Funniest Super Bowl Commercials Ever

Isaiah Mustafa transitions seamlessly from bathroom to a boat to a horse in one unbroken shot while delivering increasingly absurd claims about Old Spice body wash. The deadpan confidence and impossible production made it an instant comedy classic. The internet exploded, YouTube views shattered records, and the campaign single-handedly revived an aging brand.

A baby sitting in a high chair delivers sophisticated financial commentary in a dubbed adult voice, occasionally burping mid-sentence. The absurd juxtaposition of infant behavior with stock trading banter became a Super Bowl institution. The E*Trade Baby campaign ran for years and the character became one of the most recognized ad mascots of the 2000s.

Terry Tate is a full-speed NFL linebacker hired to enforce office productivity rules. He delivers bone-crushing tackles on employees who leave the copier without paper or fail to say "good morning." The extended cut became a viral hit before viral was a standard concept. Pure physical comedy executed with perfect commitment.

A muddy football game pauses when Betty White — playing a young man who hasn't eaten — gets absolutely flattened by a lineman, then lectures her teammates about their blocking. The sight of a then-88-year-old White getting tackled into the mud is perfectly timed. The ad won USA Today's Ad Meter and made Betty White a viral icon.

A bizarre chimeric creature — one-third puppy, one-third monkey, one-third baby — dances into a living room chanting its own name while handing out Mountain Dew Kickstart. It is inexplicable, unsettling, and utterly impossible to forget. The intentional weirdness made it one of the most discussed Super Bowl spots of the 2010s.

A kid builds a "time machine" out of cardboard and convinces his skeptical neighbor to hand over all his Doritos as "future fuel." The neighbor climbs in, the kid shakes the box, and the man is convinced he has traveled through time. A perfectly paced crowd-pleaser from Doritos' "Crash the Super Bowl" fan-submission contest.

Actor David Harbour appears in what looks like a beer ad, then a car ad, then a perfume ad — each time breaking the fourth wall to reveal it is actually a Tide ad because everyone has clean clothes. The meta-commentary on Super Bowl advertising itself was the cleverest structural joke in the game's ad history. The campaign ran four consecutive spots.

The premise is simple: Geico's "so easy a caveman could do it" slogan offends actual cavemen, portrayed as sophisticated modern professionals. The deadpan outrage of the cavemen against casual corporate insensitivity is pitch-perfect. The campaign was so popular it spawned a (short-lived) ABC sitcom.

A group of friends phone each other and yell "Whassup?!" back and forth in increasingly elaborate chains. The ad captured a genuine cultural moment — the phrase permeated pop culture for years and was endlessly parodied. It won the Grand Prix at Cannes and remains one of the most quoted Super Bowl ads ever.

A FedEx employee survives years stranded on a deserted island, enduring incredible hardship, all to deliver a package he never opened. When he finally delivers it and asks what was inside, the recipient casually lists supplies that would have saved him — satellite phone, GPS locator, water purifier. The perfectly straight delivery of the punchline is comedy gold.