The Burger King: Happy King or Creepy Stalker?

[Quiet_Cool]

You'd act disturbing if you had a man's arm rammed up your backside, too.

If you're offering, I'll have to decline.

Nothing personal, you just seem like someone with... well, large hands.

Q_C

 

[bholderman]

I have to agree with you, but at the same time, the creepiness makes it a bit comical from an adult perspective.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Yeah, well I just saved a bundle on my car insurance.

The Geicco commercials are great. The Speed Racer one especially.

You see the usual Speed Racer animation, and he's headed for a volcano or something, and his girl with the monkey tells him she has good news. "Yes? What?" "I just saved a bundle on my car insurance by switching to Geicco!"

Shot of Speed's face, unmoving, mouth frozen in that japanimation "O". It's just hilarious.

Those are alright. For auto insurance commercials, I still like the now older one with the two squirrels, where the one runs into the street, making the car swerve to miss him and wreck. Then the other comes out and hi-five's him.

But they still aren't ones like the Pepsi (I think it was Pepsi...) commercial where the guy's trying to buy a bottle from the machine and the other two are inside flipping the power off and making him do tricks.

Or like the Budweiser donkey. That's good advertising.

Q_C

 

[Guest]

I have to agree with you, but at the same time, the creepiness makes it a bit comical from an adult perspective.

Since I'm just a bit older than you I would love to know the reasoning behind your statement.

We're children? We're immature? We waste time on a porn site when we should be writing, hanging out with friends, flirting and comparing our naughty bits?

Well, ok - the last two may be true.

 

[fieryjen]

One of them makes me burst out laughing on a regular basis. I believe it's the one where the burger king is on the other side of a window (maybe that makes me feel more secure and less creeped out...?). The one where he's in bed... scary.

I like the Geicco commercials a lot, but some of them are getting old.

 

[Ferawyn]

Some of the best commercials in holland are for a particular insurance company. One of their best:

You see a shot of an airfield with some glider planes. One man is standing at one of the planes and another walks towards him. They talk, shake hands, laugh at a joke, then board the glider. They both stick up their thumbs and the glider is propelled upwards into the sky on one of those pulley systems.

A moment later two more men walk onto the scene. They're talking, discussing something on a piece of paper, then they reach the center of the field and start looking around as if they're missing something. Then you hear the pulley system release the plane and they both look up, they gape and one of them takes off his glasses.

The camera then pans around and you see the word 'Instructor' on the back of both their jackets.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Creepy!!!!

 

[mack_the_knife]

If you're offering, I'll have to decline.

Nothing personal, you just seem like someone with... well, large hands.

Q_C

You don't know what you're missing...well perhaps you do, but still...<rubbery snap>

 

[Guest]

Am I the only one who is completely grossed out by those Burger King commercials?

You know the ones I mean, where the logger is working in the forest and the Burger King appears from behind a tree? Big grin, big head, not speaking? He holds out a burger and the logger happily chows down.

He also appears in some guy's bed with a breakfast sandwich.

He's also running the ball on the football field, but for some reason we don't seem to mind that one so much.

Here's a link to the site. You can actually buy the mask for $9.00, as well as a Subservient Chicken mask for $10.00.

http://www.bkmasks.com/

Ewww.

first time i saw this, i was stunned. incredibly sexist and it was almost flaunting it.
a huge turn off for me.

 

[Guest]

 

[Alex756]

The first one I saw was the like 3 hour (OK I'm exagerating) something something bacon ranch chedder ... the best that grows on trees....

well whatever. It was on spike during my Dr Bashir gawking (Star trek deep space 9) 2 hour time slot. Guess what I picked up for dinner. I had a desperate need for a whopper the rest o f the day AND called everyone about the commercial. For weeks it was only on during the 4 hour trek block on spike. When it was finnaly on when my husband was home he thought the kitchen was birning down by how I yelled for him to get downstairs.

It is a brillant commercial. All fast food is crap and most fast food decisions are made due to kids meals. The non kids meal portion is weird cravings. start of the school year at the BK I used to be at we ran 99 cent whoppers during the big fall party season, suddenly people wanted whoppers whenthey were drunk and we got fll price the rest of the year. After clubbing the only thing that was open was taco hell, guess what I still crave if I am tired and its dark?

~Alex

 

[Belegon]

I love calling him Stalker King! I think it is a very creepy little set up.

..but it does stay in your mind...

 

[Lust Engine]

Spooky as all get out but admittedly we all remember them so I guess to a certain degree the commercials are working.

 

[sincerely_helene]

Am I the only one who is completely grossed out by those Burger King commercials?

You know the ones I mean, where the logger is working in the forest and the Burger King appears from behind a tree? Big grin, big head, not speaking? He holds out a burger and the logger happily chows down.

He also appears in some guy's bed with a breakfast sandwich.

He's also running the ball on the football field, but for some reason we don't seem to mind that one so much.

Here's a link to the site. You can actually buy the mask for $9.00, as well as a Subservient Chicken mask for $10.00.

http://www.bkmasks.com/

Ewww.

I'm jealous because I was going to start this thread last week.

Ahhhh, well. I see your gross, creepy Burger King Guy and raise you one failed, unappetizing, (yet regretfully unforgettable,) Quizno mascot: (I'd introduce him properly, but I still have no idea wtf he is.)

 

[rgraham666]

I'm jealous because I was going to start this thread last week.

Ahhhh, well. I see your gross, creepy Burger King Guy and raise you one failed, unappetizing, (yet regretfully unforgettable,) Quizno mascot: (I'd introduce him properly, but I still have no idea wtf he is.)

Here in Canada, Quizno's used this guy as their spokesperson. He's almost as scary.

 

[sincerely_helene]

Here in Canada, Quizno's used this guy as their spokesperson. He's almost as scary.

I'm in Canada too, but have never seen that guy before in my life!

That rat thing, however, he is forever embedded in my brain.

Sung to the tune of a really off-beat version of either "Labamba" or "Do you Love me," I ummm... proudly (???) present the ummm... "Singing Whatevers!" (Apparently, they are called Spongemonkeys, but that is another story entirely..)

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

 

[rgraham666]

I'm in Canada too, but have never seen that guy before in my life!

That rat thing, however, he is forever embedded in my brain.

Sung to the tune of a really off-beat version of either "Labamba" or "Do you Love me," I ummm... proudly (???) present the ummm... "Singing Whatevers!" (Apparently, they are called Spongemonkeys, but that is another story entirely..)

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

He's a hockey 'commentator'. The man's name is Don Cherry and his voice and opinions are just as loud and in bad taste as his jackets.

 

[Ferawyn]

<ponders>
Why is the chicken 'subservient'?

 

[sincerely_helene]

He's a hockey 'commentator'. The man's name is Don Cherry and his voice and opinions are just as loud and in bad taste as his jackets.

Ahhhh... the infamous Don Cherry. That explains so much.

Different rodent, but just as creepy.

 

[HollyHawkk]

I hate that commercal too.. but, the KFC one where there is no sound but crunching reminds me of a heart attack. Not affective advertising.

 

[Alex756]

The oddly animated quiznos thing is from these people

http://www.dennyweb.com/viking_kittens.htm

They did alot of videos that really caught on befor the commercialization of the weird thing

~Alex

 

[Honey123]

Burger King is one scary MF'er! When the guy wakes up with him in his bed!!!

I get goose bumps thinking about it!

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

The stalker king is weird!!!!!!!!!! Since I believe in being a proactive consumer, it has halted any trips to Burger King lately. But it got our attention so the marketing I would say is effective. I love the quiznos baby. Bob is a trip. Any kid who can bribe an attractive, female volleyball player to let him hang on her chest while she plays a game is my kinda kid.
The one commercial I can't stand is from Geico. I usually like their commercials and find them funny. But the guy on the exercise machine yelling "Just Do It!" would definitely make me not buy their insurance. I loved the movie "WaterBoy" and that saying comes from there. Unfortunately, it's some hyped up, paid exercise advertiser who is selling machines now doing a commerical for auto insurance.
It should of been the character from "Waterboy" moving his hips and yelling "Just Do It!" Now that would have been a laugh.

 

[sweetnpetite]

The one with the lumberjack...

That sandwich you can only buy once, then eat, then have a heart attack...

I eat a lot of fast food, but I don't know if I'd even try that one. Might take years to make my body work right again. But if you're a Burger King fan already, it's enough to make you think of the sandwich.

Honestly, right now, there are't too many good commercials out there, at least that come to mind.

Q_C

I read online that people really love the Gieco lizard.

But also that they are very turned off by the other Gieco campain ("I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance")- it makes them think of Gieco as insurance for self involved heartless jerks.

 

[Huckleman2000]

I love Andy Kaufman, ever since the first time I saw him on Dick Van Dyke's short-lived variety show, bringing out a tiny phonograph, playing a scratchy record of the Mighty Mouse theme song, and just standing there until he could mouth along with "Here I come, to save the day!" I saw him get attacked by that pro wrestler on Letterman; when he started going off-script on SNL... How he managed to do Latka on Taxi week in and week out is just strange. Didn't he keep a second job as a security guard or something?

anyway, the Burger King frightens me. He's like those life-size shiny fiberglas figures that they have in some restaurant/bars to give them "atmosphere". I have an unnatural fear of them. They freak me out. There's one bar that has them not far from my house - a fat chef, a newsboy with knickers, and (most disturbing) a six-foot tall figure with an elephant head, like Babar! That one makes me hyperventilate.