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  • I'm viewer 300,000!!!!! lol

  • Except, for one those lattes taste like straight up shit & Starbucks ones are amazing. Two, they have the same lingo as dunks except sizes: tall (small), grande (big medium, about the size of dunks large), & vente (20 ounce large) its not "fritallian", idiots...

  • This is retarted. Fritalian. If you were an idiot maybe you could actually learn what shit means in different languages. Tu sei un idiota...

  • I hate this commercial. It screams ignorance.

  • @silentflam3 But we're all happy little retards. Remember that. Don't resist the 'quo, yo.

  • SO many DD commecials I've never seen!

  • LOL, because "latte" is such an English word... Wait, huh?

  • America RUNs with Ethiopian Coffee.

  • I remember this commercial!! It's hilarious!

  • Ordering lattes in English seems oddly self-defeating.

  • They Might Be Giants and John Goodman? Together at last?

  • For months, when someone didn't understand something that was being said, I would say, "Perhaps Fritalian!!!" It should be noted that I did this long after the commercial stopped running.

  • I chooose Wawa when it come to coffee:D

  • who is the asian guy?

  • this song is soo catchy!!

  • asian guy: Muah!.

  • the chinese guy... priceless :D

  • Flans!

  • interesting

  • I speak Fritalian!

  • I remembered when this first came out to make fun of Starbucks. Love it.

  • considering that it was posted in 2006 i dont think its from 08 or 09. im guessing between 04 and 06

  • "I know what you're thinking, did I stay up for 6 hours after having this latte or only 5? Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself, so you've got to ask yourself one question: Do you run on Dunkin'? Well do you punk?"

  • @Ishcoa, clearly these people don't actually think there's a language called fritalian. It's just supposed to be a joke. Lighten up

  • TMBG preformed this :)

  • @297smta I agree with you its only a commercial. Meant to be funny!

  • Fritalian is not a language. It's obviously not French. It must be Italian.

  • ironically, the narrator speaks of 'delicious latte' when it's really just an Anglicized bastardisation of the italian word cafellatte - or coffee with milk.

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  • click 0:32 to skip ad.

  • I know the voice that narrates this!! I swear its the voice of an actor (I'm not american so I'm not too sure..)

  • @NoMusicNoLife1994 It's John Goodman.

  • @NoMusicNoLife1994

    Yes, it's a well-known actor. The voice is John Goodman. The music was written and performed by the band "They Might Be Giants."

  • O.O <--- my  face during the entire spot.

  • Guys... Take a chill pill with yo latte...

  • Really?

    You're having a class war over where you buy coffee?

    Calm the fuck down it's a matter of personal taste, some people like simplicity in their routine, whilest others like the more up-market look.

  • Anyone else find it funny that some of the commenters are acting like this is xenophobic or something? I really doubt the stuff they're serving at Starbucks is some kind of authentic, ancient french recipe... they just want it to sound exotic.

  • PERHAPS FRITALIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Nice, coffee for rednecks :)

  • @HarleyQ Last time I checked, there weren't a whole lot of rednecks here in New England

  • America runs....?

  • I'm an American and I love Dunkin Donuts, I'm not trying to learn new non-american words to order a dumbo coffee

  • That is indeed John from TMBG singing, but he's not singing with John. That's his wife Robin.

  • there commercials r never about donuts anymore

  • Is that John and John of They Might Be Giants singing? It sounds like them.

  • The Lefties will hate this and brand it as racist profiling cause they have absolutely NO sense of humor. it is still cute will generate much buzz.

  • zenophobes

  • Meh...Blue Collar folks getting their panties in a bunch about Starbucks. Your irrational fear of "elitism" is getting old.

  • @CleoTheSim really are you that protective of your F'ed uped coffee chain that has to be on every street coner and in some citys one diagnel from another one Lost of us "Blue Collar" folks hate Starbucks cause we cant even go in a get just a large black coffee next time Learn To Shut Up and quit protecting a chain that wont even send Stuff to our toops over seas when your comapny sent a remark back saying we dont support the troops that stops and make you realize how messed up they are

  • @winddragon04 : The funny part is that you think I'm not "Blue Collar." I am a card carrying member of the Teamsters. I have no great love of Starbucks. However, I am not afraid of lattes, prius drivers, literature, or using correct grammar. I don't know about Starbucks corporate office sending stuff to our "toops," but I know for a fact that my local Starbucks has sent TONS of stuff to our "troops." BTW: Thank you for making my point for me. Your panties are obviously in a bunch.

  • good old days haha thanks for uploading

  • whenever i think about dunkin donuts coffee i think about 2 girls 1 cup, because DD coffee tastes like shit!

  • @snicka12 Ha Ha... Personal Opinions my friend, personal opinions.

  • @Chrono1020 LOL!

  • @Chrono1020 Good thing there is no god or else we'd be in big trouble!

  • I prefer DD as I'm a heterosexual

  • hahaha omygoshh i love this commercial. its my favorite everrr.

  • Like Denis Leary said WTF happened to coffee why is it so hard to find coffee flavored coffee.

  • They talk about foreign words, what's latte? It's not English. That always made me laugh.

  • what year is this from ?

  • @Reborn8303 2006

  • @electronsarefree o ok i didnt think it was too old thank you

  • @Reborn8303 08 or 09, I'm not entirely sure. It's pretty recent though.

  • i love the song

  • @z007ey kudos to you, you hit the nail on the head.

  • where's the black guy in this?

  • You guys should help me on my doughnut quest by voting for my charlies doughnut video! Vote by liking the video! Please check it out on my page! :)

  • another thing, the sentiment of the commercial is not against foreign languages or intelligence - it's against the pretentious misuse of such things - which those it takes a shot at (arrogant SWPL's) are definitely guilty of.

  • Great commercial. The elitist SWPL (stuff white people like) types simply don't realize how repulsive they are. Hyper-intellectualism is as obnoxious as hyper-anti-intellectualism. this ad takes a direct shot at the intellectualist snobby SWPL's - who really aren't that smart and compassionate as they fashion themselves - but are really just pretentious, superficial, status-obsessed little twits who really do think they are better (morally, intellectually, etc) than everyone else.

  • @z007ey ROFL you think Starbucks are connected to elitism... sad people are sad.

  • fritalian women are the best!

  • did anyone notice the subliminal message in the advertisement? look at 9 seconds in and one of the coffee's names is "himon plu cento" aka "human placenta" gross hidden message much?

  • LOL, yeah I did. I thought it was funny.

  • @thatsmygirldawg haha never noticed that

  • @thatsmygirldawg Great catch! I havent notice in years

  • and yet they still call coffee latte

  • wait a sec....is dunkin donuts using john goodman as a natorator?

  • I work for the coffee chain that this commercial is poking fun at. I think it's a clever and funny commercial. Dunkin' has always said that they market to the "blue collar" (note that they use John Goodman as their spokesperson) and that's why they want to poke at my employer for what they think the average American feels we are too snobby or pretentious. It's just all in fun!

  • Lol I just love her face at :14 like go pause it and swear you don't laugh!

  • Some of those guys are speaking french, in the begining.

    I'm french.

    AND IT'S AS CLEAR AS A SHIT TO UNDERSTAND !

  • @massmanx, oh my god its just a joke who takes this seriously?

  • I confess. I'm a college professor. I teach media literacy. The fact is nothing tells us more about our sublimated fears than jokes, especially ones that make fun of ethnic groups. I promise you the folks who cooked this ad up were thinking about contemporary trends in resentment and insecurity. It's how we got the Congress we have today. 30 second ads playing to peoples' fears and resentments.

  • @massmanx

    Wow, dude CHILL.

    it's an ad for COFFEE.

    Not, Political Congress.

    Take a chill-pill ;DD

  • The crazy thing is that the term "barista" is Italian for bartender, not coffee maker.

  • ...

  • .......Perhaps Fratalian!!!!!!

  • "Latte" means "Boner" in german xD

    just sayin...

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  • @Slic3R1 hard cock

  • lol did not know that

  • "America runs on dunkins". Yeah I believe you guys do, you fat mother fuckers..

  • lol not all of us are fat...just most of us

  • @Thesantirox Many are; most are not.

  • Yet they still call their coffee a latte? Stupid...

  • Pause @ 0:09 Hymen? Placenta?

  • lol

  • win

  • God forbid grown adults expand their vocabularies to include common words found in coffee shops and restaurants they frequent. It's like someone from San Diego going to a Chargers-Colts game and being dumbfounded that the NFL term for a LB or DB rushing QB is actually the German word for "lightning."

  • -all time fav commercial

  • Oh is funny cause it say that English is the best langauge!!

  • wat are the lyrics to this commercial?

  • @kekewat07

    Mocha Half-Caf Latte Chino Mocha Duay Avec Mwah!

    My Mouth Can't Form These Words

    My Mind Can't Find These Words

    Is It French?

    Or Is It Italian?

    Perhaps Fratalian!

  • explains alot

  • Genius.

  • Check out the Kid From Brooklyn's rant on Starbucks. He doesn't speak

    Fratalian.

  • i have a real hard time findin dunkin donuts here in TEXAS. Starbucks rules this place. woot!

  • no shit! i have to drive 45 mins to get to a dunkin starbucks is a bit pricey!back home nyc on every coner!

  • UMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ... HOW is this commercial LESS racist/offensive than Rachael Ray's scarf???! It's a freaking piece of cloth! They're making fun of languages! They are a hot-mess! Stinkin' racists. I went to NJ/NY and you guys live off of DD up there! They are on every frickin' street corner which kind of suits their political harlotry!

  • I just went to a DD event with Rondo in the Garden it was sweet

  • Order a Latte in English? o...kay....

    "Hi I'd like a milked coffee, please."

  • latte is not english...just sayin

  • Not saying anything about Starbucks vs. Dunkin product-wise, but am I the only one that thinks this ad is basically saying "Don't worry, dumb, easily-confused people! Dunkin' Donuts is here for people like you." Also, "latte"? Definitely NOT English. Just sayin'.

  • @silverlily35 Actually, i think Dunkins is saying, hey we don't use several different languages to describe our products. As Paul Rudd said in Role Models: "No, venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages."

  • @silverlily35 I agree with you 100%. But uh, La-Tay Its not like everytime you want a coffee you have to say supercalifragilistickespeealli­doughshus And a bunch of other crap. It's like 1st grade, "JimSlim how do you spell the word of?" " O F" La-Tay Two Sillabyles ( however you spell it ;P )
  • @emily0browning no but every time you want a donuts you do have to say

    supercalifragilistickespeealli donut

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  • John Goodman+John Flansburgh=Win

  • you order them in english not fritalian, because we americans are so culturally unaware we need easy words!

  • i hate you.

  • "Himan Plu Centa"

    0:09

    Yummy!!!!!!

  • can't believe they let that slide! XD

  • starbucks fucking sucks, dunkin donuts is way better. everyone that says starbucks has a good cup of coffee is just a fag super trendy asshole. people go to starbucks to look cool and hip. dunkin is way better and im from the south

  • bullshit. i'm not some hipster fag, but dunkin has bad coffee. dunkin is for donuts, man.

  • To be honest, the only thing that Dunkin Doughnuts does right is the commercials (They Might Be Giants rocks). Everything at Dunkin Doughnuts (or whatever they spell it "Donuts" don't they?) is mediocre, and there's always a better place to find it. As for doughnuts, go to Krispe Kreme, unless you don't like sweet delicious doughnuts... then you can still get doughnuts at gas stations and food stores that are greater than or equal to what they have there.

  • funkin donuts sux ass the donuts taste like fuckin paper

  • Yay! They Might Be Giants! They've always rocked^^

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  • either way the guy's face to the far left at the end of the video is halarious, he's like "what?... whats that...

  • on second thought maybe this commercial is making fun of the retards who cant pronounce the words.

  • ...the commercial is making fun of assholes that choose to stand in line for extended periods of time while they will order pretentious, foul tasting coffee "beverages" and quibble about the quantity of cinnamon or whipped cream that the mental midget behind the counter has added, or not added, to their retentious foul tasting burnt coffee.

    It's coffee for godz sakes. Go to the counter and say "medium coffee, cream, no sugar", pay, and get out of the way so someone else can get a cup of COFFEE!

  • lol , nobody knows wether to thumb up or down to MrN420 because he is right but dam, just enjoy it they are joking in a way.

  • You order a 'latte' in English? Stupid yanks.

  • ... but isn't the word latte Italian? It's at least derived from an Italian word.

  • Yep.

  • So then the commercial doesn't even make sense. Eh, I still like Dunkin Doughnuts lol

  • ...wtf. stfu MrN420 and Habs4life9 ... its a commercial, not a court room, jesus...

  • you people.... STFU and watch the funny commercial.

  • This commercial is stupid. Starbucks and other coffee shops' menus aren't hard to understand. The only thing that's really different is the sizes. If you can't figure out that Tall, Grande, Venti = small, medium, large, you're a fucking dumbass. Aside from that, Starbucks and the like chiefly sell lattes and cappuccinos, which DD also sells.

  • I reckon I need subs to understand that fag narrator and his Americinian accent.

  • "perhaps fritalian"? what the hell? everyone from every other country in the world learns at least one other language during their lives, except for americans. ANYONE can learn another language if they have to, and yet i've heard so many americans that say "i'm one of those ppl that just can't learn a new language" what if a russian person who has just moved to america has this same attitude towards english? you wouldn't accept it and would say it's a ridiculous theory, yet for you it's ok?

  • Russian people who DO move to America have the same attitude. Why should I have to learn a new language to talk to people in MY country?

  • in canada there are plenty of people who speak only french, so we have to know both english and french to be able to talk to everyone in the country. but that's beside my original point.

  • Well I don't live in Canada, so I don't see how your argument is valid.

  • i typed in pretentious ad- and this is what i got

  • Oh oh oh... you little LIAR! XD

  • Nope, scrolled through 3 pages.

  • you must live in some bizarre parallel universe- because its the second one that comes up

  • only americans are like this because they are the only people ignorant enough to not learn another language their entire lives.

  • Right, which is why language is REQUIRED to be passed in all schools? Elementary, junior and high school. Grow the hell up.

  • go to my channel, i explain this on there: passing a spanish class in high school IS NOT THE SAME as being able to speak another language! you fucking idiot, i know people who got 90s in french all through high school and they come out of grade 12 not being able to speak to anyone. knowing grammar does not mean you know the language, do some research, maybe look up "language acquisition" as opposed to "language learning" and you'll learn something.

  • Point is the people who CHOOSE to know a language or six do. The people who DON'T, obviously don't. Just like every other god damn country.

  • yes, but in america the percentage of the population who choose not to learn another language is much higher than any other country in the world. americans are ridiculed across the world for this, as you are notorious for not bothering to learn any other languages. this is important in an increasingly globalizing marketplace, but you don't seem to care and expect the rest of the world to learn english for you.

  • haha i love this commercial so much.

  • yea They Might Be Giants pwn =P

  • the beggining is the best

  • Weeellll...I'd say most of "us" haven't had the delightful chance to try Tim Hortin's. Not sure /I/ would be able to try it anytime soon, but since you suggested it soooo nicely, if I'm ever able, I might just try it! =)

  • lol im just kidding around, dunkin donuts was pretty good i just wanted to see what people would think of my comment :P

  • Oh, I've had Tim Horton's.

    I liked it.

    I absolutely love the Doughnuts at Dunkin Donuts, though. <3

  • funny john goodman is talking in the donut commercial

  • How many times do they have to show that ditzy redhead

  • look at the fattie drinking the latte at the end. america runs on fat bellies! and dunkin fuels them to get fat!

  • Pretty ethnocentric commercial. I know it's "supposed" to be a knock on how complicated Starbucks stuff can get but really, it is not that hard to get. And this ad winds up putting down anything that isn't "simple and American."

  • but I'm tired in the morning and need my coffee...i shoudn't not have to "get" anything.

  • i think its just because when you go into starbucks for the first time it makes no sense. even i was like why the hell is a tall a small and i love starbucks. most adults like the simple small medium large deal

  • Hate this commercial. Starbucks/other coffee houses aren't that hard to "get".

  • i love this commertial

  • Oh c'mon!

    that stupid?

    gosh!

  • The mindset of this commercial is terrible, but the song is catchy, so I like it.

  • 0:16 That looks a whole lot like my math teacher, and she always comes into school with a cup of coffee. =)

    Ps. I love this commercial, I remember when it first came on the television.

  • Welcome to the dumbing down of America. Same idiots that can't pronounce my last name phoenetically and freak out because it is 5 syllables. Screw them.

  • Yeah...my name is "hard" to pronounce because there's a similar last name that is fairly common with an a in it. Mine has a u in it, but people don't see the u for some reason and pronounce the u as an a.

  • pretty sure latte isn't english..?haha

  • this used to be my favorite commercial! :D m best friend and i would sing this song when walking to school~ and yes people stared o.o