Terrible. Just terrible.

There were a lot of large rodents in the Super Bowl 2010 commercials. There was at least one beaver, two prairie dogs, and one ground hog. There were also many shots of men in underwear, and men being emasculated. Then several ads shared the theme of the faux-cheap production. I think the connection amongst these three themes is clear. I won’t condescend to anyone by spelling out the obvious.

As usual, Taco Bell did not fail to disappoint. Click here to watch Charles Barkley take you his own strange Willy Wonka boat ride through the magical land of refried beans and globs of melted cheese. Watching this I was reminded of Burger King’s strange attempt to simultaneously resurrect and re-kill Hootie’s career several years ago.

For some of the best of the faux-bad, Boost Mobile should be embarrassed forever that it made this. Gross guys, just gross.

And I really wish Godaddy would put their designs on their on-going campaign to bed. I assume it’s working for them but it is overkill on the lowest common denominator. Class it up, jerkasses. Why do I have to be the only classy thing what cares about what is classy and what isn’t classy.

Buy this home or go rot

I really love this spot, thought it’s so perfect I had to doubt it was for a real company. Cullman Liquidation Center does have a website, though my investigative effort ends there. I’m not buying a mobile home just to find out if these guys are for real. I do find it odd that their commercial is so well produced, and their web is so well..something else.. but it does continue to make the case that these people keep it real.

Take that free press

This well-done commercial calls attention to censor-mad Australia, whose government has apparently decided to wage war on free speech. Living in America, whose founding mission statement was freedom of speech, it’s hard to get a handle on such a similar nation taking such a dissimilar attitude to what we frequently proclaim to be the most sacred of all human rights.

Australia is fast on track to rival such nations as Iran and China for their stance on government censorship on the Internet. We’re sorry about goatse guys, really sorry, please come back from the brink.

This would be like finding out terrorists struck the World Trade Center years before 2001.. Oh wait

Behold this creepy ad for a voluntary swine flu vaccine from the 70′s.

While the creepiness is timeless, the relevance comes from the recent 21st century outbreak, of which it is impossible to not be aware if you are reading this on the internet.

Remember, transferring the disease is as simple as making eye-contact, so, much like encountering a gorilla, remember to freeze in your tracks and stare at the floor if you encounter a coughing individual, taking great care to not flare your nostrils.

Grapefruit.

This commercial for flu awareness, brought to you by the Southern Australia Council for Flu and Fast Food Regulation could not have hit the Internet at a better time.

Swine flu hysteria is all over the media, and this sticky commercial is spewing icing on the cake. Just watching this commercial will make an active hypochondriac ill for weeks.

This commercial is effective so I have little to add, except that, statistically speaking, we have much bigger fish to fry on the preventable disease front. But flu is just so damn sexy, it gets all the groupies.

Not sure how someone was offended by this, but ok.

NBC Miami reports here that Mexico was so offended by this Burger King ad for the Texican Whopper that they ran and told on them to their ambassador to Spain. I am supposing this is the international diplomacy version of running and telling on someone to your parents.

Though the article mentions ‘unfair stereotyping of Mexicans’ (I am supposing the pun about a little bit of Mexican being in the burger was lost in translation) the real issue appear to be the misuse of the Mexican flag.

The real news is that there is a country that apparently takes its flag more seriously than America. I mean we let Evel Knievel run around for years dressed like an American flag.