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.
@ 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.
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...
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.
#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...
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.
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.
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!
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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!"
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.
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.
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...
norm's across the street is much better.
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.
what gives?
Beths Cafe for life!!!
On the other hand, I don't miss weighing 215 pounds when I was 17.
Japanese denny's is good!
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.
@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.