Parents Square Off Against The New Burger King Video Featuring SpongeBob and Sir Mix A Lot

Josh loposer — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:30:00 GMT

What do SponeBob, Sir Mix-a-lot and the Burger King guy have in common? They're all in a nearly incoherent commercial that pissing of all sorts of parenting groups. (video after the break)

How can you possibly go wrong when you manage to fit three of greatest cultural icons of the last 100 years into a 30 second commercial?

Well, aside from the fact that the spot makes almost no sense at all -- except at the end where it shills 99 cent SpongeBob Kid's Meals -- watchdog groups like the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC) are angry that BK is "sexualizing" SpongeBob. They accuse the commercial of using sex to sell grease burgers to kids.

People who like things to make sense are complaining that the spot is like a bad acid trip where you don't learn anything and end up with an annoying 90s dance hit stuck in your head.

Feminists are complaining that the ad promotes the objectification of women, especially the part where the Burger King guy actually measures ladies' square butts.

The only one who's not complaining is Sir Mix-a-lot, who's probably glad to grab a fat paycheck.

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Alex James Welcomes Baby Girl

Karl Erikson — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:11:00 GMT

Congratulations to Blur bassist Alex James and his wife Claire. They welcomed their first daughter in late August. The darling little girl came in at 8 lbs., 3 oz. and has been named Athena. Alex and Claire are already parents to Geronimo, 4, and 2-year-old twins Artemis and Galileo.

In his column for The Independent, Alex said:

"Our daughter arrived last Thursday, 8lb 3oz. I’ve been gazing at her, as one does. A tiny toad hopped inside yesterday and as I held it in my palm on my way to the pond for lost frogs, all the miraculous quick glimmer of a new life was there in my hand. Frogs and princesses: they’re more similar than I thought."

Uh, yeeeeeah. Child Protective Services are said to be on the way to James' house. Look at that photo. It's like they're in some weird compound or something, making their own clothes out of old lava lamp boxes. And who names their freaking kid Geronimo?

And just in case you don't think you know Blur, they have one of those songs that has been used around a trillion times in commercials.

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Parents Square Off Against The New Burger King Video Featuring SpongeBob and Sir Mix A Lot

Alex James Welcomes Baby Girl