Tender Crisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch

[RPM]

Is it me, or anyone else freaked out by that Burger King ad with Darius Rucker (Hootie) and a bunch of other B-list stars singing about the BK Tender Crisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch sandwich?

That king really freaks me out too - like King Friday XIII on steroids. Creepiest fast food figure this side of the Colonel....

Here's the full version for your viewing enjoyment:
http://homepage.mac.com/jstansbury/iMovieTheater6.html

[Technowitch]

1. Pure distilled nightmare fuel, baby

(eom)

[Deja Q]

2. The name alone is grating, but the video is outright disturbing.

Hootie can tendercrisp the bacon up his ranch for all I care.

[swag]

3. I'll wash that down with a mason jar of pickle juice.

gacky poo.

[peekaloo]

4. BK should have included mushrooms on that sammich

the kind that would make this commercial truly enjoyable.

:o

[RPM]

5. love your avatar

Clifton forever...

[salin]

6. not as creepy as their online chicken promotion

with the dancing chicken to whom you typed commands and it (through clips) reacted. Now THAT was creepy.

[RPM]

7. wasn't that a cockfighting theme

how that passed muster for TV is beyond me...

[salin]

10. not on tv - strictly online

I'll see if I can find it via google.

[salin]

12. here it is: subservient chicken

http://www.subservientchicken.com/

and its a bk promotion ... go figure...

[Skip Intro]

8. I won't eat one, but I love those commercials

I love originality, and this stuff is original, in a Rocky Horror meets Wizard of Oz kind of way.

Have you caught the sexual undertones? Lots going on there.

And that King pushing that Hee Haw honey toward the camera where she drawls, "come and get it." - cracks me up.

If I had hired whoever came up with these commercials, and the earlier ones with that dude waking up on the bed with the King right beside him, smiling, with "breakfast" - I'd be pleased.

[RPM]

9. yeah - who are those women???

Other than the cowboys cheerleaders, i dont recognize them and am wondering if they are someone famous...

[JVS]

11. Hootie sold out!

[RPM]

13. Not at all

these lyrics are far better than "hold my hand" or "only wanna be with you"

[JVS]

14. Just because his selling out work is better doesn't meant he didn't sell..

out.

BTW, talk to me on AIM, bro

[RPM]

15. can't not on that machine

[TroubleMan]

16. I do like the girls with the nice caboose.

:)

Anyway, this commercial is obviously appealing to the stoners who have the munchies. It makes perfect sense when you look at it that way.

[the_spectator]

17. But wouldn't stoneres get freaked by it too?

It's hardly an appetizing commercial - and when those tubs of goopy white dressing wave back and forth - total grossenation!
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I didn't know that the singer was anyone. I just figured he was a random black guy - because, of course, black men aren't supposed to sing country and western. The whole point of this commercial is to TRY to be wrong and off. The colors, not only too bright, butalso clasing. The women's hair, like a "big hair" do that's been slept in. And the horrendous faces/make-up on a lot of them. I guess this is what they call "postmodernism."

And sure, we are talking about the commercial, but this would work only for a relatively unknown product or company, but everyone knows Burger King. Plus, they're tyring to sell FOOD - no one wants to be grossed out by their food.

I guess we should be happy about it though - what's clearly happened is that some advertising "artist" has snookered an evil coroporation into spending money to damage their own sales. Joke's on them!

[MrScorpio]

19. The one on the left is Vida Guerra

Owner of one of the finest posteriors in this world or the next

[name not needed]

22. You are correct, sir

[BlueManDude]

18. I love that King - he's like a slasher movie villain

sort of like those Leprechaun movies.

[LSdemocrat]

20. What the hell is people's obsession with this commercial?

I have never seen so many threads started about such an ordinary commercial.

[SarahB]

21. Yes!

It's freaky. :scared:

[MediumBrownDog]

23. I signed on tonight to post about EXACTLY this commercial...

The first time I saw it, I thought "Is there ANY group that isn't offended by this creepy commercial?" but after seeing it 47 times (heavy play on the SciFi channel) I realized that it's such a parody, and so out there, that it's a parody of offensive jokes or commercials.

I chilled out about it after that. But I admit, for a while there, it really had me going.

[RPM]

24. i'm not offended - just tripped out by it all

it's damn bizarre

[El Fuego]

25. It's a cheap ripoff of "OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU"

The Coen Brothers movie. Anyone who has seen the film and owns the soundtrack will see this immediately--and then become nauseated.:puke: