Especially the one where they’e in Amsterdam (?) and they go to the bar with “over a hundred different types of beer”. And the beautiful Dutch blonde says “call me when you’re ready”, and the dufus says “I’m ready. I’ll have a Sam Adams”. And the blonde looks all impressed.
GIVE ME A GODDAMN BREAK!! You honestly expect us to believe that she gives a fuck what kind of beer a dufus orders? Are men actually thinking women will think they have good taste because they order Sam Adams? You think they care?
For as long as I can remember, beers have been advertised as the one beer to have when you’re having more th… wait, that’s not right… they’ve been advertised as making any male irresistable to every woman. Swedish Bikini Team, anyone? The Sam Adams one barely even registers on the chick-meter.
Whatever stupidity there is in that commercial is completely wiped away by that girl’s space-and-time warping hotness. How they filmed her without the film in the camera spontaneously igniting is my question.
I’m a woman, and I notice favorably if a guy orders a decent beer. Then again, I also happen to be a homebrewer. It wouldn’t make me drool openly over a guy who doesn’t seem all that interesting, but it does score a few points at least. (I’m also of Dutch descent but almost assuredly not on that level of hottie.)
It’s just an ad, same as any other - “Buy this stuff to be cool.” Nothing new. Just for fun, some day I want to go to a bar and say “Give me the cheapest nastiest lousiest swill you have” :eek:
I hate the one with the businessmen having lunch and one orders a Sam Adams. It ends with; “Sam Adams - always a wise choice!”
No, drinking while you’re on the clock is never a wise choice!
Slightly off subject, but the new one that’s really driving me nuts is the one for Captain Morgan Rum. No, I really don’t think it’d be a good idea if my dental hygenienist had a little bit of the captain in him. I wasn’t looking for a horrible tooth scraper accident today, thanks though.
-Lil
I don’t think she’s that hot, but that’s just me. (I’ve been told I have strange tastes in women. )
What bugs me about this commercial, is that Sam Adams, while a decent if overrated brew, is available in pretty much every bar in the country now. If you took the time to go to “The international house of beer” wouldn’t you order something more exotic or unusual. And if you were bartending at said bar, would you really be impressed by someone ordering a Sam Adams? I think not.
Wow, you guys! You mean TV commercials aren’t 100% realistic? They’re not documentaries filmed in real-time, using real people? So pieces of dough can’t turn into little men with chef hats and start talking to you?
You know what’s really sad? She looks remarkably like one of my younger cousins.
I’m serious. Right down to that Phoebe-like expression. Damn hot cousins, with all their sexiness and shapely bottoms and perky breasts prancing around in their… uh oh. I may have said too much… [damn sexy Flanders]
As for advertising, it surprises me (in a good way) what they are to do (or get away with) sometimes. Often, the commercials are of higher production value and more creative and entertaining than the show they are paying for. (Parse that, Viva!
Where’ve you been? Of course women are impressed by our beer order. Just like they’re impressed with our clothing, our style (or studious inattention to it), our can-on-the-forehead smashing, our arm-wrestling prowess, our witty nick-names for each other, our rims, our taste in music, our televisions, our leather upholstery, our alligator-skin boots…
I wouldn’t say ‘never’. A few years ago, on the last Friday of every month, my entire department used to go out to a Chinese restaurant and sink a load of gin and tonics. Great craic, and I don’t think the participation in company merriment hurt the fact that I got a promotion and a huge payrise, so probably quite wise too.
Anyway, I do like Sam Adams very much, but in a Dutch bar with over 100 beers? Wouldn’t be my first choice.
That’ll be enough erudition outta you! I’ll bet you think the chicks are impressed by that sort of thing, don’t you? Wrong! If you really want to impress them, you need to order a Keystone Light.
My latest favorite is the Belgian witbeer style. There’s a Canadian brewery that produces a beer called Maudite which is heavenly. It also is rather similar to (except being a bit more spicy) to a clone of a Belgian brew that I’ve been homebrewing, Barbar Belgian honey ale from Lefebvre brewery. It’s a standard witbeer but the recipe includes clover honey during the fermentation, and orange blossom honey used as the carbonation sugar.
And back on topic, echoing the comments of others here, it’s not like this hasn’t been done by just about every other beer company out there. Pit Sam Adams for being unoriginal or stooping to the level of the other companies, perhaps.
I’m not considered to be ‘on the clock’ during lunch, nor is it considered to be a bad choice to have a beer with a business lunch. It’s also not uncommon for us to knock 'em back on a Friday when we’ve got people in visiting, when we’re hosting some kind of corporate good will thing.
but almost assuredly not on that level of hottie.)
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