October 25, 2005
Burger King Ads
Every Damn Channel I Watch

Does anyone else remember the Puttermans? The plastic family that hawked Duracell Batteries
was everyplace. They gave me the willies. The Puttermans made my skin crawl, teeth ache, and
made me toss my lunch down the toilet. As much fun as that was, I had a private party the day the ads stopped running.

Now I get the same feeling everytime I see the spooky "Burger King Guy" shows up. He shows up in the woods behind trees, in the bathroom mirror, in the bedroom next to some guy.

Did Burger King hire the same ad agency?
Is Madison Avenue out of ideas?
Does Burger King think I'm going to buy more Whoppers because I see this plastic face, stiff walking, speech free, stalker?
Does anyone lile this ad?
Is the Burger King gay (not that there's anything wrong with that)?

This is not the first time I see ads from one company used by other places. Subway and Olive Garden have both used the "I'll have my usual" tag line, so I'm not all to shocked to see the Putterman concept coming back.

I say if you are going to creativly borrow from another ad, you should place them in at least one of the new ads. So, when do I see the Puttermans pull into a drive-in and order some food with
a side of batteries? That I would find funny.

I don't know if it would make me stop at Burger King, but I know that the ad would be funny.
I do know that I'll buy more Whoopers if the King would go to the Advertising Icon Retirement Home and keep the Puttermans and any other ad like them from showing up between any program..... EVER!!!!

Do you want fries with that?

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