Spuds Mackenzie Returns

Bud Light put out a Super Bowl commercial featuring the ghost of Spuds MacKenzie.

Does anyone remember Spuds MacKenzie?  Although he seems to have been forgotten nowadays, he was a popular advertising character during the late 1980s. Portrayed as "the original party animal," Spuds was the mascot, of sorts, for Bud Light beer during that decade.



Spuds was always portrayed as a fun-loving good times party goer, and always the center of attention, especially from the ladies.

According to Wikipedia the very first Spuds McKenzie commercial aired as a Super Bowl ad in 1987. Also, interestingly, Spuds, a Bull Terrier, "who was portrayed as male in the commercials, was actually female."

Alas, Spuds, whose real name was Honey Tree Evil Eye, succumbed in 1993 to kidney failure.

Here's to you Spuds . . . may you always be in that never-ending '80s party in the sky.





(Recognition and thanks to Budlight, Rtrt67, Retroguy80s, and Betmax for Youtube videos.)