Super Bowl 46 is nearing, and the ads are already appearing: Seinfeld and Ferris Bueller return in ad form.

On Sunday, February 5 the New York Giants will face off against the New England Patriots for Super Bowl 46, and various Super Bowl ad teasers have been slowly released to the Web. What started with a new nondescript YouTube account was an initial teaser showing Mathew Broderick portraying his role in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Some thought it was a potential ad to a sequel to the first film, but it became quite clear that it was going to be a teaser for something that would released on February 5, which of course is the Super Bowl. Day later a full or extended version of the ad was published on Honda’s YouTube account showing what the teaser was about.

An ad featuring the Honda CRV, with a 2:30 second modern day version of Ferris Bueller’s day off. Honestly they did in under three minutes what could have been a terrible hour and a half film that may have even incorporated 3D, which would truly ruin our childhood memories associated with this film

No Car For You!

Honda wasn’t the only one brewing up a pot of nostalgia. Acura also released a video showing Jerry Seinfeld portraying himself and a few parts from his show from the 90s, and yes the Soup Nazi is back.

VW is going on the offensive by giving viewers a sneak peak at their upcoming Super Bowl ad. It features Star Wars and dogs.

Ads and the Super Bowl go together like beer and wings. It’s the one time of year when most people can not only tolerate TV commercials, but at times even enjoy them. Last year was not particullarly great when it came to ads, 2010 had some interesting ones, but it looks like the auto company VW is going on the offensive and giving people a treat as to what viewers can expect from their upcoming Super Bowl Ad.

Building on the trend of what people enjoy in viral videos and viral content they clearly pulled this teaser out of the Internets playbook: Dogs barking and howling the Star Wars theme. Also as a bit of trivia each 30 second spot generally costs more than $3 million, and that’s not including the production costs.

Non-profits have one of the most challenging uphill battles to climb when it comes to funding, but it helps when they have creative minds that create effective ads. What reappeared on Reddit today depicted a physical viral campaign by UNICEF that placed stickers in public areas. These stickers would then attach themselves to a persons shoe, with a message depicting concerns about landmines.

Released in June of 2008 by Leo Burnett for UNICEF in Germany. These viral ads were first published on December 17, 2007 and later used a Frankfurt event. The goal was to make people aware of the thousands of innocent people who have been harmed or killed due to landmines from previous conflicts.

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There are often rather bland or terrible ads that come out of fast food companies, but McNastirs have proved that wrong.

More ads galore

Pandora Radio is finally starting to follow through on threats of more ads, push for “premium” service.

Pandora One must not be doing as well as projected as the free version of Pandora Radio is now using more ads, including audio ads. These ads will interrupt the continuous music spread with obnoxious 15 second audio ads. To prevent them from occurring though, Pandora offers a premium version of their service called Pandora One for $36 a year.

Pandora One is not so much of a premium service as much as it is just a way for the company to stay afloat.

Is $36 a year worth it to you all to prevent audio ads, being able to skip songs as much as you’d like and hear more than 40 hours of music a month? With there being so many other competitors it’s hard to say that it will get many sales; however, Play This does feel it is one of the best radios on smartphones at this time.

Ads help pacman survive; sadly.

Ok folks so we have a tiny dilemma, we have been offered to run some ads and want your opinion.Play This is all for the readers and although we do love to keep this bad boy up and running, it couldn’t hurt to throw a few text ads in. Generally all major sites have them, but if we get enough response just out right saying no, then they will be axed.

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To see them all check this Web site.

Currently in the top 5

Numero Uno! Career Builder: It’s Time Punching small animals did it.

Number Two:  Doritos: Crystal Ball

Number Three: Cheetos: Pigeons video

Number Four: The one second commercial by

Number Five: Official release of Transformers: Rise of the Fallen

H&R Block Grim Reaper

Although Play This had originally intended on posting the Top 10 ads for Superbowl 43, the ads were generally poor and scaled back to the top 5. We also realize that many companies are having to scale back the production value of these ads and while some of them were still humors it’s been years since we have seen a truly original and great Superbowl ad.

Also be sure to check out our Ads that Suck section for the worst ads for this years game.

Frank Caliendo

For those who do not have Direct TV, there is a good chance that you are bombarded by the network based commercials from Direct TV featuring the worst impressionist, Frank Caliendo. His show has not only received some of the worst reviews, TBS refuses to let it go, probably as a result of only paying him in food.

Here is an elongated version of his version of Seinfeld.

Clearly this fat bastard type man, is much to large to pose as any character on that sitcom except for George, but his impression on him is terrible! How can you also pose as Kramer and try to wig out like him while being so fat? It just doesn’t work. These ads from Direct TV show that they only have a terrible choice in humor. The best commercials use elaborate subconscious messages to peak the minds of their customer and consumers. Most of the time if you see something in an ad, unless you really like it you will ignore it, but those subliminal messages stick with you whether you know it or not.

The only thing these commercials make you feel is annoyance and the need to work out. By being so annoying often do things stick or stay in your mind; however, this just makes you want to slap Frank. Nothing great has ever come from MADtv. It’s just a matter of time before they go online and stay there.

Ads that suck is a new feature for Play This magazine, we will be explaining to you what parts of an ad really do have an affect on you and how to avoid getting sucked into them. – Play This magazine staff