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

[MeganC]

I didn’t watch the Super Bore but the commercial sounds like it was creative!

[SJSAMPLE]

Michael Jackson used to own a good chunk of The Beatles catalog. He had to sell it before he died.

[SJSAMPLE]

Michael Jackson used to own a good chunk of The Beatles catalog. He had to sell it before he died.

[workerbee]

Nope, sorry.

[Still Thinking]

Do local affiliates get to sell some ad time during the SB? Maybe it only showed in some local markets.

[freedumb2003]

Michael Jackson used to own a good chunk of The Beatles catalog. He had to sell it before he died.

Much easier than selling it after he died.

[Libloather]

How many beers did you have before halftime?

[Lurking Libertarian]

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.

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.

[Starstruck]

I think I’ve heard other Beatles music in commercials but can’t recall which ones.

[cripplecreek]

I didn't see it but I sure like this Mountain Dew ad.

Dale Call

[2ndDivisionVet]

I just searched for it on Google and Youtube and couldn’t find it.

[mrsmith]

Sorry, nope. The only Beetles song in an ad I remember from the SB wa the Nancy Pelosi ad set to ‘Eleanor Rigby”.

[Starstruck]

Revolution was used in Nike commercials. The deal was with Michael Jackson who owned the rights at the time.

[SamAdams76]

Maybe, but it's just weird nobody else saw it. It all started at work the next day when somebody asked me what my favorite commercial from the game was. The only one that stuck out for me was that crock-pot ad because my wife uses one all the time and also I had that "Slow Cooker/ Day Tripper" song stuck in my head on the way to work that morning.

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.

[SamAdams76]

Yes, so did I. Only videos coming up for crock pot was instructions on how to use one. I'm thinking the ad got completely pulled off the web because maybe they didn't get the right permissions to use the song or whatnot.

It's bizarre how things can get pulled off the internet without a trace these days.

[Kirkwood]

You’re just joking around. No company makes enough money on slow cookers to spend millions on such a commercial.

[Still Thinking]

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.

[SomeCallMeTim]

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...

[workerbee]

So how good a cook is your wife? Was it a dream?

(no, really.... sometimes they can seem so real!)

;-)