Paused MAD MEN while Ted Chaough’s partner was in the hospital and the HBO Max interstitial ad made it look like his dying wish was for a Whopper.

March 28, 2026 - 03:07 UTC

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He died in a world he helped create
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Mmmmm.
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I weakly gesture for my family to come closer. I have something important to say and I cannot die with the regret of leaving it unsaid. I open my mouth, and with rattling lungs I rasp:

🎶
Whopper whopper whopper whopper
Junior double triple whopper
Flame-grilled taste with—
🎶

They pull the plug
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Have the ICU YOUR way
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Jesus fucking christ they have to shove an ad down your throat even when you just pause a fucking show! God damn!
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I don't don't know how you handle it, I would have lobotomized that TV long before the ads got to that point.
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🤣🤣😂🤣
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🤣🤣🤣
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Whopper Coma
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thought that was jordan peterson at first
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When the beef that put you in a coma visits you in your beef coma hallucination.
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You gotta listen to Mad Yourself a Man
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Ad Men.
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I mean.......
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“I know exactly how to sell a whopper. I have to pass this idea on before I go”
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the whopper killed him
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Hospice burger
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Hell's bells, Trudy.
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What I read:
"Paused MAD MEN while Ted Chaough’s partner was in the hospital and the HBO Max intestinal ad made it look like his dying wish was for a Whopper."

🤔💭 Huh, I just realised all my favourite ads are intestinal ads.
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"Forget running to the kitchen for a snack, I'm on my way to Burger King."
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Don't give up, get you a Whopper.
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And a super sad commentary about late stage capitalism.
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In another Internet era this would become @edsbs.bsky.social comment section lore
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We don't know for sure that it wasn't
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This is funny, in the other hand they interrupted the rape examination sequence in season 2 of The Pitt to show a vaginal lubricant ad. And this is not a joke
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I feel like that would be something I would definitely take a photo of.
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Does HBO Max have a subscription level with ads? Maybe that's just in the US?
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if i streamed i'd have kicked in a few tvs by now.
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I could never live in America

Not because of any of the other crazy shit that's going on there

But because they put ads on screen when you pause a TV show
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We used to be a proper country
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No, we didn’t.
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“Yes this man is dying…dying for a Whopper, only at Burger King”
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Or the whopper put him in the hospital
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Good on you for providing the ad on value that they were hoping for!

Efforts like this will help these get more and more pervasive.
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Be the change you want to see in the world.
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Yes Burger King choosing to advertise on HBO is my fault and you’re the righteous person who will correct this historic wrong by posting through it. Fuck off.
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Lmao incredible
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at a glance I thought this was a real BK ad, like "don't die yet, the whopper is in a really good spot right now"
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I thought the same thing 🫣
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I thought it was a weird, ironic commercial. “I’m in the hospital for a triple bypass, but that whopper is really good!”
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"Hit the Whooper button!", IYKYK
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No wonder he is dying 🤷‍♀️
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🤣 those dry @$$ burgers.
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Or the whopper is what will land you in the hospital.
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NOT GREAT BOB
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Bad choice.
On your death bed, go with A&W's & DJT' fave...a couple Teen Burgers with Teen sauce.
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He coulda had that Burger Chef account but for that damn moon landing
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Needs to pop up at the end of Empire Strikes Back with their old slogan “It takes 2 hands to handle a Whopper.”
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Well done…
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The USA is a sufficiently dystopian capitalist hellscape that this could be legit
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You can't die until you taste the new Whopper is a hell of an ad campaign.
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The advertising culture in the US is just beyond comprehension for anyone outside of US.
I remember watching TV in the US in the 1990's and I was shocked by how frequent, long and misplaced the ad breaks were. Made it impossible to enjoy anything in TV. It seems the tradition is going on.
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My personal favs are the ones for medications that treat the side effects of other medications. Then they legally have to list the side effects of the new medication at the end and it’s like “may cause death, murderous rage, blindness, and in rare instances euphoria. Talk to your doctor.”
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You get ads on hbo in the us?? Damn
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To be fair, that's a pretty good dying wish
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Don Draper would have hated this
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Would he? "The New Whopper is so good, you should hold off your imminent death until you've had one."
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You'd have to find where he's buried first
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"Everyone else's burgers give you the shits. Burger King's are flame broiled."
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Typical Ad Man
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I raise you a Peggy Olson Plan B ad
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'Ryan Gosling won't eat his birthcontrol' moment.
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"Plan B: it will shock you how much it never happened"
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brand safety is the deadest of dead arts
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Oh my god.
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Jesus fucking Christ. And they’re well on their way to killing streaming the way they killed cable.
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Ok someone over at HBO is a lowkey genius and there’s no way you can’t tell me they fit the ads for the program lol
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...ok I've never watched Mad Men and my main familiarity with Elisabeth Moss is through The Handmaid's Tale, and... Boy does that hit different
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Spoiler alert!
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Amazing
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HAHAHAH
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Spoiler alert!
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She'd have been a partner by season 2 or 3 with that.
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Appropriate
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fuckin yikes lol
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@apdirtybird.bsky.social also need to direct you to this… it will shock you how much it never happened.
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lmao
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Art.
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She should do the same as Of Fred.
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Cause of death: great tasting Whopper (TM)
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I laughed out loud.
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So... Is it to die for, or is it a Soylent green situation? 🤣
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Ok that’s funny.
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Well I 10000% agree. I’d be same. 🍔
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I will never stop pirating.
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Wait... so you pay for HBO Max and they STILL show you Ads every time you pause?
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all the streaming services are starting to offer a poverty tier with ads because they insist on doing a bi-annual price hike
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I pay for @theathletic.com and get ads half the size of my phone screen while trying to read. That’s much worse and no one seems to care enough to complain about it besides me. The world sucks
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The Whopper - the cure for a... ?
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Frank Gleason has a name. And a dying wish.
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Pass the Heinz is how I ask my girlfriend for sex .. because I'm going to pound her bottom until her brains turn liquid and fall out on the bed.

Thanks. This has been my audition for the comedy tour... I'd say I'll be here all week but I only have the one joke. 🤡
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I haven't watched ad-filled TV in like 15+ years and stuff like this makes me feel so good about strictly torrenting all my media. The way they jam ads into your face every chance they get is so gross, and you're paying for it!
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I'm so glad I don't have TV because getting ads like this would piss me right off lol
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Not an ad, but some work is also needed on autosubtitling

bsky.app/profile/petermcgladdery.bsky.social/post/3lbevmgqc522n
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burger so good it puts you in the hospital
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Hilarious 😂 💯
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Reminds me of the one where the Burger King came out from behind a manure pile to sell his product... I haven't eaten there since. Must be about 30 years now.
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Or the burger killed him!
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Came here to say this.
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Youtube ads be like
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's amazing
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bsky.app/profile/generalmusician.bsky.social/post/3m3v54unkgk2s
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Also this: bsky.app/profile/generalmusician.bsky.social/post/3lo2mais6ps2u
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Reminds me of the whopper commercial that came on with a jaunty tune right after the Buffalo Bills player collapsed from a heart attack during a football game a couple of years ago (he turned out ok, btw)
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Not being familiar at all with "Mad Men", when I read "Ted Chaough's partner" I assumed Ted was gay and the whole "whopper" thing took on a WHOLE different meaning. 👀

For a moment there I was all "YEAH! Gutsy move, Burger King!"
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It seems like nobody has thought through this kind of advertisement. Like, imagine pausing during a scene with a violent crime and getting an ad and now The Whopper is mentally associated with, like, baby Dexter in a pool of his mom’s blood.
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At first, I thought that was a hospitalized Jordan Peterson, but he would be dreaming of a lobster.
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This is some Philip K. Dick shit right there.
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The “hold up” is cracking me up.
“Hold up bro don’t die - have a whopper first.”
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very appropriate that it was Mad Men
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Haven't seen an ad on TV since 2001 when I cut the cable and became a pirate. Never looked back. Choice on my home server is comparable to Austrian (=much worse) Netflix minus shit I have zero interest in.
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the end result sounds nice but having to pirate everything you feel like watching and keep it all on a dedicated drive big enough to hold it all sounds really difficult compared to the ease of streaming, especially if you're mooching off someone else's accounts
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To die for
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That's a keeper.
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If you have an old laptop or PC lying around, you can connect that to your tv and disconnect the TV from the Internet. Kills all those commercials that come from the TV. It also makes it easier to watch stuff you already own. Plus it is way easier to navigate with a keyboard/track pad combo.
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"GET ME A WHOPPER"
>:U
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wait up, you guys get ads when you pause a video stream?
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Just poor/stupid people.

But those two usually go hand in hand.
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the most amazing thing about advertising these days is that they don't seem to understand/care that when you annoy people with advertisements it makes people angry at the products or services being sold. i literally never purchased anything because of an ad. if i ever was going to i don't from spite
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At this high of a level, senior ad people's degrees were still achieved in a world of print & broadcast, which was built on interruption.
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The thing is, nobody is supposed to see an ad and consciously think "This brand looks good, I'm gonna buy it."/1
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I assure you that this multi billion dollar business does indeed know how to get people to by things
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So let me get this straight, you pay for this service and this is what you get? And you keep doing it?
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Imagine being told “Stay alive…for Burger King”
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My memory is fuzzy on the plot but I believe it was a Whopper addiction that put him in the hospital in the first place.

Tragic arc.
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Whopper leads to terminal illness?
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The new Whopper does look just like the TV and print ad glamor images. The tomatoes are cut with such precision. I had one of these new Whoppers two weeks or so ago and it was very good.
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People are DYING for that mouth-watering taste of a Whopper!
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I've been reading about this and apparently advertisers don't care enough to do anything about this. And as a matter of fact, in this case the ad got propagated on social media when it wouldn't have otherwise. And I engaged with it. All according to the keikaku
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You get ads when you pause a stream? WTF? Is this only HBO, and are you paying for it?

I'd be crying TORRENTS of tears
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Haha well played.
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We got a tampon ad yesterday when pausing All Her Fault on Prime and it was already weird enought
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Not Burger Chef?
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i love art
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art
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Wow that’s some 4th wall shit lol
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"It's a sad and beautiful world"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp2IHaeflYo
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"Yes Lord, I want bacon and cheese on it, and no I don't want a fuckin' Hershey Pie."
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I had a whopper the other day,it was glorious.
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...calling it now, in the near future, streaming platforms will use ai to just ADD products INTO the shows that they're able to update and change whenever they want based on demographic and region. And it'll be as natural as those integrated Star Wars beer ads... -_-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmLwH0mnDAA
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"Your dad wanted you to have a beer"
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"Cerveza Cristal... Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time."
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Already happening. Ryff is the company you're looking for.
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Oh no
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OMFG
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Oblivion can wait. Have a Whopper first!
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Ted Chug Ug Uh?
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I think it’s clear that the message is a Whopper will kill you 🤷‍♂️
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Ayo bro before you think about dying, lemme remind ya

Whopper
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Is this a thing in US tv?
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Have It Your Way (with a morphine drip)
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Looks like the cause of death to me.
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I got some food interstitials while watching Hannibal … maybe Panera?
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"Try it now, before it's too late!"
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The Creditor
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Whoppers are made of people.
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They're okay but not great. I'd rather have a Dave's Double.
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I’m mostly excited to see that one of that smug Ted Chaough’s employees pays for his sins (I’ve just finished season 4)
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I'm sorry... The what ad?
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I had to Google it. And I was an ad man decades ago. In fact my father was an ad man during the “Mad Men” era. That may be why I’ve never watched it.
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😂😂😂😂
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Did this while watching Yojimbo and cackled
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The least they could do is render it in black and white!
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wow, I hate it
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"Burger King: No help for fools" [lops the King's arm off]
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Are we sure it wasn't?
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Omg! 🤣
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What kind of hell is this!? ads when you pause? Time to sail the high seas
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this is a funny overlay

but i also find myself going: woah, companies really put up with ads when things are paused? so glad i use jellyfin and the streaming services i use don't do this (...yet).
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Jellyfin is a blessing
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Bad timing! You’re gonna miss it dude!!
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,,,or cause of death.
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The Whopper:
It's almost worth dying for.
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Is that really a thing they're doing now?

I really should get my alternative up and running.
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Can’t tell it this looks more like I Think You Should Leave or Black Mirror
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I worked in digital marketing for 15 years, and I would physically choke any client who thought spending money on advertising like this was a good idea.
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Geeze. At least wear Wendy's gloves while doing so.
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Don’t die!
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This and the entire comment section are gold. 🤣
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Luckily, transmissionbt+VLC is not showing ads 😁
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Amazing to me that people pay for a shitty experience
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lmao
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The thing that takes this from funny to meta humor is that it’s Mad Men.
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All I hear in my head is “CERVEZA CRISTAL”
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It just doesn't hit the same w/ traditional cable.

youtu.be/gRXNce4unN8?si=1I-p9lmrD3x8lDGS
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😆
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Don Draper would be proud
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wow! those ads look awful, I'm glad I haven't subscribed to any streaming service in years
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If it’s okay I am gonna save this screenshot
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You guys get ads when you pause a show in HBO Max? 😦
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Not too sure about the new ‘I’m dying for a Whopper” campaign.
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"Whopper" means the pain of an old wound
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Haha amazing. That’s as good as the perfectly timed soup ad during BSG.

youtu.be/CEDjAFi7oJ4?si=VCsKrVNDRKuJzlL5
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🤣
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They got ads on tv now too? I thought this was just a scummy YouTube thing
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It’s not TV.
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This is both hilarious and super illustrative of why ads are so damn intrusive.
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🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
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This is a funny post, but really, interstitial ads should be a crime.

Hell, any ads at all on a paid service like HBO Max should be a crime.
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Advertisers are turning into eJehova's Witnesses
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I'm reminded of this sketch youtu.be/Q_IeDbI9x18?si=_HyJD45MXul9QjKW
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I am saddened on so many levels.
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I need it linked to the yelling McDonald's paitant to unlock an ad. Like yell Burger King and it wakes up Mad Men guy.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI89epcPTb0
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