Super Bowl 2023 Commercials Ranked By Star Power

April 2024 · 2 minute read

Over the past few years, T-Mobile has enlisted "Scrubs" stars Zach Braff and Donald Faison for a series of commercials where they play neighbors singing the praises of the mobile carrier. In a 2022 Super Bowl commercial, for example, Braff and Faison turn "I Feel Pretty" from "West Side Story" into an ode to switching cell phone plans. In 2023, to follow up the success of that ad campaign, there's a new musical star on the block: John Travolta. 

The 2023 Super Bowl commercial — titled "New Year. New Neighbor." — finds the three actors dancing around a suburban neighborhood. This time around, they're singing a version of "Summer Nights" from "Grease" that has had its lyrics changed to be about T-Mobile's home internet options. For example, instead of, "He got friendly, holding my hand / Well, she got friendly down in the sand," Travolta and his co-stars sing, "Can't believe it, it's just fifty bucks / Why pay more? Paying more sucks." The song's iconic refrain of "Tell me more / Tell me more" is kept intact ... the better to invite the commercial to list off the brand's selling points!

The ad is especially notable because it finds Travolta returning to a movie that made him famous, mere months after the tragic passing of his co-star and "Summer Nights" duet partner, Olivia Newton John. Upon the news of her death, Travolta wrote in an Instagram tribute, "My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better."

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