Christ, I wish I’d posted that.
Verily.
Um, OK. I hadn’t heard the meme as “portraying a well known character in an commercial series is the death knell for a real acting career (that never really started)”. The meme, as I know it, is that becoming closely associated with a commercial character meant that one’s “real” acting career was over, or at best subject to permanent typecasting. That would make J.K. Simmons a prime example of the anti-meme. My bet is that the “Wendy’s girl” will become another.
[sub]What is “real acting” anyway? Acting, by definition, is not “real”.[/sub]
I don’t think J.K. Simmons is playing a character there…I think he’s actually an Old Bald Guy.
Meme’s like this, or that movie actors don’t do TV, etcetera and so forth, are pretty much dead in the 21st century. Many actors shill products, jump from film to TV and back, and work on smaller networks at lower payscales in order to do interesting work. The only real limitation is time.
I hope so. She’s way hotter than Flo.
Also she portrays a customer instead of an employee, so the OP won’t have to worry about “bad role models”.
Wendy’s Girl (Morgan Smith Goodwin) isn’t a natural redhead. She could go back to blonde and only elicit a “Hey, she looks kinda familiar”. According to Wiki she studied musical theater so who’s to say she wants/needs a TV career to be “successful”? She could wind up doing stage and 99.95% of us would forget about her but still have a life doing what she enjoys.
Much the same as Flo and Hodgeman, really. They’re mainly comedians and don’t need to be in the prime time slot on ABC to be “successful”.
I’m serious about thinking she’s hot!
Couldn’t agree more. My hatred of Jan has grown to such levels that it’s starting to affect how I feel about Toyota.
Both Jan and Flo are Groundlings Theater alumni. Just a tiny factoid that doesn’t mean much.
Personally, I prefer Jan over the Muppets, not because I don’t like the Muppets (I love the Muppets - platonically, of course), but because I hate the Muppets shilling for Toyota (and I own a Toyota, dammit).
Yeah, but that same site has an article about how it may have just been how unpopular she was, rating behind even Microsoft’s Clippy.
I will never use Progressive because of Flo.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Advertiser.
Muppets (Or muppet-like automatons) are also in Grocery Outlet commercials around here and for the life of me I can’t see the angle they are going with those advertisements-
They aren’t recognizable muppets, so unlike having Animal, Mr. Fingers and co. shilling Toyotas, people that grew up watching Sesame Street aren’t going to recognize any of them. Its an ad for a grocery store, so its not like something like Chuck E Cheese’s or breakfast cereals that kids are gonna bug their parents to spend money on.
I don’t think those hold a candle to the ‘Wake up with the King’ commercials Burger King did.
guy wakes up, sees this giant headed Burker King Mascot laying in bed. Right next to him. Staring, with his dead, lidless eyes :eek:
I suggest to my lovely and talented Wife so often that we have an abbreviation for it: ALY
Advertisers love you.
What really get’s me about the aforementioned Wendy’s girl, is that she’s supposed to be Wendy incarnate, right? But then they occasionally show ads featuring the real Wendy, as in Dave Thomas’s daughter. What image is Wendy’s trying to cultivate by juxtaposing this everywoman with this perky, vivacious little thang? Why would Real Wendy acquiesce to this kind of scrutiny?
When Dave Thomas started Wendy’s his daughter was young. For the longest time the company logo/mascot was a young freckle faced red headed girl with pigtails (and I think still is). Wendy Thomas is just carrying on the tradition started by her father of appearing in his own commercials, not to be a living embodiment of the corporate mascot. The youthful Wendy plays better to the kids.
I think the real Wendy Thomas is a much more accurate visual portrayal of the type of people that eat at Wendy’s. Truth in advertising! 
My theory is that Flo is Monica Lewinsky, rebranded.
