Nightmare Fodder

March 4th, 2005 | by Craig |

Is it just me, or does that new Burger King commercial with Hootie (or is it the Blowfish?) give you the creeps?

  1. 12 Responses to “Nightmare Fodder”

  2. By Randy on Mar 4, 2005 | Reply

    I want to know who the milk maids are though!

    I also read somewhere someone was claiming the blonde at the beginning was Jenna Jameson. Gives an all new meaning to ‘Have it Your Way’ doesn’t it?

  3. By Mr. Surly on Mar 5, 2005 | Reply

    I think it was supposed to be offbeat and ironic, like the purposefully bad Old Navy commercials, abut it’s really just weird and disturbing. My reaction to this commercial, other than being disturbed, was how low Hootie had fallen. Singing cowboy pitchman. Ugh. What an end for a once popular (albeit bland) music star.

  4. By Karen on Mar 5, 2005 | Reply

    I’m already seriously disturbed, but yes.
    What ad agency are they using?
    At least we don’t have to see the Burger King smiling in bed any more.

  5. By Margi on Mar 5, 2005 | Reply

    I’m thinking it’s good for my mental health that I haven’t seen this commercial. It sounds positively vile.

  6. By McGehee on Mar 5, 2005 | Reply

    Oh dear Lord — that’s Hootie!?

    What will he be doing next, hosting a reality show?

  7. By Gman on Mar 7, 2005 | Reply

    I’m not going to Burger King anymore.

  8. By Annie on Mar 8, 2005 | Reply

    How do you go from playing at Tiger’s wedding to appearing in a Burger King commercial?!

  9. By Karen on Mar 14, 2005 | Reply

    And if the visuals weren’t bad enough - check out the

    lyrics

  10. By T.L. Hines on Mar 15, 2005 | Reply

    <Cliff Clavin>
    Well, this comes from the fine folks who gave us subservientchicken.com, which I’ve always thought looks eerily like that scene from Silence of the Lambs in which Buffalo Bill prances before the camera while music blares. So really, Burger King has been doing creepy stuff for a while, in my book.

    But I digress. The agency currently handling most Burger King stuff is Crispin Porter Bogusky, perhaps best-known for their “Truth” anti-smoking campaigns.

    And: Darius Rucker is the name of the lead singer; “Hootie & the Blowfish” is the name of the band, although none of them really think of themselves as Hootie. Or blowfish, I surmise.

    <⁄Cliff Clavin>

  11. By Rocky Smith on Mar 16, 2005 | Reply

    Leave it to “Cliff” to know all the answers! Who is the comely lass in the swing at the end Cliff?

  12. By Rocky Smith on Mar 16, 2005 | Reply

    Oh- Brooke Burns. Never mind.

  13. By Winston Zedimore on Mar 19, 2005 | Reply

    Darius Rucker, he needed a job worse than Paul Hogan. If he needed to unload his soul for $$, he should have got with the times and offered it up on eBay - that would have been ironic and offbeat, much more fitting for a musician in musical need looking to do something for a joke. He IS the joke now. He should change his name to Dill Scallion and start touring greasy spoons, playing for 6 or 7 drunk, toothless happy hour regulars.

    Burger King really needs to can that ad agency - this is making the “Where’s Herb” campaign look like misunderstood genius. Come to think of it, it was genius, tossing out that hidden double meaning. Burger King definitely holds more appeal when you find “the herb” first.

    And for the love of all that is holy, don’t give any creedence to the claim that this latest BK Ad/train wreck is well done because “you remember it and are talking about it.” BK is not Madonna: the bad publicity is much, much worse than good publicity, especially when your company has lost market share to the degree BK has in recent years. The stockholders should be lighting torches about now…

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