So, that bacon cheddar ranch commercial...

[conuly]

For those who (happily) haven't seen it, it's vaguely akin to what I've seen of Japanese commercials, but... not.

Some guy (who apparently is Hootie) is standing in a very fake cowboy outfit, and he starts to sing, to the tune of Big Rock Candy Mountain...

Well, I can't type out the lyrics. The full commercial (which I'd never seen, lucky me) can be found here. It's really scary. The scariest part of it, though, is that the sandwich actually sounds really good, but I can't fucking get one because of that stupid commercial!!!! Argh.

And I know I'm slow, but it was in The Boondocks today, so. If you really want the lyrics, they're here.

Edit: So, wait, did none of you connect lyrics to images? You didn't realize that the woman with the huge cleavage appears with the line "the breasts they grow on trees", or that the women showing off their butts appear with the "train of women coming with a nice caboose" line?

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[conuly]

So, you don't think that using sexy women to sell food on TV is... inappropriate? For anywhere but hooters?

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

it may be, but I'm seeing the o__O ness more than that.

[phibby.livejournal.com]

I really didn't get that from it. Like lakidaa I thought it was funny rather than scary or sexual. Then again, I don't focus on the attractive women in the commercial; I giggle at the randomness of it all, like the blocks of cheese for bricks and the King (which means I'm apparently the only person in the world who thinks he's funny/cute rather than creepy since I thought he was hilarious in the older "wake up in bed with the King" commercial).

Whenever I see the commercial, it's usually when I'm watching TV with Mom. Although she doesn't think it's funny, she doesn't find it to be overly sexual either. She just thinks it's a little too weird and/or creepy. So I hadn't really thought of the supposed "using sexy women to sell food" angle of the commercial until now. Besides all the women being attractive and most of them being in short skirts/shorts, what really makes the women stand out as being "too sexy" or just in there to get horny guys to buy the sandwich? I guess the dressing does sort of look like semen (though the thought of that just makes it even funnier to me rather than outrageous), but all the other women seem to be in innocent situations. *shrug*

And it's not like this is the only food commercial ever to feature sexy women. Remember the old 3-D Doritos commercial with Ali Landry at the laundromat? I'm not trying to justify food commercials using attractive women by saying it's fine just because it's been done before, but why single this one out? Another recent food commercial with good-looking women is the TGI Friday's one where the men are more interested in the food than the women, so it's not even as if this is the only food commercial on right now with sexy women.

I'm just sort of curious as to how this commercial is particularly inappropriate, as, mihi, it doesn't even really focus much on the attractive women in it and seems totally tongue-in-cheek. :/

[conuly]

We've got boobybabe during the line "the breasts they grow on trees" and the sexy women on a trainthing during the "train of women coming with a nice caboose" line - how doesn't that hit you as sexual? And the line about dallas cheerleaders giving you a shave...

[phibby.livejournal.com]

Eh, guess I wasn't listening to the lyrics! I really hadn't noticed any of those lines, though I didn't understand half the lyrics coming from Hootie in the first place. (Maybe it's just me, but he sort of mumbles through most of the song.) I still find it pretty funny, though that's more for the surreal images than the song. :P

You're the first person I've heard mention it who brought up the sexual lyrics. No one in my family that I've seen the commercial with mentioned it; they just thought it was weird. I remember reading a short blurb about it in an Entertainment Weekly from a few weeks ago (mainly about the "What?!" factor of Hootie being in a Burger King commercial) that actually agreed with me in it being funny in its trippiness. Boondocks was more about Hootie, too.

So, really, is it that obvious? Just curious, not trying to say it's a perfectly appropriate commercial since nobody notices the lyrics. Did you catch on when you first saw it? Did any of your family/friends think of the sexy girls and lyrics when they saw it? Have you read any negative articles regarding it? I'm surprised that with how uptight people get about sex on TV nowadays (Nipplegate/Monday Night Football + Desperate Housewives, anyone?) that this isn't all that controversial.

[conuly]

I don't know that most of my family has *seen* the commercial. I thought it was pretty obvious, though, and it came up in a few places online.

[phibby.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Maybe it's just my family.

You've gotten me curious, so now I've got to Google this and see what pops up about it. :P