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 didn’t watch the Super Bore but the commercial sounds like it was creative!
Michael Jackson used to own a good chunk of The Beatles catalog. He had to sell it before he died.
Michael Jackson used to own a good chunk of The Beatles catalog. He had to sell it before he died.
Nope, sorry.
Do local affiliates get to sell some ad time during the SB? Maybe it only showed in some local markets.
Much easier than selling it after he died.
How many beers did you have before halftime?
The Beatles have nothing to say about it, for two reasons.
First, they no longer own the copyrights to their songs; the copyrights were sold to Michael Jackson, and are now owned by his estate.
Second, a copyright owner of a song has no control over who records the song or what they do with it; songs (unlike, say, books) are subject to "compulsory licensing" under U.S. copyright law, meaning the copyright holder gets a fee when someone records the song, but can't decide who gets to record it.
I think I’ve heard other Beatles music in commercials but can’t recall which ones.
I just searched for it on Google and Youtube and couldn’t find it.
Sorry, nope. The only Beetles song in an ad I remember from the SB wa the Nancy Pelosi ad set to ‘Eleanor Rigby”.
Revolution was used in Nike commercials. The deal was with Michael Jackson who owned the rights at the time.
Anyway, when I mentioned the commercial, they looked at me like I had two heads. Then I asked my family and none of them remembered either. Now I wish I have DVR'd the game. I definitely would have done that had the Patriots been in it.
It's bizarre how things can get pulled off the internet without a trace these days.
You’re just joking around. No company makes enough money on slow cookers to spend millions on such a commercial.
Hmmmm. Well, if the people you’re talking to are in your town, they should have been watching it the same place you were. Weird.
Might have been a LOCAL commercial.
We had one here, that was a woman, who SAID she was a lottery winner, and just bought the ad to remind her husband to take out the trash.
It was, hilarious... but, I haven’t read ANYTHING about it, anywhere...
So how good a cook is your wife? Was it a dream?
(no, really.... sometimes they can seem so real!)
;-)
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