Continuing with my proud tradition of being a painfully British geek, I still have no clue about the rules of football and I continue to insist on scouring the half-time Super Bowl ads for anything space related.
Last year, it was Bud Light that impressed me the most with their so-bad-it's-awesome asteroid doomsday ad. There was also an honorary mention for Denny's and their scientifically-correct-screaming-chicken (yeah, I still giggle when watching that one).
But this year, were there any space-related Super Bowl ads?
Kinda.
How is that not the most awesome car ad you've ever seen? It has the gadgetry of a good James Bond movie, a UFO, aliens joyriding... and a wormhole! The Mayans even make an appearance!
I'm not going to geek out so much as to point out that a wormhole probably couldn't transport an entire Kia Optima (traversable wormholes are theorized to require "exotic matter" exerting "negative energy" on the neck of the Einstein-Rosen bridge to keep it stable, but even then we're probably only talking about the passage of a subatomic particle, not an entire car), and that the Mayans are an overused mesoamerican culture in doomsday prophesies... OK, I'll stop now.
So was the Kia ad the only loosely space-related Super Bowl ad? Well, the Chevy Volt ad very briefly depicted an Apollo launch, but this year's honorable mention must go to Volkswagen with this thoroughly awesome nod to Star Wars:
But what about my favorite spaced-out Super Bowl ad of all time? Yes, it goes to the 2009 Bridgestone effort:
Ahh, good old "House of Pain"...
Sorry, can't resist, here's the Denny's ad, one more time (at 9 second into the video):
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