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    Posted: 06 May 2017 at 3:03am
Apparently, Carl's Jr/Hardee ads are phasing out the sexy, and replacing it with some random D-lister named Charles Esten. He plays a phony founder of the burger joint chains, called Carl Hardee, Sr. And of course his son, Carl Jr., is tagging along for new nutty adventures. Confused 

At first, I thought this was poking fun at the KFC Colonel Sanders ads, but I guess it's a parody of all those fast-food cartoonish characters like Ronald McDonald or the Burger King. Whatever it is, it's stupid, and it annoys me. Ouch

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Amish-Selfie Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 May 2017 at 3:15pm
No burger is worth that pain. Not only does it seem to last 26 minutes, but there isn't a single funny or clever thing in it. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jimbo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 May 2017 at 3:33pm
I dunno.

I'd go through quite a bit for a really great burger.

That ad, while unusually long wasn't too bad.

Thought it was sorta kinda funny, even.

I've seen much shorter ones that were more difficult to sit through than it.

To each his own, I suppose.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ad nauseous Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 May 2017 at 7:37pm
I only liked the pictures of the burgers and the sweet black Corvette Stingray Convertible. I LOVE that car!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote aka ron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 May 2017 at 8:17pm
I've seen this...I think! That video is too long!
 
The father and son are shown on the banner of my YouTube page, I didn't turn the sound on.
 
Boooo! Hisssss! Bring back the sexy women!
 
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Originally posted by aka ron aka ron wrote:

I've seen this...I think! That video is too long!
 
The father and son are shown on the banner of my YouTube page, I didn't turn the sound on.
 
Boooo! Hisssss! Bring back the sexy women!
 
Agreed!  I miss the days when we could count on Carl's Jr. ads to provide some poontang.
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Originally posted by Tully Blanchard Tully Blanchard wrote:

Originally posted by aka ron aka ron wrote:

I've seen this...I think! That video is too long!
 
The father and son are shown on the banner of my YouTube page, I didn't turn the sound on.
 
Boooo! Hisssss! Bring back the sexy women!
 
Agreed!  I miss the days when we could count on Carl's Jr. ads to provide some poontang.
ConfusedIf ya gotta buy the burger to snatch some 'tang, what kind o'smell is that burger covering up?Wink
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So the new ad campaign is an apology tour for the sexy, lewd acting women with soft porn eating references?

I can see why middle America might not like that.  I'm not agreeing, it's just the way it is.  When you pander to one-half of the gender population, you lose out on the women spending power aspect.  There's lots of places still that are more conservative and don't appreciate Sports Illustrated models posing for food, and it isn't a "wholesome" message to attract the kids.  Just saying.

Anyway, the new ad is too long, and a mess in the beginning, and weird.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Snesgamer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 May 2017 at 3:16am
Sex sells, for better or worse. If you're gonna use John Stamos to sell yogurt or men with bells hanging off their underwear for some asinine Christmas ad - we can have bikini models for hamburgers. DEAL. (for the record, I never particularly cared for Carl's Jr's "sex ads" myself)
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Guess what? Women buy food too, and watching women in bikinis sucking on their fingers is not that much of an attractive marketing strategy to us. Also, I grew up in NC, where Wilbur Hardee started Hardee's, and he was cheated out of his empire for $35K in the 1960s. The OP is correct that the "founder" is fake, a cross between Carl's and Hardee's, both owned by the same co.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote aka ron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 May 2017 at 7:04pm
Just to follow up with the ad I mentioned playing on my YouTube page.
I like the boob tube and I like burgers too!!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jimbo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 May 2017 at 7:10pm
A real rib meat burger sounds mighty tasty.

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Originally posted by aka ron aka ron wrote:



"Who'd do that?" *CHAW CHEW CHOMP CHOMP* I'm already fed up with this twerp.
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Originally posted by Triple J Triple J wrote:

Originally posted by aka ron aka ron wrote:



"Who'd do that?" *CHAW CHEW CHOMP CHOMP* I'm already fed up with this twerp.
This mashup of the founder and son based on the real Carl Karcher and Wilber Hardee is annoying.  The "father" gives me the creeps.  I'd rather they go back to the eye candy soft porn.  
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Originally posted by DarkRealmStar DarkRealmStar wrote:

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This mashup of the founder and son based on the real Carl Karcher and Wilber Hardee is annoying.  The "father" gives me the creeps.  I'd rather they go back to the eye candy soft porn.
 [/QUOTE]I'd second that emotion.Wink
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Chip Esten was really good on Whose Line Is It Anyway back in the old days. He's on Nashville now, which is a reasonably popular show. Which makes it really odd that he is doing a dumb commercial like that...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ad nauseous Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 May 2017 at 10:03pm
I am already bored.of this series. Just show me the food and forget about the obtuse storyline stuff!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote DarkRealmStar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 May 2017 at 10:58pm
Originally posted by Ad nauseous Ad nauseous wrote:

I am already bored.of this series. Just show me the food and forget about the obtuse storyline stuff!
Exactly!

Show us the food we are supposed to be getting when we frequent your restaurant.  We will then compare what we received from the friendly cashier either at the walkup counter or the drive-thru window to what was advertised and agree or disagree that what we purchased with our own hard-earned money is in fact what we ordered based on your commercial.

Leave the family, fambly, porn star actresses and other stupid sh*t out of it!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ILUVTOMH77 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Jun 2017 at 3:24pm
Hardees is disgusting anyway. Dead  "Models" on the brink of having a career in porn or a dork trying to look old is not going to make me run out the door to eat at some fast food joint.
Chevy commercials that feature annoying hipsters make me NOT want to ever buy a Chevy......
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