Best and worst commercials of Super Bowl 2022 — and Larry David can sell me crypto anytime he likes

I don’t get it. If none of us will “look back on our lives and regret the things we didn’t buy,” as celebrity spokesperson Ewan McGregor purred in the Super Bowl Expedia commercial, then why am I so vexed by which cryptocurrency to hoard? Or which electric vehicle to plug in? And doesn’t anyone sell gasoline anymore? I feel bad for gas. I don’t think I saw a single oil tanker on air Sunday.

Actually, I know which virtual currency exchange I’m tempted by: Larry David’s, otherwise known as FTX. In a lavish, very funny sprint through a cavalcade of key historical inventions, Mr. “Curb Your Enthusiasm” plays a series of congenital naysayers deriding freakish novelties like the wheel, or the light bulb (“it stinks,” he tells Thomas Edison).