Stop whatever it is you're doing right now and watch this immediately, because it just won Super Bowl Sunday. It's the Eminem-starring ad for the Chrysler 200—"Imported From Detroit"—and it's a goose bump-inducing work of pure art.

On Super Bowl Sunday, consumers are bombarded with highly produced television advertisements. Many get lost in the shuffle. This ad for the Chevy Cruze, which offers real-time Facebook status updates via OnStar, stood out—for all the wrong reasons.

The leader out of the gate for best commercial at Super Bowl XLV is a Volkswagen ad featuring a young Darth Vader. The most controversial? HomeAway's " Test Baby," which features a baby slamming into a glass wall as a joke.

Volkswagen - The Force

American Apparel's campaign to clean up its porny advertising image by using porny art rather than photographs of live Eastern European sex slaves continues. Today: a full watercolor painting! Of a topless, 80s-style blonde. Baby steps. NSFW image below.

Denny's is spending $60 million to get people to call it a "diner." We'd call it "greasy" for free.

In your venturesome Friday media column: Jeff Zucker's rumored to have big plans, People StyleWatch is insanely successful, Demand Media's coming to buy your blog, and Mark Whitaker heads to CNN.

American Apparel's breakthrough new advertising strategy: pictures of comely women removing their panties—but drawn in pencil. This changes everything. We were wrong about you, AA. You're practically running an art museum over there. The NSFW ads are here. [Copyranter]

Google made waves today with software that purports to banish ad tracking cookies. In reality, virtually no one will use the software, it doesn't banish ad tracking cookies, and Google itself is the leading tracker to begin with.

Doritos posted two gay-themed commercials from a contest the junk food company held for potential Super Bowl commercials. What do you think of these spots? Are they good-natured fun or mildly homophobic?

There is a line Fox won't cross, and a proposed Super Bowl ad from jesushatesobama.com crosses that line. Fox has rejected the ad, the Huffington Post reports.

Oh look, it's a billboard for Rush Limbaugh featuring a bunch of bullet holes. This billboard is located in Tucson, Arizona. We blame the liberal media, somehow.

According to a new study by Advertising Age, celebrity endorsements are surprisingly ineffective compared to non-celebrity advertising. In fact one-fifth of celebrity ads hurt advertising effectiveness. Celebrities will have to start liking things for free like the rest of us.

In your foreboding Tuesday media column: Bloomberg decides to attract some of these "wealthy" readers, Kathleen Parker's reign at CNN looks tenuous, magazine ad revenue rises in 2010, journalism's depressing, and Elaine Lafferty speaks on her Daily Beast-Koch-Jane Mayer story.

Starbucks has a new logo—now with 100% mermaid-thingy! Or, as they put it, they've "evolved the siren." This vagueness just makes them appear more sinister. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's own creepy, sinister explanation of this murky symbolism is here.

Overall advertising spending in the U.S. was up nearly 9% in the third quarter, marking three straight quarters of gains. Except for newspapers, which had their 20th consecutive quarterly decline. They're overdue for a comeback! [NYT]

In your stranded Monday media column: an AP vs. NYT journo-feud, Jon Stewart is slobbered over again, business cable news networks are finally making the big bucks, and Nick Kristof loves China so much.

In 2010, for the first time ever, U.S. internet advertising spending surpassed print newspaper advertising spending. Christ. Does this mean we have to start being nice to newspapers, exhibiting the false graciousness of the mighty? Not looking forward to that.

Attention, ladies: Feeling insecure about... you-know-what?You might want to watch this infomercial for "Tajazzle" a three-step system to help you "Stay Dry And Smell Fresh Where It Gets Hot." Dry and "fresh"-smelling! Just the way men like it. [via]

Duncan Hines Amazing Glazes? More like Duncan Hines Amazing Racists. You know? This controversial ad for "Hip Hop Cupcakes" (the a capella singing group variety) is currently America's biggest cupcake-racism-related scandal. I don't know, those desserts sure can harmonize. [Eater]