# The Burger King is out to get me! I know it! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515 "2005-10-10T06:08:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/1 "2005-10-10T06:08:45Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/2 "2005-10-10T06:15:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/3 "2005-10-10T06:22:00Z")
[Lo and behold, teh eval!](http://elitemrp.net/wiyg/) ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/4 "2005-10-10T06:39:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/5 "2005-10-10T06:39:57Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![five\_to\_one](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@five\_to\_one](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/five_to_one)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/6 "2005-10-10T07:12:46Z")
Does anybody know where I can get one of those cool BK masks for Halloween? ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/7 "2005-10-10T07:28:41Z")
> [@five to one](#): > > Does anybody know where I can get one of those cool BK masks for Halloween? [Ask, and ye Shall Receive](http://search.ebay.com/burger-king-mask) 3000 Posts! I think I’ll have a beer to celebrate. Crap. All out. I guess I’ll go to sleep to celebrate. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/8 "2005-10-10T09:04:56Z")
The BK king mask featured in a photoshop competition on [Fark.com](http://Fark.com) recently. [(My rather limp entry is here)](http://www.gurman.co.uk/Stuff/KFK.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/9 "2005-10-10T10:01:41Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > 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… 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. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/10 "2005-10-10T14:28:36Z")
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…” ---
**Author:** ![John\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@John\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_F)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/11 "2005-10-10T14:44:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/12 "2005-10-10T14:59:07Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > The Burger King is the kind of unbalanced monarch that goes to the torture chamber to whack off. You leave Prince Humperdink out of this. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/13 "2005-10-10T15:01:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/14 "2005-10-10T15:08:07Z")
I like these ads. They’re funny. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/15 "2005-10-10T15:12:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/16 "2005-10-10T16:01:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/17 "2005-10-10T16:25:02Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > [Ask, and ye Shall Receive](http://search.ebay.com/burger-king-mask) This.is.sick.and.wrong. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/18 "2005-10-10T16:32:56Z")
I’ve been stockpiling pitchforks and torches. Rally the townspeople. ---
**Author:** ![3catshappy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/b9e5f3/32.png) [@3catshappy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3catshappy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/19 "2005-10-10T16:35:25Z")
**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 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515/20 "2005-10-10T18:37:15Z")
How can you not love the Burger King facing down Darth Vader? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-burger-king-is-out-to-get-me-i-know-it/325515.md?page=2)