McDonald's Changes "Obscene" Commercial?
Have you seen the McDonald's commercial where two men are discussing the economic benefits of meals at the fast food establishment? The shtick is that when the characters say they got something for "free" it is bleeped out as if it was another four letter word. After this exchange of maybe ten bleeps the punch line is "so good a deal, it's obscene". I actually first heard this commercial before seeing it, being in another room while the TV aired it. My first reaction was that they were actually censoring out some questionable language, but after seeing it a second time I got the joke. However, I was kind of put off by it; tasteless at best. I've never been a fan of pandering to the lowest common denominator. Recently, I've seen the same commercial with the faux censoring removed and the tagline changed. Did McDonald's change this due to complaints? I haven't heard a peep out of the media on this. I suspect they did and wanted to keep it low key. Drop a line if you know anything more about this.