Posted on 02/18/2014 4:50:04 PM PST by SamAdams76
This has been bothering me since the Super Bowl. Maybe somebody can collaborate my story because nobody believes me.
During the second quarter of that game (maybe it was the first quarter but definitely before the half), there was a commercial for the crockpot set to the music of The Beatles song "Day Tripper".
Except the lyrics were changed around a bit with the chorus being "Slow Cooker" intead of Day Tripper.
People think I'm nuts and say that The Beatles would never allow one of their songs to be used to sell crockpots. But I'm telling you, that exactly what I saw.
Here's what I remember from that commercial...it starts out with a woman dressed in business clothing, hurriedly tossing vegetables like celery, carrots and potatoes into an empty crockpot, then laying chunks of raw meat on top, finally topping it all off with a savory sauce. She then put the lid on the crockpot, flips a switch and bounces out of there, like she was going to work for the day or something. During all this, the "Day Tripper" song is playing, only it wasn't "Day Tripper" for the lyrics went something like this:
Got a good reason...for taking the easy way out
Got a good reason...for taking the easy way out, now
She used a slow..... cooker, savory dinner, yeah!
It cooked so..... long and it was good, it was good,
It sort of went on like that for another verse as the woman left the kitchen and then suddenly the crock-pot comes alive and starts dancing wildly to the ending chorus:
Slow cooker
Slow cooker, yeah!
Slow cooker
Slow cooker, yeah!
I know I'm not nuts so in order to prove myself to my wife and family who don't believe me, please post here if you also saw this crock pot commercial set to the tunes of The Beatles' "Day Tripper."
I also searched all the websites that critiqued the Super Bowl commercials and nary a mention. So I'm thinking this was just a local commercial for a local station (I was in Boston during the game.)
I think people might be right.
Corroborate.
I thought that was “Fool on the Hill”?
Aw, Geez... I come here to get away from the crock pots.
I’m guessing it’s a local ad (even the Superbowl has time set aside for the local stations to get THEIR money). Probably got pulled because it wasn’t properly licensed.
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I watched “Alaska Highway Patrol” instead. I didn’t see a slow cooker, but I did see a dead moose on the side of the road.
Local markets have some time allotted for the SB. They appear no where but close to you in your local area. I thought the same thing about a car ad that was in Silsbee Tx. I said NO WAY they have the dough for this, but there it was.
I respectfully believe you are wrong. I live on Maui and during the Super Bowl , yes , there were the multi million dollar commercials , Budweiser , etc. but on some of the commercials were local Hawaii companies and they did their regular commercials that I’ve seen before, like Solar Companies and pavers etc. Now I know they did not pay millions of dollars to run their old regular commercials. Yet, they were on during super bowl time. Tell me how?
Hey fish hawk, how you been? They had local commercials here too.
Those are all local company advertisments. I don’t know of any slow cooker companies that are local or that would ever be allowed to buy local commercial time. Hamilton Beach, Rival, Crock Pot, etc. are all national or multi-national companies.
Doing fine, where you been Lurkin? lol. hope all is going well in your world. Maui is my home for what ever time I have left. Living up on the mountain side (Haleakala) in the Kula area on a small farm. Looing down on the rest of Maui and Molokai, Lanai, and Kohoolawe. God is good. Aloha
Still here in Humboldt. The Obamamessiah showed up in California to use the drought to his advantage and it’s been raining hard ever since.
Thank you.
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