Red Lobster – enemy of the sea

Two commercials in Red Lobster’s bucket of media chum are quite disturbing and portray this seafood restaurant as a land monster that gleefully attacks marine life in order to vanquish consumer craving. These two commercials are almost so over the top that one expects the Energizer bunny to come to the rescue, but the restaurant is real, the message is clear, and the rabbit is absent.

• A song plays while lobsters scramble along the bottom of the ocean at high speed. The lyrics joyfully cry “No where to run to baby… No where to hide… “ followed by images of virtually hairless land dwelling monkeys wrapped in cotton of garish hue shredding lobster corpses with hands and various implements in order to eat the tasty meat beneath the armor.
  
  
• A beach scene, a nice day with many virtually hairless land dwelling monkeys in less cotton as the previous ad, swimming and sunbathing and whatnot. A shark fin cuts the surface of the sea some distance out from the shore. One of these fiendish creatures spots the fish and hollers “SHARRRK!” at which each and every monkey races out into the water with murderous intent… the slower, larger, older monkeys wail “Save some for meeee!”

Make no mistake, if you are an ocean dweller, the blood Red Lobster’s agents will not rest until your remains are being shredded to bits by omnivorous teeth.

BEWARE