When you think of the Super Bowl, what's the first thing that comes to mind besides Donovan McNabb throwing up on Freddie Mitchell's cleats? The commercials. Well, with the big game coming up this weekend, it reminded me of an interesting commerical that has been on the past month or so for Wendy's and their 99 cent menu. I'm sure you've seen it.
A cop gives some guy a ticket, to which he responds, "75 junior bacon cheeseburgers?" Or a husband telling his wife, "You look like a million chicken nuggets." Does anyone else have a problem with this commercial? What are they trying to say? Is the ticket really for $74.25? 75 x $0.99 = 74.25 not 75. Or is the guy in the car that good at math and did the multiplication in his head?
Even worse, is the husband telling his wife that she looks like $990,000? I mean, 1,000,000 x $0.99 = $990,000 not $1,000,000. To analyze this situation even more, there are actually 5 chicken nuggets in the box. This further makes this guy's wife less good looking. A million chicken nuggets is actually only 200,000 orders making her really only look like $198,000. 1,000,000 / 5 x $0.99 = $198,000 not $1,000,000. I can bet he will be sleeping on the couch tonight if his wife were just a bit smarter.
2 comments:
Two things:
1) McNabb destroyed the Eagles. Totally. He sucks so much. And I'm not saying that because he's black.
2) I too thought that was weird. If they wanted to pull that off, they should have had a "Dollar Menu" like McD. Or they should have hired me to do all the mathwork...so the commercial would have been "75.75 repeating junior bacon cheeseburgers??"
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