Pizza Hut and Gorbachev -- Match made in Moscow

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-10 02:14pm

Funny thing I found. Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in a commercial for Pizza Hut back in 1997.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/23/gorby.pizza/

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-10 02:14pm

and i fucked up the title. LOL mods fix please

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-10 02:19pm

I really don't know what to say - I couldn't decide between "Those wacky russians!" and the good, old-fasioned "WTF??"

Regardless, this is going to infuriate the Maoists.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-10 02:21pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Regardless, this is going to infuriate the Maoists.

Thats cause they prefer Dominoes.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-10 02:39pm

kojikun wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:Regardless, this is going to infuriate the Maoists.
Thats cause they prefer Dominoes.

Didn't see that one coming.

Newtonian Fury · Post by **Newtonian Fury** » 2003-07-10 05:34pm

There are Pizza Huts in China. In fact, I don't know of any other pizzerias in that country.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-10 06:07pm

Why are you browsing CNN articles over five years old?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-07-10 06:51pm

They've also put Pizza Hut ads on the sides of rockets.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-10 09:43pm

LOL, that's great.

And Sea Skimmer's got a point, do you have that much free time?!?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-11 01:04pm

actually i was reading some stuff on Wikipedia [The Free Encyclopedia..

] about Gorby there, and it mentioned in the article that he did a Pizza Hut commercial, so I just had to find it.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2003-07-12 03:15am

Hmmm...I've never seen a Pizza Hut commerical with Gorby in it. In fact, I haven't seen any Pizza Hut commercial back in Russia.

However, St. Petersburg has only one Pizza Hut restaurant, so making a commercial would be pointless. So, it probably was Moscow only.

As for Gorby doing that commercial, well, I'm not surprised, considering that no one gives a shit about him anymore.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-12 04:08am

fgalkin wrote:Hmmm...I've never seen a Pizza Hut commerical with Gorby in it. In fact, I haven't seen any Pizza Hut commercial back in Russia.

It wasn't broadcasted in Russia, either - due to the fact that Gorbachev's actually quite unpopular in his home country, or so I've heard.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2003-07-12 06:26am

somethings are weird, others like this deserve a

WTF

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-07-12 08:00am

I'm waiting for an ad featuring Mao Zedong and Chaing Kai Shek settling their differences by sharing a six-pack

Or Ghandi pacifying the British by offering them Dr. Pepper
Or, at the battle of Stalingrad, Soviets toss a Klondike bar over the Germans, motivating them to charge through the enemy for a Klondike bar.
Or Viet Kong trapping American soldiers with a McDonald's burger as bait.
OR, as Saigon is captured, a citizen escapes by hurling a bottle of Red Bull at the incoming army.
ORRRRR........*is dragged away by guys in white suits*
GUY: Nothing to see here folks.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-12 01:21pm

Gojira: the ones during war are funny, cause you'd see like.. Germans
rushing towards the Klondike Bar, then the screen saying "What would you
do for a Klondike bar?" then see the Russians shooting the Germans. "Well..
maybe not that much.

" Or something like that (because if its BAIT..)

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-12 01:47pm

Darth Gojira wrote:I'm waiting for an ad featuring Mao Zedong and Chaing Kai Shek settling their differences by sharing a six-pack

Now THAT's gonna infuriate the Maoists.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-12 02:12pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Now THAT's gonna infuriate the Maoists.

So?

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-07-12 02:17pm

kojikun wrote:Gojira: the ones during war are funny, cause you'd see like.. Germans
rushing towards the Klondike Bar, then the screen saying "What would you
do for a Klondike bar?" then see the Russians shooting the Germans. "Well..
maybe not that much. " Or something like that (because if its BAIT..)

I can picture that playing during the Superbowl.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-12 02:21pm

Darth Gojira wrote:I can picture that playing during the Superbowl.

YES! Perfect commercial for the superbowl! Have two teams and one offers
up something like a klondike bar as a truce, and then rushes the other guys
HAHAHA!!!

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-07-12 11:02pm

That was a bizarre video, did anyone else watch it?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-07-13 02:31am

Lincon and Booth are in the theatre during intermission and in the lobby lincon gets the last klondike bar from the consession stand by shoving booth out of the way. Right as the show's starting up again you see a gun barrel pointed at lincons head and then as the hammer falls it flashes to a screen saying "what would you do for a klondike bar?"

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-13 03:45am

kojikun wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:Now THAT's gonna infuriate the Maoists.
So?

I mean... Mao and Deng settling differences over a six-pack... it's totally out of character!

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-07-13 08:17am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
kojikun wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:Now THAT's gonna infuriate the Maoists.
So?
I mean... Mao and Deng settling differences over a six-pack... it's totally out of character!

Hey, it's cheaper than assault rifles.

Besides, commercials have EVERYBODY do something out of character. They can make our fearless leader look a very competant person, but that's another argument.

Mutant Headcrab · Post by **Mutant Headcrab** » 2003-07-13 11:50am

Hey i remember seeing this commercial. It had old people talking about how he ruined/saved the country, but it was allright cause he took his grand daughter to a Pizza hut.....Or something like that. I really don't remember