# Carl's Jr. strikes again **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 1, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715 "2008-03-01T05:15:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/61 "2009-06-24T18:22:22Z")
Sheesh, this _is_ quite the zombie. In my defense, the poop chili all over its face disguised its rotting visage. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/62 "2009-06-24T18:47:33Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > You’re spending your free time affecting superiority because you aren’t annoyed by a burger commercial. Your quality of life looks like it’s already where you’re hoping it will be. > > So there’s that. Touché. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/63 "2009-06-24T19:09:13Z")
MODERATOR INTERJECTS: OK, so I agree, this is quite a zombie thread. I’m going to let it keep going, but please note that if you post something in response to an earlier post, that person may not still be around to reply, may not be reading the thread, may not remember what they posted, etc. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/64 "2009-06-24T19:12:15Z")
Bunnnnnnnnssss! \ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/65 "2009-06-24T19:14:26Z")
The Western Bacon Cheeseburger is all Carl’s Jr. ever needs to serve to make them right by me. I love those things! As for their commercials…who cares? i like a lot of them, think some of them are silly, waste no time at all debating over them. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/66 "2009-06-24T19:22:44Z")
I’m sure they spend $60 million a year on advertising because “who cares?” ---
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/67 "2009-06-25T00:07:03Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > OK, it’s been ages, but thanks to _Top Chef_’s Padma, Carl’s Jr. finally has a [good ad](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8nJKa13sBo) (high on sexy, low on dripping goop and neanderthals) Good God, that’s a good ad? It’s just a sad retread. Don’t get me wrong, when I clicked the link and saw Padma (“Helllllloooooo nurse!”), I was very much willing to go with you on this. It seemed classy (and sexy, don’t forget the sexy) enough. But this is nothing but marketing exec recycling. It’s exactly the same as the older ads, but with one difference. Here’s their marketing pitch: Mega-Executive: “Okay folks, we need a new ad, what do you have for me?” Pathetic Marketing Lemming: “Well, we have this. It’s exactly what worked for us before, but this time we add tits.” Mega-Executive: “RUN IT!” They have the disgusting chewing sounds (albeit not mixed up as loud as before), the dripping nastiness, and this woman is licking shit off of her forearm and her fucking ankles! HER FUCKING ANKLES! Am I supposed to want that burger because she spread her legs and lifted her dress? This ad is more disgusting when you rewatch it and notice she is digging through the food at the market place using hands she probably licked clean at breakfast. I feel dirty. ---
**Author:** ![pabstist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e99b99/32.png) [@pabstist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pabstist)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/68 "2009-06-25T01:32:25Z")
Wow. So some people actually decide where to eat, based on the sounds in a commercial? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/69 "2009-06-25T01:40:11Z")
> [@Jules\_Andre](#): > > Am I supposed to want that **burger** because she spread her legs and lifted her dress? . Now they are calling that thing a burger?! Man, I gotta keep up with this slang stuff… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/70 "2009-06-25T02:28:40Z")
“Furburger” has been around for decades, dude. Put down the bong sloooowly. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/71 "2009-06-25T03:32:16Z")
> [@Jules\_Andre](#): > > Good God, that’s a good ad? It’s just a sad retread. Understand that this is still speaking relatively. All other CJr ads make me want to gag or throw my remote at the TV. This did neither (and even the gloppiness is kept to a minimum). Still wish they’d find a more creative way to get a point across (Jack in the Box is ingenious) but I’ll take what I can get. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/72 "2009-06-25T08:07:49Z")
Let’s just say that Carl’s Jr. ads disgust me, but I am most certainly not their demographic so they don’t give a shit. I guess if you are young, and have the table manners of a bear in heat, this is the place to go. I went to Carl’s Jr. once, in about 1987…and have never felt the need to return. ---
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/73 "2009-06-25T19:05:59Z")
There’s a Hardees at the end of my street. I’ve never patronized them, avoid fast food ever since the great fat loss of 2002, but I am intrigued by this Great Western Super Bacon Heartattack-on-a-bun Burger. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715/74 "2009-06-25T19:28:26Z")
And it gets better: [more skin, zero mess](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=330SKr4OrTQ) (though a couple fingers are licked). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carls-jr-strikes-again/439715.md?page=3)