Super Bowl ads: Google’s tearjerker about a husband and his late wife was hands-down my favorite

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"Remember, I'm the luckiest man in the world."

By late Sunday evening, Google's Super Bowl ad (titled, simply, Loretta) which you can check out above had been viewed more than 10.4 million times on YouTube, and I've got to say I'm not surprised at all. It was an incredibly moving television commercial -- not exactly a phrase you hear every day -- that clocks in at only around a minute-and-a-half yet still manages to pack an emotional wallop. The conceit of this ad is that an elderly husband has lost his wife and is relying on Google Assistant to help him remember all the little things that he loved about her. Like her favorite movie. Her laugh. Vacations they took, and how she hated his mustache. The husband wanting to hold on to things like that in his old age, now that she's gone, reminds me of one of the many great lines from Cameron Crowe's criminally underrated 2001 film Vanilla Sky -- "The little things. There's nothing bigger."

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