<p>Am I the only person who feels this way? You’ve probably seen the ad - happy, joyous scissors are frolicking in the streets, jumping up to cut people’s credit cards up. Old men smile, and feed cards to the scissors. Little kids giggle while they throw cards to the scissors. “Jump, little scissors, jump!” Everyone smiles and laughs. Right.</p>
<p>Am I the only person paranoid enough to be waiting for the signal? You know, the one where all the scissors stop frolicking and snipping at the credit cards and---- attack? I mean, they’re scissors fercrissakes! It’s their nature! “Wanna run with me, little boy? Bwuhahahah!!”</p>
<p>Kluge - YES…it is horrifying…and, I always wonder how some of the ads get past the initial “Hey how about this idea” stage, think of the chain of people who had to ‘OK’ it, …bizarro</p>
<p>LMAO!!! No, I haven’t seen the commercial. I imagine that it must seem like the opening credits of a horror flick, about 10 minutes before the first person dies.</p>
<p>The Burger King commercials are flat-out gross - I cannot imagine eating that stuff at all, let along first thing in the morning (one can just sense the heart attack coming a few years down the road from eating that slop - why not simply eat vats of used grease?) - but the scissors commercial is nightmare stuff. </p>
<p>Those orange-handled scissors are ugly, weird things in the first place, even just laying around in the kitchen drawer. The vision of hundreds of them independently animated, roaming the streets, ready to snip-snip into skin, through layers of clothing, ick, yikes, ouch, ugh, horrors, creeps.</p>
OMG, that Burger King king <strong><em>really</em></strong> creeps me out!!! Something about that plastic face <em>shudders</em>. :eek:</p>
<p>Haven’t seen the scissors ad, but maybe I <em>should</em> go for that t-shirt in the Signals catalog that says simply, “RUNS WITH SCISSORS.” Or…ummmmm…maybe it should say, “RUNS <em>FROM</em> SCISSORS”??? ;)</p>
<p>Totally agree with the scissors and Burger King ads. </p>
<p>I also can’t stand the creepy magician on the new Hummer ads. “Omigosh, he’s making the hummer not stop at the gas station–gasp!” It feels like one of those things that sounded good on paper, but no matter how camped up it is, I’m still thinking, “huh?”</p>
<p>Agreeed, kluge. Very creepy. Reminds me of Hitchcock’s Birds.</p>
<p>I do like Burger King joining football games, though. But keep him out of people’s houses. And all the Gap dancers are great.</p>
<p>Speaking of fast food commercials, there is a new “America runs on Dunkin’” campaign that uses the voice of John Goodman to promote sausage & egg breakfast sandwiches. How dumb is that? Eat our sandwiches & look like John Goodman! They should have hired Derek Jeter or some other perfect physical specimin to pretend he “runs on Dunkin’”</p>
<p>LOL, ILoveBrown what in the world can possibly be “adorable” about Stephen-King-ish things that want to snip and slice people’s toes, feet and legs into ribbons?</p>
<p>But they’re not snipping people! They’re benevolent little creatures, walking in lines, dancing, eating only the credit cards that people throw to them. You all just think they’re creepy because you’re expecting them to be harmful… but nothing in the ad really suggests this.</p>