Commercial Appeal

By STEVE HORN

Jan. 29, 2001 12 AM PT

Times Staff Writer

There are millions of dollars being spent to air commercials during the Super Bowl. You would like to think the viewers would get more for the money, but for the most part, this crop was weaker than the Giants’ offense. One man’s review of the best and worst...

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Budweiser

The “wassssup” theme continued with two good ones, involving a bunch of yuppies “What are you doing?” and an alien dog.

ETrade

One of last year’s winners came through again with its monkey ripping into dot-coms.

Fed Ex

Super-strong springs propel customers through the roof, but the real key is the closing line: “I’m gonna miss that dog.”

EDS

I have no idea what this company does, but “running with the squirrels” was clever enough to make the cut.

Pepsi

Bob Dole, doing a send-up of his Viagra ads. Can’t wait to see Bill Clinton during next year’s game.

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