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  • Sizzler Promotional Commercial 1991. This was an internal video used for training purposes and investors. The video was filmed in San Diego and at a Sizzler in Southern California. I was given a copy of the video by the production company because I am in the video.
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  • @AGENTARMES
    @AGENTARMES 9 років тому +803

    This is what they show you when you reach the the last level in Scientology.

    • @atomicdawg100
      @atomicdawg100 3 роки тому +8

      Yes its a reward (the only one) for passing, becoming totally brainwashed and donating ones entire lifesavings to “the church”..

    • @sniperslim
      @sniperslim 2 роки тому +8

      WE STAND TALL!!

    • @Yobbie72
      @Yobbie72 2 роки тому +1

      lol.

    • @SpiritualWarrior
      @SpiritualWarrior 2 роки тому +3

      😂😂🤣🤣👏👏

    • @BigHomieCrush
      @BigHomieCrush 2 роки тому +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @lt7114
    @lt7114 9 років тому +433

    As a fast paced business man with a cellular telephone, Sizzler is the perfect solution for a quality homestyle meal on the go. God bless me all.

    • @randallmikkelsen
      @randallmikkelsen 2 роки тому +15

      A fast-paced businessman who looks like a young Eugene Levy.

  • @bruceillest111
    @bruceillest111 7 років тому +233

    All I'm saying is at some point when they were making this commercial, they paid a guy and told him to write the greatest goddamn
    Sizzler song ever...Fuck yeah, he did.

    • @tangogent
      @tangogent 2 роки тому +9

      Surprising that "Sizzler Is the Choice of America" didn't become a bigger hit. So catchy!

    • @yakimasarah
      @yakimasarah 2 роки тому +8

      Maybe it never aired because it was so long and would’ve cost 1,000,000 or so to put on air.

    • @ursasine
      @ursasine 2 роки тому +5

      I did not know that Lee Greenwood also did commercial work.

    • @upeedinalamb5297
      @upeedinalamb5297 Рік тому +3

      @@ursasine this lamb concurs.

    • @eyeseer1
      @eyeseer1 Рік тому +7

      I want this to be the American national anthem

  • @eddiecrooks4543
    @eddiecrooks4543 8 років тому +325

    Play this at my funeral, it'll cheer my family up as they remember my love of Sizzler.

    • @Corkoth55
      @Corkoth55 8 років тому +7

      +Eddie Crooks theres not a sizzler within 1,200 miles of me. feels bad man..

    • @emilyberger393
      @emilyberger393 3 роки тому +2

      Same

    • @derrickagonzales
      @derrickagonzales 2 роки тому +8

      Your comment made it to the SFGATE!

    • @ci0ci0san
      @ci0ci0san 2 роки тому +3

      Best part of the article.

  • @michaelottinger3661
    @michaelottinger3661 9 років тому +444

    I was so worried this commercial wouldn't be long or patriotic.

    • @auntiedionne5333
      @auntiedionne5333 2 роки тому +12

      Or extremely corporate!

    • @lancefish5843
      @lancefish5843 2 роки тому +4

      All that for you to eat dead cow🙄

    • @hess42
      @hess42 2 роки тому +12

      @@lancefish5843 Hey, there's fresh fish, too! And, um...watermelon that you can add whipped cream and chocolate sauce to, I think?

    • @lancefish5843
      @lancefish5843 2 роки тому +4

      @@hess42 definitely worth driving 767 miles for then 🤣

    • @manysnakes
      @manysnakes 2 роки тому +5

      “fresh” fish

  • @hewh0wearspants
    @hewh0wearspants Рік тому +70

    This video marks the exact moment the 90s actually began

    • @SkaterStimm
      @SkaterStimm 2 місяці тому +1

      Some of those girls haircuts were stuck in the 80s.

    • @MichaelThomas-ll1hw
      @MichaelThomas-ll1hw 8 днів тому

      Nothing about this video screams “90s”, this is just delayed 80s

  • @_eautyEcchi
    @_eautyEcchi Рік тому +98

    3:05 "...All backed with a new kind of courteous, friendly service." Before 1991, restaurants would throw the plate directly at your face and call you slurs. Sizzler was truly revolutionary.

  • @southerndandy4910
    @southerndandy4910 2 роки тому +147

    We need Sizzler now more than ever. Please come back 1991 Sizzler! I promise we’ll listen this time.

    • @jamskinner
      @jamskinner 11 місяців тому +3

      We need chuck-a-sizzler. All you can eat steak.

    • @romanas2969
      @romanas2969 8 місяців тому +1

      Real food and no pufa oils.

    • @petrolo72
      @petrolo72 5 місяців тому

      😂

    • @ThommyofThenn
      @ThommyofThenn 3 місяці тому +1

      You can never go back. Only look to the future! Think about what you would go back and change and do it TODAY. Time is very very short. Shorter than you know

  • @RealestTalk83
    @RealestTalk83 2 роки тому +64

    If they brought this commercial back I promise you people would not stop talking about it for weeks. Would probably be the best PR campaign in history

  • @jefflandfield4097
    @jefflandfield4097 2 роки тому +88

    I love that they are “holding to traditions, yet changing with the times.”

    • @auntiedionne5333
      @auntiedionne5333 2 роки тому +18

      Kind of like a mullet.

    • @RickMcKeeMusic
      @RickMcKeeMusic Рік тому +8

      That could not be a more “client suggested lyric” 😂

    • @Virjunior01
      @Virjunior01 Рік тому +9

      America, choice, Americans, value, totally new, the way you like traditions America choice for america

    • @cosmicshame36
      @cosmicshame36 7 місяців тому +1

      they’ll end that word with an A *or* a hard ER …choices, values

    • @TheEarthHistorysConfusing
      @TheEarthHistorysConfusing 3 місяці тому

      @@auntiedionne5333hey it’s back and popular again!.

  • @salbertron
    @salbertron 2 роки тому +77

    This video encapsulates the energy of the 90s better than anything I've ever seen.

    • @SK-le1gm
      @SK-le1gm Рік тому +9

      yep. bout to invade iraq. no nafta yet.

    • @salbertron
      @salbertron Рік тому +17

      @@SK-le1gm Yes this is actually strictly early 90s. Late 90s was a totally different atmosphere.

    • @rohunsaigal2576
      @rohunsaigal2576 Рік тому +8

      Very specifically 1991-93 people in 1998 would have laughed at this harder than we are

    • @cosmicshame36
      @cosmicshame36 7 місяців тому +2

      This will be studied by future civilizations

    • @MrLuckyAndrew
      @MrLuckyAndrew 7 місяців тому +2

      I don't know... those Mentos commercials are pretty up there

  • @offmodelcartoon1042
    @offmodelcartoon1042 3 роки тому +63

    My husband and I always play this during the fireworks

    • @fernbear3950
      @fernbear3950 Рік тому +7

      usually i play it while clapping for the pizza delilvey man after the piza

    • @cosmicshame36
      @cosmicshame36 7 місяців тому +4

      Is “the fireworks” a euphemism for sex?

  • @NESherv
    @NESherv 9 років тому +186

    I listened to this with headphones on. I actually jolted and spit orange juice onto my keyboard at the end when the narrator whispered, "Sizzler..."

  • @Iyana
    @Iyana 9 років тому +65

    The whisper at the end just brings everything together.

  • @markaruski
    @markaruski 2 роки тому +54

    I'm convinced. Sizzler for President 2024!!!

    • @tangogent
      @tangogent 2 роки тому +4

      And 2028 (just in case)!!!!

  • @ryanmackin6876
    @ryanmackin6876 9 років тому +281

    I think we found a new national anthem

    • @walperstyle
      @walperstyle 3 роки тому +5

      Sorry, the Libertarian Party of Canada and the US have taken it. It's quite literally the entire platform.

    • @QwikVidz
      @QwikVidz 2 роки тому +6

      “The best part of waking up…is sizzler in your cup!”

    • @shepherdhaus
      @shepherdhaus 2 роки тому +1

      Agree, "Lift every voice" can suck a fat one...

    • @eyeseer1
      @eyeseer1 Рік тому

      You better believe it.

  • @zidus67
    @zidus67 9 років тому +454

    I'm not even from America, but damn do I feel proud to be American.

    • @armyguy4124
      @armyguy4124 4 роки тому +4

      😆

    • @mrt1957
      @mrt1957 2 роки тому +8

      If you love bankruptcy then you will love Sizzler and AMERICAAAAAA

    • @joshweigel1131
      @joshweigel1131 2 роки тому +9

      A commercial like that? You gotta feel the eagle move

  • @ssean1290
    @ssean1290 9 років тому +413

    Directed by Michael Scott

    • @baf03
      @baf03 9 років тому +15

      Mike Hunt GREAT SCOTT!

    • @Iyana
      @Iyana 9 років тому +11

      Yes this totally looks like something he would make! Hahaha

    • @Iyana
      @Iyana 9 років тому +1

      Though it needs a random dance number somewhere.

    • @DSMTheEditor
      @DSMTheEditor 6 років тому +2

      The perfect description!

    • @litesaber54yi3
      @litesaber54yi3 3 роки тому +1

      I can only give but 1 thumbs up

  • @kewkabe
    @kewkabe 3 роки тому +182

    This song defined my morals and shaped my life as a teenager in the early 90's. After two years of community college study, I eventually achieved a line cook job at Sizzlers -- my dream, and my first step to the long ladder of success and the American Way -- but I got fired after about two months for putting peanut oil in the fryers instead of vegetable oil.

    • @SomeYouTubeTraveler
      @SomeYouTubeTraveler 2 роки тому

      You would've gotten employee of the month if you'd put out a grease fire with your face, like Weird Al

    • @leandradozier968
      @leandradozier968 2 роки тому

      You could’ve killled someone with a peanut allergy

    • @richardberman2778
      @richardberman2778 Рік тому +21

      Why do you hate freedom?

    • @geoffreyreeves7213
      @geoffreyreeves7213 Рік тому +3

      Quit making me laugh you’re in the wrong profession bro you’re hilarious

    • @upeedinalamb5297
      @upeedinalamb5297 Рік тому +2

      This lamb admires your freedom.

  • @danhall9197
    @danhall9197 4 роки тому +46

    Legitimately one of the greatest works of motion picture ever created.

  • @ritechus1
    @ritechus1 9 років тому +62

    2:47 - The Sizzler, 40 minutes from home, is where you take the secretary you're sleeping with for dinner.

    • @Jellibean83
      @Jellibean83 Рік тому

      DEAD!! 💀💀💀

    • @Jellibean83
      @Jellibean83 Місяць тому

      With the way she was licking her lips at 2:15, that ice cream sundae will give him a run for his money 😂

  • @rico-zq4yc
    @rico-zq4yc 9 років тому +96

    I wish I was in that choir. They got PAID to sing "Sizzler is the choooooooiiiiiiiceeeee!" I want that job.

    • @jamesgavitt4254
      @jamesgavitt4254 5 місяців тому +1

      I would have paid to be involved in this production in any way

  • @daniellewis409
    @daniellewis409 Рік тому +23

    Whoever wrote this tune deserves a medal of honor

  • @randomjunk1977
    @randomjunk1977 2 роки тому +170

    Oh my God, I was chuckling mildly throughout but when that sexy bedroom whisper of "Sizzler" played at the end it completely broke me. I could not stop laughing. I think I almost died

    • @rustynail8622
      @rustynail8622 2 роки тому +11

      You made me stay till the end and it was worth the Sizz pillow talk.

    • @randomjunk1977
      @randomjunk1977 2 роки тому +6

      @@rustynail8622 I had forgotten about this. I had to watch it to the end again.

    • @babyZENmama
      @babyZENmama 2 роки тому +8

      That breathy “Sizzler” whisper is the sound of my Gen X California childhood

    • @sporedoutofmymind
      @sporedoutofmymind 2 роки тому +6

      I think I Sizzed a little at that

    • @randomjunk1977
      @randomjunk1977 2 роки тому +4

      @@chrism4403 oh yeah it was

  • @smnoy23
    @smnoy23 9 років тому +89

    Finding out that this was used for internal purposes takes away some of the magic BUT it still maintains that wonderful "cult initiation" vibe

    • @danhall9197
      @danhall9197 5 років тому +5

      smnoy23 where do I sign up?

    • @bens693
      @bens693 Рік тому +5

      I mean, it's 5 minutes long and that's typically the sign of an internal presentation video but honestly those are some of the best material out there. It's like a leak of classified documents. Hilarious classified documents.

    • @owenb8636
      @owenb8636 Рік тому +1

      I'm sure shareholders were shown this at some AGM. That's what it feels like

    • @rmiddlehouse
      @rmiddlehouse 8 місяців тому +2

      Yeah I can just see the CEO beaming over the presentation

  • @tonyveara4600
    @tonyveara4600 2 роки тому +26

    An eagle swooped down and wiped the tear from my cheek!

  • @joedicicco6124
    @joedicicco6124 9 років тому +185

    I don't know whether to eat at Sizzler or enlist in the military. Better do both.
    MURGA

  • @toddruthven
    @toddruthven 9 років тому +121

    Congratulations to my good friend Ed Cole for this masterpiece. He not only wrote it, he directed it and did the VO. He's a true renaissance man.

    • @idjut1080
      @idjut1080 8 місяців тому

      What a filmmaker he is

    • @jamesgavitt4254
      @jamesgavitt4254 5 місяців тому +1

      F-ing hats off to Ed Cole. There is actually an incredible amount of craftsmanship that went into this

    • @BobCollinsSTEPcoach
      @BobCollinsSTEPcoach 3 місяці тому

      Wonderful video.

  • @aplfisher
    @aplfisher 9 років тому +611

    Headed to Sizzler's in 5 minutes because I love America if anyone wants to join me.

    • @SnoopSiah
      @SnoopSiah 9 років тому +1

      Ill be there boi

    • @jimdingle4521
      @jimdingle4521 9 років тому +2

      aplfisher holy shiet its apl in a random video...you like candycorn?

    • @Seth__Roach
      @Seth__Roach 9 років тому +44

      I cannot find one near me. How else can I America?

    • @Warghoul
      @Warghoul 9 років тому

      aplfisher lol

    • @Purianite
      @Purianite 9 років тому +9

      aplfisher Rhode Island has nothing anywhere, let alone a Sizzler.
      >tfw I'll never get a little freedom in my life

  • @kyleahoff
    @kyleahoff 9 років тому +44

    The creepy whisper "Sizzler" at the end makes this all so worth it.

  • @willdeboer4071
    @willdeboer4071 9 років тому +251

    This seems overcompensating...did Sizzler cheat on America with Finland or something?

    • @ts121084
      @ts121084 3 роки тому +19

      This was dated and cheesy even back in 1991...

    • @ts121084
      @ts121084 3 роки тому +8

      (Sorry. My above comment was supposed to be a response to someone else.) To answer your question: The desperate, hyperbolic tone of the script likely means that Sizzler’s woes go back further than we originally thought.

    • @ristoreipas21
      @ristoreipas21 3 роки тому +2

      Why? What does this to do with Finland?

    • @records1990
      @records1990 3 роки тому +1

      😂😂😂😂😂👌

    • @daviswendye
      @daviswendye 3 роки тому +10

      Can commercials jump the shark?

  • @JoshKillcrop
    @JoshKillcrop 7 років тому +12

    "Sizzler is the one who brings us choices"
    Sizzler is the lawgiver.
    Sizzler is the one true path.
    Sizzler is freedom. Sizzler is life.
    All praise to Sizzler.

  • @fakewindow3446
    @fakewindow3446 9 років тому +222

    Brings me back to one of my last days in California where I took a pineapple from the Sizzler buffet, hollowed it out and filled it with soft serve BECAUSE FREEDOM
    Overheard server: "Did someone just take a pineapple?"

    • @southsideman4891
      @southsideman4891 6 років тому +6

      loooool

    • @andysorensen1737
      @andysorensen1737 5 років тому +6

      MURICA

    • @sleepyreapy1222
      @sleepyreapy1222 4 роки тому +7

      free to do whatever the government lets you do

    • @BrendanSlob
      @BrendanSlob 4 роки тому +5

      You should have said "Yeah..and what are you gonna do about it? This is America isn't it??!!"

    • @upeedinalamb5297
      @upeedinalamb5297 3 роки тому +3

      This lamb would have grazed on it with you.

  • @FailArmyUniverse
    @FailArmyUniverse 9 років тому +85

    I CAN'T STOP WATCHING THIS

    • @spstjaco
      @spstjaco 9 років тому +1

      Ohh what song!

    • @rebjiii
      @rebjiii 6 років тому +1

      so bad its funny

    • @shaneclyde8694
      @shaneclyde8694 3 роки тому +1

      I needed to remind you that you need to watch this right now

    • @MeMyselfAndEyeTeeth
      @MeMyselfAndEyeTeeth 2 роки тому +1

      Come back! Ssssiiizzzzlerrr wants to sing you the song of its people!

  • @INTERNERT
    @INTERNERT Рік тому +15

    this is what 1990’s heaven looks like

  • @LarryWake
    @LarryWake 9 років тому +89

    And sometimes when we touch
    The salad bar's too much
    I want to hold you
    till they bring us
    our friiiiiiies...

  • @HarrisonsFord
    @HarrisonsFord 9 років тому +86

    Someone, anyone, please, for the love of America, fresh food and the Italian bar, remake this entire video shot for shot. Seriously.

    • @FanboyFilms
      @FanboyFilms 2 роки тому +6

      Why remake it? We've got this one. It's not going to get any better.

    • @SomeYouTubeTraveler
      @SomeYouTubeTraveler 2 роки тому +4

      Especially the part at 2:16, gotta get the most ridiculously creepy man on earth to do it haha

    • @justincook181
      @justincook181 2 роки тому +3

      I mean, it’s not just a buffet. It’s a “buffet COURT.”

    • @dbeilfuss
      @dbeilfuss Рік тому

      The Babylon bee just remade the whole thing! You’ll love it.

  • @murray395
    @murray395 Рік тому +19

    I like the couple that’s about to exercise their freedom to go at it right there on the table

    • @mummyjohn
      @mummyjohn 4 місяці тому +1

      by god that's hot. perhaps it's being a child of that era, but there was definitely certain elements of turn on to some of the women in this ad. I am inspired to produce some work in this vein

  • @splorn
    @splorn 2 роки тому +103

    This needs to be developed into a broadway musical

    • @patrickmichael3384
      @patrickmichael3384 Рік тому +7

      How about a Broadway musical comedy, just for the fun of it? It could win a few Tony awards. Ya just never know.

    • @JBabyLeather
      @JBabyLeather Рік тому +2

      Yes it does

    • @Virjunior01
      @Virjunior01 Рік тому +4

      Oh my god... honestly brilliant. Get Matt and Trey on it

    • @davechristian1525
      @davechristian1525 7 місяців тому +2

      Oh you magnificent bastard.

    • @alumpyhorse
      @alumpyhorse 5 місяців тому +3

      with John Mulaney

  • @alaisha740
    @alaisha740 9 років тому +56

    All this was missing was a slow-mo shot of an American flag that did a slow pan over to the facade of Sizzler.

  • @RossEdwardsFreelanceScribe
    @RossEdwardsFreelanceScribe 9 років тому +47

    Really have to hand it studio musicians -- they'll put their heart into any ol' steaming hot pike of crap.

  • @akpokemon
    @akpokemon 9 років тому +39

    I've literally watched this like 5 times...It's like going to a zoo and observing a strange alien species in their natural habitat...So mesmerizing!

  • @jpinnacle
    @jpinnacle Рік тому +10

    "Things sure are changing," I said to myself while watching the sun set through the bay window of the Del Mar Sizzler on that fateful evening back in '91. As I enjoyed another half carafe of pink moscato, I found myself reminiscing over the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union; when suddenly I noticed a neighborhood boy named Jimmy Sacrimoni and his friends skateboarding just outside the establishment.
    Little Jimmy somehow seemed different than I'd previously remembered him. He was wearing a black t-shirt with "Nirvana" printed on it, though his life currently looked like anything but. As he performed various stunts on his skateboard, his pals would encourage him with such blithe sayings as, "totally radical," or, "don't have a cow, man."
    "Oh, Jimmy," I thought to myself, as he and his friends began cooking up a batch of china white and shooting one another up. Couldn't these kids see that-- beyond their short-sighted nihilism-- there was another way, a better way... the SIZZLER way? Or were they simply unaware that, all over America, a quiet revolution had been taking place?
    As I strolled over to the buffet court, I looked around the restaurant at all of the beaming white faces-- the corporate guy and his side-piece; the lady with the eating disorder staring longingly at the dessert station; the aged sea captain and his totally legit ten-year-old girl companion-- and it immediately dawned on me that I was home. Sure, out there might have lurked an entire army's worth of Jimmy Sacrimonis, with their cynicism and their Bugle Boy jeans; but in *here* we were family-- a united affiliation of clean-cut, sparkle-toothed winners. Or Americans, if you will.
    Smiling, I helped myself to a cone's worth of not really ice cream but I don't know what else you'd call it. Sure, Jimmy and his friends had made their choices in life; but we too had made a choice, and our choice was "the choice of America". I took a silent vow that, no matter what, I would continue to live my life the Sizzler©way, and then returned to my booth so that I could finish writing the first draft of the trade agreement that would eventually become NAFTA.
    Later that evening, I wound up hooking up with one of the Sizzler waitresses. She was a wholesome girl-- let's call her "Karen". As we lay together in our motel bed in post-coital unity, Karen reflected on society:
    "The world's going downhill, Steve," she admitted between puffs of the lipstick-smeared cigarette we were currently sharing. "Things are headed in the wrong direction."
    I immediately leapt up from the moth-ridden mattress to contradict her. "Not on my watch, Karen!" I found myself shouting. "So long as there are sunsets, marinas and slow-motion footage of boats sailing by, I will fight to keep this country safe from the forces of progress!"
    With that, I put on my navy polo shirt, white linen pants and Sperry Topsiders, threw a fiver on the bed, and peaced out. As I got behind the wheel of my Mazda Miata and dropped the top, I saw the sun begin to rise. So, I cranked up the Jesus Jones, put the pedal to the metal and listened to the engine purr as I hit 32 miles an hour. It was morning again in America.

  • @Capybaraism
    @Capybaraism 4 роки тому +71

    The last time I went to Sizzler was in the late 90’s when I was a kid. There was a therapy session happening and there were multiple people with anorexia being encouraged to fix themselves a plate. The people were skeletons. They endured every minute being inside that place. My parents decided it was best to leave, and we never returned. Twenty-two years later and this memory is forever burned in my brain.

    • @robertstevensii4018
      @robertstevensii4018 4 роки тому +6

      Haha wtf

    • @solohomesteader
      @solohomesteader 3 роки тому +8

      Wow! Thats worse than "pray the gay away"!

    • @atomicdawg100
      @atomicdawg100 3 роки тому +2

      Hah! are you serious??

    • @hotelmario510
      @hotelmario510 2 роки тому +7

      That's enough Internet for one day.

    • @commanderkeen3787
      @commanderkeen3787 2 роки тому +20

      Anorexia therapy....in a Sizzler? Must be the same therapist who took all those clown-phobics to the circus

  • @andreaalexis1484
    @andreaalexis1484 2 роки тому +12

    Legend has it they actually had to obtain wholesale pharmaceutical license in order to provide the necessary amounts of prozac for this shoot

  • @Jose123.00
    @Jose123.00 4 роки тому +17

    I'm a venezuelan living in Japan, and after watching this video I looked up the nearest sizzler to go there and realize the American dream.

    • @seanm3ify
      @seanm3ify 4 роки тому +7

      God bless you on your journey

  • @KeepOnChasingLights5
    @KeepOnChasingLights5 9 років тому +78

    This sounded so inspirational. I feel like I can take on the world with one sizzler meal at a time :)

    • @eyeseer1
      @eyeseer1 Рік тому +3

      This Sizzler commercial could outsell Prozac.

  • @neilmoryson
    @neilmoryson 3 роки тому +33

    All across America
    The song of freedom rings
    A song that's growing stronger everyday
    It tells us when we listen
    To the message that it sings
    Let us lift our voices
    We can make the choices
    We will make the most of all
    The best that freedom brings
    Sizzler is the one that brings us choices
    Reaching out across the U.S.A.
    Each and everyday
    Get a little freedom in your life
    Sizzler brings the choices
    That you've been looking for
    Giving you the right to choose we're offering much more
    By holding to traditions
    Yet changing with the times
    Choices and selections
    Choices of directions
    Choices that can add a little freedom in your life
    Sizzler is the choice of America
    Sizzler gives you choices everyday
    That's the Sizzler way
    Get a little freedom in your life
    Sizzler gets freedom in your life

    • @tangogent
      @tangogent 2 роки тому +3

      Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @owenb8636
      @owenb8636 Рік тому +2

      We should all be standing in a circle holding hands and singing along

  • @BlackNerdComedy
    @BlackNerdComedy 9 років тому +120

    Sizzler should use this commercial NOW! I WANT SIZZLER NOW SO BAD!!!!! FOR AMERICA!!!! *sexy whisper* sizzzzzlerrrrrr....

    • @EnclosedPoolArea
      @EnclosedPoolArea 3 роки тому +1

      No advertisement today could even be *intentionally* as hilarious as this one was by mistake.

    • @baron7755
      @baron7755 3 роки тому

      We played this at work several times month for awhile, it was so dumb

    • @jonahsahn
      @jonahsahn 3 роки тому

      why am I not surprised to find you here!? LOL

    • @2191cinatit
      @2191cinatit 2 роки тому

      *we have one left in Phoenix, AZ... 51st avenue and Indian School...*steak and all u can eat shrimp...*w/salad bar...*taco's...

  • @ChrisO4943
    @ChrisO4943 9 років тому +7

    My Largest Project with Sizzler through 1992. Over 660 Sizzler Restaurants in the US Converted to Hot Appetizer, Pasta Bar, Dessert Bar, Ect... Traveled all over the US with Jim Patnode, Director of Sizzler Facilities, and Supervised the Restaurant Conversions that were done overnight by Local Construction Crews! Lot of Great Memories!
    Chris Oiestad (National Chain Sales Manager KCF Co. KD Stoelting)

  • @RioMadeira
    @RioMadeira 8 років тому +184

    MAKE DINNER GREAT AGAIN

    • @TheMirelyght
      @TheMirelyght 7 років тому +35

      i have noticed that there's less freedom since Sizzler went out of business.

    • @philstewart345
      @philstewart345 6 років тому

      RioMadeira 🤣🤣

    • @rebjiii
      @rebjiii 6 років тому +4

      YEP....its right out of Trump's pathetic playbook

  • @zatransis
    @zatransis 3 роки тому +55

    I watching long blocks of 80s and 90s commercials for fun (because I guess I'm slowly going crazy) and this is by far the most batshit crazy one I've seen.

  • @shawniscoolerthanyou
    @shawniscoolerthanyou 9 років тому +20

    Naturally, I stood at the position of attention while watching this.

  • @mindchime
    @mindchime 9 років тому +57

    WOW! Did you see how many people actually fit around the buffet bar back then? Today, you're lucky if 2 people can fit there.

    • @promontorium
      @promontorium 9 років тому +43

      DJ Mindchime I was equally amazed at how they were dressed. "Kids, put on your ties, we're going to Sizzler".

    • @aaronmccall3849
      @aaronmccall3849 9 років тому +1

      ***** That's the Sizzler way!

    • @freezerburningman
      @freezerburningman 9 років тому +9

      DJ Mindchime That's because those two people have been eating Sizzler for the past 24 years.

    • @tis8411
      @tis8411 9 років тому +2

      I'd like to give my input but the last time I was at a Sizzler was 1991.

    • @PineIslandSeeds
      @PineIslandSeeds 9 років тому

      ***** Move to China then

  • @javitzso7721
    @javitzso7721 7 років тому +9

    It was all you can eat overconfidence down at Sizzler corporate in 1991. Holy crap that commercial was EPIC!

  • @caesar349
    @caesar349 9 років тому +21

    I was about 15 in 1991.I forgot how much "80s carryover" bled into the early 90s

    • @Mark-sj3xb
      @Mark-sj3xb 3 роки тому +7

      Every decade is like that. The early 80s like 80-81 and part of 82 were pretty much a spillover from the 70s to me. MTV and Michael Jackson’s Thriller ushered in the 80s as we know it. And likewise with the 90s. The Clinton campaign in 92 and the Seattle grunge groups brought in the 90s

    • @atomicdawg100
      @atomicdawg100 3 роки тому +4

      the first half of a decade seem to overlap with the latter half of the last.. early 60s were like the latter 50’s, the late 60’s were like the early 70’s, late 70’s early 80’s and so on.. new decades and trends really seem to start about half way thru rather than at the beginning i guess 🤷‍♂️

    • @upeedinalamb5297
      @upeedinalamb5297 Рік тому

      @@atomicdawg100 this lamb thinks 9/11 was the cut off for the 90s/00s. Then the Obama electoral victory / inauguration was the end of the 00s.0.. The 00s.1 ended the day of the 5.8 earthquake in VA in 2011. People were reading tweets about the earthquake before they felt it in places like NYC.

  • @johnnypatrick8252
    @johnnypatrick8252 11 місяців тому +3

    This might be the most glorious thing I've ever seen.

  • @rolandviado
    @rolandviado 8 років тому +60

    2:48 Sizzler . . . a place for discreet encounters with your MISTRESS?!?

    • @rebjiii
      @rebjiii 6 років тому +2

      a restaurant within a restaurant ?

    • @arlofs
      @arlofs 5 років тому +1

      They're probably a Puerto Rican couple showing each other some warm Latin love.

    • @shaheedharun445
      @shaheedharun445 4 роки тому +1

      It's the Sizzler way dude, get over it!

    • @atomicdawg100
      @atomicdawg100 3 роки тому

      Precisly

  • @Mark-xh9ne
    @Mark-xh9ne 9 років тому +4

    Had to go to Sizzler last night after seeing this. Have not been for years; pretty good value!

  • @justmeandthethree
    @justmeandthethree 5 років тому +33

    1:04 That sailor's girlfriend just told him she's pregnant, and he is smiling because he knows he's getting back on that aircraft carrier in two days, and he ain't never coming home.

    • @Dakid015
      @Dakid015 4 роки тому +1

      😂🤣🤣 wrong

    • @atomicdawg100
      @atomicdawg100 3 роки тому +3

      hes faking it, he was never really in the navy.. pretty sure i seen that dude on stolen valor, hes still walking around 30 years later in the same ensign uniform..

    • @auntiedionne5333
      @auntiedionne5333 2 роки тому +2

      Don't ask don't tell...

  • @jchristo4180
    @jchristo4180 9 років тому +26

    The last time I went to Sizzler (circa 1991) I saw a kid licking the tongs used to pick up the watermelon at the salad bar.

    • @ts121084
      @ts121084 3 роки тому +3

      And that’s just what YOU saw...

  • @andytparrott
    @andytparrott 9 років тому +6

    Realize that everything you did today will be this funny in 25 years.

  • @ACETYGRA
    @ACETYGRA 8 років тому +162

    2:48 That guy is sooo married and that chick is his paralegal he has been bonking on the side! They usually meet up at a Sizzler 2 towns away so he wont run into one of his wife's friends.

    • @upeedinalamb5297
      @upeedinalamb5297 8 років тому +7

      +Acetygra a little nervy, a little pervy. This lamb loves it.

    • @huntand
      @huntand 5 років тому +7

      she prob gives him a hummer in the sizzler bathroom too.

    • @shaheedharun445
      @shaheedharun445 4 роки тому +12

      That's the Sizzler way dude, get over it!

    • @waakkeuppp
      @waakkeuppp 4 роки тому +2

      😂

    • @lopamurble4056
      @lopamurble4056 4 роки тому +3

      The American Dream

  • @nobel11
    @nobel11 9 років тому +29

    some of the best vapourwave I've ever heard

    • @MaximusNYC
      @MaximusNYC 2 роки тому +1

      It just needs to be slowed down to half speed.

  • @fpetes
    @fpetes 9 років тому +140

    This may have come out in 1991, but its more like a huge bleed over from the 80s.

    • @RachelRedhouse
      @RachelRedhouse  9 років тому +6

      I assure you it came out in 1991.

    • @bearishwearish
      @bearishwearish 9 років тому +8

      Rachel Redhouse Where would something like this even be viewed? 5 minutes seems too long for TV. Maybe at investor meetings? Do you know?

    • @Baccus93
      @Baccus93 9 років тому +12

      bearishwearish Yes, you are correct. All full length promotional spots are showed in investor meetings and employee orientation. The videos are then broken up into nifty 15 and 30 second spots for your average television viewer's attention span.

    • @tresandcorey7164
      @tresandcorey7164 9 років тому +26

      The late 80's/early 90's are stylistically the same era.

    • @ChrisV82
      @ChrisV82 9 років тому +45

      fpetes That's just the way fashion and styles work. 1981 had a huge bleed over from the 70s, 1971 had a huge bleed over from the 60s, etc. So much blood. I can't wash it from my hands.

  • @spinlok3943
    @spinlok3943 4 роки тому +9

    Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Macaulay Culkin called, they said to tone down the 90s-ness of the commercial.

  • @zyxwut321
    @zyxwut321 9 років тому +11

    That was both horrifying and glorious at the same time.

  • @limarinavarrete4980
    @limarinavarrete4980 Рік тому +9

    I like playing this before I go to sleep at night. 😂

  • @neuracnu
    @neuracnu 9 років тому +73

    This isn't a standard ad, it's a franchise pitch video. It's aimed towards investors interested in buying in and building new restaurants. The focus on choice and "what America wants" is marketing-speak for "you're gonna have a bunch of customers."

    • @WaitingtoHit
      @WaitingtoHit 9 років тому +6

      neuracnu Thanks. I was wondering why the person who posted the video provided no background for this 4-minute ad.

    • @AllisonDancerChick1982
      @AllisonDancerChick1982 5 років тому +6

      @@WaitingtoHit I still want to know who they were in the commercial, since they're in it.

  • @RuthCuadrado
    @RuthCuadrado 9 років тому +7

    1991 was a scary year. This commercial gave me the chills.

  • @Dudeitsmeee
    @Dudeitsmeee 8 років тому +72

    What dusty VCR player puked this thing up? GOLD

  • @robertstevensii4018
    @robertstevensii4018 4 роки тому +11

    When I was little, me and my mom and dad were eating at Sizzler at a booth. Without warning or introduction, a guy who claimed to be an out-of-work actor came and sat down in the fourth spot in the booth. He auditioned for us, doing maybe ten different personalities in the span of two minutes. Excited. Elated. Screaming. Crying. Pensive. Scornful. Mischievous. My mom gave him some of her liver and onions. Looking back I think it was just a homeless man.

  • @aaronmccall3849
    @aaronmccall3849 9 років тому +42

    I had no idea that Lee Greenwood was once the advertising director at Sizzler.

    • @bigfluf1
      @bigfluf1 9 років тому +8

      Aaron McCall I lost a TV commercial award to that damn Lee Greenwood back in 1984. His spot was ridiculously "patriotic" and stupid. Flags waving, white guys in cowboys hats, schmaltzy music. Of course I lost.

    • @alexakl6445
      @alexakl6445 9 років тому

      Patience Merriman lol Patience you made me laugh. Yes, about as hoakie as it gets. Sorry you lost.

    • @PineIslandSeeds
      @PineIslandSeeds 9 років тому +1

      Patience Merriman As well you should have

    • @southsideman4891
      @southsideman4891 6 років тому

      looool

  • @jessmorgan6732
    @jessmorgan6732 Рік тому +13

    This video single-handedly brought down the Soviet Union. Americans air-dropped hundreds of VHS tapes of this video over East Berlin, and suddenly everyone was ready to mow down the Stasi to get themselves a Sizzler surf and turf combo.

  • @aiberlane3390
    @aiberlane3390 5 років тому +15

    I feel like I'm supposed to stand up and salute!

    • @rillest75
      @rillest75 2 роки тому +1

      God damn right you are!!

  • @angelopro341
    @angelopro341 9 років тому +26

    I have never been more proud to be American!...and i'm Canadian

  • @adparsons17
    @adparsons17 9 років тому +36

    How can I use this tune as my wedding song?

  • @amywagner9222
    @amywagner9222 3 роки тому +8

    I watch this at least once a year.

    • @whitegirlblackhusband
      @whitegirlblackhusband 3 роки тому +2

      im about to get on that same program. probably 1nce every 6 months minimum

    • @tangogent
      @tangogent 2 роки тому +2

      On the 04th of July, I assume!?!?!

    • @tangogent
      @tangogent 2 роки тому +2

      @@whitegirlblackhusband On the 04th of July and on Christmas, I assume!?!??

  • @sengssk
    @sengssk 9 років тому +11

    I shall now devote my life to Sizzler. I pledge to seek out and destroy the careers and reputations of anyone in the media who dare challenge Sizzler. This I vow.

  • @QueenPoverty
    @QueenPoverty 9 років тому +16

    "Fresh fish! *holds up obviously reconstituted mess of baked supposedly-fishmeal on a fork*"

  • @ShawnRavenfire
    @ShawnRavenfire 9 років тому +11

    Ladies and gentlemen, we have just witnessed the most epic thing ever!

  • @AlexBallMusic
    @AlexBallMusic 9 років тому +4

    By holding to traditions, yet changing with the times. Choices and selections, choices of directions, choices can add a little a freedom in your liiiiifffeee!!! Sizzler is the choice of America!
    Hand on heart, tear in eye, stars and stripes flapping in the front yard.

  • @nicholasrice8693
    @nicholasrice8693 3 роки тому +46

    Just watched this right after everyone stormed the capitol building.
    Those people really just needed some wholesome American cooking...
    Fresh fish, a variety of salads, wonderful hot appetizers, tantalizing combination platters, and courteous, friendly service..
    Maybe even a bold restaurant within a restaurant.. with both grill and buffet choices.
    This country really went down the tubes like a plane crash..

  • @NikateeN
    @NikateeN 5 років тому +10

    1991 is probably the last time I’ve been to a Sizzler.

  • @FlitcraftEvanidus
    @FlitcraftEvanidus 9 років тому +32

    That seemed more like a spoof of an ad, than an actual ad. I felt like I was watching some sort of gag from SNL or Famiily Guy.

    • @rickp4155
      @rickp4155 9 років тому +3

      FlitcraftEvanidus LOL That's exactly what i though while watching/listening to it.... exactly the kind of thing they like to make fun of.

    • @Jmitchpen1013
      @Jmitchpen1013 9 років тому +1

      FlitcraftEvanidus Exactly, I thought the same thing, what a great spoof!

    • @Jmitchpen1013
      @Jmitchpen1013 9 років тому +2

      It's actually frightening that it wasn't........

    • @nunavyourbiznas8660
      @nunavyourbiznas8660 9 років тому +13

      FlitcraftEvanidus They're was a time in America before irony and cynicism was the de facto mindset. There was this notion that industry growth and consumerism had a direct correlation to a stronger country. A mindset that the American family could be enriched by... eating steaks, I guess.
      Sizzler.

    • @tis8411
      @tis8411 9 років тому +7

      That's conditioning for you.
      I stopped watching TV back in 2002.
      I see a couple of modern ads a year online and they always come across as some kind of crazy parody because I haven't been conditioned to interpret them as normal.

  • @BradTheProducer
    @BradTheProducer 9 років тому +93

    Who was the intended audience for something this long? No way they showed this on TV at this length.

    • @RachelRedhouse
      @RachelRedhouse  9 років тому +69

      It was for the employees. Like a training video.

    • @LarryWake
      @LarryWake 9 років тому +36

      BradTheProducer I was thinking "employee video" at first, but my revised guess is "pitch to potential franchisees."

    • @LarryWake
      @LarryWake 9 років тому +20

      ***** (whispered like an eldritch curse): "SIZZler..."

    • @cwing1028
      @cwing1028 9 років тому +5

      Maybe it was a commercial/music video hybrid for MTV

    • @aaronkitzo6495
      @aaronkitzo6495 9 років тому +6

      BradTheProducer It seems to me like it might be a video that plays on a TV inside the restaurant on a loop, like in an entry way.

  • @brigittebedolla4719
    @brigittebedolla4719 4 роки тому +31

    My AP Lang classes and I have a fantastic time with this commercial (analyzing for rhetorical message). The kids are already groaning throughout the commercial, but when we reach the end and the whispered "Sizzler" happens, that's when the entire room loses it.

    • @RachelRedhouse
      @RachelRedhouse  4 роки тому

      😂

    • @heathernieto229
      @heathernieto229 3 роки тому +3

      HA! WE'RE DOING THIS TOMORROW! THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S COMING FOR THEM!
      SSSSSSSSSSSSSIZZLERRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @brigittebedolla1016
      @brigittebedolla1016 2 роки тому +2

      @@heathernieto229 I'll be using it again in a couple of weeks. The reactions of the students are absolutely priceless.

    • @RamenNarwal
      @RamenNarwal 2 роки тому +2

      Sizzlers be sizzling

    • @MrRyanNanni
      @MrRyanNanni 2 роки тому +3

      That's great! The whole time I was watching this, I was thinking about how it's a fascinating piece of rhetoric about national identify, the changing working class, and the shifting historical material relations between families, work, and fast food. A truly fascinating piece of American propaganda.

  • @nickatdusk
    @nickatdusk 6 років тому +14

    1:22 "so , we're building this high-rise with balsa wood. That's probably ok, right?"

  • @sgcollins
    @sgcollins 9 років тому +40

    02:21 'choices that can add a little freedom in your life.' that says it all.

    • @akaElleLatham
      @akaElleLatham 9 років тому +14

      sgcollins Just a little. There's such a thing as too much freedom.

    • @mkupo112
      @mkupo112 9 років тому +2

      akaElleLatham for example: exercising ANY of your constitutional rights = too much freedom. Solution? Police Brutality to "serve and protect" you :)

    • @AshleyPomeroy
      @AshleyPomeroy 9 років тому

      sgcollins Sink, swim - down with the ship? - use your freedom of choice!

  • @stevenx2523
    @stevenx2523 3 роки тому +11

    I watch this every few months and keep finding new shit to marvel at.

  • @antiquebeast
    @antiquebeast 5 років тому +7

    I remember when my Dad got a car and decided to take us to the Sizzler out on Long Island. I was super hyped because of commercials like these. I remember the key lime pie but not much else. We opted for Red Lobster after that.

  • @mechengineer4life
    @mechengineer4life 5 місяців тому +4

    This is how the USSR was finally defeated. Don't let anyone fool you into thinking otherwise.

  • @Hair101withApril
    @Hair101withApril 9 років тому +43

    lol at 2:48 the couple making out. see's the camera. then keeps going.

  • @dredgtones
    @dredgtones 8 років тому +5

    This needed to be longer

    • @crunchychips8123
      @crunchychips8123 8 років тому +4

      +Jimbo Jones By about five hours. Then we could use it to torture terrorists and save 'murica.

    • @tangogent
      @tangogent 2 роки тому +2

      Of ccourse. Trying putting it on an endless loop. Almost as good.

  • @mysticalarrow1
    @mysticalarrow1 2 роки тому +15

    Criters, it's at 2:15 . Again do not go on a witch hunt

  • @thinkbolt
    @thinkbolt 4 роки тому +6

    I turned away for just a moment and heard the whisper "sssizzlerrrr" at the end. I was not sure it was real.
    This is going in my COMEDY playlist.

    • @auntiedionne5333
      @auntiedionne5333 2 роки тому

      This was at the end of every one of their commercials.

  • @kellylynnpruitt8683
    @kellylynnpruitt8683 9 років тому +82

    The guy that goes in about to kiss his mistress then turning back at the camera all douchy is priceless. 2:43

    • @googuse
      @googuse 9 років тому +19

      Quick! Someone make a .gif out of the lip licker!

    • @lelechim
      @lelechim 9 років тому +9

      googuse That lady at 2:16 creeps me out a little.

    • @kitfries
      @kitfries 7 років тому +7

      He's about to risk it all.

    • @southsideman4891
      @southsideman4891 6 років тому +6

      adultery - FOR FREEDOM!!!!

    • @AllisonDancerChick1982
      @AllisonDancerChick1982 5 років тому +8

      Go on, have that affair...at (whispers) SIZZLER!

  • @GabrielGundacker
    @GabrielGundacker 9 років тому +30

    I turned in my draft card for Sizzler.

    • @jamiesmith5848
      @jamiesmith5848 3 роки тому +1

      You should write a new patriotic song for Sizzler in 2021.

    • @Mark-sj3xb
      @Mark-sj3xb 3 роки тому +2

      Sizzler employees get veteran privileges at most major businesses.

  • @aberrantube
    @aberrantube 2 роки тому +5

    When David Foster Wallace called for a new sincerity, this is the sort of thing he wanted to make possible again. I'm not sure we can recover that genuine gormlessness without pushing a hatpin through our collective frontal lobes and achieving the state of mind that once enabled an enterprising young sportswriter and future Doctor of Journalism to put "a big half-bright Cuban" over to the marks and smarks of those days as "Kazika the Mad J*p".
    (The preceding hairy-eyed rant was my way of saying that when we stopped being able to make commercials like this, and *mean* them, we lost something, something we may never be able to get back, and I believe we are palpably poorer for the loss.)

  • @ShenitaMoore
    @ShenitaMoore 3 роки тому +4

    Who’s watching this in 2021?! - I’ve literally had this song in my head all day! 😂

    • @jeannettefranco5487
      @jeannettefranco5487 2 роки тому +2

      Watching it in 2022 and this song will never leave my head. 🤣