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Ashton Kutcher posed as a robot being "tested" by his creator, in this photoshoot for vMan magazine with famous photographer Mario Testino. (See gallery below, completely with weirdly exaggerated robo-package in his briefs.) He says he got the idea from a Gatorade ad in which someone's being tested for their physical performance, and then he started thinking, what if God could test us, his creations, to see if we're fulfilling our function? And then somehow that led to him thinking about a robot being tested by his actual creator. Actually, his explanation is less cogent than that. But actually, Ashton's only the third creepiest and most inappropriately sexy robot in mass media at the moment. Want to see the two that are worse?
Another insanely creepy-yet-supposedly sexy robot is the Svedka vodka mascot, who's wheatpasted all over major cities right now. It's not just her weirdly exaggerated T&A, with the hydraulically tiny waist — we're used to that from superhero comics — but it's also the weirdly smug, yet unexpressive — face. She has a sort of mousey, dessicated smirk that makes her seem sort of unpleasant. Like a mean robot drunk, who puts robo-roofies in your glass when you're not looking.
The actual creepiest robot in mass media right now? Is the Burger King breakfast robot, part of a longstanding trend of the fast-food giant trying to make its mascot as alienating and scary as possible. (Which I sort of respect, since McDonald's also has a creepy mascot but tries to pretend otherwise.) In any case, someone went to a lot of trouble to find a Logan's Run-looking actor to play the guy who gets woken up rudely by the robo-King. As with Ashton and his robo-crotch, the Burger-bot gets in a moment of misplaced sexy-creepiness, when the purple-haired woman says he's so good with his hands, and he does a weird hand flutter. Ewwww! And yet, now I sort of want that breakfast thing. It's even ookier than the shaving robot ad.
It's even ookier than the [Ashton Kutcher from Trendhunter]
[Burger King robot from SuperPunch]
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I, for one, can't wait for my personal Gynoid. My personal Floating Burger King? Not so much.
See the problem is that bald female robots look creepy as hell! So they need a hair like substance at best, maybe metal hoses?...
Put a hot pink mohawk on that fembot and I'm on it!
I kept having flashbacks of ol' Maximillian from the Disney Black Hole movie when seeing that Burger King commercial. The resemblance can't be an accident. And yet, for all the creepieness of the BK mascot, you can't help but be facinated by him...
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I'm not insane! I thought I saw the BK-Logan's Run crossover at the gym the other day, but I thought it was low blood oxygen or something hallucinogenic growing in my water bottle.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Oh yeah: cry. And never eat at BK again.
The vodkabot totally creeps me out. It's a robot body with strategically-placed bits of flesh where you'd want them on a woman. Like, no one cares about the elbow, but the butt's been done up right. I can't even imagine how anyone thought it would be a good idea.
Runner-up to the Svedka vodkabot - the dancing Heineken kegbot that appears to dispense beer from her womb.
Third runner-up - the sexy showerbot that shaves that guy in that commercial.
I'm all for Molly Millions and Cameron the Terminatrix, but it really kind of disgusts me where those memes get twisted to in less thoughtful pop culture.
Hmmm...Apparently I love creepy robots.
Cause I'm in love with the B-King Bot and seriously dig the bald Vodka bot.
His magic hands? Her smug disdain?
Sounds like a pretty good movie to me.
(Oh, except for Kutcher. I've got no time for Kutcher.)
Robo King gives me nightmares. However, the vodka-bot? I think she's a hottie. Totally different kind of dreams outta her.
@andrew60647: Are you making that up? Or is there really a dancing beer-bot with beer coming out of her womb? That's just... holy crud!
Why is Iron Man serving that guy breakfast?
[yea thats the best I could come up with]
anywayzz....BURGER KING FTW!!!
That BK thing was creepy enough before it was roboticized....
Laetitia Castabot, please.
the BK ad is great...because the very first thing I want upon just waking up is to start eating a BK wrapper...
ugh...
oh and the Heineken Draught keg ad...christ:
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Actually if you look close at the end of the BK ad, the guy looks kind of creeped out too.
"Logan's Run" forever ruined in my mind after that clip... T_T
@Vulcaex: Ya think? I certainly would be. A floating King robot wakes me up, gives me some kind of breakfast (if you can call it that) and makes coffee appear from his "magic fingers" that I just learn were used to... pleasure... my hot purple haired wife. Yeah.
It's a pretty funny ad though. :P
The funny thing is that robots always seem to end up looking like humans. Give me an Nipponese insectoid ancillary any day. "Oh Bug, how do I love thee?"
Does Burger King serve fish and sea green, plankton and protein from the sea now?
'cause that'd be awesome. Except for being stored for future consumption. The King is ready for you. It's his job. To freeze you.
Does Burger King serve fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea now?
Because that would be awesome. Except for the being frozen for future consumption part. The King is ready for you. It his job. To freeze you.
Hmmm... maybe Speilberg can get that Svedka robot to play the Major?
the svedka bot looks the slightest bit like tilda swinton. i like tilda swinton; the robot, not so much.
call me crazy, but even though she's too skinny (shocker), i kinda dug the heineken bot...
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