Has anybody seen the cowboy riding a chicken rodeo commercial?

[BEZERKO]

In slow motion, while a ghostly chorus sings "Ride the chicken."

Ok, I know :tinfoilhat: :yoiks: :crazy:

But seriously, the fact that it's a guy in a very bad chicken suit that the cowboy is riding that makes it so funny to me.

[PassingFair]

1. I've seen it! "Bucking Chicken". Couldn't BELIEVE it!

The ad agency for Burger King has gone crazy. :crazy:

Next it'll be "FRICKEN CHICKEN!"

[tularetom]

2. Around here they sing "big buckin chicken"

and the first time I heard it I thought they were saying something else. I turned to my wife and said WTF? Did you hear what I heard?

[grasswire]

14. me, too

I thought they were saying "f*cking" chicken.

[Cleita]

3. That's the Burger King commercial. I find all their commercials

more creepy than funny. The ones with the king with the plastic face and robes are bizarre. I keep wondering who they are trying to sell their product too?

[dusty64]

4. We were just

talking about this, that king makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. He's always peering in windows and hiding behide trees, VERY creepy.

[soothsayer]

5. He cracks me up!

[BEZERKO]

6. I could have the chorus wrong,

I was at work and the breakroom was loud. But yes, the King costume commercials are creepy. Especially the ones where he's pasted onto NFL films videoclips with the John Fascenda music are lame.

[jjmalonejr]

7. Me too!

The ad agency doing the Burger King commercials has gone off the deep end. I have no idea who their target audience is, but it must be insane people.

[spanone]

10. If people are talking about it, the ad agency is happy, they are happy.

[tularetom]

11. Maybe I'm insane but I think whoever wrote that ad

is trying to get under the FCC's skin by using the "buckin chicken" chorus. Shit every 14 year old kid in the country is gonna snicker every time he hears that ad (as well as some of us much older folks with 14 year old minds). I agree though that the big headed king prancing around the football field in his robes with a shit eating grin on his face has a big creep factor.

[BEZERKO]

12. "as well as some of us much older folks with 14 year old minds"

like me.

[Arugula Latte]

8. I think they're going for young hipsters who find the retro creepiness

of the king kinda cool. I heard that that king mascot was a relic of the '70s they pulled out of storage.

[tridim]

13. Maybe that's who they go for on the surface,

but in reality there's now a GD thread on DU discussing a weird commercial. That's the whole point of the BK marketing campaign. Make the commercials odd, and people will talk about them at work and online. At that point, the rest is free advertising.

[regnaD kciN]

9. And people are complaining about "Brokeback Mountain"...?

Quick -- alert Senator Santorum about this case of "man-on-chicken" action!

;-)

[jokerman93]

15. It seems as though

It seems as though advertisers have figured out that all they have to do is get a visceral reaction out of us and they'll be able to anchor the image of their product in our minds. Riding the chicken is pretty obvious and I'm sure it makes more than a few red blooded Murkan cowboys just a teensy bit uneasy. But making the audience feel good is irrelevant to the outcome they're looking for. Yep, creepy is definitely the word for it!

As far as Burger King... Well, I think that weird plastic king character could easily be a metaphor for the corporate marketers themselves. Think about the creepy places THAT meaning can take you. Neo-Capitalism is war and television really ain't that much fun anymore, is it?

[Skarbrowe]

16. I no longer eat at Burger King. I'm not protesting or dieting..it's

those weird commercials. They have turned me against their food. I don't recall ever thinking that I wouldn't eat there purposely because of the commercials, they just really KILL my taste for Burger King food. I will admit to not being very fond of it in the first place, but there is one close to where I live and I would drop in there every now and then when I was in a hurry.

I'm really not mad a Burger King in any way for the use of these ridiculous commercials. It's just that they don't make the food itself appealing, so why would I want it?

I get more hungry for a big old hamburger on that, I think, Visa commercial where the guy is eating one the size of a small table.

heh