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January 29, 2009

Whoa, Pepsi Figured Out The Internet

Look, an online Super Bowl party is lame. Period. Barack Obama could host it with Fleet Foxes as the house band and it would still be a sad drag. "Fun" and "buffering..." do not mix. But keeping it lo-fi and bloggy with Will Arnett and ANDY RICHTER? Just making casual, actually funny jokes and being understated yuck-em-ups? It's weird when major corporations stop being out-of-touch dinosaurs with antiquated ideas about "what the kids want" and start doing things that border on genuinely kind of "cool." It makes me nervous. The revolution will not be streaming in HD.

Thanks for the tip, Brian.

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Owara Jacksohn

holy shit! I actually can't believe I don't want to watch this.

Posted by: Owara Jacksohn profile link at 01/29/09 2:40 PM | Reply
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Actually it's not the corporations who choose "what the kids want," its advertising agencies.

Posted by: Sammy at 01/29/09 2:58 PM | Reply
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Gabe

Tell me more, Professor.

Posted by: Gabe profile link in reply to Sammy's comment at 01/29/09 3:00 PM | Reply
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It's actually not the advertising agencies, it's the individual employees that make up those agencies? Or is it the agencies who are hiring the employees? Or is it the BRANDS that are hiring the AGENCIES? I didn't watch Synecdoche, NY for nothing.

Posted by: BradOFarrell profile link in reply to Sammy's comment at 01/29/09 3:22 PM | Reply
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Jeb

three very sad words: online superbowl party.

Posted by: Jeb profile link at 01/29/09 3:56 PM | Reply
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skids

will arnett > the steelers no matter what

Posted by: skids profile link at 01/29/09 4:18 PM | Reply
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What is this superbowl of which you speak? NO CARe1!11

Posted by: Beefy profile link at 01/29/09 4:41 PM | Reply
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grace6697

"Look, an online Super Bowl party is lame. Period. Barack Obama could host it with Fleet Foxes as the house band and it would still be a sad drag."

^

what else is left to say on the internet really?

Posted by: grace6697 profile link at 01/29/09 4:56 PM | Reply
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Carrie

I half expected him to close with, "ANYWAY, PEPSI." The end.

Posted by: Carrie profile link at 01/29/09 6:15 PM | Reply
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wow, i agree 100% with all of the letters you typed. ALSO, i had the benefit of not reading this until after SNL with the MacGruber ads-WHOA PEPSI?!

Posted by: tough titties turkleton profile link at 02/01/09 4:16 AM | Reply
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