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We should've had a Gloria Estefan, Jon Secada, Ben Folds, Grace Slick performance, with Chad Thomas producing

Bud Light and Game of Thrones did one last year, but yeah, I'm surprised there aren't more combo ads, especially when you can maximize views/cost ratio

Maybe because today's Mckinsey analytics-driven world of trying to ensure every decision maximizes the most amount of value possible has sterilized any creativity, and you get lazy generic ads with cheap celebrity cameos, or even cheaper emotional heat?

Kinison's hologram doing any kind of car ad would be dark/morbid as ****, but also pretty hilarious if it featured him screaming

No, because they weren't offending anyone to begin with. Mean Joe, Apple 1984, Where's the Beef, Jordan vs Bird, Terry Tate, E-trade monkey, Budweiser frogs, this isn't exactly Sam Kinison or Don Rickles. And by pander, I meant pandering to any specific group, which encompasses both sides of the...

"PC Culture" doesn't really have anything to do with it; it's more about corporations trying to cultivate and maintain control over their "brand" so you end up with ads that are sterile, pandering, or just lazy. The legendary commercials weren't "edgy" in the PC sense unless you are so...