Jack in the Box shilling for Round Table Pizza? That's not right!

If you live in an area that has neither Jack in the Box or Round Table Pizza, then you probably haven’t seen these ads, but it gets lots of airplay here, and it throws me every time. I’m not even sure how the ad begins because it’s just background noise until I hear that voice.

The setting is an office or boardroom with several men in suits. An old man (presumably from a rival pizza chain?) moans something about steak and bacon pizza and keels over. The view switches to that of the old man (corpse?) looking up at the faces of the other men gathered around him and one says:

“I have dibs on his office.”

That man sounds just like Jack from the Jack in the Box ads. I mean, just like him. I wonder if it’s the same actor because, if it’s not, then that’s just freaky. And if it is, he should have some kind of exclusive contract with JitB, because that voice belongs to Jack, not random dude in commercial X.

Anyone else confused or perturbed when “the voice” or “the face” you associate with one commercial turns up in another? I’m usually not, but this one really got to me. I guess because Jack’s supposed to be selling me burgers, not pizza.

Occasionally they use the “Behind the Music” narrator for “The E! True Hollywood Story”, if the subject is a rock and roll musician. It gives the normally fluffy THS the tinge of imminent disaster that BtM always features.

And the “In a world…” movie preview guy has shown up in a couple of joke scenarios (Geico and others). Now I just don’t take him as seriously even when he is supposed to be.