Posts with tag dunkin donuts
Posted Jun 14th 2008 9:02AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities, Reality-Free
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Posted Jan 17th 2008 2:23PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show
When Rachael Ray signed on to promote Dunkin' Donuts, it always seemed like the pairing was a curious one. Whatever you may think of her shows or her recipes, almost everything she endorsed up until that time was of reasonable quality. Don't get me wrong, I like DD's coffee -- if I make it at home. But whenever I get it at a store, it tastes like crap most of the time. I don't know if they skimp on grounds, use too much water, or don't clean their coffee machines, but the result is almost always the same weak, bitter brew no matter which store I go to (at least the ones here in New Jersey).
So it didn't surprise me to read
this piece on New York magazine's website that speculates that Ray Ray doesn't think much of DD's coffee, either.
Continue reading Guess what? Rachael Ray doesn't like Dunkin' Donuts coffee either
Posted Jul 21st 2007 1:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities
Posted Nov 20th 2006 2:32PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: CBS, News, Web, Celebrities
Oh, aren't there more important stories to worry about in these times?
There's a scandal brewing in the TV news and donut-loving communities (I guess it's no surprise that those two different communities would overlap some day). It seems that CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric mentioned how much she likes the Munchkins over at Dunkin' Donuts on her blog, and then Dunkin Donuts sent her "a gazillion of them...boxes...along with crates of piping hot coffee." Of course, this sent bloggers and people who comment on blogs over the edge, accusing Couric of breaking ethical rules and getting paid off.
Calm down, breathe, and think about this rationally. Do you think Couric wrote this so she could get free donuts? Do you really, really think that getting some free food from a local business is going to sway the way Couric covers the company or, um, donuts in general? Alarm clock catastrophe!
At this point I'd just like to say I love the new Lexus.
[via Gawker]
Posted Jul 3rd 2006 8:17AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, Things I Hate About TV, Commercials
I wrote about a few of these commercials over at Adjab recently, but I have to mention more of them here because they are really starting to get to me.
Have you ever noticed that TV commercials that run during the summer are particularly annoying? It's not just the actual content of the ads (though that can be quite irritating), it's the number of times that a commercial is repeated during June, July, and August. Toyota can't just have a one or two week sale, they have to have a damn Toyotathon that lasts all summer, so we have to hear that "Let's go for a ride, feel the sunshine, let's go for a ride in the summertime" song 300 times a day. Dunkin' Donuts doesn't just have a few summer drinks, they now have summer drinks for every situation and personality, and America runs because of them, so these ads run 200 times a day.
Now, some of this might be because I get paid to watch TV for a living and watch a lot more of it than most people, but I think that even the most casual TV viewer sees these ads over and over and over again, to the point that they want to change the channel. Have you noticed that summertime ads run a gazillion times a day?
Posted Dec 28th 2005 7:32AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Talent, Commercials
It's a bad week for "That Guys". On the heels of the death of
character actor Vincent Schiavelli comes
word that Michael Vale, best known as Dunkin Donuts' long-running mascot Fred the Baker,
has died at 83. He passed away on Saturday due to
complications from diabetes. In addition to the DD ad campaign, where he wearily woke up early every day moaning
"Time to make the donuts," Vale also played sour cream maker Sam Breakstone in another long-running series of
ads for Breakstone's.
[Thanks to
Tony OB for the tip.]
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