I despise that commercial, too. It's gotta be one of the absolute worst on tv right now.

Why can't more follow the example of the etrade baby, or emerald nuts, or...hell, even the gecko is less offensive.

I got one of their iced coffees one day last week because I was thirsty and sleepy. One sip and I was sick and disgusted. Much worse.

None are/were as bad as Quizmos talking sandwich. If you missed it then you are truely lucky. It looked like someone lost their lunch, and Claymation studios then animated it to sell you on Qs product. With that said, I too find the above ads inane. In fact I find all comercials insufferable. And they are every where.

None are/were as bad as Quizmos talking sandwich. If you missed it then you are truely lucky. It looked like someone lost their lunch, and Claymation studios then animated it to sell you on Qs product. With that said, I too find the above ads inane. In fact I find all comercials insufferable. And they are every where.

you are not wrong OSM - although I haven't seen the quizno's commercial yet. My bf has started singing the Subway jingle to me when he wants to see me go off the rails. (Yes, he is a bit sadistic and likes to court disaster). Thank god for DVR or I could have never watched anything.

Take me with you.

Gag. I will admit to using the drive-through at McD's (I do have an 8-yr old daughter who simply must have their version of the cheeseburger on occasion). I am so friggin' tired of them asking me, "Would like to try our new McLatte', blah, blah, blah." I've taken to interrupting them LOUDLY to say, "NO! I just want a cheeseburger!" I can't wait for my daughter to outgrow those damn burgers. . .

My kids are still blissfully ignorant of McDonalds. I know the day will come when someone lets it slip. Well, with any luck it won't be today.

I agree'e

Barfé.

The one I hate the most is (I think it's a McD's ad) is the one where the Mom is bragging about how her kid likes sliced apples and low fat milk. Well, then take the damn kid home, slice an apple and pour him a glass a milk! McDs and all its brethren is for crap-food! I like my "cheap bastid" lunch--a double cheeseburger, small fries and small softdrink for $3.
And the comment on Quinos and/or Subway. It seems that these 2 chains have moved away from any claims of healthiness (whatever happened to Jarod anyway?) and now are in a battle for the longest sub. If longer is better, why not cross-promote with Extenz? Just some blathering thoughts on Saturday morning.

Turn off the TV and patronize anything but chains. Otherwise, you'll find yourself being held by them. I agree (ay).....

This made me laugh out loud.

I hate the implication of some of the McLatte commercials that drinking good coffee will turn you into an effete snob.

Let's face it Mickey D's, there are exactly two qualities that make you worthwhile: cheapness and convenience. Stop pretending anything else.

And yes, $5 Footlong commercials have to go, and take Jared Fogel with them.

In addition to serving overly sweetened dreck disguised as coffee...

Kind of like Starbucks. :-D

I find it interesting that McD's is using "French" accents to sell its products. Anyone remember "Freedom fries?" UGH. Double UGH.

Yeah, the 'French' accents are ridiculous. (You could argue they're also Spanish accents...in fact, more so, since Spanish accents indicate emphasis, as opposed to French accents, which only affect the type of vowel sound. Anyway... :P)

Having spawned a commercial or two that made me wish I had the courage to scoop out my own eyeballs with a plastic spork, I try never to comment on how others ply their trade. If we happen to be working the same street corner, we let our pimps fight it out. It is an unforgiving business, advertising. Aspiring baby writers and graphic artists are drawn to it like fruitflies to a Shell® No-Pest Strip and are fully adhered to the sticky surface before they learn, to their horror, that the entire annual crop of SuperBowl commercials are conceived, presented and approved in a secret room at Crispin Porter and Bogusky by a small coterie of younger, cooler, more clever people than we; plus one freelance interrogator, lately of Abu Ghraib, whose job it is to secure the clients' cooperation (and funding.) Later, someone will demand to review the tapes of the Focus Groups and will learn they were destroyed (the tapes AND the focus groups!) But I digress.

What I was going to say is, Congratulations McDonalds! You have turned COFFEE into the new FRIES. Our arteries won't know what him them. My thighs can hardly wait.

They all tie with those insipid GEICO ads...

I hated that damn talking chihuahua but I'd take that over any of these now...

I have not seen the commercial and couldn't bring myself to click on the video link. But I did try an McDonald's Iced Mocha and it tasted like some sort of artificial chemical! Almost metallic. I was only able to manage a few sips. Yucky.

Gee - look what I'm missing by not watching prime time television...all that fast food sexual innuendo...shuttle - shuttle lay, cubicle - cubicle lay - a foot long!! promises, promises...

When you and JimGalt run away, can I go where ever it is that you end up? (As I said on someone else's post: please introduce me to the female singer who sings about swimming with the dolphins on Paradise Island, Bahamas. I would like to sock her in the eye to make her stop her insipid singing).

In the words of the idiot who came up with the fantastically irritating ad campaign for Herbal Essence shampoo: "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Sigh.

I used to like Subway. And latte. If things keep going the way they're going, I'll have to cancel my auto insurance as a matter of pride.

I gave up fast food on January 1 2003. I don't miss it at all, and I know my digestion is much happier for it.

Okay, yeah I'd eat a McDonald's hamburger if I were stuck on a 24 hour layover in a snowed in airport. But that's what it would take.

I agree these McCoffee commercials are totally stupide. If I'm going to buy an overpriced cup of coffee, I'll at least get it from Peet's or Starbucks!

I have to say though, Geico commercials are almost enough to make me go postal. Especially since the radio station I listen to plays about 6 per hour.

If I wonder why my students can't write a decent sentence, must less a five-paragraph essay, all I have to do is listen to and look at commercials like that. EEEyikes!

Hate, hate, hate those commercials. And McDonald's, that's. not. coffee. It's a coffee *flavored* dessert.

Running away from this culture does seem appealing. Since I cannot easily do that, I stopped watching TV in 2007. It is a step in the right direction. And I do not miss it. Unless I read about these commercials or hear about them, they are not in my world. Or my brain. Period. Try it.

gotta say it; bad as that ad is, mcdonald's lattes and cappucinos are good. haven't tried the espresso, but judging by the cap i'd bet on it. haven't tried the mocha either, but i do fear anything that they will sweeten.
but the cappucinos come with an honest to god big foam head on them that tastes good. it's got to be the machine they use.
oh, and the regular green mountain coffee is great, also.
also, i love subway subs, although again, the ad makes me lose my appetite.

As obnoxious as they are--and they ARE--they are still not the most frightening things ever--the Burger King! That dude scares the bejeezus out of me! I can't even look at it.

I am so with you on this. The subway commercials make me run screaming from the room. I don't think I've even seen the McDonalds one....but since one of my all time favorite movies is McLibel, I'm willing to hate it on spec.

Renee, I'm with you--the Burger King King is just too creepy for words. He looks like a rejected concept photo for Michael Myers of the "Halloween" franchise.

President.
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Do Not Want! I don't care for television much anyway...but these inane commercials make my gag reflex work overtime!

i share your "ear gouging sentiment." :)
no freakin' kidding! talk about lipstick on a pig?! can't you hear the ad agency now... "well, uh, french is classy and globalish, maybe we get 'them' in here that way...sorta like walmart showing 'yuppies' buying their stuff instead of going to target...yeah, yeah, let's do it...french is coool..."
puleeze... (

Your examples pale beside Burger King's Kingon Nipple Pinch ad.

See it here

Thankfully, it seems to have disappeared.

I got to say, I feel the commercials are a joke. I had the coffee and everytime it was terrible. In the old days before McD started hyping its coffee you could rely on there being some okay coffee there. Now it's always bad, old, tired, run down and re-boiled.

Can McDonald's do anything but serve up stupid advertising and stupid food for stupid people?

I simply hate these ads and I agree with I.
Must.
Run.
Away.
From.
This.
Culture.

Sachin

I watch very little commercial TV, only HGTV, DIY and the ilk, so I haven't seen this spot. But then I only SEE commercials, never hear them; that's what the mute button is for. It's actually kind of fun watching them with the sound off.

Frequently the fun comes from trying to decipher what the heck is actually being advertised. For a while, British Airways ran a spot that consisted of narwhales and dolphins swimming through what I later learned was Heathrow's notoriously troublesome Terminal Five, supposedly flooded into an aquarium. What the message was supposed to be I can't imagine.

To make things even more obscure, the background music was Julie London singing "The Good life," the kind of melancholy ballad that has barflies sobbing into their Jim Beam at two in the morning. ("You won't really fall in love, 'cause you can't take the chance. So be honest with yourself, don't try to fake romance ..." )

While this ad was intriguing enough to make me unmute the sound, it certainly didn't inspire me to travel anywhere, much less Terminal Five.

The McDonald's commercial is insanely offensive and insulting to one's intelligence. But if you diss the gecko, you answer to me!