Instead of having Drake rap about how their lemon-lime soda is the best he's ever had, Sprite opted to freak everyone in America out. Watch as Drake nonchalantly busts into a million sprite hemorrhaging, robotic pieces.

As the world awaited (still does) Johnny Weir's free skate routine at the Olympics, NBC aired a promotional ad for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. And, honestly, the choice of song proves the network never cared about Conan O'Brien.

It only took a day for the death of three Tesla Motors employees to be converted into ill-advised advertising. Witness the email ad below, circulated to Silicon Valley venture capitalists near the scene of the plane crash.

"Every cigarette you smoke can take years off your life," says this ghostly new anti-smoking ad. Technically that's a lie. But if it were true, smoking would be awful! More so. Click through to watch this counterproductive tricknology. [via Adfreak]

New spokesman for the Swiffer family of cleaning products: Cesar Millan, better known as The Dog Whisperer. In case that went over your head, the "dog" is you. [NYT]

What happens when a worst actor contender is exulted by the country that's culturally craziest? Witness this weirdness summit in the series of Pachinko game commercials from Japanese brand Sankyo, starring our own freakish national treasure, Nicolas Cage.

Europe's so weird. Ad agencies in Belgium teamed together and went on "strike" to protest the fact that clients were asking too many ad agencies to pitch their business. Huh! So, temporary moratorium on sexxxy Belgian porn ads. [Adfreak]

Remember that awesome Snickers commercial, starring Betty White and Abe Vigoda, that aired during the Super Bowl? Well, a new one—featuring Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli—is about to be rolled out. And it's good. Really good! Video, inside.

Oh hell, Reebok is now using even more gratuitously porny buttock photos to enhance the bullshit buttocks-toning promise of its allegedly buttocks-toning magic shoes, which are—god—so fake. Try attaching handles to the model and doing deadlifts, instead. [Copyranter]

The latest Old Spice commercial is too awesome not to post. "I'm on a horse." True, Old Spice. True.

Remember the 80's? Television had really hit a stride in this exuberant decade, and it wasn't just the sitcoms, Saturday morning cartoons, and prime-time soaps, but the segments that filled the voids between. From the ones you can't help but remember to the ones you wish you could forget, here are the commercials that will be with us forever: the immortals.

You've read about the Cold War-level skulduggery that went into keeping that Letterman/Leno/Oprah Late Show promo secret in the days before the Super Bowl. Tonight, Jay Leno gave his side of the story on his show.

• Super Bowl XLIV made history last night: It's now the most-watched TV program in U.S. history, having bypassed the finale of M*A*S*H in 1983. [THR]
• Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have filed suit against the Rupert Murdoch's News of the World for reporting the couple was separating. [Guardian]
• Talks between Fox and Conan O'Brien seem to be moving ahead. As for the Super Bowl ad featuring Letterman and Leno, Letterman was reportedly interested in having Conan appear as well, although it didn't pan out.
• Ellen DeGeneres makes her debut on American Idol tomorrow. Meanwhile, talks to have Howard Stern replace Simon Cowell next season are progressing.
• Mixed news for the magazine business: newsstand sales fell in the second half of 2009, although the situation was even worse a year ago. [NYT, AdAge]
• Sarah Palin won't have to fly to NYC to tape her appearances on Fox News: The network is building its new "contributor" a TV set in her living room. [NYT]
• After dominating the box office for seven weeks, Avatar was dethroned by Dear John this weekend, although it remained No. 1 internationally. [MTV]
• Ads for Snickers, Doritos, and Google were big winners with Super Bowl viewers this year. As for the Motorola spot starring Megan Fox, she may be the first person in history to have had a "thumb double." [Reuters, NYT, NYM]

So we assume you saw Undercover Boss last night, CBS' big new reality show that got the plum post-Super Bowl spot? Amazing, was it not? Televised entertainment has now completed its long, winding journey into becoming 100% corporate propaganda.

In case you were wondering, the Seinfeld curse is alive and well. You may have been nominated for an Emmy, Julia-Louis Dreyfus, but Jason Alexander wasn't. He's currently losing weight in the girliest way possible.

Someone collected every slap, hit, and punch-buggy from all of this year's Super Bowl ads and mashed them up into one, glorious, violent 30-second video. Watch and cringe.

Guns are never the answer—tanks are. In this Australian commercial, some gentlemanly blokes supersize skeet shooting using enormous discs, replacing the usual firearm with a tank, because explosions make everything better. Someone call the Olympic Committee....

While you were busy consuming your weight in nachos, we were busy rounding up the most memorable commercials of the night, for better or worse. And you know what we noticed? We'd seen all of them before.

Most ads for the Super Bowl were created on a huge budget for multinational corporations. But this PSA, created by the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership, is not only better than any ad last night, but cost wayyyyy less to boot.

Slow clap for Slate V, who put together the following theoretical Google "commercial" that's ostensibly—at the least—just a concept, and at best, a successful meme. Truth be told, though, Google should consider buying it.