This Year's Super Bowl Ads Play It Safe

This year’s Super Bowl ads relied heavily on humor, animals and celebrities with very little risk taking. From overprotective fathers to PuppyMonkeyBaby, Here & Now‘s Robin Young takes a look at this year’s offerings with our media analyst John Carroll.

• More on the top Super Bowl ads via USA Today

Ads Mentioned In The Segment

Hyundai

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Snickers

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Budweiser

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Mountain Dew

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Doritos

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Guest

• John Carroll, professor of mass communications at Boston University. He tweets @johncarroll_bu.

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