POSTED: Monday, February 7, 2011, 4:00 PM
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5. Christina Aguilera Star Spangled Banner Flub: Her statement about the glitch: "I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and the true spirit of its anthem came through." Hard not to feel the spirit when you're
going out of your way to belt seven notes per octave but not bothering to rehearse the lines on the limo-ride in. Next year Celine Dion will come off just as patriotic when she accidentally wails "Oh, Ca-na-da..."
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4. Eminem Finally Goes Commercial: Eminem
succumbed to super-ad cash from both Chrystler and PepsiCo (via Brisk Iced Tea). The Chrystler spot was an old-fashioned car-commercial mini-drama about the heart and soul of our motor city, Detroit, featuring Mathers' famous
Lose Yourself. The Brisk spot was a claymation goof about his policy on commercials. (Eminem's pitching iced tea? What's Next, Ice T pitching M&M's? Zing!)
3. Slash Materializes as the Fifth Black Eyed Pea: Rising dramatically out of a fog-machined trap-door like a weird consumer-culture phoenix,
Slash interrupted a black-eyed-medley with his most famous guitar riff (
Sweet Child Of Mine) while the Tron-clad Fergie rode his melt and rocked the vocals. After a short guitar solo, they all rocked out to Dick Dale's
Miserloo (think
Pulp Fiction theme-song) and promptly "got it started in there."
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2. Roethlisburger's Impcomplete Pass Ends Steelers Season: This is my first year as a Big Ben hater — between not being keen on sexual assault, and almost equally unkeen on omnipresent playoff teams winning the Super Bowl every three years like clockwork — I felt no small portion of mirth as his final pass of the season hit the dirt and the Packers won.
1. Audi Luxury Prison Escape: In the era of white-collar crime, Audi told us to escape old-school luxury cars with a comedy sketch about a five-star prison breakout. Don't be suprised if "Hit 'em with the Kenny G!" becomes a 2011 catchphrase.
