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Super Bowl 50: You’ll never unsee Mountain Dew’s “Puppy Monkey Baby” commercial

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Mountain Dew’s Kickstart is a combination of three great things, like a “puppymonkeybaby”. Mountain Dew Kickstart is “three awesome things combined” – juice, Mountain Dew and caffeine.

The ad features a dancing creature, with the head of a puppy, the body of a monkey and the legs of a baby, providing a group of friends with a liquid pick me up.

The Super Bowl usually does spur some odd commercials. The numbers associated with the off-field action – the commercials – are equally important, especially to the marketers that spend up to $5 million for 30 seconds of air time. Take a look at some of the best reactions on the Internet.

People turned to Google to search for their favorite moments of the game – from going Gaga over the national anthem to an end-zone hand jive. Ads can also be found on YouTube, CBS Sports and Twitter. And this year, of the approximately 330 million views the ads have received so far, over 60% of the views came from mobile devices for the first time.

Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen starred in a amusing but innuendo-filled, election season-themed Bud Light ad that will probably divide viewers along generational lines.

My two favorite ads of the evening both featured animals in cool ways.

No one could accuse Mountain Dew’s Super Bowl ad of being unmemorable, although the commercial’s freakish puppy-monkey-baby combination has inspired social media users to question where the ad’s creators got their inspiration. OICisDifferent.com had a commercial on opioid-induced constipation, while the diarrhea relief medication Xifaxan created a spot with a pink intestine made of clay cheering in a stadium.

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Some people actually seemed to like the creature – with one viewer asking: “Where can I adopt a #puppymonkeybaby????”. A third tackled toe fungus.

This image provided by Mountain Dew shows a “Puppymonkeybaby” in a scene from the company's Kickstart spot for Super Bowl 50