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Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:44 pm  |
It's been bugging me since I saw the first ad from Crispin Porter + Bogusky ad agency. Supposedly the ad works ... which totally freaks me out.
I find nothing appealing about an oversized plastic head stalking me.
I put the Burger King commercials right there with the mutant rats commercial debacle from Quizno's. |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:46 pm |
Thats the beauty of them for me they are so freakin' creepy! Hilarious! I still dont like Burger King's food though!  |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:56 pm |
YES!!!!
I hate those! NO ONE in my house gets this but me. I complain often, and they make fun of me. But that darn plastic King is freaky! And If I saw him near my home and windows, I would not want a Hamburger - I would scream and call the cops!
Glad I am not alone. LOL
This to me is also along the same lines as the Quiznos "Sponge Monkey" - mutated rat things. I have never been back to Quiznos since they airred those....probably never will be.
Its just so wrong.... |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:14 pm |
OMG...I swore I thought I was the only one. Especially the one where he just stands by the window in the morning and the guy wakes up to find him there. I'd wet my bed if that happened to me.  |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:17 pm |
| HAHAHAHAAHAHHAA, I couldn't agree more!!! Although ever since there was that freaky commercial where the guy wakes up and finds "the king" next to him and the voiceover says "Wake up with the King," in the mornings DH has been looking over at me and saying "Wake up with the Queen," so I guess I can't complain, LOL! |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:35 pm |
| ariesxtreme wrote: |
| OMG...I swore I thought I was the only one. Especially the one where he just stands by the window in the morning and the guy wakes up to find him there. I'd wet my bed if that happened to me. |
Yeah - This one is especially bad! If I saw that in the AM, I would be screaming. I have always had an "issue" seeing a "face" in a window. To many scary movies I guess. 
My Husband used to do things like tht as a joke (stand at a window, waiting for me to look up and be shocked) Until he released it was NOT fun for me at all. |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:44 pm |
| manslayerliz wrote: |
| "Wake up with the Queen," |
OT: I belong to a dog nutrition/training board. One of the ladies has a few cool dog tricks:
'who's the queen?' - and her dog bows. |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:38 pm |
Lol!!!!  |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:21 pm |
| Rjez wrote: |
| manslayerliz wrote: |
| "Wake up with the Queen," |
OT: I belong to a dog nutrition/training board. One of the ladies has a few cool dog tricks:
'who's the queen?' - and her dog bows. |
Very cool! LOL |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:44 pm |
ROFL I just had an image of the Burger "King" smashing around in a bumper car. LOL Too funny, but yeah, a little freaky as well.  |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:40 pm |
That definitely one unappetizing plastic head! Everytime bf and I see the commercial, we discuss the head more than the food! |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:05 pm |
I agree that that plastic faced king is creepy. Maybe they are trying to change their target market? Not going after little kids anymore but maybe teens who think stuff like that is cool? I don't know -- just guessing there.
Weird plastic king mascot aside, I love fast food and I wish I could eat a Whopper every day and not gain any weight!  |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:27 pm |
| marci65 wrote: |
| I agree that that plastic faced king is creepy. Maybe they are trying to change their target market? |
The ad agency says that the plan was to renew interest in Burger King as a breakfast option (vs. McDonald's).
Hence the scenario, 'breakfast with the King' is supposed to make you want to 'wake up to Burger King' .... uh, no thanks. More like wake up to freaking screams. |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:17 pm |
| Those commercials are really creepy! My SO is a huge video game fan, so when Burger King recently sold some XBOX games based on the commercial, he had to have them as a collector's item! One of the game is calling Sneak King, and that's what you literally do ... sneak around on the characters and try to surprise them with food! It's so silly! The other games are this bike racing game and bumper cards. Thank goodness they were only $4 each CDN. Maybe they'll be worth more money someday. |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:31 pm |
OMG I HATE THE BK KING!
He totally freaks me out...my husband knows it and laughs every time "the King" comes on the TV.
Now there's a bloody video game!
The stuff of nightmares I tell you! !!! |
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Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:37 pm |
This thread is hysterical. I hate that Burger King guy. He is so wrong on so many levels. He's right up there on my list of things that creep me out very close to where "clowns" are. I cannot watch the commercials either. Speaking of clowns, my oh so lovely husband once downloaded a ton a pictures of various clowns (one of them being that scary "It" clown) and taped them all over the house where I'd find them - i.e. when I lifted the toilet lid, my makeup mirror, my visor in my car, etc. He needs help.
Maria |
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Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:24 am |
What a weird coincidence! I just met the 'majority stockholder' from Quizno's (does that make him kind of like the owner?) and he told me that they got thousands of hate letters and emails about the Spongmonkeys!
Even though a lot of people hated them, their sales boomed! What sub sandwiches have to do with bugeyed rat critters I'll never know...
If you like them check out the website reallygood , com (it won't let me link because I'm new and might be trying to sell stuff)
Or check it out anyway, even if you hate them! Some other funny stuff there, too.
Turn down your computer volume and click on "We Like The Moon" on the list at the left.
The one "Looking For My Leopard" is much cuter, I think! |
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Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:46 am |
| Tangal wrote: |
... This to me is also along the same lines as the Quiznos "Sponge Monkey" - mutated rat things. I have never been back to Quiznos since they airred those....probably never will be.
Its just so wrong.... |
OMG! I also thought I was the only one who was just absolutely creeped out by the BK King - he makes my skin crawl, and NOT in the good way!
Tangal, I am SO with you on the Quiznos rats - I have not been back since the first time I saw those nasty @$$ commercials and that was YEARS ago! I could not get the vision of rats traipsing through the food out of my head!
| heathercolorado wrote: |
| ... I just met the 'majority stockholder' from Quizno's (does that make him kind of like the owner?) and he told me that they got thousands of hate letters and emails about the Spongmonkeys! |
OK, gals, I have a confession to make! I've never written a letter of complaint to any manufacturer or company, but I sent the most scathing e-mail to Quiznos about their singing rat campaign! I told them that it was just too creepy for words and I was not the only person out of many of my friends that now associated Quiznos with rats and rat poop in the food! Yuck!  |
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Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:47 am |
| Mariav wrote: |
This thread is hysterical. I hate that Burger King guy. He is so wrong on so many levels. He's right up there on my list of things that creep me out very close to where "clowns" are. I cannot watch the commercials either. Speaking of clowns, my oh so lovely husband once downloaded a ton a pictures of various clowns (one of them being that scary "It" clown) and taped them all over the house where I'd find them - i.e. when I lifted the toilet lid, my makeup mirror, my visor in my car, etc. He needs help.
Maria |
really mean, but saddly funny also. LOL |
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Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:06 am |
I don't like the Burger King commercials either. I think we women hate them because they are totally geared towards men. I mean, who here would actually eat something called a Meatnormous sandwich? For breakfast? Heart attack on a bun, anyone?
Furthermore, my boyfriend laughs like a fool at those BK commercials. |
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Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:52 am |
| Mariav wrote: |
This thread is hysterical. I hate that Burger King guy. He is so wrong on so many levels. He's right up there on my list of things that creep me out very close to where "clowns" are. I cannot watch the commercials either. Speaking of clowns, my oh so lovely husband once downloaded a ton a pictures of various clowns (one of them being that scary "It" clown) and taped them all over the house where I'd find them - i.e. when I lifted the toilet lid, my makeup mirror, my visor in my car, etc. He needs help.
Maria |
OMG ... clowns creep me out too. After Poltergeist and "It" ....
Okay, flash back to the 80's, working at a vet clinic. A few of us were huge Stephen King buffs and we were all reading "It". One vet and I were a chapter ahead of the other vet. Each morning, vet #1 and I would "plant" things around the office ... fake blood in the sink, etc. all based on what vet #2 would've read the night before.
Buwahahaha .... a minute of laughter, a lifetime of therapy. |
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Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:02 am |
| Mariav wrote: |
This thread is hysterical. I hate that Burger King guy. He is so wrong on so many levels. He's right up there on my list of things that creep me out very close to where "clowns" are. I cannot watch the commercials either. Speaking of clowns, my oh so lovely husband once downloaded a ton a pictures of various clowns (one of them being that scary "It" clown) and taped them all over the house where I'd find them - i.e. when I lifted the toilet lid, my makeup mirror, my visor in my car, etc. He needs help.
Maria |
That is just pure evil! I'd be spitting in his food every time he looked away if my husband did that to me! |
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