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Wendy's, Bruce's Yams, Sports Clips

by Brian on May 6, 2009

in Blogs,Cleveland Cavaliers,Food,NBA,Twitter,WSM?

During Cavs-Hawks: Part 1 (of 4) lasterday, I noted the Wendy’s commercial where the guy grows up and eats chicken sandwiches for his entire life.

I’ve seen this a bunch of times, but this was the first instance where I really watched it. To be totally honest, it made me do a genuine LOL because it was so depressing.

This is what I said on Twitter:

The Dos Equis guy would steal the Wendy’s dude’s chicken sandwich and then tell his wife he owns a castle.

I want to make an alternate one where like he leaves his wife and has like an awesome life as a fighter pilot or a professional boxer. He can still eat the sandwiches – that thing is ripe for parody.

In other Twitter related news, Bruce’s Yams sent Miss Destructo a 20-lb box of yam product, and she’s talking to the marketing department. She has a seductively yam-like video up of the carton unpacking.

I’ve decided my next agenda item is to find other companies not using social media, and send them my official “Tempest, Sirs” letter.

Let’s start with…Sports Clips. Who wants a job? I’ll fill in your name and contact info.

Speaking of Twitter, the music composer for WSM?, Dan Coe, is on there now – you should follow him. He can tell you about the dead body and the coyote in the basement we encountered during post-production.

Seriously though – how do you feel about that Wendy’s commercial? It makes me want to cry – and not in the good way.

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  • nrojb

    i just noticed it for the first time last night. i enjoyed that in the last shot they gave him a weird balding buzz with the middle of his head trimmed closer. I hoped he walked around like that for a few days. He also gained zero weight over the course of his life, bc showing weight gain with your restaurant's food is like fast food suicide.

  • nrojb

    i just noticed it for the first time last night. i enjoyed that in the last shot they gave him a weird balding buzz with the middle of his head trimmed closer. I hoped he walked around like that for a few days. He also gained zero weight over the course of his life, bc showing weight gain with your restaurant's food is like fast food suicide.

  • goathair

    I always just assumed it took him 30 years to eat the sandwich.

  • goathair

    I always just assumed it took him 30 years to eat the sandwich.

  • Greg Odens tonsils

    Two points to you goathair for bothteamsplayedharddotcom giving you mad props for thoughts about aeroplanes.

  • Greg Odens tonsils

    Two points to you goathair for bothteamsplayedharddotcom giving you mad props for thoughts about aeroplanes.

  • Greg Odens tonsils

    Fifty-two points go to @Brianspaeth for removing the gawd awful hammer drill title. Well done, sir.

  • Greg Odens tonsils

    Fifty-two points go to @Brianspaeth for removing the gawd awful hammer drill title. Well done, sir.

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    I've been meaning to ask you about that commercial for a while. For some reason I always imagine you laughing and pointing at the screen when it comes on. And I was right.

    I find the shot of him eating the sandwich at the office party with the sense of well-earned respect on his face very confusing. 1) Who gets Wendys for those lame office parties? 2) If they're applauding him or something, can't he put down the sandwich for two seconds? And the lamas class is brilliant.

    Also, many thanks for a chick from twitter who isn't smiling wide and posing. I dig Miss Destructro's vibe.

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    I've been meaning to ask you about that commercial for a while. For some reason I always imagine you laughing and pointing at the screen when it comes on. And I was right.

    I find the shot of him eating the sandwich at the office party with the sense of well-earned respect on his face very confusing. 1) Who gets Wendys for those lame office parties? 2) If they're applauding him or something, can't he put down the sandwich for two seconds? And the lamas class is brilliant.

    Also, many thanks for a chick from twitter who isn't smiling wide and posing. I dig Miss Destructro's vibe.

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    i'm non-plussed.

    what are your thoughts on raisons?

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    i'm non-plussed.

    what are your thoughts on raisons?

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    All I imagine is that's Jim from the Office, somehow impossibly happy with his job.

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    All I imagine is that's Jim from the Office, somehow impossibly happy with his job.

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    If there were to be a commercial with you in it, eating the same product over two decades, what would it be? And what scenes would you age through?

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    If there were to be a commercial with you in it, eating the same product over two decades, what would it be? And what scenes would you age through?

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    This is a post unto itself I've been letting develop.

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    This is a post unto itself I've been letting develop.

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    The master of parsing material and teasing. But it worked – I am intrigued.

  • http://preludetoapretentiousreview.blogspot.com/ Kingsley Le Corbusier

    The master of parsing material and teasing. But it worked – I am intrigued.

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    I just realized that three years ago yesterday I thought of WSM? – yikes!

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    I just realized that three years ago yesterday I thought of WSM? – yikes!

  • TVBrain

    The thing that bugs me most about the Wendy's commercial is that in the first two scenarios, he's played by a young girl. Like Peter Pan on Broadway,

  • TVBrain

    The thing that bugs me most about the Wendy's commercial is that in the first two scenarios, he's played by a young girl. Like Peter Pan on Broadway,

  • http://www.ndeddiemac.blogspot.com NDEddieMac

    Is it wrong to say I love Sports Clips, because I do, I only go there. As for the wendy's guy, you'd think he'd switch it up every now and then wouldn't you

  • http://www.ndeddiemac.blogspot.com NDEddieMac

    Is it wrong to say I love Sports Clips, because I do, I only go there. As for the wendy's guy, you'd think he'd switch it up every now and then wouldn't you

  • http://www.ndeddiemac.blogspot.com NDEddieMac

    Is it wrong to say I love Sports Clips, because I do, I only go there. As for the wendy's guy, you'd think he'd switch it up every now and then wouldn't you

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