Hardee's Ad Angers Tennessee Teachers

WTVC ^ | September 5, 2007

[PeteB570]

I guess that makes me “Old”.

I’ve hated the last few sets of Hardee’s commercials.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNlakElmwFs

[NewCenturions]

Their commercials are in very bad taste...but I’m not crazy about the teachers unions either!

[DTogo]

Reminds me of Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” video. I don’t recall any outrage back then...

[TomGuy]

Haley said in the markets where the ad is airing, it is only scheduled to run after 10 p.m.

And that is the justification for bad taste?

[FunkyZero]

Umm.. hold on, I need to go watch the youtube clip a few more times before I decide.

[live+let_live]

“showing a young teacher dancing on top of her desk while boys in the class rap about her body in order to sell hamburgers! . . . It is unbelievably demeaning...”

I’m shocked and appalled. This is disgusting!

How far do I have to drive to get to a market where I can watch this?

[aberaussie]

Guess I won’t be trying the new patty melts.

[infidel29]

Most Education Associations are offensive to their customers.

Have they looked at how many teachers have been busted for sexually assaulting their students over the last 2 or 3 years? ...and those who got away with it?

Get over it teachers, far better institutions in our society get attacked in a far worse way than this.

[Ruddles]

What’s the beef? Doesn’t gated community cable filter this stuff out?

[Sybeck1]

Any idea who the teacher/dancer is? I like to review her other accomplishments to the entertainment filed before I pass judgment on this project.

[muawiyah]

We don't have any Hardee's here in the DC area so the ad is not running.

BTW, is the teacher "hot"?

[pabianice]

Outrageous! (Does she date?)

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Guess I won’t be trying the new patty melts.

I already did and it is horrible.

[TLI]

I thought it was funny. I am also getting pretty thin on hearing about "victims" that are "offended." I am straight white, college educated male, therefore my mere breathing has and will continue to "offend" some "victim" group or race.

Bravo Foxtrot Delta

[Larry Lucido]

So the teachers didn't think this wasn't exactly a "Hardee Har Har" moment?

(Okay, my bun, I mean my pun, was a bit flat)

[surelyclintonsbaddream]

You can always tell a Hardee’s commercial immediately. It is either about sex or sloppy eating or a combination.
The last one with the girl in the white satin robe was soft-porn or well as the paris hilton one.
I have called several times. They only put them on after 9 IF enough people complain.
I called the St L Cardinals and told them I didn’t think a class act like them, should be showing such commercials. Cards game are watched by a large group of people. It was taken off about 3 weeks later. Maybe enough people complained or it was due to be taken off.
I don’t go there anymore. Last time I went, at work I picked up my soda and thought what in the world in on this. When my female hands are wrapped around Paris Hiltons anatomy , that is enough for me.

[I still care]

If you are making a video, a play, etc, you can put in it whatever you want. However, it’s just plain stupid to make a commercial that offends.

It’s not a matter of “principle”. You are selling a product. Alienating a market is dumb.

Years ago, I complained about a commercial. I got a letter from the company stating they were pulling it from that time slot. It was, I think, the Breck commercial where the woman was washing her hair in the airplane restroom and screaming like she was having an orgasm. They were showing it during rugrats.

[Larry Lucido]

I thought the Paris Hilton Carl’s Jr. commercial was in bad taste. Watched it 20 times before making my decision.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmgntNjRs4E&mode=related&search=