About two years ago, I posted a Pepsi commercial featuring an old guy named “Uncle Drew” schooling hot-shot hoopsters on a city basketball court.
A European ad features the exact same plot playing out on an urban soccer pitch — very fun!
Alcohol commercials are typically bent toward mindless humour or veiled innuendo. And then there’s this beauty:
A week ago, we were in Florida. It was the first time I’d watched the Super Bowl in the US, on a network that showed the much-hyped commercials which air each year in those slots.
According to the experts, the loudest buzz surrounded this Dodge Ram ad featuring Paul Harvey’s reciting of a piece called, “God Made a Farmer.”
In honour of all the farmers I know, here you go.
Here is an ad that I never saw aired on TV. It has most of the key ingredients for a successful commercial: Decent music, attractive people, and a very clever storyline.
Be sure to watch right to the end.
In the words of Sheldon Cooper: “Bazinga!”