Speaker 1: Today Versus.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the weekend. It's Saturday.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for being here with us. Today,
Speaker 3: we're gonna switch th eggs up. Oh I'm very excited
Speaker 3: because yeah, we're doing a special edition of Today Versus
Speaker 3: Back in the Day, all about Super Bowl commercial Yeah right,
Speaker 3: and even the way we play is gonna change because
Speaker 3: here's how it's gonna work. I'm gonna ask Alexis three
Speaker 3: questions from nineteen ninety Super Bowl commercials.
Speaker 4: Okay, we're gonna see what her score is.
Speaker 3: And then she's gonna ask me questions about commercials from.
Speaker 4: The last decade. Are you ready? Because we all know
Speaker 4: that the commercials are the best part.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I meant one.
Speaker 4: I mean before Taylor Swick entered the arena.
Speaker 2: That's exactly crazy y Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna start with a nineteen ninety five commercial Alexis,
Speaker 3: and it introduced to us one of the.
Speaker 4: Biggest ad icons of the nineties.
Speaker 3: Like I distinctly remember seeing this commercial for the first time.
Speaker 3: I was sitting on the floor of my parents house
Speaker 3: and immediately started mimicking it.
Speaker 4: I think everybody did.
Speaker 3: I mean, the ad icons were used in The Simpsons
Speaker 3: and Casper Robot Chicken. A tribe called Quest even sampled
Speaker 3: the sound of this commercial for one of their songs. Okay,
Speaker 3: so here's the trick. I'm gonna play you only five
Speaker 3: seconds of the ad. After you hear it, I want
Speaker 3: you to tell me what was the advertisement for? Okay, Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, here we go. Here's your five seconds.
Speaker 2: Frogs? Are they burping? Are they saying something? Do you
Speaker 2: know it? Jose?
Speaker 1: If you don't know it now, you're probably not.
Speaker 4: But no, no, I.
Speaker 5: Think are they saying bud like because it didn't Budweiser.
Speaker 5: They usually do clydes Dale's, but they've also done frogs
Speaker 5: and I'm doing Budweiser.
Speaker 2: Are they saying.
Speaker 4: Play the frogs? O?
Speaker 1: Good world? Wouldn't stop doing it?
Speaker 3: Me?
Speaker 1: My friends in class wise it was so fun too.
Speaker 5: I can cash on to what they're saying, and then
Speaker 5: I'm like, all at one point on the board for
Speaker 5: a Lexi commercial, we're going.
Speaker 3: Into the second nineteen nineties Super Bowl commercial. And you know,
Speaker 3: there's been multiple occasions where some of these ads have
Speaker 3: gotten so big that they actually inspire movies.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I didn't realize that.
Speaker 3: And one of the most successful of all of these
Speaker 3: jumps from commercial to movie happened with a commercial in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety three. Now, I'm not gonna play you any
Speaker 3: of the audio yet until you answer.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: It was the first time ever this animated character was
Speaker 3: ever featured with this specific celebrity. Okay, I want you
Speaker 3: to either tell me the name of the two people
Speaker 3: in the commercial one's a character, one's a person, or
Speaker 3: the movie they inspired.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 5: What first comes to my head because I'm trying to
Speaker 5: think of animated characters is I think Bugs Bunny okay?
Speaker 2: And then or just Looney Tunes in general.
Speaker 5: And then I'm like, oh my god, yes, because Space Jam.
Speaker 2: Wait. I haven't actually seen the movie, but I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure the.
Speaker 5: Couple a cover, isn't it, Like it's Michael Jordan and
Speaker 5: Looney Tunes, right, Space Tub No.
Speaker 4: That could be a really good jen Z versus classic movie.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I haven't, but I know, like Lola Bunny
Speaker 5: because everyone dresses her for Halloween.
Speaker 2: Now, so that's how I kind of know. You don't
Speaker 2: know Bugs Bunny, but I don't know all the characters.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go it made the movie Space Jam. Oh right,
Speaker 2: Alexis play the class.
Speaker 1: Yay, wow, of course you know means war.
Speaker 2: Jordan and.
Speaker 6: Would you expect amazing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, got either. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Idea was Hair Jordan versus Air Jordan, and it's a
Speaker 3: very end. Bugs says, this could be the beginning of
Speaker 3: a beautiful friendship, and then they go on to make
Speaker 3: movie after movie.
Speaker 5: Guy's crazy so iconic. I haven't even seen it and
Speaker 5: I still know it.
Speaker 2: Let's take it. They're so hardful. Okay, so good.
Speaker 3: You got two points on the board and we're down
Speaker 3: to the very last question. We're gonna actually cheat a
Speaker 3: little bit because this is actually from the year two thousand. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I want to set the scene. The Saint Louis
Speaker 3: Rams are playing the Tennessee Titans. The halftime show was
Speaker 3: Disney theme. There was Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Glecias.
Speaker 4: Tony Braxton on the stage.
Speaker 3: Okay, right, but ad lovers say that the best spot
Speaker 3: of the entire show, perhaps ever made, was done by
Speaker 3: a company called EDS, which was a multi national information
Speaker 3: technology equipment company.
Speaker 4: All right, okay, they.
Speaker 3: Are exactly exactly so they decided to use cowboys.
Speaker 4: Listen to the ad.
Speaker 6: I'm living a dream.
Speaker 1: Not everyone can do what we do.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't do nothing else.
Speaker 3: It ain't an easy job.
Speaker 4: But when you bring a herd into town and ain't
Speaker 4: lost to one of them, they ain't a feeling like
Speaker 4: in the world.
Speaker 3: So alexis they are cowboys that are hurting something.
Speaker 4: Can you tell me what they're hurting?
Speaker 5: Oh? Wow, okay, it's a tech company, you said, yeah.
Speaker 3: And people were like amazed at how they simply described
Speaker 3: what they did by using this analogy way.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, little microchips? Are you hurting? Like little microchips
Speaker 2: running around?
Speaker 5: Like imagine like cinnamon toast crunch like a mascot, a
Speaker 5: microchip running? Oh what do they call it on your computer?
Speaker 5: When you get like cookies on your computer? Like if
Speaker 5: they're hurting, well, cookies doesn't go with cowboys.
Speaker 2: I guess that's good to think it outside the bar.
Speaker 2: They're hurting. Let's go the cute little microchips. That's what
Speaker 2: I'm made, a microchips.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry, that is not correct.
Speaker 3: You could have heard it in the background if you
Speaker 3: were listening closely. Tell us what they were hurting.
Speaker 5: This man right here is my great grandfather, who's the
Speaker 5: first cat herder in our family.
Speaker 3: I'm hurting cats.
Speaker 1: Don't let anybody tell you it's easy.
Speaker 2: I see.
Speaker 4: Holding together ten thousand half while short hairs.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's some other thing altogether.
Speaker 1: And if you can hear a guy sneezing in the
Speaker 1: first clip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sneezing and I missed it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a great commercial. And the best thing
Speaker 3: about today's podcast is in the show notes of the podcast,
Speaker 3: we're actually going to include a link so you can
Speaker 3: go watch all the commercials that we're talking about today.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, all right, there is.
Speaker 2: You got two points on the board, and it's your turn.
Speaker 4: It's my turn. If people have the patience to wait
Speaker 4: through this, you better all.
Speaker 2: Right, you better stick around. We're getting more current, now,
Speaker 2: more correct what we got. All right. We are gonna
Speaker 2: start with a catchy commercial.
Speaker 5: Okay, weird, quirky, catchy. It played for Super Bowl fifty.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna play it for you first, and then you
Speaker 5: need to tell me what company it was for. All right, Okay,
Speaker 5: here we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, mooky baby Baby, open, mokey Baby.
Speaker 3: My goodness, pumpy monkey Baby, pumpy monkey.
Speaker 2: So you guys can't see it.
Speaker 5: It's a puppy head, a monkey torso and a dancing
Speaker 5: baby hipping legs and a diaper walking around her room
Speaker 5: with three guys who are too tired to get off
Speaker 5: their couch.
Speaker 2: Oh long, I remember it, yeah, And what were they?
Speaker 4: Puppy bunky baby.
Speaker 3: I mean, the baby makes me think of e trade
Speaker 3: because of the trade, baby, puppy monkey, I feel like
Speaker 3: you're trying to remember something, puppy monkey baby. Is it
Speaker 3: a commercial for hallucinogenic drugs?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: Kay, that's what you'll see.
Speaker 3: God, I think that I'm just gonna go with the
Speaker 3: only babies I.
Speaker 4: Know each raid.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to play you the answer Brook.
Speaker 1: Mountain to kickstart juice caffeine.
Speaker 2: So kickstart.
Speaker 5: They wanted you to remember three awesome things mixed together.
Speaker 5: A puppy, a monkey, a baby equal to do juice
Speaker 5: and caffeine that are now.
Speaker 1: It's funny because everyone remembers.
Speaker 4: So the ad people were on drugs.
Speaker 2: I mean, Mountain makes sense.
Speaker 4: It all makes sense.
Speaker 2: Okay, day, I need to get the next two right
Speaker 2: to tie. Alexis flashback though.
Speaker 5: You hear it and you're like, yeah, try to give
Speaker 5: you a hit that there's three guys on the couch
Speaker 5: that were too tired to get up.
Speaker 4: So it's like the caffeine I get taken. Ol. All right,
Speaker 4: give me the next one.
Speaker 2: Next up.
Speaker 5: So we're going to talk about when I looked it up.
Speaker 5: It's considered a Super Bowl ad that changed everything. Okay, okay,
Speaker 5: it was back in twenty eleven when Volkswagen posted their
Speaker 5: ad on Wednesday before the.
Speaker 3: Game, the first one to do it. And now we
Speaker 3: see them all like, I'm so sad that I've already
Speaker 3: seen the Jennifer Aniston, David Swimmer, Victoria Becca.
Speaker 1: Yes, the paramount one is not so funny.
Speaker 5: I mean other people did it because they racked up
Speaker 5: seventeen million views before kickoff. Wow, it was the most
Speaker 5: shared and it's still the most shared ad of all time.
Speaker 4: WHOA, And it paid.
Speaker 5: For itself before the game and earned more than six
Speaker 5: hundred thousand in free media for them. Wow, by sharing
Speaker 5: it on Wednesday before. And it's all based around someone
Speaker 5: dressed up as a famous character. And I need you
Speaker 5: to tell me what famous movie character.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. Oh, it's a Volkswagen ad.
Speaker 4: And they were dressed up like a famous movie character.
Speaker 2: It's what made the ad so iconic.
Speaker 3: Is Volkswagon, so you're gonna want to be like they're
Speaker 3: all about family love and flower vases in their car. Yea.
Speaker 3: So maybe they were dressed up as like like the
Speaker 3: grateful dead guy what's his name?
Speaker 4: Like a hippie, you know, like that.
Speaker 3: Could be why would you be dressed But you'd be
Speaker 3: dressed up as a character, not as a celebrity, because
Speaker 3: then you'd have to pay.
Speaker 1: The celebrity slug bugs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but what's it, there's no famous bugs Bugs. It's
Speaker 3: bugs Bunny again. Oh wait, what if it dressed up
Speaker 3: as a Transformer?
Speaker 1: Does that counts?
Speaker 4: The car would transform?
Speaker 1: There's a movie every couple of years.
Speaker 3: And Michael Bay made the Volkswagen commercial I'm gonna go Transformer.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm gonna play you the clip Darth Vader.
Speaker 5: You were you're getting there?
Speaker 4: It was Darth Vader.
Speaker 5: So it was a kid pretending to use the force
Speaker 5: on everything in the commercials.
Speaker 4: Do you remember with the door?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, he was on everything.
Speaker 5: At the end the dad unlocks the car from far
Speaker 5: away because that must have been New.
Speaker 2: Twenty eleven, I don't know. And the kid thought he
Speaker 2: made the car start.
Speaker 3: That was probably before Disney, but you know, Wars franchise,
Speaker 3: and they didn't have to pay him.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm not gonna win, but asked the last question anyway.
Speaker 2: Last one? Maybe you know this one.
Speaker 5: In twenty seventeen, bud Light aired a medieval themed commercial
Speaker 5: called Banquet, and it turned a phrase into a cultural phenomenon.
Speaker 5: When they go to cheers their bud Lights in this commercial,
Speaker 5: what do they say?
Speaker 1: Yes, I know it?
Speaker 2: What do they say?
Speaker 3: It was? You know what's so annoying is that my
Speaker 3: husband still says what's up?
Speaker 4: What's up? And I'm like, dude, what that is so obnoxious?
Speaker 4: That is so dated and people don't.
Speaker 1: Get it anymore. No, it's literally random. They're like, what
Speaker 1: is that?
Speaker 4: We are twenty years past that. In the world of
Speaker 4: Super Bowl commercials.
Speaker 1: I remember one of my friends creating a Fortnite account.
Speaker 1: We named him after this saying because it was so
Speaker 1: popular at the time, we thought it was never gonna die.
Speaker 4: God, I'm terrible at this game. We're terrible.
Speaker 2: Questions cheers.
Speaker 3: Oh it's something obnoxious, something obnoxious because it's like, what's up?
Speaker 4: But it's not in your head.
Speaker 1: We're getting some final answer.
Speaker 4: I'm going with.
Speaker 6: The commercials, Sir Jeremy, you are a true friend of
Speaker 6: the Crown. Dilly dilly. You are an even truer friend
Speaker 6: of the Crown. Dilly dilly.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I blocked that because I had an
Speaker 3: ex boyfriend I hated who would always say, what's the dilly?
Speaker 3: And I like.
Speaker 2: Block one. Oh, you are the true champion of the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl commercials.
Speaker 4: Alexis, there's your fun.
Speaker 2: Will link them so you guys can go watch yeah
Speaker 2: again Wi Yeah.
Speaker 4: The link will be in the show notes.
Speaker 3: You can share all your super Bowl commercial knowledge now
Speaker 3: that you have tomorrow at the game. Hey, be safe,
Speaker 3: eat good food, drive safely, or just call an uber
Speaker 3: if you need to.
Speaker 4: And you know, go team you're.
Speaker 2: Rooting for and Taylor.
Speaker 4: It's barking Jeffrey in the morning.