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Sponge Bob Square Butt Burger King Commercial
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it's harmless. It's not as if they're acting out sexual positions or anything.
It's no worse than that Renault advert with the "Shakin' that ass" song in the background because they're car design has a large rear end.
It's no worse than that Renault advert with the "Shakin' that ass" song in the background because they're car design has a large rear end.
I'm at work right now so I can't watch those, but I can only imagine what's in them
I'll watch when I get home.But I think it was explained best in Eurotrip: America was founded by a bunch of puritan prudes who came over here because Europe wasn't prudy enough for them.
Out of all of these examples, I've yet to hear of another example of something like this being juxtaposed with a children's icon. That's the whole point of our contention with the ad.
So? It's not like spongebob is humping their big square butts. It really didn't seem sexual to me. It seemed like a bit of fun. It's only suggestive if you try to look at it that way and kids won't.
especially pointless if you look at the "square butt" jokes which populate sponge-bob quite a bit ...
also not only kids view spongebob so there are quite a bit of stuff in the show(and movie) which kids very likely only find hilarious for other reasons
oh and obviously this ad works with so many people talking about it
That's my point, is both suggestive and kid-themed. Don't get me wrong, I think you can hind suggestiveness in something (happens all the time in popular animated movies), but when you resort to something so blatantly physical in nature, it's much less subtle.
And the comparison of other nations' reactions to this is part of the point. In America, this is going to be viewed as suggestive in some manner. This perception is always something the creators are knowledgeable about. Perception creates the reality. If adults are being conditioned to have some response to material, it follows that it would have an affect on the children as well.
I hate being right. As soon as I saw this commercial I knew people were gonna be up in arms about it.
It's friggin' hilarious. It's geared towards adults and children. The Sir Mix Alot half (the rap and subsquent showing of SMA) is for adults and the sponge bob portion is for kids. I mean 7-10 yo's are gonna laugh and be like "hahaha she has a squarebutt".
Also, The King, doing whatever he was doing, was funny and yet pathetically sad.
It's friggin' hilarious. It's geared towards adults and children. The Sir Mix Alot half (the rap and subsquent showing of SMA) is for adults and the sponge bob portion is for kids. I mean 7-10 yo's are gonna laugh and be like "hahaha she has a squarebutt".
Also, The King, doing whatever he was doing, was funny and yet pathetically sad.
This ad reminds me a lot of the Tendercrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch commercial from a few years ago. Burgerking's target market is young men from ages 17-25. This ad works for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cffi7vkQZcI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cffi7vkQZcI
Then you missed my point. Kids won't look for suggestiveness. They'll take it at face value. Sponge Bob SquarePants and some square butts on girls. It's just silly and I'm sure that's about all they'd take from it. I, as an adult, had to REALLY try to find it suggestive. Even trying to find it, the suggestiveness is SO minor I really don't understand the outrage, at all. It's a square butt, he's squarepants. It's really no big deal.
Lets say for arguments sake that kids find it slightly suggestive. So what? Some girls dancing with squares in their shorts were on TV. I think some of you are over-analyzing it a bit too much.
The distinction is that the suggestiveness has the subtlety of a sledgehammer. I agreed with your point when I talked about how animated movies do it a lot more under the radar.
LOL, well it's not subtle but I don't think it's oozing sexuality either. Kids all know they have butts and sponge bob's is square. The square butts thing is sort of amusing. I just don't think they'll take a lot more than that from it.
Honestly, I don't think they will either, but I can't condone the mixing of the two in general. That's my point.
Animaniacs ran from 1995-1999 and came on saturday morning. Their line anytime a hot lady went by was "hello nurse" in a way a guy would howl at a woman. They did this almost on a weekly basis and noone seemed to take notice(or at least not enough since it made it 4 years) . I'd say Animaniacs was a much bigger offender than this commercial but that argument is arguably for another day.
The spongebob commercial that shows on tv (30 secs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm6d...8640624F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=45
The one you can find online that runs the 2.5 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nopKDuydRo
The TV spot cuts out a lot of the song that could arguably be 'explicit'.
Also as one of the naysayers pointed out, they are referring to a song that an overwhelming majority of the target audience wouldnt know so I'm not sure how they can also argue they are exposed to all this sexuality. If they knew the song already, well then....
Also there is no cleavage in the video. It looks like they almost go there but the women have ties to cover what little cleavage there might have been and even then the scenes that would show cleavage if the ties weren't there happen so fast, you wouldn't get much. Needless to say, I don't see the big deal in the commercial and give credit to the agency who thought of it
Question to the naysayers and I know its difficult to go back in a time a bit but if you saw the commercial but couldn't hear the song, would you think it was as bad or is bad in large part because you know the song and in turn know what the double meaning is?
Not to mention that this:
Is a picture taken from a SpongeBob episode (not something from a commercial or anything) A sponge sticking his ass out with a big split down the middle for people to see his underwear?!?!? Madness!
Is a picture taken from a SpongeBob episode (not something from a commercial or anything) A sponge sticking his ass out with a big split down the middle for people to see his underwear?!?!? Madness!
What do you think is wrong with cheap publicity? They do exist to make money, you know.
I think it's genius -- they make the adults laugh their @sses off and the kids see SpongeBob.
More people who like it = more people who go to BK = more money.
Not to mention that this:
Is a picture taken from a SpongeBob episode (not something from a commercial or anything) A sponge sticking his ass out with a big split down the middle for people to see his underwear?!?!? Madness!
LOL! That reminds me of a tissue box I have. Don't laugh, Sponge Bob was one of my fav cartoons growing up
How I turned out to be "OK" after being presented with this tissue box I'll never know. Or maybe that's why I have an underwear fetish.
LOL! That reminds me of a tissue box I have. Don't laugh, Sponge Bob was one of my fav cartoons growing up
As long as its a clean underwear fetish, we're willing to overlook it.
As long as its a clean underwear fetish, we're willing to overlook it.
Sigh, always with the damn catches.