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I’ve sectioned off these five Super Bowl ads that feature graphic and life-like violence. It seemed to be the theme this year to have misfiring comedic timing leading up to a severe head or spine injury. This first ad for Bud Light is one of the funnier violent ads, but the tackle at the end seems a little too much like the Michelob ad later in this post. By then end of the Super Bowl everyone had seen about ten different commercials featuring someone getting realistically hit or tackled and it got kind of old.

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This ad for FedEx features cavemen having a discussion cavemen shouldn’t normally have..Way to go guys, haven’t seen that one lately. This spot was laborious, and the only funny part was the dejected caveman kicking a small dinosaur. The funny moment was quickly ended when he was stepped on. Then it got sad. I am still sad.

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Moving on, in this ad we see a horrible head injury occur. And it’s hilarious! Well it might be if we hadn’t seen something fall out of nowhere and kill someone in another ad just a few seconds ago. Frankly I was expecting something to fall and completely kill everyone in every commercial by the end of the night.

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Here’s a man horribly tackling an innocent woman. Classic. I wasn’t really laughing by this point, you can only see someone body slammed “unexpectedly” so many times before you kind of expect it, or at least are not amused by it. I’m supposing the revenge hit at the end is to make amends for depicting a man violently smashing a woman into the ground.

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Here’s a guy hitting another guy in the face with his phone. Sprint used to do this to me when I was an unhappy customer. It pretty much accurately describes how their whole customer service thing works. If you’re not expecting this it’s funny once, but it uses sudden unexpected violence as a substitute for being clever (and for being original). More ads playing on different themes from this years Super Bowl XL will be up later in the week.

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