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Duane Wade is the new hotness, and we all know it. Charles Barkley however thinks he is still the junk after so many years. If only he knew he was actually old and busted. I guess waitresses have a way of letting you know. Duane offers to have Barkley in his fave five (from T-Mobile) and Barkley just thinks he's being a young kid who thinks he's all that, when really it is the way other around.

The waitress asks if Barkley is Wade's dad, which doesn't make Charles all that happy. This ad made me laugh. It seems that someone is always getting the better of Barkley in some fashion, even all the way back to an ad I saw when Charles complains "he broke my coffee cup." At least he is still making money doing ads.

Remember all the ads you saw at last year's Super Bowl? No? Well, me neither, until I found Google's massive archive of them that is. They have what looks like every ad from Super Bowl XL, The Bud Light Secret Fridge, Bud On The Roof, Bud Save Yourself (with the Bear), Hummer Monsters, Mission Impossible III, Nationwide Gondola, Jessica Simpson's Pizza Hut commercial, Taco Bell's Good to Go, Sprint's Locker Room commercial, my favorite, (the one where the golfer claims his phone has crime deterrent, then throws it at the other guy's head to prove it) and many others. If you want a Super Bowl themed trip down commercial memory lane, you got your wish.

GoDaddy is notorious, and infamous for their ads that some call "racy", some call "disgusting", but most call "funny" or "sexy." Either way they have had trouble getting their ads approved for inclusion in the Super Bowl. Finally, their last ad has been approved.

I really didn't think the ad I saw was so bad (the two guys in the office), but the Super Bowl is a family show after all. There aren't any visual elements that are too much for families, but the dialog is what was a turn-off to CBS. The first ad was obviously a spoof of Basic Instinct, which got rejected quickly. The third ad got approved, which is much better than the 13 ad submissions last year before getting one approved for the 2006 Super Bowl.

GoDaddy has a roadmap to the Super Bowl where you can watch the first two ads, and a press conference with a clip from the third and final approved ad that you can watch. What will they think of next? On second thought, I don't want to know.

Toyota picked the super-bowl this year to start their advertising campaign for the new Tundra. Besides the ads, Toyota will be staging a bunch of "Prove it!" test drives across the nation in the next six months. Toyota is said to have spent twice the amount they ever have on a vehicle launch, so hopefully the ads are that good. Toyota is simply trying to showcase the new Tundra's capabilities in simple ways. Tundra is Toyota's first full-size truck, meant to compete with Ford and Chevy. Look for these ads during the super bowl, then let us know what you think about them in the comments below.