Tasteless Burger King TV Ad – “Morning Tongue”
Apr 18th, 2008 by MAT.
Does this Burger King TVC leaves you with good taste or what?
The voice-over said:“Morning tongue, nothing to be embarrassed about
Just your body building up excitement overnight….”“Satisfy yourself with cheesy tots.”
Some folks at YouTube had a good laugh over the commercial:
futsol55 said ” thanks burger king. thank you for making us guys laugh our heads off at your commercial and then have to awkwardly explain it to any girl we see it with. absolutely genius.”
GJGraheezy08: hahahaha, this is hilarious!”
Some wasn’t too amused.
Eliza Feree at TVBender stormed:
“It’s sick and it isn’t just adults catching this show…it’s KIDS! At what point did food companies decide it was time to use sex to sell their food.”
We know sex in advertising does help to drive sales volume, but is it wise to use sex to sell food, especially junk food where lots of toddlers and kids are the patrons? The kids may be clueless but I’m quite sure most of the parents aren’t too amused. What are they supposed to do? Conduct an instant human biology class? And maybe, proceed further with the birds and bees? Or should the parents simply tell their kids: “Oh, you’ll know when you grow up.” Parents enjoy sex but they usually squirmed when trying to explain sex to very young children. Burger King just succeeded to put these folks in a spot.
Call me conservative but leave sex out of products meant for families.
Thank you for the linky love. Yes, it made me very upset as you can see. Especially when my kids asked about it.
I can imagine, Eliza. Just wonder if it’s one of Burger King’s ploy to make us adults grow up to tell kids about birds and bees easily.
I was grossed out when I saw this. I’m 26 and married so sure I get the joke, but come on, i don’t need to see it illustrated in an attempt to sell me some greasy am junk food. To think that Burger King has any kind of public service motive in their ads is just nieve. What would make it easy to tell kids about the birds and the bees (and yes i have one) is if we made sex not scandalous and not a joke. We need to see that it is natural and part of life.
Sex is definitely natural and part of life yet there are people who chose to make sex really sickening.