Green Police: Probably Coming For Me In My Sleep
Confession time: I did not watch the Super Bowl this last weekend. I know, I know - it was a deeply un-American thing to do. However, for a guy who wasn't born in the US-of-A, I figure I do enough 'Murican stuff (driving big cars, watching television, voting, complaining about voting, being entrepreneurial, and eating hamburgers) that I should be given a pass at least once a year.
However, just because I didn't watch the game doesn't mean that I missed out on the most American part of the spectacle: the commercials. And this year, thanks to the growing ubiquity of the internet, we were beaten to death with treated to previews of many Super Bowl ads online before they aired during the big game. Probably the most interesting of the bunch, for me, was Audi's odd "Green Police" campaign. These ads were previewed ad nauseum on the internet before the Super Bowl, causing a Jalopnik, among other blogs, to notice certain creative choices about the campaign that were totally fucking creepy a little off.
Didn't watch the game either? See the madness for yourself below.
And while the stumbling idiots who comment on YouTube videos good YouTube viewers have rated this video a miserable 3/5 stars at the time of this posting, I'm still pretty disheartened in the future of the human race to see that the Green Police channel has 417 followers.
Meanwhile, I can only hope to lure the Green Police helicopter into a high-speed pursuit.