Maybe it’s explained in the missing 10 seconds, but I don’t understand what happened to the guy’s wallet or why that matters.
I thought the point was that once you die, you lose all your possessions other than your clothes but then the girl has money to pay for the drinks. In any case a very weird ad though perhaps the last ten seconds make it work somehow.
And I think it represents the Pepsi logo.
@Czarcasm found the complete commercial. The extra 10 seconds don’t help. The sekretagents.com website describes it this way:
“Mission: Create a theatrical spot which promotes the product but feels more like a movie than an advertisement.”
No indication it was shown anywhere.
No wonder you couldn’t find it.
It was a Peterbilt.
That works, too. (I didn’t even consider that, because it’s too generic to remind me of the Pepsi logo, but it’s plausibly what was driving the visual choices.)
The only way it works for me is that she remembers to pick up her purse, but he doesn’t remember to get his wallet from his corpse.
I think it would have been better if the vendor said “You know what? It’s just a couple bucks. I’ll spot ya.”
Going to a actual heaven? Not so bad.
Yeah, that makes sense, especially as Coke let a bunch on new avant guard up-and-comers make Coke commercials that had theatres in them. They only showed for a short time and only in a movie venue.
But turns out it was Pepsi, cool.
Still- those film school Coke ads were “different”.
+1
The circles must represent the halos at the end. Anyway, that was some weird shit.
“You know, for kids!”
I thought that from the beginning because of the giant honking round Pepsi logo beside the video pane.
Apropos of almost nothing, that’s the FOX theater in Bakersfield…
https://buyoya.com/the-historic-fox-theater-bakersfield-california/
is that Darren McGavin ?
Maybe it’s because, once they realize that they’re in Heaven, they don’t have to pay for the sodas. So it’s all a great relief.
You know, like having that dream about not studying for a crucial exam, then waking up and being relieved that it’s all a dream,. Even if, like Val Kilmer in Top Secret!, you wake up to being tortured by Nazis. But at least you don’t have to take the exam! So, in this case, you might actually be dead, but at least you don’t have to pay for the Pepsis!
But, SHE paid. Even in Heaven the women still are second-class. 
Holy crap that Pepsi ad is creepy as hell!
Very interesting thread; the commercial sucks though. Not good as an ad or even as a piece of filmmaking. I hope that’s not too thread shitty (shitting?). It’s cool that the OP remembered it and even cooler that such a weird, unlikely commercial exists almost just as they remember it. But what a strange use of advertising dollars.
Did you notice that scads of potential soft drink buyers, relatively affluent with discretionary dollars, presumably just spent days and days conversing back and forth about their product? Not wasted dollars, just a much delayed full return on investment. It may have been genius in the long run.