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The 16 Best Super Bowl XLI Commercials
10. Coke - Grand Theft Auto Parody
Major companies paid $2.6 million per each 30-second spot during yesterday's Super Bowl.
Overall, we'd have to say that the commercials were pretty damn good.
Because the Coke ad above ran for a minute, it means that that thing up there is a $5 million commercial.
Meanwhile, we kept noting that we didn't remember seeing a Pepsi commercial. But then halftime came and we saw that Prince's performance was sponsored by Pepsi and we were all, nice.
After the jump, enjoy some of the other commercials that caught our eye.
16. Sierra Mist - Combover
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15. NFL - Hard to Say Goodbye
14. Emerald Nuts - Robert Goulet
13. Doritos - Check out Girl
12. Nationwide - KFed
11. Fed Ex - Moon Office
9. Garmin - Grab your Garmin
8. Coke - Happiness Factory
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7. Fed Ex Ground
6. Coke - What Else Haven't I Done?
5. GM - Bad Robot
4. Bud Light - Axe
3. Sprint - Connectile Dysfunction
2. David Letterman's 10 second promo
1. Snickers - The Kiss
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For more of this year's best, check out iFilm's archive. They also have past Super Bowl commercials going back to 2002.
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