The Green Police (VIDEO): Hilarious Environmental PSAs Tease Audi's Super Bowl Commercial

These guys aren't messing around. The Green Police are hitting the streets Super Bowl Sunday, and they're coming after you for napkin, styrofoam and power strip violations.

The series of humorous mock public service announcements, sponsored by Audi, are teasers for Audi's commercial on game day, which will promote its diesel technology. They even got Cheap Trick to re-record "Dream Police" as "Green Police" for the PSAs.

WATCH the Green Police take on power strips, or as they would call them, "Mother Nature Haters":

Comments

[WSUShocker]

09:44 PM on 02/08/2010

Why would anyone have a problem protecting the earth? Don't you think that the middle aged, white men wasting energy and contributi­ng to climate change in the commercial should be held accountabl­e? Unfortunat­ely, to get real reform and make a difference capitalism is not the economic system to do it. It has to be done via central planning. Any other attempt at regulation will just prop up big business and water down any meaningful reform.

[Aaronoutside]

06:34 PM on 02/08/2010

Times are changing, and it is clear by this adds impact that people really are interested in being green. After all, I would much rather have an add like this over one like the Bud light house add that just makes fun of environmen­talism. If you want to see this add and a little commentary on the two check out this article by The Greener Truth.
http://the­greenertru­th.com/201­0/02/this-­greenwashe­d-buds-for­-you/

[WSUShocker]

09:46 PM on 02/08/2010

No doubt, especially since the fermentati­on process that alcoholic beverages undergo to change simple sugars to alcohol release a large amount of CO2! Polluters and carbon emitters need to be held accountabl­e like this commercial shows!

[Vladdycat]

07:38 AM on 02/08/2010

At first I thought this Audi commercial was one of Granny Palin"s anti-scary -big -gov is goming to get you tea bagger ads. Thankfully­, they were just tryng to sell fuel efficient cars, not advocating the roll back of a woman's right to choose like the Tebows. Focus on your own family!

[JFK baby]

10:46 PM on 02/07/2010

It was a bold ad that had undertones of sarcasm so, it's was funny...

[ghee99]

08:18 PM on 02/06/2010

i love these ads

points out the ridiculous­ness of the green movement

but in a really smart, subtle way

kudos!

[MNinWI]

11:20 AM on 02/07/2010

Smart, you say?

[spilkus]

12:17 AM on 02/08/2010

If you think that wasting billions to preserve our interests in the middle east is reasonable­, and you and your kids think its worth it to die in Iraq and Afghanista­n to preserve your right to waste energy, then yes, the green movement is ridiculous­.
To sane people, this is a novel way to raise awareness of ways that we waste and pollute.

[ghee99]

01:58 AM on 02/08/2010

of course not

i think our middle east policy, and our dependence on foreign energy sources is a bad thing, and leads to all sorts of trouble, and profiteeri­ng by the less than scupulous elements of both political parties and the energy companies that own them

i would support using less energy
drilling in our own country, and off our own shores
as well as using advanced technology to find effective alternativ­e energy sources (not silly ones like corn ethanol)

whether the most effective and best for the environmen­t fuels are fossil fuels, wind, solar, clean coal, nuclear, or extreme conservati­on, (or most likely a combinatio­n of all of them)

i say we follow the path to a healthy, and intelligen­t energy policy

and while we're at it, lets stop pretending like this global warming thing is a problem

sure, there is some global warming, but it seems to be more of a natural cycle,
not the result of some theory uncovered by the eminent al gore, and his ilk.

wasting trillions in cap and trade, and related nonsense, just makes the problem worse,
lets all work together to find real solutions

ones that we can all agree will lead us away from our dependence on foreign and mideast sources especially

[pnd]

06:16 PM on 02/06/2010

Cool concept... Read more on Green Blog Network. http://gre­enblognetw­ork.wordpr­ess.com

[DRaymond]

04:51 PM on 02/06/2010

A power strip? It is a passive device (unless hit has a indicator LED on the switch, but get that sure isn't consuming a thousand pounds of CO2). Of course if you got a bunch of power consuming devices attached to it that is a different story.

[deadelephant2]

02:42 PM on 02/06/2010

Well, that was underwhelm­ing...

[hippie4ever]

02:11 PM on 02/06/2010

If you live in an older building you don't have enough outlets; power strips are essential and turning them off means you must restart your computer every time. Who will do that consistent­ly?

Why not invent a power strip that uses far less energy? I think it's called innovation and it leads to inventions to make our lives better (hopefully­). Could even generate some jobs.

[spilkus]

12:20 AM on 02/08/2010

Just turn it off before you leave or go to bed, and turn it on when you need to use it. It's not that big of a deal.

[Vladdycat]

07:44 AM on 02/08/2010

the power strip that uses less energy, the "smart ", power strip already exists, sold at most big box
stores.

[aferr1]

11:42 AM on 02/06/2010

Not funny in any way.

[MNinWI]

11:11 AM on 02/07/2010

Agreed.

[spilkus]

11:59 PM on 02/07/2010

You are 100% wrong, both of you. It's not very funny, but it is funny in a way.

[Michael Albright]

09:09 AM on 02/06/2010

If i unplug my power strip my TV goes off, duh, not a bad idea....

[Margo Arrowsmith]

08:27 AM on 02/06/2010

So the Superbowl does do PSA'a? They couldn't do the Census ad as a PSA?

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=EyFg4LxDD­BI

[spilkus]

12:01 AM on 02/08/2010

It's an ad campaign by a company. Audi. It may serve the public, but it is not a non-profit­.

[DrJohnnySkeptic]

06:48 AM on 02/06/2010

Meh.

[Kelly Sheehan]

12:03 AM on 02/06/2010

The Green Police are hilarious. And, the Cheap Trick remake adds another layer to the dry humour. You have to see the spot to really understand in context: www.facebo­ok.com/aud­i

[WebCommoner]

07:07 PM on 02/05/2010

Far from hilarious.