Fast Food Week: The little redhaired girl
Missed a couple nights due to unforseen events and general aggravation causing lack of time and desire to update this site. Will put up the posts I would have done Tuesday and Wednesday as well as tonight’s normal entry.
One mascot that’s been fairly understated all these years has been Wendy’s… er, Wendy. For the most part, Wendy’s ad campaigns have ignored their namesake, focusing instead on crazy old ladies, and loveable old men. In recent years, the ads have been weird men in Wendy wigs, which I’d rather not stop and reflect on, and ads with animated Wendy and shots of food while a female voice describes how awesome it is.
So far in only one commercial has the animated girl actually spoken using the voice, but the inference is that they are one and the same. The voice is provided by Luci Christian, whose body of work is primarily voice acting in English dubs of animé series. Now, admittedly, these ads are generally inconsequential and fairly far from entertaining. However, there is one in particular that I feel I should mention. An ad for a new line of ceaser salads had, at the end, Wendy receeding back into some giant lettuce, at which point for a split second her eyes roll back in her head and she becomes the demon we all know lurks in our periphery, waiting for the moment to strike. Still unsure if this was on purpose or on chance but it certainly scared the hell out of me. Fortunately, I wasn’t the only one to notice this and some kind gent on YouTube has done me the service of already making a video especially pointing this moment out:
Everything’s better with a little System of a Down.
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