The Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials 2009

Which commercials scored touchdowns and which fumbled? TIME TV critic James Poniewozik grades the players

Cash4Gold, Ed McMahon and MC Hammer

Another year like the last one, and next Super Bowl will feature ads from Cash4YourOrgans.com. The precious-metals buyer enlists mortgage-crisis casualty Ed McMahon and baggy-trousers casualty MC Hammer to enumerate all things gold you can sell to put food on the table. Sad — more for them, or for America? — but funny.

Grade: A

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