What do you guys think about that Budweiser commercial that plays at game breaks which has 3 white guys dressed like getto boys and 3 black guys dressed in clean attire? The white boys are strutting down the block jeering at women and the two groups encounter each other at the corner, carrying the beer. They look at each other as if to say "what the heyl", and it ends with the black guys cracking up at the situation. So I ask you, wht the heyl is up with this lame brain commercial. Frankly it pis-es me off. It's stupid. I'll comment more later, but the game is on, and I must go... Really, can anyone make sense of this?
Ok, commercial time....hehe. Frankly, no matter how you look at this commercial, it's racial stereotyping to me. I think the main focus was supposed to be that whatever you are, the beer is good for everyone. Whatever. It appears to me that the common thought stereotype image was reversed in this case, but still, it sucks.
I've been waiting for a thread about this commercial. My question is this. Does any sensible person out there not think that the white guys look ridiculous? People from all over the racial map make fun of people who dress like that...for good reason.
Frankly, what gets me is the fact that the black guys are cracking up at the white guys. It would suck just the same if the white guys were cracking up at the black guys, but what is the point to begin with? I can maybe see a point in that both images are drastically different, and that the two coming together with the same taste in beer, is.......I guess...... "True"...but it would have been a little better if the two groups would have exchanged nice words, or complimented each other's taste, or ANYTHING but freaking laugh at the other group. What crap.
I saw that commercial yesterday and the whole laughing thing does seem mean spirited. They should pull it.
Beer commercials are sometimes degrading to women. Should that be an equally offensive issue as well?
Sure. I can see that. But that doesn't make the other commercial any more valid or acceptible. I'll never buy Budweiser again, even if I bought beer in the first place...
I haven't bought Butt-wiper since the 80s. If you are going to drink a beer, drink a good one (Shiner, St. Arnolds, Guiness, etc.).
They had another one with 2 white guys and a black guy watching a black stand-up comic on TV doing what I can only suppose was meant to be black comedy. The black guy is laughing his ass off and the 2 white guys are looking at him like he's crazy. Then, they do the stupid True slogan. It seems they are on an ad campaign of doing racially-tinged comic ads. I thought it was a bit offensive. Is it a trend of some sort? There's also an older commercial still playing in which a black guy walking his Komondor can't enter a bar with his dog. He puts the dog on his head like it were his dreads and goes in pretending to be rastafarian or Jamaican. It didn't use race like the True commercials do, but it did employ race in establishing the joke. Why can't we get back to bikini-clad women in beer commercials?
True Although the guy making the toast at the wedding is pretty funny. He's talking about how the groom has been with so many women.
I can't believe you guys are taking beer commecials, possibly the lowest form of media in existence, so seriously.
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Surely, you jest. I don't think there has ever been an industry that has put more effort into their advertising than the beer industry. Given the resources that are devoted to marketing beer, I don't think it strange to spend 5 minutes talking about how they screwed up.
Yeah, the comedy commercial was at least understandable, the jokes obviously related to black folk, and the white guy didn't get it-but they were drinking the same beer. I don't think it's as bad as the original one I listed, but I can see the trend in race going on here. The one with the dog made me laugh, sorta reminded me of Moochie..
Budweiser, being that it is a lower-end product, is just marketing towards the (ofte poorer) urban, hip-hop market. For another example, see McDonalds. I doubt they care about what affluent white guys think because they probably don't drink that crap, anyway.
Regardless, the crap is on everyone's TV, and I'm sure it isn't helping with race relations. What are we supposed to think of that commercial? You end up with a group of black guys cracking up and laughing at a group of white guys. If this wasn't a race based commercial, why not have all white guys or all black guys, or better yet, a mix of both in each group? It reminds me of idiotic acts of the high school kind, only advertized for adults.. Either way, it's stupid and tasteless.
