I'm really missing that Burger King/Hootie commercial

[tcfrogs]

When does the NCAA tournament start again? I'm going through Hootie withdrawals!!!!

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Who is Hootie?

Is he the deadpan black guy dressed like a cowboy?

Is he an athlete?

--p!

[tcfrogs]

3. Ha!

Lead singer from Hootie & the Blowfish - Darius Rucker

And yes, he's the cowboy. Talked to my dad about the commercial the other day, and he thought "Hootie" was an imitation of Cleavon Little from Blazing Saddles.

[Piperay]

8. Singer

from Hootie and the Blowfish does stupid commericial wearing cowboy suit. x(


EDIT: ops sorry didn't see this had already been answered, my bad. :spank:

[Dogmudgeon]

11. THAT Hootie?

He sounds nothing like he does in his records.

Yeah, the Black Cowboy getup was used in Blazing Saddles, but the style goes back before that. The word "Dude" used to mean a phony cowboy, usually a tourist who spent a lot of money on "duds" to look like a cowboy.

Oscar Wilde was a dude cowboy when he toured the American West giving poetry recitals and lectures on philosophy. He was wildly popular among the real cowpokes, who, it appears, liked literature, poetry and "The Letters", as it was called back then.

But as for Burger King ... all that once-healthy food, turned into industrial by-products. Oh, the humanity!

--p!

[realisticphish]

2. i'm really missing

pounding on my head with a ballpeen hammer
;)

[tcfrogs]

5. Wasn't that a sketch on SNL

with Billy Crystal & Christopher Guest?

[realisticphish]

7. dont you hate it when that happens?

:D lol haven't seen that sketch for a long time

[China_cat]

15. pounding on my head with a ballpeen hammer

You mean like this?

[sasquatch]

4. That's probably one of the best commercial I've seen in a while

:thumbsup:

[samplegirl]

6. well its really bad when

start singing the bacon cheddar ranch jingle like somebody
i know.

[tcfrogs]

9. Stop it!

Ear worm!!!!!

[Dogmudgeon]

12. Why It's An Earworm

The song is a lot like a popular song called Buttons And Bows that was popular in 1948 and 1963. The BK jingle sounds a lot like the version by The Browns -- an early folk-country-pop outfit.

It's a good song, written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, who wrote a bunch of hits, including Tammy and Mona Lisa and Que Sera, Sera and Silver Bells. It was originally in a Bob Hope movie, The Paleface.

If you're gonna get an earworm, get one with a good pedigree!

--p!

[norml]

10. T&A = BK

Nice Caboose!

[BrotherBuzz]

13. I thought that was Cowboy Curtis from Pee-Wee's Playhouse

What's more, I really thought Paul Rueubens directed the commercial.

[Abelman]

14. Hilarious

I thought it was very funny when I first saw it but then everyone had to start bitching about the bastardization of the classic tune it parodies, which I also like - "Big Rock Candy Mountain."

I just think too many folks take everything too seriously.