Video: Oklahomans Paul Harvey and The Flaming Lips featured in Super Bowl commercials

Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips (Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Oklahoman Archives)

The Baltimore Ravens held on to beat the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 Sunday night in Super Bowl XLVII. Unfortunately, the Super Bowl commercials weren’t nearly as good as the game this year.

But two of my favorite ads of the night featured talented Oklahomans.

As previously reported, one of Hyundai’s Super Bowl spots featured Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips and their super-catchy new jam “Sun Blows Up Today.”

Titled “Epic Playdate,” the ad depicts The Lips inspiring a family of five to go on an appropriately outrageous adventure involving tough-looking bikers, shenanigans at a natural history museum and dressing as robots.

The band plays on the roof of their suburban home, Wayne Coyne catches a blueberry in his teeth, and one of the sons engages in an epic game of bowling by riding in one of Wayne’s signature crowd-surfing space bubbles.

Oh, and there’s confetti. Of course there’s confetti. So it’s pretty much the perfect ad for the Lips given the limitations of its upcoming placement on primetime network television. Here’s an extended version of the ad:

President George W.Bush awards radio commentator Paul Harvey, the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, in Washington. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian award, and recognizes exceptional meritorious service. (AP file)

My favorite ad of the night, though, was the Dodge Ram Truck “Farmer” commercial featuring the voice of the late radio broadcaster Paul Harvey, a Tulsa native and University of Tulsa graduate.