# Dear Ex-Fat Guy on Subways Commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 29, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494 "2002-06-29T01:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/61 "2002-07-02T23:33:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JeffB \* > \*\*I think Jason Alexander has overtaken all fast-food hawkers as the most annoying. \*\* But, at least, Jason Alexander is a first rate actor with a fairly impressive resume, rather than a manufactured “famous person”. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/62 "2002-07-03T00:51:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by javaman \* > \*\* > > But, at least, Jason Alexander is a first rate actor with a fairly impressive resume, rather than a manufactured “famous person”. \*\* I’m gonna need a cite for that. Most specificly the “first-rate actor” claim. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/63 "2002-07-03T00:53:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > \*\* > > I’m gonna need a cite for that. Most specificly the “first-rate actor” claim. \*\* The TV production of “Bye Bye Birdie”. He was stunningly good as Albert, so good in fact, that I’d rate him slightly higher than Dick Van Dyke who originated the role. When he’s not playing George Costanza (which just about every other role I’ve seen him in has been), he’s actually really good. And he has a great singing voice, believe it or ont. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/64 "2002-07-03T03:43:37Z")
I liked “Duckman” enough to forgive the KFC ads. Now can we discuss the rectal polyp that is that damn McD’s ad about their desserts? I can only tell you that the song starts: “I got me a sundae, McDonald’s…” because that’s how long it takes me to lung for the mute button. DAMN but that’s a bad commercial! ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/65 "2002-07-03T15:25:19Z")
I’ve not seen the commercial, but DAMN! Those sundaes are GOOD! Glad I’m going to McD’s for lunch today… [Homer]mmmm…McDonald’s Sundae[/Homer] ---
**Author:** ![Man\_from\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Man\_from\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_from_Mars)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/66 "2002-07-04T07:07:16Z")
Jerry Seinfeld commented: So this guy lost a thousand pounds eating sloppy meatball sandwiches at Subway. What the hell was this disgusting, fat pile of crap eating BEFORE he decided to lose weight? ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/67 "2002-07-04T11:28:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osip \* > \*\*Fen, > … the commercial where it ends: > > Guy: “Thanks, who ever you are.” > > (Jared) “you’re welcome, whoever YOU are” > \*\* Ditto. Smarmy personified. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/68 "2002-07-04T12:44:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\* > > The TV production of “Bye Bye Birdie”. He was stunningly good as Albert, so good in fact, that I’d rate him slightly higher than Dick Van Dyke who originated the role. > > When he’s not playing George Costanza (which just about every other role I’ve seen him in has been), he’s actually really good. And he has a great singing voice, believe it or ont. > > Fenris \*\* He won a freaking TONY\* for Starting Here, Starting Now. How much of a site do you need, \*\* voguevixen \*\*? \*Tony is the Broadway equivalent of an Emmy or Oscar, for all you people with no culture. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/69 "2002-07-04T17:20:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > \*\* > > I’m gonna need a cite for that. Most specificly the “first-rate actor” claim. \*\* OK, [here](http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll). Granted this isn’t what you’d call an incisively critical site because they rarely pan anyone, but just the bald facts about Alexander’s early career would seem to indicate great talent. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/70 "2002-07-05T04:45:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \* > \*\* > > He won a freaking TONY\* for Starting Here, Starting Now. How much of a site do you need, \*\* voguevixen \*\*? > > \*Tony is the Broadway equivalent of an Emmy or Oscar, for all you people with no culture. \*\* Jeez you people are touchy and humorless. The joke is that you cannot provide a “cite” for something that is a matter of opinion. (BTW, if the Tonys are the equivilent of Oscars or Emmys, then they are in NO WAY indicative of a person’s talent.) Javaman, your link leads to an error page, lol! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/71 "2002-07-05T15:15:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > \*\* > > Jeez you people are touchy and humorless. The joke is that you cannot provide a “cite” for something that is a matter of opinion. (BTW, if the Tonys are the equivilent of Oscars or Emmys, then they are in NO WAY indicative of a person’s talent.) > > Javaman, your link leads to an error page, lol! \*\* It’s not important now as others have backed me up. Thank you all. But if you’re interested, just go to [www.allmovie.com](http://www.allmovie.com) and look him up yourself. I don’t know why the link didn’t work; I c & p’ed from the url on his entry. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/72 "2002-07-05T15:20:43Z")
Well, the fact that Jason Alexander is capable of turning in good performances makes it even _more_ pathetic that he has devolved into a smarmy, nugget-peddling asshat. I can just see those little devils and angles sitting on his shoulders, and the shoulders of Jamie Lee Curtis, Dennis Miller, et al. Angel: “Don’t flush your good name down the terlet for the sake of a paycheck! People will _hate_ you for these ads!” Devil: _“Take the money!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/73 "2002-07-05T15:21:53Z")
“Angels.” \*Angels. \* Dammit. “I Married an Angle . . .” ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/74 "2002-07-05T15:26:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by javaman \* > \*\*but just the bald facts about Alexander’s early career would seem to indicate great talent. \*\* Huh huh, you said bald, huh huh. [here](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0082118) is an early role of his, in the Friday the 13th ripoff The Burning. Of course, now he is famous as [that bald-headed, chicken selling mother-fucker](http://www.thestranger.com/2002-03-07/love_tv.html). ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/75 "2002-07-05T15:33:20Z")
And don’t forget his great role as the rat bastard in **Pretty Woman** … ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/76 "2002-07-05T21:23:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smeghead \* > \*\*Now can we discuss the rectal polyp that is that damn McD’s ad about their desserts? I can only tell you that the song starts: > “I got me a sundae, McDonald’s…” > because that’s how long it takes me to lung for the mute button. DAMN but that’s a bad commercial! \*\* Is there such a thing as a _good_ McD’s commercial? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/77 "2002-07-05T22:48:04Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally Posted by gobear_And I totally want to nail the new [Subway] spokesman, because he is HOT! Wait a minute, what new spokesman? The other guy in the greatly despised “Thank you, whoever you are” commercial? 'Cause if that’s who you mean… well, beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, taste is supposedly totally subjective, and in theory everyone has a right to their own opinion. But I still have to ask, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? The guy looks like the reanimated corpse of Steven Webber. He’s a ghoul. His alternative to fast food burgers is human brains. He needs to be nailed all right: in a box, packed with consecrated earth, and buried underneath a church during a full moon. Unless, of course, you mean some other, actually hot Subway spokesman, one who is not a member of the unquiet dead, in which case I offer a hearty Emiliy Litella “Nevermind.” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/78 "2002-07-06T00:38:47Z")
I like Subway-roast chicken breast on whole wheat\*, provolone cheese, lettuce and honey mustard sauce. Well, I prefer Caesar Sauce, but they don’t have it anymore, the fuckers. \*not because it’s healthier-I just like the wheat bread better But I don’t eat this stuff every damn day! **scott** -Baked Lays aren’t so bad. I like them cuz they’re not as greasy, and they’re good with ketchup. Of course, all chips are. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/79 "2002-07-06T12:38:34Z")
Sorry I offended \*\* voguevixon \*\*, but Jason Alexander is so good on stage it pisses me off to see what he has become. First Seinfeld, then Kentucky Fried (anyone else remember the “you do deserve a break today” commercial he did in the 1980’s?). I wish he’d return to Broadway. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494/80 "2002-07-06T19:22:53Z")
I just wanted to say that wishing harm (or waiting for it with hands rubbing together gleefully) on a fellow human who really hasn’t done anything to deserve it is not a particularly nice thing to do. Just let the man live his life, and turn off the commercials if they bother you, okay? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-ex-fat-guy-on-subways-commercials/116494.md?page=5)