Did anybody else see the "Slow Cooker" Commercial during the Superbowl?

[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.)

[Still Thinking]

Yeah, but you’d think you’d still find people talking about it. They can’t pull THAT, either legally or practically.

[TigersEye]

Those little cocktail weenies are good but they give you strange dreams. ;^)

[Vroomfondel]

I’ve been occasionally seeing ads lately for some Campbell’s slow cooker sauces (plunk meat and the sauce in the cooker, set it and forget it), but I don’t recall what music they’re using.

[SamAdams76]

So far, these replies aren’t helping! Now I’m thinking I ingested a bad ice cube that night or something.

[deport]

Google gives you a lot of websites with super bowl ads. One had over a 100 or more
so you may find it there. Howeveer don’t forget some of these ads maybe run regionally
or even local.

[yarddog]

I didn’t watch the super bowl but I have seen that ad somewhere.

Actually I think I did watch it for a minute or two while channel surfing.

[Tanniker Smith]

Rights can be had for a song these days! (ha!)

Frankly, the head-scratcher for me is the commercial featuring the theme from "Underdog", which I've seen a few times now, and I still don't remember what it's for -- sneakers, I think, but I don't know whose, or why they want to portray themselves as underdogs. People may like to root for the underdog, but they're generally in a poor place in sports.

[Dave W]

Uhhmm, I don't recall any such commercial and those types of products don't advertise on the Super Bowl - not a $4 million for 30 seconds. USA Today has a list of all the commercials, but I don't know how to post a link.

http://admeter.usatoday.com/story/sports/ad-meter/super-bowl/final-results/2014/02/03/ad-meter-story-final-ad-meter-rankings/5173807/

[Usagi_yo]

Michael Jackson owned a large portion of the Beatles Music, but he Hocked it to CBS and probably has lost it now.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"I think perhaps you're confusing it with a dream you might have had."

[Kirkwood]

Sony currently owns the rights to the Beatles songs.

[edzo4]

The TV station it aired on would have a record of it in thier spot log. They have every commercial tracked so they can properly bill the advertisers.

[rfp1234]

Weird Al Jankovic’s MJ parody “Eat it!” still cracks me up 30 years later.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

I still have the super bowl on DVR. Would you like me to check?

[workerbee]

Well, as a last resort, you might call the Rival Company and ask them if they did a commercial.

(that is, if you’re sure Rival is the one who did the ad... the own the rights to the trademark CrockPot, but there are other “slow cooker” makers out there).

[mykroar]

[KarlInOhio]

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.

That sounds like it may have been by the state lottery.

[Mike Darancette]

Don’t know if this qualifies but people like “Weird Al” Yankovic have made a good living doing song parodies.

[Usagi_yo]

Yes, Sony, not CBS, my bad.

[InvisibleChurch]

No, but your thread shows up in a google search.