# Blockbuster Video commercial

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blockbuster-video-commercial/142801>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 14, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blockbuster-video-commercial/142801 "2002-12-14T22:59:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blockbuster-video-commercial/142801/1 "2002-12-14T22:59:15Z")

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For several weeks TV stations ran a commercial for Blockbuster Video stores with two animals watching the store from their pet shop across the street. A rabbit has literal “rabbit ears” that slide out of position and the “picture” is lost: Instead of the view across the street they have TV snow. Before the hamster gets the rabbit’s ears properly reset, they get a picture of an old time hoofer, who looks a lot like Peter Boyle, doing some kind of slide dance on the stage, and the music is da-da-DA-da-da…" The dance is similar to the ridiculous shuffle Curly of the Three Stooges, did. Is this a real dance, or something made up for the commercial?

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**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blockbuster-video-commercial/142801/2 "2002-12-14T23:07:50Z")

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Is this commercial part of the series with James 'The Rabbit" Woods and Jim “The Hamster” Belushi?

Peter “Young Frankenstein” Boyle?

Auuugh.

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**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blockbuster-video-commercial/142801/3 "2002-12-15T01:31:05Z")

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What I’d like to know is WHO is that hoofer? From the look of the curtains in the background it looks like the clip is from a talk/variety show circa mid-late 60s.