I’m amazed some of them can get on the air.
Super-brief hijack, but does anyone else cringe just a little when they hear about somebody being “paranoid of” something inanimate?
I love the commercials too, but not enough to buy Bud. If I want beer and it absolutely positively has to be cheap, I buy Pabst Blue Ribbon.
The Survivor singer (the same guy) also sings on that great Starbucks commercial where they follow the guy around singing his theme song to the tune of “Eye of the Tiger.”
An excellent law - it should be named after you. (The Sam Adams ads, luckily, are awful.)
The best ads in beer history, I contend, were the immortal Bob and Ray as Burt and Harry Piels for Piels beer. The ads had the unfortunate side effect of getting people to try the beer, after which they avoided it like the plague.
For me, it’s pretty much all been downhill since “Mr. Major League Infield Raker,” but they’re still really funny.
Not in this case. “The Ocean” is not a gestalt entity; it’s made up or several components that are individually out to get you. The waves, the sand, the fish, the sharp little shells… It’s like being afraid of a country.
Anyway, I’m a fan of these commercials, even though I would never willingly pay for a Budweiser, even on Buy One Bud Get Seventeen Free Day.
“Nothing screams ‘I’m important’ like a man who screams ‘I’m important’ into his cell phone.”
(Did I mention I’m important?)
I like the series of ads a whole lot more than I like the beer…
I think my favorite is:
“Mr. Really Bad Toupee Wearer” 
“You think it looks 'natural.” It couldn’t look phonier if it had a chin strap."
And my thread only had 15 posts. :sniff:
While I am in no position to comment on the ads, I think I should share the following joke:
Why is [Budweiser, but any American beer will do] like making love in a canoe?
They’re both fucking close to water.
-Happy Clam, who thinks you should be able to eat REALL GOOD beer with a knife and fork
Mr Really Bad Toupee wearer is my favorite. When that one came out, I would listen to Howard Stern at work every morning, as would the guy next to me. Also in our 4 man cube was the king of really bad toupee wears. Every time that commercial came on, we’d both look at each other and then at Mr. RBTW and burst into laughter. Mr. RBTW, a real sonuvabitch in his own right, never knew what made us laugh so hard. It’s a fond memory…
I love these commericals.
I wish they would come out on CD because I am that much of a dork/dweeb/weenie/geek.
I love advertising jingles.
Here’s to You, Mr. Message Board Troll Guy.
(It must be really dank in your mother’s basement.)
You haven’t a leg to stand on in a Real Message Board Flame War
( You are such a fuckin’ sock puppppeeeet!)
Starting an argument you cannot win.
(Godwinning yourself is so sweeeeeet!)
You fight the uphill battle the entire way you clueless, clueless bastard until you are banned.
(The Jack booted Mods are gonna stomp your asssss)
We salute you, Mr. Message Board Troll Guy
(and mock you long after you are gone.)
While any mass-marketed, mass-produced American Light Lager might fit the joke, any American beer certainly will NOT do. I defy you to drink a Anchor Steam, any Sierra Nevada beer, a Red Hook or countless other macro and microbrews and then think that joke is accurate.
this is HILARIOUS! Entirely liquid-through-the-nose-snort worthy!!
Bravo, I say - Bravo!
Thank you for that link!! I was just wondering the other day if there was a place to find these commercials! This was after I clicked this link that took me to a video of “Mr. Nudist Colony Activity Coordinator.” (All nudity is strategically blocked, however I wouldn’t open this at work–just to be safe!)
Now I can listen to my heart’s content! (And that Gas Passer one is hilarious! )
I agree with the sensible sentiment that great advertising doth not make great beer, but it’s still great advertising…
More than that, though, great advertising, through exposure and repetition, has a bully pulpit in our collective conscious. This particular ad campaign, due to it’s format, has not only a virtually unlimited number of funny variations, but it’s ubiquitousness also helps it reverberate quite a bit more than your regular fad phrase. It’s almost like a new poetry form; a new haiku. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see a band come out this year that plays 80s style power ballads with humorous lyrics and for them to be the next Darkness or something…
And boy, ain’t that a mouthful. Unfortunately, it doesn’t make a mouthful of Bud taste any better. However, I can get a 12-pack of Busch at the Rite-Aid for $5. It isn’t great, but it’s one of those deals where you down an ice cold one on a hot day and look at the purdy blue can and think “hey, only $5” and be content with that miniscule corner of your life for a moment.
[/Mr. $5 12-Pack philosopher]
Oh, very well. I’ll concede that joke should be about “mass produced American beer”, but the first version is funnier.
:smack: Oh, duh, I’m ( Mr. Forgets and has to post aga - in ), and I meant to say that even though the idea is great, I think the Fonz’s motorcycle is in the air, metaphorically speaking, on this one. Because even though the idea is great enough to almost be a humor genre unto itself, the Powers-That-Decide-The-Things tend to push these things into the shark-jumping part of the life-cycle regardless.
Tenacious D has been doing this for awhile now. They even have a great ode to Dio.
BBVL, I hate you now.
Do you have any idea how long it took me to get that damn commercial out of my head? I read your post over an hour ago, and since then my brain has been doing nothing but going…
GLEN!
GLEN! GLEN! GLEN!
GLEN! GLEN! GLEN!
GLEN! GLEN! GLENNNNN!**
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Gaaa! Make it stop!!