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Re: SNL 01-31-09: MacGruber Commercial??
My wife was more disturbed by how Richard Dean Anderson looked.
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Re: SNL 01-31-09: MacGruber Commercial??
I've seen the commercial a few times already since the Superbowl.
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Re: SNL 01-31-09: MacGruber Commercial??
I guess I don't get the idea in the first place -- "Pepsi, So good it's to die for" or Pepsi makes you Stupid like Pepsuber"
Neither interesting not remotely funny either as a SNL skit and certainly not the message I'd think you would want for a product.
It's like the new McDonalds Cafe commercials -- a bunch of morons pretending to like Fancy coffee, listening to jazz, and reading books now can dispense with the pretense and just return to stupid.
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Re: SNL 01-31-09: MacGruber Commercial??
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I guess the sketch is dead. They can't bring it back when it is now shilling for products.
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You are assuming that there is some sort of integrity on the part of TPTB. Plus, it behooves Pepsi to have their product linked with an ongoing sketch -- I don't think anyone at SNL considers McGruber dead and buried because of this.
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Re: SNL 01-31-09: MacGruber Commercial??
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My wife was more disturbed by how Richard Dean Anderson looked.
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Not near as bad as John Elway at the coin toss for the super bowl itself. Holy crap! Talk about the crypt keeper....
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Re: SNL 01-31-09: MacGruber Commercial??
I didn't think it was an ad until just now when I read this thread -- I saw it on Saturday, and then when I saw it during the Super Bowl, I just figured that Pepsi had worked something out with SNL.
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Re: SNL 01-31-09: MacGruber Commercial??
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Well, it was an actual ad. It wasn't part of the show. It aired during a commercial break. It was actually the second ad of the break too.
I'm sure many at home thought it was a sketch. But it wasn't. It was a commercial.
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All of that has already been established. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. McGruber is still property of SNL and there's no reason why the sketch won't come back (unless, perhaps, Forte leaves).
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Re: SNL 01-31-09: MacGruber Commercial??
I saw this during the SB. Neither my Mom or I thought it was remotely funny.
Even Patty and Selma would be appalled.
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