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These Tweets Declare Shaggy’s Super Bowl LV Commercial The Best AND Most Cringeworthy

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The Cheetos commercial with Jamaican Dancehall sensation Shaggy, and his movie star friends Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher was by far the most talked-about ad but not with all raving reviews.

Tom Brady led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to its second Super Bowl title in franchise history and he snatched his 7th Super Bowl ring, but that was not the only spectacular highlight from last night’s game for some viewers on Twitter.

With mega stalwarts like Pepsi, Coco-Cola, and Budweiser sitting out on the Super Bowl commercials this year, it gave other brands more room to dominate and from a whopping catalog of 60 ads, Cheetos’ spin on Shaggy’s 2000 hit, It Wasn’t Me was among the fan-favorite.

The ad starred the Mr. Bombastic singer and celebrity couple Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher and was a play on the original script of the song, about cheating and not admitting it. The remake however finds a binge eating Mila unable to quit eating her husband’s Cheetos so instead hides all over the house to munch away at the tasty treat but leaves its unmistakable orange dusty trails everywhere, even on her mouth.

Upon being caught by Ashton several times, she beams innocent wide eyes at him and says, “It wasn’t me,” some clever advice from none other than Shaggy himself, who makes his hilarious cameo wearing the same purple silk robe and champagne scarf from the original It Wasnt Me music video.

Funny Super Bowl ads always connect better with viewers, this unlikely trio sure struck up giggles more than anything else, and the nostalgia it brought also played a major factor as to why many simply loved the ad.

We hopped over on Twitter to get some real feedback and it seems Shaggy’s re-entrance into the new era was a pleasant surprise for many who hadn’t seen or heard from the Dancehall crooner since the early and mid-2000s.

In all, fans on Twitter felt Shaggy, Mila, and Ashton’s Super Bowl Cheetos ad was undeniably the best of the lot.

We’ll let these tweets speak for themselves:

https://twitter.com/Bat20One/status/1358600478087520257?s=20

https://twitter.com/DanielDorcena/status/1358600654269382658?s=20

https://twitter.com/BertKistoo/status/1358611326533271552?s=20

Others however felt the ad was a little cringe-worthy, especially listening to Ashton Kutcher’s awkward patois dialect as he attempted to mimic the Jamaican rhymester.

https://twitter.com/nbveganwerewolf/status/1358632341938331651?s=20

https://twitter.com/shayneliza/status/1358600503026806786?s=20

Shaggy’s smash single, It Wasn’t Me from the album Hot Shot was a No. 1 hit in the Billboard Top 100 back in 2000 when it first came out. Watch the comedic skit with himself and Rik Rok in the visuals here –