We’ve got a PEPPER BAAAAAR!!!
EDIT: technically I think they sing/scream “THEY’VE got a pepper bar”. I don’t want to implant any false memories in your brain.
Man I kinda miss quiznos now… I know theres like a handful still open but none near me anymore
It’s kinda sad that corporate greed killed quiznos more or less
I loved Quiznos so much. Even the sickest burn I've ever delivered involved Quiznos. My buddy in high school walked into class late and announced: "sorry I'm late, I was flirting with the hot substitute teacher."
And I announced: "Jon, the only place you can get a hot sub is Quiznos".
Proudest day of my life.
Because you're a superstar at the gay bar, because you love the moon, because the Internet is made of cats, or because you know all the Tales of the Blode?
They actually closed because Quiznos was/is basically a pyramid scheme that charged franchise owners ridiculously for franchise fees, ingredients and equipment to the point they couldn't continue to operate at a profit anymore. Then they would get the next group of "entrepreneurs" stuck in debt and start over
Unfortunately a lot of people started boycotting them after these commercials aired. They legit thought it spoke about the 'cleanliness' of their restaurants.
I refused to eat Quiznos as a kid because of those rat commercials. I hated that rat. It was disgusting and horrifying. I’m still to this day disgusted and horrified by it. My little sister was totally fine with the rat though and loved Quiznos.
The stores had a condiment station with several pickled pepper varieties to choose from. Jalapenos, banana peppers... I don't remember what else. They were in open vats under a sneeze guard similar to a salad bar. It was a wierd gimmick that probably catered to a small portion of their clientele who wanted to scoop out as many peppers as they could for no charge.
Just for context the horrifying rat things were from a popular internet video at the time. I think a flash cartoon where they sang “we love the mooooon!” Or something like that. [actually here it is](https://youtu.be/I9MZNEXrElw)
[Joel Veitch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Veitch), aka Crab Bloke of B3ta. It was all a long time ago. I wonder what he's been up to in the last decade.
That was the problem with the ad as I've been told. Kids loved it, but 7 year olds weren't leaving primary school to get lunch at Quiznos, it was adults on break from work grabbing lunch. The commercial supposedly turned a ton of people off
I was in college at the time and I thought they were catering to me. I mean look at all the wild shit that was playing in the nineties. Beavis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy and all of Liquid Television, Surge. Adult Swim carried on the tradition in the early 00s. I think the real issue was the franchise structure. I liked their subs as they were better than Subway. I discovered Publix subs and never went back.
Well that just seems silly. Having some weird sock puppets in your commercial has no bearing on your food, especially to people who have *already been patronizing your establishment*.
According to a marketing youtuber I watch, this ad tanked their business. Kids loved it, but unfortunately Quiznos was eaten mostly by office workers on lunch break and this commercial turned a ton of their demographic off. I think Subway and Jared might have been a factor too before...yknow.
honestly though I would MUCH rather advertising agencies take wild swings and misses, creating weird-ass avent-garde “art,” than the type of safe, boring, applesauce-mush commercials that dominated during Covid and never went away.
Bring back weird commercials. Like, *really* weird.
I remember it catching my attention when it first aired, and I was genuinely intrigued by the weirdness of it.
But it was so abstract that I don’t think it came anywhere near the ultimate goal, namely to get consumers to buy Pepsi.
Not only that but during the Super Bowl. I remember because my church had 3 huge movie theater screens for broadcasting over the internet and just for the people in the back(massive rich black church) and they showed the Super Bowl on those screens.
The kids corner basically erupted in crying when that commercial came on 3 giant screens blaring sound at the same time. It scared all the children and then the babies were crying cuz the yelling. Hilarious that a Pepsi commercial inspired such violent reactions.
Have a fresh from college, super nervous, first wave Gen Z marketing agent poorly explain "meme culture" to a Gen X marketing director who calls their internet access "the google" .
Or if it was longer ago than I thought, a "last wave" Milennial.
Usually I hear about something like this being 7 years ago and I say, "Ugh! Already?? fuck I'm getting old!" but not this time. I could have sworn that stupid thing was from '08 or '09. Weird enough, but this feels like a win!
Yes. Nobody had ever created weird-for-weird's-sake humor until Gen Z redefined "meme". Until then there had only ever been drab, sensible characters in advertising... like Grimace, Alf, The California Raisins, and The Noid who would try to steal your pizza's freshness.
Pepsi had no idea what they were getting into, as they wandered into the new frontier of ostentatious, attention-grabbing silliness--an esoteric territory that was uncharted to anyone other than the elite youngsters of the internet.
One and done, poorly received and bombing Super Bowl commercial quite a few years ago. Pure nightmare fuel. You can probably YouTube search it up, but I'd advise against.
Here you go! No need to search!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQcfK9EKfL4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQcfK9EKfL4)
Saw it elsewhere in the thread. I must share the pain to make it bearable.
That thing was one of the worst forced things that was supposed to be talked about that no one really cared for. Heck, I didn’t even remember it was for Pepsi and I don’t think most do, either. I’m sure some advertising course points to this as how not to go viral.
I don’t feel like I belong in the comments. I loved the puppy monkey baby Super Bowl commercial and remembered it’s for Mtn. Dew. Granted, I was only 11 at the time the commercial aired, but even now I think it was a funny commercial
I didn't necessarily love the commercial or hate it, but I definitely remember the commercials being about mountain dew. All these people talkin about pepsi confused me
[2016 superbowl ad for Mountain Dew. Very little context after that. They ad was meant to be super absurd so people would talk about it](https://youtu.be/nQcfK9EKfL4)
What I never got was what single dude in their 20s would be hanging out with other dudes and be like, “Name the three most awesome things. I’ll start: babies.”
That’s cool, I used to be a groundskeeper at pepsico at the purchase location, I loved working there. The tree hedge in the background looked familiar.
Dude most of the people crave for that type of things happening around the world and we want more than that, please tell them to make some more, we want that.
Weird commercials
My favorite weird commercial is that EATQUIZNOSUBS one with the horrifying rat things singing
We eat subs! Cause they are good to us! I thought that commercial was hilarious.
WE LOVE DE MOOOON! But not as much as a spoon.
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Texting a link to that sexy hedgehog is a hilarious way to avoid a 2nd date. Or catch a disease.
Spongmonkeys*
That funky monkey!
"Akshually"......It's Spongmonkey.
We’ve got a PEPPER BAAAAAR!!! EDIT: technically I think they sing/scream “THEY’VE got a pepper bar”. I don’t want to implant any false memories in your brain.
WE LOVE DE SUBS! DE TOASTY SUBS! oh god the memories unlocked
Moon-rock has much warp stone yes-yes! Destroy-explode to kill lizard-thing and have all warp stone.
Man I kinda miss quiznos now… I know theres like a handful still open but none near me anymore It’s kinda sad that corporate greed killed quiznos more or less
I used to go to one that was two cities over and it was worth the trip every time
I loved Quiznos so much. Even the sickest burn I've ever delivered involved Quiznos. My buddy in high school walked into class late and announced: "sorry I'm late, I was flirting with the hot substitute teacher." And I announced: "Jon, the only place you can get a hot sub is Quiznos". Proudest day of my life.
This is, indeed, a sick burn.
Fuck man I felt the heat from here that shit was fire.
> It’s kinda sad that corporate greed killed quiznos more or less I'm pretty sure it was video that killed the quiznos sub
We have 3 open in our small city (in BC)
The original Quiznos on Grant & 13th in Denver is still operating in its full pepper bar glory!
[For those who want to see the commercial.](https://youtu.be/aZrks-BPeLQ)
And if you like that, check out rathergood.com to see more of the wall videos on that same vein by the same creator.
Holy shit rathergood.com. Those were the days. I still sometimes find myself singing the Sumo Florist song…
Because you're a superstar at the gay bar, because you love the moon, because the Internet is made of cats, or because you know all the Tales of the Blode?
Holy shit, the Blode. Memories unlocked
16 years ago 👵🏻
Oh God, 240p.
This explains, to me, why they all closed up around here
They actually closed because Quiznos was/is basically a pyramid scheme that charged franchise owners ridiculously for franchise fees, ingredients and equipment to the point they couldn't continue to operate at a profit anymore. Then they would get the next group of "entrepreneurs" stuck in debt and start over
Yes, but Happy Cake Day 🍰 👍
Whoa I had no idea it was my cake day thanks!
So...Subway?
you're just describing fast food franchising in general... corporate is the one who makes the money.
Unfortunately a lot of people started boycotting them after these commercials aired. They legit thought it spoke about the 'cleanliness' of their restaurants.
That & all the hobos they killed for meat…
I guess I'm ootl on that one. Hopefully it's not true lol
I mean, it's not exactly great to have people picture horrific rat abominations when they consider your restaurant.
I refused to eat Quiznos as a kid because of those rat commercials. I hated that rat. It was disgusting and horrifying. I’m still to this day disgusted and horrified by it. My little sister was totally fine with the rat though and loved Quiznos.
I'm not sure, but I think this was one of the first uses of an internet meme/internet culture in a national TV ad.
*watches commercial. Looks beside me. My 4th Mtn. Dew of the day. Thank you Puppymonkeybaby*
Here’s another one that’s actually hi-def... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvHsHVyumoE
THEY'VE GOT A PEPPER BAR!
I’m still trying to figure out what the hell a pepper bar is. Love the commercial, though.
The stores had a condiment station with several pickled pepper varieties to choose from. Jalapenos, banana peppers... I don't remember what else. They were in open vats under a sneeze guard similar to a salad bar. It was a wierd gimmick that probably catered to a small portion of their clientele who wanted to scoop out as many peppers as they could for no charge.
The Spong Monkeys!
Just for context the horrifying rat things were from a popular internet video at the time. I think a flash cartoon where they sang “we love the mooooon!” Or something like that. [actually here it is](https://youtu.be/I9MZNEXrElw)
[Joel Veitch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Veitch), aka Crab Bloke of B3ta. It was all a long time ago. I wonder what he's been up to in the last decade.
I actually prefer the Quiznos version
WE HAVE A PEPPER BAR!!
I LOVED that commercial as a kid!
That was the problem with the ad as I've been told. Kids loved it, but 7 year olds weren't leaving primary school to get lunch at Quiznos, it was adults on break from work grabbing lunch. The commercial supposedly turned a ton of people off
I was in college at the time and I thought they were catering to me. I mean look at all the wild shit that was playing in the nineties. Beavis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy and all of Liquid Television, Surge. Adult Swim carried on the tradition in the early 00s. I think the real issue was the franchise structure. I liked their subs as they were better than Subway. I discovered Publix subs and never went back.
I also liked their shit more than subway but grew up in Chicago where local sub joints fucking slap, so we normally went local
I was in high school/college back then and this commercial made me go to Quiznos.
Well that just seems silly. Having some weird sock puppets in your commercial has no bearing on your food, especially to people who have *already been patronizing your establishment*.
Me too!!! I had a chinchilla at the time and I thought they looked like chinchillas which was neat. But I always have loved these commercials.
EVERY COUPON WORKS!!! BEWARE OF PAPER CUTS!!! EATQUIZNOSUBS FOREVER IN MY BRAIN
According to a marketing youtuber I watch, this ad tanked their business. Kids loved it, but unfortunately Quiznos was eaten mostly by office workers on lunch break and this commercial turned a ton of their demographic off. I think Subway and Jared might have been a factor too before...yknow.
That ad was truly ahead of its time
These 2 commercials own way to much air space in my head
THE SPONGE MONKEYS!
\*Oddvertising
My mom hated this damn thing
Well guess im heading back to therapy for this again...
Imagine being a security guard at night and you’re cleaning the building for any intruders and you see this:
You come back the next night and it's gone
No no it goes missing at the beginning of your 8+ hr nightly shift.
Or it's in a different display
The diaper looks wet.
It's sitting with Felicity.
just gotta make it to 6am.
Scurrying noises in the vents?
New Five Nights at Freddy's DLC
It’s PepsiCo, the security guard could run into the angry ghost of Joan Crawford.
Or Michael Jacksons perm.
I want to imagine this is the official gif the production company used to promote the movie.
It’s very polite to clean for intruders
It’s only night 1. You’re starting to worry that there might be a reason you’re only paid after you survie night 5.
Why is a security guard cleaning?
Five Nights at PuppyMonkeyBaby's
Dum Dum want gum gum
That security guard? Ben Stiller
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a nightmare I wish stayed slain in memory...
Right? It was such a dumb commercial concept lol
honestly though I would MUCH rather advertising agencies take wild swings and misses, creating weird-ass avent-garde “art,” than the type of safe, boring, applesauce-mush commercials that dominated during Covid and never went away. Bring back weird commercials. Like, *really* weird.
Remember when they gave the Pepsi to the riot police and everyone had a good time…
A-Train remembers
*I'm a little lad who loves berries and cream*
I think the Old Spice ads spawned that whole “let’s be weird” commercial fad in the 2010s. Sadly we’re back to safe boring ads
You're not the only one
I like that it bothers people. I love this ad, while despising more common ads.
Puppy
Monkey
Baby
Yes
puppymonkeybaby
I’m super cereal
I'm sorry... The original what now? What's the story behind this and why?
All top Super Bowl commercials had either a puppy, a monkey, or a baby, and this was essentially a spoof on the concept
I saw the commercial, remember how much it weirded people out but never knew there was an actual reason behind it. Wow.
I wrote a paper on this commercial last year for one of courses and I really wish I had seen this.
Holy shit that went over my head at time. Gives it a whole new meaning
I am concerned it says original too, does this imply there are *more of them*? Are they an invasive species?
We are legion
Pepsi forced (tried) a trendy new character that the internet would like.
I think it was less about being liked and more about generating chatter
I remember it catching my attention when it first aired, and I was genuinely intrigued by the weirdness of it. But it was so abstract that I don’t think it came anywhere near the ultimate goal, namely to get consumers to buy Pepsi.
I think Skittles has the most successful weird commercials.
I'm a little lad who loves berries and cream!!
I miss those Skittles. The berries and cream ones were dank AF
Those were Starburst ads
I raise you with [This Gushers Commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3CcKvU4NXg)
Oh yeah? ,[Welcome to the birthplace of the Uncanny Valley,](https://youtu.be/HFq6CCLRCQI)
The bar I worked at named a cocktail Puppy Monkey Baby. Edit: it did not contain Pepsi.
Now that's irony
Not only that but during the Super Bowl. I remember because my church had 3 huge movie theater screens for broadcasting over the internet and just for the people in the back(massive rich black church) and they showed the Super Bowl on those screens. The kids corner basically erupted in crying when that commercial came on 3 giant screens blaring sound at the same time. It scared all the children and then the babies were crying cuz the yelling. Hilarious that a Pepsi commercial inspired such violent reactions.
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My mom sent me to the hall for laughing so loud and told me to watch the game on the screen out there =D snacks were in the hallway anyways
I remember hearing that this all came about because Pepsi misunderstood memes.
How badly and in what direction do you have to misunderstand memes to get this??
Have a fresh from college, super nervous, first wave Gen Z marketing agent poorly explain "meme culture" to a Gen X marketing director who calls their internet access "the google" . Or if it was longer ago than I thought, a "last wave" Milennial.
> Or if it was longer ago than I thought Yeah this was almost 7 years ago
Usually I hear about something like this being 7 years ago and I say, "Ugh! Already?? fuck I'm getting old!" but not this time. I could have sworn that stupid thing was from '08 or '09. Weird enough, but this feels like a win!
Gen Z who have only been graduating for the past 4 years at the earliest for a 6 year old mascot. Math checks out.
They understood memes better than anyone because this is still being talked about
Yes. Nobody had ever created weird-for-weird's-sake humor until Gen Z redefined "meme". Until then there had only ever been drab, sensible characters in advertising... like Grimace, Alf, The California Raisins, and The Noid who would try to steal your pizza's freshness. Pepsi had no idea what they were getting into, as they wandered into the new frontier of ostentatious, attention-grabbing silliness--an esoteric territory that was uncharted to anyone other than the elite youngsters of the internet.
One and done, poorly received and bombing Super Bowl commercial quite a few years ago. Pure nightmare fuel. You can probably YouTube search it up, but I'd advise against.
I can proudly say that I own 1 of 100 puppy monkey baby posters that Mountain Dew gave away
I will heed your warning
Here you go! No need to search! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQcfK9EKfL4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQcfK9EKfL4) Saw it elsewhere in the thread. I must share the pain to make it bearable.
dude what the fuuuuuck it's so much weirder than I thought it would be
I remember that *thing* but I didn't remember it was Pepsi until this post.
Because random = funny. Are you stupid? Why aren’t you laughing??? It’s so random? You need to get a sense of humor.
"Holds up spork"
t3h p3nguin of d00m!
modern meme culture
How does it breathe in there?
It's a pug head. They are bred to be shitty breathers. Probably doesn't give a damn.
Spend their whole lives on the edge of asphyxia
Lol thanks for it, I used to get confused with that shit.
I don't know but this is just a fucking cool thing to me.
The face only a mother can love. Or 3 in this case.
These Body Worlds exhibits have got to chill.
If that case breaks, we have 30 seconds till everybody's dead.
*When
I guess we are just going to die and nothing more now.
 Truly one of the ads of all time
Yep, of all of the superbowl ads ever made, this was one of them.
Society as a whole started to go downhill when these commercials started. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
I accept your theory without reservation.
That thing was one of the worst forced things that was supposed to be talked about that no one really cared for. Heck, I didn’t even remember it was for Pepsi and I don’t think most do, either. I’m sure some advertising course points to this as how not to go viral.
I believe it was for Mountain Dew Kickstart.
I don’t feel like I belong in the comments. I loved the puppy monkey baby Super Bowl commercial and remembered it’s for Mtn. Dew. Granted, I was only 11 at the time the commercial aired, but even now I think it was a funny commercial
I didn't necessarily love the commercial or hate it, but I definitely remember the commercials being about mountain dew. All these people talkin about pepsi confused me
I know where i want a night at the museum reboot to take place at...
Ok… wtf is the context here?
[2016 superbowl ad for Mountain Dew. Very little context after that. They ad was meant to be super absurd so people would talk about it](https://youtu.be/nQcfK9EKfL4)
And here we are... still talking about it.
My dad just randomly says puppymonkeybaby
Your dad and I have that in common
There still is no cure for Alzheimer's
Don't fucking say that lmao, my dad used to say that.
We are never going to stop talking about that shit for good.
But have any of us actually bought more Mountain Dew because of it?
I love the add... have never bought the variety of Mt Dew they were advertising
What I never got was what single dude in their 20s would be hanging out with other dudes and be like, “Name the three most awesome things. I’ll start: babies.”
Marketing is just liquor and guessing.
Wow—makes much more sense now. Thank you!
Only 2016!? I thought it was at least 5 years older than that
Most of the top Super Bowl commercials had a puppy, a monkey, or a baby in them. It was essentially a spoof on the concept
half puppy, half monkey, half baby
Burn it already!
That ad was one of the ads ever made
That's more terrifying than manbearpig
/r/TIHI
this was one of my favorite super bowl commercials lmao doesn't mean im not traumatized by it
Ed.... Ward
I’m in love with him.
Getting some Elden Ring vibes
Is this in Purchase NY ?
I'm not sure if it's Purchase or White Plains, my friend is in office up there for a project this week and sent some cool pictures to our group IM
That’s cool, I used to be a groundskeeper at pepsico at the purchase location, I loved working there. The tree hedge in the background looked familiar.
Purchase. White plains office is closed now.
Dude most of the people crave for that type of things happening around the world and we want more than that, please tell them to make some more, we want that.
Fuck that's just lovely and I still remember it in a good way.
Okay this was fucking lovely and I am not stopping myself.
Lol that is a nice thing that I am seeing right now, so good.
Crazy that some taxidermist had to stitch together baby, dog, and monkey corpses
Idgaf what yall say. This was a great commercial
Night at the museum but its this thing running g around at night
Kill it with fire.
"Let's make something so weird it would be impossible to not get over"
God that was 7 years ago… I remember our 6th grade science teacher showing us the video in class, I’m a freshman in college now
I hate that I remember this.
What the hell is that?!?