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Burger King Complaints - Bad commercial

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Burger King

Posted: 2008-06-19 by Carrie [send email]
Bad commercial
Complaint Rating:  67 % with 6 votes
Company information:
Burger King
United States
www.burgerking.com

I want the Burger King Commercial I saw last night to be remove because of the physical violence it promotes. A woman standing over a man hits him several times. The commercial was offensive and sends a message that physical violence is "ok" in society. We have a big enough problem battling the ignorance of physical violence but to mainstream this is appalling. I think you need a lot more creativity in your commercials and to make more thoughtful decisions in how you will be received by the public because believe me I'm sure I'm not the only one that plans on avoiding spending my time or money at Burger King because of the poor decisions they have made with commercials. I hope this changes soon.
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77 days ago by Mlb [send email]
I am in total agreement. In fact I was just on their web site trying to find an email address to express my concern and to let them know how irresponsible this was to produce a commerical of this caliber.
75 days ago by Lonnie D. Root [send email]
I strongly agree and was doing the exact same thing as MLB was doing. Unfortunalty all they have is phone numbers. Best I could find is their Investor email which warns it's for investment emails only but maybe if enough people filled that box up with complaints they would think it's not a good investment?

Here's the address: investor@whopper.com
62 days ago by Bigsmellyman [send email]
Speaking of violence, Burger King "food" gives me violent stomach pain.
58 days ago by Don Pasquale [send email]
Couldn't agree more. No excuse for the total lack of judgement by their marketing department. Whoever approved the commercial should be discharged. Terrible image to associate with their products. Also wonder why women's organizations aren't making some kind of comment; slap-happy woman in the advert is a caricature & paints an extremely poor example of a human being. If it had been a man striking the woman, I believe the NOW would have been picketing BK HQ by now.
58 days ago by Angela [send email]
I agree totally. The reason being is that I have seen so many commercials that my children have watched, fully indicating that physical violence is acceptable. It is easy enough to control what my children are watching, but making sure they don't see certain commercials is near impossible. I think it is ridiculous that the only way to protect them from seeing terrible manners (to put it lightly), is to stop them from watching television all together. This is completely unfair to them and to their parents. Television has become unacceptable for children and it is sad that part of the reason for this is a restaurant with advertising directed at children.. and vegetable juice, if you know what I mean. I shouldn't have to explain to my young children why BK is being "bad".
52 days ago by Ronald Mcd [send email]
In my opinion the commercial was funny. It was the first time I actually laughed out loud to a commercial in a long time. If you think you can protect your children from violent images and situations in America you are kidding yourself...

Anyway the commercial has been changed and is now slap free.

Score one for complaining conservatives
35 days ago by Marc B. [send email]
The only people I see complaining are parents of young children. Instead of pointing fingers, maybe try looking in the mirror first. What goes on in your children's minds starts with you. Not the TV, not the radio, but you. If this commercial promotes violence, then Popeye the Sailor Man promotes smoking tobacco out of a pipe. And for some reason, people thought Spongebob Squarepants promoted homosexuality.

Turn off the TV or change the channel if you don't like the things that are on it. There are 500 other channels available nowadays. Choose one.

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