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VIDEO: Feminist ad with Beastie Boys song is the best commercial of the year

Cancel the Small Business, Big Game contest because Oakland-based toy company GoldieBlox has that ish on lock, already.

Cancel the Small Business, Big Game contest because Oakland-based toy company GoldieBlox has that ish on lock, already.

GoldieBlox CEO and founder Debbie Sterling graduated from Stanford with a degree in mechanical engineering/product design and a burning passion to topple the "pink aisle" you see in every toy store in the history of humankind.

So, she created the company as a way to inspire young girls and interest them in engineering at a young age. Recently, GoldieBlox produced a commercial for its GoldieBlox and the Spinning Machine book and accompanying playset. The ad focuses on a trio of young girls who are sick and tired of Polly Pocket and Barbie, so they do their best Rube Goldberg impression while changing the words to the classic Beastie Boys jam, "Girls."

The result is the greatest commercial of the year (sorry, "Ship My Pants") and could be aired during the Super Bowl, should it win that Small Business, Big Game contest we were talking about.

GoldieBlox entered Intuit's first ever Small Business, Big Game contest where one commercial from a small company will be played during the Super Bowl in 2014.

Currently there are just four companies in the running to make it onto the high priced-Super Bowl commercial club. [BizJournals, h/t Uproxx]

There's 11 days and change until voting ends and please, please, please let GoldieBlox win.