McCafé is McLamé

Wait...what??? You were in a real motorcycle gang??? That's so freakin' cool!!! Seriously.

The McLame ads have now made me actively hate all minivan drivers BTW.

Wait wait... Motorcycles don't magically stop working when they get wet????

They actually say Mini-van E! ARG! I didn't even notice this until folks here pointed it out ><.
Now I have to turn this commercial off every time it comes on which is a million times a day.
It's so stupid! And that father in the car needs to shave!

HollyRock wrote: I've finally taken note of these McMinivan commercials, and finally get it. It's the same principle as the formerly pretentious yet now relieved young professionals, who no longer have to put on an air and sit in Starbucks, since they can be themselves and enjoy McCafe at McDonalds. Now they're shooting for a demographic that's been criticized for being un-cool (the minivan crowd), shoving it back in the face of a demographic that thought they were cool already (motorcycle crowd). The little girl being excited about the rain is just added fun. What's interesting is that the Minivan guy is not being portrayed as a "dumb dad" this time,  but he's still hated here (?)

Douchebag dads are just as bad as dumb dads.  And yes, if you add an é to any word that ends in 'e', you are a douchebag.  If you add an é to a word that doesn't even end in 'e', you are a double douchebag.  It's not clever, it's stupid.

Btw, for all those left wanting and unable to see this steaming pile of crap, it has made its way to Youtube.

HollyRock wrote: I find the reaction on this board to the two men in this ad to be rather interesting, being that this is an online forum to discuss commercials.  In general, it's not a terribly racy or edgy topic, that would attract the toughest among the American TV viewing public. Has anyone else noticed that the motorcycle guy, himself, is a douchebag?  He starts the whole thing.  Who pulls up next to a total stranger, revs his bike, and says "nice minivan" and then laughs at him? It's over the top stupid, meant to be funny, but missed by those oh-so-offended by the "dumb dad" CIH stereotype.

They're doucheébagés.

Well, that's the underlying message of most ads: The person using (whatever product is being sold) is 'cool' and 'happening', and whoever isn't using the product, or who looks down on whoever's using it, is 'lame' and should be laughed at by those 'cool' users of the product.

That's the other thing about fast-food advertising; any customer who goes into an actual burger joint expecting to see all these happy, energetic, witty, glibly eloquent young people eagerly serving the customers while speaking from  the heart about what it means to be part of the Wendy Jack in the McBurger Hardee Jr's 'family', is going to be disappointed!

oozevad wrote:   In my experience many of the people working the register are not the brightest people in the world or the most happy and efficent, they can barely get your order correct, I really would not feel comfortable asking them to make me some fancy coffee drink. At least the people at Starbucks seem to know what they are doing and possibly had some specialized training. And the atmosphere at McDonalds just is not the same as a starbuck-y type place.

I was at McDonalds yesterday where apparently they thought it would be a bright idea to throw stuff to the drive through kid including drinks. Well a nice big chocolate milkshake missed and splatted all over his front, and everyone laughed like that kind of sh*t happens all the time. Yea, McDonalds doesn't seem like they take any training very seriously.

McDonald's sucks anyway. In terms of quality and quantity, they're FAR behind most of their competitors. The only reason they're still on top is the nostalgic factor and the price. When they can't even master basic fast food, what makes them think they can become a major competitor for Starbuck's?

And speaking of coffee (excuse me, coffée - there's another thing that's annoying about this pseudo-French fad, the accent mark goes on the first e when there are two of them, the morons trying to look cool ALWAYS place it on the end) - everyone knows that the "hip" language in the coffee business is ITALIAN, not French.