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Enjoy Your Super Bowl Commercials Responsibly

February 5, 2017 By in Habitudes, Higher Education, History, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , 2 Comments

“In this polarized world, it could easily upset half the country and be seen as political and stepping into something they don’t want to get into.

Der Spot sorgt trotzdem für Aufregung. Viele sehen in ihm einen direkten Angriff auf die Migrationspolitik von US-Präsident Donald Trump.

I’ll Be Home For Christmas

December 4, 2015 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , , , 5 Comments

Not.

Within the next 45 years, the nation’s population will decline by at least 10 percent — whereas most countries, including the United States, expect the opposite to happen. Some consider that dynamic to be the driving force behind Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to take in nearly 1 million refugees this year alone.

I CAN Stop Watching It

February 25, 2014 By in Heconomy, High Art, Home Cooking, Hotness, Humor Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , 3 Comments

But it does kind of rock. I guess.

The dude you can find anywhere. But the women that work in my supermarket just don’t look like that. Well that one does…

Judging from this commercial, German supermakets are much more fun—or at least more bizarre—than their American counterparts.

German Comedy Engineering?

January 22, 2014 By in Habitudes, Heconomy, High Art, Humor Tags: , , , , , , 1 Comment

For Super Bowl Amerika, I mean?

They should have at least tried using a real German.

“Algorithm” isn’t VW’s official ad for Super Bowl XLVIII, it’s simply meant as a teaser. Artistically speaking, it’s designed to give viewers a sense of the tone Volkswagen will strike on February 2. Creatively speaking, it’s pretty lazy.

PS: Thanks for the funny Passat/Charger clip, Murph. Perfect intro to this.

More German Super Bowl Commercials

February 3, 2012 By in Habitudes, Heconomy, Humor Tags: , , , , , , , , , 2 Comments

Please. I mean for German products, of course.

We’ll know more on Sunday – Monday over here.

Volkswagen took a gamble by releasing the spot before the game — something most advertisers didn’t do last year. But the move paid off: the ad quickly became a viral hit on video-sharing website YouTube, with 49.4 million views since. And it came in No. 3 on USA Today’s Ad Meter, which ranks Super Bowl commercials.