Miracle Whip "There's a party in my mouth." - WTF?

[cochrane]

There's a new Miracle Whip commercial on TV in which a guy is eating a sandwich and declares that Miracle Whip is like a party in his mouth...and everyone's going to be there. Dear Og, what were they thinking? Yeah, guy, I'm just sure everybody's coming.

Disclaimer - I love Miracle Whip, but the impression this commercial is going to leave on people isn't going to win them any converts. And it's bound to put people off from having sandwiches at lunch. Or switch to mustard. Way to drive up sales, Kraft.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk0X4W3RIQE

(Link broken, because although the ad airs during prime time TV hours, the "oral sex" comments on the YouTube page may give someone looking over your shoulder at work the wrong impression.)

[PSXer]

Simpsons did it

[Mahaloth]

Reminds me of Dawn on Buffy.

Willow: So, the burger was good, you liked it?
Dawn: Are you kidding? It was like a meat party in my mouth. Okay, now, I'm just a kid, and even *I* know that came out wrong.

:)

[C3]

Reminds me of Yo Gabba Gabba (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Os-CACRwM8) - yeaaaaaah!

[Fugazi]

Even better that they are advertising a white creamy substance.

[Greg Charles]

It's not an easy task to make that vile glop seem appealing. Cut them some slack.

[Icerigger]

Reminds me of Dawn on Buffy.:)


I was thinking the very same thing!:D

[Marley23]

The Simpsons did do this almost 20 years ago in two separate episodes ("Flaming Moe's" in 11/91 and "Homer at the Bat" in 2/92). I always thought the Simpsons writers were making a reference to an older slogan they thought was terrible, but if so, I can't find what it is. Meanwhile Miracle Whip does seem to be trying to reach out to hip kids, so I guess that's why they picked a slogan most people would understand is ironic and that many would recognize from The Simpsons.

[Promethea]

Or possibly a reference to the 1985 EP by Snatch "If the party's in your mouth, we're coming".

[Jophiel]

The Simpsons did do this almost 20 years ago in two separate episodes ("Flaming Moe's" in 11/91 and "Homer at the Bat" in 2/92).
And in its cousin, Futurama, Fry says "It's like there's a party in my mouth... and everyone's throwing up." (Parasites Lost)

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

I believe it's an old high school taunt. "I hear there's gonna be a party...in your mouth! Everyone's coming!"

[Jackmannii]

The slogan is a lot better than the reality: "There's an oil refinery in my mouth!"

[An Gadaí]

My mother often says "Go easy on the Miracle Whip", meaning "don't drink too much". Is this from something?

[Freudian Slit]

I don't really see the big deal. I mean, in the Simpsons version, they're not referring to oral sex, so why would they be here?

[MeanOldLady]

My mother often says "Go easy on the Miracle Whip", meaning "don't drink too much". Is this from something?Consumption of Miracle Whip, much like excessive consumption of alcohol, will likely induce vomitting?

[carnivorousplant]

It's not an easy task to make that vile glop seem appealing. Cut them some slack.

Vile. Sweet. Nasty. Excuse me, I'm sick...

[enomaj]

N B4 Grapist reference.

[Son of a Rich]

I don't really see the big deal. I mean, in the Simpsons version, they're not referring to oral sex, so why would they be here?

I don't think the whole "party in mouth" thing would exist but for the punny "joke", which always ended with a variation of "and everybody is coming".

[cochrane]

Yeah, it's an old insult we used to hurl at each other as kids, which long predates the Simpsons. The Simpsons didn't originate the joke.

[Freudian Slit]

But wouldn't everyone coming in your mouth taste really bad, not good?

[Gangster Octopus]

Reminds me of this TUMS Commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGH5nV_P1Gs).

[cochrane]

But wouldn't everyone coming in your mouth taste really bad, not good?Yeah, that's why the commercial made me go "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?" For many people, Miracle Whip tastes really bad, anyway. Not the association you want people making with your product. I know the guy said, "Everybody's gonna be there," but my response was, "Really? Isn't that like saying everybody's coming?"

[Anne Neville]

You're sure he said party, not potty, right?

The latter would be a much more accurate description of the experience of eating Miracle Whip.

[Freudian Slit]

Yeah, that's why the commercial made me go "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?" For many people, Miracle Whip tastes really bad, anyway. Not the association you want people making with your product. I know the guy said, "Everybody's gonna be there," but my response was, "Really? Isn't that like saying everybody's coming?"

How did the joke go originally, then? Like, how does it work as an insult?

[Son of a Rich]

The "party in mouth" reminds me of all the commercials which state, afa their product is concerned, "size really does matter", which seems to be a smirky reference to cock sizing. In today's world, it's getting increasingly difficult to be "naughty".

[cochrane]

How did the joke go originally, then? Like, how does it work as an insult?We would say to each other, "I hear there's going to be a party in your mouth. And that everybody's coming." That's basically it. Yes, juvenile, I know. But that's the way teenage boys' minds work. And the commercial's fault is not really about taste. It's more like emphasizing the resemblance between Miracle Whip and semen.

[Acsenray]

Simpsons did it

The Simpsons did do this almost 20 years ago in two separate episodes ("Flaming Moe's" in 11/91 and "Homer at the Bat" in 2/92). I always thought the Simpsons writers were making a reference to an older slogan they thought was terrible, but if so, I can't find what it is. Meanwhile Miracle Whip does seem to be trying to reach out to hip kids, so I guess that's why they picked a slogan most people would understand is ironic and that many would recognize from The Simpsons.

I could swear I have a genuine memory from the early 1980s of an ad -- prior to the use of the line on the Simpsons -- for some food product aimed at children in which one of the actors says the like "It's like a party! In my mouth!" But, like Marley, I can't pin anything down. Maybe the Simpsons' writers really hit the nail on the head of satirizing advertising of the era in such a way that its indistinguishable from real advertising.

[furryman]

Reminds me of a scene in "The Gunslinger" series by Stephen King where Roland sees one of the characters eating a sandwich covered in mayo and compares it to semen.

[Rachellelogram]

GROSS!
EW!
DISGUSTING!

People still eat Miracle Whip?!

[Sister Vigilante]

Miracle Whip is the devil. And what kills me is that people around here call it mayonnaise as though they are the same thing. They are NOT. I spent my whole childhood hating "mayonnaise" when it was in fact Miracle Whip.

And I never before got the party in my mouth reference until now.

[mlees]

There's a "Pop Rocks" (I assume fake) commercial on youtube involving a female student giving a bj to her teacher for a better grade, with the bj sup'd up with Pop Rocks.

Now there's a party in her mouth! (Although the phrase is not spoken.)

[Johnny Q]

There's a party in my mouth, and some asshole's set the couch on fire.
There's a party in my mouth and somebody's puked on the living room carpet.
There's a party in my mouth and somebody's spilled the bongwater.