Snakes on Film

Nitpicking Snakes’ Appearances in Movies and on Television

Copperhead Beer Commercial

Format: Short Video
Categories: Holy Crap, It’s Real!
Posted on March 3, 2007

Copperhead Beer Commercial

Canadian brewery Steelback markets a beer called “Copperhead” in the Bohemian pilsener style, though Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) are native neither to Bohemia nor to small Canadian breweries. They did manage to get a real, live Copperhead to appear in their ad for the beer (QuickTime, 2.5 MB), which is something. Do pit vipers work for scale?

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Animation and Animatronics Computer graphics and animatronic puppets do what real snakes can’t. (10)
Biological Impossibilities What this film shows, snakes just can’t do. (9)
Children’s Programming Brought to you by the letter S. (3)
Help! It’s Harmless! Harmless snakes used as stand-ins for their deadly counterparts. (9)
Holy Crap, It’s Real! I can’t believe they used the real thing. (7)
It Came from IKEA Your giant toy snake is utterly realistic. (3)
It’s Just a Cartoon Snakes can’t talk. But you know what? Neither can any other animal. (1)
It’s Just a Snake, Dr. Jones Indiana Jones is a big pussy. (5)
My Snake Will Kill You Now, Mr. Bond Snakes can’t stand bad acting. That’s why they’re always trying to kill Roger Moore. (4)
No Freudian Implications Here, No Sir Sometimes a snake is just a snake. Not here, though. (2)
Old World, New World What are South American snakes doing in medieval Europe? (5)
Pet Store Stand-ins You’ve seen it on the big screen, now buy it at the local pet store. (10)
Snakesploitation Movies Giant snakes, gratuitous nudity. Ain’t life grand? (3)

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