1984: Once Upon a Time, (Apparently) Before the Sports Bra...

This year's Super Bowl match-up has at least a few football fanatics disappointed.  But if the on-field sparring fails to capture your interest, there'll still be millions worth of ads to amuse. For starters, the first 3D ad in Super Bowl history will air courtesy of a DreamWorks-SoBe Lifewater pairup -- it's a trailer for DreamWorks Animation's new film, "Monsters vs. Aliens," made in-your-face by SoBe's distribution of 125 million pairs of 3D glasses. (Yes, Eisenhower era -- we missed you, too).  If "M vs. A" sounds like a grindhouse-y iteration of a Sigourney Weaver movie, it's not; the voice talent behind the upcoming film is stacked with funnymen -- Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Colbert, Rainn Wilson, Will Arnett and Paul Rudd, to name some of them.

And if you still aren't thrilled by what you see -- if Bruce Springsteen's halftime show fails to generate a memorable sing-along or nipslip -- rewatch these classics:

A bleak rallying cry against conformity and Big Brother culture in 1984-- and, with Ridley Scott at the helm, the talk of the nation for weeks.  Ironically, 15 years later, no company has perhaps a more blindly devoted following than Apple.  Anyway, the main point here is that Ms. Sledgehammer could use some support.

Mr. Britney Spears in this classic...

...and the ex-missus in the Pepsi generation commercial.

"Veggie Love," an ad for PETA, has been making the rounds online after being banned from the '09 broadcast for its racy implications.  Just a bunch of girls, showing some enthusiasm for produce.  In their underwear.  Conspicuously covered in baby oil.  Gonna say NSFW on this.

I still love this one.  Not enough to remember that the sponsor was a company called Electronic Data Systems, though.

It's Jordan vs. Bird under the Golden Arches.

These Reebok ads were a huge hit in '03. 

Classic and a sports-ad staple -- just like the product.