Alexa down the ages…sort of
The minute and a half long ad features Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi. As the two are heading out, DeGeneres asks Alexa on an Echo Dot to turn down the thermostat and then wonders out loud, “what do you think people did before Alexa?” The ad then goes back at different times in history (very questionable) and shows how people managed without Alexa in the past. The video features different people whose name sound very similar to that of Alexa being asked questions that people now ask Alexa but unlike the result that today’s Alexa delivers, here what happens can be termed inconvenient at best but in the most hilarious way possible.
The clip starts with a woman asking her maid ‘Alessa’ to turn the temperature down by two degrees. The maid goes ahead, takes out two logs out of the fire and throws them out of a glass window. In the process, her sleeve catches fire, she dabs the fire off, no one reacts to this unusual and destructive way of turning down temperature and the maid resumes cleaning. After this, a queen summons a jester in her courtroom and asks him to tell her a joke, but he obviously fails to come up with one at the time. Then a little boy named Alex is selling newspaper on a busy street but when a man asks him about the news, he takes a subtle dig at the fake news trend and tells him how it does not matter as “it is all fake.” The clip then moves on to two guys on a cart. One of them asks the other two to play a song that he likes and he starts to blow whistle using a jug at which he then asks him to play another one. After this, a woman washing clothes with her friend asks her to tell her something interesting and Alexa’s almost namesake woman, Lexi, blurts out some very questionable facts. Then comes a pigeon that is asked to deliver a message to the prince but as it takes flight the poor things get caught in claws on a falcon which a moment later is ingested by a flying dragon. The ad takes a very Nixon-ish turn when a US President-like figure asks his secretary to “delete tapes” and she obviously does not.
Not hard sell, but lots of laughs
No, Alexa, do not tell us a joke. We are still laughing at your Super Bowl ad.
