Comments on: Burger King’s Spongebob Commercial: What Do You Do?

By: Ariadna

Ariadna — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:10:33 +0000

Seriously??? Its a dumb commercial, your kid will forget it as soon as the commercial is over. I think its a over reaction, its only a big deal if you make it a big deal.

By: Comment by a Mom

Comment by a Mom — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:28:07 +0000

Well I suggest we get off our square butts and do something about it. After all it only takes 1 person to make a change and 1 million to take a stand. If you have guts, and you are sick of of Burger King promoting sex commercials to our kids, during prime time. Then lets give them a call, or you can write them; see the information below. And last thing is stop buying their food. This add is nothing compared to the Paris Hilton May 2003 commercial, and to think the silent minority can whine all the want but it won’t stop this kind of crap. STAND UP AND TELL THEM WE ARE TIRED OF THIS CRAP.

Burger King Corporation
5505 Blue Lagoon Drive
Miami, Fl 33126

Corporate Headquarters – 305 378-3000

By: skaizun

skaizun — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:59:50 +0000

You think THIS is the worst ad BK has aired???
Check out my TV.com blog to see how unregal BK truly is:

http://www.tv.com/users/skaizun/profile.php

(scroll down to the BK blog in the middle of the screen,
then click its title to view the entire blog in all its glory!)

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:49:48 +0000

Andy, that’s beside the point, but thanks for stopping by!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:47:09 +0000

Great discussion, all.

Lara, I agree with your logic. My problem is that if this isn’t about sex, they should have had ugly old men walking around with phone books in their pants. That would have made me at least smile. All the jiggly rumpshaking of young ladies in tight short-shorts echoes the current dancing styles in (inappropriate) music videos. Also, for some families, having the kids say “butt” is considered too much. I know it seems prudish to write it here in this space, but I know I don’t want my 3 year old saying, “I have dirt on my butt!” We moms have all kinds of cute replacement terms, don’t we? And I’m sure most of us use them. So the funny rap song in the funny commercial about square butts will make them giggle, and encourage that word to show up in their young vocabulary more frequently. To each his own – we all have our opinions. Still, your suggestion for how to converse with the kids about what they see on t.v. is right on the money. Thanks for chiming in!!

Dave, my hope is that my kids will have better taste than just ingesting whatever mediocre t.v. show Disney puts on the air, and I plan to tell them so. No, they can’t be shielded from everything forever, and that is the very reason we should talk about these issues and work to find solutions for how to handle them, like the one Lara offered. No, I’m not kidding you.