Another Female Revenge Commercial–Krystal Restaurant’s Ad ‘Emotional Devastation’
Women getting revenge against men for the allegedly endless miseries men have caused them is a common theme in TV advertising. The Krystal Restaurant Ad “Emotional Devastation” is another example, complete with boyfriend bound and gagged and locked in a trunk as “revenge” for his misdeeds.
Watch the commercial here.
Thanks to Oscar for pointing out the ad to me.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:24 am
In some ways, this ad reminds me of the old-fashioned beer commercials of the 60’s and 70’s where the ad played upon the clear insecurities of their customers. Men were portrayed as a bunch of saps who sat around the bar hoping that schlopping up watered down Germanic-style beer would make them irresistable to supermodels.
Lessee: A bunch of chubby, working-class-sounding teenage girls go out to a party and see one of their their boyfriends with another girl so to feel better, they gorge out on junk food. Yeah, that’s real flattering, isn’t it? In addition, she kidnaps her ex-boyfriend because the greasy food she just stuffed down her gullet hasn’t fully eased the pain of her lonely life.
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:45 am
Krystal is run by a former Wendy’s Resturant leader, James Exum.
His team is mostly white guys, with one woman Vice President.
http://www.krystal.com
To file a complaint, press “Contact Us”, then “complaint” at:
http://www.krystal.com
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:51 am
This reminds me: Whatever happened to the diaper wearing astronaut who brought a wooden mallet, garbage bag, and rope to just “talk” to her love competition?
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:13 am
There is a huge promotion here in Memphis right now…Ooooooo the local investigative reporters have found “DEADBEAT DADS”, can you imagine that one of them owes “SIX FIGURS”
Da Da Dum!!!!!!
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:24 am
Just levied a complaint with them about the commercial with them. Had to do it with this real piss poor techno music in the background (on their site!). Told them I would never be their customer.
They wanted to know where I lived and wouldn’t let me comment without my e-mail address. Scary.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:48 am
Don’t forget that ‘Thelma and Louise’ did the same thing to the cop who stopped them. They locked him in the trunk of his car and threw away the keys. This was in the middle of the desert in the summer. In the hierarchy of ways to die, that must be one of the worst. The police officer’s crime? He stood in the way of their freedom.
Again, the extreme increase over the past 20 years in pop culture depictions of female violence against males coincides with the increase of actual violence by women against men.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:31 pm
“I am SO totaly frustrated by my boyfriend with the fat fetish that he keeps looking at and dancing with other pretty pudgy chicks with big tits and thundery thighs. So I will meet with my pudgy girlfriends and eat a few pounds of cheesy junk food to keep me from totaly becoming like a superskinny fashion model. I mean, you know, I wouldn’t want to look like a skeleton with some skin drapped over it. Then we go get my worthless boyfriend and kidnap him in the trunk of my car. We will give him some dominatrix treatment. They seem to like that, if they survive it. If they don’t, we’ll just drop him down an old coal mine shaft and clean out every speck of his DNA from the car. I mean, you know, DNA from a boyfrind in the car can so totaly ruin the rest of your life! But as long as there isn’t any there, no problem!”
“Oh, wait a minute. None of Laci’s DNA was found on that boat and Scott is on death row! That would totaly suck. But we’re girls, it would never happen to us!”
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:11 pm
This would never get past the conceptualization faze if the genders were reversed.
A couple of years ago I saw a brand new show on Oxygen called Girls Misbehaving. In that initial episode, one of the stunts or scenes (or whatever) was these woman would run up behind men yank down their shorts (it was summer) and run away with the guy in his altogether. They targeted guys in like long gym shorts that would impair them if they tried to chase the woman down or whatever.
It was shown from behind, so I don’t know if the ‘men’ were paid actors or they were allowed to use the image because a face wasn’t shown.
But the following week they had a joke protestor writing a letter of discontent stating (in a goofy cartoony voice) I object to the way you treat men’s buns!
I guess they must have had a relatively small protest writein. Could you imagine the genders being reversed? They would be sued 100,000’s of dollars.
The first four episodes all of the candid camera style pranks were done exclusively against men. Then the show changed it’s format, and it looked like 1/2 their cast quit.
But, another ’stunt’ was for one of the actor chicks to yank a guy off the public sidewalk, and claim she locked her keys in the car. Then she asked the joe to open the car with a slim-jim.
Then the actor chick would disappear claiming to be making a phone call for help. Then this actor couple would come up and say why are you breaking into our car. And the male actor was a hulking brute, and would get semi-confrontational for maybe 2 minutes or so before they let the joe know the gag.
It’s truly amazing how much these feminists just despise men with every fiber of their being. I feel sorry for them. They’re twisted creatures with no joy in their life.
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Just for the record some show my wife was watching had ended when I sat down on the couch. I almost never watch oxygen, or we, or the other channel. And she seldom does thank god or we would probably be divorced by now.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Wait a second gents. I have fought against the Verizon and other man slamming commercials and I just saw the one through the link above and can’t agree that this one is that bad. The girls look and act stupid, “if I buy you Krystal’s will you stop crying?” “Yes”. What bovine patois is that?
Sure, it is another disposable man and yes it is another one involving crimes against man, but this one certainly DOES NOT make these girls look desirable or intelligent.
Frankly, it is a bad commercial…doesn’t make me want to go to Krystal’s.
I’ll wait to battle another Verizon type slam which I’m sure will be a short wait.
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:08 am
Great words from all, and good examples of how the media and women think of men. And these women are ? One mre quip concerning the Dr. Silly show (you all ought to watch it at least once or twice to catch real man bashing at the real high price – h reportedly grossed 43 million last year) anyway, there’s this normal disfunctional family of idiots with a histrionic overbearing mother trashing the daughters husband and trying to control the daughter/husband/grandaughter lives to the nth degree. (Sound familiar so far). Dr. Silly asks the husband under seige “Does you abuse your wife over yonder there” to which the husband replies “absolutely not”. The wifey then retorts after he asks her if hubby beats her”HECK NO HE KNOWS I’D BEAT THE CRAP OTTA HIM HIM IF HE LAID A FINGER ON M”.
Well, the 99% female audience just explods with applause and laughter. Dr. Silly smiling away in the foreground.
Okay, anyone here thunk this is troubling? Okay for overweight frumpy wife to threaten the hubbY. Same hubby sitting there fighting to keep the marriage intact and the schrew manipulating MIL out of his life>
Guess this is Amerika sans 2007. What wuz we thinkin?