Ted Lasso and Fansville, Together At Last

In the newsletter, though let's manifest the crossover.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, not Christmas (slow your roll). Not even Halloween. I speak of the return of Fansville, the long-running series of Dr. Pepper commercials which air primarily during college football season. Fansville is a fictional town full of extremely devoted aficionados of school just called “State,”¹ and the ads are styled like a long-running soap opera with recurring characters — including Brian Bosworth as the town’s sheriff, and Colin The Coke Addict Who Dated Kelly Taylor on 90210. There is even the occasional season-long arc, like the time someone stole the team’s goalposts. College football starts in earnest this weekend, and let me tell you that I literally gasped with excitement when I bought a box of mini Dr. Peppers this weekend and realized a new season of Fansville is on the horizon. Not since Giles from Buffy and some lady flirted over cups of Taster’s Choice instant coffee have I been so invested in a serial commercial concept. 

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