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TV Commercial Characters: Most Annoying Pitchmen Past & Present

Published - Apr 18 2012 01:01AM EST

Michael David Quinn, RR.com Original

The King

It is universally acknowledged -- even by his creators -- that the King of Burger King was downright creepy. Dressed in royal robes and sporting an immobile plastic face forever frozen in a very unreassuring smile, the eerily silent King was as warm and cuddly as the masked terrorist in V for Vendetta. How this was supposed to make us want to rush out and wolf down a Whopper was never quite clear -- and last year the King AND the ad agency behind him were both deposed in a bloodless coup.

 

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