Okay, I think I’ve mentioned before that the Burger King creeps me out something fierce. Well, I just saw a new BK commercial a few minutes ago. There’s a construction worker working way up high on some girder, and he hears riveting from the other side of a girder in front of him. He looks over and THE BURGER KING’S FREAKY ASS FACE pops out and STARES at the guy with his glassy psychotic eyes. I swear to god I almost shit or died or both. If I was up on a girder and the Burger King popped out in front of me, if I didn’t fall from the shock I’d probably throw myself off. Now I’m afraid he’s going to come touch me or stare at me or hand me a greasy sandwich in my sleep, or whatever the hell it is he does. shudder
Heh, my wife feels exactly the same way. She is absolutely creaped out, if not completely and irrationally terrified, of that… monster.
If she wasn’t pregnant I’d try to find a BK mask and just stand over her bed grinning until she woke up.
Then again, probably not, that’s a good way to lose a testical or two.
I have an irrational fear of people staring at me through my window (irrational 'cause I live on the 2nd floor, and if there’s someone out there staring through my window it’s a vampire and I need to grab the garlic). The BK commercial where the guy walks into his kitchen and pulls up the blind to find the Burger King standing right on the other side grinning in at him makes me shudder.
The Burger King is the kind of unbalanced monarch that goes to the torture chamber to whack off.
If I still worked at BK, my coworkers and I would be having endless amounts of fun at the expense of the Burger King. Something involving the deep fryer…
Does anybody know where I can get one of those cool BK masks for Halloween?
3000 Posts! I think I’ll have a beer to celebrate. Crap. All out. I guess I’ll go to sleep to celebrate.
The BK king mask featured in a photoshop competition on Fark.com recently. (My rather limp entry is here)
Didya know that back in the day when fast food restaurants used to have styrofoam burger containers, that the containers could be perfectly miniaturized in a fry vat? It was great fun, you could put a big burger container in the vat and shrinky dink it down to perfect 1/4 size, all of the printing perfectly legible. Good times…good times.
I was dissapointed in the Lumberjack BK King advert, myself…
after the lumberjack shuts off his chainsaw he sees the King offering him a “Heart-Attck-In-A-Bun” breakfast sandwich (free defibrilator with every purchase), i was expecting the lumberjack to fire up his chainsaw rev it up to full speed, and either drive the blade into the King’s gut, or lop his head off (i’d be happy with either, dear Og the King is creepy…)
but NOOO!, the lumberjack just stands there and accepts the Breakfast Sandwich Of Death (200% of your USRDA of Cholesterol!) from the creepy plastic-faced man
i was similarly dissapointed that the Star Wars King advert featuring Darth Vader was also directed badly, no force-choking, no lightsaber beheadings (or in keeping with the theme of the Star Wars films, chopping off the King’s hands), you didn’t even hear James Earl Jones intone “God, you’re creepy…”
How do these concepts ever get out of the conference room? I’m sure no focus group thought it was any less spooky and I bet most people do expect the lumberjack to chainsaw the king in that commercial because it seems right in that situation. When some masked freak is hiding behind a tree in the middle of the forest trying to hand you a meatnormous…that aint right.
I guess it sparks conversation adn some TOM awareness, but emotional marketing is powerful mojo and why would I want people attaching “creepy” to my product? Nobody likes the looks of this creepy King.
I’d like to talk to the people that green light some of these silly concepts…“what can brown do for you” also comes to mind.
You leave Prince Humperdink out of this.
i’m glad someone brought up this ad.
I thought I was having some kind of Nyquil induced horror vision when I saw it.
I think I am permanently scarred now.
I like these ads. They’re funny.
Hey, for every person that si freaked out by The Burger King, there is another who thinks he is the best mascot ever made. 
I love the football ones, watching him do endzone dacnes makes me smile.
He terrifies me as well. You’ll notice that he’s actively homicidal- not only does he offer unsuspecting victims Heart Attacks On A Plate, but in the commercial mentioned in the OP he pushes the construction worker while they’re on the girder, obviously in an attempt to shove him over the side to a horrible, splaty death.
And I think they changed his eyes for this commercial- he looks more insane, maybe as a nod to the coffee buzz he’s on.
This.is.sick.and.wrong.
I’ve been stockpiling pitchforks and torches.
Rally the townspeople.
whoa!
Here in the UK we have had Burgerking for years,but Ihave never seen an advert
with that face!
Doesnt scare me though, just looks like your average member of the royal family
How can you not love the Burger King facing down Darth Vader?