Arby's Commercial!

15 years ago

Have you seen their newest one...where the guy is on the bed and the wife asks if he is ready and she comes in carrying a tray of Arby's while she is wearing a Arby's uniform??? She tells him she is only doing this because it is his birthday. At the end when the Arby's hat springs to life over his head and he says...'I likey'! Some reason, I just hate this commercial!!!! I think that is one of the WORST!

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nodakgal
15 years ago
I just saw it the other night for the first time Sandy.
I thought it was poor "taste" for a fast food commerical. Of course that is just my opinion!!
Pieonear
15 years ago
Kinda turns me off Arbys. :)
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Toni S
15 years ago
I agree Sandy. My kids and dh were there when I first saw it, they were zoned into something else thank goodness. Everything on mainstream tv is leaning towards inappropriate conduct.
pattico_gw
15 years ago
Another vote for bad taste...Not everything has to relate to that three letter word....

(spose we can say it here now without twirling on cups?)

patti
jemdandy
15 years ago
Its as bad as the fake "king" in the Bruger King ad. The latest round of Burger King ads are not selling me their product, nor is it projecting a good image of the Corporation. All I can think about when I see it is "Dumb and Dumber".
lynn_d
15 years ago
I agree and the way the Arby's hat logo pops up above his head is really suggestive. I wrote to them about it, tell them if you find it offensive, if enough people tell them they will remove this ad and rethink future ones.

Here is a link that might be useful: Contact Arbys
trishaw
15 years ago
I really dislike this one. My husband saw it for the first time last night- one of the kids was watching tv on his computer. He laughed for a minute and made the poor choice of asking me if I would ever consider doing something like that. I asked him if he wanted me to dress in "costume"- he said, Oh no! I meant bring me dinner in bed!

Trish
Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
15 years ago
Thanks for the link Lynn. I just wrote them with a complaint.
sandy_in_ia
Original Author
15 years ago
I am glad to see that I am not the only one!!! I did send them a note about it!
misskittycat1
15 years ago
I sent a complaint as well. Thanks for the link. It embarasses me to have it come on while my 16 year old son is in the room. What can you say? This old fashioned girl thinks it's in bad taste. Nancy
pattico_gw
15 years ago
I sent my 2 cents to them too.
vicki_lv_nv
15 years ago
The one I really dislike is a Jack in the Box one. It has a male kid in a van at the drive thru. He is looking really stoned and is going to order tacos. I think he looks at a miniature Jack and when the person takes the order over the intercom and asks how many, the miniature Jack says "30". And the kids shakes his head up and down and says, "that's what I was thinking". I found it a little tacky. Not crazy about the Arby's one either.
jannie
15 years ago
I saw it, it's just plain dumb. And I like Arby's. One of my faves is a roast beef sandwich with horseradish and barbecue sauce, with a Jamoca shake.
dibby
15 years ago
Thanks for the link, I sent a message as well. Definitely not an appropriate commercial for the holiday season, or anytime for that matter.
Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
15 years ago
I heard back from them already.

Here is the email.

Dear S.,

WeÂre sorry to hear of your dissatisfaction with our current advertising.

Many times we choose to use tongue-in-cheek humor and satire in our commercials in an effort to communicate information about the ArbyÂs menu in an engaging and entertaining manner.

Your opinion is very important to us, and we thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. The last thing we want to do is offend anyone. We have shared your comments with our marketing and advertising teams so they can be considered in the development of future advertising.

Very truly yours,

ArbyÂs Customer Relations

Hopefully their marketing and advertising teams will pull it and realize it is in very poor taste (get it?) and not do it again.

Sue
sandy_in_ia
Original Author
15 years ago
Form letter! LOL

I got the exact same response! At least we did get a response and pretty quickly!
dibby
15 years ago
Same response here!
coral_ok
15 years ago
I like satire, but I don't think this quite qualifies. I'm generally very liberal, but I'm very much the opposite when it comes to what children see.
wildchild
15 years ago
Arby's has the hat appear in all their commercials. Big deal. I thought the commercial was funny. Young children won't connect the hat with sexual innuendo and teens and adults will get it and grin. LOL

Sex sells. There is much worse on TV. This is mild adult humor. Arby's has always geared it's advertising to a more "mature" palate.It's not McDonalds.
jel48
15 years ago
The Arby's commercial that I absolutely HATE is the 'I'll marry a goat' commercial for the $5 meal. Especially the part where the other guy says 'She's really hot'. I think this is just a sick commercial, not at all cute or funny.
wantoretire_did
15 years ago
Wildchild - Aren't teens exposed to too much as it is?

Today I was watching the History Channel, midday, on the building of the pyramids and there was a commercial for Viagra!!! Way too much exposure for kids maybe trying to learn something. Why does sex have to sell during family time viewing????
wildchild
15 years ago
Teens are exposed to much much more explicit stuff everyday. Just look on myspace or facebook or many of the other internet websites. Do they watch prime time tv? Unless they are sheltered away in some religious order they are seeing and hearing things some of us older people wouldn't even "get". The commercial doesn't even come close to what they see,read and hear about. So to think of that commercial as a bad influence or something is silly.

Sheese it's not like the gal in the commercial stripped down and covered him with horsey sauce or anything. She brought him a sandwich. He got a different kind of rise out of it than one would expect. Food won out over sex play. Silly ,fun, unrealistic but not in the least nasty or blatant.
wantoretire_did
15 years ago
The Viagra commercial was just one example. Actually, we had a snow day today, so some may have been watching. My DSs are in their 40s. You don't have to tell me what kids are (and were) exposed to. Just my $.02 worth to the post.
shellm
15 years ago
Amen to wildchild.I didnt find anyting wrong w/it.

Shelley

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