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This year&#8217;s Super Bowl commercials largely took a break from politics and offered up silly humor instead. Celebrity cameos ranging from rapper Cardi B to actor Chris Hemsworth brought out the best in the spots. We saw a few of them coming - Amazon and Doritos, for instance, released their ads online earlier this week - but others, such as David Harbour&#8217;s many Tide ads, took us by surprise.Here are the five of the funniest, most memorable commercials of the night.&#8226; Tide:There have been a number of meta Super Bowl commercials over the years, poking fun of the most common tropes (talking babies, cute animals, sexy women) that we often see during the game&#8217;s ads. But none have done it as well as Tide, whose series of ads throughout this year&#8217;s matchup managed to be surprising and memorable, and made many people forget that people were poisoning themselves with the &#8221; Tide pod challenge .&#8221;Tide&#8217;s commercials managed to look simultaneously like a bro-ed out beer ad, an all-American truck ad, a low-budget insurance ad and even an Amazon Alexa ad. What makes them a Tide ad? The clean clothing that everyone wears, according to star David Harbour of &#8220;Stranger Things.&#8221;&#8220;So, does this make every Super Bowl ad a Tide ad?&#8221; he asks. And by halfway through the game, he had us believing it.With every shot of a car driving along a mountainside road, or a cowboy in the sunset, we kept thinking: Will this turn out to be another Tide ad? For a half-second, we cheered the return of Old Spice - until we realized it was a Tide ad. A third-quarter spot with a Clydesdale in a field turned out to be a Tide ad. A geriatric tennis player who we thought would be shilling arthritis medication was in a Tide ad (those bright tennis whites should have been a giveaway). That weirdly sexual uncanny valley Mr. Clean commercial - one of the worst ads of last year&#8217;s game ? A Tide ad. Even the voice-overs that brought people back into the game after breaks kept the joke going. &#8220;Brought to you by Tide. And Tide. And Tide. And Tide.&#8221;&#8226; Doritos Blaze and Mountain Dew IceMorgan Freeman has the voice of God and &#8230; Missy Elliott? This magnificent rap battle pits Freeman lip-syncing &#8220;Get Ur Freak On&#8221; against Peter Dinklage spitting both literal and figurative fire with Busta Rhymes&#8217; whirlwind verse from Chris Brown&#8217;s &#8220;Look At Me Now.&#8221; Elliott, essentially dressed as the White Witch from &#8220;Narnia,&#8221; cheers an icy, Mountain Dew-fueled Freeman on. Dinklage, powered by the heat of Doritos Blaze, has a portrait of Busta Rhymes on his side. We all win after this battle.&#8226; AmazonAmazon&#8217;s Alexa has lost her voice - maybe she caught that killer flu going around? So several celebrities have stepped in to fill in for her: Rebel Wilson, who helps an Echo customer hoping to &#8220;set the mood&#8221; with a monologue about traipsing through the Australian bush; Anthony Hopkins, in his signature creepy voice, tells a woman trying to make a call, &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid Brandon is a little tied up,&#8221; while gingerly feeding his pet peacock; Gordon Ramsay berates a man for asking Alexa how to make a grilled cheese. &#8220;Its name IS the recipe!&#8221; he says, before a bunch of bleeped-out comments.But best of all is Cardi B, who clearly takes her responsibility as the voice of Alexa verrry seriously: &#8220;How far is Mars? How am I supposed to know? I&#8217;ve never been there,&#8221; she says. When another man asks to play country music, she plays &#8220;Bodak Yellow.&#8221; It&#8217;s perfect. And we&#8217;re not just saying that because Jeff Bezos, the richest man in America and our boss, makes a big cameo. (Disclosure: Bezos owns The Washington Post, so if he&#8217;s friends with Cardi B now, maybe he can get her to perform in the newsroom? Are you reading this, Jeff? Please?)&#8226; Tourism AustraliaJust as each Tide commercial began by tricking us into believing it was something else, Tourism Australia&#8217;s Dundee spot got viewers excited about a &#8220;Crocodile Dundee&#8221; sequel hitting theaters this summer. Danny McBride, playing the legendary character&#8217;s son, teams up with Aussie actor Chris Hemsworth to embark on an adventure across the beautiful country. &#8220;It&#8217;s 37,000 miles of pristine, beautiful beach, mate,&#8221; Hemsworth tells McBride. Wait, this seems off.As McBride finds out at the end of the ad, it turns out this was all just a charade to promote tourism in the beautiful country of Australia. Quite a bit of excitement led up to this big reveal - we&#8217;re almost upset this isn&#8217;t a real movie.&#8226; NFL&#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; has a knack for predicting the future, but even the 2005 post-Super Bowl episode of &#8220;The Simpsons,&#8221; in which Homer teaches athletes how to celebrate, couldn&#8217;t have seen this coming. New York Giants teammates Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr. recreated the most memorable scene from &#8220;Dirty Dancing&#8221; after a touchdown, and we sat on the edge of our seats from the moment &#8220;(I&#8217;ve Had) The Time of My Life&#8221; started playing. Twitter tells us that jaws collectively dropped as Manning lifted Beckham into the air, outranking even Ryan Gosling&#8217;s recreation of the iconic move in &#8220;Crazy, Stupid, Love.&#8221; Well done, boys.<style>
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The five best Super Bowl commercials, from Tide to Tide