As Sunday turns into Monday and time allows for the additional digestion and review of Super Bowl commercials, Bud Light’s slapping ad has us laughing out loud this morning. When we viewed it during the game along with the insanity of the rest of the event, we didn’t have time to enjoy the very hilarious wink/nod embedded in that ad. You all, of course, remember the Agency.com YouTube video fiasco in which Tom Ajello’s fist bump became the signature of something…um…less than positive about the ad business. Well, wasn’t it hilarious to see that very same notion become the basis of the Bud Light Slapping ad in which a guy, in response to an offered fist bump, says, “Yo, Steve, fist bump is out man!”
After that, the commercial turns into a humorous slap-fest but the funniest part of the ad is the end when the old dude (ad exec? hmm) offers up a fist bump and says to the young dude, “Nice job in there, Larson. You saved the account” to which the young dude responds by slapping the old dude. There’s no way this commercial’s creative concepting occurred without mention of Agency.com and its famouos fist bump. Nice work, guys.
