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EW Top TV Moment is To Die For!

The February 19/26 (1999)issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine features "100 Greatest Moments on Television." Ranked #25 is Volkswagen's "Funeral" (Sept. 15, 1969) where a miser motors his VW Bug into a limo-packed cemetery. This ad's dark sense of humor helped fuel Madison Avenue's Creative Revolution, when many ads became more interesting than the shows they interrupted.

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