Hatrack River Forum: Chester Cheetah: Threat or menace?

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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

Seriously, these recent "Orange Underground" commercials make him seem like one cold-blooded you-know-what.

Maybe it's just me.

Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :

Psychotic figment?

Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :

Ha, you're talking about Cheetos and your username is [Laugh]

puffy treat! [ROFL]

Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :

Wow... Chester's undergone some rather dramatic changes since last I remember.

So these commercials are telling me that if I eat Cheetos I'll start seeing a creepy orange cheetah with a weird british accent telling me to do extraordinarily evil things?

No thanks, I'll pass [Wink]

Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :

Those. Are. Awesome.

That's what the Matrix III should have been.

Posted by adfectio (Member # 11070) on :

I have to go buy some Cheetos now

Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :

I like these a lot.

Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :

I'm really not a fan of this marketting campaign actually. I rather share this guys view of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veAvkC-P1yk&feature=related

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

See, I really like Cheetos. But those commercials make me almost want to stop buying them.

I can understand the "stick it to the man" mentality-- but co-workers, people at the laundromat (no matter how rude), the guy next to you on the plane-- these are not "the man." And none of these people had done anything worth being assaulted or having their property destroyed. They may be rude or thoughtless-- or in the case of the neat freak, just obsessive-compulsive, and not harming anyone-- I could even say the snoring guy might have sleep apnea-- but that does not give anyone the right to harm them or their property and I think it's extremely not cool to portray doing so as cool.

Or as I would tell my toddler or preschooler, "That is Not Okay."

Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :

What's the problem?
With the snoring guy, she was just fixing the problem.
At the laundromat, that lady was a douche bag who deserved it.
The only one that was mean was the coworker.

Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :

In real life I wouldn't condone those things - when an imaginary, talking, anthropomorphic cheetah suggests that someone do them, it's comedy genius.

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

I'm okay with them all except the coworker.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Elmer's Glue:
What's the problem?
With the snoring guy, she was just fixing the problem.
At the laundromat, that lady was a douche bag who deserved it.
The only one that was mean was the coworker.

The problem is, as I said before, that she assaulted the first guy and destroyed the second lady's stuff.

Not liking the way someone treats you (or in the one guy's case, breathes) does not give you the right to assault someone or willfully destroy their stuff.

Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :

Yeah... I'm thinking no more Cheetos for me. I have no idea who these commercials are meant to appeal to. They're advertising Cheetos as a handy way to ruin things, rather than as a tasty snack. It's a bold statement: Cheetos, not for everybody anymore. Cheetos, the exclusive snackstuff of petty, immature-for-their-age, willfully destructive 11-13 year olds.

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

Man, I haven't even watched the commercials, and I really want cheetos now.

Posted by TheGrimace (Member # 9178) on :

reminds me of those "deviants vs sheeple" commercials for the scions...

Posted by Shepherd (Member # 7380) on :

Chester Cheetah will pay for out murder

Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :

Hey, even Chester realized the coworker one was going too far.

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

My prediction is that Cheetos will be looking for a new ad agency soon.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

I sure hope so.

I think I'm going to write the company about this.

Frito-Lay makes Cheetos, right?

Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :

Putting Cheetos up someones nose is assault now?

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

Putting them up the nose of a sleeping, defenseless person could be construed as mean-spirited and petty.

I get the intended jokes in these commercials, I just find them unfunny. [Smile]

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Elmer's Glue:
Putting Cheetos up someones nose is assault now?

Yes. Yes it is.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

(Or maybe it's battery. Regardless, it's harming or potentially harming someone by touching them.)

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

So, the message here is that eating Cheetos causes you to hallucinate an animated cheetah who tells you to do things? Does he tell you to start fires?

I don't understand commercials that work to make their products (or spokesbeings) creepy. I refuse to eat at Burger King for fear that the big-headed king will leap out and be creepy at me.

Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :

I feel this way about the commercial where the girl and the grandmother talk to the mother in text language (my BFF Rose). This is an argument for not letting my kids have cell phones, and particularly for not getting phone service from AT&T.

Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :

I can't keep myself from assaulting people with Cheetos now! The commercial has done its devious work.

I killed 10 people with bags of Cheetos today, and then ran into a school bus full of nuns for good measure.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

Edit: I just emailed them and told them the ads are awesome. Go Chester!