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Best and worst Super Bowl 2023 commercials: Yes to a Pepsi with Ben Stiller, less yes to this ‘Caddyshack’ reboot

Miles Teller and Keleigh Sperry in a scene from a Bud Light 2023 Super Bowl NFL commercial.

Huh. Where’d all the cryptocurrency go?

That’s my takeaway from the 2023 Super Bowl commercials, which were different from last year and had a tough opponent they couldn’t do much about. The game itself was just too interesting. A boring Super Bowl automatically hands off viewer interest to the commercials, but with a really good game at stake, the ads have to do more than throw some celebrities and titans of nostalgia (”Grease”; “Caddyshack”) against the walls of our minds to see what sticks.

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