Hardee's "Flat Buns" hot teacher commercial

[underpants]

The Western Thickburger ad has nothing on this one.
http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/Education/2007/09/09/hardee_s_carl_s_jr_flat_buns_teacher_com_1


Hardee's Ad Enrages Tennessee Teachers | WKRN.COM
http://www.wkrn.com/nashville/news/hardees-ad-enrages-tennessee-teachers/116235.htm

[Frank Cannon]

1. I love Carl's Jr. / Hardees hamburgers

But even I have to admit that this video goes way over the line.

[Deja Q]

2. That went so far over the line...

She's hot, but that's beside the point.

[Pierre.Suave]

9. LOL

have you ever seen an episode of, oh lets me pick just a "FEW" examples here...

The OC

Entourage

and whatever other show teens are watching now, give me a break, This commmercial is tame.

Anyone here ever seen teh Hot for Teacher video by Van Halen done about 15 years ago?

Were you as "outraged" by that as you are by this?

:eyes:

[Deja Q]

26. Given I haven't watched most modern day TV...

I do recall the VH video. Didn't see it until a few years ago, but I didn't quite care for that either.

[mainegreen]

3. That was hilarious! Those teachers need to take a chill pill and focus on serious problems.

'Disrespectful to the profession'. :eyes:

[ThomCat]

4. Right, because women in any professional setting

are really nothing more than fodder for sex fantasies. :eyes:

Women have a right to be offended when they're repeatedly portrayed as nothing more than sex objects. This can't be viewed as a single isolated incident. This is so amazingly common that it's a dominant image. Any attractive woman, no matter how professional, is one pose away from being a sex toy. This commercial is just one particularly blatant example of the way women are constantly told that their lives depend on what men think/fantasize about them.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Not to mention, I'd bet that it's being re-enacted in classrooms.

Teens being teens, I'd bet that there are young female teachers who are having a harder time keeping the class focused because of "flat buns" imitators.

[Pierre.Suave]

7. ...

:eyes:

[mainegreen]

11. It's satire. Satire of what you're complaining about.

Not the same at all.

[ThomCat]

12. No, it is not satire.

It's not making fun of sexism. It is sexism.

It's not making fun of horny guys, it's selling to horny guys.

People are quick to claim that any stereotypical advertising is satire, and it just goes to prove that many people have no idea what the word satire means.

[jobycom]

23. No way.

It's making fun of commercials, mocking sexism by being over the top. Same way Borat mocks nationalism (though not as well). There's nothing overtly sexy about the teacher, nothing original about the topic (remember the Hot for Teacher video?). It's mockery, made to make you laugh at the outrageousness of the commercial. Carl's has a whole serious of these commercials.

It could still be distasteful, obviously. But it's not a "horny guy" fantasy. Check out beer commercials, Taco Bell commercials, half the car commercials... there are plenty of examples of genuine marketing-to-the-penis commercials out there. This one was marketing to the funny bone.

And it's done what Carls/Hardees wants--created attention. Same as the Paris Hilton video, the Patty Melt commercial, etc. They know how to press the right buttons.

[jobycom]

20. Exactly. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

22. It's a satire of Sir Mix-a-lot's "I Like Big Butts"

With some reference to calendar events, a bit of Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" fetishism, and of course sex for selling things.

:shrug:

[Shakespeare]

27. As a woman with less junk in her trunk than I'd like, I think the commercial is HILARIOUS

I usually dislike Carl's Jr. commercials, but this one cracks me up. I don't find it objectifying at all (no moreso than if they were satirizing, say, non-muscular men).

"You've got a butt-minus!"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

28. As someone who enjoy's sourdough...

I thought it was kind of a lame pun.

[Shakespeare]

29. Of course it's lame.

But it still cracks me up. :hi:

[mzteris]

17. Did I ever tell you

how much I :loveya: you ?

[ThomCat]

19. Did I ever tell you

that it's mutual?

:loveya:

[Bennyboy]

5. I like Phlat Buns!

I love the tempo change...Phlat Buns.......

[Pierre.Suave]

10. yes they do

like teaching.

[Pierre.Suave]

8. Where was all this outrage when...

Carls Jr/Hardees made the Paris Hilton commercial?

[ThomCat]

13. There was quite a lot of outrage.

Maybe you didn't notice it, but there was a lot of talk online about that commercial.

[Pierre.Suave]

14. I did notice it

but it was not at this level of what I percieve as mock outrage...

[Gormy Cuss]

15. Perhaps you perceive it as mock outrage because you don't agree.

Think about the reaction to it as a different perception based on different experiences. If you were a woman who had years of professional training reduced to "nice ass" you may not be have been so quick to dismiss the negative reactions to this ad. That is one of the differences between this commercial and one with Paris Hilton, a person who has a career based on people ogling her and her antics.

[mzteris]

18. one small correction

"if you were a woman" PERIOD. To be reduced to nothing more than "nice ass" isn't pleasant for ANY woman or girl. Unfortuantely, society seems to be intent on reducing women to nothing more than their desireability as a sex object.

[Gormy Cuss]

24. True, but in this context I was making a distinction

between women who make a practice of living off the stereotype and the rest of us.

[KitchenWitch]

16. Carl's Jr. and Jack in the Box are always pushing the envelope of bad taste

It is like they are trying to out-do each other...

x(

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

21. I haven't been this upset since they sexually harassed a cow.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x27ZOVEiXr0

[jobycom]

25. What they do to the cows for their hamburgers is more disturbing to me

:rofl: