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The Demon’s Bride (3)

So, I’m still working on the actual chapter while creating this tag list. Thank you all for showing interest. My wages have been paid.

So we are now wrapping up with the scene from @multifandomscribette and her posts “Gotham for Two”. I have spelunked through the works and found some of the original posts that inspired this what if in my brain before @mindfulmagics gave it a voice.

This post I am recommending “Fairy vs Angel” by @mochinek0 which really put this “huh I like this idea” bug in my head. Thank you. And Mademoiselle Mari by @inevitableenquere for helping to refine that bug. I am of course playing in this sandbox with very little “canon” knowledge...so here’s to having fun.

*Will be updating these with Hyperlinks as soon as I learn how :(

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Chapter 3

Marinette froze at the order. Not from obedience but from disbelief. She turned in his grip to look at the man holding her. He wasn’t quite a man, being smaller than the others, though he was still much bigger than her petite frame, she figured he was about her age. About two months older exactly if her ears weren’t deceiving her.

The domino mask did a lot to hide his identity. Masking his features and hiding easy identifiers such as eye color. But her eyes skirted over the mask towards his hairline and there...

At the corner of his left eye, half hidden by the mask and his hair, was a small, light silvery scar that stood out stronger against his darker skin.

She knew that scar. She had been the one to give it to him when they were kids. His features blurred as tears filled her eyes.

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The other bats shouted in alarm as the girl lunged into the youngest ones arms and, wrapping her arms around his shoulders, she collapsed into sobs.

Batman and Red Hood stood in shock as their youngest was suddenly comforting a distraught girl. A girl who had minutes before been competently holding Red Hood and Red Robin in a veritable stalemate. That it was the youngest, who Hood still affectionately called Demon Spawn, doing the comforting was mind boggling.

Damian ignored his father and brothers as he focused on the girl in his arms. He knew he was facing an inquisition about this later, but right now he had Mari back. She was in his arms, crying her heart out, but alive. He didn’t know what miracle created this but he wasn’t going to question it. Not now.

Instead he tightened his grip on her as she sobbed about ‘him dying’ and ‘don’t wake up, please don’t wake up’ and focused all his senses on her, trusting that even if they didn’t understand, the rest of the Bats would have their backs in this moment. Damian buried his nose in her hair and yes, that was her smell, sugar and yeast and baking things and he had forgotten. How had he forgotten?

He blinked back the tears in his eyes, it was dust how dare you suggest anything else, and looked at Mari as she seemed to be calming down. She was looking back at him with eyes bluer than the bluest anything.

“What the Fuck, Demon Brat?” Jason broke the silence.

Mari flinched turning her attention back to the others. Standing she placed herself slightly between Damian and the others, not enough to block him from view (pft how could she, she’s so tiny?) but enough to obviously be a defensive move. With him squarely at her back.

Standing too, Damian just glared at Todd and his father who were the only one’s visible at the moment though he had no doubt Grayson and Drake were hanging out on the roof watching this. “Later,” he said to his father before grabbing Mari and the grappling gun from his belt. Firing it he tightened his grip on his personal angel and reeled it in pulling them away from the rest of the bat clan.

Mari didn’t say anything, just kept her hold on him as he bound across and between the rooftops of Gotham city. When he stopped he set her on her feet and, while waiting to see that she could stand on her own, he silenced his comms unit.

The two of them stood on a roof top in Gotham, city noises echoing off the buildings around them, staring at each other in silence. She was the first to break it.

“It really is you, isn’t it? I was told you died after...” she trailed off before starting over, “Please tell me this isn’t a dream and I’m going to wake up and you’re dead again?”

He frowned before removing his mask. Her eyes roamed over his face noting the changes time brought to the boy she remembered. His were doing the same, observing a face devoid of its baby fat, her eyes were red from crying but the blue was still a color he had no name for. He’d heard others compare them to precious stones or other flowery nonsense, but they were Mari’s eyes. They had no comparison.

“It’s me, Habibti,” he said taking the hand she lifted to trace over his features and held it against his cheek, “I’m real. Just as you are, and you’re here with me.”

They didn’t say anything more for a moment just relished that the other was here and alive. Taking a deep breath Damian took Mari’s hand and lead her to the edge of the roof where they sat so they could observe the city below them, the roofs around them and just talk.

“You didn’t expect to see me,” he made the observation first.

“No,” he didn’t expect an answer but Mari did anyways.

“So why are you In Gotham?”

“I’m on a field trip with my class,” she answered.

He frowned. Yes it had been years since he had seen her but she wasn’t usually so short with her answers. Long rambling dialogues were more her usual style. Unless she was hiding something?.

“Where is your class,” he asked as that thought came to him.

Mari sighed and frowned, not at him but more like she was unhappy with her answer. “They’re probably at the hotel by now.”

“Mari,” he growled. She glanced at him and he saw she could see he was So Done! with her evading the story.

She bobbed her head in understanding before turning to look at the city instead of at him. “I got left behind at the pizza parlor where we were having dinner and was walking back when someone started following me. I ducked into the alley and took him down before that friend of yours interfered. And well you know the rest from there.”

“Todd is one of my brothers.” He smiled at the memory of the scene he and Batman had entered to, “And I wish I could have seen you take him down, though seeing him held at gun point was a nice second.”

Mari rolled her eyes, “yeah well I don’t really think flipping and holding your brother hostage is going to endear me to him or any of them really. And should you be announcing their identities so casually?”

“Tt, it’s Todd’s own fault for underestimating you. Which I will point out every chance I get for the next year,” he smiled like the little brother with the good blackmail material he now was.

“I’ll ignore the fact you didn’t answer my question about identities. For now,” she said.

Damian smiled at her acknowledging he knew that she knew that he was avoiding that question.

“So now what,” she asked.

Damian looked up at the sky before answering. “I guess now it just depends on what you want to do?” He said.

Mari just looked at him waiting for him to explain.

He glanced at her from the corner of his eye before answering. “I can take you back to the hotel you’re staying at tonight. Tomorrow I come over and pick you up and we talk to the others over dinner.”

“Or...?” She asked.

“Or I can take you to the others now and we explain tonight,” he said.

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Okay, hopefully I get everyone in this taglist. Oh my... I had to readjust this list since more people asked to be tagged before I could post. I’m hoping I’m catching you all. Let me know if I’m missing you still.

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🧣 Kazuo/Masashi (imagine owl prints kshxjsjx iM KIDDING) 🍪 Kiyoko/Manami

From the Fall-Themed Starters

Sorry for the wait ; 7 ; Hope you will like them

Kazuo/Masashi - Send 🧣 to knit a scarf with my muse

“It’s getting colder again. Mother always says that once it gets colder, we should put on a scarf or else we’ll be getting sick. Mother always tells Shigeo in particular, because somehow Shigeo thinks he doesn’t need to put a scarf on. Absolutely unbelievable!” Masashi’s hand movements were just as aggressive as his voice as he knitted a black scarf and ranted about his younger brother in the meantime. “He says they don’t go well with his outfits, what does that even mean? And now he tells me this morning, he lost his scarf??!”

For a moment, Kazuo, who had been peacefully knitting beside Masashi the entire time, considered telling Masashi that Shigeo most likely lied about loosing his scarf but then decided against it, figuring it would only make Masashi angrier.

“I can’t believe this. Mother would be disappointed. I should tell her about it once I call her.” He huffed. “Well, I will make him a new one.” He lifted his knitting work a little and looked at it with furrowed brows, as if the incomplete scarf was at fault for any of his anger. “Here I even made it black, like most of his clothes.”

“You’re very considerate.” Kazuo stated, stoic as always. “I hope Shigeo-kun will appreciate.” Another huff. “He better will!”

For few seconds or so, silence prevailed. But Masashi Eizan, when irritated, was usually not silent for all too long, given that there was hardly anyone in the world who would tell him to shut up, most out of fear but there were also a slim number of people like Kazuo who actually were interested in what he said.

“My younger siblings can be so terribly unruly!” Masashi grumbled on. “You have it much easier in that regard, Kuga.”

Kazuo gave an instant, quick nod. Everyone and their grandmother knew how much he loved his siblings, so his fast reaction was no surprise. “My siblings are truly wonderful.”

“Hm..” Masashi’s initial hassle about Shigeo’s refusal to wear a scarf seemed to calm down a little, as he thought about one particular sibling of Kazuo’s. “Surely your little sister will be very happy about the gloves you’re knitting for her.” “Oh I am already done.”

With a mild surprise in his red eyes, Masashi looked up from his knitting work. “Huh?”

Without moving a face muscle, Kazuo took a halt to his current knitting and quickly held up a pair of small, pink gloves with a happy-looking cat print on them up in the air, before continuing his current, new work.

Masashi squinted and raised an eyebrow. He lowered his still unfinished scarf and stopped moving his hands. “Then what are you working on right now?”

Kazuo looked up, expression as emotionless as usual. “Oh, just a scarf for you.”

“For me?!” Masashi called out, almost more confused than before.

Instead of giving an answer, Kazuo only wordlessly held up what he had been working on and revealed a nearly-finished light-brown scarf. Under closer inspection, Masashi noted that the scarf had many small owls on it.

“Why are there birds on it?” Were the first words Masashi spoke after moments of silence. “Why not?” Was the lacklustre reply he received.

A few more moments of silence, before Masashi talked again. “You had no obligation to do this.” Kazuo only blinked and answered. “But I wanted to. You considers scarves important, so I am sure it’s a good thing for you to have more than one.” Before Masashi could say anything, he already mused while continuing his work. “Maybe I should make one for Shigeo-kun as well, since he seems to like to loose it. Considering that, I should make him more than one. On one of them, I will place bats and on the other one will have anacondas.”

Kiyoko/Manami - Send 🍪 to bake with my muse

A grouping of particularly, nasty students of Totsuki had met up to stroll together to one of their favorite activities: Check out the kitchen where Manami Kuga was known to cook a lot in and taunt the little, pure girl for no valid reason whatsoever. As mentioned, we’re dealing with absolutely nasty excuses of the human species in this small story.

Already several meters before the door that lead to the particular kitchen they were aiming for, the group noted an alluring fragrance in the air. They identified cinnamon, fresh apples and other bewitching aromas and couldn’t help but to feel an intense craving of tasting the delicacy that emitted this enchanting fragrance.

After a few moments they shook off the feeling and only gave each other menacing, cruel grins that silently told each other they got what they wanted as their target was definitely over in the kitchen baking.

And once they took a look through the half-opened door, they saw the little brown-haired girl, happily stirring something in a bowl.

Before they could put a step in however; another person appeared in their vision and the group felt their breaths getting stuck in their throats.

The person stepping beside Manami was no other than Kiyoko Saito, daughter of the very authority of sweets-making, 2nd Seat in her universe’s Elite Ten, known for outstanding talent and delicacies as well as her closeness to some of the most vicious personas that ever walked the hallways of Totsuki.

Her presence was…..unsettling.

“Wonderful work so far, Manami-chan! I am certain everyone will love the apple-tarts we’re making. It’s such a joy to work with someone who’s so well-versed in that area for once.” Kiyoko gushed and clapped her hands together. Manami turned her head to her and beamed. “You think so?”

Kiyoko bobbed her head three times. “But of course, of course. Wait, let me get the marzipan! We should add some to them, just trust me.” Manami tilted her head a bit at that suggestion and let out an “Oh?” before Kiyoko could turn away.

“Hm?” Kiyoko blinked, trying to signalise that if there was a question Manami should not fear to ask. “I…” Manami stopped stirring and seemed a bit unsure, before she finally asked. “How much marzipan do we have?”

Once again, Kiyoko’s long eyelashes fluttered close for a second before she tilted her head lightly to the side and answered. “We have quite many. Why are you asking?”

Manami looked at her bowl. “I just thought…..it would be a nice idea to form everyone’s favorite animals out of Marzipan and put them on the tarts. Only if we have enough, of course!” The last sentence she added very hectically and turned back to Kiyoko who looked at her with an unreadable expression.

After a moment of silence, Kiyoko clapped her hands together once again and her face lightened up as she squealed. “What a lovely idea, Manami-chan! But of course, of course! I’ll make sure to leave some marzipan for you to use.”

Manami’s eyes began radiating. “You think it’s a lovely idea?”

The reply she received was Kiyoko eagerly patting her head a bit and smiling. “Precisely. I won’t ever take back my words, that you’ll make it far. Now hold on, I will get the marzipan, my dear.”

And so she turned away. Before she walked out of the vision of the group watching them from the doorframe however, she suddenly took a knife from the counter and looked right at the group, sending a wave of shock through them.

Kiyoko was still smiling, but her face darkened and her eyes had something knowing and dangerous gleaming in them. The smile did not feel friendly, it felt like a menacing warning.

The knife in her hands did certainly not help to make her feel less threatening in that moment.

And so the group of bullies felt the shivers run down their spines and their life being sucked out of their lungs, making them turn around instantly and run away in fear.

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Rating The Super Bowl Commercials

Posted by Alexander Wolfe, Feb 3, 2008 10:06 PM

As always, the real contest at the Super Bowl was among the commercials. (Admittedly, the game, in which the Giant upset the Patriots 17 – 14, was exciting, too.) On Fox, there were some 50 ads, which went for upwards of $2.7 million for each 30-second spot. Based on the preponderance of beer ads, it must be an American truism that you can never be too rich or have too much Bud Light.

  There were also a surprising large complement of tech- and Web-site ads, which gives me my excuse for blogging this Super Bowl ad report-card. Dell (Dell), Go Daddy, Garmin (NSDQ: GRMN), Careerbuilder.com, and T-Mobile were all represented, albeit in mostly tepid fashion.

  In crowded marketplaces, as in life, sometimes the best way to get one’s message across is to speak softly.

  That was the case with the best commercial; admittedly not a huge honor amid such a weak field. Nevertheless, my winner is “Doritos Sing Along,” which stepped back from the smart-ass ad agency meme to feature a new singer, one Kina Grannis, doing her song, “Message From Your Heart.” There’s an interesting back-story here: The ad came out of Doritos’ “Crash The Super Bowl Challenge,” which Grannis won, along with a contract from Interscope Records.

  In a less high-minded vein, I’m forced to admit that the most memorable ad was “Booooood Light.” This commercial for Bud seemingly attempted to flip stereotypes about non-English-speaking Americans on their ear, but only ended up reinforcing them in the most boorish manner. (Which is why this also was probably the worst among the Super Bowl ads.)

  Here, then, are my ratings, in the order in which the commercial appeared during the Fox broadcast (tech ads noted via red titles):

  1) Bud Light Dinner Date Fire-Breathing Guy. Unusually well-manner guy — presumably he hasn’t started tanking up yet — having dinner a deux at his date’s apartment. Demonstrating his biggest skill before the meal is served, he lights the candles the way most people blow them out. But then her cat enters the room and, being allergic, his sneezes ignite the rest of the room. Smokin? A little. B

  2) Audi Godfather. Stealing a scene from the Coppola classic, a guy wakes up screaming, but to a car grill, not a horse’s head, in his bed. Interesting, if contextually misplaced, reference. Points for reinforcing the automobile’s brand; I’m mean, who even knew Audi was still a factor in the U.S. market? B

  3) Diet Pepsi Max Announcer Guys. SuperBowl announcers Troy Aikman and Joe Buck appear on screen, so you almost think the game didn’t cut to commercial. But no, they’re “announcing” the intro to a commercial. A boring commercial, which doesn’t tip its hand until way too late to get me excited about Diet Pepsi Max. Pass me the Diet Coke. C

  4) Animated Salesgenie Guy. I’ve always wondered about Salesgenie.com. Do you get 100 free sales leads, or do you get 100 free leads that work? The guys from Glengarry Glen Ross want to know. D

  5) Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles. House ad for Fox series about a superbabe with a steel plate in her head. (I’m not rating the house ads or the public-service announcements.)

  6) Bud Light Cheese Wheel. Guys acting stupid over football and beer in the kitchen, while the pretty girls are left alone in the living room. What’s wrong with this picture? The commercial’s mildly effective, though, at tying the watery beer brand to youthful male camaraderie. B-

  7) UnderArmour Nation. Another ad which was hard to place, I’m thinking, this has gotta be a Nike ad. Not the strongest brand when your ad’s look-and-feel suffers from such apparent me-too-ism, even more so when this company apparently occupies a unique niche as a purveyor of form-fitting athletic wear. C

  8) Bud Light Screeching Animals. A bunch of rodents and an owl wailing as a car speeding down a winding country lane comes dangerously close but manages to avoid turning them into road kill. Not driven by a Bud Light drinker, I hope. What was this one about? Couldn’t tell until the end, when the Bridgestone tire logo appeared. B-

  9) Doritos Sing Along. The one straight commercial which didn’t need schtick to make its point. The ad wasn’t about the chip, but rather has a new singer, one Kina Grannis, doing her song, “Message From Your Heart.” Very nice. A+

  10) Prudential Retirement. Not memorable, though one might wish that these ads would be the ones that’d stick with you, rather than the booze commercials. We’d all be happier in our old age. C-

  11) Derek Jeter for Gatorade. Who doesn’t like Derek Jeter? Plus, there’s no steroid taint. This one wasn’t flashy, but it’s effective. B

  12) Go Daddy. This one hints at the Web domain registrar’s infamous Super Bowl ad of several years back, where a busty babe was poised to drop her top before a committee of superannuated Senators. (Hope they had a CPR kit handy.) This time, race car driver Danica Patrick, seen on a video screen — how meta is that? — threatens to peel down the zipper on her top. Why? Still, you gotta hand it to these guys: How many domain-name sellers are known to the general public? Undoubtedly just this one. B+

  13) Buy Dell. A funky, MTV-generation commercial which picks up Dell’s new Red product theme. It moves, and is short and to the point. B+

  14) FedX Carrier Pigeons On Steroids. Birds gone wild attack the city, prompting white-male middle manager to suggest that his younger minion pick FedEx (NYSE: FDX) for his future shipping needs. Huh? C+

  15) Cars.com Doofus Death Match. A twenty-something buyer comes to the used car lot armed with data on his planned purchase, salesman doesn’t give him a hard time, so he says: “Good, otherwise I’d have you fight Klondor over there in a death match inside the wheel of fire.” Who says creativity is dead? For all that, I knew that this one was for cars.com right from the get-go. For this reason, it gets a B+

  16) Tide Job Interview. As this one unspolled, I was thinking it had to be CareerBuilder.com, because I’d read they’d purchased a commercial. For CareerBuilder, this would’ve been cute, since it had a guy inappropriately talking past his interrogator during a job interview. However, since it was for a stain removal pen by Procter & Gamble’s flagship detergent brand, not so much. C-

  17) Budweiser: Hank The Horse. Oh, I get it, he’s a Clydesdale, and he’s pulling a freight train, to the theme from Rocky, the better to prove he’s worthy of joining the beer-toting horse team. You know, if they spent one-fiftieth of the money they pour into beer commercials on medical research, they could cure cancer in a week. B

  18) Iron Man, the Movie. Robert Downey Jr. is out of rehab and CGI-buff as the latest Marvel super hero to hit the silver screen. Coming this summer.

  19) Toyota (NYSE: TM) Corolla. The high point of this very muted car ad is that the voice over was by the Peterman guy from Seinfeld. C

  20) George Clooney, Leatherheads. Another movie ad.

  21) Garmin GPS. Some kind of French vibe going on, with a Euro car driving through some non-American looking city, an actor dressed up like Napolean, and French rock ‘n roll in the background. Sorry, I only know Ca Plan Pour Moi. B-

  22) CareerBuilder: Follow Your Heart. A throbbing, disembodied heart leaps off a keyboard and makes its way into the bosses office. Ah, this is the CareerBuilder.com ad. That sound I hear is Monster.com not being worried. C-

  23) Thriller/Life Water. I really should know who that model bopping with a bunch of lizards to strains of Michael Jackson’s Thriller is. Naomi Campbell, right? (Nah.) A fun little commercial, in spite of itself. Loses half a grade since I still don’t know what Life Water is. A-

  24) Yukon Hybrid from GMC. “Never Say Never.” To what, high gas prices? This commercial was so muted, it made me wonder what kind of internal constituency hybrid technologies have inside GM (NYSE: GM). Certainly, this is not one of Bob Lutz’s “gotta have” cars. D

  25) Boooood Light. A continuation of Bud’s series where non-native speakers from India and China are initiated into doofus bad-beer lingo. This time, though, the ESL geek gets the pretty girl. This commercial is so idiotic and aberrant that it’s … memorable. So it gets a high rating, but please don’t tell anyone I said that. A

  26) Planter’s Cashews. Unattractive 30-something woman bops down the street to strains of Frankie Valley’s 1967 hit, “You’re Just Too Good To Be True.” Grabs a handful of Planters nuts, still looks the same, but suddenly all the guys are chasing her. See, it’s not just about looks! Kinda heartwarming, actually. A-

  27) Charles Barkley for T-Mobile. The cellular service provider is doing the hard sell for its “Friends and Family” plan, with the former basketball star calling his son, or maybe Dwayne Wade, or maybe both. I couldn’t really tell. Yawn. Hey, I’m still waiting for Sir Charles to run for the senate. C-

  28) Justin Timberlake for Pepsi. The once and current pop star is hurled into the air, through traffic, and all about the city, literally, but survives. Dating Britney couldn’t have been this rough. B+

  29) Doritos Chair Guy. Guy in chair eats Doritos, gets beaten up by guy in giant mouse suit. Forgettable. C

HALFTIME

  30) Cars.com. Now our data-laden auto buyer is threatening to have the recalcitrant dealer’s head shrunk. Hey, it wasn’t funny the first time, but I get the “cars.com” tag, which is presumably why they paid the $2.7 million. A-

  31) Salesgenie Panda. Now they’ve got an animated panda named Ling Ling, doing a Charlie Chan voice, pimping for the sales-lead site. In most workplaces, including mine, that wouldn’t be allowed. D-

  32) Shaquille O’Neal Vitamin Water. The basketball star wins a horse race and gets a cold, nonalcoholic beverage as his reward. Most memorable moment: Little kid in stands inserting finger up nose. Decent (the ad, not the pick), but not Super Bowl-worthy. C

  33) Bud Light Cave Men. In ad terms, this one is an oldie but oldie. D

  34) Carmen Electra/Ice Breakers Gum. The breath-freshener preferred by “D” listers? D

  35) Alice Cooper/Richard Simmons Bridgestone. In the second chapter of this tire saga, our winding-road driver has passed the animals and finds a couple of celebs in his path. There’s a couple of hundred bucks in it if you get them both, buddy. (I originally thought Alice was Ozzy Osborne, until a commenter below corrected me. Makes more sense; Ozzy doesn’t need the work.) B-

  36) CareerBuilder’s Wishing. The job site tries to move the needle in its battle with Monster with this “Wishing Won’t Get You A Better Job” ad. Doesn’t. C-

  37) E-Trade Baby. Toddler in high chair buys stock on line, upchucks. Like you or I, after we’ve checked our 401(k) balances the past few weeks. B-

  38) Bud Light “Flying.” The watery brew now gives you the ability to fly, the ad posits. If you’ve been chugging every time a Bud ad has come on during the game, well, yeah. C

  39) Music Girls For Sunsilk. Marilyn Monroe, Shikira, and Madonna for some kind of hair product (I couldn’t figure out whether it was shampoo, or what, from the site.) Bet only two of them have used it. B

  40)Stewie Griffin for Coke. The Family Guy character, as a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day balloon, vies with Pluto {correction: Underdog) for a Coca-Cola, but Charlie Brown snaps it up at the last minute. Where’s Lucy when you need her? B

  41) James Carville and Bill Frist for Coke. Whaaaaaaaat on Earth is this? One of the most off-putting commercials I’ve ever seen. What demographic is this one aimed at? Dead people? Pass me a Pepsi. Please. F

  42) Toyota Sequoia. “The dishes will have to wait” is the theme of this one, as our SUV owner goes out for a spin. About as flashy as your average Toyota. B

  43) E-Trade Baby 2. This kid’s diaper must be leaking by now. B

  44) Taco Bell. Just what you want when it’s a nail-biter of a fourth quarter and the Giants are up 10 to 7 over the Patriots. C

  45) Gatorade: Man’s Best Friend. A very big dog slurps up Gatorade from his water dish. And this is supposed to turn me on to their drink how? C

  46) Will Ferrell for Bud. The egregiously unfunny comedian pitches the watery brew in surprisingly humorous fashion. Best is Ferrell’s close: “Bud Light. Suck One.” A

  47) Hyundai Genesis. Straight car commercial; gets the message across. B

  48) Victoria’s Secret. The game’s almost over, promises the tag line, as a beautiful babe tosses a football askance. Maybe Tom Brady’s after-party. I give it a wishful-thinking B-

  49) Fat Guy for Amp. The Red Bull competitor gets the almost Full Monty, as a hip-hop-dancing tow truck driver chugs the energy drink to get “amp’ed” enough to jump-start a stalled car. This all makes sense in the world of $2.7-million Super Bowl ads. B+

Here’s the Kina Grannis video: