[QUOTE=PinkMarabou]
While I agree they are annoying as hell . . . they still win. The point of advertising is to make you remember the product, no matter how obnoxious the jingle or commercial. It gets stuck in your head, you think about BK for lunch - bingo! They cash in.
I love advertising. There’s always someone complaining about one marketing plan or another, not realizing that they fell right into their trap.
As someone who’s been in advertising for almost 10 years now, I think it’s brilliant and probably one of their best. You may hate it, but they’re laughing at you all the way to the bank.
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Oh, every time I see the BK commercials (the King and the chicken ads), I DO remember the product, and it reminds me to eat somewhere else. I used to eat Quizno’s until they brought out the dead rats to remind us that Quizno’s had a pepper bar. I’ve since stuck with Subway.
Does anyone know if “confrontational advertising” like The King and the spongmokeys have had a positive or negative impact on BK’s and Quiznos’ bottom line? Though some individuals may protest, the herd tends to support the notion that any buzz is good buzz.
[QUOTE=Evil Captor]
I thought this was going to be about the Burger King admitting he was gay. After all, there is that ad where he wakes up in bed with a construction worker …
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Every time I see that ad I want the king to say “You know, this don’t mean I’m gay.”
See, the thing is that I don’t really give a rats ass about most advertisements because they don’t really work on me much. The only ad that has a chance with me is one that’s purely informational and gives me good, sound reasons why THAT product is better than all the OTHER products just like it. I don’t eat fast food aside from a very occasional trip to Taco Hell–where I always get the same thing, and it’s a non advertised item that usually isn’t on the menu. Ads that piss most people off, like the Spongemonkey and Wolf Boy Quiznos ads make me laugh my ass off, although I don’t go to Quiznos any more because they don’t have the Tuscan chicken sandwich that had crack in it…
My objection to this BK campaign is the sniggering hyuck hyuck “ain’t we naughty 'cuz we ALMOST said it” character to the ads, and the convoluted, contrived lengths they go to setting up the punchline. It’s like watching the advertising equivalent of a shitty Borscht Belt comedian bombing–it’s so stupid you’re almost squirming in empathy for the dumb fucker putting his weenie on the anvil in front of an audience.
That, and the ad just does NOT hold up to the endless repetitions they’re paying for. It’s not clever enough, or catchy enough, or just plain interesting enough to make it as entertainment after it fails as an advertisement. It’s not even annoying enough to be a definitive reason never to eat at BK again. It’s just a failure on so many levels.
And the King is SO gay… He’s Queerboy McFaggerson in a nasty plastic suit…
I especialy like the ones where they have a super hot girls eating a half pound hamburger. It just looks so freak’n odd.
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There was a scene in Date Movie (yes, I actually watched it in a theater!) where they did a parody of that commercial where Paris Hilton has sex with the wet car and eats a BK burger. The best bit of the parody, though, was an out-take at the end of the movie. There the super hot chick (Sophie Monk) is, in slow motion, on all fours, taking a huge titilating bite out of the burger…
which she promptly spits up again as disgust wrinkles slowly crawl over every inch of her pretty face.
Don’t get me started on them, too! I actually used to like CJs, especially those little chicken sandwiches with the big ol’ slice of hot pepper and the crack sauce on them, but they started in with the campaign where they show people eating the goddamned burgers and all the stuff inside is splooging out like a graphic fast food blowjob right at about the time I got a wicked case of food poisoning from one of their burgers. Now every time I see the ads I feel like the burger is puking itself into the actor’s mouth and I get queasy.
That, and the criss cut fries are always chewy and stale these days for some unfathomable reason…
[QUOTE=Loopydude]
I see absolutely nothing wrong with any of it. Why do you hate cabooses?
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Oh, you misunderstand. The “caboose” commercial is divine. Vida Guerra, on a handcar with “Vida” on her caboose right as the song says “nice caboose”, that’s just one of the double entendres that makes this such a perfect commercial.
(It should be noted that Vida Guerra is famous for having a superior posterior, nothing obtuse about that caboose.)
The Fuckin’ Chicken makes an appearance. Watch the French Fries grow like weeds while the two guys are reclined, eating their tasty burgers. Brooke Burke (probably WHY their French Fries are growing like weeds).
This commercial broke the mold, a Fuckin’ Chicken can’t touch it.
I was hungry after bagging it to work; when I drove by Burger King I thought of this thread and the King waking up with the construction worker.
I drove on down the road to a different burger joint.
[QUOTE=mobo85]
No, no- what I’m saying is that Paris Hilton did her infamous hamburger commercial for Carl’s Jr., not Burger King.
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Yeah I know, but it gave me a chance to combine two fast food rants into one thread, and my bargain basement approach to life demands I take advantage of the opportunity!
And that ad was just naaaasty, IMO… Would’ve been better if they’d filmed it in the dark so she shows up green, and she should’ve been talking on her cell phone in between times she’s shoving the burger into her skanky piehole…
Yeah, Paris endorsing CJ’s is a reeeeal inducement… gaahh… Bad enough I got food poisoning there, I should get a scorching case of lip herpes too? :eek:
