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

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I'm sorry, Columbia doesn't look any more invested in since Hootie appeared

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link

south carolinas wonderful contribution to rock n' roll

― latebloomer: my cats are wobderful (latebloomer), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

this commercial rules!

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Monday, 7 March 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

i feel like this commercial is somehow the product of katamari damacy. and hamburgers. poor mr. rucker.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 7 March 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry, Columbia doesn't look any more invested in since Hootie appeared

http://www.hootie.com/foundation.asp

― john'n'chicago, Monday, 7 March 2005 01:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I like the way the production on the commercial makes him sound like he's lisping, particularly whenever he sings "crisp." Or maybe it's not the production, he really is lisping.

― George Smith, Monday, 7 March 2005 01:46 (nineteen years ago) link

this commercial is one of the most amazing things i have ever seen.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 March 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Why must John'n'Chicago mess with my long-held, curmudgeonly, slightly irrational hatred of the state in which I grew up?

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 7 March 2005 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link

From local paper's "music beat" section, where they give music news in brief:
"After their 13-million-selling debut Cracked Rear View in 1995, Hootie and the Blowfish immediately entered a steep decline in popularity. With each subsequent album selling in lower numbers, Hootie hasn't exactly been been relegated to grocery store openings, but it hasn't been pretty. To add insult to injury, the group's dwindling number of fans were shocked and dismayed last week when singer Darius Rucker appeared in colorful Rhinestone-Cowboy drag hawking chicken sandwiches in the latest Burger King commercial. Fans are in an uproar over the atrocity, demanding an explanation from the fallen star..."

I'm not familiar with the writer, but I know the editor somewhat. I smell a little bit of snide humor.

― Xii (Xii), Monday, 7 March 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Is this commercial available online somewhere? I don't watch TV, but I really want to see it!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 March 2005 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Is Christina Aguilera in this commercial?

― billstevejim, Monday, 7 March 2005 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link

is his the cover of big rock candy mountain?

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 7 March 2005 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link

It looks very David LaChapelle, no?

good eye dude!

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 7 March 2005 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link

this commercial freaks me the fuck out, i think it's the giant buckets of ranch dressing.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 7 March 2005 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link

this from an interview with Hootie drummer Jim “Soni” Sonefeld regarding a fund raiser for a Columbia animal shelter hootie did:

Q: OK, I have to ask: Have you seen the Burger King commercial that features Darius (Rucker)?

A: I haven’t seen it. I can’t comment on that. I know I’m getting text messages and phone messages, but I haven’t seen the purple dude cowboy. Darius said it was definitely something cutting edge and out of what people normally see him as.

― john'n'chicago, Monday, 7 March 2005 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i love the "BURGER KING"!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 March 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, the most amazing thing about that commercial is The King almost subliminally messing about in the background. WTF.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 7 March 2005 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I have never liked Darius Rucker until now.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Darius said it was definitely something cutting edge and out of what people normally see him as.

Begs the question: What do people normally see him as?

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Tender on the inside? Crispy on the outside?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link

ha ha ha

― Darius Rucker Lookalike (deangulberry), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Business in the front? Party in the back?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:32 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/1580/

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Or the chicken is tender and the bacon is crisp?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:43 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"Tumbleweeds of Bacon!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

SHAMEFUL, BRO

― Darius Rucker Lookalike (deangulberry), Monday, 7 March 2005 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost - i know, poor man eats poor food shockah

― eman (eman), Monday, 7 March 2005 06:11 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― brianiac (briania), Monday, 7 March 2005 07:10 (nineteen years ago) link

it is such a great spot.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 March 2005 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 7 March 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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yeah those people need to die a painful death.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

i dunno, if found these bk commercials too camp -- not genuinely strange enough.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i just watched jan svankmeyers "faust" and the burger king character looks a bit like one of the creepy large marionette figures from the film.
http://img.slate.msn.com/media/1/123125/2065969/2093775/2107696/041006_BurgerKing.jpg http://www.illumin.co.uk/svank/films/faust/mfaust3.jpg

― eman (eman), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't even know what these commercials are all about

― Darius Rucker Lookalike (deangulberry), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link

As for pure weirdness, BK has nothing on the Quizno's Subs ads of last year, with the singing amoeba-like critters extolling the virtues of the pepper bar.

― cdwill, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i still think that virgin mobile ad with the hair sandwich was the highwater mark of contemporary tv ad creativity.

dean, you're getting the line wrong!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh hell yeah, the bulging eyes and the "We love the subs!" singing.

SIKE-O-DELLIC

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I want Darius Rucker in a Napoleon hat singing "We love the subs!"

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess they're bunnies, not amoebas. Whatever.

― cdwill, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link

is that quiznos ad done by someone from b3ta.com?

― eman (eman), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:34 (nineteen years ago) link

You have to see the Quiznos clots *move* to get the true hideous impact.

― don, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link

The Quiznos ad with spongmonkeys (the official name for the critters, according to their creator) are my favorite 30 seconds of television. Of All Time.

Full lyric:

We love the suuubs
Cause they are good to us
The Quiznos suuubs
(crescendo) They are tasty they are crunchy they are warm because they toast them
They've got a pepper baaaaaarrrrrrghhh!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 05:49 (nineteen years ago) link

i knew it had something to do with b3ta (and joel veitch)!
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

― eman (eman), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:01 (nineteen years ago) link

i love this commercial. i sing along to it. yay for darius!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 14 March 2005 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link

vida those are some very effective commercials vida

― natlawdp, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I'm amazed at the love for this commercial. Ugh.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Why are you amazed? What is the problem? It's a great spot. If I ate crap, I'd buy it. Though I've never, ever seen aldies with a nice caboose at BK--false advertising.

― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:13 (nineteen years ago) link

i think one of my coworkers is close to killing me because i sing it all the fucking time since it's stuck in my head and has been for the last three weeks and it will never ever leave no matter what.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I was mildly amused by it a few weeks ago but i believe prolonged exposure may induce homicidal tendencies in anyone within earshot of it. I want that tendercrispbaconchedaarraaaanch! KILLKILLKILL!!!

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:16 (nineteen years ago) link

the tendercrispbaconcheddarraaaaanch, the tendercrispbaconchedderraaaanch

COME AND GET IT!

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

I miss this.

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

are you jonesin' for a treat?

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (two years ago) link

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 (two years ago) link

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 (two years ago) link

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 (two years ago) link

Baskin-Robbins makes me cry

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

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 (eight months ago) link

"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 (eight months ago) link

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

― frogbs, Monday, 14 August 2023 17:44 (eight months ago) link

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

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 14 August 2023 22:56 (eight months ago) link

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

Im not fixing the autocorrect

― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 17:44 (eight months ago) link

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 (eight months ago) link

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 (three months ago) link

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