10 Memorable Celebrity Appearances In Super Bowl Ads
With 30 seconds of Super Bowl ad time going for as much as $4 million, companies want to get the biggest bang for their buck. One way to do that? Get yourself a celebrity endorser; then put the person in a memorable situation that people will be talking about Monday morning.
Psy (promoting Wonderful Pistachios), Amy Poehler (Best Buy), Kaley Cuoco (Toyota), Dwayne Johnson (“Got Milk?”) and Tracy Morgan (MiO Fit) are among this year’s most anticipated endorsers. To set the bar high, here are ten celebrity commercial appearances from past Super Bowls that had people talking well after the confetti fell.Cindy Crawford for Pepsi
In 1992, which might have been the apex of Crawford's modeling career, Pepsi used her to perfection in its Super Bowl spot. The beauty pulled up to a dusty gas station and purchased a Pepsi as some nearby boys stopped playing to lean on a fence and ogle … the new can design.
The "Golden Girls" star has been everywhere the last few years -- including movie roles, hosting "Saturday Night Live," and getting her own primetime prank series on NBC. White credits one appearance for her career revival: a Snickers commercial during the 2010 Super Bowl. "That's what really started the little surge," the actress told AdAge in 2010, talking about the commercial where she and fellow elder actor Abe Vigoda get into a game of pickup football.
Some fans were horrified when they found out Broderick was reprising the titular role from the '80s classic "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" for a car commercial, but the postgame consensus was that the ad was pretty great. Honda said they packed in two dozen tributes to "Bueller" in the extended version of the ad, and while a CR-V might not be a Ferrari 250 GT California, it's still fun to watch a professional hooky player at work.
Somehow kept under wraps until it hit the air was a 2010 meeting that improbably saw late-night rivals Letterman and Leno on the same couch as daytime queen Winfrey. Letterman and Leno's feud goes back to the early '90s when the two competed for the "Tonight Show" hosting gig, but it reheated when Letterman sided with Conan O'Brien in an ugly feud over NBC late-night positioning. But Letterman invited Winfrey (who had joined him in a 2007 ad) and Leno, and under a veil of secrecy that included Leno wearing a fake mustache in Manhattan, they pulled off the surreptitious taping and surprised America.
Pepsi used Michael J. Fox for a series of commercials in the '80s, but the 1987 entry might be the best. Fox went to get his attractive new neighbor a soda, only to find that he had foolishly put an empty 2-liter bottle back in the fridge. This led to a madcap trek down a fire escape and across traffic in the pouring rain, with Fox finding that his quest wasn't over just yet.
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