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1	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wassup.jpg]]
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3	''Wazzup'' is a 2000 Budweiser Super Bowl [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzFWkYCWtog commercial]], the basic premise of which is a phone conversation wherein all speakers are enthusiastically shouting "WAZZUP!" at each other. At the end, one guy asks the first what is actually up, and he responds that he's "watching the game, having a Bud".
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5	[[TimeSkip Eight years later]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-B8_BjVGBQ much the same thing happens again]], only this time it's a political advertisement, advocating [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama then-Senator Barack Obama]]. This one is notable for having a [[CerebusSyndrome much more serious tone since the last one]], the general theme being how badly the previous eight years have been for the characters.
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7	''Wazzup'' has been [[ShoutOut referenced]] and [[AffectionateParody parodied]] multiple times, perhaps most famously in ''Film/ScaryMovie''.
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10	* AmusingInjuries: The second friend is in a neck brace and an arm cast, apparently broke and in desperate need of painkillers. Doesn't stop the ad from milking it for comedy as the friend in Iraq mistakes his cries of pain for a "WAZZUP!"
11	* ArcWords: ''True, true.''
12	* BlackComedy: Dukey's attempt to kill himself is PlayedForLaughs.
13	* CerebusSyndrome: The second commercial; Dukey's about to [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself]], his bro is stuck out in Iraq, B is homeless and unemployed, the third friend is horribly injured, and the other guy is stuck out in a hurricane.
14	* DrivenToSuicide: Dukey, after his stock market ventures flop. He survives, though.
15	* HeterosexualLifePartners: By all appearances, the five guys. [[CerebusSyndrome Through thick and thin.]]
16	* ThePollyanna: Despite how badly the economic slump has treated them, most of the guys seem pretty damn happy. The guy in Iraq especially is pretty happy to be talking to his friends again in spite of literally being in the middle of a tour.
17	* RayOfHopeEnding: Everybody is in a desperate and low point of their lives, but B smiles with a tinge of hope and optimism when he sees footage of a Presidential campaign rally for UsefulNotes/BarackObama, looking forward to "Change".
18	* RuleOfFunny: Don't ask why there's a phone booth able to reach an American landline in the middle of the Iraqi desert, it's just there.
19	* SliceOfLife: The original especially is just a bunch of friends at home relaxing and havin' a Bud.
20	%%* SoulBrotha: Everybody!
21	* SkewedPriorities: The guy at the door in 2008 seems to think yelling "WAZZUP!" is more important than begging to be let in from the hurricane outside.
22	* UncertainDoom: It's not known if the guy at the front door was ever let in or if the hurricane took him.
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