Between the chicken wings, the beer, and the Saints come-from-behind win to keep the Brothers Manning from winning a 3rd ring in 4 years, was the mini film festival known as the Super Bowl Commercials.

Like in previous years, there were a lot of hits, and a bunch of misses. Along with a couple of apparent new trends in advertising: Head slapping and (disturbingly) men without pants.

And in case you were at the cooler and missed a few, you can use this widget from Hulu to watch all 91 ads that aired:



My personal favorite was the Doritos: House Rules spot, where a kid sets his mama's new boyfriend straight about what he should keep his hands off of. Instant classic.

Rounding out my Top 5 are:

NCIS Head Slap - A promo for CBS's show where they replace the handshake with a head slap. Something I wouldn't mind trying for a few months.

Career Builder: Casual Friday - Some poor bastard works in an office where everyone prefers working in their tightie-whities. Not pretty.

Snickers: Betty White - Watching the great Betty White get her ass handed to her during a pickup football game is worth watching over and over.

Bud Light: Voice Box - Everyone drinking Bud Light gets the T-Pain/AutoTune treatment... funnier than it sounds.

Honorable Mention: The E*Trade: Girlfriend spot was good, but i can't get used to the new kid.

The weirdest spot of the night has to go to the "TruTV with Punxsutawney Polamalu" ad. Won't spoil it for you, use the widget above to check it out... but let's just say it was the most surreal ad I've seen in a while.

The biggest misses? Gotta go to the Boost Shuffle spot. They brought back the Bears for a parody of their classic Super Bowl Shuffle... and it was about as anticlimactic as the ending of Avatar. And less funny.

And the GoDaddy ads were a huge disappointment. Yes Danica is hot... but I've seen sexier shampoo commercials. Daddy needs to Go back to the originals.