By: Ashton Newton
Staff Writer

With Super Bowl 50 came a new batch of hilarious, awesome, and strange commercials. For years, Super Bowl commercials have been making us laugh, cry, and have warm feelings inside, and Super Bowl 50 was no different.

This Super Bowl felt specifically tailored toward fans of comic book movies. “Deadpool” had a pretty large presence, “Captain America: Civil War” had an awesome new trailer, and Coca-Cola had a movie-quality Hulk vs. Ant-Man commercial, with the two characters fighting over a can of Coke mini.

Turkish Airlines gave everyone a look at Gotham City and Metropolis to promote the upcoming “Batman v Superman” starring Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne and Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor.

Doritos delivered some extremely funny material, as always. One featured dogs dressed as people to buy Doritos from a store, and the other featured an ultrasound where the baby wanted Doritos enough to be born early.

The NFL itself had a notable ad that spanned the length of the entire game featuring a choir of “Super Bowl babies” playing off the statistic that 9 months after the Super Bowl, winning cities see a huge growth in children born.

Super Bowl 50’s commercials were star-studded. Kevin Hart chased his daughter’s boyfriend, Key and Peele danced in a hallway, Alec Baldwin entered a hilarious battle of words, and Steven Tyler talked to himself in Skittle form.

One commercial managed to become trending on Twitter. Mountain Dew’s Puppy-Monkey-Baby instantly became a big deal, not because it was funny but because it was so strange. The commercial received very mixed feelings from people on social media.

The strange was definitely a huge part of the Super Bowl ads this year too. One ad featured a personified intestine running to go to the bathroom. Another featured a man and his humanoid marmot hiking in the woods, until the man attempted to kiss the marmot.

The Super Bowl wouldn’t be the Super Bowl without some sentimental ads, too. One in general stood out for Audi. The ad features a retired astronaut who felt like he was blasting off into space one more time while behind the wheel of an Audi. Jeep also touched the hearts of millions with an incredible commercial detailing all the events that Jeep has been there for, including “running from dinosaurs” and “on the beaches of Normandy”.

Overall, the Super Bowl commercials did what Super Bowl commercials do best and left viewers happy, entertained, and a little confused (I’m looking at you puppy-monkey-baby).