# Can you help me find the commercial in which someone pokes a straw into an orange?

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**Created:** [July 30, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-the-commercial-in-which-someone-pokes-a-straw-into-an-orange/947634 "2021-07-30T12:23:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-the-commercial-in-which-someone-pokes-a-straw-into-an-orange/947634/1 "2021-07-30T12:23:13Z")

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There was a Tropicana orange juice commercial in the '80s or '90s in which a woman pokes with a straw at several oranges rolling by her, trying to spear one and drink from it. Failing that, she’s slid a glass of Tropicana orange juice. It had a catchy instrumental tune; my mother and I still hum it back to each other whenever we poke straws into plastic lids or orange juice cartons.

Can anyone help me find this commercial?

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**Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-the-commercial-in-which-someone-pokes-a-straw-into-an-orange/947634/2 "2021-07-30T12:26:58Z")

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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LSdLn4oh-Ls/hqdefault.jpg "1989 Tropicana Orange Juice "Straw" TV Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSdLn4oh-Ls)

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8NIiBxj8rY)

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iCxolYGImz4/maxresdefault.jpg "Tropicana commercial straw and the orange") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCxolYGImz4)

Bonus

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lPNhCdEMs-E/maxresdefault.jpg "Tropicana Orange Juice Commercial featuring Bruce Jenner 1981") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNhCdEMs-E)

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**Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-the-commercial-in-which-someone-pokes-a-straw-into-an-orange/947634/3 "2021-07-30T13:14:11Z")

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The woman in the first video, who I thought I recognised but in fact I was mistaken, is actress [Kimmy Robertson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimmy_Robertson).

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**Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-the-commercial-in-which-someone-pokes-a-straw-into-an-orange/947634/4 "2021-07-30T14:13:12Z")

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Because of that campaign, Tropicana put out promotional radios in the shape of oranges with striped straws sticking out of them. The straw was the antenna.

Somebody I worked with had one on her desk

[https://www.ebay.com/itm/184537543020](https://www.ebay.com/itm/184537543020)

[http://advertisingiconmuseum.org/inside/c4/3248017.html](http://advertisingiconmuseum.org/inside/c4/3248017.html)