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“A single Super Bowl commercial a change our vocabulary,” wrote Bernice Kanner in her 2003 book, The Super Bowl of Advertising: How the Commercials Won the Game.1 “Whassup?!”

Kanner, a prolific advertising journalist for the New York Times and the New York Daily News, passed away in 2006, so she’s not around to see this year’s slate of beverage-alcohol spots for the big game. Thank heaven for small mercies, because: they ain’t great.

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