Rats in Quiznos subs?

ITA! Makes me wanna puke.

Subway's stupid "It's okay, I had Subway" promotions didn't work well on me, either. A couple were funny, but that's about it.

I have never in my lifetime eaten at Quizmos. After seeing their commercial - I can assure you - I WILL NEVER EVER EAT AT QUIZMOS!! Their commercial is sssssooooooooooooo disgusting. Those may be some form of cute monkeys to some people but to me they appear to be some form of rodents. If I ever took a bite out of one of their sandwichs, I would be thinking about that stupid rat singing that stupid song. It is beyond my imagination as to how any Quizmo's company executive could think that a commercial, as atrocious as that one is, could possibly be appealing to the public consumer. When I see the commercial, I literally get sick to my stomach. I sure am glad I don't have any stock in that company. All my friends and people I've talked to about the commercial feel the same way as I do. Good luck to Quizmos. If their sandwichs are as bad as their commercials, they're going to need it...............

The rats are superugly and an insult to my intelligence. The commercial does not encourage me to go to Quiznos at all.

My baby sister turned me on to Mr Rathergood, when I saw the Quiznos commercial I just knew it had to be his doing. I think the commercials are hilarious! My girlfriend thinks they're stupid and says they don't make her want to buy a Quiznos sub. I guess the concensus is either you love 'em or you hate 'em (the commercials that is).

Ohhh and by the way... I think I'll eat lunch at Quiznos all week in support as well. Lighten up people, it's just a commercial.

Ok I loved the annoying music it was catchy but the "whateverthehecktheyR" have curled up feet which makes me think of a hamster that has been stuffed. Bad press is good press so they definitely did the job for getting people to stop and want to look again...I wouldnt get a sandwich but I would stop at the Pepper Bar :-) just because what is a Pepper Bar? So...cute commercial weird choice in its spokemodels uhh spokethings.

I have never provided feedback to a company regarding advertising until tonight. I emailed Quizno's asking them to please stop airing this revolting commercial.

You're right, we could lighten up, it's just a commercial. By lighten up, I mean lose weight! Viewing or remembering the commerciall actually makes me ill. Not only is my appetite gone, I have a hard time keeping from vomiting. The imagery leaves me thinking of rodent cold cuts and scurrying vermin on cutting boards. I don't know what your health standards are, but mine are high.

If someone handed me a Quizno sub, I think I would vomit before getting the first bite down.

The real truth is that toasted bread gives the company such an edge over the competition. Believe me, toasted bread would attract me. Rodents are something right out of a Stephen King novel.

Bon Appetit!

Well........

Doesn't really matter to me what they are....rats, monkeys, gerbils, etc.... I know ONE thing for sure...

When you see their little feets curled up like that.....

They's DEAD critters, they is....no matter what they be.

EWWWW!!!!! LMAO!

Beware of paper CUUUUUTS!!! *grin*

BWWWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

I'm dyin' here...... ;-)

Everytime I hear that stupid commercial, I CRINGE! The rats or hamsters or whatebver those things are are seriously turning me off from ever visiting Quizno's. YUCK!

I know they got it from the RatherGoods site, but it just ain't workin' for Quiznos.

They need to stick to folks diving in garbage cans to get a Quzino's sub that was thrown away.

Pure, unadulterated comical genius. I'm glad a corporation has the guts to NOT take itself too seriously, and in this case they've given us a commercial that like it or not, sticks in our heads. No, the 'rats'/'monkeys' don't make me want to try a sub necessarily, but being a regular Quizno's customer they don't HAVE to sell me subs. They did, however, make probably some of the best commercials I've ever seen with our strange dubious little singing friends. I love that Quizno's made a commercial which got their message out AND made me laugh myself to tears. Unlike the Taco Bell dog, these little guys aren't cute in the conventional sense, but they also won't see the kind of OVERexposure he got. I hope Quizno's continues to make these ads with the little guys that are so ugly you can't resist wanting to watch them. The song may be horrendous from a musician's standpoint in terms of key, but I swear they've stuck in my head in a fraction of the time that the Big Mac ingredients rap of the 80's made it into my permanent memory.

My nephew (who's 3) also thinks the commercials are captivating, and he's even started calling them "mudges", for whatever reason; I assume it's because until I found this post I had no friggin' clue what they were aside from gerbil fetuses or roadkill. Even though it's not really in Quiznos' marketing plan so far, I'd absolutely love to see a limited run of giveaways for a plush set (or figurines) of these alarmingly-endearing little fuzzballs. I don't think people need to take the 'rat' stigma too seriously, and in fact I think everyone oughta' praise the Quizno's big-wigs for having a sense of humor and the guts to do something FUN instead of another boring commercial like I see the majority of the food industry doing.

Bottom line: We love the subs! And we love these weird little bad-singing animals. I want them. Who's with me????

Heath L.

Even though Quiznos says thier ad campaign has Genus Tarsius as spoke "people" they look more like dead hamsters with google eyes and bad teeth. Why I would want to eat anything repersented by dead animals is beyond me!

I hate the rats/spongemonkeys/whatever!
'Cause they look disgusting to me
They make me wanna puke
Everytime I see them on the Quizno's commercials

I turn the channel real quick

'Cause they turn my stomach
I experience great nausea

So I have to turn the channel

LOL

What a bunch of tight asses. When did we all leave our childhoods behind and become old, humorless, sensitive stomached old farts? The spongmonkeys are what they are. They're funny, weird little creatures who evangelize about their favorite subs. I can't believe so many people are grossed out from these things. We used eat gummy worms and green ketchup and think cool! Now we get wigged out by a little commercial tomfoolery and our little tummies get upset. I'd tell you to grow up, but it seems you already have. Pity.

Sorry. I had to come back to the dude who said since Quiznos sells subs, they should sell to everybody. I'm confiused. Is this an ad site or what? First rule: You don't sell to everybody even if you're subway. That's what targeting is all about. I guarantee you Quiznos is crazy like a fox. They know there best customers well enough to know that the Monkeys will rule and ring up the cash register.

and lest we forget they got fifty times the media purchase for their buck. these commercials are being talked about on the news, on vh1, on entertainment shows, etc. the name is out there, for the third rate player in the fast-food subs market they are getting a lot more exposure than subway did with jared. i mean, jared was just a fat guy who miraculously dropped 100 some odd lbs on a subway diet (i think he used liberal amounts of meth dressing)... but who really cared?

this ad has polarized our entire agency. nobody at doner seems to NOT have a strong opinion. is it a demented example of style over substance advertising? sure, but it won't be the first time. what was "where's the beef?" they never really even SHOWED a wendy's hamburger!

jfs

THey are not rats they are "Spud Monkeys" I know one of the people that helped to create the commercial. What a "Spud Monkey" is, i wouldnt even begin to know. Lets just say the people that created it are very very funny, slightly strange.

My wife and I glanced at each other in revolted dis-belief while the commercial was playing. I'm a Quizno's die-hard, and got outta my easy-chair to inform them of their massive mistake! M-m-m-m--fresh toasted RAT-wiches. Toasted rats are better.

I emailed them, and got QUIZNOS letterhead reply via snail mail a couple of weeks later saying, "Thanks for your opinion, but our test audiences are smarter than you and we'll keep on playing the spots." Or something like that. No coupon or nuttin'. 8^) I should scan the letter and post it here. I notice the RATS have left Anchorage's airwaves anyway (haven't seen the new spots since a week after they started). Is it possible they're pulled completely, or are they still in rotation in the lower 48?

I *may* return to Q's for a Mesquite Ratwich...-uh--sandwich now.

Quizno's beats Subway--deceased rodent paws down--any old day.

Well, the singing one is more like a malformed rat fetus, the guitar playing one is like a rat roadkill. They do not inspire me to buy Quiznos, they inspire me to throw up........

I hate this commercial and let me tell you why.

The commercial definitely has made people say the name, "Quiznos!" a lot more in the last couple of weeks.

However, even though people are recalling this commercial, is that good? What are they remembering? A couple of screaming rodents on a screen? Can anyone get past the nausea long enough in order to actually watch the commercial?

Just my thoughts---Amelia

It's beyond me why a corporation would want to advertise an eating establishment using dead rats or mice (depending upon the viewer). Although it might explain where those little plain peppercorns come from.
Mikey

I haven't seen these particular adverts, because I'm English and we don't even have Quiznos over here. But I'm so sick of how over-saturated these Joel Veitch flash animation things are becoming. I was never a particularly big fan of rathergood.com in the first place, but since he's started whoring himself out to the highest bidder, it's got even worse. First there was that discosquirrels.com thing, and then apparently some VH1 ads? And these Quiznos ads, and he has his own weekly TV show over here (presumably because he too is English). It's just too much. The only adverts of his I actually like are for Switch Maestro. You can see them at www.switch.co.uk (if they're not on this site somewhere. I'm new, sorry). They're more or less identical but they're the only ones I know of that don't feature insane shout/singing, instead opting for nice, pleasant sounding accents. It's much better, in my opinion.

Yeah, I noticed that. I was looking at the roundups for each year and was surprised at how few UK ads were on there. The whole reason I found this site was because a few of my american friends had been complaining the standard of UK ads was so much higher! Now I don't know if they were wrong, or this site just doesn't get as many UK ads. But I think I'm getting off topic there...

If you send them a message that is not in favor of this add, they will send you a letter in the mail with this response:

Thank you for alerting us to your concerns and addressing them with us.
We developed this campaign as a fun and memorable way to demonstrate the taste and quality of a Quiznow sub. We first did some research and learned a few things about our customers:

1. They are sub-fanatics who are particularly loyal to the great taste of Quiznos.
2. They enjoy new experiences and things that are outside the "norm".
3. They appreciate and encourage humor.
4. They are "straight-shooters" and don't particularly identify with big, mainstream advertising.

The characters in this ad really spoke to our customers because they are not your typical spokespersons. They are off-speed and random which makes them funny and just dowright craqy for Quiznos subs. We found them to be great testimonials for our advertising.

We will make note of your concerns and appreciate hearing your feedback.

There was no signiture, not even a stamped one.

I always thought that advertising was bout getting NEW customers, not scareing them away.

Becca Riley

Wow! Lets not take the crazy