Best Super Bowl Commercials 2015: Top Brand Video Ads and Value Cost Info

Companies pay a lot of money to reach your eyeballs and eardrums during the Super Bowl. It's a little absurd, to be honest. But on a night when people gather around the television to celebrate America's football holiday, it makes sense that companies would want to tap into such a large audience.

But just consider the astronomical prices companies were paying this year, per Lauren Jones of Wave 3 News:

Or this, from USA Today Sports on Twitter:

Yeesh.

Ah, but what did companies do with all of that money they threw at NBC? Let's find out, as we review some of the best Super Bowl commercials from the evening.

Esurance

Any chance for a bit more Heisenberg is fine by me. Even if he's pretending to be "Sorta Greg." Just don't make him mad; otherwise, he might blow up half of the pharmacy with some mercury fulminate.

Because Sorta Greg is the one who knocks.

Clash of Clans

This commercial is really awesome on a number of levels. The idea of Liam Neeson playing a freemium game on his phone is great enough, but the entire Taken revenge reference is pretty solid. But the commercial really hits its stride when Neeson's revenge speech is interrupted by a bakery cashier telling him his scone is ready while incorrectly pronouncing his name.

The commercial would have been funny without that moment, but it was made so much funnier by that simple exchange. Oh, and folks—do not mess with Neeson under any circumstance. That dude is scary.

Snickers

This ad follows the branding that Snickers has done for a while now, but using Danny Trejo and Steve Buscemi to play the hungry versions of Marsha and Jan Brady was just perfect. I would have really liked a hungry version of Alice at some point, but we can't have it all.

Budweiser

Anybody with a dog may have sniffled once or twice during this commercial. Advertisers really decided to pull at the old heartstrings this year, and this Bud ad led the way. 

T-Mobile

Yes, Kim Kardashian is deadpanning a self-satirizing commercial about her selfie obsession. Up is down, black is white, and T-Mobile is being clever. 

BMW

Times change. Remembering when important pieces of technology that now rule our lives were barely an afterthought will never stop being funny.

Dodge

We have a habit of disregarding and forgetting about the elderly in this country, so it was cool that Dodge celebrated 100 years of being a company by building an ad around people who have lived nearly a century as they offered life advice to the rest of us.  

McDonald's

This year's theme for Super Bowl commercials was all about family values and love and happiness and togetherness. McDonald's did its own take on the theme, and it's a nice idea. But it also inspired the best tweet of the night, from comedian Jim Gaffigan:

If you know anything about Gaffigan, you know this is the sort of joke that has made him famous. And if you know anything about nutrition, well, you know that this joke has all sorts of fun levels.

Microsoft

Awesome. Just awesome.