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Hey, We Got Ellen and JCPenney and Oreo Cookies...

Dan Savage
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1
Hey, isn't that the "always a dildo, never your dildo" guy from Fight Club?
stirwise on July 9, 2012 at 2:02 PM Report this
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Let them revel in their murderous gun culture they call "pro-life" to nobody's amusement.
Pope Peabrain on July 9, 2012 at 2:02 PM Report this
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Denny's food is as fat-drenched as fast food!
mr pinky on July 9, 2012 at 2:02 PM Report this
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Ha! I love how they have a white guy talking about 'melting pot heritage' and no people of color in sight, except for the server, maybe, it's hard to tell.
bhowie on July 9, 2012 at 2:06 PM Report this
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Wow, I can't believe how disgusting the food looks that close up.
bookworm on July 9, 2012 at 2:12 PM Report this
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@ 4, I noticed that that guy looked like the sort who would be more likely to wave a misspelled racist sign at a teabag rally. Even so, I'd say including such a thing makes this ad as much a sop to liberals as it is to conservatives.

Of course, it could be part of their ongoing image repair work for all the discrimination lawsuits they endured. One Denny's my family used to go to was actually shuttered as a result of one of those suits.
Matt from Denver on July 9, 2012 at 2:13 PM Report this
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This ad does a pretty good job of openly pleasingly conservatives while giving a sideways wink to liberals and offending neither.
rejemy on July 9, 2012 at 2:21 PM Report this
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Yeah no reason liberals can't love this ad, plenty of liberals like the 2nd amendment.
Seattle14 on July 9, 2012 at 2:24 PM Report this
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Cracks me up that the "Obama-loving, America hating liberals" are expected to boycott Denny's because of that ad. Really?

I'm with @7, I think they're making a point to include everyone and not offend anyone and they did a decent job of it. It's not like they had the Nuge hawking their wares. And violent little old ladies are always funny...
RTam on July 9, 2012 at 2:31 PM Report this
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Denny's is still catering to rednecks and crackers? Shocking.
Large Hardon Colluder on July 9, 2012 at 2:34 PM Report this
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I get that they were going for the "bear arms?" joke, but I was a little surprised they’d use that in a commercial. It caught my attention when it came on the other day, so the ad wins in that regard.
Allyn on July 9, 2012 at 2:37 PM Report this
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#10 - ah, yes, "rednecks and crackers". The PC version of "spics and niggers". I guess mentioning the greatness of the melting pot appeals to rednecks and crackers...
catsnbanjos on July 9, 2012 at 2:39 PM Report this
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I agree with @7 and @11. Also, the most recent version I saw edited out both Granny and the bear arms bit.
emma's bee on July 9, 2012 at 2:43 PM Report this
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The only thing stupider than the whining of the right is the astonishment at that whining by the left.
chimsquared on July 9, 2012 at 2:51 PM Report this
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the denny's near me even smells greasy.

norm's across the street is much better.
judybrowni on July 9, 2012 at 2:53 PM Report this
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@12 Why no, that's how I always refer to my family.
Large Hardon Colluder on July 9, 2012 at 2:55 PM Report this
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A gun is probably the least deadly thing in a Denny's. THEY HAVE A BACON MILKSHAKE.
jnmend on July 9, 2012 at 2:55 PM Report this
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Don't forget we basically have all technology products. Apple's CEO is gay, Bill Gates just wrote a big ol' check for marriage equality, and the computer was invented by a gay man. I'm waiting for the conservatives to turn in their iThingies and shut off their computers, but I'm guessing I'm gonna be waiting awhile.
MinnySota on July 9, 2012 at 3:27 PM Report this
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IT'S FUNNY!!!<\Rip Taylor>
DonServo on July 9, 2012 at 3:31 PM Report this
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Would they be cheering as loud if the pro-gun spokesperson was a young black man with saggy pants and gold teeth?

It's easy to cheer when the spokesperson looks like someone friendly to you (thanks for the cookies, gramma!).

Not so easy when the spokesperson looks like someone you're afraid of.
fairly.unbalanced on July 9, 2012 at 3:32 PM Report this
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hey danny jcpenny stock is half what it was when the sweet gay dad ad ran.

what gives?
on July 9, 2012 at 4:11 PM Report this
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@17 Oh bacon, my love, is there nothing you can't make better?
Large Hardon Colluder on July 9, 2012 at 4:17 PM Report this
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If anything the ad is a bit condescending, and fuck Denny;s and their reheated frozen shit. They hate America almost as much as Dan by selling overprice sub par food that contributes to the obesity epidemic.

Beths Cafe for life!!!
Cascadian Bacon on July 9, 2012 at 4:22 PM Report this
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Hey! I just got back from a road trip with two kids. In desperation for something sit down and not McDs I stopped there. They've changed a bit since the last time I went there at 1am for some post-drinking eats: free wifi, carrot sticks and apple slices sides on the kids menu, whole grain bun on at least one sandwiches, your choice of veggie sides for the grown-ups. Denny's will now be my go-to place for on the road eats with kids!
OlyMom on July 9, 2012 at 4:34 PM Report this
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Meat and potatoes SANDWICH???? CarboNanza! Me and my 300# friends are a-waddlin' on over!
crone on July 9, 2012 at 5:06 PM Report this
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I still miss the cheese soup and onion rings on Thursday nights when I was 17.

On the other hand, I don't miss weighing 215 pounds when I was 17.

DonServo on July 9, 2012 at 5:12 PM Report this
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http://www.dennys.jp/dny/menu/index.html

Japanese denny's is good!
Jittery on July 9, 2012 at 5:28 PM Report this
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I really wish I could unsee that food.
misspiggy on July 9, 2012 at 5:53 PM Report this
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I had the pleasure of comparing Denny's and Shari's while driving through Moses Lake, and Shari's was way better.
biffp on July 9, 2012 at 6:00 PM Report this
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You can't be pro-life AND eat at Denny's. That dude's gonna have a heart-attack half way through that meal.
Dr. Gnu on July 9, 2012 at 6:26 PM Report this
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I think Denny's is trolling.
sirkowski on July 9, 2012 at 7:09 PM Report this
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I agree with @13 who agrees with...

I worked at Denny's for my 1st job, though. Good or bad advertising, you don't eat sausage after working at the sausage factory.

I will get a cup of coffee there if I'm really jonesin'/trying to drive a long distance at night and that's my only option, but she could have whipped out a .45 Magnum and blown the bear away and I barely would have noticed.

GR-oss.
malcolmxy on July 9, 2012 at 11:51 PM Report this
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@23 Right, because 12 egg omelets and endless hash browns are health foods (and fwiw, I love Beth's too)

@33 Part of my job consists of working on the floor in a sausage factory and I eat it all the time. I actually feel better about eating it after seeing how the plant treats their animals and how seriously they take food safety.
raggeddog on July 10, 2012 at 3:59 AM Report this
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You know what would have gotten the right wingnuts upset? Replace the sweet little old lady with a young black man delivering the exact same line. The Christian right's heads would be exploding, and they'd be hysterically screaming boycott at the top of there lungs.
Rob in Baltimore on July 10, 2012 at 4:24 AM Report this
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I'm white, and couldn't get served at a Denny's because my group looked like a bunch of hippies. Yes, it seems they haven't changed from catering to rednecks.
Barbara on July 10, 2012 at 7:08 AM Report this
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@1 - yes!
new york state of mind on July 10, 2012 at 8:06 AM Report this
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I don't worry about people like this packing guns, because if exposed to any actual stress they'll fall over dead from coronary thromboses on the spot anyway.
mwdean on July 10, 2012 at 8:17 AM Report this
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What's great about this country is our 30% obesity rate, what with cheap Denny's meat and potatoes sandwiches and all. If I may quote the Simpsons' season 6, episode 9 chant against Homer: "Great meaning large or immense, we use it in the pejorative sense!"
Sally Hemings' daughter on July 10, 2012 at 9:54 AM Report this
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The "melting pot heritage" is actually the opposite of what the redneck says. It doesn't prove that differences are strengths... the melting pot "melts" differences into one big indistinguishable Americana Soup of conformity. Differences become strengths in a mosaic, where not everyone is made to feel inferior if they don't speak English or eat at Denny's.
Xian-Qi on July 10, 2012 at 3:27 PM Report this

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