Glen! Glenn! Glennnn!

Written by Casper
Published May 18, 2004

I just saw a commerical for Starbucks double shot expresso in a can. It featured the 80's group Survivor singing a little ditty about a guy named Glen. To the tune of Eye Of The Tiger

Glen! Glen Glen Glen! Glen Glen Glennnnn!

Glen's the man
Goin' to work
Got his tie,
Got ambition

He knows one day he just might become
Supervisor....

You really have to see this. They're dolled up in leather pants and bright silk shirts, playing the song as Glen goes to work.

The years have not been kind to them, but at least they have work.

And, as a side note, if anyone can find the audio to this, I'd love to have it for work....

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Glen! Glenn! Glennnn!
Published: May 18, 2004
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#1 — May 18, 2004 @ 15:02PM — brown_boognish

Oh yea i saw that, it was so awesome to see Surviver back in action, and also very depressing...

#2 — May 19, 2004 @ 16:16PM — Anne

Interesting. I do know that Survivor's original singer, Dave Bickler, sings in the Budweiser "Real Men of Genius" ad campaign. Those commericals (e.g., Mr. Really Bad Toupee Wearer) are hilarious, I have to admit.

#3 — May 26, 2004 @ 19:58PM — cory
#4 — May 27, 2004 @ 14:43PM — Damian Maher [URL]

I came here looking for the actual commercial the other day, then I fount one today, so I thought I'd post it here.
Can't find the audio but here's the video.

http://content.collegehumor.com/media/movies/starbucks.mov

GLEN!
GLEN GLEN GLEN!
GLEN GLEN GLEN!
GLEN GLEN GLEN!
GLEN'S THE MAN!

#5 — June 7, 2004 @ 23:47PM — Scott

I have the whole song so if someone can fix my mistakes it would be great.

Glen
Glen Glen Glen
Glen Glen Glen
Glen Glen Glenn

Glen is the man going to work
Got his tie
Got ambition ,

Middle Management right in his grasp
Its a dream that he will never let die
Glen the man of the hour. Hes the king of his coo
Status commerce reports have finally met their rival
When the can lid opens on his way to the top
He knows one day he just become ...

Supervisor


Ray
Ray Ray Ray
Ray Ray Ray... End of commercial

#6 — June 9, 2004 @ 16:31PM — Aaron

I found a link to the video on the Starbuck's web site. Here's the words as I hear them.

Glenn! Glenn, Glenn, Glenn!
Glenn, Glenn, Glenn!
Glenn, Glenn, Glenn!

Glenn's the man
Goin' to work.
Got his tie, got ambition.
Middle management is right in his grasp.
It's a dream he will never let die.

Glenn's the--
man of the hour, he's the king of his cube!
Status com reports have finally met their rival. Burning the--
candle at both ends on his way to the top,
He knows one day he just could become...
Supervisor!

Roy! Roy, Roy Roy! . . .

#7 — June 18, 2004 @ 00:30AM — A S

This is a genius commercial

#8 — June 20, 2004 @ 01:47AM — X

Aaron's got it mainly right...

I believe it's Status Quo Reports.

#9 — July 8, 2004 @ 22:17PM — jake [URL]

here's the link to the offical Starbucks website page that has the full commercial:
http://www.starbucks.com/grocery/dblshot.asp

This is the most entertaining commercial I've seen in a long time.

#10 — July 14, 2004 @ 12:50PM — Bob Wazalske

Aaorn is right but the only part that's wrong is staus com. It is staus quo. But that commercial is awesome! The best in Commercial history it should win an academy award for shortest film ever!

#11 — July 15, 2004 @ 00:10AM — jake

i love the commercial soo bad

#12 — July 21, 2004 @ 11:45AM — Jeff [URL]

Jeff, Jeff jeff, jeff jef jeff,f jefff jef fffff jfeffs the man, goin to work, got hsi tie got ambition, little man hes sittting there on the grass, its a dream he must never let go!!! jeffs thre man of the hour hes the king of his cue status quo reports have foinally met there matches. Tims hte, man of the hour hes the king of his cue status quo reports have finally met theire matches, candle emotions on the way to the top, he knows one day he just coiuld become,,,,,german nazis. MIke, mike miemke moekie

#13 — July 22, 2004 @ 23:43PM — ben

yeah its a real feather in your cap

#14 — August 24, 2004 @ 21:03PM — Roger

Here are the corrections...

Hes the king of his cool (sounds like coo or que tho)

Status com reports have finally

Roy! Roy, Roy Roy! . . .

#15 — September 3, 2004 @ 15:23PM — captain

"King of his cube" is the only thing that makes sense.

#16 — September 6, 2004 @ 01:53AM — Monika

well, the link i've given is more of a video than it is an audio, but it you just want to be able to hear it at your leisure it'll do. (besides that, video's better anyways) the link is: http://www.transbuddha.com/justin/video/funny/StarbucksEyeTiger.htm

#17 — September 10, 2004 @ 12:59PM — Chestine

Here is the link to the video from the starbucks website

http://www.starbucks.com/grocery/video_popup.asp?vid=dbls

#18 — September 26, 2004 @ 08:52AM — BillMac

There's actually 2 versions of this commercial...and both are being played on tv...

The one you can see at "content.collegehumor.com" one is the first one...at the end...Roy is walking down the hallway...and Survivor follows him...

And the one at the starbucks.com website is the second one...at the end...Roy gets on the elevator...just a weird factoid...

And 3rd off...at least here in the New England area...I coulda swore when they first started playing this commercial...Roy was the first guy...and Glen came later...but not sure...

Just some stuff to ponder...later.

#19 — November 28, 2004 @ 15:20PM — morgan

hey im looking for a spanish version of this song, if there is one and you know where to find it, please email me the link or whatever. thank you

#20 — November 28, 2004 @ 15:28PM — morgan

by the way my email is dramakween1489@aol.com

#21 — November 10, 2005 @ 07:11AM — Skylar Durden [URL]

Yeah, look how cool Starbucks drinkers are...NOT. You, too, can be a cog in the corporate machine, just like Glen! Glen, Glen, Glen!
Skylar

#22 — December 18, 2005 @ 05:36AM — mantique

Glenns Hot <3 your just jelous skylar

#23 — October 9, 2006 @ 15:36PM — Robert

Try this one... then scroll ldown a bit and click on the phrase OR CLICK HERE ...

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