PLEASE! NO MORE!!! (Budweiser - Wassssup)

Member Name: neinel

Product:	Budweiser - Wassssup
Date:	05/10/00 (11 review reads)
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Advantages: An effective advertising campaign by Budweiser (it has certainly gripped the nation)

Disadvantages: Where do I start?

When I first saw this advert a few weeks ago, I found it mildly amusing but, now, I can't hold my self responsible for what I'll do to the next fool I hear growl 'wassssuuuuup'. I still don't understand the meaning behind the advert - that's presuming there even is a meaning. I'm amazed how quickly this term has slipped into everyone's vocabularies in the last couple of weeks. You can't go anywhere without this 'hilarious' catchphrase being slung around. Being subjected to the actual advert every day on TV is bad enough but I turned on Radio 1 last week and Chris Moyles was on. Guess what were the first words I heard him utter? You guessed it - "WAAAAASSSSSUUUUUUUUUUUP!!!!". To think that I tuned in at a completely random time (it was halfway through his show) and heard it instantly has scary implications. Then, I went bowling with my band and some other friends last sunday and we were placed, as luck would have it, in a lane adjacent to a group of blokes who only seemed to have one word in their vocabulary - "WAAAAASSSSSUUUUUUP!!". How the nation can be overwhelmed with such a pathetic and nonsensical advert is beyond me. You only need a mental age of four to understand the advert and how it can be interpreted as comedy is a mystery. When I first saw it, it made me smile because of the utter stupidity of it but I had no idea 'waaassssuuuup' would be adopted as a standard greeting everywhere you go. The fact that it used so much just takes away any fraction of humour it once possessed. The sooner it fades into obscurity and is replaced with an equally 'hilarious' Ali G catchphrase (e.g. 'Ayyyy, for real'), the better.

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