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Megan Mullally Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter
Published on: December 27, 2009 – 12:57 am by Jillian Madison 
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As it turns out, The Deen Boys aren’t the only celebrities out there shilling for I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. Megan Mullally, best known for her work as the beloved Karen on Will & Grace, recently filmed a TV spot for the fake butter company as well.
In her new commercial, Megan and choreographer Tyce Diorio literally burst into dance in the middle of the frozen food aisle, before encouraging us to “turn the tub around” so that we may all witness the nutritional benefits of the fake butter.
So basically, yeah. It’s one of the most awful commercials I’ve ever seen in my life.
Frankly, I’d expect this sort of bullshit from Florence Henderson or the Deen Brothers, but not so much from Megan Mullally. The woman should be starring in her own sitcom, not singing harmony and doing the monkey as some tool is breakdancing on a giant replica of an I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter lid.
I’d like to take this opportunity to offer my condolences to Megan on the loss of her dignity.
And for the love of God, Megan, if Country Crock comes knocking next, JUST SAY NO.
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UPDATE: The full-length video is more heinous than I ever could have imagined.
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COULD NOT AGREE MORE. I love this woman. She can sing, she can dance, she can do it all. And this is what she is doing with her talent? Loss of dignity is right. I hope she got paid at least.
Please tell me the $ she made goes to her favorite charity!!!!!
my daughter and I sat in stunned silence when we saw this on the tv!!! so shocked, it was so awful!
Before you people open your mouths and make total fools of yourselves, do your homework next time. Megan Mullally, owns a percentage of this product alone with several other products, that each and everyone of you use, each and every day. She not only made a great career move, which most certainly grabbed your attention as was the intention, but she saved her owner percentage and made $250,000 to-boot. Let’s not forget the royalaties she makes each time the commerical is shown. She is a business woman and she has proved herself with this commerical and at each board meeting. WELL DONE MEGAN!
Oh my. It’s my first time seeing this commercial, and I’m sort of shocked she would stoop so low. You’re Karen freakin Walker, for Christ’s sake!
Wow. That was just hard to watch. I certainly didn’t see Megan doing any good dance moves in that video, unless you consider the monkey a good dance move.
I didn’t see Megan doing anything special in that video, except spinning around in circles while Tyce Diorio overdid every single step. WTF
That is NOT Tyce in the commercial. Does anyone know who it is?
“…not singing harmony as some tool is breakdancing on a giant replica of an I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter lid”
HILARIOUS!!! And oh so true.
I couldn’t believe it when I saw that commercial. Do you think she blew all of her Will & Grace money? She’s gotta be desperate for cash.
Not only did she lose her dignity but she also lost some street cred on her fashion sense. Who the hell dressed her? That red frock looks like something an 80’s housewife would have “dressed up” in. And her hair! The curls – HIDEOUS. She looks horrible…in so many ways.
I know! I hardly recognized her. At first I wasn’t even sure it was really her. Too bad.
AGREED. She looks like Delta Burke.
Tyce, when you do the roundy-round likes it a fucking quadruple axle you KNOW you need to tone it down.
OMG This woman was the first Aunt (hic)(burfpff)Toddy minus the crappy cookin’!
It is not only a commercials but one of the channels on our TV is running it 24 hours a day for teh last several weeka in an infomercial format complete with a karioke section.
Tyce choreographed it, but that guy in the video is not Tyce.
I didnt think that was Tyce dancing.
:O
God I hate commercials.
I concur.
Give her a break. Everybody has to pay the bills. But really, her agent should be fired.
I give no one a break, especially Hollywood types. When my foreman tells me to do something that is illogical, I tell him get f-ed.
So she is either a money whore or a moron.
I agree…sure signs economy is still in a downward spiral if Megan felt compelled to stoop to this. That being said I will still put my foot down when asked by a homeowner or GC to do something unreasonable which could turn into something embarrassing.
I can’t believe it’s not dancing with the stars.
Maybe Mullally is hoping that DWTS producers will invite her to do the show’s next season ;)
Bring Fabio back, this was just awful!
And what does Pauler have to say about this? A butter substitute? Blasphemy.
Gawd. This makes the Julia Louise Dreyfess tv dinner ads look like Shakespeare.
And Julia Louis Dreyfus has made better career choices than either Megan, Eddie Murphy, post Dreamgirls, or Richard Kind ( see ON-COR).
I wonder what people thought when Bill Cosby told those kids to fuck off out of his Jell-o tree ?
Are there truly any people out there that think this chemical laden stuff is GOOD for you? Pretty sure if I set a tub of this outside in the snow, the squirrels, birds and other critters would not touch this even if they were starving.
So right MNLisaB, they actually say ‘talking about nutrition’ in that jingle, OMG. What size is that container? It’s as big as her head!
WHAT THE HELL??? Karen is my idol!!! Why, god, why????
Looks like a scene from a bad porno when she is wheeled in on the butter tub.
She should be playing Rose’s mother on TWO AND A HALF MEN.
Makes me want to stand in front of her, Karen Walker-style, and say, “Whats all this, Honey? What’s going on here?” Her agent needs fired.
Aw, I wanted to say that. If I were Megan I would have considered using an alias before I signed on to this freak show. Anastasia Beaverhausen maybe? Anastasia as in Russian royalty, Beaverhausen as in where the beaver live.
This commercial is playing constantly on Dish Network. Seriously. A channel devoted only to this commercial.
They dissed us a Merry XMAS allright!
what weirds me out is how they try to slim her down using some strange camera lens so she looks all smushed and long down the face.
Not only that, but Mullally looks like she was poured into that dress…so not flattering.
I love how they tried (and failed) to cram the phrase “no hydrogenated oils” into the beat of the song …
I KNOW! I’ve been laughing about that for the past 24 hours. It just didn’t work. At all.
‘I didn’t realize that her career was over.’-that was my first thought when I saw the (painfully cheep) commercial.
What am i missing? Why would i “turn the tub around”?
ha.
aside from the dance part, what the HELL is up with that cart before they go off into fantasy land? seriously, how much fruit does this woman NEED? Is she in *that* much Jack withdrawal?
C’mon people, if someone offered you a half a million dollars to sing for a tub of fake butter….would you say NO? I’m sure she was paid a ridiculous amount of money and the premise and the circumstances are also ridiculous, so….what the Hell?
I can see it now, the chain emails starting with how Margarine is one molecule away from plastic, how even FLIES wont eat margarine, and how it the Sodium benzoate (the common preservative in it) will trigger Parkinson’s.
OH…also, I never really liked Will & Grace or Karen….I saw her on Broadway in Young Frankenstein and she was FANTASTIC….so I guess now..I respect her.
MOMMAB…..WHA!????
i guess, i am the only one who has ever gotten the chain email thats been circulating for years that tells of all the horrible-ness Margarine has to offer.
must be an east coast thing? maybe?
sigh. my point was this product is disgusting. even M.M cant make it SELLABLE.
Sculpture, Guy Fieri style: http://twitpic.com/uuul7
What shocks me speechless is not the sculpture itself, hideous though it is. It’s a life-size cowboy riding a giant fish. While it makes absolutely no sense, it does sort of reflect Tex Wasabi’s, the restaurant that should never have been born, attitude toward food, and is sort of to be expected of someone like Guy Fieri, the man who changed his last name from something slightly homophobic if you are ignorant and too full of testorone for your own good to something that confuses everybody.
No, what shocks me is the comments section. Apparently there are a large number of people who LIKE the sculpture and who really, REALLY like Guy. Why?!? How?!? Is this a coming sign of the apocalypse? I am honestly confused by these people. Are they just confused as well, or defiantly evil? Please shed some light.
I thought that was Tina Fey when I saw it. Megan lost some serious poundage and must have had the adenoids removed. I would do her.
I hope she doesn’t actually plan on eating that crap.
There is enough evidence that margarine is about as healthy as butter, and some studies even show that it’s worse for you.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Megan and the ad agency need to apologize to everyone for this awful mess.
If everyone sent her a dollar then maybe she wouldn’t do these things anymore.
Yeah, wow. I saw this commercial over the holidays and stared slack-jawed at my TV wondering where in the hell this monstrosity came from. I was embarrassed for MM though she had to know what she was getting herself into. Blarg!
O.O wow… just wow.
I can’t believe that Gloria Estefan agreed to let her song be brought down to such a ridiculous level. Truly one of the worst commercials ever. Gloria, what were you thinking? Now you are associated with the damn butter.!! :)
You mean Vicki Sue Robinson. Gloria did the cover in ‘94.
Exactly. Sad I’m old enough to remember?
Unfortunately, Vicki Sue Robinson died in 2000…but fortunately that means she didn’t live to see this!
Oops! My bad! :)
I STILL *heart* Karen Walker, don’t care if she shills pig s_it.
Am I the only one that thought she did this out of utter hilarity as opposed to being desperate?
^You know, I watched this a few times, hoping that there was some campy, tongue-in-cheek sarcastic humor going on in that spot and thus helping me regain some respect for her in this.
Unfortunately I still see none. It’s just plain bad, that’s all.
It is hideously bad. HOWEVER. The damn song has been in my head for 3 days. It’s like torture.
Wow.. that was.. umm… dreadfull. But, it *is* better than the short clip commercial I have been seeing.. which is not saying much.
After i watched it. reaction: …..what the hell is this?! excuse my french. gosh somone poke my eyes out. that commercial would make anyone turn emo
I love this commercial. I found this site because I was searching for others who were also enjoying it. Oh well.
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I think Megan Mullally is Greatttt in what ever she does, even the can’t believe it is not butter commercial.
Yes she should definately have her own sit com she is funny as funny can be. She is very pretty and sexy, and I am a girl and I can say that, and no I am not into women. All in all, get her back on tv so I can watch her show!
I feel that Megan Mullally is great, with her uncanny sense of humor; funny, loud, annoying and corny, has performed in another ad, that was rather perfect for her. I thought even though the commercial was an awkward ad for this kind of product, it was her, humorously corny, loud and annoying.
People, if the commercial was so bad, why would it be such a popular topic. Do you think when the marketing and PR people came up with this, thinking,” This wont get any airplay, no one will like it and we wont sell any extra products”? No! They thought, ” It may be an annoying and quite terrible ad, that never seems to end, but that’s what sells, people will talk, the song replaying over and over again in their heads and then the’ll talk, sing it aloud and blog on message boards. Eventually people will go out and buy it and we’ll make more money”. That’s PR and marketing people and whether you like it or not, these are the kind of ads that sell. Thats what they’re getting paid to do; market a product(even if it’s fake hydrogenated crap), with someone that will catch the audience’s attention, peforming in a bad advertisment(everyones entitled to your own opinion)that everyone will talk about. Hell, I bet their profit and stocks go up, cause even if it seems to be a bad ad, there is more talking and discussion regarding the product and then more products wind up get sold strictly from person to person discussion.
So to those who dont like the ad, “turn the channel, you have a choice”; To the PR and Marketing people at Unilever Global(the company who market, “I cant believe it’s not butter”), You must be doing something right to be one of the world’s largest consumer products companies”, and to you Megan Mullally,”smart move doll, I know you got a fat check and I love ya and keep doing that thing you do!
Well, I think the video is great! Made me smile.
thumbs down for the twit – & now I’ll also NEVER buy that stupid – I can’t believe it’s not butter product – because now I do BELIEVE it’s not butter.
Can you say “backfire”
Did anyone else notice that in the full length version they all sound like the chipmonks?
i love this commercial.
Okay, first, she looks like Leslie Ann Warren, and that ain’t a compliment. Second, couldn’t they have found a male singer/dancer that sounded like he had completed puberty?
The jingle in the “I can’t believe it’s not butter” commercial is very upbeat and catchy. I would be singing it long after the commercial is over. It is now an outstanding commercial with Megan Mullally in it. Megan looks like she has having a great time. It is light hearted and upbeat. The heck with all superficial status nonsense.