If I have to see that Taco Bell ad during a football game one more time, I may kill someone. Or at least punch them in the neck.
Denise
by DougJ| 60 Comments
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by DougJ| 60 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads
If I have to see that Taco Bell ad during a football game one more time, I may kill someone. Or at least punch them in the neck.
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Robin G.
Just wait for the Olympics. Remember that cougar chasing the SUV commercial during Torino? They played it every break, and every break I rooted for the cougar. Loudly.
demkat620
What ad is this? All I’m seeing is Wawa ads.
asiangrrlMN
There’s this little button called the mute button. You should try it. It’s great. As a result, I have NO idea who Denise is.
The Grand Panjandrum
Aren’t supposed to go get a beer about the time those things come one anyway?
DougJ
Wawa ads?
Comrade Luke
Four words:
THIS IS OOOOOOOUR COUNTRY….
Robin G.
@Comrade Luke: I hate you for reminding me of that.
TenguPhule
When in doubt, watch movies on DVD.
Commericals are for people without recorders.
khead
If called to serve on DougJ’s jury, I would not convict….
…because I was wishing Jared would beat Denise to death with a 12 inch club.
burnspbesq
Feel sorry for those who live in culturally deprived areas, and think Taco Bell is real Mexican food.
Kevin K.
Have you guys seen the Joe’s Crab Shack commercial yet? My wife just called me in from the other TV to show it me. How in the hell did that one get green-lighted?
TenguPhule
Corrected for accuracy.
Trying to figure out if KFC or Tacobell is worse is like trying to determine the difference between dying from AIDS or Syphilis.
burnspbesq
Arizona has officially surrendered. Leinert is in the game.
mainsailset
This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjkOHVVjCuA has been playing on the local radio all day. I think I even know the words now, at least it’s funny….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjkOHVVjCuA
“Killed by a coconut”
geg6
Have you guys ever seen “Man on Wire?”. Damn, what a great movie and a fascinating subject. It’s about the guy who walked between the Twin Towers on a wire strung from the roofs. If you haven’t seen it, you should. If you have OnDemand, it’s in the free movie section. I’m terrified of heights and just couldn’t be more fascinated by a guy like this.
gex
@asiangrrlMN: I start watching late, on DVR, and fast forward through commercials if it isn’t the Vikings. It’s a thing of beauty.
Incertus
@asiangrrlMN: Bingo.
And I DVRed the game because I was afraid I might be out during it. I missed the first ten minutes, but I still might keep it just because it’s so beautiful.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: Warner is injured, and I have no idea who the third stringer is. Plus Leinart is a VERY expensive back-up. Couldn’t happen to a nicer Trojan IMHO.
Robin G.
I knew a guy who worked at KFC ten years ago. He gave me his solemn word that it was pigeons.
JK
OT
A fun read
Toxic to Democracy:
Conspiracy Theories, Demonization, & Scapegoating
http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/toxic2democracy/Toxic-2D-all-rev-04.pdf
Fuck the Saints, the Colts, NBC, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, and Rush Limbaugh.
Yutsano
@Robin G.: I would highly suggest never going to a four-star restaurant and ordering squab. Because, well, that IS pigeon.
geg6
Yutsano @21: Ha! Beat me to it. I was gonna say that, actually, pigeon can be quite delicious, as anyone who’s eaten squab would know.
Notorious P.A.T.
The girls in that commercial are hot. I don’t mind seeing them every few minutes.
Robin G.
My guess is that squab isn’t garbage-eating city pigeon.
Yutsano
I just wanna say, I know he’s a right-wing fucktard, but Drew Brees carries himself really well. I foresee a commenting career in his future after he retires.
J. Michael Neal
I’m watching the third Pakistan/Australia test. No commercials until lunch, and, even then, I don’t get them. I get the raw feed from Australian TV. Over the last few weeks, I’ve watched the broadcasters get made up, I’ve listened to them offer obscenity-laced reviews of the local restaurants, I’ve listened to them make fun of each others’ screw-ups.
The Gopher/North Dakota hockey game is on half an hour, so I’ll switch to that, then come back for more cricket until I go to bed.
Yutsano
@Robin G.: It’s not. In fact the definition of a squab is a pigeon that has never flown, usually because they are slaughtered before they get the chance. It makes for a very tender breast that way. Not that, if you were desperate and could catch one, you couldn’t eat a rat with wings.
Brachiator
@TenguPhule:
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Come on. Neither is all that bad. And besides, the most intentionally humorous use of a fast food restaurant is the future dystopia of the movie Demolition Man, in which the only restaurants left are Taco Bell.
Notorious P.A.T.
The Passenger Pigeon was hunted to extinction because it tasted so good.
John Cole
I’ve never seen the commercial in question. Must be a regional thing.
freelancer
@demkat620:
@DougJ:
Lol, Do you even know what a Wawa is?
burnspbesq
@Brachiator:
Yum Brands should be the subject of an SEC enforecement action. Its corporate name is a material misstatement.
lamh31
Ya’l this is ole school from way back when before Katrina, when the Saints wasn’t even close to being the best team. Even if they weren’t having a winning season, this song always brings back memories. Anyway, it’s apropos since the Saints won today.
Whot Dat Say They Gonna Beat Them Saints
Try not to second-line to this!!
The Grand Panjandrum
@John Cole: Shouldn’t you be busy making out with JSF?
burnspbesq
Dexter Pittman is the Tunch of college basketball. Large and in charge.
asiangrrlMN
@gex: I just mute the hell out of anything that doesn’t interest me. Which, come to think about it, is most of the shit.
@Incertus: You must be a Saints’ fan. Man, that game got boring really quickly. And, I was rooting for the Saints!
@freelancer: I know what a Wawa is because I’ve been on the East Coast. Very funny name.
Alan
I’m tired of seeing that damn Trojan Ecstacy commercial. The last thing I want to hear is that it felt like nothing was there.
MattR
@burnspbesq: Does that mean Dexter Pittman and Rex Ryan are related? (see my comment from the previous thread)
Seanly
@Brachiator:
It was intentional, but it wasn’t intentionally humorous (or at least I haven’t heard that it was). That was the movie in which product/restaurant placement jumped the shark. In a rare move, Hollywood has actually seemed to reduce product placement in movies although now we do have to sit through advertisements at the movie theater.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
I’ve decided to root for the Vikings because maybe if they win the Super Bowl, Brett Favre will FINALLY retire for good.
Good Luck to your Vikings.
Tokyokie
What gets me about the Denise commercial is how uniformly great looking all the people working at the Taco Bell are. Which isn’t the case with fast-food workers around here. Or fast-food customers for the most part.
eastriver
If I hear someone use the tired phrase “punch him/her/them in the neck”, I’m going to make them watch a Taco Bell commercial.
asiangrrlMN
@JK: No! Do not root for the Vikes to win the Super Bowl because then, they will most likely get the $800 M stadium (public funding) they want. They think now is an AWESOME time for it, and if they win the SB, they just might get it.
And quite frankly, I don’t have enough rusty garden implements if the Vikes get their new stadium next year.
Fax Paladin
@geg6: I own the DVD. It’s damned difficult to talk about the film without using the phrase “more innocent time.” Especially when you start with what to modern eyes looks for all the world like a terrorist cell…
JD Rhoades
I laugh hard at the Taco Bell ads where someone’s talking about how they lost weight eating the TB “drive through diet.” As my son put it, “well, I guess if you have explosive diarrhea ever day for a month, yeah, you’ll lose weight.”
I like KFC, though.
ppcli
I love that commercial! Not for Denise, sweet-smiling though she may be, and not for creepy cheap burrito-stalker dude. It’s the girl at the cash first, who says “Denise is in the back.
(Breaks into eager-to-please, borderline moronic smile:) and chirps:
“But I can help you”. Then, when the guy insists on Denise, she says “Fine!” with the one of he best dagger-eyed, tight-lipped woman-scorned snarls I’ve ever seen. Then she hovers in the background making disagreeable faces. She steals the show.
Really goes to show that there are no small parts, only small actors.
Glocksman
@Brachiator:
KFC is okay (Grandy’s and Lee’s are better) for fast food fried chicken, but Taco Bell is Alpo and lettuce in a tortilla.
Not only that, but every damn TB I’ve ever visited has been fucking *filthy*.
No thanks.
Ron
@Glocksman: I think it would be pretty bizarre to say that KFC is “okay” and TB is filthy these days. I don’t think you can easily find a place that isn’t BOTH KFC and Taco Bell.
As for the commercial, if it’s the one I’m thinking of, all I have to wonder is who actually would sit there thinking someone working fast food for a major chain is going to risk their job to give some stranger a “special deal”.
Darryl
I live about 7 miles from the movie theater. If I’m going to see a movie, I leave my house at exactly the minute the movie is advertised to start. As I’m walking in the theater about 10-11 minutes later, I’m usually only about one preview/commercial away from the feature.
Yutsano
@Ron: We have a place there that is a stand-alone TB and a KFC/A & W. Almost no one gets the A & W stuff unless they’re getting a root beer float.
Glocksman
@Ron:
Around here we only have one of the combined chains.
Thank God.
Perhaps it’s only the local managers, but I am absolutely serious that the TB’s around here are filthy.
When I can’t walk across the floor without my shoes sticking to the dried up spilled soft drinks and the tables look as bad as the floor, yes I call the place filthy.
And no, this was not a one time experience.
Darryl
Out of total boredom, I tried a couple tacos from the Red Burrito recently conjoined onto a Hardees near my work. I was surprised that the tacos were actually good, and the hot sauce was actually slightly hot.
I mean, not authentic-good, but better than the aptly named TB.
Glocksman
As far as commercials that I’d just as soon never see again go, I’m surprised that no one has mentioned all of the boner pill ads.
If I hear the words ‘erectile dysfunction’ one more time, I’ll punch someone in the neck.
Or in a location that’ll induce erectile dysfunction.
Royston Vasey
@J. Michael Neal: Watching it live right now (I’m in NZ)
Pak 3 for 66, chasing 438 to win
AUS Aus 219/5(dec)
schnoxl
I like the Saints but I’m sick of hearing the announcers gush about how they seemingly rebuilt New Orleans singlehandedly after Katrina. If the NFL is that good at restoring a city’s spirit, then they should move a team to Port-au-Prince for next season.
Comrade Kevin
@Darryl: I guess that’s the eastern version of Carl’s Jr/The Green Burrito.
I refuse to set foot in Carl’s Jr.
The Other Steve
You guys are making me hungry.
I think I’ll go get some Taco Bell.
The Other Steve
Yum… Double Beef Volcano Burrito! Taco Bell FTW!
CanadaGoose
God, I love Tivo.
CanadaGoose
God, I love Tivo.