Jim Cornette broke down Burger King's new Oscar night ad campaign on The Jim Cornette Drive-Thru, describing the spots as a public apology to America.
"Burger King not only sponsored the Oscars, Burger King bought apologies, not commercials. Burger King apologized to America on the Oscars for sucking."
"The commercial starts out with all of the clips from the commercials from the glory days: the 60s, the 70s, maybe even the 80s, when you see all of the cool kids cruising through the parking lot on their way to the sock hop, and everybody's having a good time, and these big giant burgers with grease dripping out of them, and it's America on a sunny day. And they're talking about the Whopper and all the things that it's meant, and then they got, I think the phrase was, 'And then somehow, we lost our way.'"
"Imagine a video camera low on the ground in an empty Burger King parking lot looking at the restaurant. And like some kind of Sergio Leone Western from the 60s, an empty soft dr...
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