Here are the 2024 Super Bowl commercials released so far

WASHINGTON — It’s that time of year again. Even if you aren’t watching the Super Bowl to see the Chiefs duke it out with the 49ers, you can still watch just for the commercials. 

Advertisers take the Super Bowl very seriously. They know around 1/3 of all Americans watch, and ads can go for millions of dollars. Because of that, advertisers often go all out, lining up celebrity-filled TV spots designed to raise interest in their products. 

And luckily for anybody who wants a sneak peek, many of the brands release their ads online days or weeks before the big game. 

What do Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, Patrick Stewart, Drew Barrymore, Arnold from “Hey Arnold” and Peppa Pig all have in common? They’re all in the Paramount streaming service’s new Super Bowl ad. 

In the TV spot, the assorted characters are trapped on an icy glacier, unable to throw a rope to safety. When Tagovailoa says he could make the throw to the top, if there was a football. 

Patrick Stewart suggests they use Arnold’s football-shaped head to throw the rope all the way. 

“We throw the child,” the legendary actor plainly states. 

Despite reservations from some of his fellow stranded explorers, Stewart gets into some old-timey football gear and throws a perfect spiral — straight into the wall…as Creed sings “Higher.”  

Lamenting his inability to throw just a few feet higher, Stewart out wishes for some “pigskin” to toss. The commercial ends with a pan to Peppa Pig, potentially their last hope to avoid freezing to death. 

While a condensed version is likely to be played at the Super Bowl because even a 30-second ad can cost millions of dollars, the full commercial clocks in just under two minutes. 

In OREO’s 30-second Super Bowl spot, the iconic chocolate sandwich cookie is imagined at big events throughout the past, helping people make important decisions that altered the course of history. 

In ancient Troy, two guards decide to “twist on it” when a man shows up at their gate with the trojan horse — cream on the right, they let him in. Whoops! We all know how that one turned out. An OREO also helps two UFO witnesses decide not to report their alien sighting. 

Then in a flashback scene to pre-“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” days, Kris Jenner, matriarch of the Kardashian empire and long-time OREO fan, is on the phone.

“So every little detail about our family will be on TV?” she asks. “Who would watch that?” 

Jenner says she’ll “twist on it” to decide, and pulls the cookie apart, and appears to decide to go for it.  “Hope you can keep up,” she says. 

Starry is one of the first-time Super Bowl advertisers, hoping to make a splash and introduce consumers to their lemon-lime product. The ad itself features Ice Spice sitting with a pair of animated lemon and lime characters when she’s approached by a man representing a soda she used to drink. 

“I just needed something more refreshing, more crisp,” she says. After the rejection, the spurned soda/lover’s head explodes in a fountain of clear soda. 

The Pringles ad features Chris Pratt sporting the chip mascot’s iconic mustache. Once a cashier notices and posts about the ‘stache, the race is on, with more people commenting about his striking resemblance to the Pringles man. By the end of the spot, Pratt has starred in a movie about the Pringles mascot, alongside a mustachioed child in a wagon on the prairie. It ends with the same clerk from the beginning of the clip asking “do I get a cut?” Pratt then offers her a tube of Pringles.

In Anheuser-Busch’s nostalgic spot, a snowstorm threatens to derail a delivery of Budweiser to a small-town bar. But a team of Clydesdales and a Labrador retriever team up to help Budweiser make the delivery.

Experts say the feel-good spot strikes the right chord for Anheuser-Busch, which is trying to win back consumer sentiment following last year’s conservative backlash against Bud Light after the brand sent a commemorative can to transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Bud Light also angered supporters of transgender rights who felt it abandoned Mulvaney.

The Michelob commercial this year is pretty simple. While waiting for a beer at a beachside bar, Lionel Messi takes some time to have some fun with a soccer ball — namely dribbling circles around everybody else on the beach. It also features a brief cameo from “Ted Lasso” star Jason Sudeikis, who comments how the two of them “go way back.” 

At the end of the relaxingly low-key commercial, the bartender calls for the soccer icon to pick up his drink, and Messi kicks a goal into a volleyball net hanging between a pair of palm trees. 

And a Hellmann’s ad focusing on food waste starring Kate McKinnon features a cat that becomes a celebrity and dates Pete Davidson.

In the ad, McKinnon mistakes the cat’s meow for the word “mayo,” catapulting the “talking” cat to fame with a book deal, keynote speech and eventual red carpet moment with the former SNL cast member. 

A Kawasaki ad shows people riding in their Ridge “side by side” off-road vehicles growing mullets because the vehicle is “business in the front and a party in the back.” 

The vehicle’s ability to grow 80s hairstyles extends past the occupants, with a bald eagle and a tortoise also growing some luscious locks. 

BetMGM, an online gambling site, begins its minute-long ad with actor Vince Vaughn telling viewers that the site is for everybody…except Tom Brady. Apparently, “you’ve won too much, Tommy, let others have their turn.” 

The ad explains that no matter what your relationship with the former all-time great quarterback — whether you used to babysit him, have a tattoo of him, are the “Tom Brady of spreadsheets” or cried when he left the Patriots — you’re allowed to bet and (hopefully) win on BetMGM. 

David and Victoria Beckham’s ad for Uber Eats is a bit meta, and may be hard to understand if you aren’t up to date on the backstory. It features the pair forgetting some big moments about the commercial they’re in, including what sport it’s for or when the ad will air. 

It’s essentially a play on some forgetful confessionals from the Beckham Netflix documentary series about David’s rise through the football world. 

The ad brings the message home with text that reads: “Whatever you forget this Sunday, remember Uber Eats.”

The food delivery app’s commercial is simple: they’re offering to deliver everything (and yes, we mean everything) being advertised by the other ads during the big game, for free, to one lucky person. 

In a teaser, DoorDash says they’ll give out a promo code during their game-day ad, which can be redeemed here for a shot to win.

That means everything from Doritos to a new car to tax services. In fact, DoorDash doesn’t know everything they’re giving away for this promotion. “Who knows what else? We haven’t fully thought this thing through,” the teaser’s narrator says.