There’s a * TV commercial that combines these 3 * elements, with no * apparent rhyme or reason. It’s pretty much, here’s a * Big Mac, here’s some * undead * pirates, here’s some phat dope * beats yo. Run that * by me again, Captain Jack? Then if you * go to McD’s, there’s no * sign of Pirates of the * Carribean merchandise, just a * poster. What the *?
[sub]*Please insert your favorite random profanity here.[/sub]
Crap, I forgot my wife was logged in on her account before I posted that. Sorry mods.
Personally, I think somebody missed out BIG by not grabbing the license for Johnny Depp action figures…
Yup. Another campaign not unlike Hook in 1991.
Sounds like more half-assed an attempt at product tie-in than the Pirates of the Caribbean video game. I’m glad I don’t watch TV (and, by extension, that means I don’t watch commercials, neither).
When are they gonna get the Icy Hot Stuntaz?
I was just commenting to my husband that the commercial was very odd. I asked him (he’s seen the movie) if any of the pirates were eating Big Macs in the movie. He assures me they were not.
Further evidence for why McDonald’s financial earnings have been declining streadily. They lack focus in their marketing/advertising and this is just one of many examples.
MeanJoe
I was about to bitch about this on my Disney boards! WTF! I mean, they just go “Hey, Pirates is a great movie, doesn’t that make you want to eat french fries?” With no financial incentive to do so. Jeezus people, at least have some happy meal toys or 50 cents off a Big Mac with your cross-promotion! :rolleyes:
meanjoe: Add Disney to that list m’dear.
LOL
Those guys were pimpin’
Exactly what I thought, verbatim.
McDonald’s and Disney have a contract where McD’s gets exclusive rights for food tie-ins for every Disney movie that comes out. This is, of course, a sign of the Apocalypse.
Ugh that is just wrong.
Nothing to add, I just wanted to say that if there were “Pirate’s” Collector’s glasses out, I would be about wetting myself with excitment.
Carry on.
With the * and everything? Duuuuude, that’s like… Whoooooa.
As for the merchandising, Burger King was doing a lot of Disney toys for a while, did that change?
The same rap is also used in another commercial. The lyrics consist of the trademarked phrase, “Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun.” (I believe it’s trademarked as one word.)
Pirates singing it is, in fact, very historically correct. Pirates invented the hamburger, and in fact, an old text written by Blackbeard himself features a passage entitled “Blackbeard’s Grand Recipe for Ham-Burgers,” the ingredients of which include “The patties made of beef, numbering two; lettuce; cheese; pickels; onions; and a sauce the ingredients of which are known only to me, on a bun covered in seeds of the sesame.”
A McDonald’s franchisee named Jim Delligatti, a pirate buff, added the Grand Recipe to the menu, naming it the “Big Black” in honor of its inventor. McDonald’s took it nationwide in 1968, changing the name of the burger to “Big Mac” as not to offend African-Americans in the wake of the civil rights movement, and introduced the now famous “Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun®” phrase, inspired by a chanty the pirates used to sing.
Idiot disclaimer follows
This is satire. None of this is true.
When did McDonalds have Pirates toys? Last time I looked, they were giving away Sega-branded LCD video games.
I’m getting sweaty just thinking about a Johnny Depp action figure.
AHAHAHAHA. I too have been subjected to this acid trip of a commercial. So bizzare.