# Is this commercial a little creepy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-commercial-a-little-creepy/526330>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 25, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-commercial-a-little-creepy/526330 "2010-01-25T04:58:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-commercial-a-little-creepy/526330/21 "2010-01-26T00:38:51Z")

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Guys who are stalking pristine vaginas are not doing it at taco bell…

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-commercial-a-little-creepy/526330/22 "2010-01-26T00:44:51Z")

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I think this is a classic case of bad casting. The guy just looks like a police sketch come to life. I wonder if there’s a way to re-dub it with his dialog and creepy crime re-enactment music.

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-commercial-a-little-creepy/526330/23 "2010-01-26T00:47:00Z")

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Actually as a former auditor, I can tell you if someone did that in real life, the first thing that would jump into my head is theft.

Kids often will give free food to their friends. Or they will arrange “bargains” for people, etc.

It’s too bad everyone thinks someone is stalking them. Remember the old days when Cindy got a secret admirer in the 70s. No one was concerned she was in danger.

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**Author:** ![mecaenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@mecaenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mecaenas)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-commercial-a-little-creepy/526330/24 "2010-01-26T03:37:09Z")

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> [@Enderw24](#):
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> [Taco Bell’s Five Ingredients Combined In Totally New Way](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31955)

I don’t get it, but we don’t have Taco Bell in Australia. My comment was from surprise and disgust that someone would make a sauce out of cheese, let alone use it as a garnish ontop of more cheese.. it just sounds so _wrong_.

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**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-commercial-a-little-creepy/526330/25 "2010-01-26T05:19:37Z")

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> [@tacoloco](#):
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> The fact the people are talking about it means it was pretty effective.

It’s only effective if it gets more people to go to Taco Bell. Of course it’s very difficult to measure how successful an ad is in those terms.

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-commercial-a-little-creepy/526330/26 "2010-01-26T05:23:44Z")

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> [@mecaenas](#):
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> I don’t get it, but we don’t have Taco Bell in Australia.

There were a few here and there at one stage, but I think they all failed.

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