How come no one has said anything about Darius Rucker's Burger King commercial?

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The King in these commmercials reminds me a lot of The King of the Cosmos from Katamari Damacy.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't realize it was Hootie and still don't care.

The real question the thing has brought up for me is: How can it be both 'tender' and 'crisp'? Those are opposite qualities, for fuck's sake.

― Austin (Austin), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Tender on the inside? Crispy on the outside?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha ha

― Darius Rucker Lookalike (deangulberry), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Business in the front? Party in the back?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

you should be able to check it out on this page (down a bit) ... but it won't work for me (imac)

http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/3408646

― Darius Rucker Lookalike (deangulberry), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I will not be taken in by your cryptofascist orwellian doublespeak!

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Crispy is tender.

― Austin (Austin), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/1580/

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Or the chicken is tender and the bacon is crisp?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I honestly thought this was one of those "wacky" Old Navy commercials the first two or three times I saw it. I mean, I never really pay close attention to commercials. I usually am posting on ILX during commercials if I'm watching TV! anyway, it looks like an Old Navy commercial.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tumbleweeds of Bacon!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway, it looks like an Old Navy commercial.

no, it is truly more magical than an old navy commercial.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 March 2005 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I first saw this during johnwayning daze of a recent thread re Big & Rich at NBA halftime. Pertains to discussion of Cowboy Troy, whom B&R helpfully always refer to as "the rappin' black cowboy". This is helpful because not everybody thinks he can rap. (But you don't have to be able to rap to be a rapper, sales figures show.) Main thing that curbs my enthusiam for commercial, though is that Darius is singing so softly! In Hootie & The Blowfish, he blasted us with a morning shower of warm jets of tubular puke; that was the whole point! Oh, I know: we're supposed to wait and DIY puke, after buying and eating their food, but I'm not gonna, so I want a better commercial. Do appreciate the go-go girls relaxin on the axis with thier own burgers.

― don, Monday, 7 March 2005 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i was paying more attention to the ladies (tender) asses on the railroad pumping car thingy. it seems there are two versions of this commercial, as i saw a shortened version with less sexiness going on.

so is the sandwich good or what? i kinda like BK, shamefully.

― eman (eman), Monday, 7 March 2005 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

SHAMEFUL, BRO

― Darius Rucker Lookalike (deangulberry), Monday, 7 March 2005 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

please tell me this one features big rock candy mountain as a lyrical bass--because if it does, we have a 1930s hobo folk song being updated (as disco hip hop crunk) to sell fast food, and if that is the case, it has reached bizzarre levels of postmodern new hisoricism.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 7 March 2005 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost - i know, poor man eats poor food shockah

― eman (eman), Monday, 7 March 2005 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it's to the tune of "BRCM".

― brianiac (briania), Monday, 7 March 2005 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

it is such a great spot.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 March 2005 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

mms://od-msn.msn.com/22/mbr/a_050220_bk_promo.wmv

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I really want this sandwich and I wasn't able to get it two days ago and I forgot to get it sunday and I really want it now but I woke up early cuz I got drunk early last night and ARRRRRGH why can't I get this sandwich at 9am. I want it.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't care if Hootie blows the queen of england. I just want a tender crispy bacon cheddar ranch chicken sandwich!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

its more complicated then that--its like, you know the poor had to dream about food (and liqour) because they could not get it, because big corprations are evil--but now burger king is sayiung not only do we love (camp/kitsch/nostalgia/artifice) we love you enough to provide you with cheap, available food t hat is good enough for your hobo ancestors to give up paradise for--but it will be served to you by a black man in a cowboy outfit.

(that said, its amazingly fotographed, and it caught me/gave me pangs)

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

ARRRRRGH why can't I get this sandwich at 9am.

I thought Burger King was all about serving their entire menu morning, noon, and night?

Anyway, thanks JoB, for that link. I like that Subservient Chicken is in the background of the commercial, too!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

they are? i hope you're right cuz I'm headed over in an hour then! I haven't gone there in years.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't care if Hootie blows the queen of england. I just want a tender crispy bacon cheddar ranch chicken sandwich!

You really don't. I was sold on the wonder of this sammich before Hootie & Brooke hopped on board. Hop off before it's too late.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I could be wrong, Anthony, but I thought they had a big ad campaign about that a few years back -- kind of a "your way, right away, whenever you fucking want it" sort of thing. I don't think it was McDonald's, since I think it was one of those things that Burger King came up with to further distinguish themselves from McD's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I could use a walk anyway. Full review in two hours.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yo, that Old Navy commercial with the girl getting all ecstatic about history class ROCKED! ("The Effects Of Feel-Good Fashion") Too bad it only aired for a week or three.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

If it would be possible to describe a television commerical for a fast food chain featuring a musician whose music I have never cared for but I am sure is pleasant enough human being as "haunting" and/or "sppoky", then I would submit that this commerical is both "haunting" and "spooky". In a good sense.

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure there are people at Burger King that are acstatic that people are talking about Burger King once again. But even if you love Mr. Hootie, are you any more inclined to eat a Whopper?

(joke makes itself, don't bother.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i wonder if darius rucker was the first choice for this...

― john'n'chicago, Monday, 7 March 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

This commercial ALMOST rivals their series of office-related spots. Almost.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

communism now plz k thnx

― latebloomer: my cats are wobderful (latebloomer), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

latebloomer on the capital.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

man, i am a vegetarian and i really want a tender crisp bacon cheddar ranch now.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't want the sammich, i want a chick with a nice caboose. but yeah, genuis ad.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

tender crisp bacon cheddar ranch
bacon ranch dressing that flows up to your knees
tumbleweeds of bacon
cheddar paves the streets
red onions make you weep
french fries grow like weeds

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It is an excellent spot. But obviously a rip-off on those Morgan Fairchild "Old Navy" commercials.

Brooke Burke: "Come annnnn get it!"

Genius.

― PB, Monday, 7 March 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

it could use more ranch but I still enjoyed it a lot

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

is this ad available in non-wmv form??

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, ON TV

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

GET ONE TV AMATEURIST

boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/1580

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(cutty i edited that link for pers. reasons, hope you don't mind)

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

wha happened?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

(no referrals pls)

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the burger king killed his momma

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't there another burger king ad where some dude wakes up with the burger king in his bed and it's very awkward, there's this definite "did we have sex?" vibe hanging in the air?

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, it is so fucking hilarious. the burger king touches his leg and it gets all awkward.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(btw mark i had no idea you worked there!)

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 March 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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the tendercrispbaconcheddarraaaaanch, the tendercrispbaconchedderraaaanch

COME AND GET IT!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

I miss this.

― PB, Thursday, 8 September 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

are you jonesin' for a treat?

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Thursday, 8 September 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

I sang half of this commercial on a roadtrip this weekend, with all improvised words. I think it involved sandwich-fucking!

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

sixteen years pass...

Darius Rucker's version of "Nothing Else Matters" on the Metallica black album covers comp isn't half bad. Not as great as the Burger King commercial that kicked off his country career, though.

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 10 September 2021 17:52 (four years ago)

I still remember every word of this song. BK had a pretty cool marketing department for a while.

― frogbs, Friday, 10 September 2021 17:54 (four years ago)

Agreed! I still love the song and the ad.

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 10 September 2021 17:58 (four years ago)

Seems a no-brainer that Dairy Queen should've snagged him first.

No matter what I do
I only wanna eat DQ

― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 September 2021 18:07 (four years ago)

Baskin-Robbins makes me cry

― frogbs, Friday, 10 September 2021 18:09 (four years ago)

one year passes...

HOLY shit, this is the guy who does the "mama rock me" song?? Fuuuuuck this guy!

― budo jeru, Monday, 14 August 2023 05:25 (two years ago)

"that's the tender crisp bacon cheddar raaanch"

a karaoke version of this song would be my go-to.

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Monday, 14 August 2023 16:07 (two years ago)

there's a train of ladies comin with a nice caboose

― frogbs, Monday, 14 August 2023 17:44 (two years ago)

https://i.gifer.com/VJfV.gif

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 14 August 2023 22:56 (two years ago)

bootie does a good cover of stp’s “interstate love song”.

Im not fixing the autocorrect

― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 17:44 (two years ago)

Seems a no-brainer that Dairy Queen should've snagged him first.

No matter what I do
I only wanna eat DQ

― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, September 10, 2021 2:07 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Said, I shot a man named Gray, took his wife to KFC
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me
I can't help it if I'm hungry

― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 17:50 (two years ago)

four months pass...

HOLY shit, this is the guy who does the "mama rock me" song?? Fuuuuuck this guy!

― budo jeru, Monday, August 14, 2023 12:25 AM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

update: there are multiple version of this song. i'm not sure which is the horrible and ubiquitous version i've been hearing all these years. also bob dylan wrote this song. crazy world.

― budo jeru, Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:53 (two years ago)

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