Sarah Shahzad

AmFam Insurance made a bold choice for their 2013 Super Bowl commercial -- instead of making their ad about all the awful things that can and will happen to you if you don't have the right insurance, they chose a happier note.

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Bud Light's advertising theme this year for Super Bowl 2013 has been the various superstitions sports fans entertain about their teams' chances of winning. In this ad, one fan will do just about anything to secure a victory even if that means visiting a voodoo priest. It just so happens that priest is played by Stevie Wonder dressed as Baron Samedi. because Stevie had a song called 'Superstition' and voodoo, so why not?

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The Lincoln Motor Company's new car is called the "Phoenix" so there is, of course, a requisite shot of the vehicle engulfed in flame. So far, it goes as one would expect, but other than that, there is a free-associative quality to the Super Bowl commercial that we find delightful, even in its incomprehensibility.

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Kia's Super Bowl 2013 commercial features attractive robotic attendants who turn out to be not as pleasant as they look. That said, we should mention that we find their cutaway skin a little unsettling -- who thought exposed metal joints would be charming?

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Here's a look back at 'Zoolander,' the adventures of Ben Stiller's eponymous well-meaning but endearingly inept supermodel.

Thanks to memorable performances from Stiller, Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson and Billy Zane (yes, Billy Zane), 'Zoolander' has become one of the most quoted movies on the Web

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Tide's 2013 Super Bowl commercial takes us through the advent and eventual elimination of the "miracle stain." Except this time, the stain doesn't look like Our Lord and Savior.

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The Prudential life insurance company offered a somewhat chilling look at the inevitability of age and mortality in their Super Bowl 2013 commercial. But fret not! While becoming old and infirm is unavoidable, Prudential can help you soften the blow by ensuring that you're not old, infirm and destitute.

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Skechers' 2013 Super Bowl commercial for the GoRun 2 running shoes features an adrenalin rush-inducing chase: a gazelle flees from a cheetah, who in turn is run down by a man wearing Skechers' magic footwear.

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Mio Fit's Super Bowl commercial features Tracy Morgan advocating the American knack for change, a move that effectively makes the whole situation absurd. Also, we find Tracy to be an interesting choice--since it is in fact a "sports" drink, maybe they should've made some kind of nod towards athleticism other than stuffing the former Tracy Jordan into a tracksuit

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A trailer for the long-awaited action Western 'The Lone Ranger' starring Armie Hammer, Johnny Depp and (no surprise here) Helena Bonham Carter aired during the Super Bowl.

This new take on the masked lawman is brought to us by the people responsible for 'The Pirates of the Caribbean' and it looks like Johnny Depp's Tonto might become just as iconic as his Jack Sparrow. That is, if you

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