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Forbes: Ads Too Hot For The Super Bowl

ManCrunch, a dating site for gay men, tried to appeal to sports fans last year with some football humor: Male partisans of two rival teams go in an instant from trash-talking to lip-locking. Gun-shy CBS turned it down, leading to complaints that the network was discriminating against gays.

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Ads Too Hot For ... Forbes rounded up some of the most notable rejected Super Bowl ads. Might as well check them out here, as you won't be seeing them during the game.

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Politically Inco... This year Fox, which is televising the Super Bowl, turned down a spot from JesusHatesObama, a website that sells humorous merchandise with conservative messages. The commercial shows a Jesus Christ bobblehead doll watching as a Barack Obama bobblehead falls into a fishbowl.

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Cheaters Never W... Fox also knocked down a spot from AshleyMadison.com, a dating service for married people looking to cheat. The absurdist clip features a porn star, a man in a bunny suit and what appears to be a capybara.

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Skin, But No Mea... People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, often pushes the limits of taste in its advertising, and a 2009 spot was no exception: It showed mostly naked women cavorting with vegetables in an attempt to convey the message that vegetarianism is sexy. NBC said no.

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Fashion Flameout GoDaddy.com has had several of its spots rejected for featuring too much sexual suggestiveness, but last year's "Lola" ad ran into a different problem. It was about a fictional football player who becomes a fashion designer. The character, a flamboyant gay stereotype, was too much for CBS.

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Apology Not Acce... Bud Light's 2007 "Apology-Bot 3000" commercial wasn't all that racy, really--it featured a boyfriend using technology to make amends for selling a sex tape--but CBS was taking no chances. Things turned out all right for the beer maker, though--the spot's been viewed almost 3 million times on YouTube.

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Painfully Funny A 2008 Rolling Rock commercial set at a baseball game revolved around the lowest form of humor known to man: dudes getting hit in the crotch, in this case by a ricocheting foul ball. But had it not ended with a particularly suggestive bit of imagery--two baseballs and a beer bottle in an instantly recognizable configuration--it might have made the cut.

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Macho Makeout ManCrunch, a dating site for gay men, tried to appeal to sports fans last year with some football humor: Male partisans of two rival teams go in an instant from trash-talking to lip-locking. Gun-shy CBS turned it down, leading to complaints that the network was discriminating against gays.

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Mechanical Failu... After CBS shot down the ManCrunch ad, many speculated that a controversial 2007 Snickers commercial was to blame. It showed two mechanics briefly touching lips while co-eating a candy bar. The mechanics' shame over the accidental kiss struck many observers as homophobic, and Snickers pulled the ad.

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Oh, Mickey You can argue all day about whether a commercial is too risqué or too political, but in 2005, Fox made a decision that's hard to disagree with: No one should have to look at Mickey Rooney's elderly tuchus. An ad for Airborne that showed just that got dinged.

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Most Disliked Pe... Who do sports fans reserve their disdain for? To see the top 10 candidates, click here.