Pepsi Commercial - SNL 

Business student here: there's also the phrase "no such thing as bad publicity" it got everyone talking about Pepsi, reinforcing the brand in people's heads

@@dansmith6990 yeah i see it i dont want to buy it nasty haha

Finance student here, this ad in particular is always part of a business class assignment on what not to do in an ad. I'm actually watching this as part of an assignment

There is outrage marketing which is always used by the Kardashians, it sells a lot of products for them.

I'm thinking "I'm thirsty, I need a drink", the first thing that pops in my head and tastes nice is probably going to win, no matter how it got to the top of the list, unless it's made by actual nazis or something.

His acting deserves an Oscar

i couldnt stop laughing when he stays silent while his sister is explaining why its a bad idea haha

@@chrisgasseling1633 noticed his body sagged a little as he was listening, and you don't need verbal explanation to know what's going on!

Especially when he looks down in shame. 👌💯

Dude ! He totally nailed it !

Mr. Obama what are you doing here??

By killing off all racial minorities with diabetes.

@@emordnilap4747 thats one way to do it!

@@emordnilap4747 too true

Don't they kill themselves by a lack of selfcontrol and eating too much? Causing diabetes. America's Food System is fucked anyway.

Thought that was Bebe Rexha

@@lastsonshine that’s def Cecily. The description even says so, if you can’t tell by her being her.

Seeing this woman being portrayed as extremely racist feels extremely funny!

Crazy the Kim Kardashians hosting this week

@@brycmtthw I think they meant that they thought it was SUPPOSED to be Bebe Rexha. they know it's Cecily.

LOL

Teeam Bird it's bad advertising. It's only good if the product was unknown for millions of people anyway, but you need to live under a rock or deep in the jungle to not know pepsi or coke.

fidorover Got everyone to watch it and talk about it 100% So no matter how cringe worthy it was, it worked 😉

The Free Hobo evanska the point isn't to get ppl to watch the commercial its for them to buy the soda..... if the ad is offending people, they dont buy the product..

still a watered down version of coke

Comic genius!

I know that was my favorite part 😂

Like the Lexus December to remember skit with beck and chalamet

"Run to my car ? "

@@noodlemaker4719 🤣

My favorite part. 😆

It's heavily implied that it is her on the line.

I guess she was busy

Thank god she wasn't...talking about stereotypes..she loves to perpetuate them...

@@aiai-j7i What do you mean?

@@shandiwarren6454 angry black woman stereotype

Should be asian AMERICAN

@@benblexbenblex why not just Asian, I don't think the commercial was specifically set in America. The issue I see is mostly just that 'asian culture' is a weird idea, as opposed to Chinese, Japanese or whatever

@@patrickbeart7091 i think he was joking

Cello is European instrument idk how it is Asian culture but ok

Being an Asian cello player, this spoke to me

I agree when he's acting seriously he's just as good as Cecily who I think is the best like, genuine actor on snl

This skit was somewhat repeated two nights ago with Beck again and it was really good

His expressions alone are hilarious xD

This is actually one thing that Beck has been doing for a long time, check out GoodNeighborStuff on youtube, it's where they started sketch comedy.

@@DoubleE5135 what sketch was this?

They'd be stupid

It would start another riot specifically against pepsi

Mark coca cola would appreciate it

I would buy pepsi if they did that

I work for pepsi and i can tell you they REALLY focus on pride month instead of what was happening in the US

HeikkiP that's what I say about most commercials

John Egan Well, sometimes commercials aren't for soda

Jakub Neustadt really??? You just changed my entire perspective on commercials. Thanks man

It's supposed to make the product relevant and make everyone talk about it.

macho bambo Well the product is a sugary drink

Liz Mitchell yeah Devil’s Haircut is a great song

Liz Mitchell and HOT!!!!! I’m I the only one who think he’s super handsome like in a mix of Ryan Gosling and Robert Downey Jr.

I’m not sure how much higher you’d want him to be rated at this point. He’s on SNL and plays every male voiceover and he’s in almost as many sketches as Kenan. He needs to be in movies for sure.

He’s great

@@nebulousisgod thats what he means, his fame cant just be limited to snl, he should be in more movies or shows

Coke is better

@@deadchannel_1 they taste the damn same.

@No Sanctuary I know that’s why Coke is better. Coke cane first, Pepsi is literally the most popular off-brand of Coke.

@@deadchannel_1 one can't be objectively better if the product is literally the same in make up. If you like red more than blue and that's why you like coke, that's okay and that's your opinion. But one isn't objectively better.

@No Sanctuary yeah if you look at it like that. But if the majority has one opinion I’d say that’s the closest to fact you can get with that. No one goes to a restaurant and specifically asks for a Pepsi. They say “Can I get a Coke?” Screw Pepsi and it’s trashy attempts at relevancy. In this situation I literally refuse to say my opinion isn’t fact. The majority of people who like Pepsi only like it just so they can be a special snowflake. But my favorite color is red soooo. Pepsi sucks. And just to be clear, this is right here is mainly about the brand not the taste.

Like a fine wine

Expressions & phrases such as _“This aged well”_ and _“This didn’t age well”_ are losing meaning.

@@donion2122 agreed. I’m so sick of it, but glad people aren’t blathering out ‘at the end of the day’ as much. But the words ‘problematic’ ‘transparent’ anything ‘phobic’ all need to be cycled out of rotation from overuse.

@@lollipopsfordays3610 How about _literally_ ? Others: • _could_ care less VS *_couldn’t_* care less • _hopefully_ VS *_I hope_* • _here’s/there’s_ VS *_here’re/here are_* (plurals) • _it’s_ VS _its_ (and vice versa) • _conscience_ VS _conscious_ • _father_ VS _further_ • _breathe_ VS _breath_ • would/could/should *_of_* VS •would/could should *_have_* • _quote_ VS _quotation_ • _specially_ VS _especially_ • _apart_ VS _a part_ • _lose_ VS _loose_ • _who’s_ VS _whose_ • _either_ VS _neither_ • _borrow_ VS _lend_ • _effect_ VS _affect_ (understandably mixed up)

@@lollipopsfordays3610 tbh at the end of the day everyone in this day and age is so problematic. Everyone is so homophobic and transparent to the important issues.

Deadstar: The Animated Series Who the hell is Beck Bennett?

Erin Sullivan --I'm assuming it's the director? The guy in yellow?

Dude you gay?

good acting exists and counts in sketches and comedies

with your dad

I'd run too. But I also wouldn't be dumb enough to write something so stupid!

@@thelostpadawan6109 A lot of times people don't realize their vision sucks until they tell someone or put it into practice, and overhyping your own ideas happens a lot. I wouldn't blame him for coming up with the idea, but I do think someone's responsible for seeing the ad and still deciding it was a good idea to run.

Hey, it probably looked really good on paper.

I thought she said *hitting* them *with* Pepsi.

@@LoganWH8 thats what I heard 🤣

@@LoganWH8 and they've got bags of soup-- I meeeean cans of pepsi

@@abbywolffe4114 "It's Pepsi for my family"

@@sledzeppelin somehow that is way funnier

Or a Snickers bar. Maybe he wasn't himself because he was just hungry.

that's the commercial I want to see

G_Man Pepsi wasn't born yet at that time.

That's why WWII happened.

Howard Tan. And there haven't been anymore World Wars since then. Coincidence? I think not. Thank you Pepsi.

Alph4Monkey good eye!

@@kofi9212 ears*

wow good point!

The next logical step? "I'm shooting myself in my apartment."

"I'm shooting a black man"

Year 2 of boycotting Pepsi for their ad boycott of youtube creators. 20 lbs lighter... Just by not drinking pepsi.

Foreal someone put so much effort into that commercial and really thought it would be something profound

It's especially head-scratching when you realize how many people and committees these ads have to go through before getting approved. Like, nobody said anything?

@@hutch1197 THATS WHAT I SAID. Like how many people do you think worked on that ad? Like Atleast somewhere close to 100? Not one person said “this is a terrible idea” 😂

@@hypothalapotamus5293 am drinking diet pepsi. I also am 20 lbs lighter.

W. OHara Priceless it was just dull

+W. OHara Exactly what I thought! Doesn't seem likely, but...

yeah... actors can do that

W. OHara Was looking for this comment. I was like wtf is Michael Moore doing hahahah

Yeah, that's not Michael Moore.

“What would you do if you were me?” Uh huh? “Just run to my car?”

@The Cornered Fanatic you may not be dumb, but taking advantage of people is basically what those companies do

@@TheMijman 😂

@JACKSON ERNST no, they are just making fun of it.

@JACKSON ERNST of the original commercial

Pepsi made the commercial first. SNL didn't predict it, this skit is just making fun of the actual Pepsi commercial.

I love it! This is now part of my headcanon. I propose the following timeline: 2017: Events of "Pepsi Commercial." Beck is later fired and loses all clout in the ad industry. Over the next two years he is forced to take jobs at smaller, less reputable ad firms. Alcoholism begins. 2019: Beck is fired in March after a string of bad ads and missed deadlines due to his increasing alcoholism. His reputation is now so bad he can't get hired anywhere, let alone at an ad agency. 2020: Events of "December to Remember." This is the final straw that leads Heidi to divorce him. (And possibly begin dating Mikey.) 2021 or later: Events of "Boop-It." Heidi sues for full custody after Beck gets drunk and neglects his kids while playing "Boop-It."

Joe Capo wat

Joe Capo omg joe capo is here

Yes, coca-cola stocks go up thanks to this ad :D

Vyrkhan its pepsi. Lol

fucking idiot it's dr pepper

dandanthetaximan no they just didn't think this world was filled with so many sensitive bitches 😂

Mr.Stranger lmao fr the Toyota isis commercial is still my fav tho

Mr.Stranger that was a really good one

@dandanthetaximan i was your 1k like!!@

I haven't seen that one...I'll do it right now lol

yes and i need more of these

Yep!

Yeah Beck is perfectly hilarious in this role.

My comment on that video saying this is the sequal has 700 likes and I don't deserve that 😂

Indeed. The first thing I did after was search SNL pepsi

Three words: Take me back - look it up.

ClownyGuyToo Yasss so true

ClownyGuyToo Seriously low IQ clueless dolts must be in advertising these days, how could this idiotic commercial get by at all, dumbasses!

true........that would be great

Yeah, a SNL United Airlines commercial . . . board as a doctor, leave as a patient.

10 years from now people will learn about the Pepsi commercial watching this skit!

Something "ages poorly" if it started out well-received. The commercial was hated upon arrival. If anything, it's aging fantastically as something everyone points to as the pinnacle of self-serving woke corporate advertising. Just read the comments, people teach about it in schools now. It will age legendarily.

It was dead on arrival. It was reviled on arrival. It was dog shit on the doorstep of America. WTF Pepsi.

In fact, the comments section of RU-vid is how I found out this was a real ad (which I’ve now watched on RU-vid); what’s interesting is how the commercial’s music informed a Russian ‘Rage’ track that came out two years ago. Pepsi worked 40+ years to become the market leader in Russia, well ahead of Coke. All gone now with Putin’s invasion - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j-n4hzCxqqM.html

it was offensive on arrival, which people recognized back them because racism didn't suddenly only become an issue in 2020. black lives matter started in 2014 they namedrop it in this very sketch

Sean Freeman why so aggressive, they found it funny

@@theanarchist4449 It's not a crime to be 12, you know

Stevonnieee

@@theanarchist4449 if u are 12 u don't deserve life

@@theanarchist4449 Why does it matter if they are?

Getting paid twice for one gig? His agent was on it! Lol

Alot of the original people from the commercial are in this

wow thats racist lmao, just cuz he looks very close to the original asian cello player . tssk tssk fam, tssk tssk

@@factscrub3755 you know how all cello players look alike.

@@catperson2020 lol dont worry, im not the PC police to feel like u did something wrong. I laugh when ppl say i look like aziz ansari too ;) asian myself mama

I tried giving a cop a Pepsi. And he arrested me for attempted poisoning

SoulPapo would have worked better if you handed him a coke

my dad jokingly offered a cop a cheeseburger when he got pulled over and the judge said "So Mister Jones, you tried to bribe the officer?" my dad also made a bomb joke at the airport. I like my dad

Hannah BJ your dad sounds like a fun person

This is no joke. Depends on the officer.

It would be insane to touch it

right, okay.

Still can't believe how tone def Kendall was to do this commercial. All of her nieces and nephews are black*! Her entire family dates outside their race. Kendall dates black NBA players. This would hit differently if it was Paris Hilton in this commercial. (*Kourtney's kids are the exception.)

Yea...one person did reenact it, it didn't work but they weren't in trouble or anything

mezmur tigrnga

If they could see what is going on now in this country, they would roll over in their graves.

Max Barraza >equating MLK and Rosa Parks to Black Lives Matter They are nothing alike.

BringleBoy Exactly. BP/Malcolm X is closer.

I'm pretty sure they knew about Pepsi, a drink that had been around long before either of them were born. Pepsi is only a few years younger than Coke. They've both been around since the 19th century.

How was it a trainwreck?

I bet someone did, but they probably got ignored with what they said or didn’t think it was big problem. That person must feel so happy right now for being right!!!

Yes :D

Same here hahaha

"This is important."

With a Pepsi.

Tyrant-Den with a coke

Yes imagine if Kendall gave all police officers a Pepsi NOW and stopped them from shooting black people...

thats the last thing the world needs lol

I noticed that! Haha.

me too I noticed lmao bad director lol

Or maybe the screen was locked in the beginning. LOL

just blame united x

illuminati confirmed

Jazzy Moni Interesting theory.

Just a nitpick: that ad came out in 1971. The only reason I know the year is because it was the series finale of "Mad Men," haha. ;) I thought Pepsi was trying to channel that very successful commercial too. What a colossal fail.

Jazzy Moni yep, I remember and race relations were better back then

Joseph Dykes You think 'race relations' were better in 1971 when that Coke commercial/song first premiered. Seriously?!?

Joseph Dykes - I remember the 70's, too. In what way did you feel race relations were better?

Cop opens it, reacts to the spray, and then gives an _oh, you..._ look at Kendall. Actually, I really like that.

That would come off as antagonistic towards the cops.

"He"

Gemnist good

@@callmeyourdai5y518 yeahhhhh you need to take a lesson on societal necessities

Six years later....who?

@@jessicahannah2522 Who are you?

Why is there an exclamation point after man's, but no apostrophe in man's?

imagine correcting someone's grammar to feel some sort of elitism towards randoms online lol

Once the ball gets rolling it is pretty hard to stop, as they showed in the skit. The problem is the ball should never have started rolling and someone should have stopped it early in the process. Oh well, tens of thousands of commercials are made every year so some are going to be in poor taste.

@@hadracks Speaking from someone in the business I see! Yes, the decision would have been firmed and approved long ago, and it's not up to the director to change it. In fact, it might not even the director's fault for the idea, he's job was just to deliver the idea visually. The fault was on Pepsi, when the big corporate heads thought that their brand was big enough to influence the pubic, much like when celebrities trying to get into politics. So glad the public reminded them that they just sell soft drinks, and should stay that way. What the director could have done, was to shoot as many alternative scenes as he could while the set is still here, and edit different (or less sensitive) versions for the corporate to choose from, talk them into using the new version and away from the original.

Nobody needs you.

Really Happenings no one needs you either.

Eman the Heartbreak lol

They had black people in the commercial tho

What bout all the other races? All lives matter yo.

Shud The Blobfish you're a great mermaid, you know that?

Actually wonder how much Pepsi paid SNL to play this and advertise a bit, save face and get some good laughs? That's pretty much an ultimate win-win

hahaha your profile pic is kill in me XD

that's what kills it for me - we are in the middle of psychological warfare. Like it was one guy's idea.. what a joke. It took a lot of tone deaf people to OK that one, and Pepsi is trying to save face. Fuck them.

probably part of the plan

Was it for Pepsi?

Noah Purdy same

If you refresh the page when the ad comes up it'll usually reload without one!

um... adblock?

revengefrommars just wait the 30 seconds lol

I never noticed that! I don’t think he noticed either - he doesn’t see color.

getrealp78 yep

Nope not everyone prefers Coca Cola.

getrealp78 I actually prefer Pepsi I don't like Coke.

getrealp78 I actually prefer Pepsi I don't like Coke.

Well their both under same company so nothing to lose.

Liv Grace Whilst Pepsi is almost taking over coca cola

Liv Grace I work for Coke

I prefer Coke Zero

Vanilla Coke is delicious

just did coke :)

2020, and same!

Is there a difference?

I was looking for this comment! My thoughts exactly

Agreed

Super doesn't matter which Jenner/Kardashian is involved with anything.

They all look alike

snoogleface watching at 144p ._.

omg you're right

You’re right omg

Exactly what I was thinking

It changes back to black, around @1:50

damn right

Jaye Maelle she should give it back or donate to Black positive cause. taking blood money is still wrong although most Americans don't care. Their God is money

The fuck do you mean blood money... it's not like they killed someone for it, it's a company paying advertisement.

+dandanthetaximan -- Apparently, most of the extras weren't from the U.S., I don't even know if it was shot here...

It should be a wake up call that idiots like Kendall Jenner or most other celebrities shouldn't be your moral leaders. Don't expect them to be thoughtful or have integrity. That's not why you watch their dumb reality shows or listen to their crap music. Admit to yourself that you have shitty taste in art and that it makes you uncomfortable to see their shallowness, because it reflects your own.

I agree

and you look great sorry had to be thirsty for a sec but your gorgeous

KombatJunkeeTV you're* dumb

Holy shit! You just inspired me for a new pepsi commercial! Okay so, it shows the womens struggles throughout the years and pays homage to the advancement of female rights. Camera locks on Kendall Jenner as she walks through the streets of new york. Men are cat calling her, telling her how sweet her ass looks, saying all the things they want to bury inside of her, etc. So, get this, she walks up to one of them, with her most seductive look, and you can tell hes thinking, "this is it im going to get to plow her! Right here!" You can visibly see his hard-on pushing through his pants. You see her reach down, making the audience think shes about to grab his genitals, but then, she hands him a pepsi. He drinks it, and instantly., his thirst subsides. They have a real conversation, like on a human level. Then the pepsi logo flashes on screen next to the words "thirst no more"

Nick I agree with u man

Nick k