As the Bryan Cranston/Mountain Dew/”The Shining” nightmare has recently reinforced, no IP is safe from becoming fodder for a Super Bowl ad.
That truth also extends to Adult Swim’s “Rick and Morty,” a series whose relationship with other brands is… saucy, at best.But unlike the catalysts for a good deal of Super Bowl ads, “Rick and Morty” at least has the ability to add some meta-commentary to the whole corporate farce.
Those cogs happen to be literal in the case of this particular Super Bowl commercial.What starts as Rick and Summer simply watching a — to be perfectly honest, lackluster — Pringles Super Bowl commercial quickly transforms into a Pringles commercial inside of a Pringles commercial.
Naturally, Rick is fast to realize they’re stuck in a Pringles commercial.
Also naturally, Morty is revealed to be a Pringles robot.“Pringles! We’re trapped in a Pringles commercial.
Read full article