This Apple commercial is a 58-second cinematic experience directed by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner rocks!). It’s hard to believe it debuted 24 years ago. Props to reader Mickey B. for guessing correctly.

A Barack Obama supporter created a bit of a stir last year with mash-up of this video. Here’s the original and the mash-up.

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This commercial didn’t debut during the Super Bowl, but it seeped into the America’s collective conscious during the 1980 game. Mean Joe Greene, a kid and a bottle of Coke.

If that scene played out in a football stadium today, the kid would find the nearest wi-fi connection, hop on ebay and advertise “NFL game-worn jersey for sale.”

He’d use the money to buy Guitar Hero and a case of Red Bull. Then he’d shred all night. Kids.

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Here’s the best dot.com commercial. It’s gloriously and intentionally pointless.

Also monkeys are funny.

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It’s hard to forget this 1999 spot from Monster.com.

Some people think it’s funny. Some people find it depressing. It probably depends on how things are going at work that day.

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Like Budweiser, Pepsi has been responsible for a lot of memorable Super Bowl spots.

The 1992 Cindy Crawford spot definitely created a lot of buzz and was perhaps her finest acting performance (“Fair Game” with William Baldwin was not fair at all).

For younger WTN readers, Pepsi + Super Bowl = Britney Spears. Better days.

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Remember the days when it seemed that every other Super Bowl commercial was for a dot.com?

This commercial for Electronic Data Systems first ran during the 2000 Super Bowl. It’s a funny commercial with an epic feel.

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Budweiser has been responsible for many of the best Super Bowl commercials, from Cedric the Entertainer’s date gone awry to the Budweiser Frogs.

But I think the whole Super Bowl commercial craze really kicked in with the first Bud Bowl in 1989.

I remember watching the Bud Bowl and actually wondering who would win. Sad. Apparently people even bet on the Bud Bowl (if you believe wikipedia).

Here’s a flashback for you and here’s a great Bud Light commercial from 2006. Hurry up, the magic fridge is back!

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This Xerox commercial goes way back to the 1977 Super Bowl.

It seems almost quaint now. Look at the size of that copy machine -- it’s like a tank.

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Wonder what the workplace would be like if a tough-talking linebacker was there to make sure the coffeepot was full?

This commercial debuted during the 2004 Super Bowl. Reebok briefly had a cultural phenomenon on its hand with Terry Tate, the Ray Lewis of the cubicles.

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Emerald Nuts has debuted some of the more surreal Super Bowl commercials in recent memory.

Last year’s featuring the late great Robert Goulet as an office gremlin was a lot of fun. That came on the heels of the “unicorn” commercial from two years earlier. The unicorn commercial reminds me of one of my favorite Deep Thought from Saturday Night Live:

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. “Oh, no,” I said. “Disneyland burned down.”

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