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Beer In Ads #2175: Heineken Refreshes The Ugly Duckling

February 2, 2017 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Heineken, from the 1977. In the later 1970s, Heineken embarked on a series of ads with the tagline “Heineken Refreshes the Parts Other Beers Cannot Reach.” Many of the ads were in a sequential panel, or comic strip, format and they were intended to be humorous.

In this ad, a three-panel format, the ugly duckling is crying over his treatment at the hands (or wings?) of the prettier ducklings, when he happens upon a can of beer floating in the pond. Taking a sip, he’s transformed in to a beautiful white swan. Talk about beer goggles.

Ugly-Duckling-1977

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Comics, Heineken, History



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