Oh please... I'm American (albeit married to a Canadian) and I think the commercial is pretty funny and not offensive at all. It's clearly a joke. It's not like Molson is trying to seriously suggest Canada beat the US to the moon...

We've had similar jokes on the Canadians like "Canadian Bacon" the Michael Moore / John Candy film about the US going to war with Canada. ("They've amassed 90% of their population within 100 miles of the United States. They're clearly intending to invade, so we'll attack them first...")

Canadian is actually a pretty good beer. If nothing else it gets people to think about the product and smile...

Plus diehard US beer drinkers drink US beers. True, some of them will be humorless dolts who won't get the joke, but they aren't Molson customers anyway - not even potential ones. I'm confident the people in the US who are open to buying Canadian will get the joke.

Posted by Jay Harper on 2008/04/02

Jay this is but one advert of this whole Molson Beer Advert Series - I am Canadian. The others are actually better, and if you dont think this is funny then you just dont understand the cultural jests between the two countries, or you might know about it, but you dont really comprehend. I was dating the Canadian High Commisioners Daughter when these came out.. It was brilliant and everyone loved it.

Posted by Raj Athen on 2008/12/11