Stupid Evil Bastard: Spongmonkeys Quiznos ad?!

Spongmonkeys Quiznos ad?!

Posted by Les on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 06:14 PM. Read 7844 times. Tags: easily amused

Most of you have probably already seen the Spongmonkeys flash animation by now. The one where they sing about how they love the moon? Remember that? It’s another one of those animations that’s so stunningly crappy that you just have to love it. If you’re a “hep” Internet dude, like me, who’s got his pulse on all the cool crappy flash animations that come and go then you’ve probably shown it to everyone you know would be horrified by it a long time ago. If you’re not “hep” like me then go check it out so you’ll have a frame of reference.

Back? OK, now here’s something I thought I’d never see. I was checking in at the Blues News video game website which has a little corner ad up at the top of the page that I usually actively ignore when out of the corner of my eye I notice the current ad for Quiznos subs has the Spongmonkeys in it! They’re bouncing back and forth in that way that they do and egging me to click on one or the other of them and I’m so stunned that I do at which point they break out in a rendition of their “we love the moon” song. Only instead of “moon” they’re singing about “subs.” It’s only a few moments long and then it launches you to a site where you can print out a “qpon" good for a buck off one of their subs that not only features the Spongmonkeys popping up as you mouse over various buttons, but offers a Spongmonkeys screen saver which replays the ad for the amusement of your office coworkers while advertising Quiznos. I can’t figure out how to link to the ad itself so you’ll have to either go to Blue’s News and hit reload a lot or download the screen saver if you want to see it.

I couldn’t believe it. The Spongmonkeys have sold out to the corporate advertising world. More importantly some guys who came up with a really crappy song and flash animation to match it have somehow managed to land an ad deal with a major chain of sub shops.

That cinches it. I’ve have got to have Eric teach me how to work in Flash, but not so well that I put out animations better than the Spongmonkeys. Crappy is key it would seem, and it also requires the least amount of effort. Then I’ll hit Hairboy up for a crappy song as he has lots of funny voices he can do including one that sounds a lot like the Spongmonkeys. But not TOO close. Then I’ll just sit back and wait for the licensing offers to roll in. Easy money!

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picklejuice

Posted on 01/28/2004 at 08:45 PM

Hey, you may want to have a looksie over here for Flash-type gubbins. Might find something useful.

Neil T.

Posted on 02/01/2004 at 07:17 AM

Dude… Les, you’ve been Farked .

someone, somewhere

Posted on 02/01/2004 at 07:50 AM

Well, do also take into account that the people who made the animations have also done VH1 with their cats..

Les

Posted on 02/01/2004 at 10:22 AM

Damn, I’ve been Farked! Do I have to make some sort of speech now?

OK, so the guys behind the Spongmonkeys have also done VH1, which means they’re probably more professional (or at least more connected) than their animation makes them seem. I can handle with that setback. Hairboy, Eric and I will just have to be that much more crappy and weird with whatever we come up with to compensate for the lack of connections we have. We can do that. We’re pretty good at being crappy and weird…

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Les

Posted on 02/01/2004 at 10:32 AM

Reading the Farker comments is rather amusing. I particularly liked someone calling themselves “Macker” and the comment of “nazi germany called.... they want their beard back...” They are the first person to ever associate my beard with another country (let alone with a former evil world power) and, yeah, I can see how they’d say that. Usually the comment made is about being Amish, Jewish, a terrorist, a biker or the missing ZZ Top member.

Couple of folks seem to have missed my attempts at silly sarcasm in the entry itself, but that’s OK as this is probably the only entry they’ve ever read. I’m not at all upset that the Spongmonkeys sold out simply as I’d love to have something popular enough like that so that I could sell it out. What could be better than turning something you were doing for the hell of it into a couple of bucks? Anyway, the comments over there are pretty amusing so go check them out.

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Sarin

Posted on 02/01/2004 at 10:59 AM

There is a copy of the ad at http://www.xenex.org/wrongbanana.htm.

Wizzird

Posted on 02/01/2004 at 04:41 PM

I found out about this on fark… Kudos to Les

liz

Posted on 02/06/2004 at 05:00 PM

You do not understand the creative genius that lurks behind the ads, to be in tune with the spirit of the thing you have to understand that the connection IS the thing You need to be able to let your mind wander away from the idea of being “professional” and so able to view the worls differently. Maybe we dont all agree with the spong monkeys’ messsage but they sing a hell of a good tune and they are better that the bland crap everywhere else!! hats off to their genius!

loki

Posted on 02/10/2004 at 10:31 PM

I just saw the ad on tv earlier. My mother mentioned that when she was through with being freaked out by the commercial that she just thought it was stupid. Then again, she isn’t a part of the 18-34 year old target demographic the commercial was aimed at.

w0rd.

confused

Posted on 02/11/2004 at 12:21 AM

I’m on the edge of the “target age group” Quiznos is aiming at with this ad. I think it is the worst commercial Ive ever seen. Who wants to eat a sub that you associate with a dead rat looking animation? There is NO genius involved here at all, just an attempt to do something that has not been done before....well, guess what? Some things are better left undone.

Les

Posted on 02/11/2004 at 05:37 AM

I still haven’t seen the ad on local TV so it appears they’re limiting the areas they’re showing it in. Quiznos wants to stand out from the rest of the sub chains and this ad certainly helps them to do that, but I also wonder who would want to eat a sub after watching the Spongmonkeys.

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Ambrizhot

Posted on 02/11/2004 at 07:41 AM

I have practically lost sleep over these “spongmonkey” commercials. I thought about them in the shower, when I am brushing my teeth, ugh, all the time. I couldn’t figure out what those fucking things were supposed to be! I wouldn’t buy because of the singing dead freak rats, but I can’t get it out of my head, and still run in the room to stare in disbelief. Hopefully now that I know they are “spongmonkeys” I will stop running to the tv to watch them.

Debra

Posted on 02/11/2004 at 07:56 AM

I have seen the ad several times and it freaked me out! What the hell are those things! My 2 year old son was watching TV with me and you should have seen his face when it came on! Is that what they are called...Spongmonkeys? They look like mutated rats! Sick! I won’t go to Quizno’s now, as I am scared that I wil find one of those sick things in my sandwich!

Ruby in SF

Posted on 02/11/2004 at 01:11 PM

I love those mutated, dead rat looking, bad singing, ugly little critters. I also run to the TV everytime I hear them singing and think about them all the time. I’m trying to find out how I can get a poster of those little things for my home. And for all you students of demographics, I don’t fit the 18-34 year old demographic target.

pat

Posted on 02/11/2004 at 04:32 PM

Thank god I found you! Every night we’ve tried to figure out what those things were! My husband thought they were stomachs! Once again, I can sleep...thank you!

M. Peters

Posted on 02/11/2004 at 05:15 PM

I thought those where road kill. Makes me *not* want a sub from that place.

Gueve

Posted on 02/11/2004 at 05:43 PM

The commercial sucks! The “spongmonkeys” suck too. I gotta give the animator props that he/she was able to market that crap and make a buck or two. I gotta give Quizno’s a big thumbs down though. I loved the man suckling from the wolf ad, but the “spongmonkeys” make me want to not buy a sub from them.

Holly

Posted on 02/11/2004 at 07:44 PM

Spongemonkeys or whatever. I couldn’t decide if they were ovarian cysts or colon polyps. Gross either way - you won’t catch me at Quiznos. That commercial is just assanine. I turn the channel when it comes on.

Don & Net

Posted on 02/11/2004 at 09:00 PM

Disgusting, “Spongemonkey”??? How ‘bout a rat with gnarly teeth and a aggravating voice. The whole family dives for the remote to change the channel, then we go to Subway for a bite to eat.

SpoogeMonkey

Posted on 02/11/2004 at 11:42 PM

Long live the Spongmonkeys!! As a close relative (SpoogeMonkeys’ are a more developed variant of SpongMonkeys) I applaud their success. And unless you actually find a dead rat in your sub, why wouldn’t you eat at Quizno’s, unless you don’t like their food to begin with (which I don’t). It kinda reminds me of the days when the “Wheeeeeee” flash song was all the rage.

the carol

Posted on 02/12/2004 at 12:26 AM

Really sick image to relate to a place to eat. Rats come to mind..and stay there. What were they (the people at Quiznos) thinking. I’m suspect that they will lose more business then they will gain with this ad running.
I did’t know that they were famous, but then is M. Jackson and both are disgusting.

Dave Howard

Posted on 02/12/2004 at 10:06 AM