Hey kids! It's yet another Crispin Porter + Bogusky Burger King campaign where we're hotly divided on whether the commercials are brilliant, blah or a bucket of bullpucky! Yay! Watch and decide for yourself!
Other people have been calling them misgony King [1] (marketingwhore), George Parker of adscam is wondering Why is the "Whopper Freakout" freaking me out? [2], Community guy warns that watching all seven minutes may cause Whopper cravings [3], quite a few people think it's their current favorite campaign [4] like Marobella's branding soapbox there. Bloggers like Twistimage find themselves spending at least eight minutes watching [5] a lowly ad, but then also making a blog posting about it. Bestweekever [6] suggests that McDonald's retort with a spot about the guy who threw himself into traffic after arriving ten minutes too late to order a McGriddle. Creativity Online has an interview with director Henry Alex Rubin [7] about the making of these ads. And inside, we have the single serving TV commercial versions of the whopper freakout campaign.
Burger King - Whopper Freakout - 3 (2007) :30 (USA) [8]
Burger King - Whopper Freakout - 2 (2007) :30 (USA) [9]
Burger King - Whopper Freakout - 1 (2007) :30 (USA) [10]
Burger King - Whopper Freakout - short - 3 (2007) :15 (USA) [11]
Burger King - Whopper Freakout - short - 2 (2007) :15 (USA) [12]
Burger King - Whopper Freakout - short - 1 (2007) :15 (USA) [13]
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