# The (Burger) King is Dead! Long Live No King! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400 "2011-08-20T02:46:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/1 "2011-08-20T02:46:41Z")
Burger King is retiring its spooky mascot [http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/113356/burger-king-drops-king-mascot-forbes](http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/113356/burger-king-drops-king-mascot-forbes) > [@](#): > > Fast-food chain Burger King is making a 180 degree shift in its marketing, with a decision to drop its “King” mascot and focus on — sit down before you read this! — product. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/2 "2011-08-20T02:49:47Z")
Oh good, now I can finally eat at BK again. (for any BK advertising monkeys searching this site: please note that I have not graced your ‘restaurants’ since you instituted that abomination of a head-mask as your mascot. I’ve very much missed Whoppers, and now I can eat them again. What the HELL took you so long?!?!) ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/3 "2011-08-20T02:55:51Z")
[My favorite King “commercial”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fshdNeM9DfU) (probably not safe for work, at the very least turn it down). Yeah, that guy was pretty spooky. I don’t know what they were thinking, but whatever it was it wasn’t a good ad campaign. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/4 "2011-08-20T02:57:25Z")
I dressed as him for Halloween once. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/5 "2011-08-20T02:58:29Z")
Good riddance ya creepy fuck. Give my regards to Satan. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/6 "2011-08-20T03:08:53Z")
Yep. I haven’t eaten at BK since they started those creepy ass King commercials. Dropping him is a start, but they’ll have to do more to get me back after so much bad karma earned. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/7 "2011-08-20T03:11:05Z")
My High School Trig teacher was the spittin image of “The Marvelous Magical Burger King.” Circa 1977. IIRC, The mascot was not as creepy as he is now. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/8 "2011-08-20T03:11:10Z")
It’s too late for those of us who lived through it - what has been seen cannot be unseen. But now there’s hope for the future. We can begin raising a new generation that will be untouched by the horror. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/9 "2011-08-20T04:26:15Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > Oh good, now I can finally eat at BK again. > > (for any BK advertising monkeys searching this site: please note that I have not graced your ‘restaurants’ since you instituted that abomination of a head-mask as your mascot. I’ve very much missed Whoppers, and now I can eat them again. What the HELL took you so long?!?!) I am fully aware that it’s totally impotent, ineffectual and meaningless, but I have not set foot in a Subway restaurant since they began running the new ad campaign that features adult actors having their voices dubbed over with “kiddie” voices… ---
**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:** [August 20, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/10 "2011-08-20T04:33:42Z")
If the King is dead, can we now hope to see commercials featuring Zombie Burger King? Or would that be redundant? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/11 "2011-08-20T04:40:21Z")
The Burger King commercials were incredibly creepy and wrong. I grew to like them. They were much better than the happy hairy guy they used in the '70s. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/12 "2011-08-20T04:58:34Z")
The first King commercial with him in the guy’s window when the guy gets out of bed always made me laugh for some reason. Some of the others were pretty funny too. Yeah, he was creepy, but that was half the appeal o’ the King! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/13 "2011-08-20T05:01:57Z")
What the fuck is wrong with you all? I hate Burger King, but those commercials were funny as shit. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/14 "2011-08-20T06:33:20Z")
Awww, I kinda liked those CMs. It was a good kinda creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/15 "2011-08-20T07:45:30Z")
I’m disappointed. I liked the King. Of course, I won’t eat at BK any more, but hey. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/16 "2011-08-20T09:17:46Z")
See, I like Burger King’s bizarre commercials. Remember [Subservient Chicken](http://www.subservientchicken.com/pre_bk_skinned.swf)? And there was another weird one with a fashion designer, I think. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/17 "2011-08-20T10:03:59Z")
How the hell can people say he’s creepy when Ronald McDonald exists? Especially [creepy Willard Scott Ronald](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tGbvfVpPGg)? Haven’t eaten at BK in years and years, but the King’s commercials are the best. I even got that Xbox “Sneak King” game were you run around stealth [del]killing[/del] surprising people. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/18 "2011-08-20T10:59:08Z")
I don’t think I knew about this, they never used this campaign in Britain. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/19 "2011-08-20T11:09:27Z")
Did he run off with Pedobear? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400/20 "2011-08-20T11:42:03Z")
_Awww_. I never have eaten at a Burger King and never plan to, but those spots had just the kind of 1980s po-mo \*Pee Wee’s Playhouse \*creepy/cool I love. Now if Six Flags (which I also have never been near) would get rid of the Dancing Reanimated Zombie Corpse of Swifty Lazar . . . [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-dead-long-live-no-king/593400.md?page=2)