I fyou’re one of the lucky ones who hasn’t seen the newest Quizno’s commercial featuring a pair of nuclear holocost rodents singing and playing the guitar, consider yourself lucky. I don’t know who thought these minature monsters would make people want to run out and buy sandwiches. They make me want to retch.
Seriously, they look like something you might see on a PETA flyer. You know those shocking photos undercover operatives manage to get that graphically depict lab rats in various states of living disassembly?
If Quizno’s was going for furry and cute, they missed by a longshot. What they ended up with was night of the living roadkill.
If that wasn’t bad enough, you ought to hear the voiceover. Loud, screeching confused lyrics. You can almost feel the pain of cosmetic products being rubbed into their eyes while they were in those animal testing labs.
I haven’t had a good night’s sleep since I saw that commercial, and I don’t think I’ll ever eat at Quizno’s again. I’ll just keep watching that conveyor-belt toaster, expecting bleeding rodents to come scurrying out.
Go to Quizno’s home page and have a look. If you’ve got a cast iron stomach and won’t be eating for several more hours, click on the furry little mutant rodents to see (and hear) them in action.
I actually liked it. I’ve only seen it once, and the Quizno’s site is way to slow for me to review it, but I liked it cuz it was original and off the wall. I tend to be weird, though.
Yeah, I just saw a commercial for Quizno’s and was coming here to post a rant when I saw yours. Stupidest commercial ever. Someone at the ad agency was smoking crack when they thought up of this one.
Ew . . . I don’t want to watch it, the still pics of those rodents are creepy enough. Definitely doesn’t put me in mind of eating a sub; too Night of the Lepus-y. :eek:
Heh, I was just about to post a rant about this, actually! I frickin’ (since this isn’t the Pit) hate that commercial! The sound just drives me up a wall. I will be boycotting Quizno’s until this thing is off my TV.
I like it. I’m glad the spoon monkeys have gotten an endorsement deal.
Then again, I also liked the Wolf-Suckling, so I’m just weird. I like commercials that are original. If there wa sone around here, i’d eat at Quizno’s.
I saw this commercial last night, I think during 24. . .
I looked over and my girlfriend had a look of horror and disgust on her face, but I couldn’t keep from giggling. Two commercials later, I burst out laughing. She asked me what I was laughing at, and I said I was still laughing at that Quizno’s commercial. She thought I was nuts. I did also like the wolf-suckling one, but not so much.
I love rathergood. Absolutely love it. I watch the Viking Kittens doing Electric Six and White Stripes songs pretty much every day, and it cracks me up every time. However, not once have I ever looked at the freaky little things and thought “Mmmm! Sandwiches!” Still, good for them, and all that.
The person at Quizno’s in charge of hiring the advertising agency or approving what the agency produces is a serious crackhead who needs some counseling.
It all started with the commercial a few years ago where a guy comes home all excited about his toasty Quizno’s sandwich only to have his dog grab it and ravage it on the kitchen floor. The guy shoos the dog away, picks up the nasty pile of dogged-up slobbery messwich, and–right in front of and facing the camera–takes a big bite of it. I couldn’t drive by a Quizno’s for 6 months after seeing that without dry-heaving a little bit.
The guy could have turned around and taken a bite out of the sandwich and the message would still have gotten across!
Why, Quizno’s, why? If I was a franchisee I’d be so pissed that I had to pay for this crap.