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

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typical.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 7 March 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost Anthony, I don't think he's "serving it to us,": neither re the girls, they're just showing you how good it can be, how to do it, provinding An Example To Others, as my church youth group leaders would say. Darius is the MC, and providing a little mmod music, a little travelin' music for the hungry Miccio et al, and for the food about to travel down the ol Alimentary Canal. (OK: he's a misntrel too, but in the classical at east as much if not more than the nasty recent sense)(we're all hos in some sense or other, or I am)

― don, Monday, 7 March 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the uproar amongst the dedicated remaining Hootie fans is the funniest part of all of this!

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 7 March 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sure Burger King is worried about lost sales from the inevitable boycott!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

This commercial ALMOST rivals their series of office-related spots. Almost.
-- Raymond Cummings (gracefulas...), March 7th, 2005.

oh man, those were terrible.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

it was like watching clips from dress rehearsals for a bad NBC sitcom.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link

al otfm

― latebloomer: correspondingly more exaggerated mixing is a scarifying error. (lat, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I hated those. I also hate those smug IBM spots.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Which seem to be filmed in the same circle of hell.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

wait are the ibm ones the ones with the monkeys and the guy says 'i work with a bunch of monkeys'? i luv those!

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link

No, that's for a jobs website I think.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm thinking of the ones letterboxed in dark blue that for instance feature smug a*sholes sitting at a Parisian cafe talking about business. Awful.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

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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