# Sharp turn-Carl's Jr. disses the ads of...Carl's Jr.? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352 "2017-03-30T15:45:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/1 "2017-03-30T15:45:27Z")
Bye bye, bikini babes-[Carl’s Jr. is dropping them and mocking it’s own commercials in a new campaign](https://consumerist.com/2017/03/30/carls-jr-is-replacing-bikinis-with-burgers-in-new-ad-campaign/) designed around the food itself. I think I like it. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/2 "2017-03-30T15:46:51Z")
Well, drat. I enjoyed the bikini-babes. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/3 "2017-03-30T15:50:55Z")
Well, good. Now I won’t feel so dirty when I eat at Carls Jr. Now if JitB can stop with the stoner theme… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/4 "2017-03-30T15:51:52Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > Well, drat. I enjoyed the bikini-babes. Did it cause you to try the food there? ---
**Author:** ![Beren\_Erchamion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90ced4/32.png) [@Beren\_Erchamion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beren_Erchamion)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/5 "2017-03-30T15:51:57Z")
You mean Hardee’s, right? It’s Hardee’s. A few years ago I moved from the Midwest to the West Coast for grad school, and yes, I still call it Hardee’s. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/6 "2017-03-30T15:56:03Z")
Is that the guy from the American “Whose line is it Anyway” ? Chris Esten or something like that? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/7 "2017-03-30T16:03:10Z")
Have any other companies ever done this “Let’s take a dump on our former ads” bit before? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/8 "2017-03-30T16:07:08Z")
> [@Beren\_Erchamion](#): > > A few years ago I moved from the Midwest to the West Coast for grad school, and yes, I still call it Hardee’s. Anyone from Northern California remember Herfy’s? ("When you’re a whole lot more / Than a hamburger store / You’re a Herfy’s! [Herfeeeeee’s!]) Just too darn bad they came out right at the time everyone was getting… herpes. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/9 "2017-03-30T16:08:18Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Have any other companies ever done this “Let’s take a dump on our former ads” bit before? Didn’t Jack in the Box go through a couple of rounds of self-parody, starting with “blow up the clown” and then “make fun of this weird Jack character”? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/10 "2017-03-30T16:11:06Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Didn’t Jack in the Box go through a couple of rounds of self-parody, starting with “blow up the clown” and then “make fun of this weird Jack character”? In 1980, they ran a series of “We’re blowing up clowns!” ads to indicate a more “mature” menu. Then in 1995, they featured the return of Jack and showed him blowing up the old board of directors. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/11 "2017-03-30T16:14:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Did it cause you to try the food there? Well, I already knew that I liked their burgers, before they started their current style of commercials. But I likes to see some good-lookin’ women in skimpy attire, for some odd reason. So I dig the amusing adverts! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/12 "2017-03-30T16:14:21Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Didn’t Jack in the Box go through a couple of rounds of self-parody, starting with “blow up the clown” and then “make fun of this weird Jack character”? Both Burger King and KFC have had ad campaigns based on twisted or self-parodic versions of mascots that used to be played straight. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/13 "2017-03-30T16:14:34Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Have any other companies ever done this “Let’s take a dump on our former ads” bit before? Not quite the same, but Domino’s did the whole “we used to be crap but now we’re better!” series of ads. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/14 "2017-03-30T18:46:12Z")
> [@Beren\_Erchamion](#): > > You mean Hardee’s, right? > > It’s Hardee’s. > > A few years ago I moved from the Midwest to the West Coast for grad school, and yes, I still call it Hardee’s. You have it backwards. Hardee’s was purchased by CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc. CKE Restaurants was the successor to Carl Karcher Enterprises, Inc., the company which owned Carl’s Jr. (Carl Karcher being the “Carl” in question). The purchase happened in 1997, IIRC. So it’s much more correct to call a Hardee’s restaurant a CJs. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/15 "2017-03-30T18:48:10Z")
I have to wonder at the change in corporate advertising and its timing relative to the information that Puzder wouldn’t be returning to his position as CEO. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/16 "2017-03-30T18:51:38Z")
> [@Beren\_Erchamion](#): > > You mean Hardee’s, right? > > It’s Hardee’s. It depends on whether or not they put barbecue sauce on some of the burgers. I was at a Hardee’s in Indianapolis a couple of years ago, and I asked for a Monsterburger but with BBQ sauce instead of mayonnaise - and they gave me a couple of packets of BBQ sauce you dip chicken tenders into. Another difference: Hardee’s - Red Burrito Carl’s Jr - Green Burrito ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/17 "2017-03-30T19:04:54Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Is that the guy from the American “Whose line is it Anyway” ? Chris Esten or something like that? He was known as Chip Esten then but prefers Charles now. He’s on the show _Nashville_. But, yeah, that’s him. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/18 "2017-03-30T19:20:13Z")
I ate at a Hardees once. That was enough for a lifetime or two. Really awful food. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/19 "2017-03-30T19:37:36Z")
They should just go back to “Fuck you, I’m eating!” Or is that in the future? I’m so confused! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352/20 "2017-03-30T20:03:18Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > You have it backwards. Hardee’s was purchased by CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc. CKE Restaurants was the successor to Carl Karcher Enterprises, Inc., the company which owned Carl’s Jr. (Carl Karcher being the “Carl” in question). The purchase happened in 1997, IIRC. So it’s much more correct to call a Hardee’s restaurant a CJs. 😉 Hardee’s died in 1997 when it was bought out. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharp-turn-carls-jr-disses-the-ads-of-carls-jr/783352.md?page=2)