Ad of the Day: Neil Patrick Harris Doesn't Get Why He Can't Drink Heineken Light on TV

But here's the explanation, if you're interested

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Most ad agencies that work with alcohol brands have a general loathing for the myriad guidelines that shackle them from showing much of anything, including someone drinking a beer. 

But in its new work for Heineken Light, Wieden + Kennedy New York decided to just make that the whole point of the ads, an approach that would probably come off entirely flat if the agency hadn't also tapped a spokesman as charismatic as Neil Patrick Harris.

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