Friday, May 15, 2009

Why So Disturbing?

Has anyone seen the new White Castle commercials about the pulled pork sandwich? If not, let me describe it for you. It basically takes place in a gentleman's club, or strip joint to put in layman's terms. It focuses on two guys, one of whom is feeling "The Crave", watching the main stage where an exotic dancer is doing her best "Flashdance" impression. The catch? The exotic dancer is a FUCKING PIG!!! Literally it's a woman (hopefully) dressed up in a giant pink pig costume. Her performance ends with the infamous image of her sitting in a chair, back arched, chest upward, and dumping a bucket of water on her prone body. Only instead of a bucket of water, it's BBQ sauce.

So my description basically makes it sound like a somewhat humorous take on what some call a classic 80's movie. Why does this disturb me, you ask? Well, why the hell doesn't it disturb you?!?!?!?!

That damn pig is the type of costumed monstrosity that can give kids nightmares. The entire commercial is filmed in a very dark backdrop, and there's virtually no speech, just the creepy white castle "Crave" music playing over and over while the damn pig is dancing to it. It's just plain frightening, seriously. Not to mention that there is a strong possibility that the person under that pig mask is, in fact, a dude. I'm not certain of that, but I can't imagine White Castle was able to convince an actual stripper to dress up in a pink pig costume and dance around before dumping a bucket of BBQ sauce on herself. But then again, maybe they did. I truly hope there is a woman under that pig costume, because I would not be surprised in the least if there is some guy out there who has watched this video over and over again, and gotten off on it.

The worst part of the whole deal for me is the fact that whenever I go to watch the Angry Video Game Nerd on Cinemassacre.com, I am forced to watch a 15 second clip of this commercial before every video. And since I've been on a huge AVGN kick lately, I have had to watch the commercial far too many times. I am sure that one night that fucking pig will sneak into my dreams, causing me to wake up in a cold sweat, possibly smelling BBQ sauce. I enjoy White Castle in moderation, but this commercial made me wary of them.

Has anyone tried the pulled pork yet? Despite my misgivings about their advertising, I'm still interested to taste it.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

yes, it freaks me the f*ck out everytime it shows up on tv too. white castle is sick.