Tim Duncan and Steve Nash play with basketballs made of Bridgestone tire rubber, which is so awesome that the balls are silent. So go and bounce your cars, people! Worthy of a chuckle; inoffensive but forgettable.
Grade: C+
The Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials of 2012
Animals, beer, women in bikinis, aging actors — all the things that one would expect from Super Bowl commercials were present and accounted for this year. TIME grades the ads of Super Bowl XLVI.
Bridgestone, ‘Performance Basketball’
Full List
1st Quarter
2nd Quarter
- Budweiser, ‘Return of the King’
- Doritos, ‘Man’s Best Friend’
- Chevy Camaro, ‘Happy Grad’
- General Electric, ‘Turbine’
- John Carter
- TaxACT, ‘Free to Pee’
- The Lorax
- Volkswagen, ‘The Dog Strikes Back’
- H&M, David Beckham Bodywear
- Coca-Cola, ‘Catch’
- Chevy Sonic, ‘Stunt Anthem’
- Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace 3-D
- Marvel’s The Avengers
- Teleflora, ‘Adriana Lima’
- Skechers, ‘Go Run, Mr. Quiggly!’
- Cars.com, ‘Confident You’
- Doritos, ‘Sling Baby’
- E-Trade, ‘Fatherhood’
- G.I. Joe: Retaliation
- Toyota Camry Effect, ‘Connections’
- Hulu Plus, ‘Huluboratory’
- Bud Light, ‘Welcome to Halftime’
3rd Quarter
- Chrysler, ‘Clint Eastwood: It’s Halftime in America’
- BMW 3 Series, ‘The Big Grab’
- Chase QuickPay, ‘Drew Brees and Son’
- Fiat 500 Abarth, ‘Seduction’
- Pepsi Max, ‘Checkout’
- Toyota Camry, ‘It’s Reinvented’
- Coca-Cola, ‘Arghh’
- Dannon Oikos Greek Yogurt, ‘John Stamos and the Tease’
- Century 21 Real Estate, ‘Donald Trump’
- Acura NSX, ‘Jerry Seinfeld: Transactions’
- General Electric, ‘Building Something Big’
- Budweiser, ‘Eternal Optimism’
- Bridgestone, ‘Performance Basketball’
4th Quarter
- NFL, ‘Timeline’
- Honda CR-V, ‘Matthew’s Day Off’
- Act of Valor
- MetLife, ‘Everyone’
- Hyundai, ‘Think Fast’
- Bud Light, ‘Rescue Dog’
- Kia Optima, ‘A Dream Car. For Real Life’
- CareerBuilder, ‘The Business Trip’
- Samsung Mobile, ‘Thing Called Love’
- Cadillac ATS, ‘Green Hell’
- History Channel, Swamp People
- GoDaddy.com, ‘The Cloud’
