Dog Rocks Fat Suit In VW's 2012 Game Day Commercial

02/03/2012

Bolt the Dog Battles The Bulge

After logging more than 10 million views as of this writing for their clever Game Day commercial teaser "The Bark Side," Volkswagen has released their official new 2012 game day commercial -- "The Dog Strikes Back" -- just in time for Puppy Bowl (ok, and the Super Bowl).

Check out how VW's new Beetle inspires Bolt the dog to get in shape, and how an intergalactic superstar makes a surprise appearance.

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A Fat Suit For Dogs? Who Knew?!

As well, if you are wondering just how Bolt was able to lose such an amazing amount of weight, here's the video showing how he got it done - with a little help from a fat suit....made for dogs! Yes - you read right.