Best Super Bowl Commercials

Maybe seeing the best of the 2007 Superbowl commercials has made you nostalgic for seeing the all time best Superbowl commercial once again. Though the 2007 best Super Bowl commercials boasted quality entries with beer-worshiping crabs, men kissing over Snickers bars and Doritos-loving cashiers, do these 30 second clips really compare with the best Super Bowl commercials of the past?

The 10 Best Super Bowl Commercials

There is a list of 10 best Super Bowl commercials to be found on every website, in every media publication and on every reader's personal best. But you can always recognize the best Superbowl commercials because these popular ads always manage to place high on everybody's list – from the editors to the everyday fan.

You can't have a top 10 best Super Bowl commercials list without crediting the Budweiser “Frogs” commercial of 1995, a commercial that not only effectively communicated its product, but also became a pop culture phenomenon. Another favorite is 1987's Apartment 10G starring beloved action-comedy star Michael J. Fox, this time as a regular kid without a time machine but eager to please a beautiful woman who loves across the hall. She asks for a Diet Pepsi but Fox finds out he's fresh out. He then jumps out of the window and goes on an implausible adventure to find his girl's drink of choice, to which she later replies, “I hope it wasn't too much trouble.” In honor of Michael J. Fox's retirement from regular television, Pepsi brought back the ad in 2000.

The Xerox “Monks” commercial of 1977 also continues to be a perennial favorite among 10 best Super Bowl commercials lists. In the original commercial Brother Dominic finishes copying an old manuscript only to find out that the head monk needs 500 more copies. He then goes to his hidden modern-day copy shop where the Xerox 9200 makes his extra copies. The head monk proclaims it a miracle while Brother Dominic smirks. Other notable names include McDonald's “Showdown” with Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, Pepsi's “Diner” which parodied Coca Cola, Monster.com's “When I Grow Up”, and Master Lock's “Marksman”.

The Best Of The 10 Best Super Bowl Commercials

The top two among most top 10 best Superbowl commercials lists are the 1979 Mean Joe Green Coke commercial in which the player drinks a Coke offered by a pint-sized fan and then follows up by throwing a jersey, and the Apple Macintosh 1984 commercial, parodying IBM and Orwell's novel of the same name. “1984” usually tops the all-time greats, having been directed by Ridley Scott, and used for provocative filmmaking later in the TV movie “Pirates Of Silicon Valley” featuring character studies of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The best of the best Super Bowl ads proves that commercials can be a work of art, a great short film of their own merit, if the right talent is involved.