Volkswagen's Super Bowl commercial for the Chattanooga-made 2012 Passat become one of the top five subjects discussed worldwide on Twitter Thursday morning.
The commercial (dubbed "The Force") was posted to YouTube Wednesday, well before its scheduled Super Bowl debut this Sunday.
At one point, the commercial ranked fourth on Twitter's trending topics list.
By 11 a.m. Thursday it had garnered close to 1.2 million views on YouTube.
The commercial shows a child dressed as Star Wars character Darth Vader attempting to use "Force" power on ordinary objects.
Most commenters labeled it as clever and funny.
Said one, "Cutest. Vader. EVER."
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Harrison Keely is a web producer and live blogger for the Times Free Press. He also handles social media and oversees the paper’s Facebook and Twitter pages. He joined the Chattanooga Times Free Press as a reporter in 2010. Harrison previously served as managing editor of the Smoky Mountain Sentinel in western North Carolina and as a business reporter for the Washington Times in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Lee University in 2009 where he ...
Whew! Glad they decided against a talking baby!
Search YouTube for other VW comercials. The the European versions are very entertaining.
Looks like "The Littlest Nazi". Achtung baby!
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