https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=56b09ZyLaWk<\/p>\n
My favorite ad has always been the Budweiser \u201cSomeone Waits for You\u201d ad that discourages drinking and driving with an emotional pull of a dog and an owner that almost doesn\u2019t make it home. The idea of \u201cman and his best friend\u201d always has seemed to be a good way for any company or product to get the US to pay attention to their advertisement, because they want to ensure the relationship remains intact and positive. The Budweiser ad starts with the dog as just a puppy when the owner first picked him up, to show the immediate connection that began early on. It goes through them spending time together and playing, both making them happy. The footage they use is purposely relatable for anyone who has ever owned a dog. Though one night, the owner leaves with his keys for a night of drinking with his friends, and does not return home even though he told the dog (for some reason like it was his wife) that he would be home later that evening. When he doesn\u2019t return home, the dog becomes extremely upset and worried, convincing the audience the owner died in a drinking and driving accident and leaving his best friend behind. However, it is revealed at the last second that the owner in fact spent the night at a friend’s house so he did not have to drive under the influence, therefore allowing him to return safe and sound to the dog and best friend.<\/span><\/p>\n The idea of having a dog who you can call your best friend that cares and watches out for you in my mind relates to the idea in Huff\u2019s reading that there is often a skewage caused by purposely confusing \u201cnormal\u201d and \u201cdesirable.\u201d Through the creation of advertisements or the spread of information to the consumer, Huff states that the readers tend to miss the important figures or numbers that somehow disappeared in the process. Rather than include the scary and disheartening statistics of drinking and driving and the deaths related to it, Budweiser chose to completely side step and the scary side and instead show a loving story of best friends reunited after one decided to not make the decision to put his life in danger.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=56b09ZyLaWk My favorite ad has always been the Budweiser \u201cSomeone Waits for You\u201d ad that discourages drinking and driving with an emotional pull of a dog and an owner that almost doesn\u2019t make it home. The idea of \u201cman and his best friend\u201d always has seemed to be a good way for any company or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}