It seems odd they would set up this site and not buckinchicken.com. Are we sure it was “buckin” for a while?
Oh yeah, two separate ad spots. I guess the motorcycle one has a web site due to the intense difficulty of filming an idiot in a chicken suit going over jumps. :rolleyes:
Aw fuckit, I got nothin’–I’m just baffled by the whole thing. :smack:
There was (saw it about 3 times, then never again) a commercial 'round here in Utah, I believe from Burger King. Some random guy is casually ranting how other burger places use Australian cattle for their American burgers. And how Americans deserve American cattle for their burgers, like Burger King (or whomever) used. “No offense to Australia.”
Jesus christ on a stick, that commercial made me seethe. I need to know for sure what company it was so as to assure never to use them.
The fuckin’ chicken ones…I’ve taken to keeping my remote next to me so I can tap the mute button at a moment’s notice.
San Diego’s lovely and relatively new baseball stadium is officially brought to you by locally-based national pet store Petco, hence the name Petco Park. As you might imagine, Petco runs quite a few ads during baseball games. On TV they just run the same ones they do all over the country, where Petco employees pretend to be domestic animals trying out supersized pet products (a 20-something woman jumping and running through a gigantic cat condo, for example). Kind of dumb in their premise, but not that bad as far as commercials go.
But the radio ads are apparently specially-made for San Diego Padres listeners. They find a new, claw-your-eyes-out irritating idea for a radio commercial seemingly every week. Some of them have venerable, long-time play-by-play man Jerry Coleman pretending to do play-by-play for…animals in the store…using all kinds of terrible baseball puns. Other ones are even more horrific, and feature young minimum-wage Petco employees “trying out” for radio play-by-play jobs BY DOING PLAY-BY-PLAY FOR ANIMALS. Again using terrible baseball puns to describe dogs shitting everywhere and parrots outgrowing their cages or somesuch (“Petco brought in a switch hitter–a new cage with all the bells and whistles–and Oh Doctor*, that parrot is back in the game!”)
- Coleman’s trademark reaction to amazing plays.
Bring out your cold ones! Toast the Padres! Enjoy this championship organization!
(Sorry, but any mention of Petco Park makes me think of this. It was a stone purchased by PETA- Read each first letter for the real message.)
I remember that as well. The “championship” part is a dead giveaway. 
TiVo sweetie…TiVo!
As annoying as the chicken commercial sounds, I’ve not yet seen it aired up here. It’s possible I’ve been tivoing right by it, but I don’t remember even seeing very many BK commercials lately.
BTW, since when is the fucking insurance gecko British?
That (change in accent) doesn’t piss me off nearly as much, though, as the fact that he still speaks in the American vernacular; for example, saying “commercial” instead of “advertisement” or “advert”. Obviously they got an American voice actor educated on British voice inflections without achieving any semblance of a clue as to how British people actually talk.
Since forever. And he sounds quite convicingly like a working-class East-ender. My guess is he’s voiced by a real Brit.
See? More proff that the English, or British, or whatever the heck they’re calling themselves this century, invented a language they cannot speak.
Titmouse.
My arse. I most emphatically do not remember him being British before.
Before what?
He was something else before, and now he’s British? I seem to remember when the ads first came out that he didn’t say anything.
Was he a mime gecko? 
I’m pretty sure there’s an ad that still runs where he’s teaching another lizard/other lizards how to sell car insurance, all in thoroughly American English.
Maybe I’m just making things up subconsciously, though. I will tell you I enjoyed those commercials a lot more before he talked.
That’s rather unusual, seeing as he talked in the very first commercial he appeared in, where he held a press conference to announce he was fed up with people accidentially calling him since “Geico” sounds a lot like “gecko.”
“Of course they want free pie and chips. It’s pie…with chips…for free!”
These adverts with the little cockney gecko have been running for what must be two years now, maybe more. In the first commercial mobo refers to, he spoke more of a Queen’s English, but now he’s very working class.
I could swear he spoke with an American accent in that commercial. I guess I could be wrong.
OK, mobo85, I liked the commercials that he didn’t talk in, a lot better. There was a while when he was silent in all/most of them, including one I loved where he was hunted by a family’s cats.
Just my $0.02:
The lumberjack one where Miss King jumps out from behind the tree was bad enough.
Ditto the construction worker in bed.
The “peep-show booth” commercial, however, absolutely CROSSED THE FUCKING LINE!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Sweet Jeebus Christ on a croissant, BK, HAVE YOU ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING SHAME?
I mean, what whirling dickhead at BK headquarters sat through the ad agency’s presentation and said “OK, lets go with it!”??? Look, Paris Hilton eating a sloppy burger in a swimsuit was no prize, but GODDAMN!
I’d be interested to see BK’s sales figures in some of the less sophisticated regions of the US since this massive hunk of suck hit the airwaves.
I miss Herb.
Like I said before, don’t go blaming this one on Burger King. This was Carl’s Jr. I know this despite there being no Carl’s Jrs (Carl’s Jr.s? Carl’s Jrs.?) on this side of the United States.