That Burger King Commercial Weirds me Out...

Published on March 3, 2005 By InBloom In Entertainment

There is a commercial out there that has Darius Rucker (of Hootie and the Blowfish) dressed as a cowboy and singing about a Tender Crisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch Sandwich....it totally weirds me out...

First off, why is Darius doing a Burger King commercial? I know that Hootie hasn't made music in quite a while, but I never expected to see him singing about a sandwich on TV....Then you have all these half dressed girls....some tasting buttermilk out of the buckets, some sticking out derrieres while riding on some cart thingy (not sure what they are called)....and all of this is being showed in slow motion...

But what trips me out the most is the actual Burger King...He is pushing Brooke Burke on a swing (or Brooke Burns, not sure which..she is brunette) ... I find him creepy....lol...his huge, plastic head with that strange smile on his face....just weird...

I wonder if I'm the only person who finds this to be such an oddball commercial....lol

Comments (Page 2)

messybuu

on Mar 04, 2005

I finally paid attention to that commercial to see Brooke Burke, and I must say... this is the greatest commercial ever! Not only does it have Brooke Burke, a BABE, but it also has Vida Guerra, another babe! It's like BABES TIMES TWO! That's not even counting all the other babes! This commercial receives my highest rating: 5/5!

kingbee

on Mar 04, 2005

double meat and cheese crissandwich? That is the ultimate in freakiness!

even without a king or a commercial.

InBloom

on Mar 04, 2005

lol messy...I didn't know they had another model on there as well.

Trudygolightly

on Mar 07, 2005

Rose: The only thing I like about that commercial is 1. the horse and 2. The melody, I've gone and gotten it stuck in my head....
To me, that commercial is like a cheap ad for a porn theatre. And scary too.
Now these commercials for medication to help with a certain dysfunction guys get is the last straw!!

InBloom

on Mar 08, 2005

Sad to say, I am sorta desenstized to sexual images on tv....but yeah...you KNOW they are going after the guys with this one...I am used to seeing the models and "babes" on beer commercials and such...so it was kind of weird seeing 'em in a burger king commercial ....

hippochick39

on Mar 12, 2005

I can't believe that someone thought that the Burger King Commercial was worth putting on TV!! Talk about total trash! The girls in skimmpy clothes? Even my husband thinks it's stupid! It makes us want to stay away from Burger King. Not to mention the annoying music! Come on Advertiser's do you think Americans are that stupid??? I could say more but what is the point!

RichS135

on Mar 14, 2005

I just can't get this commercial out of my head! Every time my Tivo records one, I stop and look at it. There must be something subliminal in it.

I first saw last weekend - the 60 second version - on either Comedy Central or Cartoon Network during the Adult Swim block. I reran it about 8-times. It was like a cross between an Old Navy commercial and The Man Show. It also kind of reminded me of an old Devo video - I think it was "Whip It" - that also shot on a cheezy ranch set.

Part of my brain said "This is stupid." But another part said "Watch it just one more time.".

Since that first encounter, I've noticed there are four different versions of the spot: a 60-second, a 30-second and two different 15-second spots. If you want to watch the entire 60-second version to your heart's content, go to:

Link

Hazylunarrain

on Mar 14, 2005

I dunno... Kinda reminds me of an acid trip when I was at a teenager at a beach party. It really weirds me out. And don't you think just about ALL commercials have some level of subliminal messages?

And it was prolly Adult Swim Rich, It seems to be on there about every other commercial..lol

Gene Nash

on Mar 14, 2005

If you want to watch the entire 60-second version to your heart's content, go to:

Ah, sweet Nirvana. I need never leave the house again.

Kirsten

on Mar 14, 2005

The whole point of marketing is to get your product noticed, so obviously it is doing what it is supposed to do. There is alot of talk about this commercial!

kingbee

on Mar 14, 2005

I just can't get this commercial out of my head! Every time my Tivo records one, I stop and look at it. There must be something subliminal in it.

rather than subliminal, perhaps its something a bit more jungian? the melody and theme are as close to authentic americana as it gets--evoking a vision of the kind of 'golden streets and oranges free for the picking' place that continues to draw people here. bk's commercial plays on that image but no more wildly than the song's author (harry mcclintock who also wrote the iww labor song 'hallelujah i'm a bum). intentionally or not, bk using it to promote its newest excess--considering the consequences of eating nothing but fries and sammiches made of deep-fried chicken, bacon and cheese--hasnt wandered very far from the author's sardonic cautionary tale.

altho he revised the lyrics when he finally got around to recording the song in 1928, mcclintock's song originally characterized the type of stories used by hoboes of the day to lure young boys and girls off the straight and narrow and onto the rails (less straight obviously but far narrower hahahahaha).

here's a sample of the original that was submitted as proof of authorship by mcclintock to establish his copyright.

The punk rolled up his big blue eyes
And said to the jocker, "Sandy,
I've hiked and hiked and wandered too,
But I ain't seen any candy.
I've hiked and hiked till my feet are sore
And I'll be damned if I hike any more
To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

if you wanna hear a few moments of the 1928 recording (remastered and included as part of the 'o brother whereart thou?' soundtrack), go here
Link

Dusk411

on Mar 14, 2005

I finally saw the commmercial for the first time tonight. It's really surreal with Darius Rucker dressed up as a cowboy. That alone is enough to make it a trainwreck. Former lead singer of the most popular and quickly disappering band in 1994 is classic.

For me, it falls under the so-bad-it's-good category. I will watch it all the way through if it comes again despite my wanting to turn away.

KarmaGirl

on Mar 15, 2005

I quit paying attention to those ads as soon aas I saw the one where the Burger King was in bed with the guy and handed him a sandwich. I think they were trying to revive the Burger King from the 70's/80's, but they ended up doing it in a really creepy way.

I'd like to see Stephen King do a rewrite on that.

"I don't even think about my dentures." Then the dentures could answer back, "But we think about you, Jack. All the time."

Ever read his short story "Chattery Teeth"?

RichS135

on Mar 15, 2005

I disagree.

There seems to be a rise of a sort of self-mocking - sometimes bordering on self-loathing - aestetic on TV; A TV culture that has become so deeply self-referential that it has peeled itself almost to the core (a parody of a parody of a parody).

This commercial is, of course, intentionally stupid. But not stupid in the way that, for example, the old "Please don't squeeze the Charmin" ads were. The Charmin ads wanted to annoy viewers into remembering the product by creating an nagging unlikeable character (Mr Wipple).

The Burger King ad catches our attention by making us wonder if the writers and producers were on drugs or just really stupid. Or, to look at it another way, its a parody of a bad commercial parody of a sexist country music parody of the Wizard of Oz.

This commercial is winking at us really hard. Its trying to convice us that the producers are so jaded about making commercials that they're really not taking the process of trying to sell us stuff seriously. As a consiquence, we let down our normally cynical guard down and just enjoy (or loathe) the silliness of it all. That, of course, is when the message sneaks in.

tinswa

on Mar 16, 2005

check out www.scaredoftheking.blogspot.com

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