Latest Bud Lite commercial, they have our number down!

[MAbruce]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dirtyd79

QUOTE: Originally posted by MAbruce

Wow, I had no idea the hit list was that extensive (as of 2004).

But I missed the ‘Mr. big beer gut guy who lounges all afternoon watching sports on TV.’

...Oh, wait a minute! That would be their target demographic! Silly me. [:-,]

HUMOR ALERT!
hey as Mr. Big beer gut guy who lounges all afternoon watching sports on TV.’ I take offense to that

HUMOR ALERT OVER I now return you to the regularly scheduled tightassedness in progress.

Darn! I was hoping that would take me off the 'anal retentive neurotics' list. [:D]

[davekelly]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tstage

QUOTE: Originally posted by cwclark

I found the commercial offensive...the time and effort i put into what i do takes a lot of skill, creativity, and patience ..i'd like to see the guys at Budweiser do what we do and get it accurately to scale and right the first time....I enjoy model railroading ..i'm not "cookoo for choo choos" nor a "jerk."... I would'nt drink that puke water they call beer anyway...i'm a Lone Star guy and don't plan on chang'in brands anytime soon....chuck

Chuck,

I'm sorry you found the commercial offensive. Good thing you aren't a viola player...

Tom

OMG Someone else that understands viola jokes!! I was seriously wondering if my wife was just pulling my leg about those (Performing Arts (Flute) Major)!

[davekelly]

You know I bet there's a few folks over at AB or their ad agency that saw the video and think we must be a bunch of pretty creative, fun loving guys.

The video was great!!!

Is a jerk necessesarily bad? Wasn't there a song "Cool Jerk" where being a jerk was a good thing? Is being baaaad good? How can something be as "cold as hell?" Hmmmm

[davekelly]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Gumby4

QUOTE: Originally posted by ericboone

QUOTE: Originally posted by ereimer

you guys do realize they're making fun of us right ? the second jerk is the guy running the railroad .

i'll never buy bud again

Of course they're making fun of us. [:p] Learn to laugh at yourself.

Maybe you should tell that to AirTran Airlines..... When Bud did the "Mr. Discount Airline Pilot Guy" spot, AirTran had the Federal government all over AB. Even though AB pulled the ad, there are numerous lawsuits still pending.

I would be very interested in reading more about these lawsuits. As the ads are obviously paradies, I would have thought they'd be ok.

In a quick google I only found reference to AirTran kinda getting ticked and threatening to stop serving Bud on their flights.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/101dumbest/full_list/

[WSOR 3801]

QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley

Note, of course, my derogatory reference to "round-and-round." Anyone knows that the only true kind of auto racing is drag racing, which is point-to-point like "real" car trips. [:D]

I figured rallies are the true kind of racing. Point A to Point B, and you don't really know what is in the way.

Maybe this commercial is why the Bud beer reefers at the club keep derailing...[8]
Then again, I live near Milwaukee, the city that made beer famous.[;)]

I believe "Cool Jerk" is a dance move.

[Anonymous]

Funny, but true. Some people have entirely too much time and resources to do anything constructive. LOL

[Anonymous]

Rallies, road cources, drag and short ovals hold my attention far better than a big Nascar or Indy oval ever can. The biggest problem with rallies and roads is not being able to see all the action when watching in person from one place. But you can't beat sitting in one spot for hours on end paying $12 for a $0.75 beer or soda and hotdog wtching somethig go around and around or people kick, hit, throw or run a silly ball around. Or can You?
I just saw one of AB's Bud Light stupid office TV commecials and have to say the radio spots are 10 times better. Still my most memorable TV beer coms. are from the late '70s. I will allways remember the RaaaaaaaaaaaaaaY Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer BEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrr motocycle passing by on a road headed to Mt. Rainier. Or the "Where 'ya goi'n with all that beer?" Henry Wienhard's Smoky and the Bandit parodys. There used to be a SP mow water car spotted at Fields ( on the SP cascade crossing ) Some one placed a Bud Light sticker on one end covering the word "water" thus making it a "Bud Light car".

[MisterBeasley]

QUOTE: Originally posted by WSOR 3801
I figured rallies are the true kind of racing. Point A to Point B, and you don't really know what is in the way.

I actually thought about rallies when I wrote that, but they aren't really "racing" because the idea is to "make schedule," neither early nor late. More appropriate would be the "Cannonball Run" dashes across the country, which include avoiding speed traps and making bathroom breaks, just like real driving.

So, what is the thing about viola players, anyway? I play the guitar myself, but those bowed instruments are a total mystery to me. If someone will explain the viola thing, I'll post my really bad Milwaukee joke. Promise. (Or maybe I should promise not to post my really bad Milwaukee joke.)

[davekelly]

Mister Beasely,

Well, here's a viola joke that I heard. Please - I don't mean to offend anyone, but here goes. This is the condensed version.

A person is the last chair viola player in a small town orchestra. He finds a genie that will grant him 4 wishes. Wish number 1: I wish I was the first chair viola player in the Smalltown Orchestra. Poof he is the 1st chair viola player. Wish number 2. Way cool, now I wish I was the 1st chair viola player in the Midsizetown Orchestra. Poof he is the 1st chair viola player in that orchestra. Wish number 3. I wish I was the 1st chair viola player in the NY Phil. Poof he is the 1st chair viola player in that orchestra. Wish number 4. This is great! Now I wish I was an even better musician than the 1st chair viola player in the NY Phil! Poof - he's the last chair violin player in the Smalltown Orchestra. Or something like that.

I'll have to get more from the wife.

Try this:

http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/jokes/viola.html

[MisterBeasley]

OK, now for my part of the bargain.

Way back when the Braves used to play in Milwaukee, not Atlanta, they had a big starting pitcher named Melvin Famie. (Milwaukee is the home of Walthers, just to keep trains in here.) Starting pitchers then, as now, were still required to be at the games even when they were not scheduled to pitch, so Mel would show up, suit up and go out to the bullpen with a six-pack, knowing he had the day off. This was known around the whole league, so even when they were on the road everyone knew what to expect.

One long, hot summer day the Braves got themselves into one of those marathon road games, where both managers were constantly juggling lineups and putting in pinch-hitters in an effort to gain that little edge. Finally, the Braves managed to score a run in the top of the 18th inning, and they just had to hold on and get 3 more outs. Unfortunately, there was only one pitcher left, our friend Mr. Famie. Mel had pitched the night before, so he was tired to begin with, and after 17 1/2 innings he was down to his last can of beer. Still, when the call came, he tucked the half-finished 12-ouncer in his back pocket and walked to the mound.

His performance, the official scoresheet tells us, was less than spectacular. He had trouble finding the plate. (It's not in the official record, but fans remember that he had trouble even finding the pitchers' mound that day.) Anyway, he threw so many bad pitches that he loaded the bases, and eventually walked in both the tying and winning runs.

As the teams left for the locker room, one of the opposing players asked another, "Hey, what was that in Mel's back pocket?" His teammate replied, "That was the beer that made Mel Famie walk us."

[TrainFreak409]

Although slightly offended by the commercial...That was just too funny to not listen to twice.[:D] And I just couldn't resist downloading it...[:p]

So...Now I'm going to have to make a CD of songs and commercials so that I can play a "radio station" while model railroading...[^] Just need speakers...And a layout.

[Anonymous]

I love beer, though not Bud, but that's a great commercial.

[Benjamin Maggi]

Can someone who downloaded it burn it to a CD for me? I will pay for the cd and postage to mail it to me. I just don't know how to download it to my computer myself?

[tomikawaTT]

I'll raise a Heineken to that!

Or maybe a Coors, or a Singha, or a Miller, or a Sapporo, or...

I'm sure you get the idea. If you're trying to sell a product, showing a condescending or contemptuous attitude toward your potential consumer isn't clever. (Dare I say downright stupid?) My Marketing 101 instructor would have torn his hair out.

Chuck

[davekelly]

Ah, but if you pick on a small group, or a type of person that no one wants to be, everyone else will giggle and think it is great. Which of course makes it the product very popular. Of course I'm sure that the marketing folks did their homework and realized that even if all model rails got offended and boycotted Bud Light, it wouldn't impact it's sales that much.

While I have not heard all of them I have heard mr. foam finger inventor (a very very small group and besides, this guy is probably laughing all the way to the bank), mr. loud cell phone talker (no one will admit to being on of these), mr. train modeler (again, a small group). I doubt you'll ever hear them do mr. church goer, mr. divorced guy, mr. sports fan etc etc.

In any event, the commercial still cracks me up.

[Anonymous]

Thats good...but I still like the "Mr. 85 SPF sunblock wearer"

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley

OK, now for my part of the bargain.

<merciful SNIP>

, "That was the beer that made Mel Famie walk us."

Beasley,,, that was bad!!

[Anonymous]

I wonder whose layout that was? Someone fess up!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

It amazes me how much money AB spends on advertising .....perhaps if they just put it in their products......................................

[zgardner18]

Sorry, but I just had to bring this back.

[tomikawaTT]

Where's that wooden stake when we need it?

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - NOT drinking Bud)

[Teditor]

What really makes me laugh is the tremendous response this ad has created, just goes to show, it reaches out, anyone like a XXXX, that's the beer down heer! (yeah I know, spellings wrong, but it rhymes!)

Teditor 

[Southwest Chief]

So now that this is back...Was this ever real in the first place?  Did these ads ever run (radio)?  It seems too long for TV, but just about right for the normal full length radio ad.

I never heard it anywhere but through the link provided.  I figured I would have heard it once on the radio during a ball game or something.

I'd like to see a TV version.  You can almost picture the stereotypical train guy and his layout.  Would have been funny, but perhaps too niche a market.

[zgardner18]

 You know I've only heard other commercials like this that Bud Lite puts out, with different guys that are made fun of, but they where all on the radio.  I know that some guy did a clip but he was a Coors fan.

[bcawthon]

It's the most award-winning ad campaign in history and has been running for seven years (the model railroader version first aired in 2004). To date, there are over 100 of the "Real Men of Genius" spots and at least one is bound to apply to just about every man out there.

The concept was created in 1999 by an advertising copywriter named Bob Winter. The guy doing the background vocals is former Survivor lead singer David Bickler and the spots are read by Pete Stacker.

The spots are sufficiently popular that Bud Light offers a 3-CD set including a large number of them.

Most of the spots were a minute long, but the newer ones are 30 seconds because Clear Channel Communications wanted shorter commercials. Only a handful were produced for TV.

[Jake1210]

Oh my god!!! That's too rich!

[egmurphy]

Zak,

Thanks for bringing the thread back to life.  While I had heard the model train one before, I got another good chuckle out of it tonight.  But hey, I laugh at a lot of stuff.

I went to the site that has a lot of these commercials available as mp3 files.  Man, these are hysterical.  The Mr Discount Airline Pilot Guy (referenced earlier) is a hoot.  So are Mr Way Too Proud of Texas Guy (there are lots of those, so AB isn't exactly afraid of poking fun at groups more numerous than model railroaders), Mr Really Big Golf Club Maker, and Mr Enormous SUV Driver (yup, lots of them too), just to name a few.

The real men of genius are the ones who came up with these ads.  (Yeah, I know, jmho.  Your opinion may vary.)

Thanks

Ed

[conrail92]

Wow that was funny, never heard it before but glad I did.

[zgardner18]

Just the other day I heard "Mr. Cooler Roller Roller Cooler"  Never heard it until that day.  They are great.  You can listen to a lot of them on YouTube.com

[Medina1128]

I had a buddy send me this one last year, too. When I frequent one of my favorite chatrooms on AOL, you can play wav files. Whenever I come into the room.. someone ALWAYS plays it. They even renamed it after me, so the non-regulars know who it's directed at. Now, my nickname is "Choo-choo", but I like it.