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Famous Volkswagen Beetle Funeral Commercial
This Famous Volkswagen Beetle Funeral Commercial web page brings you the said commercial and it is perhaps the best advert of all time. It's the advert Carlsberg who have produced if it was an ad agency...probably
Volkswagen Commercial produced by Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB) in 1969. (The agency was founded in Manhattan in 1949 by James Edwin Doyle, Maxwell Dane, and Bill Bernbach and became famous for a whole series of VW ads in the 60's/70's)
Advert Transcript
I, Maxwell E Snavely, being of sound mind and body, do hereby bequeath the following:
To my wife Rose, who spent money like there was no tomorrow…I leave 100 dollars and a calendar.
To my sons Rodney and Victor, who spent every dime I ever gave them on fancy cars and fast women…I leave 50 dollars, in dimes.
To my business partner Jules, whose only motto was spend, spend, spend…I leave nothing, nothing, nothing.
And to my other friends and relatives who also never learnt the value of a dollar…I leave a dollar.
Finally, to my nephew Harold, who oft-times said, “a penny saved is a penny earned”, and who also oft-times said, “Gee Uncle Max, it sure pays to own a Volkswagen”…I leave my entire fortune of one hundred billion dollars.