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McCafé is McLamé

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Topic: McCafé is McLamé
Posted By: Commercial Failure
Subject: McCafé is McLamé
Date Posted: 05 May 2009 at 1:43pm
McDonald's new McCafé ad campaign is another annoying attempt at McDonald's becoming hip or trendy.

The whole premise, or rather premisé, is that you can add an "ay" inflection on any word that ends with an e but doesn't need that inflection, and Ooo la la, look at your french speaking ass.

Twice..woops, sorry, twicé this morning I was assaulted on both MySpacé and YouTubé (I'm assuming because they both end in E) with huge flash format ads for this crapé.

I can't wait until this ad meets its demisé.

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Posted By: FaithSF
Date Posted: 05 May 2009 at 6:37pm
Thank you for posting this, Commercial Failure, and welcome to CIH!

It's ridiculous.  Because "café" has the accent ague (acute), anything ending with an "e" is fair game and now ends in "é" as Commercial Failure points out. 

Quel Horriblé!


Posted By: Irishman
Date Posted: 05 May 2009 at 9:09pm

Whoever started this trend can bité mé! Wink Thanks, Commercial Failuré!LOL



Posted By: HollyRock
Date Posted: 05 May 2009 at 9:27pm
The McLamé Tartan:



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Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 05 May 2009 at 9:44pm
This commercial really sücks.

Mccafé cãn sück it!!!

Lamé lamé lamé

I must flamé this ãdverstisement

héhéhéhéhéhéhéLOL

nothing will ever be the samé

hahahahahahaha héhéhéhé

Commercial Failuré's claim to famé making every word ending in e now having an é.

shamé lamé flamé

MY GOD! what havé you doné? LOL


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Posted By: Commercial Failure
Date Posted: 05 May 2009 at 9:55pm
You'ré all welcomé

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What am I supposed to bitch about when my show comes back on?


Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 05 May 2009 at 10:28pm
Crap!  I got hit with flash web ad adding accents of the e starting with the word famé on Youtubé!!!

THIS IS STUPID! SO WHY THé @$#! do they do it?Angry




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Posted By: FaithSF
Date Posted: 06 May 2009 at 12:14am
Just to piss you off! Wink


Posted By: Hootman
Date Posted: 06 May 2009 at 12:20am
Ad, you've been tilde'd....


Posted By: Pirate Alyx
Date Posted: 07 May 2009 at 9:50pm
So far I have only heard Radio ads for this and a local fancy schmancy restaurant that has a gig with a local radio station was promoting it as well.  They said the one they were talking about were Al Fresco style...sitting outside.....big deal....not gonna drive a ways for McDonalds version of Starbucks...how McLame indeed.
 
Holly that looks like a table runner????
 


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Posted By: HollyRock
Date Posted: 08 May 2009 at 12:39am
Mc + Lamé = McLamé
+ =



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Posted By: SuperGoatMan
Date Posted: 08 May 2009 at 1:10am

LOL I JUST got on this forum to post about how unbelievably idiotic this commercial is, and here it is on top of the first page. Thank goodness I'm not alone.



Posted By: Pirate Alyx
Date Posted: 08 May 2009 at 8:32pm
Holly...gotchaWink

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Posted By: keyboardplayer
Date Posted: 08 May 2009 at 8:36pm
This is so stupid. Reminds me of the Gla-day lady. Sorry, don't know how to make the accent mark.

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Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 08 May 2009 at 8:41pm
Well I show you....

click on the button that expands the reply section. It reads "Full Reply Editor" once you put you cursor over it...

Now that you have all the options available go to the symbol to the left of the smilie face and to the right of the tree. It's the gray block with the red, blue and green markings on it.
If you put your cursor over it it should read "Special Characters".

Now click on that and it should display a bunch of characters. Now go to the one with the accent mark over the e. Click on that and it should end up like this:  é



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Posted By: keyboardplayer
Date Posted: 08 May 2009 at 10:17pm
I'm visually impaired, and my screen reader doesn't work with that feature.

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Posted By: FaithSF
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 1:18am
Thanks for that, Ad N!  I never even realized it was there . . . um, theré. Wink


Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 1:26am
Originally posted by keyboardplayer keyboardplayer wrote:

I'm visually impaired, and my screen reader doesn't work with that feature.


That's too bad, Well at least I tried.

touché


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Posted By: skullface2112
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 1:49am
Since when has McDonalds become a Starbucks clone? For the last F'n time, a coffee with whipped cream and chocolate or caramel isn't coffee, it's a milkshake, a glorified milkshake!

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Posted By: Prometheus
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 10:57am
ĦÊŞĘ ČőмḿĕřċĩĽś Šůċķ, Ÿōũ ĸŋŵ Ŧĥęŷ Đö
 
I see your tilde, McD's, and raise you Latin!

Your move, burgerboy!LOL

(these are my goth characters with piercings, they stand in a protest line for misuse of latin lettering).


to me! to you McD's!


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Posted By: FaithSF
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 7:23pm
Okay, I can't hold back on this anymore:  The tilde is  ~ .
The accent ague is the accent mark above the e:  é

So can we stop calling the accent mark the tilde?


Posted By: Irishman
Date Posted: 09 May 2009 at 7:30pm

Th-"ague" very much for that!



Posted By: Prometheus
Date Posted: 10 May 2009 at 9:06am
Originally posted by FaithSF FaithSF wrote:

Okay, I can't hold back on this anymore:  The tilde is  ~ .
The accent ague is the accent mark above the e:  é

So can we stop calling the accent mark the tilde?


Well-done Faith....I passed this along hoping something would draw attention to it. You win 1 (one) internet for being the first to finally point that out!

For the rest of you, a tilded e is:

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Posted By: Ad Endless Nauseum
Date Posted: 10 May 2009 at 1:50pm
Originally posted by Pirate Alyx Pirate Alyx wrote:

 


That looks suspiciously like James Bond!


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Posted By: FaithSF
Date Posted: 10 May 2009 at 6:24pm
Originally posted by Prometheus Prometheus wrote:

Originally posted by FaithSF FaithSF wrote:

Okay, I can't hold back on this anymore:  The tilde is  ~ .
The accent ague is the accent mark above the e:  é

So can we stop calling the accent mark the tilde?


Well-done Faith....I passed this along hoping something would draw attention to it. You win 1 (one) internet for being the first to finally point that out!

For the rest of you, a tilded e is:


Oh, boy!  I get my own Internet?! LOL


Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 1:56am
Nö fÜckin fairé I wañt my öwñ iñternét!LOL


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Posted By: Prometheus
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 9:29am
Originally posted by Ad nauseous Ad nauseous wrote:

Nö fÜckin fairé I wañt my öwñ iñternét!LOL


Okay you get ¾ of an internet for that response being at least able to use ASCII in an original content while making me laugh, but just this once! You would have gotten ½ if you weren't playing along WinkWinkWink


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Posted By: Pirate Alyx
Date Posted: 12 May 2009 at 9:24pm
hmmmmmm always loved the ümlaüt LOL
 
 


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Posted By: erod550
Date Posted: 16 May 2009 at 7:04am
I've been away from CIH for a while but these ultra lame commercials have brought me back. 

McDonald's commercials have sucked for quite some time but these are the worst ones in quite a while.


Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: 18 May 2009 at 7:07am
it's not even a "capuccino" or whatever they're trying to sell it as. it's just coffee with sweetner and creme added with whipped cream on top!

also, I saw a billboard for it, and it said "MMMMMMMMMMMMM". I don't know why, but that really pissed me off.


Posted By: 20carrocks
Date Posted: 20 May 2009 at 3:27am
If I start seeing a bunch of people on wi fi hanging out there, drinking their wannabe Starbucks.....then life as we know it is over.


Posted By: BDrums1971
Date Posted: 24 May 2009 at 5:55am
These commercials are really, REALLY stupid. Course I guess McDonalds caters to the lowest common denominator. Maybe the same ad people who came up with the stupid Progressive commercials came up with these ads. They are about equally assinine. F*@k Mcdonalds!!!

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Posted By: Buffalo Bill
Date Posted: 24 May 2009 at 9:29pm
I hate these commercials too. It reminds me of that South Park episode "Margaritaville" with the guy that pronounces the "e" at the end of words like "possible" (possibluh.)

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Posted By: rdog157h
Date Posted: 26 May 2009 at 5:18pm
McDonalds ads just get worse and worse! The one that really gets on my nerves worse than the mc cafe crap is the one for the quater pounder I think, where they say " You SO want one"
I hate when people use the word SO like that but now its in my face when I am watching tv.


Posted By: Pirate Alyx
Date Posted: 27 May 2009 at 10:07pm
Well I have to admit..there was a Mickey D's commercial for the Big Mac...with the same jingle "You so want one"....and it was after an entire day of gardening on Monday and a headache to boot, so that commercial...sold me...I drove down to Mickey D's and got one of them Big Mac's.Wink

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Posted By: cardassian
Date Posted: 29 May 2009 at 5:39pm
Wendy's triple with 9000 grams of fat for Me Alyx!!! That gives Me an excuse to wash it down With Turkey and Water to hunt the bad cholesterol downDead!!!!

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Posted By: Pirate Alyx
Date Posted: 29 May 2009 at 7:13pm
I happen to land on the Christian Broadcast Channel and there was some doctor I think he was stating that Niacin is as good as Lipitor and makes new heart vessels...wonder if that is true...then you can pound down gazillions Wendy's Triple Threats...LOL

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Posted By: Prometheus
Date Posted: 30 May 2009 at 8:56am
Originally posted by Pirate Alyx Pirate Alyx wrote:

I happen to land on the Christian Broadcast Channel and there was some doctor I think he was stating that Niacin is as good as Lipitor and makes new heart vessels...wonder if that is true...then you can pound down gazillions Wendy's Triple Threats...LOL


Absolutely NOT true! Niacin nor Lipitor "makes new heart vessels", only the wart-virus or cancer does....the problem being that you get warts or tumors. Niacin isn't even comparable to Lipitor, and Lipitor isn't very effective without changes in your diet to go with it. As a rule, NEVER listen to medical advice given by an evangelist....it can kill you...

Sometimes I really wonder about these evangelists, as far as mental-health issues go....


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Posted By: wonderlust822
Date Posted: 31 May 2009 at 4:32am
holy f**king sh*t i HATE this commercial. i hate everyone in it. i especially hate the snooty c**t that narrates it. godDAMN. come to think of it i hate ALL of mcdonalds commercials!!! AAAHHHHHHHHGGGGGRRRRRRR. they make me wanna shoot myself


but niacin does work as an effective hyperlipidemic (to lower cholesterol)


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Posted By: gail
Date Posted: 31 May 2009 at 6:39am
Originally posted by wonderlust822 wonderlust822 wrote:

holy f**king sh*t i HATE this commercial. i hate everyone in it. i especially hate the snooty c**t that narrates it. godDAMN. come to think of it i hate ALL of mcdonalds commercials!!! AAAHHHHHHHHGGGGGRRRRRRR. they make me wanna shoot myself


but niacin does work as an effective hyperlipidemic (to lower cholesterol)
 
 
   Wow, I'll bet the hotties are beating down your door. Words of advice; being a sophomoric, foul mouthed jerk is not funny, just low-rent , unimaginative and really unlikeable.


Posted By: FaithSF
Date Posted: 31 May 2009 at 6:44am
Well said, Gail.  Wonderlust, it's quite revealing that in your first 6 posts, you've already referred to actresses as a bitch, a c***, a crusty-ass mom and other things.  Nice to know we have another woman-hater at CIH.  


Posted By: gail
Date Posted: 31 May 2009 at 6:49am
Originally posted by FaithSF FaithSF wrote:

Well said, Gail.  Wonderlust, it's quite revealing that in your first 6 posts, you've already referred to actresses as a bitch, a c***, a crusty-ass mom and other things.  Nice to know we have another woman-hater at CIH.  
 
  I'm sure his mother would be proud.


Posted By: FaithSF
Date Posted: 31 May 2009 at 6:57am
I'm sure.  I just started a topic on this in the Flame Room.


Posted By: wonderlust822
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2009 at 2:45am
i am not a woman hater. and what would you two be saying if the commercial in question had a MAN in it and i used the words douchebag, or cock, or prick, or any other "demeaning" words towards a man? let me guess... mmm, nothing? just because you're women and someone says something demeaning towards ONE woman (who is selling themself to make an ass out of themselves on national television) doesnt mean that they hate women or ALL women fit the description of the words used. there are demeaning and derogatory words for men too, but it seems women are the only ones that care when theirs are used. i understand that you might not use ANY derogatory words and you dont want to hear them. or read them. but they are out there. and there are plenty of people who are willing to and like to use them. thats the world we live in. if you expect to never have to deal with it then you are in for a big surprise.

im sorry if i offended you but those are the words that i use. i do not get offended easily because what people say are their own opinions and words. not mine. and thats the beauty of free speech. besides, why are you going to let everything someone says get to you?


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Posted By: Hezadancer
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2009 at 3:11am
Anyway....

I've seen this one at least twice an hour while watching the animation block on Fox tonight. I can't STAND it! At the end when the woman is handed the coffee she has this odd bug eyed look on her face. I don't know what it is lately with commercials showing adults putting their finger in their mouth to lick something off and having them make a face while leaving the finger there longer then it needs to be, like their savoring their freaking finger. The woman on the bus does it in this ad with the whipped cream topping. This trend needs to die.


Posted By: gail
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2009 at 3:27am
  Wonderlust, same thing holds true for both sexes. Gross is gross and yes, there is a limit before crossing a threshold into being totally loathesome.


Posted By: TheNilvarg
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2009 at 7:48am
This is absolutely the WORST commercial I have ever had to suffer through in my twenty-three years of life. I think being skinned alive and then dipped in Iodine would probably be less painful.

I have to mute it immediately when I hear that first "Aaay" in the song. It's almost a reflex now. Otherwise, I'd probably have to shoot myself.


Posted By: CafeBustelo
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2009 at 1:39am
It's true! There's a new one that I haven't found a video for yet, but I finally tracked down a video of the original (posted in my article http://adnauseous.com/2009-05-29-finally-a-copy-of-the-new-mccafe-ad/ - here ). The new one is equally annoying and ridiculous, and I think it's a little more male-targeted than the first.


Posted By: FrauKruspe
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2009 at 4:35pm
I häte this stupid commercial..No matter how hard they try McD's will never be elegant or posh. Just jumping on the bandwagon of selling iced coffees just like every other läme aß fast food chäin. Also, there is NOTHING "Café" about McD's. Thumbs%20Down


Posted By: DolFan 316
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2009 at 9:38pm
This is actually a progression in ad badness from Mickey D's. First there were the ads portraying people who worked there as future winners in life who were just working there temporarily until they became a big success Ermm Then there was the whole "all our foods are magically healthy now, honest!" blitz. Then this garbage.

I could've sworn I saw an ad last year where two women (here we go again) were actually celebrating the fact that they could go back to reading gossip magazines and watching reality shows instead of pretending to be cultured but that was probably for another product. In any case, people need to make up their minds. Do they want to be snobs or not? Because if I meet someone who minces around using "ay" at the end of every other word and then raves about the latest reality trash I'm punching them in the face. 


Posted By: jppuertorico85
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2009 at 5:52am
Originally posted by DolFan 316 DolFan 316 wrote:

This is actually a progression in ad badness from Mickey D's. First there were the ads portraying people who worked there as future winners in life who were just working there temporarily until they became a big success Ermm Then there was the whole "all our foods are magically healthy now, honest!" blitz. Then this garbage.

I could've sworn I saw an ad last year where two women (here we go again) were actually celebrating the fact that they could go back to reading gossip magazines and watching reality shows instead of pretending to be cultured but that was probably for another product. In any case, people need to make up their minds. Do they want to be snobs or not? Because if I meet someone who minces around using "ay" at the end of every other word and then raves about the latest reality trash I'm punching them in the face. 
 
I'm 99.9% certain that that was indeed a lamé McCafe/McD's commercial.  The .01% of me is thinking maybe a Dunkin Donuts commercial when they were also doing the anti-starbucks marketing thing.  I remember thinking that I watch reality tv shows and read gossip mags AND I enjoy a starbucks latte...am I ripping open a black hole in some other dimension for doing that?


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Posted By: ThatOneAdWhere...
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2009 at 6:22am
Originally posted by Phil Phil wrote:


also, I saw a billboard for it, and it said "MMMMMMMMMMMMM". I don't know why, but that really pissed me off.


Could be the lack of originality or any effort WHATSOEVER to try and write a decent slogan.  Someone was paid to design that billboard.

Am I the other one who is not bothered only by the accent, but McDonald's whole McPutting 'Mc' in front of McEverything at McDonald's?  (Okay, so it's an old gimmick and most likely everyone has moved on, but it still bugs me)




Posted By: jppuertorico85
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2009 at 11:57pm
Originally posted by ThatOneAdWhere... ThatOneAdWhere... wrote:



Am I the other one who is not bothered only by the accent, but McDonald's whole McPutting 'Mc' in front of McEverything at McDonald's?  (Okay, so it's an old gimmick and most likely everyone has moved on, but it still bugs me)


I'm crazy obsessed w/ Grey's Anatomy so the mc-izing of everything doesn't bother me so much! :)


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Posted By: DolFan 316
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2009 at 1:55am
Originally posted by jppuertorico85 jppuertorico85 wrote:

I remember thinking that I watch reality tv shows and read gossip mags AND I enjoy a starbucks latte...am I ripping open a black hole in some other dimension for doing that?


Yes. Yes you are. And when the beings from this other dimension come through into this one and cause the Apocalypse, I'm blaming you Unhappy Wink


Posted By: Titus77
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2009 at 12:08am
This ad can gargle my nuts...just awful.

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Posted By: HollyRock
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2009 at 12:10am
Well there's a new one.

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Posted By: erod550
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2009 at 8:01am
Ugh, now there's one with a guy on a chopper that pulls up next to a minivan at a light and makes fun of the guy driving the minivan.  The minivan douche takes a drink of his McCafe drink and it starts to rain, to which the douche says "That's minivan-é" and rolls up the window with a smug look on his face as he sips his McCafe and the biker gets soaked and slumps in despair.

Just when you think it couldn't get anyworse, they're now adding the é to words that don't even end in E.  Ugh.


Posted By: Jack
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2009 at 5:18pm
I'd like to point out that I can and have operated a motorcycle in the rain. There's this nifty thing called a rainsuit, made of (gee whiz) waterproof material. It will pack into a very small area. We don't melt.


Posted By: HollyRock
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2009 at 5:47pm
I bet it makes you impervious to McCafé.  Thumbs%20Up

We should all get one.


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Posted By: BDrums1971
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2009 at 7:57am
Originally posted by Jack Jack wrote:

I'd like to point out that I can and have operated a motorcycle in the rain. There's this nifty thing called a rainsuit, made of (gee whiz) waterproof material. It will pack into a very small area. We don't melt.


Real men don't melt, but I'm guessing the guy in the minivan just might!


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Posted By: Prometheus
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2009 at 12:21pm
Yeah I'm about to plant my McFoot-é into their ass-é if they don't shuthef**kup-é....

Call their complaint line about this commercial, but end every significant word with an -é....I'm sure that if you drive the corporate-office insane with this crap, the campaign will end: "Yes I'd like to speak to the head of marketing-é?.....Yes, I'm a little-é tired-é of your McCafé advertising-é campaign-é, it's incredbly-irritating-é. so maybe your department-é needs some better ideas-é, before-é I completely boycott-é your business-é due to your irritating-é commercials-é......get the picture-é?"

Not that they will listen on the first few calls, but if we all called to complain, we might see an end to this commercial, especially if we say that we will boycott McD's until they stop this offensively-retarded campaign that even the mentally-challenged are calling "retarded". Maybe then they will see how irritating this is when you refuse to talk to them in anything other than in asshole-é....

This campaign irritates me almost as much as Lysol has, for which I have deliberately-avoided the purchase of their products, or any other Reckitt Benckiser brand such as Finish, Vanish, Calgonite, Air Wick, Dettol, Gaviscon, Veet, Clearasil and Nurofen.


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Posted By: DolFan 316
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2009 at 1:13am
That's actually a damn good idea...

And yes, I've seen that minivan ad too, and it just might be the worst of the lot! Plus they've got ANOTHER new one out as well Angry


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Posted By: DirtyD79
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2009 at 7:16am

Oh geez it's so sad watching McDonald's having an identity crisis. Look no matter how much Madison Avenue window dressing they slap on they're always gonna be a Choke n' Puke.



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Posted By: Ad Endless Nauseum
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2009 at 1:30pm
The MD drive thru on my base has recently "upgraded" their intercom with one of those voicemail type devices, that pesters you to try whatever is new, then the clerk comes onto the speaker to take your order.

I just found out that the circuit senses the sound of a car's engine to play the message. Right now, it is endlessly offering McLame Mocha.Dead  The problem is that you MUST answer either YES or NO to the stupid question, or the machine ignores your presence and the clerk never asks for your order!Angry This particular MD has two drivethru lanes that merge into one at the payment window, and each is triggered separately. I discovered the voice actuated switch circuit by ignoring the coffee offer and waiting for the clerk to answer. Two cars went by in the other lane before I yelled at the microphone: HEY!!! Instantly, the clerk came on and asked for my order as if nothing had happened.

The story sounds like nothing, but it is actually a subtle psychological exercise. By forcing the customer to respond to the offer, they force the customer to think about it rather than allowing them to ignore it. It very nearly constitutes illegal subliminal influence.

IMHO, the only justifiable reason for the existance of coffee at all on this planet, is to provide me with a convenient and safe method of artificially aging new speaker cloth on the antique radios I restore. I would never dream of drinking the stuff.Nuke


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Posted By: jks24t
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2009 at 2:15am
I didnt read every post, so if someone already said this, my bad...

The mcdonalds mccafe crap, is awful. its on my "mute on sight" list.

Wanted to point out that mcd.'s came out with their new drink, and the commercials are weak, and Wendys (i think) did almost the exact same thing with their frosty tosty shosty awsty drink, w/e the f**k it is. and their commercials are really, really, really, stupid as well.




Posted By: TheDude22
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2009 at 9:38pm
I also hate this commercial! Way to go McDonalds you just went McLamé!

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Posted By: DolFan 316
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2009 at 9:59pm
With that drive through story McDonald's has officially joined my ever-growing list of evil corporations. 

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Posted By: Local_Avail
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2009 at 1:48am
Originally posted by ThatOneAdWhere... ThatOneAdWhere... wrote:


Am I the other one who is not bothered only by the accent

The accent's one thing, but there's even another accent on top of that one. I've been running a "Me Encanta" McDonald's commercial with the Latina lady gushing about how much she loves her "MEC-cafe." That just grates for some reason.


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Posted By: Triple J
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2009 at 7:50am
Originally posted by erod550 erod550 wrote:

Ugh, now there's one with a guy on a chopper that pulls up next to a minivan at a light and makes fun of the guy driving the minivan.  The minivan douche takes a drink of his McCafe drink and it starts to rain, to which the douche says "That's minivan-é" and rolls up the window with a smug look on his face as he sips his McCafe and the biker gets soaked and slumps in despair.

Just when you think it couldn't get anyworse, they're now adding the é to words that don't even end in E.  Ugh.
"Minivan-é" ... wow... just... wow... he really does say that... I had to put this commercial on closed-captions to see WTF he was actually saying... I couldn't believe it. The guy on the motorcycle must have been too busy keeping his head from exploding to get out of the rain.


Posted By: TheDude22
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2009 at 8:45am
Originally posted by Triple J Triple J wrote:

Originally posted by erod550 erod550 wrote:

Ugh, now there's one with a guy on a chopper that pulls up next to a minivan at a light and makes fun of the guy driving the minivan.  The minivan douche takes a drink of his McCafe drink and it starts to rain, to which the douche says "That's minivan-é" and rolls up the window with a smug look on his face as he sips his McCafe and the biker gets soaked and slumps in despair.Just when you think it couldn't get anyworse, they're now adding the é to words that don't even end in E.  Ugh.
"Minivan-é" ... wow... just... wow... he really does say that... I had to put this commercial on closed-captions to see WTF he was actually saying... I couldn't believe it. The guy on the motorcycle must have been too busy keeping his head from exploding to get out of the rain.

What next? McDonaldsé Mealé? Enough with the dumb fancy talk and make ads that are good!

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Posted By: Cornholio
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2009 at 9:39am
At least these ads made some sense when the "e" was added to words that actually end in E.   Shuttle, cubicle, etc.   Now they're making up words.   I HATE MADE UP WORDS!!! 


Posted By: Prometheus
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2009 at 12:36pm
So next time you are in the drive-through, order a Big-Mac-é, with a  large-é fries-é, and a coke-é, and have it fresh-é, or it won't just be the commercial I complain-é to your corporate-office-é.

I still suggest we flood their corporate office with a complain on their commercial, but  always adding an unnecessary "é" at the end of every word we possibly can. Call all day every day, telling them how lame-é this commercial-é is, and that you will not stop complaining-é until this commercial-é is removed-é, call ya back-é tomorrow-é....Doesn't this sound retarded-é? To talk-é like this all the time-é? Maybe you'll not see my face-é in your stores-é until you drop-é this stupid-é advertising-campaign-é, just because you figured out how to make coffee-é that tastes marginally-better-é than your typical-é crude-oil-sludge-é that you call coffee-é.

Trust me, eventually you will drive someone in corporate to go on a killing spree, if enough of us call-in.....Then we just sit back and watch the fun.

BTW, if anyone is French, you could sue them for trivializing your nationality....oh wait, I think I'm half french....hmmmmmmm.......


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Posted By: HollyRock
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2009 at 2:35pm
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 (?)


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Posted By: DolFan 316
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2009 at 12:50am
Hollyrock's post has me all confused. Or more accurately, the ad execs who came up with that convoluted plan have me confused.

Seriously, whatever happened to just telling the audience why they should buy your product?


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Posted By: Synesthesia
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2009 at 3:52am
Yes, I think these ads might be more annoying then the, "You mean I don't have to wear a beret and listen to jazz and wear glasses" ads? ><


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Posted By: ironwolf56
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2009 at 6:11pm
Growing up with my stepfather in an actual biker gang (ex-military and criminals, not dentists who bought a Harley to relive their past) I like to imagine minivan-e commercial has an alternate ending where d-bag daddy gets hauled out the window and gets the yuppie crap beat out of him.


Posted By: DolFan 316
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2009 at 7:39pm
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.




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Posted By: ironwolf56
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2009 at 8:24pm
Originally posted by DolFan 316 DolFan 316 wrote:

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.




Sort of a "junior member" when I was in high school.  It was run by my stepfather (ex-con) and his buddy (former Army Infantry lifer).  I got my motorcycle license at 17 and got up to some...mischief...


Posted By: flychinook
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2009 at 9:02pm
Wait wait... Motorcycles don't magically stop working when they get wet????


Posted By: ironwolf56
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2009 at 4:31am
Some of the best rides I ever had were in pouring rain.


Posted By: Synesthesia
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2009 at 11:06pm
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!


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Posted By: jerkylips
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2009 at 5:14am
Originally posted by erod550 erod550 wrote:

Ugh, now there's one with a guy on a chopper that pulls up next to a minivan at a light and makes fun of the guy driving the minivan.  The minivan douche takes a drink of his McCafe drink and it starts to rain, to which the douche says "That's minivan-é" and rolls up the window with a smug look on his face as he sips his McCafe and the biker gets soaked and slumps in despair.

Just when you think it couldn't get anyworse, they're now adding the é to words that don't even end in E.  Ugh.
every time I see this, I think that they must be in a dick-bag off, trying to out dick-bag each other in the ultimate contest of dick-baggery.  The joke's on them--the biggest dickbags are the creators of this commercial.

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Posted By: erod550
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2009 at 10:10am
Originally posted by HollyRock 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.




Posted By: HollyRock
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2009 at 12:38pm
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.


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Posted By: jerkylips
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2009 at 2:41pm
Originally posted by HollyRock 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.
 
My point exactly.  First, how are two guys who are each trying to be the biggest a-holes in the world supposed to make me want coffee?  "If I get coffee from mcdonalds, maybe I can stand up to the big bad biker too!!"
Second--nice example you're setting for the kids in the back of your minivan-aye.  "hey kids, when some moron comes up to you & starts shooting off your mouth, ALWAYS engage him.  Nothing bad could possibly happen..."


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Posted By: erod550
Date Posted: 25 Jul 2009 at 9:12am
They are BOTH douchebags, which makes the commercial even more annoying.


Posted By: Irishman
Date Posted: 25 Jul 2009 at 7:14pm
They're doucheébagés.Tongue


Posted By: WhatThe?
Date Posted: 25 Jul 2009 at 8:49pm
Quoting Ironwolf: "Growing up with my stepfather in an actual biker gang (ex-military and criminals, not dentists who bought a Harley to relive their past) I like to imagine minivan-e commercial has an alternate ending where d-bag daddy gets hauled out the window and gets the yuppie crap beat out of him."

Is it wrong that this made me smile?


My interpretation of this is that one particular lifestyle/demographic (the conformist McD's-swilling mini-van family) is of more value than the other (individualist "motorcycle dude")


Maybe it's just me, though....


Posted By: Irishman
Date Posted: 25 Jul 2009 at 8:55pm
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.


Posted By: oozevad
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2009 at 12:23am
I personally am baffled by this whole McCafe campaign. McDonalds must be spending millions to promote their fancy coffees and realistically how many do you think each store sells in a day? I doubt it is very many to justify the cost of the ad campaign. And the ads just make no sense and end up offending certain types of people.
 
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.
 
If anything McDonalds should offer coffee the way convenience stores do, self-serve, a variety of types and a variety of creamers that you can make to your liking.
 
McDonalds should forget competing with Starbucks and concentrate on the food products they already have a good following for. 
 
Or perhaps invest the money into replacing the cashiers with touch screens so that I can place my order without telling it to some moron (no offense) so that they can punch it into a touch screen for me (and ask me to repeat it three times then still mess it up).
 
 


Posted By: Irishman
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2009 at 1:06am
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!


Posted By: jerkylips
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2009 at 4:46am
Originally posted by oozevad oozevad wrote:

I personally am baffled by this whole McCafe campaign. McDonalds must be spending millions to promote their fancy coffees and realistically how many do you think each store sells in a day? I doubt it is very many to justify the cost of the ad campaign. And the ads just make no sense and end up offending certain types of people.
 
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.
 
If anything McDonalds should offer coffee the way convenience stores do, self-serve, a variety of types and a variety of creamers that you can make to your liking.
 
McDonalds should forget competing with Starbucks and concentrate on the food products they already have a good following for. 
 
Or perhaps invest the money into replacing the cashiers with touch screens so that I can place my order without telling it to some moron (no offense) so that they can punch it into a touch screen for me (and ask me to repeat it three times then still mess it up).
 
 
 
 
My neighbor is a general manager for several McD's stores in town.  When this whole "McCafe" thing started, each store was REQUIRED to purchase & install equipment that cost $50-$100 grand!!!  His first comment was, "we're going to have to sell a lot of cups of coffee to make that up"


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Posted By: Hezadancer
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2009 at 6:01pm
Originally posted by oozevad 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.


Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2009 at 6:38pm
Originally posted by Hezadancer Hezadancer wrote:



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.
 
ClapYES!
 
I was in a McDonald's a few days ago. Didn't buy a thing after watching:
 
1.) The KITCHEN staff fix food (one kid was NOT wearing gloves - a HEALTH DEPARTMENT REQUIREMENT).
 
2.) I watched them "fill" the "Milkshake" machine, again, no gloves.
 
 
 
 


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Posted By: Snesgamer
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2009 at 10:58pm
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.



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