{"id":485977,"date":"2010-03-29T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e201310ff45ce2970c"},"modified":"2010-03-29T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:39:50","slug":"americans-are-a-joke-in-burger-kings-middle-east-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/485977","title":{"rendered":"Americans are a joke in Burger King&#8217;s Middle East commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"205\" style=\"margin: 0pt 8pt 0pt 0px; float: left;\" width=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3FEOWDmUHTc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"205\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3FEOWDmUHTc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Stupid Americans are the focus of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/saudi-arabia\/100323\/burger-king-middle-east\" >a series of Burger King ads running in the Middle East<\/a>. The premise is that two Arab men are having a BK meal with a pair of American girls who really aren&#8217;t very bright, or at least aren&#8217;t all that worldly. &quot;So, you&#8217;re from the Middle East. Isn&#8217;t that like the capital of Arabia or something?&quot; one of them asks. &quot;Isn&#8217;t that, like, the desert or something?&quot; Then the camera goes inside the dense woman&#8217;s head to show how her views of life in the region are based on <em>Star Wars<\/em> movies and maybe <em>Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves<\/em>. &quot;You all must be loaded!&quot; she says at another point, to which one of the men replies, &quot;We have oil wells in the, uh, backyard.&quot; To be sure, the Americans are presented as thick, but nice, sort of like the American couple in Slumdog Millionaire. Still, it&#8217;s not clear how this creative will go down with BK&#8217;s stalwart customers back home. I guess we&#8217;ll find out. According to the story linked above, the ads were done by Dubai-based Tonic Communications for the Gulf region&#8217;s Burger King franchise holder, Riyadh-based Olayan Group, a Saudi-owned international conglomerate. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by Todd Wasserman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stupid Americans are the focus of a series of Burger King ads running in the Middle East. The premise is that two Arab men are having a BK meal with a pair of American girls who really aren&#8217;t very bright, or at least aren&#8217;t all that worldly. &quot;So, you&#8217;re from the Middle East. Isn&#8217;t that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}