The "Burger King" Ads freak me out.

[BlueJazz]

I mean, they're not horrible or bad or even insulting..they just give
me a creepy feeling.

The "King" always seems nice enough and all that but for some strange Physiological
reason, I expect him, any second, to pull out an Ax and go on a killing spree....

[sniffa]

1. where's your god now?

:rofl: i Love that DUer's sigLine. (who is it?)

[BlueJazz]

3. I stole it off of somebody..(Long time ago)

:)

[WindRavenX]

2. the meat'normous sandwich SHOULD give you a very bad feeling

I mean, that sandwich looks like it could give you an instant heart attack :scared:

[friesianrider]

11. You're telling me...

Meat...and egg...and meat...and meat...and meat...

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

15. i love the whole

meat. . . on top of meat. . on top of meat. . on top of MUHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAA MEEEAAAT!!!!

one look at that commercial and vegetarianism looks awful tempting.

[anarch]

24. it would be cooler if instead of bread, they used yet more meat n/t

[dannofoot]

4. They have succeeded...

...It doesn't matter to them whether or not you like or dislike the ads...

You've just exposed, and reinforced, the words "Burger King" into the minds of everyone who scans thread titles in the DU Lounge.

That's all they want...Keep the brand out there in people's minds.

[Doctor_J]

5. Same here

Looks vaguely like a jack-in-the-box. Then I start thinking about the TZ episode with Billy Mumy, and...

[Tafiti]

6. I love the "king".

Over the past couple years, it seems that advertisers have jumped on the trend of being random or weird for the sake of it, probably because so many commercials are very formulaic, and to do something different will cause people to remember them.

Sometimes advertisers fail miserably at this. Their commercials are definitely random and/or weird, yet pointless and flat out stupid at the same time. Those piss me off.

But Burger King? That creepy/happy King has just the right amount of randomness/weirdness to be funny, IMO of course. :)

[mac56]

10. I love it too.

Kind of a weird intrusion in your current consciousness of an icon from your past.

Creepy, but funny.

My lovely wife hates them, though.

[LisaL]

7. Yep, I get the exact same feeling.

Creepy.

[KitchenWitch]

8. I am creeped out by them as well.

[Az]

9. That would be their intent

Creeped out means the ad stands out from the others. It sticks in your mind. You think about Burger King and their creepy king. Tada... you have been memetically programmed. Your mind is not your own.

[Poiuyt]

12. The stuff of nightmares

I don't know which one was worse...the one where the guy wakes up in the morning and finds the king hovering over his bed, or the one where the guy looks in his rear-view mirror of his car and sees the king.

[redwitch]

14. yup. he's a stalker.

I am boycotting burger king until he abdicates. :-)

[redwitch]

13. He disturbs me also.

I think he is hiding something behind that mask.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

16. the King is weird. Hootie really freaked me out in those ads though.

to me Hootie in a cowboy costume was the real freaky thing. I don't think I've ever seen a sell-out musician humiliate himself quite as bad as that Hootie and the King Burger King Commercial.

on edit: and yes i know his name's not Hootie.

[Whoa_Nelly]

17. I want him to GO AWAY!

Would not miss that weird commercial king one bit! No, Sir!

[Neshanic]

18. The ad agency seems to have a fondness of plastic dolls....

The Plastic King thing is just amazingly creepy, and on a level I can't get a hold on, just plain disturbing.

They had some other commercials with little plastic dolls....equally just...ewwww.

[Awsi Dooger]

19. I liked it better when Whoppers were 99 cents

The King was selling me 6 to 10 every week, ads or no ads.

I must not be watching the right shows. The only BK spots I've seen are the football runbacks. He scores every time.

[spacelady]

20. Remember the spongemonkeys from the Quizno's ads? I thought they were

so ugly until I went to the originators, then it felt like genius but in an uncomfortable way. Anyway, as a meat eater, I DID try that meaty omelette sandwich & it was bad--just too much crap on a crappy bun.

[mikefromwichita]

21. OK so he

looks like a relative of Chucky the homicidal puppet.

[LadyAziz]

22. the smile is SCARY

and new commercial has got to be the scariest i've seen in a while.

[Shell Beau]

23. I HATE those stupid commercials!

[Ivan Sputnik]

25. Here's the original version of the King

from the 60s, I think. I don't like the "plastic man" look he has now.

[jackelope72]

26. I remember in the late '70's / early '80's...

around the time that Ronald McDonald was constantly keeping the Hamburglar at bay in numerous Saturday morning commercials, and the Burger King was busy battling his own nemesis..."The Duke of Doubt". I still don't know what that was all about--I guess we were supposed to place our faith in the King. :shrug: