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Watch Will Ferrell's Swedish Old Milwaukee Ads
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John Del Signore
Published Oct 19, 2012
Modified Oct 19, 2012
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Will Ferrell is continuing his delightfully surreal series of commercials for Old Milwaukee—in Sweden of all places. Four of the ads surfaced on YouTube a couple weeks ago, and while they're not all GOLD, here are our two favorite ones. They're just silly advertisements—don't overthink it:
And this one's rather hypnotically daffy:
In our interview with Ferrell in March, he explained his strange fixation with the Beast: "It's a great beer if you're going to have a bunch. Not if you're going to have one. Don't waste your time. But if you're going to have six or seven or 30, get yourself some Old Milwaukee. I just love Milwaukee and I love that it's old. That's it."
Here are the other two, for the Swedish Will Ferrell completist:
And according to Slate's translator, in this one Ferrell tells viewers, "This is my boat. This is my woman. And this is my beer. Old Milwaukee. It OK."
[Via Buzzfeed]
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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