:05 PM on 02/05/2012

You might not like commercials but be realistic, they pay for you to watch the freaking game.

[Tim Moore]

12:42 PM on 02/05/2012

All commercials S-U-C-K suck. Especially ones that try way too hard to be funny or cool. Those suck most of all.

[insanityfollows]

11:40 AM on 02/05/2012

Love the doggie-cize and loooooovvvvve the new Beetle! (I actually saw a black Beetle STI about 6 weeks ago, and according to Road & Track, it isn't even available yet, so I wish I had gotten a pic, because no one believes me. It isn't the first time I've caught a prototype or a new model being road tested here in LA. 10-1 they were test driving for R&T, or Motor Trend or Automobile, etc... but I do wish I had gotten the picture. She looked soooooo sweet!

[gizmoturner]

11:02 AM on 02/05/2012

The Bud commercial was one of the funniest ever. Living in a testerone palace (home of all males including the pets) for years, I get and appreciate adolescent male humor. Worthy of repeating. Dumb? Probably. Funny? Absolutely!

[Elyriaohio]

08:08 AM on 02/05/2012

Terrible crop of commercials this year. I loved the one from years ago about "herding cats", for an investment firm. Ingenious.

[mgabrys]

10:25 PM on 02/05/2012

Here's the link to that spot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE

[Mattie]

10:53 PM on 02/05/2012

oh funny, I missed it when it was on, I don't watch the Super Bowl!