I have nothing against Subway; really I don’t. In this economy, I think it’s great that there is an outfit offering cheap food in large quantities. What I do have a problem with is those incredibly annoying commercials with the incredibly annoying “five dollar footlong” song. People or characters (in one spot it’s actually Godzilla) sing about five dollar footlong sandwiches while holding up five fingers and then indicating a foot in length with their hands. I don’t know if this is supposed to be catchy or endearing, or something else.
Clearly someone had an idea with these ads, and clearly I’m not understanding it, because the only thing I can think is how fracking annoying they are.
The worst part of it all is that I feel partly responsible. I used to complain all the time about the Jared Fogle commercials. You remember him: the fat guy who lost a ton of weight eating Subway sandwiches and somehow carved out a career as sandwich pitch man. I didn’t have a problem with Jared per se, I just didn’t understand how Subway could have stayed with the Jared commercials for so long.
It’s been nearly nine years since the first Jared ads hit the air. I didn’t actually do anything, but I said many times that Subway needed to do something new. I never imagined that we would get something this horrendous.
I never thought that I would be longing for the more innocent times of the Jared Fogle commercials, but darn it, I would welcome just about anything over those horrid five dollar foot long ads. In case you’ve missed these ads, I’ve embedded one below for your viewing pleasure. Well, not pleasure … more like shared suffering. Let me know what you think of them.
Clacked by Bob Degon
on Dec 22, 2008 @ 14:00 EST5EDT
There is a five dollar foot long commercial with Jared, you would love it.
And the foot long thing is obviously referring to sex, just the way it is.
I’ll tell you what, I’ll take all of your five dollar footlong singalongs if you’ll take all of my “F R E E that spells free, freeeee credit report dot com” commercials. I could rip that bastard out of cyberspace and beat him silly. Ass. He need to jam a footlong into his pie hole and stop whining about his credit report. Stat! :-D
agreed those are much worse
plus the subway commercials are responsible for so many dirty jokes its worth it.
The Subway commercials are no more annoying than any other commercial. That one has hula girls, so you can kind of check out their tits though.
Jingle Hell
The diabolical geniuses behind Subway’s “five-dollar foot-long” song.
https://www.slate.com/id/2189472/