First it was "The Force" now come to "The Bark Side"

[silverspeedbuggy]

VW's 1 minute teaser for their Super Bowl commercial for this year:

[ej25Ti]

cute... but kinda stupid
first was much better

[ZorRtwice]

That reminds me of my favorite pickup line. "Come to the darkside, we have free cookies"

[speedingticket]

I hope it lives up to last year's...

[vordhosbn]

(01-19-2012 12:01 PM)speedingticket Wrote:  I hope it lives up to last year's...

I feel like it's an enormous inside joke that the entire nation's in on except me. Other than being plastered all over the media, what was so special, original, witty, about last year's commercial? I'm not hating, just genuinely curious.

[vdub10golf]

Ewok puppy...do want.

[ZorRtwice]

I hear they bite through stormtrooper armor

[silverspeedbuggy]

(01-19-2012 01:17 PM)vordhosbn Wrote:  I feel like it's an enormous inside joke that the entire nation's in on except me. Other than being plastered all over the media, what was so special, original, witty, about last year's commercial? I'm not hating, just genuinely curious.

I loved the commercial. My take is that it reminds people of being a kid and using your imagination. When you were a kid imagined things so well, you believed them. This kid was imagining so hard, he REALLY wanted to have The Force. When the car started, he thought he did it. That he actually HAD The Force. But it was just dad being goofy.

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I'm tying to match up the characters to the dogs.
Obvious:
- Darth Vader (black lab?)
- Storm Trooper (black and white boxer?)
- Ewok
- Leia (lower left)
- C-3PO (upper left, howling dog)
- Chewbacca

What's the chihuahua? Or the Weimerainer/brown dog in the middle back? I think the Pug might be R2D2, but not sure. The white one (Westie?) in front with the lightsaber I'm assuming is Luke, but he could be Obi Wan.

[vordhosbn]

(01-20-2012 02:50 AM)silverspeedbuggy Wrote:  

(01-19-2012 01:17 PM)vordhosbn Wrote:  I feel like it's an enormous inside joke that the entire nation's in on except me. Other than being plastered all over the media, what was so special, original, witty, about last year's commercial? I'm not hating, just genuinely curious.

I loved the commercial. My take is that it reminds people of being a kid and using your imagination. When you were a kid imagined things so well, you believed them. This kid was imagining so hard, he REALLY wanted to have The Force. When the car started, he thought he did it. That he actually HAD The Force. But it was just dad being goofy.

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I'm tying to match up the characters to the dogs.
Obvious:
- Darth Vader (black lab?)
- Storm Trooper (black and white boxer?)
- Ewok
- Leia (lower left)
- C-3PO (upper left, howling dog)
- Chewbacca

What's the chihuahua? Or the Weimerainer/brown dog in the middle back? I think the Pug might be R2D2, but not sure. The white one (Westie?) in front with the lightsaber I'm assuming is Luke, but he could be Obi Wan.

Thanks, I can understand that.

I'm guessing the chihuahua is Yoda.

[Vman455]

So, this is what--the setup for the actual commercial? But it will make sense anyway because they can't count on everyone in the Superbowl audience having seen this?