Budweiser - Wassup

Classic Ads From Simpler Times

Is it getting any simpler pod-people? Is anything helping? How about time travel? Maybe that would do it…

Come with us back to 1999.

In 1999 all some of us had to deal with was deciding which party you were going to where you wouldn’t cop off. It was nailed on that at the turn of the millennium, wherever you ended up, some bloke was going to shout “Wassup” at you and your liver was going to end up looking like a beefburger.

Tones was probably at some soiree with Jennifer Love-Hewitt doing lines and chatting to Tom Kuntz about the gold pencil he won at the One Awards even as Rod Hull fell off the roof of his house with his hand up an emu’s arse.

There were ads and some of them were good and one of them had a hook that made it genetically impossible for men aged 18 – 24 not to shout it at each other when they were pissed.

Wassup with that Anheuser-Busch?

Have a listen to this episode and find out how the ad industry appropriated black youth culture to sell beer. Visuals on our YouTube channel here https://youtu.be/dTQkbJ350OQ.

Enya doesn’t sing in this one, which is disappointing frankly.

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