So I’ve seen a few quiznos commericals with two things on the screen singing. The commericals themselves are damn funny, but now a friend and I are arguing – what on earth are those two things?
I say they are potato chips, he says they are hamsters…
So we put the vote to you, the Dopers…Name that small round brown looking thing.
He’s closer. They’re Spongmonkeys, obviously.
They appear to be Spongmonkeys.
from here.
All I can add is that whenever I see that commercial I can’t help but think it’s an appeal to the stoner demographic. It makes me giggle, anyway.
A Quizno’s just opened close by. I had planned on going there one day but after seeing that damn annoying commericial…I changed my mind.
Them things are annoying
They remind me of the “kitty” videos that lipsync to music they show on MTV sometimes…but not nearly as cute…
I think they’re creepy as hell, but apparantly the advertising powers that be like them…
http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=39754
I disagree with the author’s assessment… I think they’re disturbing, quasi-fetus looking mascots that would make me cringe at the thought of associating them with something I would put in my mouth…
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I love the Quizno’s commercial. I find myself singing the jingle, and my favorite part “they’ve got a pepper bar!” gets me laughing everytime…
they are crunchy they are tasty they are warm because they toast them…
THEY"VE GOT A PEPPAH BAH!
What are they?
Preventing me from patronizing a Quizno’s ever again.
Another vote for “annoying as hell.”
Can I throw in a vote for looking at those things, the last thing onmy mind is FOOD.
They opened a Quizno’s on34th Steet and I went, but damn it I’ll never be able to walk in there again with out gaging at the idea of those rat things humping a sandwich. :wally
They look like tarsiers.
I think someone on this board referred to them as singing testicles, and that’s what I think of them as now.
Same guy. Joel Veitch, rathergood.com.
I love these things. Now, if Quizno’s actually had a store in Boston… and they had more than one vegetarian sub… I’d be there! 
Am I the first one to think that using frightening looking singing rodents might not be a god idea for a fast food chain? Then again, look how popular the Taco Bell dog was.
And I think they’re chinchillas. But I’ve been wrong in the past.
The first time I saw a Quiznos commercial with those things singing, I jumped up and ran out of the room. It was night and I was home alone, and they scared the crap out of me. I didn’t come back into the room until the commercial was over.
When my wife and daughters came home, I told them about this scary commercial with frightening singing hamster-like critters whose eyes were bulging and moving around, and my kids wanted to see. I balked, sure that they would get scared and have nightmares – they’re only 7 and 5 years old, after all. But they insisted, so I finally gave in and showed them the commercial (it was recorded on one of the TiVos). Both of them basically said “Those are so cute! I love those little animals!”
Apparently, my girls are a lot more comfortable around demon rodents than I am …
I am going with the demon rodents vote. But I would like to add stoner demon rodents… I did like the commercial on the sole basis that it made me ask what the hell was that?
I think they look like marmosets or another tiny primate, that have been altered. I LOVE Quiznos, but I also don’t see why they are using the animations. Kittens or people would have been better, Joel animates all kinds of things.
One of them is a CGI-altered tarsier, a small prosimian from southeast Asia.
The other is a CGI-altered groundhog, from what I can tell.
Those familiar with Joel Veitch’s work know that it was the now banned in the UK Viking Kittens that brought him fame. I bought a Viking Kitten t-shirt from him too.
Banned in the UK? Why?
I thought they were desiccated mice. They creep me the hell out. I like Quizno’s, but this commercial makes me want to avoid the place.
