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Super Bowl Ads: What Did You Think?

We took a random sampling of typical commercial-watchers, asking them for their "best of" picks for this year's best Super Bowl ads. See if you agree with the 5 commercials that got the best responses during Sunday night's game.

We took a completely unscientific, random poll during Sunday's Super Bowl, to see which commercials appealed the most to a typical Roswell family having another typical Roswell family over for a typical Roswell Super Bowl-watching get-together. Below are the results of Patch's study ... see if you agree with the picks of some typical Roswellians:

Hands-down, this was the ad that everyone liked the most – and what’s not to love? Never has so much emotion been conveyed through a head-to-toe costume. Give that little Darth a Best Acting in a Car Commercial award … he  deserves it. We can see why the marketing folks at VW decided to leak this commercial-gone-viral a few days before the big game -- it was as great Sunday night as it was when we started posting a link to the ad on our Facebook pages three days earlier.

How can anyone watching a commercial featuring a whining Richard Lewis and a flattened Roseanne Barr NOT laugh? Both of these comedians aren’t seen on the small screen these days, so it was nice to see them again. And kudos to Roseanne – even when she’s flat on her back, she looks better now than we can ever remember her looking in the past.

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It’s happened to you, admit it. You have felt the panicky feeling that takes over in the seconds immediately following the realization that you’ve just sent an e-mail to the wrong person … the instantaneous spike in blood pressure, followed by a plethora of clammy sweat beads and super-nauseating dizziness that makes you want to pack up your desk and sneak out before anyone has a chance to fire you. Even if you realize your note did, in fact, reach its intended inbox, you still make a silent vow to double- and triple-check each and every name in the “To” and “CC” fields from now on, so as not to ever feel that way again.

At first, we weren’t sure where this ad was going, but then were treated to the punch line, replete with an unexpected, politically incorrect punch line. Faith Evans acting as the guy’s lovelorn had us fooled into thinking there wasn’t going to be anything funny about this ad. That’s what we get for thinking without being used to it.

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Speaking of the unexpected…there we all were, momentarily lulled into believing that we were about to be treated by a message from Amnesty International as the earnest Timothy Hutton’s voice accompanied pictures of the Himalayas and Tibetan children ... We were actually OK with that, albeit a little confused about such a political statement making its way into Super Bowl Ads … and then, POW – Groupon. Well done, Timothy. You got us again.

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