I have become a fan on Facebook of having Betty White host Saturday Night Live. You can, too. After the Snickers ad with Abe Vigoda and her playing football, an early Super Bowl hit, it's clear the 88-year-old marvel would pump some life into SNL.

The ads were better in general during the second half. Could that be the influence of the The Professor's exquisite homemade nachos and strong consumption of adult beverages? But the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Late Show promo was 15 seconds of "I Can't Believe It." (Leno and Oprah shot the top-secret spot at Letterman's Ed Sullivan Theater last Tuesday.)

Other first-half faves: The kid telling some local lothario to keep his hands off his mama and his Doritos. Villagers build a human bridge for the Bud truck. And the Dove ad outlining the life of a man (careful climbing that rope in gym class). It helps to have a whole minute, and it only cost, (what?) $5 million.

Later in the game: Megan Fox sending a picture of her in the bathtub out on her Motorola Blur. The e-Trade baby with the milk-a-holic floozie girlfriend. And my favorite of the night (again, benefitting from a minute of air time), the jungle sleepwalker who unwittingly braved everything for a Coke. As usual, there were some funny commercials, like Sumo Death, for products that I barely understand and would never use.

Disappointed at the dearth of animal ads (though highly rated for effectiveness, the fence-busting colt-calf Budweiser booster was too sappy for me) I did like the freaked-out Denny's chickens, and, like everyone else in America, continue to marvel at the ads starring Ed Begley Jr. that, I guess, are supposed to urge us all to fill out our census forms. No wonder so many people have had it with the government.

Some of the ads that CBS rejected as inappropriate are here. And Fancast has a whole bunch of the ones that aired, cleverly brought to you with another ad from Coca-Cola.