{"id":657887,"date":"2010-02-08T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=8829"},"modified":"2010-02-08T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:43:07","slug":"audi%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98green-police%e2%80%99-hit-the-funny-bone-on-super-bowl-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/657887","title":{"rendered":"Audi\u2019s \u2018Green Police\u2019 hit the funny bone on Super Bowl broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 405px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8862\" title=\"Green_police\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green_police.jpg?resize=395%2C208\" alt=\"(Photo: Audi)\" width=\"395\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Audi)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"mailto:hblake@greenrightnow.com\">Harriet Blake<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Green Right Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Audi&#8217;s 2010 Green Police commercial during Super Bowl was ingenious and hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t have to be an environmentalist to enjoy the plug for Audi&#8217;s A3 TDI clean diesel car. In fact, the commercial pokes fun at the extreme measures an environmentally conscious police force might take:<\/p>\n<p>Arresting a customer for choosing plastic over paper at the grocery store; storming a home after finding a battery in the trash collection; arresting a man for possession of an incandescent bulb; swarming a homeowner for a compost infraction; chasing a speedo-clad hot tub user for setting the water temperature too high; stopping a driver for using a styrofoam cup &#8211; extreme tactics, no doubt, but too funny.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the guy with the clean diesel Audi is stopped and allowed to proceed, hassle-free. The commercial&#8217;s &#8220;Green Police&#8221; anthem is a re-recording of Cheap Trick&#8217;s &#8220;Dream Police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/greenpolice\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font -family: 'Helvetica'\">Copyright \u00a9 2010 | Distributed by Noofangle Media<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo: Audi) By Harriet Blake Green Right Now Audi&#8217;s 2010 Green Police commercial during Super Bowl was ingenious and hilarious. You didn&#8217;t have to be an environmentalist to enjoy the plug for Audi&#8217;s A3 TDI clean diesel car. In fact, the commercial pokes fun at the extreme measures an environmentally conscious police force might take: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2756,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2L95","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}